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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
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A podcast about all things representation hosted by queer book lovers, designed to spotlight marginalised authors & creators. Hosted by Rachel Bowdler & Ivy Marikova 🌈 https://linktr.ee/swordsandsapphicspodcast
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
This week, we were joined by Maddie Martinez to chat about her debut sapphic novel, The Maiden and Her Monster. We talked about the Golem of Prague legend that inspired the story, how Maddie created the fantasy languages, and so much more!

Listen now: linktr.ee/swordsandsap...
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Nicole L. Soper Gorden / Nicole Leland @nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 This is not a drill! 🚨

This week is your last chance to sign up as an ARC reader for Hearts of Bark and Scale. Final eARC copies will be sent out over the weekend! Blurb in alt text. Linktree in my bio, or ask me to DM you a link.

#BookSky #WriteSky #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #ARCreader
Background image of desert dunes at sunset. Foreground image of cover art for Hearts of Bark and Scale by Nicole Leland with the silhouette of a snake wrapping around it. Text reads: ARC sign-ups are officially open! Last Chance! Blurb: The world is blood and pain, but still there’s love. All Kvisti has ever wanted is to protect her desert village in a way that would make the Mother Tree proud. Unfortunately, an old injury has left her once-potent dryad powers broken, and she can’t even stop the ruthless magic poachers that invade her village for the scraps of magic she still holds. Snake shifter Iason is bound to a criminal snake den for the sake of his rare healing magic. But the magic poachers want his magic, too. When the poachers throw Kvisti in the same magic-proof cell as Iason, the two are inexorably drawn together, bonding over past traumas. In their isolation, they begin to heal each other, finding a connection deeper than they imagined possible. But when disaster strikes the poachers, Kvisti and Iason are abandoned in their cell with no hope for freedom. In a world that thrives on cruelty and despair, love may be their only salvation. Can Kvisti and Iason break free of their prison and the pasts that haunt them before their connection is torn apart? Will the delicate new feelings taking root in their hearts bloom, or will the desert bury them? When blood and pain are a constant, love is a fragile thing—but one worth fighting for.
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 5d
Today, we bring you a lovely interview with @nicoledisneyauthor.bsky.social, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting range of jobs and her experience with publishing.

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Tapout: Interview with Nicole Disney
Happy Friday! Today, we bring you a lovely interview with Nicole Disney, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting...
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Vesper Doom 🧡🤍🩷 @vesperdoom.com · 3d
I'm looking for ARC readers/reviewers for METROPOLIS DOWN!

Coming 03 March 2026, METROPOLIS DOWN is an adult space horror novel about grief and trauma.

ARCs will go out in two batches: November for eARCs, and January for physical ones (limited to 10).

Link below!!
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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 4d
🐦‍⬛ THE HORRORS: a collection of short horror stories 🐦‍⬛

🕸️ small town horror
🕸️ spiders
🕸️ demons
🕸️ a loyal basset hound
🕸️ older protagonists

On Sale!! 99cents or FREE on itch!!

b2r: books2read.com/thehorrors
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/the-horrors

#booksky #horrorsky 💙📚 🩸📚
Halloween sale. 99cents.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 4d
🧙 wild witches
🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨‍❤️‍👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

#booksky
Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.
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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 4d
Hey girl! Quick question:

When’s the last time you sharpened your knife?
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 4d
The authors below were also unfairly affected by this week’s events & still deserve love on their books! Support if you can.

After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved.

Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️
Stars & Soil by Dax Murray, Dawn Weaver & Soul Flames by Issy Waldrom, Jagged Shard by Dani Finn, Beyond Bringers by Visceral Hit, & Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray.
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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 5d
HEY YOU! Do you like free paperbacks? Do you like chronically ill baddies? Do you like magic schools that weren't invented by a TERF? I'm hosting a giveaway for my sapphic fantasy dark academia novel RIGHT NOW!

2 winners announced October 10th!
A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Release-iversary Giveaway celebrating one year of ASMLP's release!" And an arrow. To the right is an image of a book cover for A SHARPER, MORE LASTING PAIN wearing a Clipart party hat. The cover is read and features two shadowed hands circled around the title. A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Rules" followed by a list reading as follows: -Must be a US resident -Follow this account -Comment which school of magic you would choose to study at Voterique (see next slide) -Bonus entry: share to stories or tag a friend! A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Schools of magic" followed by a list reading as follows: -Abjuration -Conjugation -Corpomation -Divination -Enchantment -Evocation -Illusion -Transmutation
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 5d
Today, we bring you a lovely interview with @nicoledisneyauthor.bsky.social, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting range of jobs and her experience with publishing.

www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/tapout-...
Tapout: Interview with Nicole Disney
Happy Friday! Today, we bring you a lovely interview with Nicole Disney, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting...
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Isa Ingram 🏳️‍🌈📕✨ @isaingram.bsky.social · 8d
Where the Moon Keeps Her Heart is now available wherever books are sold online!

A fantasy adventure for gentle spirits.

💖 Strong friendships
🍵 Engaging conversation
🔮 Wise-women healers
🗡️ Girls with swords
🐉 Mythic creatures
🌷 First love
🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic love
🌕 Moon magic
✨ Epic quest
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Issy Waldrom @iwaldrom.bsky.social · 5d
#lesficfri and the theme is TEMPT. Riley may indeed be a little tempted ^^
(Who wouldn't be, after all)

[Heart's Claim, a #sapphic shifter romance]

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Cover of Heart's Claim, with the following excerpt: The packaging all screamed out at her, making all sorts of promises as to the euphoria that lay within, alluring, tempting her, a form of magic in itself, but she’d been in shops like these enough times to ignore it. Mostly.
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Nicole L. Soper Gorden / Nicole Leland @nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social · 8d
New character art reveal! 😍 And it's double sided!!! 😱

Kvisti and Iason from Hearts of Bark and Scale in their human forms (top) and shifted forms (bottom). Aren't they gorgeous? Warickaart (on IG) did an amazing job bringing my babies to life 💜

#BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #CharacterArt
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
This week, we were joined by Maddie Martinez to chat about her debut sapphic novel, The Maiden and Her Monster. We talked about the Golem of Prague legend that inspired the story, how Maddie created the fantasy languages, and so much more!

Listen now: linktr.ee/swordsandsap...
Swords & Sapphics | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 6d
I just finished and loved this book! It's so profoundly Jewish, not only bc of the mythology and traditions, but because it's a book about storytelling, perspective, and faith. Not just faith in the religious sense, but faith in other people and, through the main character, in ourselves.
THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER by Maddie Martinez.
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
that’s certainly a take
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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 7d
Coming back to say it's DOUBLE weird how much some of yall want to ignore years and a patterned history of harassment and dogpiling because YOU don't like how some people label themselves.

Get a fucking life.
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Alex the Headless Wordsman @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · 9d
Idk man I just think it's weird to harass sapphic authors who know better than you if their books are sapphic are not lmao
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
where did I say we were talking about lesbians? lesbian ≠ sapphic
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
wonderful enjoy
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
you mean….. like everyone has been doing to us for the past three days?
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
there is no world where we look shittier than the person who started this mess. I can understand why you would jump on any excuse to whittle us down to racists for discussing relayed information if it’s truly all you can say about us.
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
seems that way when she’s influencing a large amount of people
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
said “people have questioned” because this author has a lot of not nice things attached to them and played different identities in the past. sorry to relay information that is in many forums already
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
okay, that’s fine! go read a book you feel is labelled to your tastes!
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
clearly not since they’ve been twisted constantly
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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 7d
all focuses are on the sapphic relationships - regardless, sapphic representation can exist in any amount in a book, and our bundle never promised otherwise. this bundle was curated for readers who enjoy diverse sapphic rep!
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