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Liz Sauco

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Author of the Blades of the Goddess series, a high fantasy adventure with urban fantasy and sci-fi elements! https://linktr.ee/lizsauco

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Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · 17d

New #ARC for interested readers 👀

*Releasing Nov 14
*New Adult/Adult (*not* YA)
*Buffy x Persona 4 vibed
*Lots of traumatized teenagers
*Now ft. 2 ND fMCs

Make sure to check cw's on form as heavy topics are covered!

ARC form 🔗 riyati.ink/ripple-arc

📚📢📚💙 🌈📚🌎 🪐📚⚔️🌈🚀 #queerAdultSFF #QueerSFF

Every act of defiance steers you into the person you were always been meant to become.

A partially hidden cover with a bright yellow glyph showing through on the left side. On the right side, the following is bulleted

* Third book in series
* Dark Fantasy
* Contemporary & low fantasy with urban fantasy elements
* Madoka x Persona 4 Vibes
* 1st Person & Multi PoV
* Classism & effects of generational poverty
* Demi, ND fMC
* Found Family
* Reincarnations
* Intricate Elemental Magic
* Childhood Friends Slow Burn
* 97k words (~320 pages)

Retailers
Logos for the itch.io, ko-fi, Campfire, Payhip, Apple Books, Kobo, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Kindle are listed. Underneath says "+ more @ riyati.ink/ripple"

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Jessy @operaghost21.bsky.social · Sep 2

I guess I should post more. Anyway this is a creature from @authorlizsauco.bsky.social 's Blades universe

a drawing of a kelpie, a green mix of seahorse and actual horse, and a smaller drawing of the kelpie poking it's head out of the water like an alligator with a frog sitting on top

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Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Aug 23

Set up at the Scituate Farmers Market until noon!!

A table set up with books on it outside at a farmers market

Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Jul 12

All set up at Hope Artist Village for the RI Summer Book Festival!! It runs from 10am-6pm today, and there are over 40 authors selling and signing books! Come say hi!

A table set up with books from the Blades of the Goddess series by Liz Sauco at the RI Summer Book Festival.

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Alice Dryden @huskyteer.co.uk · Jul 9

and yes, 'screws' in THAT sense.

Sign from a French supermarket car park on which 'Pique nique' - 'picnic' - has been translated to English as 'Spade screws'.

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Amy Stauffer PA @amystaufferpa.bsky.social · Jul 9

🐉 🌈📚 New LGBTQ+ book releases: July 9, 2025.

🔗 Find them here: bit.ly/m/QBR

Happy reading, y'all! 🖤🤟🏼

#queerbookreviews #sapphicromance #queerromance #mmromance #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #sapphicbooksky #queerbooksky #readqueerallyear #booksky #romancelandia

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · May 14

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Jul 8

But I did not shoot the typography!

Large capital S with a chunk shot out of the top serif.

Text below is "I shot the serif."

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Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Jul 3

Never come to me if you want someone to tell you not to spend money XD

Because YES you deserve the nice thing

Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Jul 3

The next line was “They.” So I came super close to a one word answer XD

Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Jul 3

Line 8 of page 187 of Blades Reforged:

He paused, considering that thought.

😂

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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · Jul 3

Line 8 of page 187 from Riyati Ripple-

Struggled with my accent and can’t roll a damn r to save my fuckin’ life, but listening’s easy as hell and written’d not been a problem since it’s still Latin characters.

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Alyssa Lauseng 🐉🩸🔪 @5feetofredfury.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey ##writingcommunity, drop line 8 from page 187 of your MS and tag 3 friends!

Obito had theorized earlier that a village like this didn't need too many demons of force from an outsider to comply with demands.

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Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · Jul 3

Looking for a new book series? Check out #Riyati!

🔗 Itch riyati.ink/itch
🏠 Direct riyati.ink/store
🛒 Other retailers (digital & physical) riyati.ink/series
🔮 Riyati Discord (lurker friendly) riyati.ink/discord
🚫 Series cw's riyati.ink/cws
🧩 More info riyati.ink

Individual book info 🧵👇

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Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · Jul 3

Nows as good as time as any I guess to have yall check out my booksale on Smashwords. 50% off yall.

Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · Jul 3

Smashwords Summer Sale 2025

I have an exciting announcement! ALL of my books are 50% off for the month of July on Smashwords only! If you haven't picked up Witch in the Lighthouse's sequel, or any of my other works, now's the time. I'd love it if you could support my work--and sharing counts! Head…

Smashwords Summer Sale 2025

I have an exciting announcement! ALL of my books are 50% off for the month of July on Smashwords only! If you haven't picked up Witch in the Lighthouse's sequel, or any of my other works, now's the time. I'd love it if you could support my work--and sharing counts! Head over to my Smashwords profile to see my sale.

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Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Jul 3

I actually just bought a new keycap set!!

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jul 3

In case you were curious, all of Sresca's alters are also lesbian. She is the host of a system of 8 and therefore this book is like 3 lesbians but one of them is also 8 lesbians in a robe.

Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jul 3

Even if certain retailers won't let me use the world "lesbian," that's still what Sresca is! As are her partners, Petra and Kiut Tshu. If 3 lesbians saving the world from a man hellbent on ascending to godhood is your thing, preorder Shackles and Shards: Shattered today!

dax.ink/shackles
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Shackles and Shards; Shattered. Gideon the Ninth meets the Priory of the Orange Tree in this fantasy novel full of dark magic, death goddesses, secret organizations, political chaos, and ancient forces rousing from their slumber. Promo image shows paperback novel w a cover of a flying serpent and a priestess in a field of purple roses. Cover by May Barros.

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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · Jun 24

FINAL WEEK ‼️

Don’t miss out on our Pride Bundle! 14 books & games with an entire rainbow of diversity & talent for just $17 🏳️‍🌈

tinyurl.com/ss-pride-bundle

Swords & Sapphics is hosting a Pride Month bundle of 14 books & games spanning sci-fi, fantasy, & contemporary romance genres by LGBTQ+ authors. Was $53, now $17.

Books included:
Kitten Caboodle by Candace Harper
Partners in Crime by Rachel Bowdler
Mending Bones by Merlina Garance
NEED by Elena Abbott
Hunt Monsters, Do Magic, & Fall in Love by A.M. Weald
A Sharper, More Lasting Pain by Alex Harvey-Rivas
Black Smoke Rising by Caroline Cuell
Dawn Weaver by Issy Waldrom
Usurper by J.M. Rose
First Snow by Jake Vanguard
May Day by Josie Jaffrey
The Fealty of Monsters Volume 1 by Ladz (Illus. by Soren Häxan)
Of Spells and Love by Odessa Silver
Dice Goblins by Helios Marzocca

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Conrad Altmann 📚🪐🌱 @conradaltmann.com · Jun 25

If you’re in need of a badge to mark your creative endeavors as lacking genAI or to promote their human only origins… consider using either of these, both [always] for free in my ko-fi shop:

ko-fi.com/conradaltman...

#noai #aifree #humancreativity #bangenai 📚💙 🚫🤖

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jun 24

Did I mention it's also got lesbians doing polyamory? A lesbian triad? And in true "inspired by rpg" fashion, the triad is also a tank/healer/dps triad?

Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jun 24

Lesbians doing shadow magic? Yes.
Lesbians doing necromancy? YES.
Lesbians challenging gods? YES!!

Itch (30% off): daxdefiant.itch.io/shackles-and-shards
Direct (30% off): m.dax.ink/shackles-direct
Amazon, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, etc: dax.ink/shackles

🌈📚🧡🦄📚🪐🌈🚀💫

GIDEON THE NINTH meets PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE in this fantasy novel full of dark magic, death goddesses, secret organizations, political chaos and ancient forces rousing from their slumber.

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · Jun 24

A demiromantic engineer must find a way to free 1000
trapped witches but in order to get there, she’ll need to convince the evil scientist that trapped them to trust her.

Aromantic fantasy novel inspired by Quebec City~

buy.bookfunnel.com/prdyz5509q

🌈📚 💙📚 🌈🚀💫 #QueerAdultSFF #booksky

An arrow trope image where several elements point to a central cover. The cover features a masc person and a child stand in a city street with their back to the viewer. The child is pointing towards a flock of birds swooping through the sky. The entire cover is in tones of blue, and it is clearly set in winter.
The surrounding information includes: the evil scientist who betrayed ols community, fixing what’s broken / aftermath story, three arospec leads with messy relationships to romance, the chaos of a six cats household, may contain Baker Thief characters, the gender feels of choosing a body for yourself, fantasy city and spring traditions inspired by Quebec City

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jun 24

In case you didn't know, I also have paperback and hardcover special edition versions with bonus content available directly from my store.

store.dax.ink

Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jun 23

Looking for a queer fantasy book with:

* Political Intrigue
* Court Gossip
* Spicy Sapphics
* Interwoven and crisscrossing plotlines
* Revolution

Checkout STARS AND SOIL. Available widely!

dax.ink/stars

Stars and Soil. Revolutionary Fantasy. Sapphic Romance. Queer Rep: Lesbian. Sapphic. Bisexual. Non-binary & More! Happy Pride Month! Cover by GetCovers. Cover shows filigree and red lilies surrounding a dagger piercing a crown and shattering it into pieces. Available at most major retailers.

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Liz Sauco @authorlizsauco.bsky.social · Jun 24

Woot, Colors of Magic is in two Pride Book Fair bundles on Itch.io!

The Fantasy bundle has 18 books for $35 - https://itch.io/b/3076/pride-book-fair-fantasy

The Big Bundle has 111 books for $100 - https://itch.io/b/3084/pride-book-fair-the-big-bundle-of-queer-awesomeness

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jun 23

You want a ton of queer fiction and non-fiction for just $30? The QUEER LIGHTS IN THE DARKNESS bundle is now LIVE!
Highlights include:
* These Gears of Mine by C. S. Cary
* Spine of Eternity by Eva Terra
* Cities by Rita-Audrey Crawford

& more!

🌈📚

itch.io/b/3065/queer...

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jun 23

The #PrideBookFair book bundle is LIVE! My novel "A LAKE OF FEATHERS AND MOONBEAMS" is featured in the Fantasy bundle! 18 books for $35!

Highlights Include:

The Godsfang by Y. R. Liu
Chai and Cat Tales by Lynn Strong
The Edge of the World by JD Rivers

Get it now: itch.io/b/3076/pride...

🌈📚🪐🌈🚀💫

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Jun 18

i am perceived 😭😂

Being an indie author is wild because I’m both the unpaid intern and the stressed out CEO… of a company that sells feelings.

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jun 17

ICYMI: Cover reveal and character art for SHACKLES AND SHARDS: SHATTERED!

Cover: @maybarros.com.br
Character Art: @authorlizsauco.bsky.social

Pre-order: dax.ink/shackles

Shackles and Shards: Shattered. All she wants to do is serve her Goddess, living in the Underworld and caring for the recently deceased. But when a former duke mistakes her for a lost princess, Sresca is plunged into a conspiracy to undo the revolution, destroy democracy, and restore the monarchy. Can she harness ancient magic and uncover clues in her past that can help her save the world? Cover Art; May Barros. Cover shows a woman in flowing robes standing with a winged serpent in a field of purple roses.

A genderqueer person with wild red hair and spots on their face wearing plate armor with branches from trees behind them.

A catgirl in an under bust corset with hair wrapped around her head and framed by purple roses.

a woman wearing a white rob and silver circlet staring forlornly, she is encircled by a snake with wings.

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