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Lyra Strake
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🪐 Sci-Fi Romance author 💕
😍 In love with aliens 👾
🩷💜💙she/they 🧠🌶️
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yes
next question
bar code on a book with the title truncated to read DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF DICK
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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lyrastrake.bsky.social
👽Monstrous grumpy alien FMC
🥞 Cinnamon roll human MMC
😈 Forced proximity
🌟 Fated mates
🏡 Found family
🫂 Hurt/comfort
⤵️ He falls first
🛸 Space travel
🦋 ND rep
🌶️ Spice, spice, spice! (Size difference, knotting, pegging, light femdom, toys)
✖️ No pregnancy, slavery or cheating

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August 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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authortinamoss.bsky.social
👽💖 Would you read my book? Let me convince you.

tinyurl.com/alien1amz

💫 Alien’s Captive is an alien romance that’s more than just otherworldly love—it’s about connection, trust, and finding belonging across galaxies. 🪐

#booksky #tinamoss #authortinamoss #AlienRomance
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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inkloaded.bsky.social
AHHHHHHHH!!!!!
SASSED IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!

Sassed is book 7 in the Monsters in the Woods collaborative novella series!

Grab your copy today! It's VERY silly!
mybook.to/Sassed_in_th...

🦶Sasquatch!
🐟 Surprise Fish!
🥐 Plus-size FMC!
🍆💦🥵 SPICE!

#MFWrites #BookReleaseDay #MonsterFuckers #RomCom
Digital flyer declaring "OUT NOW" for the novella "Sassed in the Woods: A Sasquatch Romcom" by May Furhst. Across the flyer is a banner that says "Hey look! It's May!" The banner graphics are set on a blue-toned, mountainous background. The book cover itself is mostly dark lime green tones, with a dark brown tree across the front. A Sasquatch arm in a park ranger uniform is reaching around the tree.
August 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
👽Monstrous grumpy alien FMC
🥞 Cinnamon roll human MMC
😈 Forced proximity
🌟 Fated mates
🏡 Found family
🫂 Hurt/comfort
⤵️ He falls first
🛸 Space travel
🦋 ND rep
🌶️ Spice, spice, spice! (Size difference, knotting, pegging, light femdom, toys)
✖️ No pregnancy, slavery or cheating

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August 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
Introducing my debut novel, in tropes :)

I am in love with my new artwork for Tempting Cargo! Don't they look gorgeous? By the fabulous starpop_art on IG.

#sciencefictionromance #alienromance #spicybookrecs #scifiromance #indieauthors #queerauthors #monsterromance
August 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
This is how I look when I write
July 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
I mean... yes.

#monsterlove #monsterromance
Text thread: Senatortedcruz: imagine a giant monster following you around and picking you up and kissing you all the time. That's what my cat lives with every day. Fancyladssnacks: that's exactly what half the people on this site want Gremlinstar: oh to be gently picked up and kissed by a giant monster
July 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
I watch Star Trek for the plot.
July 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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alisonaimes.bsky.social
No lies detected! 😜

#bookwormgoals #scifiromance #alienromancerecs #alisonaimesauthor #booktokgirlies #booktok
July 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
It should be obvious, but until someone pointed out to me a first draft is allowed to be crap, I never finished anything.

Just write. Everything can be fixed in edits.
haileypiperfights.bsky.social 🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Oct 18
Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"
July 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
Someone needs to tell my brain it needs more than 3.5 hours sleep. Perimenopause can get in the bin.

Will I be writing today? Only if I nap first.

Send coffee (before or after the nap, or makes no difference 😂 #ADHD)
July 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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brigidbarryme.bsky.social
My stargazers are blooming!
July 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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woodenvelt.bsky.social
Have you tried reading a book inside a pillow fort?

~ Me as a therapist
4islesandco.bsky.social Isles in a Dream @4islesandco.bsky.social · Jul 21
"Have you taken into consideration that Mercury is retrograde?"

~Me as a therapist
kimberjohnson.bsky.social Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · Jul 20
"have you listened to the latest Cannibal Corpse album?"

~me as a therapist
July 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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seraphrdm.bsky.social
Do other authors ever wonder if people are talking about your writing and gushing?

also remember if you loved our work please let us know. We love learning how much someone enjoys our work.
July 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books:

1. Gail Carriger
2. Alexis Hall
3. Edgar Rice Burroughs
4. Raymond E Feist
5. Tiffany Reisz
6. Barb & JC Hendee
7. Brandon Sanderson
8. Carolyn Keene
9. Enid Blyton
10. Brian Jacques
bookspotlight.bsky.social Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Jul 12
Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books:

1. JRR Tolkien
2. Ken Follett
3. Libba Bray
5. Eva Ibbotson
6. Lemony Snicket
7. Joanna Campbell
8. John Marsden
9. Richelle Mead
10. Lauren Brooke
ddwardiswriting.bsky.social Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · Jul 12
Ten Writers by whom I’ve read more than five Books:

Robert Jordan
R A Salvatore
Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman (Counting as one author)
Terry Pratchett
Diane Duane
T Kingfisher
Dean Koontz
CS Lewis
JRR Tolkien
Daniel Quinn
July 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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ogaines.com
No, you can’t make me!!! #booksky #writingcommunity
July 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
Supposed to be writing a prequel novella, but I've gotten stuck into book 2 instead. Which is fine.

I am attempting this outlining malarkey, and I don't hate it.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity
July 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed these. This is beautiful. I've been shying away from longer books lately, but this has me sucked in...
July 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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brigidtfinn.bsky.social
Before I started publishing, I had a fantasy that I would organically build an army of a couple hundred weirdos just like me who would just google my name once a week to see if I had a release, and I wouldn’t have to market. Anyway, that hasn’t happened.
#writingcommunity
July 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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yasminegalenorn.bsky.social
So, y'all know I was trad pubbed for 20 years before I went indie. I made the choice to go indie when my then-publisher asked me if I could change an idea for a gritty urban fantasy/PNR series to contemporary erotica. I walked away because no, I could and would not. 1/1 #writingtips
July 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
how tragique, recent field research results have revealed that to sell my books, i must in fact market them continuously.

this is devastating information. please send cookies.
July 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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czedwards.bsky.social
I only cry while writing when I make my characters cry. They don’t like to cry alone.
July 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
My husband just referred to me as 'an author in the first stages of her career' and I 🥹😭💖 His belief in me means everything.

I am now very much in the mood to write people falling ridiculously in love. But first I need breakfast. And tea. ☕
#WriteSky
July 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
lyrastrake.bsky.social
There's an ethereal magic about old doors in walls that gets me every time. The more overgrown, the better 🥰

Yes, I might have been enchanted by The Secret Garden as a child. 🌿🚪🌿
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jul 3
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: aren’t doors in old walls brilliant?
An intriguing door in a neat but lovely old wall. A door in an old wall leading to a garden where you can bet there is a fucking crazy party happening Some dickhead had better not try to paint this great fucked up old door in an even older wall An old door in an old wall which is so arrogantly great, it’s almost disgusting.
July 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM