Juliet Rose's Blog

Because of Helene (sounds like a book title), I have made two of my books free through the weekend! In Dreams, We Fly and By the Dimming Light will be free on e book until Sunday night. Share share share.


https://www.amazon.com/Dimming-Light-...


https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-We-Fly-...

Carrying Dead Placed SECOND in Visionary Fiction in the 2023 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards. This is a tough competition with thousands of entries, so I am stoked! 6th award for this book and 34th for all my books!


https://www.amazon.com/Carrying-Dead-...

I want to say thank you to the Horror Writers Association, Cemetery Dance Publications, all of the members, organizations, and authors who stood up and demanded swift action against a HWA member/author who openly spewed transphobia and hatred. There is no place in this world for such small-minded bigotry.

As a mother, I am the proud mother of two LGBTQ+ children, one who is trans. I worry for the world they are surrounded by and hope they find nothing but understanding and kindness in the paths which cross their own. It can be scary knowing there are people who hate them just because they exist. To know people want to harm them because they are true to themselves.

As an author, I strive to include LGBTQ+ characters in my stories, not as a trope or fetish, rather as our neighbors, children, siblings, parents, co-workers, lovers, community. As this IS WHAT THEY ARE. Our extended and sometimes immediate family.

Those who think they can spout hatred, your time is over. You cannot hide behind your titles, your humor, your history, your clique. You will be called out and you will be brought down.
This much I promise in the time I am here.

Due to this wonderful awards spree I am on (8 in the last week), I have set all of my books to be free on KU for the next month!

Trigger Point: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737797046

https://www.amazon.com/Through-Surfac...

Prick of the Needle
https://www.amazon.com/Prick-Needle-J...

We Don't Matter
https://www.amazon.com/We-Dont-Matter...

Do Over
https://www.amazon.com/Do-Over-Juliet...

Thank you for all of your support!

Y'all!

I just found out 4 of my books won in the Firebird Book Awards:


Do Over- 2nd -Contemporary Novel
We Don't Matter- 3rd - New Adult
Through the Surface - 3rd - Horror
Prick of the Needle - 3rd - Multicultural

I am freaking out!

I woke up this morning to the news that my novel We Don't Matter won Honorable Mention in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards for LGBTQ Fiction. This brought tears to my eyes as that particular novel came from a place of frustration at the state of our country and how certain groups are often treated. This is the second award it won this year and my third award total, as my novel Do Over won a bronze medal in regional fiction as well.

I took a long hiatus from writing to raise my children after a divorce and just recently came back it it in the last year and a half. I am so grateful for all the support I have received and while these awards are not necessarily the measure of the writer I am, they certainly don't hurt ;).

Thank you to all who have followed, entered giveaways, and reviewed. I cannot express how much that means and keeps me going! I still have two paperback giveaways going through the beginning of September:

Do Over (Contemporary/Literary) over Sept 3:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

We Don't Matter (LGBTQ+/New Adult) over Sept 10:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

Check out my current giveaways!

We Don't Matter (LGBTQ, New Adult) ends 8/1/22

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

Through the Surface (supernatural horror) ends 7/30/22

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...


Prick of the Needle (Literary fiction) ends 8/21/22

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

Check out my current giveaways!

We Don't Matter (LGBTQ, New Adult)

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

and

Through the Surface (supernatural horror)

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

We Don't Matter has been named a Contemporary Fiction Finalist Award winner in the National Indie Excellence Awards! I am honored and humbled to receive such a wonderful award. Thank you to all who have given this very powerful book a chance. I bled those words.