WWPS 2026 Day 15: Addison Lane

 

Wonderland Pride Spotlight Day 15: Addison Lane

Welcome to day 15 of the 2026 Wonderland Pride Spotlight! This is my way to help champion LGBTQ+ books and authors this Pride month! Today I am interviewing Addison Lane. Be sure to check out my Instagram for even more excitement with this event!

Addison Lane's LGBTQ+ Releases

• The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go
• The Light in Her Dreams
• The Black Tree Chaise
• The Girl Who Grew Antlers
• The Overcrowded Heart, The Witch's Judgment
• The North Star in Eclipse
• The Shadow Taller Than the Man
• The Lungs Underwater
• The Junction of Marrow

The Interview

1. Are you LGBTQ+? If so, how?

"Nonbinary, sapphic, and gray ace"

2. What rep do your books have?

"Yes, mental health is a major element of these books, all POV characters are queer (sapphic, gay, bisexual, trans)

Blackpines: BIPOC"

3. If you were to write in a different genre, what would it be?

"I love HorrorTube and horror audiobooks and horror podcasts; artsy movies like Midsommar and The Wailing; and if I'm on WebToon, it's horror I'm scrolling (zombies and dinosaurs get top billing)...but I write fantasy (dark fantasy, but solidly fantasy), so it'd be cool to write a true horror story. I have doubts about my ability to nail the timing and tension, but if I was writing in a different genre... I love monsters, I love survivors, and I really love onryou and other revenants. I would write horror."

4. What is your biggest writing inspiration?

"Patricia A. McKillip, World Fantasy Award–winning author and never hyped half as much as she deserves! First, I fell in love with the vividness and lyricism of her prose...then she revealed Nyx Ro, who has lived rent-free in my head ever since. I remember reading The Sorceress and the Cygnet in late summer, when the leaves were already starting to turn in the South, and feeling completely transported. A match lit inside me: the yearning to gift someone else a moment like that through my writing. I've been chasing the dream ever since."

5. Anything exciting for you on the horizon?

"I'm actually in edits on a collab with my wife and one of my best friends: a Space Fantasy trilogy we have dubbed 'The Aremiad.' This story is loosely inspired by The Iliad, with mafia families in Space, eldritch horrors, mecha, and burlesquers—just a lot of things the three of us love—centering on a motley quartet of unlikely survivors who are trying to evade the wrath of an axe-wielding queen gone off the rails with her quest for vengeance. We have high hopes for this one!"

6. Who is a queer figure you look up to?

"Just one!? Okay... Ocean Vuong. Both his poetry and his prose pluck something deep in my lizard brain. He opened up this profound realization of how words can be when we relinquish the mores and assumptions of writing. It's no joke when I say he permanently altered my intellectual makeup. Every person—doesn't matter who they are—should read his work."

Outro

I adore this excuse to conduct little author interviews! Happy Pride everyone! Stay tuned tomorrow for another amazing indie author and their LGBTQ+ releases!