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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 20h

Yaaay, enjoy!

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rockedfaces @rockedfaces.bsky.social · 21h

Ooh I love the idea of an Advent-style read!

Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

A promotional graphic for All Is Bright, by Llinos Cathryn Thomas. The book cover, with the title in large text over twinkling lights, is at the centre. Behind the book, there are glowy lights. Text blocks highlight features of the book: "F/F Christmas romance", "advent calendar style - one chapter a day", "Hallmark small-town Christmas movie with a queer twist", "one has elaborate Christmas lights, the other one hates them", "outdoorsy butch and city girl femme", "Wales!".

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you! :D

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

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Amy / such heights @such-heights.bsky.social · 1d

So excited for this!

Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

Thank youuuuu! 🥰

Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

Yaaay thank you, I really hope you enjoy it when you get there! 💞

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 1d

My sapphic space fantasy is still on sale for ✨🌸$1 on my kofi🌸✨

Come get your cosmic lesbians holding hands while the horrors persist 🫶🏻

ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d

Awful and important.

These are real children suffering due to bigoted political movements. It has to stop. Let trans kids (and adults) be who they know themselves to be.

Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 1d

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/n...

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday! I love this novella SO much:

Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

Thank youuuuuu! 🥰

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kathryne slant @sapphoshands.bsky.social · 1d

this is out today, hooray! if you need convincing, you can read my review: lesbrary.com/all-is-brigh...

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

🥰🥰🥰

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K | krfabian @krfabian.bsky.social · 1d

Highly rec this wonderfully sweet f/f romance novella! So vividly drawn and grounded in its setting and characters - a real pleasure to get lost in!

Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

🥰🥰🥰

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hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social · 1d

The news is official! I can finally tell you that my next romcom Reality Check will be out in April next year!

A sunny selfie of Hux, a white person with auburn hair and green glasses, holding up a postcard to their face. The postcard is pink and purple and says Reality Check.

A screenshot of the Bookseller announcement for my new novel. Simon and Schuster UK swoons for Lizzie Huxley-Jones’
‘escapist’ reality show romance
RIGHTS
OCT 9, 2025
BY CASSIDY BAILEY.

The photo shows Hux a white person with light auburn hair sitting on a couch in a green lead patterned suit, eyes closed and laughing.

Simon & Schuster UK has acquired two new novels by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, who was previously published by Hodder & Stoughton. Deputy publishing director Molly.
Crawford acquired world all-language rights in a two-book deal from Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency.
The first of the two novels, Reality Check, is a "funny, escapist" romance between two women who share a kiss behind the scenes of a reality TV show and find themselves choosing between on-screen fame or true love. Reality Check will publish in all formats in April 2026.
Crawford said: "I've long been obsessed with Lizzie's Christmas romances so am absolutely thrilled to be able to welcome them to the S&S list. Reality Check satiates a universal need for realistic romance elevated by unusual circumstance rather than narrative necessity.
Lizzie captures the chaos and charm of reality TV, weaving a love story that delivers kick-your-feet romance alongside punch-in-the-gut relatable detail. It centres and celebrates queer love, living with chronic illness and freeing ourselves from life's filters. It's a novel you can't help but press into the hands of friends and I'm so excited to take it to market."

Huxley-Jones is the author of the queer holiday romcoms Make You Mine This Christmas and Under the Mistletoe with You, the young adult summer romance Hits Different co-written with Tasha Ghouri, and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted fantasy series Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend. Reality Check is their third adult romance novel.
Huxley-Jones said: "Reality Check brings together my deep fascination with reality television, with the concept of persona and masking, through the experiences of two queer women who just cannot seem to escape each other. There's hijinks and fake-dating arrangements and an autistic girl unravelling 'comphet' all within the bounds of a wedding-themed dating show. It's been a book in my heart for years and I'm so glad it will reach readers next year.
"It is such a thrill and honour to bring my romcoms to the incredible team at Simon & Schuster, especially my wonderful editor Molly Crawford. They are not only a team who understand and respect commercial romance fiction, but one that deeply cares for their authors. It's been such a joy to work with them on Reality Check, my most ambitious romcom to date, and to see their enthusiasm at every step. I'm so thankful for my agent Abi Fellows finding my work such an enriching home."

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 1d

Scrambling to get my hands on this!!!

Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

Yay, I hope you enjoy it! 😁

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

(And this isn't even touching on quality-of-life questions for people who could work if it was part-time/WFH but would be so drained by it that they basically couldn't do anything else, but who are still going to get caught up in this BS.)

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

I consider myself absurdly lucky to have a part-time job where I largely work from home, in part because I have in-demand skills that I developed long before I became chronically ill. Where are the jobs supposed to come from for folks who can't work an office 9-5 and don't have a strong CV already?

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

This. No amount of "special advice" will fix the fact that some people CAN'T work, and it also won't fix the fact that flexible/part-time/WFH jobs that pay ok are like gold dust, and disabled folks who could work part-time/WFH under the right circumstances are at a disadvantage in applying for them.

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1d

"Do much more to get long-term sick and disabled people into work"

Does he really not see the problem with this?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social · 1d

All Is Bright, my Christmassy F/F romance novella set in a little village in Wales, is out TODAY!

You can get it in these places and more:

Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
AZ: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FS4G5PKX

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 4d

You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

book cover, showing a serious South Asian woman in a red headscarf holding a globe in her arms with text, YOU ARE HERE: NINE MORE STORIES

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