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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 14h

🏳️‍🌈📚📣 Bywater Books proudly welcomes Lambda Literary & Macavity Award-winning author John Copenhaver & his sapphic noir thriller Goddess of Love—a haunting tale of passion, power & the ghosts that never let go.

@johncope74 #SapphicFiction #QueerLit #NoirThriller #LGBTQBooks #QueerStories

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 16h

🏳️‍🌈👻🦇Sapphic Spooktacular Savings!
Curl up with fearless love, haunting passion & queer magic—these spooky sapphic eBooks are on sale now.

#SapphicFiction #WLWBooks #QueerReads #LGBTQBooks #SpookySeason #SpookySapphics #BookSale #QueerLit #LesbianFiction #ReadTheRainbow #QueerHalloween

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 18h

🕵️‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🔪 NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE.
Cantor Gold returns to 1958 New York—where loyalty cuts deep, betrayal bleeds fast, and vengeance has a price.
Audiobook • eBook • Paperback.

#NewRelease #CrimeNoir #HistoricalMystery #LGBTQFiction #QueerNoir #SapphicNoir #BookLaunch #LesbianNoir

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 1d

💋🖤 A missing bookie. A bloody carpet. A killer on the loose.
🕵️‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🔪 Noir. Queer. Sharp as a switchblade.

🎧📲📚 AUDIOBOOK • EBOOK • PAPERBACK—DROPPING TOMORROW!

#SapphicNoir #QueerMystery #LGBTQFiction #ButchFemme #QueerReads #PreorderNow #BookSky

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Right?!?!?! ❤️

Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 2d

📣 👀 Number 1️⃣ on Amazon's LGBTQ+ Horror Fiction!
🏳️‍🌈💀 'Til death do us start screaming.
💒💍 Say "I do" to The Ever End by @AudreyWilsonAuthor—a queer, twisted, feminist horror that’ll haunt your October reading list.

#HorrorLit #QueerLit #DarkFiction #SpookySeason #LGBTQBooks #DarkStories

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 2d

🏳️‍🌈🎧📚 Sink your teeth into @AnnaBurkeAuthor ’s defiant queer romantic dark academia—an audiobook pulsing with sensuous vampires, creeping plant horrors & dangerous desire. Curiosity is the first mistake...

Click it to get it: https://loom.ly/FIF4gus

#DarkAcademia #QueerFantasy #Audiobooks

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 3d

🏳️‍🌈👊 Living your truth is an act of courage and revolution.
We see you. We love you. We value you.

#NationalComingOutDay #VisibilityMatters #LiveYourTruth #RepresentationMatters #ComingOutDay #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 3d

🏳️‍🌈📚🚫 You can’t delete what refuses to disappear.

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom #SapphicsWithTheBanned

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 4d

🏳️‍🌈📚🚫 Forbidden fruit tastes best. Pick up a banned book & satisfy your craving. 🍑

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom #SapphicsWithTheBanned

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Friendship. Betrayal. Blood in the streets.
Cantor Gold is back—preorder your copy today.

Get it everywhere great queer books are sold.

#SapphicBookSky #BookSky #NoirSky #MysterySky

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 4d

🏳️‍🌈📚💀Dapper outlaw Cantor Gold launches her newest adventure, GOLD FOR THE DEAD!
When: Wed, Oct 15, 7 PM
Where: Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, NYC
Author Ann Aptaker will be in conversation with Felice Cohen—expect literary mischief & criminal tales & juicy tidbits.
#SapphicBookSky

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 5d

🏳️‍🌈📚🚫Censorship can suck it—read a banned book, stay badass.

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom #SapphicsWithTheBanned

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 5d

🏳️‍🌈💀 'Til death do us start screaming.
Say "I do" to The Ever End by @AudreyWilsonAuthor—a queer, twisted, feminist horror that’ll haunt your October reading list.
💒 🤫 Secrets. Rituals. A cursed wedding you can’t escape.

#HorrorLit #QueerLit #DarkFiction #SpookySeason #DarkStories #LGBTQBooks

Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 6d

🏳️‍🌈✈️🌏 He left his husband at the airport to chase his dreams—now both men must figure out what it really means to grow up, love hard & start over.
🎧 Listen to Tom Pyun’s fierce, funny & unforgettable new audiobook today.
Available everywhere!
#QueerLit #Audiobooks #LGBTQReads #FictionRecs

Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 6d

🏳️‍🌈📚🚫 Last we checked, it wasn’t the good guys ripping books out of libraries.

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LetFreedomReadDay #ReadForYourRights #StandUpForReading #FreedomToRead #DefendTheFirst #ReadBannedBooks #BookFreedom

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 6d

🏳️‍🌈✈️🌏 He left his husband at the airport to chase his dreams—now both men must figure out what it really means to grow up, love hard, and start over.
🎧 Listen to Tom Pyun’s fierce, funny & unforgettable new audiobook today.
Now available everywhere!

#BookSky #LGBTQSky #AudiobookSky

Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 6d

🏳️‍🌈 📚The #BywaterBookDrop for October 8 is Murder and Gold by Ann Aptaker.
One eBook • One day • Only $3.99

https://bywaterbooks.com/product/murder-and-gold-by-ann-aptaker/

#SapphicBookSky #BookSky #BookDeals #LGBTQSky #QueerLitSky #MysterySky #ButchFemmeSksy #NoirSky

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 7d

🏳️‍🌈📚🚫 You can’t ban a community.
You can’t redact our legacy.
👊 Support the rebels who aren't afraid to publish our stories.

#BannedBooksWeek #LetFreedomRead #BookSky #CensorshipIsSo1984 #FightCensorship

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 8d

🏳️‍🌈📚 They can ban all the books they want—but they’ll never silence our stories.

#BannedBooksWeek #LetFreedomReadDay #LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBookSky #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BookSky

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 9d

🏳️‍🌈 📣 Erase our words, and we’ll write them louder.
🏳️‍🌈 📚Strike out our stories, and we’ll carve them into history.
Banned Books Week 2025 begins today—maybe don't sit this one out.

#BannedBooksWeek #LetFreedomReadDay #LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBookSky #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BookSky

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 10d

🏳️‍🌈 📚 At Bywater Books & Amble Press, we publish without apology—truth, courage & real lives on every page.
Read the stories that matter & support the writers who bring them to you. 👊
📣 BywaterBooks.com

#BookSky #LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBookSky #AuthorSky

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 11d

🍂 Every season carries a story—and these books will sweep you away like autumn leaves.
Are you ready to be blown away? 📚🏳️‍🌈

##BookSky #LGBTQBookSky #MysterySky #BookRecs

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Every action matters. Every choice leaves a mark.
Dr. Jane Goodall’s words remind us: Only you can decide what kind of difference you will make.
So make it matter for the right reasons.

#DrJaneGoodall #HopeInAction

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Click here to save 50% on Whisper to the Wind, narrated by @Abby_Craden: https://loom.ly/YPBcn_Y

OFFER ENDS TOMORROW. 10/3/25.

#SapphicRomanceSky #BookSky @AudiobookSky

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