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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 19d

So excited to share my tender little short story that was published in Fruitslice Magazine today❤️‍🔥

“Synchronicities” is a story about the power of connection, the tender moments that can soothe our deepest aches, and the spark that can bring us to life again.

#booksky #writesky #queersky 🌈📚

Page one of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

Page two of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

Page three of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

Page four of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hi when do you stop having a small heart attack whenever you see your own book stocked in a bookshop please??

Or are other authors just more chill than me??

#booksky 🌈📚 #writesky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Sep 2

Eeek thank you Andrea ❤️‍🔥

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Sep 2

Have had such a fun launch today - thank you everyone who preordered/ requested/ reviewed In Your Head, the support has been incredible 🥰

IYH: A spicy sapphic novella for fans of Black Mirror, Women (Chloé Caldwell) and Want (Gillian Anderson).

aliciavane.com/books/in-you...

🌈📚 #booksky

The paperback of In Your Head by Alicia Vane next to an almond croissant and black coffee

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 26

One week until my spicy sapphic novella is officially out in the world 😱

trying not to freak out about the preorders coming in from actual bookshops!!

eeeeek!!

(ps I will not cope if I encounter a copy in the wild haha)

www.aliciavane.com for details ❤️‍🔥

🌈📚 #booksky #queersky #writesky

Paperback cover of the spicy sapphic novella In your Head by Alicia Vane. Cover is a pixelated blue, purple, pink background with a heart shaped eye.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hahaha my primary motivators for writing 😂❤️‍🔥 thank you Hayden!

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks for the like Megan ☺️ can you follow me back please so I can DM you?

Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hahaha thank you Jadyn!! ❤️‍🔥

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets

For fans of:

❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity
❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs
❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power

THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN

(98k, speculative lit fic)

#QueerPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #litfic #amquerying

Image shows the title “Womanhood is a spectrum” (with relentless yearning on the left and unbridled rage on the right) which is a theme of my novel NASCENT about a cult of strong women with dark secrets. Themes of sapphic yearning, gender non conformity, unbridling of rage.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thank you so much 🤩

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 11

AND general adult oh my goddddd (when I saw it listed on the same page as one of my favourite authors Lauren Groff I actually had to scream a bit)

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 11

The scream I just had to stifle (it’s 10pm here) when I saw that my novella is one of the most requested titles in the LGBTQ+ category of @netgalley.bsky.social

well, I definitely won’t sleeping now 😂

Thank you everyone who requested to read In Your Head ❤️‍🔥

🌈📚 #booksky #writesky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 9

I loved this!!

Andrea 📚🌈 @andreareads.bsky.social · Aug 9

Women in Translation month is off to a good start! Fans of Catherine Lacey will like this one

Andrea holding Permafrost by Eva Baltasar on her lap while sitting outside on a deck

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you to everyone who shared and requested In Your Head on NetGalley - the response has blown my mind!! ❤️‍🔥

(exciting but also eeeeeek)

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 4

Eeeek my spicy sapphic novella is available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social now!!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

(and I feel absolutely fine about this 😅😂❤️‍🔥)

#queerbooks 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky

A vintage beige computer showing that the spicy sapphic novella In Your Head by Alicia Vane is available on NetGalley for August. Behind the screen is a trippy drippy pattern.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you Krystal! ❤️‍🔥

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Aug 4

Eeeek my spicy sapphic novella is available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social now!!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

(and I feel absolutely fine about this 😅😂❤️‍🔥)

#queerbooks 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Jul 20

Ooh I haven’t heard of that, are you enjoying it?

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Jul 17

Oh amazing well done! Hope your beta reader is super! 📚

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · Jul 16

Oh hi 👋

I’ve been lost in books for a few months (reading and writing)

Highlights:
- The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden)
- Boulder (Eva Baltasar)
- Spoilt Creatures (Amy Twigg)

I’ve also got a couple of sapphic stories coming out in the next few months ❤️‍🔥

What have you been up to?
🌈📚 #booksky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · May 21

Stunning cover!

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · May 16

I’m only three chapters in but I like how it’s written. The first chapter was more interesting than the next two - they were a little bit obvious saying “use punctuation” if you’ve read and written for a long time. I like that there are examples and exercises though.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · May 16

Excellent! Let me know how you get on!

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · May 16

Are you!!? Amazing. Love it. Have you had a go at any exercises?

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · May 16

Brushing up on the craft with Ursula K Le Guin and an almond croissant cookie.

#booksky 🌈📚 #amwriting #writingcommunity

Coffee and croissant laid out on daisy speckled grass next to a notebook and
The book Steering The Craft.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · May 15

Yes I totally agree!