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Abigail Yardimci @abigailyardimci.bsky.social · Apr 12

Did you know you can get my uplifting, life-affirming novel about heartbreak, Life is Yours, for FREE? All you need to do is sign up to my totally non-spammy readers list. Enjoy! 😘 www.abigailyardimci.com

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Cozy DuBois @cozydubois.bsky.social · 21h

Happy release day to Carte Blanche! 🥰🥹💜🩷

It feels surreal that the final book in the Confession series is out, and the series is complete!

Enjoy this messy, heartwarming, queer ass series. The polyamorous sapphic romance brings all of the happy endings together in a satisfying finish. 😘 🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚

Abstract infographic in pinks, purples, oranges and teals, featuring the cover of Carte Blanche, a pop art style illustration of a sapphic couple in abstract colors, and the art of two characters: one is a blonde fem presenting person in a floral jumpsuit, and the other is a Black woman in a lavender crop top set and purple duster. The text reads: After a lifetime of surviving, Blanche finally has the means to thrive. But how does one live after so much loss?

Abstract infographic in blues, purples, and teals, featuring the covers of the Confession series, a set for 4 pop art style illustrations of a queer couple in abstract colors. Text reads: a special treat for the disaster bisexuals chaotic queers and radical dreamers who love love! Confession is a sweet and spicy ensemble romance series about a queer chosen family. Expect heartfelt and steamy romances friendships that run deeper than family and chosen families learning to thrive together instead of surviving alone. Complete series available now!

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 21h

🏃‍♂️ Fast-paced narrative (try and keep up)
💥 Explosions
🔫 Flirting at gunpoint
🗣️ Taunting and banter
💥 More Explosions
🏎️ A flying car chase
🔗 and some kink
🐦 This Is How You Lose the Time War x Cowboy Bebop

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #PromoSky #SciFiBooks 🪐📚🌶️🌈📚💙📚📢

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

Knockout's latest bounty is getting under her skin: Bombshell Jones is dangerous, brash, and flirts at gunpoint

It's not long before K realizes there's more to B than just another space pirate

She also just destroyed K's favorite jacket

#PromoSky #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #LesbianRomance 🌈📚💙📢📚🪐📚🌶️

Do You Know What You’re Worth, Bombshell Jones? by RJ Martin

She released the safety on her pistol. “This is me flirting. Hands above your head.” Space pirate Bombshell Jones has a price on her head the size of Jupiter, and bounty hunter Knockout means to co…

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The Literary Minds of J. B. Garner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jbgarnerwrites.bsky.social · 21h

It's International Lesbian Day so, as a lesbian who often writes about lesbians being lesbian, celebrate and support by taking a look at my most lesbian of books, THE POWERS THAT BE! #lesfic #superhero #romance #booksky 📚🌈🪐

The Literary Minds of J. B. Garner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jbgarnerwrites.bsky.social · May 16

Dr. Peril is a melodramatic mad scientist out to rule the world. Her nemesis, Diamond, is a kindly Midwestern gal who can lift a truck.

Clearly, they're meant for each other. Too bad the Department of Unnatural Powers disagrees. #lesfic #booksky #queerfic 📚🌈🪐
www.jbgarnerwrites.com/thepowerstha...

The book cover for The Powers That Be, the first book of the Unnatural Powers series by Temple Hart, a satirical lesbian superhero romance

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GabrielConstans @gabrielconstans.bsky.social · 20h

Wonderful, Harley.

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Harley Laroux @harleylaroux.bsky.social · 21h

House of Rayne is a USA Today Bestseller! 🥹🖤

My first sapphic romance and my first fully trad published novel — and y'all made it a bestseller. Thank you, thank you, thank you 😭

The book House of Rayne by Harley Laroux sits on a blood-spattered white sheet in a foggy room.

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V/E/X/X @thenoirgal.bsky.social · 21h

Happy International Lesbian Day! It's a fantastic time to start reading my sapphic fantasy romance/erotica about my goth half-elf warlock falling in love with an evil witch who wants to kill her! archiveofourown.org/works/642914... #lesbian #sapphic #yuri #toxicyuri

color illustration of a half elf woman in goth makeup, wearing a dark victorian dress, with an intense look in her eyes and hands swirling around preparing to cast dark magic

color illustration of a blue-skinned hag woman with horns, yellow eyes and long claws, wearing a simple green tunic, carrying rope and giving an evil grin

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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social · 6d

Sated, a #poem from World By Design. #WritingCommunity #Authors #Poetry #Poems

Get your signed copies here: www.norbaikin.com/blog/product...

Sated, from World By Design, by Norb Aikin

I've never had a drowning dream.

The swim is
an enormous blue road to take.
It never felt like me
when I never felt so free.
It has a heartbeat of its own.
There is a fullness in the undertow.

I've never woken up from a drowning dream.

The mist is a play;
three acts to pay
attention to before going
overboard.
One part patently absurd.
Another disturbed,
while anarchy symbolizes
the third.
The mist is a play
that tries to smooth me away.

I've never overcome a dream.

The sweat and drool
of a long night's hard work
coming true
isn't worth the evidence.
Not the complacency. Not the relevance.
Tortured in my sleep
is the water that seems to keep
me alive.
Where I subside.
And that airy water won't leave me alone.
And that airy water won't leave me alone.

I'm full of dreams
that keep sinking me.

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shanejayell.bsky.social @shanejayell.bsky.social · 1d

#lesfic

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Jenniferr Brown @jenniferrbrown17.bsky.social · 1d

Kathleen Brehony's storytelling is mature and reflective, speaking directly to older women with the themes of love, loss, and renewal.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKNHB8C2 #lesbianlove #lesbianromance #RomanceReads #readingcommunity #kindleunlimited

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Sapphic World Book Club @sapphicworldbkclub.bsky.social · 1d

Utter chills! We've never wanted to be part of a dance so much!💃 #StrictlyComeDancing eat your heart out.🤪
10s across the board!🙌🔟

#bookclubbook #sapphfic #dancing

@clareashton.bsky.social

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shanejayell.bsky.social @shanejayell.bsky.social · 1d

#lesfic

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon 8. Both Chronicles of the Realms and World Without Love are dark fantasy first and lesbian romance second.

Valkífor Saga is more high fantasy, and so far, only the third story will have a romance (lesbian, obviously), though the MC of the 2nd will have a "wife," too.

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 8: Genres.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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AmEricaNo @theamericano.bsky.social · 1d

Strange Beasts just so perfectly encapsulates my tastes as a reader that I can’t help but love it. If the idea of a historical sapphic fantasy with compelling female leads and a sympathetic perspective on womanhood and monsterhood sounds up your alley, then I can't recommend this novel enough. 🌈📚

One Year Later, I Still Miss My First Time Experiencing Strange Beasts

Finally, I get to talk about my favorite sapphic read of 2024.

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Tiffany E. Taylor | Sapphic Author 📚🌈 @tiffanyeauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf

🌈📚💜 | Sapphfic | Lesfic | Queer Romance | Butch/Femme Fiction
#wip #romanticsuspense #touchheranddie #embezzlement #dangerinperil #sapphicbooks #butchfemme

A black background with two figures dressed in black holding stacks of cash with a snippet from Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series, for WIP Wednesday on 10/08/25.

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

Knockout's latest bounty is getting under her skin: Bombshell Jones is dangerous, brash, and flirts at gunpoint

It's not long before K realizes there's more to B than just another space pirate

She also just destroyed K's favorite jacket

#PromoSky #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #LesbianRomance 🌈📚💙📢📚🪐📚🌶️

Do You Know What You’re Worth, Bombshell Jones? by RJ Martin

She released the safety on her pistol. “This is me flirting. Hands above your head.” Space pirate Bombshell Jones has a price on her head the size of Jupiter, and bounty hunter Knockout means to co…

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Ken Stark @kenstark.bsky.social · 22h

Humans had always been too good at killing. They defended themselves too well.
So Gaia upped the ante.

GAIA'S GAME
getbook.at/gaiasgame

FREE on Kindle Unlimited

Also on #audiobook

#FREE #KindleUnlimited #thriller #horror #audible #murder #thriller #mystery #audiobooks📚💙

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Abigail Yardimci @abigailyardimci.bsky.social · 5d

If you love a fast-paced, action-packed, sci-fi thriller with characters you want in your LIFE then this book by @amyorr.bsky.social is for you!!! 📚💙

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Rachael Gray @rachaelgray.bsky.social · 2d

Visit Elderwick, the small village with big secrets 🔎

🐓 geni.us/ALittleBird
📚 geni.us/TurnUpforTheBooks
🫖 geni.us/StorminaTeacup
🎄 books2read.com/welcometoeld...

welcometoelderwick.godaddysites.com/home

💙⚡📚

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Milly Johnson @themillyjohnson.bsky.social · 4d

So looking forward to the 1st #NovelLunch event with SUZAN HOLDER on 15th. Bibis = gorgeous Italian in Leeds, near the 🚂station, parking above
An excuse to bling up & TREAT YOURSELF.
Tickets/more info here - yorkshirebusinesswoman.co.uk/untitled-34/ Books for sale on the day!

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Stephanie Wood @stephaniewood.bsky.social · 1d

Can running away from a broken engagement really result in a happy ever after? Jessica doesn't think life works that way, but her future could depend on it...
#booksky #romance #newbook
⛱️☀️🍹❣️😎

amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DPL8X95M 💙📚

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · 22h

If you are still on Twitter, please check out this re-share of my micros and flash (a bunch of writing in one place)... and if u r not, please come back... ;-) x.com/MythicPicnic...

Mythic Picnic on X: "Everything, but... A collection of stories by Koss / @Koss51209969 #MythicPicnicTweetStory _______ The Dictations of Cabbages Originally published in Gone Lawn @gonelawn _ My name is Carrot. I live in the moon's shallow bowels where that man smiles and frowns into the sun's" / X

Everything, but... A collection of stories by Koss / @Koss51209969 #MythicPicnicTweetStory _______ The Dictations of Cabbages Originally published in Gone Lawn @gonelawn _ My name is Carrot. I live in the moon's shallow bowels where that man smiles and frowns into the sun's

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MK Alexander @smartreads.bsky.social · Nov 11

I am a refuge from X
Leaving behind Musk and his minions.
(And my 18K followers)
Keeping a clean conscience though...
And secretly planning a revolution.
;)

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The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · 1d

Patreon Exclusive - new one today!

Each month, we shine a light on a sapphic book that our team loved but you may have missed - this is The Hidden Gems Series!

Sign up on the Reader, Super Sapphic Fan or Hero tier to get these every month

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Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 1d

Check out and preorder my trans lesbian cyber noir, it's got all the themes that a transbian needs:

trishusband.itch.io/keeping-the-...

#BookSky #WriteSky #GunmetalOlympus #sff #lesfic

A book themes meme for Keeping The Peace by Tris Husband. The arrows say: "Public Corruption" "Problematic Sex" "Classic Noir Vibes" "Queer Cast of Rogues" "ACAB" "Heavy Drinking" "Sex Lives of the Blessed and Famous" and "Toxic Tragic Lesbians".

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