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Andy Brokaw

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🏳️‍🌈Agender asexual panromantic writer of queer polyamorous romantasy, teacher of skiing, and resident kook of the Cascade Mountains. Random diagnoses: ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, allergies to sunlight and most plants Andora Brokaw www.andorabrokaw.com

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · Aug 17

Want to see healthy polyamory in a queer-normative fantasy setting? Cover copy, the first 3 chapters, and up-to-date purchase links for my triad romance, The Harmony of Falling Snow, are here:

andorabrokaw.com/the-harmony-...

#Books #Romantasy #PolyamorousBooks #QueerBooks #PolyamorousRomance

The cover of THe Harmony of Falling Snow by Andora Brokaw, featuring a dragon on a mountaintop looking up into a snowstorm, next to text reading "The Harmony of Falling Snow by Andora Brokaw, A sweet MMF polyamorous romance in a queer-normative fantasy world, now available from Hedgie Press"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when I mentioned #reading Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra? Did I tell all of #booksky how much I loved it? Well, I've written a full review of this endearing Pratchett-Austen mashup of a queer vampire-werewolf romantasy here: andorabrokaw.com/2025/10/11/h...

#BookRecomendations #QueerBooks

Hunger Pains: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra – Andora's Etherary

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 8h

one of the triad's cars spontaneously failed to start today. The mechanic-y one of us can't figure out why. Having to tow it t a mechanic who says they'll look at it Tuesday.

Sigh.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 14h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

I feel a little bad for Detroit fans who were up so late watching their team lose.

But not so bad I'm not extremely happy the Mariners won.

#Seattle #Mariners #baseball

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

I am having a Sad Day. Part of that is what I was saying earlier about my mother. And... The people I live with were just very down too. And then they left, one for work and one for a party. And I never felt like I could even tell them I'm having a rough day.

BUT my daughter is visiting tomorrow!

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat It belatedly occurs to me that the "you don't recognize me" spells some of my characters wear follow the spirit of a mask used for disguise.

They're famous, but don't want to be mobbed by people who recognize them from the news while they're trying to hang out with friends.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat

Question Two: Do any of your MCs wear literal or metaphorical masks?

Next question at :15!

@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

#QueerWritersChat Question Two: Do any of your MCs wear literal or metaphorical masks?
Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon Every Friday 8pm EST All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat

Don't actually have one yet...

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat

Question Four: Share a passage featuring something scary!

Last question at :25!

@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

#QueerWritersChat

Question Four: Share a line from your work where masks or costumes are mentioned!

Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon

Every Friday 8pm EST
All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome
Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat

Figurative masks: only to the degree everyone does.

Literal masks: if it's cold enough for a balaclava, then sure. Or maybe as part of a Masquerade Day costume?

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerWritersChat

Question Two: Do any of your MCs wear literal or metaphorical masks?

Next question at :15!

@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! I'm Andy and I'm here most weeks. I'm an agender, asexual panromantic who writes polyamorous romantasy in a queernormative settings. I'm currently working on A Melody of Shining Stars, a second book in the same town as the recently released The Harmony of Falling Snow.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!

To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on!

Next question at :10!

@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

#QueerWritersChat Question One: Introduce yourself and your current project Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon Every Friday 8pm EST All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

More autumn temperatures mean more autumn walkies!

#walkies #GermanShepherd #dogs

A German Shepherd on a purple leash walks on a ski slope in autumn

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 1d

🏳️‍🌈✨🌸💖LAST DAY💖🌸✨🏳️‍⚧️

Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 3d

My sapphic space fantasy is still on sale for ✨🌸$1 on my kofi🌸✨

Come get your cosmic lesbians holding hands while the horrors persist 🫶🏻

ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Today is my mother's 70th birthday.

I'm really not sure what, if anything, to do with this information.

I haven't talked to her in 2 (3?) years, when she had a suboptimal reaction to being told a family member is trans.

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 2d

I know its tempting for many of you to scoff at people caring about sports, especially with everything going on these days, but my mental health NEEDED hockey back.

Go Kraken!

#SeaKraken #hockey

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 2d

Authors, in the interest of helping readers spot gen ai 'authored' books, how many novels do you publish a year?

I publish one 80-100k+ word (epic fantasy) novel, and I can only do that because I drafted 8 novels before I started publishing any. 📚💙

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 2d

I put out four <100k word YA novels in six years.

Eight years after that, I released a 140k adult romantasy that I rewrote continuously that whole time. I'm hoping to get its followup out a year after it, but that feels a bit optimistic right now.

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 2d

I finished Of Monsters and Mainframes. It is small press and wound up being more queer than anticipated, so not off brand for me at all.

I LOVED it and think anyone who enjoys both SciFi and classic monsters should go read it.

Full review pending.

#books #reading #scfi #monsters

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 3d

More he didn't think it was fair he had to exercise so much while the cats were curled up on their cat tree. But the cats weren't the ones driving everyone nuts acting out due to having too much energy.

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Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 3d

Wife called pharmacies for me while I went to fetch a free bookcase. Looks like there's none of my dosage of Adderall within an hour of us.

Weeps in I Need This To Function.

#ADHD

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 3d

My pharmacy reports there's another Adderal shortage.

My options right this second are make a bunch of probably futile phone calls despite my phone phobia or come to terms now with not being able to think next week.

No worries. Thinking is optional in US society. Discouraged even.

#ADHD

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 4d

And, yeah, I'm still having to deal with the comments that trigger that. BUT the people following me don't. So if someone ever does respond with something harmful to my followers, I'll be able to protect them even if I don't see the post immediately.

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 4d

By auto-mod zealousness, I'm referencing the number of times the system has pinged me for 'you say people can follow you, but did you mean people like THIS?' and 'Not sure you want this comment? approve/deny' So far the answer's only been no once, but it was the type of bot I get here regularly.

Andy Brokaw @andybwriting.bsky.social · 4d

If you're overwhelmed by a new thing and already stumbling at Step 1: Pick an instance, I recommend lgbtqia.space. The auto-moderation on it is zealous and I'm confident the actual human mods care about protecting the users.

LGBTQIA.Space

This is a cute server for all LGBTQIA ppl out there that want a caring and safe environment. If you are part of the LGBTQIA community you are very cordially invited to join this server.

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