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Skye Kilaen
@skyekilaen.bsky.social
Bi author of contemp & sci-fi queer romance that's sometimes polyam. I also love quilting, comics, Godzilla, and Mothra. She/her. Austin, TX.

my books & my queer romance new release newsletter: https://lnk.bio/skyekilaen
OH FOR THE LOVE OF MISTLETOE how did I forget Simple After All by Yolande Kleinn?

This is what I get for trying to do book recs in between finishing a sewing project. 🤦
Some of my fave queer 🎄 books:

Miss Claus - J.R. Hart
All is Bright - Llinos Cathryn Thomas
Felix Navidad- 'Nathan Burgoine
Julia Can't Buy Her Girlfriends Jewelry - Melody Wiklund
Gaudete - Amy Rae Durreson
God Rest Ye Merry Vampires - Liv Rancourt
The Holiday Party Pretense - me

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I’ve seen a few people on #BookSky asking for HOLIDAY BOOK recommendations. How about if we start a thread? No judgment about what you pick. It’s not like Die Hard. If you tell us it’s a holiday book in your mind, it’s legit. Helpful if you give title, author, and maybe genre. Self promo is OK. 📚💙
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November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Some of my fave queer 🎄 books:

Miss Claus - J.R. Hart
All is Bright - Llinos Cathryn Thomas
Felix Navidad- 'Nathan Burgoine
Julia Can't Buy Her Girlfriends Jewelry - Melody Wiklund
Gaudete - Amy Rae Durreson
God Rest Ye Merry Vampires - Liv Rancourt
The Holiday Party Pretense - me

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I’ve seen a few people on #BookSky asking for HOLIDAY BOOK recommendations. How about if we start a thread? No judgment about what you pick. It’s not like Die Hard. If you tell us it’s a holiday book in your mind, it’s legit. Helpful if you give title, author, and maybe genre. Self promo is OK. 📚💙
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November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I wish I could set the scam PACs and the book promotion scammers on each other so they'd all be so busy trying to scam each other that it would keep them out of my various inboxes.

I don't know if that made sense but hopefully y'all get my drift.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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If you're recently come to MM Romance because of Heated Rivalry, then I welcome you to read my MM Romance novels centering Black Queer characters in California and written by an own voice author. ✍🏾📚💕🌈 #Romancelandia #MMRomance #HeatedRivalry #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky
I write romance centering Black Queer characters in CA. Check my backlist on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social

My next, Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, 2nd Chance, College Reunion, MM romance out June 2026. ✍🏾📚💕🌈

www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/freder...

#BookSky #BlackBookSky #QueerBookSky
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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10 more days!
Open call for submissions!

Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters

Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻

Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th

paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co
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November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Let’s make it Trans Joy Tuesday again!

For the trans people out there, please share something happy going on with you to offset all the bad stuff.

Whether it’s big or small, trans related or not, please share your joy!
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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People I work woth buy from there and don't give a shit because it's cheap. I tell them not to, but they don't give a damn. The piracy shit is out of hand globally at this point.
Ugh, here's another reminder to never shop for pins at Shein, they keep stealing my (and many other artists) work 💀💀💀

Time to file some copyright takedowns on my day off 😔
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I've only just started this sapphic contemporary romance but it's reallly good so far, y'all. Grab it!

🌈💜🌈📚 #Romancelandia
For one week only, get my F/F romance advent calendar novella for 99p!

Bethan, dragged back to her Welsh village, is desperate to escape before Christmas until she meets new neighbour Mali.

One chapter per day from 1-25 December - snap it up now to start reading on Dec 1!

books2read.com/u/bPOa0d
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Ready for a completed series? Pick up Favour Fire now! It’s got:
🔥 sword lesbian (bi)
🔥 axe lesbian
🔥 disaster bi
🔥 everything’s on fire
🔥 oh shit!
🔥 shenanigans with a volcano
🔥 intergenerational team-up
🔥 international team-up
🔥 queer firebending dragon riders
🌈📚
books2read.com/u/mqxAa8
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Two fandoms, both alike in dignity
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I saw this AI image shared in a Discord I'm in & was inspired to make the real thing. There are a LOT of fake crochet patterns out there, I wanted to give (especially beginners) a real pattern instead. Support real artists making real work, not AI.

Get it FREE: ko-fi.com/s/cdf844790c

#noai #art
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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lmao wait is Olivia Nuzzi the TRUE author of "My Immortal"
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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We are seeing a sudden flurry of censorship activity in smaller towns in central Texas. If you are a parent or librarian in this area, please reach out to us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social if you need support.
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It’s time to dive into your winter TBR! Why not start with HONEYMOON FOR ONE, a festive sapphic romance for lovers of Hallmark movies & cosy feel-goods?

❄️ cosy small town
❄️ sunshine x grump
❄️ baker x ski instructor
❄️ adorable husky sidekick
❄️ expiration date

Available on KU!

loom.ly/sPsriao
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Okay, I have finally managed to get decent-enough photographs of 38 potential fabrics I want my nephew to look at for the quilt I'm making him. Because I suspect he will have Opinions. 😂
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I am so excited about this. It’s nice to have something good happening in this state, which genuinely does contain a ton of natural beauty and incredible ecosystems.

#Texas #ShareGoodNewsToo
Texas Is Turning Private Land Into Public Parks in a Historic Spending Spree
A massive push toward public land expansion means more state parks for all Texans to enjoy.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Another day, another book I'm yanking out of my recommendation newsletter because I went to the author's Insta to get more info while finalizing and they're using clearly AI images in their promo.

Don't do it, y'all.
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Your Jewish friends would really like you to read this thread.
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.

We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Available wherever books are sold! A new Gothic horror serial, Shadows Over Ravenkirk!

Follow Victoria Williams to Ravenkirk, Maine as she tries to solve the mystery of her unexpected inheritance

KNIVES OUT x THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Rated 4.6⭐️ on Goodreads!

books2read.com/SOR1
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if you let a gunrunner rule an empire?

Smart-assed former princess. Weary BodyGuards. Political machinations. Queernorm world.

Come meet Hail Bristol. Gunrunner. Troublemaker. Empress.

#booksky 🌈📚💙
Links! Including the Hail Bristol trilogies - The Indranan War and the Farian War

A tired, done with your shit, former gunrunner is dragged back home to take over her mother's empire. She's not happy to be here and is going to make it everyone's problem.

bookshop.org/contributors...
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM