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Elizabeth Briars
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Author of The Steer Queer Series
The Lady and The List:
https://books2read.com/u/3kdAP6
The Gossip and The Guest:
https://books2read.com/u/4DGrEd
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Elizabeth Briars @elizabethbriars.bsky.social · 1d
Looking for books you can laud over your family members as being historical while they are, unbeknownst to them, unabashedly queer? Innocuous titles to cover their spice levels from interlopers? Check out books one and two in The Steer Queer Series!
#queer #queerbooks #historicalromance
The Steer Queer Series
Visit Amazon's The Steer Queer Series Page and shop for all The Steer Queer Series books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of The Steer Queer Series
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elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Dunno that I ever saw this particular sentence coming but stupid Napoleon is fucking up my plot and now my queer couples cannot move to France to live their lavender marriage dreams... Unfortunate

#wip #queerbooks #writesky
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Time to pick your surreptitious Thanksgiving read! With The Gossip and The Guest you get a questioning bisexual and a wholesome MM relationship, as well as two different couple's first time scenes to give you all the warm (🌶️) and fuzzies

books2read.com/u/4DGrEd

📚💙 #queerbooks
Art by Jackcryptid
A two page spread on a manilla colored background with brown and dusty orange leaves of various shapes interspersed. The left page reads: Even after almost a month, Edmund still couldn't quite put his finger in what it was that he found so interesting about Theo. Every encounter had left Edmund more confused and embarrassed, yet he still found himself hoping for another opportunity to observe him. It was madness. But so was avoiding the wood at Thorncroft and the chance to see more wildlife just to avoid explaining that Edmund hadn't heard a word Theo said. The right page says: will Edmund ever tell Theo he's Deaf? Find out in The Gossip and The Guest Available Now And beneath it is an illustration of a red haired young man and a man with blond curls holding a hedgehog between their hands. Both men are wearing regency clothes fit for working class men.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Looking for books you can laud over your family members as being historical while they are, unbeknownst to them, unabashedly queer? Innocuous titles to cover their spice levels from interlopers? Check out books one and two in The Steer Queer Series!
#queer #queerbooks #historicalromance
The Steer Queer Series
Visit Amazon's The Steer Queer Series Page and shop for all The Steer Queer Series books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of The Steer Queer Series
www.amazon.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Is this an unflattering write up of Isabella? Yes
Is it inaccurate? Nope
Pick up a copy today for a fun read while you ignore your family at Thanksgiving:

books2read.com/u/4DGrEd
a.co/d/aXuRilj

Art by @cuatrojosz.bsky.social

#queerbooks #historicalromance #biromance #mmromance 📚💙
On a background with a yellow gradient, a light yellow box is outlined in illustrated marigolds. Inside it is a header: An English Rose in a Bed of Strange Flowers Below it is a portrait of a young blonde woman in regency dress. Underneath that is a series of bullet points: Miss Isabella Marshton Friendly Accomplished in the ladylike arts But if a gossip Desperately lonely The Problem Her parents saw for to drop her in the care of strangers. Now, she faces a summer getting to know a high-strung miss and a reclusive garden-obessessed man Find Out if She Wilts in The Sun in: The Gossip and The Guest Available Now
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
As all those artists I admire say: Boop!
elizabethbriars.bsky.social Elizabeth Briars @elizabethbriars.bsky.social · 6d
As it is release day for The Gossip and The Guest, I can finally share this here. If you'd like to read about Edmund and Theo and why exactly they were crawling under hedges, pick up a copy today!

books2read.com/u/4DGrEd

#queerromance #mlm #queerbooks #historicalromance 📚💙
Art by Jackcryptid
Two men, one ginger, one blond, stand with cupped hands at sunset. In their hands is a somewhat disgruntled hedgehog. They are making intense eye contact and are dressed in regency workman's clothes.
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
A greenhouse sex scene! I had the idea in my head from like January but it just didn't fit plot wise. So, The Gossip and The Guest does not contain one, but the Christmas story I'm working on does 😏

#queerbooks #historicalromance
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 5d
What's something you wanted to include in your last book that just didn't make the cut for one reason or another? #WritingPrompt
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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aflcio.org
Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are on strike at corporate stores across the country, fighting for a fair contract and to stop Starbucks’ union-busting.

America’s unions stand in solidarity with Starbucks baristas nationwide! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
The thrift gods have smiled upon me! These jars were $5 together and made in 1975 by the lawson family, apparently. The basket was only $4 and it's huge!!
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
As it is release day for The Gossip and The Guest, I can finally share this here. If you'd like to read about Edmund and Theo and why exactly they were crawling under hedges, pick up a copy today!

books2read.com/u/4DGrEd

#queerromance #mlm #queerbooks #historicalromance 📚💙
Art by Jackcryptid
Two men, one ginger, one blond, stand with cupped hands at sunset. In their hands is a somewhat disgruntled hedgehog. They are making intense eye contact and are dressed in regency workman's clothes.
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
I spy with my little eye something familiar in the bottom right.... 👀
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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aflcio.org
Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.

No contract? NO COFFEE!
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
As I'm getting to know these characters in my double lavender marriage installment, I'm realizing that my lesbian couple is just a brunette Sabrina Carpenter and a blonde Chappell Roan if it were 1815 and neither of them were famous

And I'm ok with that

#queerbooks #historicalromance #wip 📚💙
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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benkuchera.bsky.social
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.

But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.

It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Only one more day until The Gossip and The Guest is released to the world! The Hardwick's are near and dear to my heart, a brother and sister navigating 1814 England. But the arrival of Isabella throws everything out of whack.

#queerbooks #historicalromance 📚💙

Portrait by @cuatrojosz.bsky.social
A navy background with succulents under a gilt-framed portrait of a young woman and man. The text from top to bottom reads: presenting to interested parties Mr. Kabil Hardwick and Miss Louisa Hardwick Inhabitants of Stenson Abbey, famed for its lush gardens, these siblings live in relative peace. But what will happen when a beautiful stranger is dropped on their doorstep? Find out in The Gossip and The Guest Available 11/20/25
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
So apparently: "authors shouldn't be political," is doing the rounds again.

So let's go over this again.
• trans rights are human rights
• LGBTQ+ rights are human rights
• gay people deserve to marry and adopt
• Women's rights are humsn rights.
• Believe women
• black lives matter
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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lilahsturges.com
You have to do it because it’s her birthday. Those are the birthday rules. Also: buying trans books just feels good!
pairofclaws.bsky.social Abra, Sexy Hellmouth 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 8d
Today is my birthday, and in honor of that, please buy some trans books! They don't even have to be my trans books, just buy trans books! Every day! Forever!
pairofclaws.bsky.social Abra, Sexy Hellmouth 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Feb 22
On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Oh no, a gossip columnist wrote about my mc, Isabella! Oops, is that telling?
The details in full will be published 11/20/25 when The Gossip and The Guest is released, but curious parties can preorder now:

books2read.com/u/4DGrEd
a.co/d/aXuRilj

📚💙 #queerbooks #historicalromance
A newspaper clipping with a large quill in front of a dark circle reads: The secret lives of society darlings Edition 41 It has been brought to our attention through means a touch nefarious, though noble in intent, that the sterling daughter of a certain Lord is to be shuffled off to places remote this summer. The young Lady in question is a vivacious young woman, thought by many to be charming and widely acknowledged as quite handsome. Why then, it must be asked, is she not to summer at the estate of her own family? The young Lady was often in the company of another person of interest to this publication, one whom I’m certain you’re all familiar with. That so termed ‘thorny problem’ was embroiled in a good deal of mystique and mortification ov’r the course of the season past. And so, while it pains us to even suggest such a thing, the question must be asked: is it possible that the young Lady to whom we refer is also caught up in some such chicanery? Far be it from our job to point out the oddity of an unmarried young Lady being left to the care of those whom we are informed are veritable strangers of no relation. But we feel it our solemn duty to keep those who wisht o uphold what it just and good of English society of such movements. Of the family into which she is to be received we know little. The man of the house will be away, but is of good English stock, though it would seem his plantings have missed our lofty shores, instead sprouting up in countries foreign, though fruitful. And we would be remiss not to acknowledge the presence, though purportedly only physical, of the esteemed grand mere, sure to supersede the only natural desires of youth with age old good sense, when it can be found. As for the young Lady, we wish her only well. The grounds on which she is to step in a sennight, according to our source, are some of the most impressive in all the kingdom, boasting views of grand old England and the lands she has claimed. What scenes the young Lady s…
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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mharvey816.bsky.social
I'm just a girl
Standing in front of all the people posting their messages in attached photos
Asking you again to please include alt text in the photos so *everyone* can read them
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
How is it that I can misspell 'decision' with embarrassing regularity but I just absolutely nailed 'chicanery' on the first try?
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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discobooks.bsky.social
Genderfluid book recs for Transgender Awareness Week:

- Moth Dark by Kika Hatzopoulou
- Court of the Undying Seasons by A.M. Strickland
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚🏳️‍⚧️
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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mmegistus.bsky.social
Gossip Session 🫢🍵

#OC #art #ocsky
An illustration of my original characters, Bhargavi and Aleron. Bhargavi has brown skin, red-orange eyes, and long red hair with orange and golden glows near the ends. She is wearing a somewhat traditional Indian red blouse, cropped, and a blue shawl draped on her left shoulder and dark brown pants. She is looking towards the viewer with a somewhat serious expression on her face. Aleron has fair skin, pointy elven ears, blue eyes, blue hair with glowing cyan ends, and is standing next to her, whispering something into her ear with his hand over his mouth. He is wearing a dark blue hanfu with fluffy white fur over his shoulders, and his hair is in a high ponytail. They both have a matching golden ring on their fingers, Bhargavi has one silver moon earring on her right ear, while Aleron has one sun earring. The background is a simple sandish colour with a golden frame around them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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lyannatropes.bsky.social
Odilia 💙 raffle prize for @justdebzong.bsky.social

#art
Odilia is sitting holding her sword. She wears a blue, finely decorated kebaya attire, and the frame is comprised of an embroidery motif representing two phoenixes on each side.
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Only 4 days left until The Gossip and The Guest is released! If you preorder, I'll love you forever, but you'd have to read the book to find out if that happens for Edmund and Theo 😏

#queerbooks #historicalromance 📚💙

books2read.com/u/4DGrEd
a.co/d/aXuRilj
A filigreed invitation reading: Mr. Edmund Grubbins and Mr. Theo Fisher cordially invite you to the release of The Gossip and The Guest, book two in The Steer Queer Series November 20th, 2025 An awkward city boy meets a down to earth gardener on a neighboring estate. When circumstance brings them together, will their spark burn down the woods they share, or fizzle out? Available for preorder at retailers now
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
I stand with unionized Starbucks workers, who are on strike across the country right now for better wages and working conditions.

Until Starbucks strikes a fair bargain with its workers and ceases its union-busting behavior, I'll continue to boycott the company.
It’s Time to Roast Starbucks | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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eudora-doucet.bsky.social
made this little preorder post for instagram. Only problem is I do not have an instagram! Preorder it anyway: books2read.com/u/bPMLXz

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#indieauthors
🌶️📚💙
🌈💜
#bvm
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM