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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 4d

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 2d

Have you pledged yet?

We have 24 days to go and we're just £79 away from our goal! Help us smash it and get moving towards the first stretch goal!

We're posting regular updates about the publications too so do check them out!
#supportindiepress #supportindiewriters #indiepress #booksky

A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Kickstarter for our 2025/6 publications is NOW LIVE!!

Oct 2025: Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection
Dec 2025: Light Paths: A Queer Fantast Romance Collection
Feb 2026: trans romance novella Summer Nights, Cigarettes & Spearmint Toothpaste.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

Queer Horror, Fantasy and Romance by A Coup of Owls Press

Help us publish our 2025-2026 collections and novella: Horror Romance (Oct '25) Fantasy Romance (Dec '25) and Trans romance (Feb '26)

www.kickstarter.com

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 2d

Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

Glory to God by @amandamblake.bsky.social
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#queerfiction #vampires #vampire #vampiregoddess #queerhorror #gayvampires #booksky 🌈📚

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 11d

Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

Up first - Vampire Joe by Clinton Seiter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

#gayfiction #queerfiction #vampires #vampire #gayvampires #booksky #queerwriters 🌈📚

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Allister Thompson @allistert.bsky.social · 6d

Take it from a longtime editor/author/musician: no legitimate publisher/agent/book club/record label will ask you for money to work with you. Anyone who does is scamming and won’t do anything for you.

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Max Turner @maxturneruk.com · 7d

I nearly fell for this, but an openly transphobic politician was made secretary and all the social media forums for the party are crawling with "gender critical" folk. Actions speak louder than words. I can't trust these words when they are said whilst actively supporting transphobia.

Max Turner @maxturneruk.com · 7d

Doubt you will see let alone reply to this, but I wanted to voice that it is so devastating and yet predictable to be disappointed by a political party before it even has a name! Action speak louder than words and it's already clear that Your Party is not safe for trans people.

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Christina Bergling - horror author @chrstnabergling.bsky.social · 10d

🎃STARTS WEDNESDAY🎃

My horror-loving friends, it is time 👻
#31DaysofHorror bingo

1. Each day in October watch a horror movie.
2. For each horror movie, mark a tombstone on the bingo board.
3. Post your progress and challenge others.
4. Tag me to be entered to win a RED WALLS gift box.

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Max Turner @maxturneruk.com · 11d

Looking forward to this!

Myself and Leonie from the Owls team will be there representing @acoupofowls.bsky.social and selling BOOKS, MERCH and BOOKISH BITS!!! Come along and say hi if you're in Norwich on 25th October!

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M H Ayinde 🍉 A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST out NOW! @mhayinde.bsky.social · 12d

The spammers aren’t even putting in the minimum effort any more!

Snippet of an email addressed to “Name” offering to help promote a book entitled “Book”

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 18d

✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists!

The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor

Details in 🧵 or apply now 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/black-histor...

OPPORTUNITIES FOR
Black LGBTQIA+ writers
Paid
wearequeeraf.com/pitch
Write an article for QueerAF’s UK Black History Month series, with guest editor Phil Samba
First round deadline Sep 28th. Final deadline Oct 5th 2025

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Max Turner @maxturneruk.com · 12d

Thick throbbing line I believe?

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Max Turner @maxturneruk.com · 12d

As usual fandom discourse becomes about something ridiculous and literally fictional, whilst the actual problematic parts that do affect people's lives (real-world funding of transphobia) get (intentionally??) glossed over.

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Max Turner @maxturneruk.com · 12d

I'm so tired lol *sob*

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 12d

It's a great time to write queer horror

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 12d

It’s simple:

Sad man = LitFic
Sad man with dog = Romance
Sad man with whiskey = Crime
Sad man with talking dog = Fantasy
Sad robot = Science fiction
Any kind of woman lead whatsoever = Chicklit

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 13d

Kickstarter has been such a great platform for us, and we're looking forward to once again bringing more stories to life and putting them into reader's hands (physical or digital!).

Whilst you're over checking out our Kickstarter, be sure other amazing projects!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

Queer Horror, Fantasy and Romance by A Coup of Owls Press

Help us publish our 2025-2026 collections and novella: Horror Romance (Oct '25) Fantasy Romance (Dec '25) and Trans romance (Feb '26)

www.kickstarter.com

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 13d

With just over a month to go until our Kickstarter ends AND we send out the first of our 2025 publications, we are currently at 69% funded!

We would love to smash through the £500 goal so that we can include some great stretch goals!!

#booksky #queerwriters #writersofcolour 🌈📚 #supportindiewriters

A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Kickstarter for our 2025/6 publications is NOW LIVE!!

Oct 2025: Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection
Dec 2025: Light Paths: A Queer Fantast Romance Collection
Feb 2026: trans romance novella Summer Nights, Cigarettes & Spearmint Toothpaste.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

Queer Horror, Fantasy and Romance by A Coup of Owls Press

Help us publish our 2025-2026 collections and novella: Horror Romance (Oct '25) Fantasy Romance (Dec '25) and Trans romance (Feb '26)

www.kickstarter.com

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 19d

An aimless retail worker discovers new, elusive residents of the store, and decides to be delighted rather than frightened.

Miracle Aisle by Bethany L. Sherwood is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a

#BookSky #ShortStories #RetailHell

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 19d

A humanities major hitchhiking in Jordan embarks on a quirky road trip that becomes a mysterious quest for the Ark of the Covenant.

Backpacking Through the books of Exodus... by Rowan Tate is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a

#BookSky #ShortStories #RoadTripwithGod

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 19d

A retelling of the Norse myth of Fenrir and Tyr… from Fenrir’s perspective.

The Hand that Feeds by Phoebe Bush is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a

#BookSky #ShortStories #NorseMythology

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 19d

A man encounters a midnight stranger who issues him a task, in the process of carrying it out he discovers himself, and experiences culture.

The Visitation by Nwafor Emmanuel Okechukwu is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a

#BookSky #ShortStories #NigerianFiction

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 19d

A woman obsessed with a coworker takes matters into her own hands.

L’Amour, Thy Name is Ana by Sylvie Soul is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a...

#BookSky #ShortStories #WritersofColour

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 19d

It’s hard to break the cycle.

Drain by Fallon Buchholz is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a...

#BookSky #ShortStories #QueerWriters

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A Coup of Owls Press 2025-26 PUBLICATIONS KICKSTARTER LIVE!! @acoupofowls.bsky.social · 19d

Remembering and grieving the loss of a loved one.

Grief of the Ones Left Behind by Lavanya Arora is now live in our Autumn 2025 issue: acoupofowls.com/2025/09/15/a...

#BookSky #ShortStories #IndianFiction #IndianWriters

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