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Millie the Bookworm📚

@milliethebookworm.bsky.social

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reader of fantasy, sci-fi, & romance 🧛🏻🧚🏾‍♀️🧜🏽‍♀️🐉🧞‍♀️🪐✨🌋🛤️⛰️🍄🌱 supporting diverse & indie books 🚫AI ⤵️let’s be bookish besties! bio.site/bookworm.millie

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

#BannedBooksWeek is the perfect time to add a challenged book (or two) to your shelf. We’re partnering with @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social to offer you 20% off select challenged titles from now until October 19: bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · 2d

Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark @clclark.bsky.social
What a beautiful and bittersweet fantasy romance novella!! 🌱 #booksky

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Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · 2d

my September 2025 reads🤓
#booksky #storygraph

highest rated are Paladins Grace, When the Tide Held the Moon, You Weren’t Meant to be Human

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Talli 🦇SILVER BLOOD audiobook! @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 7d

🦇 SPOOKY SEASON SALE 🦇
It's October! 🎃 and the audiobook is coming soon! So SILVER BLOOD is FREE today through October 8!! 🖤

A queer, gothic vampire romance is perfect for your autumn TBR, in my opinion 👀
Grab it here: https://books2read.com/silverblood
📚💙 🌈📚

Silver Blood October sale: free ebook (kobo, nook, smashwords, itchio, and more) October 1-8.

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 10d

I heard you were looking to read diverse horror this spooky season.
Did you know I publish women writing horror? The easiest way to support my work in to join my Bindery for free. The best way is to join for $5. boozhoo.binderybooks.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 9d

I hear *someone* is having a sale next week.

I guess they have to try and recoup some of that $2.5 billion they’re forking over for *checks notes* being deceptive? Who would’ve thought?

Feels like Oct 7 & 8 will be prime days to support independent bookstores. 😌

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Morgan Dante @morgandante.bsky.social · 13d

You can still prepare for October with queer horror and Gothic romances here! 🔥

Morgan Dante @morgandante.bsky.social · 16d

Happy first day of fall! To celebrate, these four books of mine are $0.99 for a few days. Enjoy!

🍃Providence Girls
🍃King of Hell
🍃Unholy With Eyes Like Wolves
🍃Sacrament

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Morgan Dante @morgandante.bsky.social · 20d

If you want gay vampire books, I've got you covered. 😎

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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social · 26d

If you’re a free follower on Bindery, you can now scroll this entire list of Indigenous book recs, add to your wishlist, or even shop!

boozhoo.binderybooks.com/item/vlZE1BZ...

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Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · 24d

Late but here’s my August 2025 reading wrapup!
#booksky #storygraph

my highest rated books were The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and The Possession of Alba Díaz

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. The Possession of Alba Diaz. Blood Slaves. Black Salt Queen. Volatile Memory.

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Catherine @catandherwips.bsky.social · Aug 9

I have two new editions out soon for the fall, & I'd say they fit any autumnal mood a reader might have. Both will be available the end of September!

📣 ARCs are open! docs.google.com/forms/d/1dco...

"two pretty best friends" promo post featuring the pocket gothic edition of gothic fantasy novel RENDER TO SILVER by Catherine & cottagecore romantasy standalone A SONG FOR THE ROAD by Catherine Labadie. The former will be out Sept. 30, the latter on the 23rd.

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can I interest you in this monster slayer x vampire fantasy novel with an all female cast for your #sapphicseptember reading?

books2read.com/u/4A0e6q

A photo of a white hand holding a paperback and hardcover copy of A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin

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the late great hannibal lizova @yanoforsure.bsky.social · Sep 3

did you know that september is library card signup month? @queerliblib.bsky.social is such a fantastic FREE resource www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

Members — Queer Liberation Library

www.queerliberationlibrary.org

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Alex Larkspur 💛 Sweet & Wild Available Now! @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sweet & Wild is only $1 until Friday! It’s a sweet MM fantasy romance with witchy vibes and bees! Come spend some time in the forest! 💛

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/b4c036a7b2
Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild
Cover art by @northyme.com

A graphic with a forest background. It features the cover of Sweet & Wild and the text: Special Price! $1 Digital on Ko-Fi and Itch until September 5, 2025
The cover looks as follows: A young man, Micah, kneels in a field of purple flowers. He holds a bundle of purple flowers in one hand while reaching to gather more with his other hand. He has peach skin, golden hair, and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with flowers woven through. Behind him, there is a verdant forest of trees. Bees buzz around the man as he looks down towards his work. The title, Sweet & Wild, is above him and the author’s name, Alex Larkspur, is below him

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Ruth Nineke @ruthnineke.bsky.social · Sep 1

We ALT text guys.
Remember?

We use ALT text.

If my hungover ass who left her glasses at home can ALT text for real housewives screen grabs you can ALT text for anything.

BC WHEN the blue light takes your eyesight too you're gonna be real mad at being excluded from the memes.

Use ALT text.

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Nina! @ninawolverina.bsky.social · Nov 22

Blood in the Water - a story about two people stranded at sea (and one of those people is a vampire) - wrapped its serial run 1 year ago today! Now it not only lives on in its original location on RoyalRoad, but in paperback/illustrated hardcover editions as well!

Find it here: bitwbook.carrd.co/

A photo of a bookshelf with the paperback and hardcover versions of Blood in the Water by Carolina Cruz sitting facing cover-out towards the camera

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Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · Aug 30

BookOutlet mini haul🤓 #booksky

I bought Vampires of El Norte, Bad Cree, and Butler’s Parable Duology.

Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · Aug 22

soon I shall devour The Possession of Alba Díaz ♥️🩸I love her writing!!
#booksky

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Morgan Dante @morgandante.bsky.social · Aug 8

Providence Girls will be 0.99 all weekend. :)

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCQP7H4S

Getting ready for Fishwife Fall. Get this sapphic horror romance for 99¢ this weekend!

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Millie the Bookworm📚 @milliethebookworm.bsky.social · Aug 4

my Storygraph July reading wrap up!
#booksky

my storygraph wrap up. My highest rated is the Exogenesis series by Octavia Butler

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Alex Larkspur 💛 Sweet & Wild Available Now! @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sweet & Wild, is out now! 🐝💛🍃
Sweet & Wild is a MM Fantasy Romance featuring nature magic, a sunshine MC, and mysterious spirits in the forest!

Universal Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...
Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild
Cover by the wonderful @northyme.com

A young man, Micah, kneels in a field of purple flowers. He holds a bundle of purple flowers in one hand while reaching to gather more with his other hand. He has peach skin, golden hair, and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with flowers woven through. Behind him, there is a verdant forest of trees. Bees buzz around the man as he looks down towards his work. The title, Sweet & Wild, is above him and the author’s name, Alex Larkspur, is below him.

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Hamnah ✨ // Lilith 😈 @lilithttrpg.bsky.social · Jul 26

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

Several people in suits reach towards a man with glasses sitting at a table, holding a microphone. The latter speaks into the microphone, while the former attempt to stop him.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · Jul 25

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:

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Jared Gonia @jaredgonia.bsky.social · Jul 25

I thought we were going to eat the rich. What happened to that? Can we circle back?

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