Generous Press

📌UPDATE📌 We've added one more stop on the Struck Speechless Book Tour for May. Join me at @asmallplacebookshop in Avondale Estates on May 23 at 3 pm for an intimate author talk and signing. Visit their page for more information In the meantime... May 9 (Saturday): Join me at @bnperimeter along with @thecuteconnect for an in-store talk and signing May 12-14: We are kicking off the PNW leg of the book tour with @beguiledbooks on May 12 with AE Valdez and closing it out on May 14 in Portland at @grandgesturebooks with Elizabeth Stephens Finally, we conclude a jam-packed May with the grand finale at @blackromancebookfestival . See my schedule on the pinned slide on my profile. For more info on tour stops and links to register, go to the tagged pages or the link in my profile. Thank you to everyone who has read Struck Speechless and thank you in advance to everyone I will see soon Love you all🥰

YOU x ME is a series of modern entanglements: Noura swipes right on Luna with a little help from her group-chat, Maryam and Nilou fall for each other between shared playlists, while Paz and Ale reminisce about the sweat-soaked dance floor of their youth. Set in cosmopolitan settings from Los Angeles to Montreal, this hot and hopeful QTBIPOC contemporary romance offers escape, self-discovery, and a dose of glamor.  As Maya Angelou encourages, this book calls readers to “have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” YouxMeBook.com — Author: “Romance is political. Beauty is activism. I write stories that celebrate those of us who have rebuilt our lives and ourselves over and over again in acts of revolutionary self-love. These stories are about community, connection, and expansive conversations.” @ayla.author — Publisher: “You deserve to be delighted, seduced, attended-to, flirted with, courted. Respectfully objectified. Fully seen. You deserve to be loved in all your colorful glory.” @generouspress Generous Press publishes lush, high-caliber romance fiction and other books about love by brilliant queer, BIPOC, and disabled writers. Radical inclusivity is at the heart of our mission as we aim to please readers like you. Together we imagine a world in which all people are cherished and free.  — Book cover: On this illustration, Suit of Abundance: “Suit of Abundance” honors queerness as sacred, embodied, and deserving. It is an ode to our beauty, our defiance, and the truth that we are worthy of love and abundance in every form. @itschinwosu Chi Nwosu  is a Black, nonbinary, queer Nigerian artist whose work invites others to envision a world nourished by love, curiosity, play, and mutuality. Their practice moves with spirit and the wisdom of feeling, shaped by kinship with the more-than-human world and by living histories of international resistance. Through their art, they hope to inspire others to remember that we are all seeds of change and possibility. Illustration set in a bold design by multi-disciplinary artist @beccafoxdesign (also find her at @gentlemanbrawlers ).

Portland Post: signed nearly 300 copies of Struck Speechless at @microcosm_pub the distributor for @generouspress . Thanks to Elizabeth, Elly and the team there fore being so accommodating and welcoming. So signed copies are coming to retailers near you. 🙏🏾 some even with some surprises inside

Ottawa, come say hi! Join us at Evermore Books on June 20 at 6:30pm for an evening of conversation, connection and community celebrating the launch of: 🌹 YOU x ME 🌹. YOU x ME author Ayla Vejdani will be in conversation with writer, organizer, and artist, August Chun to talk about all things queer romance. The evening will include: a reading, conversation, Q&A and book signing, along with very special sweet treats from Hello Dolly Pastries @hellodollypastries . RSVP link in bio: June 20, 2026, 6:30PM Evermore Books @evermore.booktique youxmebook.com About the Author: Ayla Vejdani (she/her) is a storyteller, holder of space and curator of experience. Raised and educated all over the world, she has a master’s in human rights, is an inclusive leadership consultant @mindshiftleadership and the co-host of The SHIFT podcast. She speaks four languages and laughs in all. Ayla is a queer Iranian-Canadian from Tkaronto/Toronto living in Tiohtia:ke/Montréal, raising her two young children. She is an insatiably creative, romantic realist who believes in magic. Her forthcoming novel YOU x ME is a series of queer, BIPOC love stories. These modern entanglements are the kind of romances that make us lose sleep, love letters to the friendships we can’t live without, and a celebration of our endless journeys of self-discovery. @ayla.author About the Moderator: August Chun is a queer, Han Chinese writer, organizer, and researcher based on unceded Ohlone land (Bay Area California) and unceded Algonquin land (Eastern Ontario, Canada). @augustchun.writes

Chapter six: Takaya x Goli The modern entanglements in 🌹YOU x ME🌹 continue with Takaya x Goli where forced proximity turns into a love story about a wolf 🐺 and a rose 🌹… Listen to the 🎶 playlist 🎶 — link is in bio. Order: youxmebook.com

HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN 💦🚿 oh wait maybe it’s just Jackie & Antonio in the outdoor shower… ❤️‍🔥 🌈 📢📢📢SEATTLE AND PORTLAND, you do not want to miss two intimate author events with @richardwriteson this week at @beguiledbooks and @grandgesturebooks 📢📢📢. @a.e.valdezwrites will join in Seattle and @estephensauthor in Portland. Spend a sweet and spicy evening with us and bookish friends, and give Tati the PNW welcome she deserves!!! 🌲 🏔️ 💐 Links in bio.

“…spiritual and expansive…” 🫠 Feels so delicious to read. What a blessing to have people read the stories and understand them. Thank you for the thoughtful review. 🌹 Reviewed by Violet Glenn for Foreword Reviews. /reviews/you-x-me/ Order: youxmebook.com

Due to fulfillment issues , the in-store event with The Cute Connect at Barnes and Noble Perimeter will be postponed to a later date. I know some of were looking forward to this. So was I. 😔We will keep you all informed of the new date as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for understanding. #blackbooktok #blackbooktok

Chapter five: Nilou x Maryam The modern entanglements in 🌹YOU x ME🌹 continue with Nilou x Maryam with their slow burn romance complete with playlists and Persian recipes. Check out their 🎶 playlist 🎶. Link in bio. Pre-order: youxmebook.com

Tkaronto/Toronto, I’m coming to you, on my birthday 🥳! Join Hopeless Romantic Books for an evening of conversation, connection and community celebrating the launch of: 🌹YOU x ME 🌹. YOU x ME author Ayla Vejdani will be in conversation with award-winning advocate, speaker, and artist, Farrah Khan to talk about all things queer romance. The evening will include: a reading, conversation, Q&A and book signing, along with birthday cake 🎂. Save your spot, rsvp link in bio. June 16, 2026 7:00-8:30PM   Hopeless Romantic Books @hopelessromanticbooks youxmebook.com About the Author: Ayla Vejdani (she/her) is a storyteller, holder of space and curator of experience. Raised and educated all over the world, she has a master’s in human rights, is an inclusive leadership consultant @mindshiftleadership , and the co-host of The SHIFT podcast. She speaks four languages and laughs in all. Ayla is a queer Iranian-Canadian from Tkaronto/Toronto living in Tiohtia:ke/Montréal, raising her two young children. She is an insatiably creative, romantic realist who believes in magic. Her forthcoming novel YOU x ME is a series of queer, BIPOC love stories. These modern entanglements are the kind of romances that make us lose sleep, love letters to the friendships we can’t live without, and a celebration of our endless journeys of self-discovery. @ayla.author About the Moderator: Farrah Khan is an award-winning writer, artist, and advocate who works to grow consent futures with community. She is a queer, disabled, mixed-race South Asian/Dutch settler living in Toronto. A multi-genre author, Farrah writes at the intersection of personal narrative, cultural criticism, and advocacy about pleasure, representation, care and accountability. Her short films have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the British Film Institute’s London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. She has received the Governor General’s Commemoration of the Persons Case Award, the Canadian Council of Muslim Women Who Inspire Award, and the YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction Award. @farrahsafiakhan

Scams, disaster submissions and yet I somehow managed to turn it all around! Stay tuned for what happened next! 😏❤️ Also, can I just add that I am not elitist when it comes to trad/indie/self-publishing in any way! I don't believe there is a wrong or right way! I will only say that as I came closer to finishing my first book, and the realities of what came next started to hit me (releasing, marketing, putting myself on show, driving the promotions etc.), I started to realise how incompatible this whole "authoring" business was with my disabilities (autism, PTSD and ADHD). My worst fears of having to do everything on my own were starting to come true, and while I did everything I could to educate myself in self-publishing, I knew I would struggle to apply it... Fortunately, I wasn't on my own for long... ❤️

It's as easy as that! Imagine a book where everyone gets a love story. Unremarkable. Conflicts come from the story, not because people dare to love each other. #queernormative #regencyromance #achangeofpace #diversity #booklover