Houston Lgbtq+ Author Fair

08/15/2025

We will have more about next year’s fair in a few months. In the meantime, of any of our authors have news about their books, we can share it here.
The fair’s organizer and founder, John Merullo, has posted the cover of his second novel, Most Heartily We Beseech Thee, to be released soon.

08/09/2025

We’re famous!

The Harris County LGBTQIA+ Commission and The Montrose Center hosted Houston’s first LGBTQ+ Indie Author Fair, featuring independent Houston-area LGBTQ authors across multiple literary genres. Among the writers on hand to discuss and sign copies of their works were Timothy Bammel, Kenneth Creech, ...

08/02/2025

Thank you to all the authors and bookbuyers who made the first *annual* Houston LGBTQ+ Indie Author Fair such a success! Thank you also to our wonderful community partners, the Montrose Center and the Harris County LGBTQIA+ Commission.

Everyone was pleased with the event and all agreed that the author fair will be an annual thing! We’ll see you all next summer!

08/01/2025

Tomorrow!

08/01/2025

Anthony Sutton is an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor fellow at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing and Literature PhD program and is Managing Editor of Gulf Coast: A Magazine of Literature and Fine Art. A winner of the 2024 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing, the author of the poetry collection Particles of a Stranger Light (Veliz Books, 2023), and co-editor of Tom Postell: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Unsung Masters, 2024), Anthony’s poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Texas Review, Zocalo Public Square, the anthology In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy, and elsewhere.
Anthony describes their book: A memoir. A horror movie. A descent into hell. Particles of a Stranger Light employs a wide array of approaches and forms to obsessively dissect issues of memory, identity, culture, and history. Circling around the trauma of a single night, these poems reach into the void to reclaim what has been lost.
Meet them and our other authors at the Houston LGBTQ+ Author Fair, *tomorrow*, Saturday, August 2nd, 10 am to 4 pm, at the Montrose Center, 401 Branard St., Room 112/113, in Houston.

07/31/2025

Today's featured author is Stalina Villarreal.
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (she/they) is a poet, an essayist, an artist, an improviser, a translator, and an assistant professor of English. Their bilingualism stems from her 1.5-generation experience being both Mexican and Xicanx. Her debut collection of poetry called Watcha is out now from Deep Vellum Publishing. Their poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review, Texas Review, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. She has published translations of poetry. They are the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry and the BIPOC Arts Network and Fund 2025 Artist Award.
They will not be able to attend the fair on Saturday, but please visit Anthony Sutton's table to buy Stalina's book.

07/30/2025

Today's featured author is Kenneth Creech.
Kenneth Creech is an award-winning author known for his LGBTQ+ young adult fiction. His work includes With What I Now Know, a short story featured in the 2022 anthology Q***r for the New Year, and his young adult novels, including the Awakened series and Fate, Coincidence, and Other Curse Words. A lifelong reader, Kenneth was inspired by stories of LGBTQ+ characters coming out, but wanted to write about characters already comfortable in their skin.
Since starting his writing journey, Kenneth has continued to craft stories where being LGBTQ+ is part of the character’s life, but not their main struggle. In his professional life, he’s worn many hats: teaching Sociology, advising Gay-Straight Alliances, helping students get into college, and planning weddings. He lives outside Houston, with his husband and their dorkie (daschund/yorkie).
His latest book, Fate, Coincidence, and Other Curse Words, in which seventeen-year-old Jonathan Daniels is a high-school junior in small-town Illinois, where being openly gay is a one-way ticket to single life until college. So when he catches the eye of the new kid, Chance, Jonathan doesn't know whether to flee or be flattered. Yet unbeknownst to Jonathan, Chance isn't just another high-school hottie. He has a history with Jonathan's best friend, Destiny, and his arrival has consequences.
Destiny and Chance are reincarnated gods with a tangled history of divine drama: an endless debate over which is more powerful, Fate or Coincidence. To test their abilities, Chance suggests Jonathan as the ideal candidate for their unique brand of "help." However, their new mortality and limited powers make this challenge harder than they imagined. With prom on the horizon and Jonathan's happiness on the line, their struggle over eternal bragging rights might just cause everyone to lose. When the last song of the night draws to a close, will Jonathan's romantic future be in the hands of Destiny or left up to Chance?
Meet him and our other authors at the Houston LGBTQ+ Author Fair, Saturday, August 2nd, 10 am to 4 pm, at the Montrose Center, 401 Branard St., Room 112/113, in Houston.

07/29/2025

Timothy Bammel is a fifth-generation Texan with roots that go back to the 1830s when paternal relatives left Germany and settled in Houston. Throughout many tumultuous years with his family, Timothy began writing notes to himself of events that he wanted to remember. Those notes formed the basis for this memoir. Worth It! is his first book.
Professionally, Timothy has excelled in customer service-related jobs, including banking, retail sales and residential sales. Personally, lifelong challenges with his parents, brother, and best friend of 30 years taught him to set boundaries and no longer base his self-acceptance on approval from others.
He shares his home with his husband, Jeff, and their wonderful dog, Charlotte. They currently live in Texas and will soon move to Jeff's hometown in Louisiana.
Worth It! is his autobiography.
Meet him and our other authors at the Houston LGBTQ+ Author Fair, Saturday, August 2nd, 10 am to 4 pm, at the Montrose Center, 401 Branard St., Room 112/113, in Houston.

07/28/2025

Today's featured author is Scott Damon.
Scott Damon, from Houston, Texas, is a gay man who has lived through many societal changes and personal experiences. He has a strong interest in relationships, so examines the joys, conflicts, and resolutions reached by gay men in poetry and fiction. He has published three novels, Debut, When Worlds Collide, and Tarak’s Ordeal.
Debut and When Worlds Collide begin a series of gay romance and coming out stories. Tarak's Ordeal is a graphic novel using live action photos in a jungle adventure. Bluebonnet Whispers is a poetry collection, published under his real name.
Meet him and our other authors at the Houston LGBTQ+ Author Fair, Saturday, August 2nd, 10 am to 4 pm, at the Montrose Center, 401 Branard St., Room 112/113, in Houston.

07/27/2025

Today's featured author is JD Doyle.
JD is a Houston archivist/activist, with websites totaling 23,000 pages.
His book, 1981 My Gay American Road Trip: A Slice of Our Pre-AIDS Culture, is tmemoir with the soul of it a journal kept during a cross-country trip.
Meet him and our other authors at the Houston LGBTQ+ Author Fair, Saturday, August 2nd, 10 am to 4 pm, at the Montrose Center, 401 Branard St., Room 112/113, in Houston.

07/26/2025

Today's featured author is Tessa Croft.
Tessa is an engineer, pilot, and all-around nerd, born and raised in the woods of Alaska. She writes the stories she wants to read: women who love women, saving the world. She also drinks far too much coffee.
Her novel, Through Sky and Stars, is the story of Val Koroleva, a soldier thrown across time and space to avert catastrophe, finds her mission in jeopardy when she meets Nicole Baker, a bush pilot living a quiet, peaceful existence in the wilds of Alaska. Val cannot set her mission aside, yet neither woman can deny their unlikely connection. Can love win despite a world on the brink of war?
Meet Tessa and our other authors at the Houston LGBTQ+ Author Fair, Saturday, August 2nd, 10 am to 4 pm, at the Montrose Center, 401 Branard St., Room 112/113, in Houston.