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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · 15d

Short review for Someone You Can Build A Nest In by @wiswell.bsky.social unique cover and special edition courtesy of @rainbowcrate.bsky.social
#queersky #booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #readersky #review

Review 5/5 stars
Whirls review
Autistic eldritch horror who is doing her spit shine best
A cute bear companion
Men being himbos. Himbos everywhere
Sapphic ace romance
Is it really a crime to eat your mom?
Cozy in a creepy way

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 15d

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy final days of #SapphicSeptember! We are here to celebrate sapphic books and writers. This features almost every single sapphic special edition we’ve done! There’s also some hints as to what’s coming next. 🧵

A graphic with a background of the striped sapphic flag featuring five horizontal stripes in coral, pale yellow, white, mint and amethyst. A white translucent square is overlaid with a thin white outline. Text reads “76 Sapphic Books for Sapphic September”. The 29 is in sapphic colors and each line of text follows in a new color of the sapphic flag with a thin black outline.

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 14d

🌈 October Renewal Reminder!

Renewal day is October 1st, 2025 and all subscribers will be charged! There’s about two days left to skip your October renewal if you would like to.

📷: Thank you @becklovesbooks.bsky.social for the photo! 🧵

Books Pictured: The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jerée, Of Love & Libraries by Brenna Bailey, The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez, Providence Girls by Morgan Dante, A Queer & Cozy Winter: A Rainbow Crate Original Anthology, Outdrawn by Deanna Grey.

ID: Six books are pictured. Three of the books are open displaying the endpapers. The other three books display the front cover. The books are slightly overlapping each other and on a white background. Text at the bottom of the image reads “Oct Renewal Reminder” in white font with a purple outline. End ID.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Aug 15

It never stops blowing my mind to see my lil trans magical girl novel here on *this* shelf at Powell’s 🥹

A photo of trans magical girl novel “Magica Riot” on the Staff Picks shelf at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Aug 15

THIS is more like it.
Great work @jaseokundaye.bsky.social

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Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye

The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · Aug 15

Some of my favorite sprayed edges of my books that I have from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social can you spot any favorites? Do you recognize some?
#booksky💙📚 #diversebooksky #bookporn

A stack of sprayed edges. Featuring green and space with planets. Ripped feathers. Pretty Christmas lights. Drawing materials on a light pink bg. A graveyard at night. Jellyfish.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · Aug 13

You can buy some public library cards in areas where you don’t live. They’re generally $20-50. Some libraries that offer this are Charlotte-Mecklenberg, Houston, and Chattanooga. If you read a lot of ebooks/audiobooks this gives you more access/shorter holds.

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · Aug 12

I am so thrilled and proud to be sharing LORD OF RUIN with you—it has been a labor of love in many ways, and I’ve put my whole heart and soul into bringing you Isaac’s story. Welcome back to Aeravin—the suffering is only getting started.

An image of the hardcover of LORD OF RUIN by KM Enright propped up against a black cat. The cat looks expectantly up at the camera.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm going on BOOK TOUR!!!

Details at charliejaneanders.com/events 💝✨🌞

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Aug 13

So excited!! Can't wait for Women's & Children First stop!!!

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Whirl 📚(can't donate) @whirloglyphics.bsky.social · Aug 13

Rating: 😭😭😭😭😭
Genre: Horror, LGBT, Drama
Hours: 13
Format: Audiobook
#booksky💙📚 #review #diversebooksky
Thank you to @lmjuniper.bsky.social for this absolutely emotionally gutwrenching yet loving read. It altered my brain chemistry
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A collage featuring an older black couple, a greasy white boy, a Korean man, and a sad girl. Surrounded by zombies, a decayed hospital, fungi, and the London underground.

A book cover featuring a destroyed city with a man and a woman on the cover holding weapons.
Titled: How We End
By: LM Juniper

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 30

Books pictured:
The Fall that Saved Us by Tamara Jerée
The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard
Demon King’s Gardener Bind Up Vol 1-3 by Rori Thornton
Mercy by Ian Haramaki
In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke
Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 30

I am partial to any kind of character art. I have a hard time visualizing characters so I love seeing an example of what they look like, instead of just picturing a blob. I’ve read all six of these books and would recommend them if you like fantasy (or sci-fi for Junker Seven)!

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hey friends! I’m featuring some of my favorite covers from @rainbowcrate.bsky.social today! I love all of them, so it was really hard to pick faves.

Books pictured:
The Fall that Saved Us by Tamara Jerée
The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard
Demon King’s Gardener Bind Up Vol 1-3 by Rori Thornton
Mercy by Ian Haramaki
In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke
Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley

ID: A photo of six books in two rows of 3 book covers each. The books lie in front of a white bookshelf which has rainbow flowers poking out from one of the shelves. Everything lays of a gray wooden floor. End ID.

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BigolasClitoras ✨📕📘📗✨ @burstofhope.itch.io · Jul 25

Oh look, another insta-buy author with a new book and a stunning cover to add to the TBR 🫡 #BurstoReads

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

Absolutely ANY TIME 🥰

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm part of a cover reveal tour and there is a giveaway on my instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/DMf4d7uAWR...

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

Stunning patterned & foiled endpapers in the Rainbow Crate edition, which is still on sale: rainbowcratebookbox.com/products/the...

Close up of the Forbidden Romance candle sitting on the endpapers of the RC edition of The Fall that Saved Us. The candle has a pink label and is topped with a dried orange, rosemary and red sandstones. The endpapers are a patterned design with wings, demon horns, and sword.

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

Included in the first photo is the @rainbowcrate.bsky.social edition of The Fall that Saved Us, the @satisfictionbox.bsky.social edition of The Fall that Saved Us and a Forbidden Romance apothecary candle from Fiction Bath Co.

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

Add The Flowers I Deserve to your TBR if you love:
- An exploration of worth and guilt
- Slice of life in a hell castle
- Shadow mommy but make it litfic
- Hell is real, but is heaven real?
- A sad woman & her thoughts
Leaving home to join the evil lesbian polycule

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Flowers I Deserve is a standalone FFF Gothic Fantasy with lyrical prose and a quiet heart. Out on October 14th, 2025 from Water Sign Books! Stunning illustration by @artofelaineho.bsky.social & gorgeous cover design by @opulentdesigns121.bsky.social

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Dr. Andy (they/xe) @foreverinastory.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm so excited to help reveal the breathtaking cover of The Flowers I Deserve by Tamara Jerée @tamarajeree.com ! If you know me, you know I LOVE Tamara’s writing and I couldn’t be more excited for this upcoming release, if I tried. 🧵

Three books sit above a wood slice. The books from left to right are: Rainbow Crate edition of The Fall that Saved Us, Satisfiction edition of The Fall that Saved Us, and a paperback of A Wolf Steps in Blood. Below this is The Flowers I Deserve (edited in) on the wood slice. A candle sits to the right of it. Below the book are red and black flowers.

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Jul 24

How about a promo day for reasons… if you’ve been affected by the NSFW takedowns and shadowbans on itch, share the other places people can support your work below ⬇️ #WritingPrompt

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s your last chance to get a one time purchase or subscribe to Rainbow Crate for the July Hoist the Colors box! Our July books are Fragments of a Fallen Star by @vianoniomoh.bsky.social and Peter Darling by @essaychant.bsky.social 🧵

A graphic of a pride flag flying with a blue sky in the background. At the top in a white font with an orange outline it reads “July Subscriptions Last Chance”. Below this is a translucent gray rectangle. In the rectangle is the July theme image with the cover of Fragments of a Fallen Star on the bottom left and the cover of Peter Darling on the bottom right. Both book covers are outlined in a red frame.

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S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social · Jul 24

Last day to order!

Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · Jul 23

It’s your last chance to get a one time purchase or subscribe to Rainbow Crate for the July Hoist the Colors box! Our July books are Fragments of a Fallen Star by @vianoniomoh.bsky.social and Peter Darling by @essaychant.bsky.social 🧵

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