Mari Costa

Dec 18, 2023 | readings.com.au | Mari Costa

2023 was a wonderful year for LQBTQIA+ stories. Our selection of highlights includes both local and international releases, and spans everything from supernatural adventures to the all too real trials and tribulations of high school. Spell Bound by F.T. LukensTwo rival apprentice sorcerers must team up in a quest to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively romantic adventure.

May 10, 2023 | powells.com | Casey McQuiston |Sonya Taylor |Mari Costa |McCall Smith

"One of the really great things about making this display was finding how much diversity there is in books with plus-size main characters. There is a lot of queer and BIPOC representation because authors from those communities, especially black women, have been writing with body diversity long before a mainstream body positive movement happened. I'm incredibly grateful to those writers for not just their work, but everything that followed because of it." ­­— Bookseller Kathleen F.