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TJ O’Shea
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tj o’shea, writing the gay 🏳️‍🌈✍️

sapphic author with bella books. wife/mom/cat butler.
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TJ O’Shea @tjoshea.bsky.social · Mar 18
It’s release day! My latest contemporary romance, Sweet Home Alabarden Park, is out today! 🥳❤️ mybook.to/jnQo2

Do you like grumpy/sunshine? Opposites attract? Two deeply in love sapphics railing each other into next week? A cat named for a famous lesbian?

Then you’ll love this book!

#sapphicbooks
The image is square with a light blue background, with almost entirely transparent pink clouds sporadically placed. On the left, taking up nearly half the image, is the cover for the book Sweet Home Alabarden Park by TJ O’Shea. On the right is white cursive script which reads Sweet Home Alabarden Park. Below that is sans serif dark red text that reads, in all caps, Out Now! Below is a cartoon drawing of a black cat in profile doing a downward dog yoga stretch, with some light pink clouds behind her.
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We have a June 3rd release date for the audiobook version of TJ O’Shea’s fun romance Sweet Home Alabarden Park. Pre order your copy today!

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Sweet Home Alabarden Park
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Fiona Turner wonders which challenge will be the death of her: the renovation of a massive, crumbling, centuries-old English castle to make it fit for the K...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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May 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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FYC: Alice’s response bc she’s an angel.

“Fiona, I didn’t do all that. You
did. It’s real easy for me to stand here and love you. It’s like breathing for me, but I understand it’s difficult for you. … I know how hard you’re working on this. I’m honored you think I’m worth doing all this work for.”
thelesbianreview.com The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · Apr 19
Your honesty, your assuredness, your consistency, your love—you have given me the confidence to start trusting my feelings again.”

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April 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Except “kissed” fell short of how Alice’s lips captivated her, enthralled her, and turned Fiona into a mass of soft, warm clay aching to be molded into whatever Alice wanted.

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April 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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“The kind of kiss that starts in your lips, but then you feel it in your stomach and your toes, right up to your fingertips.”

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April 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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❤️❤️❤️

Thank you to @thelesbianreview.com and @jennabeebs79.bsky.social for this incredibly lovely review!

And to be highly recommended! 🫨
April 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
tjoshea.bsky.social
Well, this was a wonderful surprise! Thank you @taramdscott.bsky.social for the official recommendation and thoughtful and insightful review!

I also very much enjoyed the trip down memory lane regarding Kevin Smith films. I’ve seen Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back…possibly too many times. 🫣
queerlyrec.bsky.social Queerly Recommended @queerlyrec.bsky.social · Mar 25
New episode!

This week, @krisbryant.bsky.social recommends the 2023 documentary Chasing Chasing Amy and @taramdscott.bsky.social recommends the new release from TJ O'Shea, Sweet Home Alabarden Park.

Listen now: www.queerlyrecommended.com/2025/03/25/e...

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March 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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😍😍😍 If you haven’t had a chance to check out this amazing review, please do!
March 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
tjoshea.bsky.social
🤩🤩🤩 thank you!! What a lovely review 🥰
March 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
tjoshea.bsky.social
It’s release day! My latest contemporary romance, Sweet Home Alabarden Park, is out today! 🥳❤️ mybook.to/jnQo2

Do you like grumpy/sunshine? Opposites attract? Two deeply in love sapphics railing each other into next week? A cat named for a famous lesbian?

Then you’ll love this book!

#sapphicbooks
The image is square with a light blue background, with almost entirely transparent pink clouds sporadically placed. On the left, taking up nearly half the image, is the cover for the book Sweet Home Alabarden Park by TJ O’Shea. On the right is white cursive script which reads Sweet Home Alabarden Park. Below that is sans serif dark red text that reads, in all caps, Out Now! Below is a cartoon drawing of a black cat in profile doing a downward dog yoga stretch, with some light pink clouds behind her.
March 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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#GIVEAWAY! I'm giving away 2 signed paperbacks of my new #sapphic romance, Sweet Home Alabarden Park!

To enter: like this post & comment with your pick between COFFEE or TEA.

You may enter once on BSky, Threads, & Insta! Contest ends Sun, 3/16 at midnight. 2 winners will be notified on 3/17!
A dark pink background with the word "giveaway" repeated from the top left corner to the bottom right, in an opaque loosely cursive font in alternating colors of white and blue. On the top left is a text box with a beige background and black serif font, which reads Open to all! Shipping anywhere! Next to that text box is a 3D rendering of the book Sweet Home Alabarden park. Below this is another beige background text box with black serif font which reads: Win a signed, paperback copy of Sweet Home Alabarden Park. Below that is another beige text box with black serif font, which reads: Details in post and next photo. Directly to the right of this text box is a beige arrow pointing to the right. Plain dark pink background. Atop are several text boxes and images, all centered. The top text is a blue serif font which says: HOW TO and directly below it in beige serif font it reads: ENTER in all caps. Below this are the numbered steps to enter the contest. One, like this post. Two, Choose: Below that are two cartoon images. On the left is a tea kettle with a Union Jack on the body and a little crown on the top. On the right is a coffee mug with an American flag across the body of the mug, and three little steam squiggles coming out of the top, denoting coffee. Below the kettle is the word TEA written in all caps, beige serif font. Below the mug is the word COFFEE written in all caps, beige serif font. Between the two is the word OR written in caps in blue serif font. Underneath these two choices are more instructions in blue serif font, which read: And comment with your choice. Below is another text box with beige serif font that says Ends Sunday, March Sixteenth at midnight. Below that is a blue serif font text box which reads: two winners will be notified on Monday, March 17th.
March 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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American woman from the Deep South meets British woman that works for the royals. Could not get enough. Alice, our southerner, was as charming & likable as they come. Fiona, all prim & proper English woman, learns about the Alice Effect and the rest you’ll have to read yourself @tjoshea.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Restoring a home, healing hearts - love and new beginnings are built from the ground up.
March 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
tjoshea.bsky.social
HELLO #sapphic romance friends. My latest, queer as hell romance, SWEET HOME ALABARDEN PARK, comes out this month! Below is a short sneaky peeky.

Sweet Home Alabarden Park is out exclusively on Bella Books March 13th here: bit.ly/SHAP_TJO

and out everywhere March 18th: mybook.to/jnQo2
A promotional image for the book Sweet Home Alabarden Park. The background is a slightly transparent ivy-covered red brick wall. Layered on it is the book's cover, featuring two white women leaning against a short brick fence, staring adoringly at each other. There is a black cat rubbing the leg of one of the women. The text describes the book's tropes. Sweet and spicy, "darlin'" and "darling", mental health rep, CAT, grumpy-sunshine, and somewhat voluntary forced proximity. There is more text that says to slide for a sneak preview, with a dotted line and arrow above it. The image background is a slightly transparent ivy-covered red brick wall. Inside a cedar-colored text box is an excerpt from the book Sweet Home Alabarden Park, written in white text. It reads: Their arms brushed, and she gazed into Alice’s eyes. At similar heights and neither in a lifted shoe, Fiona matched Alice’s intense eye contact directly at her level. “After the party, once the majority of my work here concludes, we could…perhaps I might be ready. Could you wait until then? Am I asking too much of you?” Alice huffed out a humorless little laugh and scuffed her shoes against the gravel. “Darlin’, I’m afraid to admit how much you could ask me for. I can, and will, wait until you’re ready.” “How will I…I feel a fool for even asking, but how will I know if I’m ready?” Alice swiped her tongue across her lower lip, inviting Fiona’s gaze to her mouth. “I don’t know. But I do know one day you’re gonna kiss me again, and when you do, you’re going to feel what I feel every time I look at you. Maybe then.” Fiona’s eyes snapped up. Alice’s voice had roughened and lowered, so seductive and dominating Fiona nearly wilted on the spot. A moment or two of stillness passed, but it felt like ages. “You’re making it incredibly difficult not to kiss you right now.” “Good.”
March 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Meet #BellaBooks author TJ O'Shea.TJ's latest romance is Sweet Home Alabarden Park. For information on this title visit bellabooks.com/category/bella-author-tj-oshea/
March 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
tjoshea.bsky.social
The suggested treatment for my suddenly painful inner elbow is rest. But I WAS resting! I was just sitting at my desk! Everything is within a foot of my face! All I did was reach for a controller, and now it hurts to put on my jacket. ☹️

Being old is a scam.
January 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
tjoshea.bsky.social
I was on the fence about starting up my membership again… but this prompted me to renew and upgrade. Fuck these racist coward lobby groups.
mrianjohnson.bsky.social Ian Johnson 🔆 @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · Jan 23
NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure

The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:

"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board
January 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
tjoshea.bsky.social
Man, I want to primarily use StoryGraph so I can push off Goodreads, but there is just zero functionality for authors. Their roadmap has Author Page plans from 2021...

Really feels like it's missing a core function as a book tracking site. Hardcover, too. 😩
January 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I do love me a soulmate trope ❤️
thelesbianreview.com The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · Dec 20
“I saw you, and I knew. Like it was an instinct I always had. Like balance, or breathing. I was supposed to kill you and I knew with frightening certainty I never would.”

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December 20, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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My babies 🥺🥺🥺
thelesbianreview.com The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · Dec 19
“You are not a distraction,” Taylor says suddenly. “I’m sorry I said that. I spoke out of fear. You are not a distraction. You’re important to me."

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December 19, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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We enter Year 3 of: Me Trying to Make “Dominick the Donkey” Happen with my child.

No luck so far 😭
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December 18, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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I know she won’t be getting any sleep tonight. Good. May my discontent be the pea under her mattress. I’ll be kept awake by the deafening sound of my heart breaking

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December 18, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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Jen Jayden did such great work with this story. I’m so thrilled to see her get some love!

Ty for this lovely review! ❤️‍🔥

For the 1 year anniversary (😵‍💫), the audiobook version of The Order is on sale here until 1/11/25: bit.ly/3VHlzYV
December 17, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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This is a safe space for anyone except Yankees fans and people who put the milk in before the cereal.

Get my books here: mybook.to/Mbxj and bit.ly/BB_TJO

Sweet Home Alabarden Park coming soon! bit.ly/SHAP_TJO

Peep this gorgeous cover art by Gabbie Mara! (linktr.ee/gabbiemara)
November 16, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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I intended to wait and post when I had something fun to say about my upcoming book, bc otherwise my post would’ve been one, long, loud scream…

But I wanted to stop and say hey to all y’all coming over from the Other Place! 🙋‍♀️ Glad to see this app getting traction.

(And the book is with the editor.)
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November 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM