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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods

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she/her🌈 • AKA Bryony Rosehurst & Bonnie Woods • pan romance author, editor, ghostwriter, & sometimes photographer • FIREWORKS out now! 🎆

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 7d

It’s Hauntfest time! Head to indievisibleevents.com to fill your autumn TBR with FREE & DISCOUNTED ebooks across ALL the genres! My spookiest & most seasonal stories are available for 0.99 this weekend, so cosy up with when LOVE BARGES IN or get in the Halloween spirit with a haunting 👻

Indie Author Halloween Hauntfest: 3rd - 6th october

Books for 0.99 including: WHEN LOVE BARGES IN, a sapphic autumn romance, KISS OF DEATH, a sapphic norse fantasy, and RUNNING WITH THE WOLF, a sapphic shifter romantasy

0.99 books including THE FATE OF US, sapphic soul mates & past lives, A HAUNTING AT HARTWELL HALL, sapphic historical PNR, & PARTNERS IN CRIME, sapphic murder mystery

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 15h

thank you so much 😭 most of my paintings are followed from tutorials so I’m not able to sell them but I hope one day I’ll be confident enough to create original work!

Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 15h

I just know his owner is a sunshine witch he will protect with his magical powers

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 16h

I PAINTED THIS????!!!!

An autumnal forest with a cat sitting on a pumpkin

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 1d

I only have a few copies left of Have it All and Give it All with the ✨original✨ covers.

You can order both on kofi or etsy!!

I also have sticker/bookmark bundles on kofi!!

ko-fi.com/beverlyannem...

#booksky #sapphic #lesfic #asexual #kofi #smallbiz 💙📚

Visit Beverly's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

ko-fi.com

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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 20h

Today we’re joined by indie fantasy author Jess Skultety to chat all about her debut, The Great Tree of Iris, including how she balanced seven(!) POV characters, why bisexual and plus-size rep is so important, and what she’s learned on her journey so far.

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The Great Tree of Iris: An Author Interview with Jess Skultety

Today we're joined by indie fantasy author Jess Skultety to chat all about her debut, The Great Tree of Iris, including how she balanced seven(!) POV characters, why bisexual and plus-size representat...

www.swordsandsapphics.com

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 20h

Oh gosh Matt, I’m so sorry. Sending support and love 🫂

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Issy Waldrom @iwaldrom.bsky.social · 2d

Happy International Lesbian Day, to those out and proud, to those who are still figuring it out, and to those who can't come out yet.

And yes, plenty of lesbians in my books (in fact, lesbian mc's in all bar one of them, at different stages of their journeys).

www.amazon.com/stores/Issy-...

Issy Waldrom: books, biography, latest update

Follow Issy Waldrom and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Issy Waldrom Author Page.

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V. S. Holmes is querying @vsholmes.bsky.social · 2d

Querying: THE PASSING OF EIR LAHREN, folkloric fantasy + gothic romance inspired by death, sex, and Frisian folklore

Snarky sapphic sci-fi archaeologists:
books.vsholmes.com/cnzvzl8ab2

Fantasy with bloodthirsty gods + broken heroes: books.vsholmes.com/m4juo9rp4d

Free shorts: vsholmes.substack.com

A promo image on a dark space background showing the six books in the Stars' Edge Universe with the tagline: Dr. Nel Bently discovers her pristine archaeological site is the center of an intergalactic feud. Tossed into a world of high tech and higher stakes, she only has her trowel, her attitude, and her badass and alien girlfriend, Lin.

A promo image on a dark forest background showing the four books in the Blood of Titans World with the tagline: When Alea's home is destroyed by a mad kin's genocide, she is forced to choose between mortals who play at gods and gods who pray for mortality. With the gods at war with the titanic creatures that created them, the only heroes left are as broken as the world they must reforge.

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats on the job!!! but how dare it get in the way of literally everything else!!

Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 3d

I was scrolling through Facebook and completely at random a post came up with a photo of Sunrise on the Reaping in a store and… KINDLING was on the shelf underneath? That’s my book? I jump-scared myself? at some point I am going to have to process that my books are being Perceived in the real world

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 3d

Hooray! 8 days after it was first published, you can finally buy the paperback edition of A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence at @bookshop.org in the US. More links still to come! books2read.com/honeymoonGrave

#romancelandia

The illustrated cover for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, by Stephanie Burgis, shows the silhouette of an elegant traveling carriage over the title and a bat with wings outstretched underneath, all of it framed by apples and with mirrors at the top and the bottom of the image.
The headline above the cover reads: “Out Now,” and various key elements of the story are arranged in a text map around the cover: “They may be married, but she’s certainly not in love…is she? Uh-oh…”
“What’s up with all the mirrors in this inn?”
“He always makes certain she has the BEST tea”
“She’ll take on any challenge to protect her vampire husband - even (gulp) socializing…”

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 3d

I don't normally do this, but I've been burning the candle at both ends.

Other half had a major op earlier this year and now I'm in hospital for an investigation.

Regardless of what's wrong, I need rest, but I've had little work this year.

I'd appreciate if anyone is able to help out.

Support Matt Mason ❤️

Become a supporter of Matt Mason today!

ko-fi.com

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 3d

hope you’re okay! 🫂

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 3d

am I fatigued because last week was hellish, because I’m burnt out from writing three books, because I’m on my period, because it’s october, because I stayed up playing stardew valley, or a secret tenth option?

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 4d

let me know if you’d like an invite! 💞

Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 5d

yeah it's a really efficient, albeit weak, escalation tactic to get more people angry and involved. it has made me realise that bsky isn't particularly safe, especially with the list thing.

Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 5d

god I’m sorry. I haven’t checked but probably same. fortunately they have little impact beyond their little corner of social media, which is probably why they are so so angry.

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 5d

I was only getting pennies with kdp. D2D is fine but I only get a few sales a month. itch bundles have been my biggest income since publishing there!

Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 5d

god are they *still* at it? no hobbies to enjoy this weekend or…?

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 6d

I do not have the spoons to make more graphics this weekend so here is your reminder that it’s day two of the Hauntfest! lots of cheap & free indie books at indievisibleevents.com

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 6d

I do not have the spoons to make more graphics this weekend so here is your reminder that it’s day two of the Hauntfest! lots of cheap & free indie books at indievisibleevents.com

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 6d

through sobs: it’s nothing a rewatch of shrek can’t fix

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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 6d

The authors below were also unfairly affected by this week’s events & still deserve love on their books! Support if you can.

After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved.

Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️

Stars & Soil by Dax Murray, Dawn Weaver & Soul Flames by Issy Waldrom, Jagged Shard by Dani Finn, Beyond Bringers by Visceral Hit, & Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray.

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Rachel Bowdler / B.B. Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 6d

good luck!!!

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Austin Worley @amworleywriter.bsky.social · 7d

Day 3 #FantasyIndiesSpooktober

Definitely proud of how the new standalone edition of “Hanging at Crosbhothar” turned out. Look at that beautiful cover by @rachelbowdler.bsky.social 😍

I cannot wait for it to release on Halloween!

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