The Diverse Baseline: September 2025 Newsletter

We want to start by sharing some glimmers and gratitude:

Thank yall for being part of our #TheDiverseBaseline community (:

This Kickstarter was created to fund the audiobook for my novella Rescuing Krampus, which will be narrated by Charlie L. Wood and Patrick Brawn in Dual Narration (each person narrates their own chapters).

If this campaign gets funded, the audiobook will start recording in October, with hopeful publication around December.

Rewards include the audiobook itself, art prints/sticker (SFW and NSFW) with a signed bookplate, a digital bonus epilogue, and even a special edition paperback with a NSFW cover and the bonus epilogue included (SE previously only available to Patreon subscribers). You can also add to your pledge my other paranormal romance audiobook (already complete and published), also narrated by Charlie L. Wood.

DISCLAIMER: the author is not responsible for any additional fees and taxes that clients might be charged for when receiving the packages in their destination countries.

There is no *set* monthly prompt this year. This challenge is fully up to you :)

You can choose whichever book you want for each month, as long as it fits one of the ~90 prompts we’ve listed and is written by a racialized author.

We included a definition of this:

This book could fit the following prompts (as far as I can gather from the synopsis, as I haven’t read it yet):

To purchase using Brittany’s affiliate links, you can do so here:

Brittany is hosting her fourth synchronous virtual book club on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH time to be determined, but most likely afternoon in Pacific Time.

This book could fit the following prompts (as far as I can gather from the synopsis, as I haven’t read it yet):

To purchase using Brittany’s affiliate links, you can do so here:

We are sharing a few reviews each month and we thank you for sharing your reviews on socials.

Remember to use #TheDiverseBaseline when posting your reviews, and/or tagging us (only if you want to/feel comfortable doing so), so we can find & spotlight them here.

If you click the below photos, they are hyperlinked to take you to their social media pages :)

In the carrd, you will find links to Canva templates for your Instagram feed and Instagram stories, as well as some fun stickers you can use in your posts.

If you have any templates that you have made and would like us to spread the word about, please email us with links to your templates and we will share in the Discord and the next newsletter!

We now both have official recommendation lists, as well as general lists of books we’ve read for the challenge, on libro.fm and bookshop.org. If you would like highly recommended books from us, check out our links and support local/indie bookstores in the process (if it’s an accessible option for you).

Brittany’s Libro FM playlist | Margherita’s Libro FM playlist

Brittany’s Bookshop.org list | Margherita’s Bookshop.org list

Brittany is a reader from the San Francisco Bay Area. She can be found on substack, instagram, storygraph, bluesky, and has resources here. She also hosts the SF Bay Area chapter of Cassie’s Walking Club on Strava. You can buy her used books here.

Margherita is a reader and indie author from Italy. Xe can be found on instagram, tiktok and substack. Xyr website with links to xyr books, author services, and more is linked here.