Thornapple wins gold prize
June 09th, 2025
BC-based publisher, Thornapple Press is pleased to announce their title How Do I Sexy? A Guide For Trans and Nonbinary Queers (2025) by Mx. Nillin Lore (pictured at right) has been named a Gold winner in the LGBTQ+ category of the 27th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
The winning title is a practical and insightful consideration of what it means to be sexual as a trans queer person, providing Lore’s affirming direction based on over a decade of their own personal and professional experience as an educator, advocate, support worker and award-winning sex blogger.
Publisher of Thornapple Press Eve Rickert says, “At a time when the dialogue around trans rights and queer visibility is heightened, How Do I Sexy? is a valuable resource. We are thrilled that it has received this recognition from Foreword Reviews.”
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Mx. Nillin Lore (they/them) is an AuDHD, trans and queer activist, advocate and educator based in Saskatoon, SK. How Do I Sexy? is their first book. They are also the author of Emerging Selves: An Exploration of Gender Identity (Bold Stroke Books) and will release Carry On: Unpacking Your Internalized Transphobic and Queerphobic Baggage and Nonmonogamy and Queer Inclusivity, both with Thornapple Press, in 2026.
Foreword Reviews, a book review journal focusing on independently published books, announced the winners of its INDIES Book of the Year Awards on June 5, 2025. These awards celebrate the outstanding books published in 2024 by small, independent and university presses.
Thornapple Press publishes non-fiction books about relationships, love,
sexuality and relational ethics from unique and underrepresented perspectives. This includes books on consensual nonmonogamy, kink, sex work, harm reduction, LGBTQIAA+ identities, families, mental health, disability and related topics.
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