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Bywater Books
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Bywater Books represents the coming of age of queer literature.

We Are All Stories.

www.bywaterbooks.com
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🏳️‍🌈📚 To every writer pushing through the noise:
✍️ When the world shrugs—write.
💣 When everything feels like it’s cracking—write.
🫥 🦴 When you feel alone—trust the stories in your bones.
💯👉 Someone out there needs what only you can give them.

#AuthorSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit
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November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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👀📛 At Bywater Books, we’re not here to behave.
🏳️‍🌈📚 We’re here to reshape the queer lit landscape—one badass book at a time.
✅ Check us out: https://bywaterbooks.com

#sapphicbooksky #sapphicromance #sapphicmystery #SapphicStories #ReadSapphic
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November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 ⏰ Tick tock!
5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣+ sapphic books—including tons from Bywater Books—on sale.
💣 Deals vanish after Nov 24.
📚 Stock up while you can!
https://iheartsapphfic.com/2025/11/20/2025-ihs-sapphic-mega-sale-guide/

#BookSky#sapphicromance #sapphicbooks #QueerLit @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 It’s here: the IHS Sapphic Mega Sale.
👀 500+ sapphic books. Dirt-cheap prices. Wall-to-wall queer stories.
🚦Bywater Books is in the mix—so go fill your eReader!
💥 $0.99–$4.99 • Ends Nov 24
👉 https://loom.ly/EIaVPKY

#SapphicBookSky #SapphicRomance #LGBTQBooks @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Hope isn't lost—it’s just seriously pissed off. 😡
👀 Reclamation arrives December 9th.
🔥 You don't want to miss this one.
⏳ Preorder it today—everywhere dangerous queer books are sold.

#SapphicBookSky #QueerDystopia #RomanticThriller #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit @kristen_zimmer_author
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November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Bywater Books publisher Salem West talks mission, momentum & the future of queer publishing.
📣👊 A smart, candid convo with Jerry Wheeler of Out in Print, you don’t want to miss.

👀 Read it here: https://loom.ly/xnm-7Zc

@wheelerjerry #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit
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November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Ever wonder how your favorite sapphic romance authors got here?
1️⃣ eBook @ $3.99
👀 The very first book ever published by iconic Naiad Press—on sale through Nov 25.
📆 Clear your calendar. Charge your Kindle.

#SapphicBookSky #SapphicRomanceSky #SapphicHistoricalFiction #BookSky
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November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Looking for a great sapphic novel?
3️⃣ eBooks @ $3.99 each.
👀 These amazing historical sapphic novels are on sale now through Nov 25.
📆 Clear your calendar. Charge your Kindle. Thank us later.

#SapphicBooks #SapphicBooks #SapphicHistoricalFiction #LGBTQReads
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November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 From one of our trailblazing sapphic authors!
2️⃣ eBooks @ $3.99 each.
👀 Marianne K. Martin's romantic ebooks are on sale now through Nov 25.
📆 Clear your calendar. Charge your Kindle. Thank us later.

#SapphicBooks #SapphicRomance #GCLSTrailblazer #QueerLit
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November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Your next sapphic binge?
4️⃣ eBooks @ $4.99 each.
👀 Ann McMan’s iconic Jericho series ebooks are on sale now through Nov 25.
📆 Clear your calendar. Charge your Kindle. Thank us later.

#SapphicRomanceSky #SapphicBooks #SmallTown #SlowBurn #FriendstoLovers
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November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Your next sapphic binge?
👉 ANN McMAN’S iconic JERICHO series ebooks are on sale now through Nov 25.
👀 Each ebook only $4.99.
📅📱 Clear your weekend. Charge your Kindle. Thank us later.

#SapphicRomance #SapphicBooks #SlowBurn #FriendstoLovers #LGBTQBooks
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November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚The #BywaterBookDrop for November 19:
👀 Dear Miss Cushman by Paula Martinac.
1️⃣ eBook • 1️⃣ Day • $3.99
👊🔋 A sapphic coming-into-power romance where love, art & gender-bending courage ignite one woman’s rise.

https://loom.ly/TAsU0Vs

#SapphicBookSky #SapphicRomance #SlowBurn @pmartinac
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November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🔥 Ready to get scorched & bothered?
🎧 The audiobook of Incendiant by @VirginiaBlackWrites.
👄 Narrated by the captivating Trei Taylor.
👀 Preorder everywhere today!

#SapphicBookSky #Audiobooks #BookRecs #SpecFic #DarkFantasy #MustListen @mommyonthemic
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November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 ⚓ Set sail on a storm of secrets, courage & spicy chaos!
🎧 The audiobook of Windlass by @AnnaBurkeAuthor.
👄 Narrated by velvet-voiced @QuinnRileyReads.
👀 Preorder everywhere today!

#SapphicRomanceSky #Audiobooks #BookRecs #Romance #Spicy
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November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🎨 A fierce, intimate story of art, memory & the woman who upends it all.
👀👊 Preorder now and brace yourself for the Wolf’s return.
📚👉 Everywhere fierce sapphic books are sold!

#SapphicBookSky #SecondChanceRomance #TheOneThatGotAwayReturns #OldFlamesBurnHot @jules.revel.writes
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🍸 Mix one part plot twist, two parts drama, a dash of scandal—shake over Sunday vibes.
🥃 📚 What’s your Sunday reading cocktail?

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBookSky #SassySundays #BookLife #QueerLit #BookSky
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November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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💛 The message is pretty simple...
👊 Visit us today @ BywaterBooks.com
🏳️‍🌈📚 We're here, we're queer & we have great books.

#SapphicBookSky #SapphicRomance #LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks
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November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 You can strip the shelves.
✂️ You can destroy the pages.
🚫🔩 But you’ll never bolt down a mind on fire.
☑️ 🔥 Writers, readers & publishers don’t break—we burn brighter.

#LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBooks #FreedomToRead #StopCensorship #BooksNotBans #BooksAreResistance #WordsHavePower #Read2Live
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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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✅ What's your Ideal day checklist?
🌈 Here's ours...
☕ Caffeine
🏳️‍🌈 Queer lit
💋 Questionable decisions
0️⃣ Zero apologies
⛽💣 We’re fueled by fiction & feelings.

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit #ReadOutLoud
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November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚Hey, Richmond friends!
⛔ The final stop of the CRIME INK: ICONIC book tour lands at Shelf Life Books.
🍸 Baby Bear Botanicals will prepare themed non-alcoholic beverages.
🎟️ Ticketed event—click here to sign up: https://loom.ly/wL6Byaw

#OutRVA #LGBTQBooks #Mystery #CrimeFiction #BookSky
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November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📲 Calling all sapphic book influencers & reviewers who live for rebellion.
👊📚 Advance Review Copies of RECLAMATION by @Kristen_Zimmer_Author are live on #NetGalley through Dec 12.

#LGBTQBookSky #NetGalleyARC #DystopianThriller #DystopianRomance #SapphicFiction #QueerLit
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November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚 The #BywaterBookDrop for November 12 is Olive Oil & White Bread by @GeorgiaBeers.
1️⃣ eBook • 1️⃣ day • Only $3.99
❤️ A sapphic second-chance story—not about falling in love, but staying in it.

https://loom.ly/iYpAUWs

#SapphicRomanceSky #SecondChance #OppositesAttract #BookSky
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November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Service is a story—one written in courage, sacrifice, and pride.
🎖️To queer veterans: thank you for your chapter in our shared history.
📚 We are all stories.

#LGBTQSky #PrideAndService #RepresentationMatters #LGBTQVeterans #QueerVeterans #LGBTQ #QueerLit
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November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🐈 This one’s packed with a saddlebag full of juicy sapphic catnip.
📚🥊 This Means War by @BennaBos.
👉 Preorder today everywhere fierce sapphic books are sold!

#SapphicRomanceSky #EnemiesToLovers #SecondChanceRomance #FieryRomance #SmallTownRomance #StrongFemaleLeads
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Should you read today?
👀 ➡️ Spoiler: it’s always yes.
👉 Find us at BywaterBooks.com

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBooks #ReadersGonnaRead #BookishHumor #SapphicRomance
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November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM