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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 13h

“title your new project”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Sadhbh Frost 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Now in Pumpkin Spice @sadhbhgirl.bsky.social · 16h

Looking for a book with a Halloween vibe? What's more in season than a trans for werewolf lesbian romance?

- mild spice, heavy thirst
- creepy old house with forbidden doors
- miserable family of corporate villains
- librarian

Preorder today, read tomorrow!

sadhbhstories.itch.io/the-wolf-bane

The Wolf Bane (Societas Aenigmatum, Book 1) by Sadhbh Frost

Trans for werewolf romance with modern fantasy and weird horror

sadhbhstories.itch.io

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 1d

Evening golden dragon

#watercolor #gouache #fantasyart #dragons #PNW

Painting of a golden dragon twisting its body through the forest. Ferns are on the ground, and light shines through in a spotlight. Text reads kamakru.com. Signed Katie Croonenberghs 2024

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Natalie Dombois @nataliedombois.bsky.social · Jan 13

Time to post one of my favorite old illustrations. :)
I created it for a group show resolving around botanical visuals. During this time I read a lot about the ISS and how they grew plants in there to test botanical behavior, which also sparked dreams about deep space travels.

Female Astronaut surrounded by plants. She's holding a space shuttle.

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Heath 🐇 @doodlenoodleh.bsky.social · 1d

Happy lis day to all who celebrate! 🦋

#lifeisstrange #pricefield

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Issy Waldrom @iwaldrom.bsky.social · 1d

This, very much so, for me as well. For those who know me, know that I am always happy to recommend and shout about sapphic and trans books. We need our voices out there.

Britney Jackson 🏳️‍🌈⚔️🏴‍☠️ @britneyjackson.com · 2d

I’m happy to stand with GCLS and SASS in defense of our stories. 💙

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#SapphicsWithTheBanned

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The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · 3d

NEW: 10 Must-Read Sapphic Fantasy Books

buff.ly/yCTql7u

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

happy birthday to international lesbians

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🐰Clover Baanz @cloverxiv.bsky.social · 5d

#Hades2

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 5d

bookshop.org has free shipping Oct 7-8 for their anti-prime sale! They have 10 of my paperbacks in stock so you can support indie authors and bookstores while collecting pretty books for your shelves at the same time ✨

A grid of 10 paperbacks by Arden Powell priced from 10.99 to 17.99 available on bookshop.org, including 6 Flos Magicae books.

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 11d

Learning to Bleed comes out March 18th and artist @scherville.com is so deeply talented I can hardly believe it!

This book is the 2nd in a trilogy that explores queerness and trauma through vampire lore, all against the backdrop of an impoverished rural community that has its own monsters 👀

Links⬇️

The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.

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Lila Gwynn @lilagwynn.bsky.social · 11d

Meet KOLFROSTA 🧚🏼‍♂️ & DALLA ⚔️ from my holiday novella The Yuletide Fairy’s Curse, coming out just one month from today! ❄️

A huge thanks to @doodlenoodleh.bsky.social who brought my characters to life in this illustration!

Preorder here: mybook.to/YuletideFairysCurse

An illustration of fairy woman with midnight blue skin and silver hair looking down at a shorter blonde woman holding up a dagger to her. Garland wraps around them at the top of the image. Artist credit to @doodlenoodleh.

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 16d

The gender of the day seems to be “Lesbian prince”

Fascinating

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 15d

🔮 www.neonhemlock.com/books ✨

Ten book covers at Neon Hemlock! Ona psychedelic background.

Stone and Steel
The Dead Withheld
And This Is How to Stay Alive
Empire of the Feast
A Necessary Chaos
Loving Safoa
Call & Response
The Cosmic Color
Off-Time Jive
Redundancies and Potentials

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁 @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 16d

Oh hey it's a cover reveal!! I loved working on this art so much, I got to draw all my favourite things. Keep your eyes peeled for preorders! ✨🐚

Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 16d

✨COVER REVEAL✨

My second collection of retellings, SHELLS FOR HEARTS, will be released on November 11th!

Preorder links to come!

Cover by the amazing @ardenpowell.bsky.social

#Booksky

Cover of Shells For Hearts: Retellings, by Devan Barlow. The cover is by Arden Powell, and features seashells, perfume bottles, a pumpkin, and assorted animals against a green background.

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Ceri @dangerwookiee.bsky.social · 18d

Another great fantasy book with some incredible worldbuilding and an unlikely alliance between a monster slayer and a half vampire ~ which makes for a compelling read! ⚔️🐉

I really enjoyed A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social & its intriguing cast of strong female characters

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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations to The Revenge of Captain Vessia by @cozywitch.bsky.social

You are through to the #BBNYA2025 final!!!

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Mariah Rae Birch 🌈 Author @mariahraebirch.bsky.social · 23d

A lady knight trying to resist the princess...and it's not going well 👀 From HER PRETTY KNIGHT ⚔️ Sapphic Lady Knights Book One 🌈❤️

On Audible, KoboPlus, B&N, and more!

#lesficfri #Sapphic #ladyknight

Against a papery green backdrop, with the green-and-gold, sword-and-floral book cover for Her Pretty Knight, the #lesficfri quote for "Remember" is:

Galeon should leave. She should turn away. Instead, she watched. And she listened. And she wanted.
Galeon’s breathing quickened, matching Della’s. She was somehow painfully aware of her own body while feeling separated from it.
She was standing closer than she had been. She didn’t remember moving.

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Meg @opalescent4026.bsky.social · 21d

A look at what's releasing this week! If you have a book you need added to the calendar, you can submit it here: opalescent4026.carrd.co#calendar

#monsterromance #alienromance #fantasyromance 🪢📚💖 #paranormalromance #romancelandia #scifiromance 🌶️📚💙

Releases Week of 9/21. Sept 23 Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert, Grim's Delight by Abigail Kelly, Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood, My Boyfriends Are All Monsters by Kimberly Lemming, Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon

Releases Week of 9/21. Sept 23 Seeking the Orcs by Violet Cinders, Velvet Rites by Sofia Graves

Releases Week of 9/21. Sept 25 Lost in the Swamp (Anthology) by Multiple, One Night with Her Untamed Orc by Jilli Waters; Sept 26 Are We So Lucky? by Carlotta Page

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Aramis 🌙 team petal🪻 @lunaramis.bsky.social · 21d

We dont need a silent blackout regarding bsky's situation, we need to be loud - support liberty in art, support your nsfw artists. It always starts with us until there's no one anymore to escape their witch hunt.

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Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 22d

Okay, promo time, because I keep forgetting!
The Pirates and Tyrants duology is my NSFW lesbian space opera, with robots, spaceships, BDSM, and a horny crew. Oh, and an evil empire!

itch.io/s/89507/pirates-and-tyrants-bundle
jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#pirates1
jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#pirates2