Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Felicia Davin

@feliciadavin.com

3.1K followers 610 following 6.1K posts

I write romance & scifi/fantasy about bisexuals of various genders + a newsletter about words & books called Word Suitcase. PhD in French literature, non-practicing intellectual. Bi, she/they, www.feliciadavin.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · Sep 17

Here's an updated guide to my books, including the one that comes out in November 2024. Fantasy and sci-fi romance with bisexual main characters 💖 www.feliciadavin.com/ for more info

📚🌈💙📚

White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers: a red one labelled Thornfruit, a blue one labelled Nightvine, and a purple one labelled Shadebloom, each with illustrated floral imagery on them, all by Felicia Davin.

The Gardener’s Hand (2018). Queer fantasy. Quasi-feral mindreader discovers her mom is evil, enlists the help of a sensible farmgirl and a slutty linguist. They fall in love.

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books said the characters were “phenomenal.”

White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers.

The first book cover shows a figure in silhouette with his back to the viewer. His silhouette is transparent and the bluish starry void of space is visible through it. The text on the cover says "Edge of Nowhere," and below that, "Felicia Davin." The other two covers are similar but the background colors are orange (for Out of Nowhere) and green (for Nowhere Else).

The Nowhere (2018-21). A trio of m/m romances set in a world where some people can teleport. Space, evil trillionaires, sex pollen, falling in love, etc.

Edge of Nowhere was a 2018 finalist at the Bisexual Book Awards. A judge called it “a gripping, highly readable mystery” with “a compelling romantic plot.”

White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers in a line, each with an illustration of two women (one tall and white and butch, the other short and brown and femme) posed together. An arrow with “all 3 of these in one book” pointing to a fourth book cover that shows the two women embracing. There is an autumnal landscape behind them.

Errant (2022). Five sapphic fantasy novellas co-authored with KR Collins and Valentine Wheeler as LK Fleet. A stoic swordswoman and a cheerful pickpocket actress wander the world causing trouble.

White text on a blue-purple gradient background: a guide to Felicia Davin’s books. There are three book covers.

The first book cover is THE SCANDALOUS LETTERS OF V AND J, with an oil painting of a white hand holding a quill and writing a letter, and the title text on ripped pieces of paper scattered over the painting.

The second book cover is THE MISCHIEVOUS LETTERS OF THE MARQUISE DE Q, with an oil painting of a white hand holding a book and the title text on ripped pieces of paper scattered over the painting.

The third book cover is THE ANONYMOUS LETTERS OF C FORESTIER, with an oil painting of a white hand holding a quill and writing a letter, and the title text on ripped pieces of paper scattered over the painting.

French Letters (2023-). Set in a magic version of 1820s Paris, told in letters, unclassifiably queer. People write a lot of horny diary entries and do some revenge murders.

The New York Times called V and J “exquisite” and said it had “the thirstiest sex imaginable

6 39 86

Reposted by Felicia Davin

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

Anyway! I will die on the hill that romanizing a name is inherently changing it.

16 12 350

Reposted by Felicia Davin

Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 13h

I think a lot of people don't quite grasp how little documentation of a legal identity anyone had before, like, the 1930s. No social security number, no green card, no driver's license. This made you reliant on your social network; OTOH nobody could force you to write your name a certain way.

12 34 190

Reposted by Felicia Davin

alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15h

anyway it's always nice to remember there's only one law in writing, which is to get away with it. anything is legal if you look good doing it!!

7 50

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 13h

such a disappointment to experience that even far away from the fishbowl of social media!

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 13h

all this to say I have thought about this Garth Greenwell essay every day since I read it yalereview.org/article/gart...

Garth Greenwell: On a Sex Scene in Miranda July's All Fours—and…

Garth Greenwell asks what we can do with the art that offends us—and why staying with bad feeling might matter.

yalereview.org

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 13h

idk, I think my real complaint here is that I *want* real, serious discussions of craft, especially as it pertains to sex writing, and microblogging/the internet more generally is just not conducive to that. for social reasons and also... interest, I think? this is nerd shit that I want, I'm aware

7 11

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 13h

also: sometimes sex is gross! imo a lot of the best sex writing includes the weird, the messy, the animal, the unseemly. desire is mixed up with all of that. so sometimes a strange, offputting word is the right word

this isn't prescriptive. you can write a great sex scene without any of the above

4 9

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 14h

am I saying you're obligated to like everything? fuck no. be a hater all you want! but have some pride in your haterly ways. what else is wrong with that scene, other than just a single word? were you not feeling the chemistry? is the scene fundamentally boring? these are real problems!

1 13

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 14h

what I want for us, as writers, is to write sex in wild, weird, individual, horny ways that transcend "ew, that single word is yucky to me" reactions from readers

and what I want for us, as readers, is to read generously. stop entering the bedroom in search of the pea under the mattresses

1 17

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 14h

I love that I was like "any opinion of mine must necessarily be Hinged," which is honestly arrogant of me, and you're the total opposite of "if *I* think it, it's unhinged," lol

1 3

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 14h

agree!

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 14h

I haven't read Hardy (am woefully underinformed about English-language literature in general) so I can't form an opinion in response, but I respect your commitment!