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When not writing and reading fiction, Felicia Davin (she/they) can be found teaching or translating French. She loves linguistics, singing, and baking. She is bisexual, but not ambidextrous.

Originally from Kentucky, she currently lives in Massachusetts with her partner and their cat.

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Felicia Davin I think the answer is somewhere between “a childhood trip to the beach when it was shut down by a brilliant pink-and-blue mass of Portuguese man-of-wa…moreI think the answer is somewhere between “a childhood trip to the beach when it was shut down by a brilliant pink-and-blue mass of Portuguese man-of-wars,” a strange jellyfish-like sea creature that is actually a colony of polyps rather than an individual organism—one which can sting you even after it’s dead—and “reading an article in 2011 about how global warming is causing blooms of jellyfish, which contained the phrase ‘total jelly domination’ and a nightmare-inducing description of a Nomura’s jellyfish, which can weigh 450 pounds.” (The phrase ‘total jelly domination’ is easy to Google and thus I can provide you with that very same article https://e360.yale.edu/features/massiv... and the MetaFilter post that led me to it https://www.metafilter.com/99469/Tota....)

The giant medusas of The Gardener’s Hand are neither Portuguese man-of-wars or Nomura’s jellyfish, but I had both in mind while I was writing. Toss in the whole concept of deep sea gigantism (also called “abyssal gigantism,” just in case it sounded too cuddly the first way), several nature documentaries about what lurks in the watery hell, and a knowledge of French (where “méduse” is the word for jellyfish), and voilà !(less)
Felicia Davin I'm so glad to hear that! Thornfruit is available in print right now from several places (If you're in the US, I'm partial to indie bookstore The Ripp…moreI'm so glad to hear that! Thornfruit is available in print right now from several places (If you're in the US, I'm partial to indie bookstore The Ripped Bodice: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/boo...).

My other books do exist in print, but the titles are currently being transferred from one distributor to another. While the transfer is in process, the paperbacks aren't available online. The transfer should be complete by next month. I apologize for the inconvenience!(less)
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Nobody's Bargain by Kali Decker
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In this novella, Hitha, a divorced Indian-American journalist recovering from the trauma of her abusive marriage, finds Ren, a washed-up white rockstar recovering from a whole host of mental health and addiction troubles, in a dive bar in small-town ...more
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Priest-Queen by Juniper Butterworth
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This is just so wonderful—it’s got yearning, it’s got intrigue, it’s got the best talking horse and cows you’ve ever seen—and if you like T. Kingfisher, you will like Juniper Butterworth. Elsyn, a priest of the bovine Two-Bodied God, has unexpectedly ...more
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Sharade is 16% done with Inventing the Renaissance: Should have listened to this while/before going to florence
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Wild Pitch by Cat Giraldo
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This is a baseball romance. She’s a pitcher, he’s a catcher, I barely know what any of this means, but that didn’t diminish my enjoyment. Sierra Ramirez is the first woman to play in the majors, and Mateo Reyes is a star athlete she’s idolized her wh ...more
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The Fling in Panama by Liz Alden
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The setting of this one was so compelling to me: Lila is an Australian backpacker who wants to go through the Panama Canal while she’s touring Central and South America, and she gets a ride on a small sailboat that doesn’t have quite enough crew memb ...more
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A Gentleman's Gentleman by T.J.   Alexander
A Gentleman's Gentleman
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Full, very excited disclosure: this book came out March 11 and I got to blurb it! I’m incredibly honored and I’ve been bragging for months that I got to read this book early. So, should you acquire a copy of this, somewhere in the first few pages, it ...more
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A Wolf Steps in Blood by Tamara Jerée
A Wolf Steps in Blood
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Absolutely gorgeous, hungry, dripping-with-blood prose in this little gem of a book, about two magic Black lesbian outcasts in rural Alabama who need each other to survive, and brilliant worldbuilding wielded like a knife:

Red wolves haven’t lived in
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The Potion Gardener by Arden Powell
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This is a lovely, heartwarming story about what if you ran away from all your problems to experience magical gender euphoria in a country cottage with a hot butch gardener, and then along the way you learned to face your problems, and also the hot bu ...more
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“The t-shirt was programmed to shift its abstract silver pattern every few minutes and was one of his favorites. He’d bought the jacket in Tokyo. It was designer, for fuck’s sake. He’d saved for months and made a special trip and it was the perfect shade of bright green to clash with the Virulent Violet dye in his artfully tousled hair.”
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“But Usmam was a pacifist who made violent crime illegal! Why wasn’t he convicted and exiled?” “No one believed us, niece,” Ifeleh said.”
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“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art—and I do—then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”
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“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo’s tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they’re you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn’t know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”
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“I thought maybe Against Nature would be a book about someone who viewed things the way I did—someone trying to live a life unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity. I was wrong; it was more a book about interior decoration. In his free moments from plumbing the subrational depths of upholstery, the main character devoted himself to the preparation of all-black meals, to hanging out with a jewel-encrusted tortoise, and thinking thoughts like, “All is syphilis.” How was that an aesthetic life?”
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