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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The opposite of doom is not hope, it’s curiosity. Doom shrinks - curiosity expands Doom freezes - curiosity explores Doom destroys - curiosity creates When you are over come with doom, it’s time to get really curious. Explore. Engage. Learn. Try. Seek. Question. Wonder. Dream. Resist.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

What is your most quoted line from a movie from childhood? Mine: “Not you! I don’t even know you!” Lilly, from The Princess Diaries. (It’s shocking how often this comes up for me) I also call every special project or secret plan “The Annexation of Puerto Rico” and only the real ones get that one.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We need to stop trying to appeal to the empathy of fundamentalist Christians. There is not ground to be gained there and it plays into their martyrdom complex. Empathy has been purposefully excised from fundamentalist Christianity for decades.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We are not going to lose hope. We are not going to back down. We are not going to quit. We are not going to breakdown or be distracted or any of the other things facism wants from us in the shock and awe campaign.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A very important part of being a fun aunt is not just getting the fun toy everyone else is too much of a coward to gift, but remembering to include all needed batteries so there is no excuse. The fun starts immediately!!

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Looking for a narrator for the audio edition of The Flight Risk. Need to be willing to work with an indie group, have a great southern accent, okay with so much cursing, and access to a professional level recording set up. If interested or know someone who would be rad or who I should ask… HMU

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morgan lee miller @morganleemiller.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

On the last day of Holigays, Milo sent to me: 2x Goldie winning & some Olympic swimming Enter to win The Flight Risk by @1maconleigh.bsky.social & All the Worlds Between Us/All the Paths to You by me. 1. Follow both 2. Comment on the post 3. Repost for a 2nd entry Winner drawn at 8 pm ET.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Holy wow!! I can’t believe @morganleemiller included me in this incredible giveaway - and with two of her best novels! Novels I LOVED!! What a dream!! Enter to win (mostly for Morgan’s books) and know I’m excited to share my weird and winding tale with you!

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Carrie Byrd @byrdwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What do you even begin to say in response to an essay about your book that's so thoughtful, so generous, & so overwhelming that it made you start to cry? All I can come up with is thank you. Thank you, Macon, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Roslyn Sinclair @writingroslyn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Talk about a thoughtful essay with 💯 correct opinions! 🥰

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hey, what if I actually linked the piece! “In so many ways this novel feels like a callback to the romantic comedies of Nancy Myers and Nora Epheron - smart, timely, and believing in the power of language to make us laugh, think, and fall in love.” open.substack.com/pub/maconboo...

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10 Reasons to Read Loser of the Year by Carrie Byrd

Loser of the Year is a glorious reminder that love, at its best, reveals and celebrates our authentic selves. It invites us to be more, not less. Never less.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ten Reasons is back with what is very possibly my favorite romance novel of the year @byrdwrites' Loser of the Year. Here are 10 reasons, but know I could’ve given you a hundred and had reasons left over. LOTY will crack you open if you let it - please let it. The light that comes in is so healing.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I just learned sharks are older than trees and mammals are older than the rings of Saturn and if you think of the whole existence of our planet in the context of a 24 hour clock humans step into existence just a fraction of a second before midnight. perspective is wild

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Harriet Tubman was granted veteran status and posthumously given the rank of 1 Star Brigadier General on Veterans Day this year. In a country that has been getting a lot wrong lately, this is very very very right.

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you would have told me someone’s response to this thread would tell me everything I needed to know about how they voted two weeks ago…

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

After the dark comes the dawn! New McCallan is exactly what the world needs right now. Hope is the thing with feathers…

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This one is for anyone who has spent the last week alternating between despair, rage, and an aching desire to help. You’re not alone. None of us are. That has always been our superpower as queer people and we are going to need it now more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/maconboo...

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Stupid, Relentless, Reckless Hope and the Power of Ordinary People Organizing

In 1962 James Baldwin wrote an article entitled As Much Truth as One Can Bear where he famously said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” The e...

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Vic @victsao.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

When you love a book so much, you read it on KU, buy the digital version, and then you realize you NEED the physical book on your bookshelf🥹 The Flight Risk by @1maconleigh.bsky.social

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Ana Hartnett @ahartnettauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Our community is more bright, more effervescent, more lovely and giving because @1maconleigh.bsky.social in it. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MACON!!!!!!!!! *insert epic bday gif here, because I haven’t figured those out yet*

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Lauren Eve @laurenevebooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

If you haven't read what is THE GREATEST DEBUT EVER cancel plans and meet the rogue peach this week... 💗🍑📚 x

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Today marks the birth of what will be the pop star + professional athlete romance revolution. And I - for one - am thrilled. I cannot wait for the boygenius + USWNT series. Maybe it’ll even be a collection and we will get books by all the greats. Just… imagine the tattoos and yearning!

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Liz Grey 🩷💜 @strictlyliz.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

So damn proud of you 🩷🩷

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Frankie Fyre❤️‍🔥 @frankiefyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Go read this book yall!!😍😍

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Milena McKay 👠 @reallymckay.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

This book... THIS BOOK, y'all! Absolutely amazing!

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Carrie Byrd @byrdwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

New blog post! What have I learned about writing romance from poetry? A lot, actually. Come for some reasons to stay with poetry; stay for the poems about coming (no, really) ✨ carriebyrd.com/blog/poetry

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Roslyn Sinclair @writingroslyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

If you subscribe, my newsletter hit your inbox this morning. Read for more chances to get book ARCs, a REALLY improbable thing that happened to me, and a rec for the debut novel of the wonderful @1maconleigh.bsky.social!

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Want a VERY SPECIFIC book recommendation? A book that feels like the way the air smells right before a thunderstorm? A read alike for the way you felt when you heard the Garden State sound track for the first time? Respond to this post with what you’re looking for! MB post soon!

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Liz Grey 🩷💜 @strictlyliz.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Sapphic Sept is almost over and I need to contribute! I’ll be posting a few Sapphic Book // Sapphic Song pairings to combine my two great loves. Of course, we start with the book that changed my life, @1maconleigh.bsky.social ‘s The Flight Risk 🩷💜

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I want to love anything the way any kind of chef loves an offset spatula.

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Sib @sibvyas.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Was told it was good…. But *insert profanity* I didn’t expect it to be THIS good. What a journey this books takes you on. Was warned of the book hangover but this warrants rehab. If you haven’t already, get on it because it’ll grab you & not let go. @1maconleigh.bsky.social wow 🤩 Sapphic September

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Jude Silberfeld 🦝 @judeinthestars.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Remember a few days ago when I posted about reading an instant favorite? This was the book

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Jude Silberfeld 🦝 @judeinthestars.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

New sapphic book review! The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh 🌈📚 💙📚 🌏📚👀 🌈💜 judeinthestars.com/2023/09/10/t... #Sapphfic #BookRecommendations #BookReview #romancelandia #BookBlogger

On a backdrop of pebbles, an iPad with the cover of The Flight Risk by Macon Leigh. In the bottom right corner of the image, a strip of torn paper with a quote: "Macon Leigh’s writing is free and sharp, tough yet tender, like the MC of this book." and a URL: judeinthestars.com.

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chris_trek @christrek.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

I’ve been making more of an effort to track how many books I read. Mostly just out of curiosity but also want to do better at shouting out favourite books. So, August: 22 books read, mostly #sapphicromance but a few #crimefiction ones too. Favourite was The Flight Risk @1maconleigh.bsky.social

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KJ @propertyofkj.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Happy birthday, little book Amazon.com

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Milena McKay 👠 @reallymckay.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

For the next few days, These Thin Lines is available on Amazon for $0.99 🎉 mybook.to/TheseThinLines 🌈📚 #Sapphfic #SapphicBooks

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Frankie Fyre❤️‍🔥 @frankiefyre.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Adding this sky app to my 🏹quiver of socials to connect with fellow sapphic book lovers. First post🙂 My name is Frankie Fyre (she/her). Here’s a little meet the author graphic. ✍🏾 of spicy sapphic books. Blerd. Taco lover. I’m here. I’m queer. Cheers. Lets connect!

Frankie Fyre’s “Meet the author” graphic. Animated images that displays a little about her: Books, Writing, Foodie, Gaming, Anime, Wine

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Jude Silberfeld 🦝 @judeinthestars.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

GIveaway!! I'm reading this book at the moment and loving all of it so far #sapphfic 🌈📚

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Lucy Bexley @lucybexley.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Where you can find me: - In a dark wood - My newsletter: eepurl.com/hb5oPf - TikTok (lucybexleyromcom), Insta (LucyBexley), FB (lucy.bexley.581) - here for now! - Find all the links at linktr.ee/lucybexley - Well (either emotionally or at the bottom of)

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Lucy Bexley Sapphic Romance Author

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Macon Leigh @1maconleigh.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

I cannot believe it’s been almost two weeks since my debut novel went out into the world. I’m just so thankful for everyone who has taken a chance on this love story that is absolutely not a romance novel. My weird modern retelling of the red thread of fate. What a dream! a.co/d/0Ilzl0s

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