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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19h

happy birthday to international lesbians

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🐰Clover Baanz @cloverxiv.bsky.social · 1d

#Hades2

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 1d

bookshop.org has free shipping Oct 7-8 for their anti-prime sale! They have 10 of my paperbacks in stock so you can support indie authors and bookstores while collecting pretty books for your shelves at the same time ✨

A grid of 10 paperbacks by Arden Powell priced from 10.99 to 17.99 available on bookshop.org, including 6 Flos Magicae books.

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 7d

Learning to Bleed comes out March 18th and artist @scherville.com is so deeply talented I can hardly believe it!

This book is the 2nd in a trilogy that explores queerness and trauma through vampire lore, all against the backdrop of an impoverished rural community that has its own monsters 👀

Links⬇️

The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.

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Lila Gwynn @lilagwynn.bsky.social · 7d

Meet KOLFROSTA 🧚🏼‍♂️ & DALLA ⚔️ from my holiday novella The Yuletide Fairy’s Curse, coming out just one month from today! ❄️

A huge thanks to @doodlenoodleh.bsky.social who brought my characters to life in this illustration!

Preorder here: mybook.to/YuletideFairysCurse

An illustration of fairy woman with midnight blue skin and silver hair looking down at a shorter blonde woman holding up a dagger to her. Garland wraps around them at the top of the image. Artist credit to @doodlenoodleh.

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 11d

The gender of the day seems to be “Lesbian prince”

Fascinating

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 11d

🔮 www.neonhemlock.com/books ✨

Ten book covers at Neon Hemlock! Ona psychedelic background.

Stone and Steel
The Dead Withheld
And This Is How to Stay Alive
Empire of the Feast
A Necessary Chaos
Loving Safoa
Call & Response
The Cosmic Color
Off-Time Jive
Redundancies and Potentials

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 12d

Oh hey it's a cover reveal!! I loved working on this art so much, I got to draw all my favourite things. Keep your eyes peeled for preorders! ✨🐚

Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 12d

✨COVER REVEAL✨

My second collection of retellings, SHELLS FOR HEARTS, will be released on November 11th!

Preorder links to come!

Cover by the amazing @ardenpowell.bsky.social

#Booksky

Cover of Shells For Hearts: Retellings, by Devan Barlow. The cover is by Arden Powell, and features seashells, perfume bottles, a pumpkin, and assorted animals against a green background.

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Ceri @dangerwookiee.bsky.social · 14d

Another great fantasy book with some incredible worldbuilding and an unlikely alliance between a monster slayer and a half vampire ~ which makes for a compelling read! ⚔️🐉

I really enjoyed A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social & its intriguing cast of strong female characters

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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to The Revenge of Captain Vessia by @cozywitch.bsky.social

You are through to the #BBNYA2025 final!!!

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Mariah Rae Birch 🌈 Author @mariahraebirch.bsky.social · 19d

A lady knight trying to resist the princess...and it's not going well 👀 From HER PRETTY KNIGHT ⚔️ Sapphic Lady Knights Book One 🌈❤️

On Audible, KoboPlus, B&N, and more!

#lesficfri #Sapphic #ladyknight

Against a papery green backdrop, with the green-and-gold, sword-and-floral book cover for Her Pretty Knight, the #lesficfri quote for "Remember" is:

Galeon should leave. She should turn away. Instead, she watched. And she listened. And she wanted.
Galeon’s breathing quickened, matching Della’s. She was somehow painfully aware of her own body while feeling separated from it.
She was standing closer than she had been. She didn’t remember moving.

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Meg @opalescent4026.bsky.social · 17d

A look at what's releasing this week! If you have a book you need added to the calendar, you can submit it here: opalescent4026.carrd.co#calendar

#monsterromance #alienromance #fantasyromance 🪢📚💖 #paranormalromance #romancelandia #scifiromance 🌶️📚💙

Releases Week of 9/21. Sept 23 Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert, Grim's Delight by Abigail Kelly, Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood, My Boyfriends Are All Monsters by Kimberly Lemming, Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon

Releases Week of 9/21. Sept 23 Seeking the Orcs by Violet Cinders, Velvet Rites by Sofia Graves

Releases Week of 9/21. Sept 25 Lost in the Swamp (Anthology) by Multiple, One Night with Her Untamed Orc by Jilli Waters; Sept 26 Are We So Lucky? by Carlotta Page

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Aramis 🌙 team petal🪻 @lunaramis.bsky.social · 17d

We dont need a silent blackout regarding bsky's situation, we need to be loud - support liberty in art, support your nsfw artists. It always starts with us until there's no one anymore to escape their witch hunt.

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Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 18d

Okay, promo time, because I keep forgetting!
The Pirates and Tyrants duology is my NSFW lesbian space opera, with robots, spaceships, BDSM, and a horny crew. Oh, and an evil empire!

itch.io/s/89507/pirates-and-tyrants-bundle
jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#pirates1
jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#pirates2

Two book covers:
• As Happy as Pirates and Burglars (with a military woman)
• Captains of a Tyrant Fate (with a posh woman)

Text reads:
A high-heat sapphic sci-fi adventure with lesbians, robots, and spaceships!
• Lashings of F/F sex...
• Space Pirates!
• Friendly BDSM!
• Adventures on a Stolen Starship...

"Really fun and funny and sweet and action packed and super sexy" - AV
Five Stars

itch.io/s/89507/pirates-and-tyrants-bundle
jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#pirates1 | jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#pirates2

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Bella Books @bellabooks.bsky.social · 18d

Spotlight on Historical Fantasy and the Alpennia historical fantasy series by Heather Rose Jones.

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Michelle Fus @avasdemon.bsky.social · 19d

Mermaid, staying out of the storm

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve been delinquent and haven’t photographed them together but— LOOK HOW PRETTY ✨🌸👁️

Photo of both the paperback and hardcover of Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. The paperback features art of the two main characters, Kye and Jude, with a sword in Jude’s hand and a black blue flame in Kye’s. Framed by flowers and set against a twilight sky. The hardcover is of a dark swirling void, framed by mirrored big flowers against a dark background. Behind them, above my bookcase is a framed print of artwork by Ksenia (tagged below) of Kye and Jude sitting together under a starry night sky.

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Freya Faust @freyafaust.bsky.social · 19d

Jimmy will be fine. Support trans creatives because, whoo boy, there's a non-zero chance our stories will be suppressed even more than they already are.

freyafaust.itch.io

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Banner advertising Stray Dogs by Freya Faust with a few positive quotes from reviews.

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 19d

The hottest girl in your school shows up at your front door begging to spend the next two months at your house hiding from her influencer mom. WHAT DO YOU DO???

YOU CAN PREORDER SUMMER OFFICIAL NOW! 🛹🩵🍦
rebekahweatherspoon....
#booksky #romancebooksky

Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon
A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 19d

Hell yeah!!!!!

Lisa Beebe @lisabeebe.bsky.social · 19d

@bitterkarella.bsky.social Maybe you already know this, but your book is on display at the amazing new horror bookstore in Brooklyn @twistedspinebooks.bsky.social (because I follow you here I had a parasocial "I know them" moment, haha)

Pic of Moonflow next to a little sign that says "Queer" on a table in Twisted Spine

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The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · 21d

Love a good #pirate book? Then don’t miss tour brand new #BestOf list!

Check out our 10 Must-Read Sapphic Pirate Books

thelesbianreview.com/10-must-read...

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Lila Gwynn @lilagwynn.bsky.social · 23d

OUT NOVEMBER 1: Five sapphic holiday-themed romantasy novelettes from some rad authors! 🎄

This season, read:
🐉 badass dragons
🦌 reindeer shifter throuples
🔥 fire witches
🧚🏻‍♀️ Yuletide fairies
👔 office omegaverse Alphas
💗 HEA romances
🥵 simmering solstice spice

Preorder here: mybook.to/LeztheHalls

Five covers for the Lez the Halls book series against a holly-patterned backdrop. Books are: Red Light, Green Light by Chelsey J Leon, The Fires of Longest Night by JC Rycroft, The Yuletide Fairy’s Curse by Lila Gwynn, A Witch for Solstice by Darva Green, Ice Queen Alpha by Lily X. Text reads: Lez the Halls. Pre-order now: mybook.to/LeztheHalls

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 29d

New #Swordtember story! The Prince of Cats vs the Rat King. My favourite of the month so far, and also the shortest ⚔️✨

SWORDTEMBER + Knights 5: Feline + Rodent | Arden Powell

Get more from Arden Powell on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 29d

I simply cannot stress it enough.

You cannot sit this out.

They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised.

Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 29d

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

An image taken from an e-mail from Payment Cloud to me. They list prohibited adult work, one of which just includes "Fantasy" which is as wide as cat ears and fairies. We are so cooked.

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Jul 24

If you are a SFFH author whose books primarily feature f/f or f/NBi pairings and you have set up a direct store, I am making a directory of Sapphic SFFH direct stores!

Submit your pen name, bio, and up to 3 books with links to your direct store to be listed.

sapphic.ink

Sapphic Ink

Sapphic Authors who Publish Their Books Directly

sapphic.ink

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