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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 28/09/2026

Y’all I’m $2.18 in royalties away from my prev monthly max! Like 1.xx a $2.99 eBooks or ~0.5 x $5.99 eBook 0.o If you like reading techno thrillers where women and / or LGBT peeps are the protagonists, come support an indie author by checking them out at Books.KEBartlet.com! #writesky #booksky

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lesflicks.bsky.social @lesflicks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No doom-scrolling mainstream platforms for one sapphic story. No hunting through male gaze looking for authentic lesbians. Just great sapphic films curated for you - including this week’s new release: Knot. 👉 Watch today: bit.ly/4cIQpJg #Lesflicks

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 23/09/2026

Thanks! I'm not someone who's normally marketing inclined, so this was nice to read :) Hope you check out the serial and enjoy!

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 22/09/2026

Dildo! Dildo! Dildo! Operation Gold Ribbon Episode 4 — The Charge of the Dildo Brigade: kebartlet.substack.com/p/the-charge... #writesky #booksky #author #substack #scribblehub #inkitt #wattpad #serial #comefromaway #youarehere #humankindness

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 12/09/2026

ACARS: Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System. Translation: how a pilot would find out ... that planes have been hijacked. Operation Gold Ribbon Ep. 3: kebartlet.substack.com/p/this-is-your-captain-speaking #writesky #booksky #author #substack #serial #comefromaway 9/11 #canada

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 11/09/2026

New episodes! 2) Gander, We Have A Problem 3) This Is Your Captain Speaking 4) The Charge Of The Dildo Brigade While it's not as kickass as #comefromaway or the Newfoundlanders who inspired it on 9/11, it's fun & free! OperationGoldRibbon.KEBartlet.com #writesky #booksky #author #substack #serial

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 10/09/2026

It's finally here! The entire serial is free, as it's written in remembrance of a terrible day & the humanity that showed itself amidst a crisis. The story from Come From Away, but set in the present, where the U.S. & Canada aren't necessarily friends anymore.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 24/08/2026

And at last, release day for everyone is here! What happens when the “island of misfit toys,” a ragtag group of spies and special operators from all over, come together to kill a rogue Iranian AI before it takes over the world? ShallWePlayAGame.KEBartlet.com

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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🏳️‍🌈📚👀📚🏳️‍🌈 ‼️ Queer literature needs more than a place to be published. 👊 It needs champions who will fight for every word, every day. #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBpooks #QueerLit #IndiePress #BookSky

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Author Emilia Armas 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @emiliaarmas.com · 09/08/2026

I'm not the best about staying on top of social media (trying to get better), but my latest book got dungeoned so I'd appreciate if you could grab a copy all that much more! Fuck censorship! WeThePeople.EmiliaArmas.com #lesbian #bisexual #erotica #couchfucker #thehuntingwives #smutsky #booksky

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 07/08/2026

Still working on the rest of it, but Chapter 1’s out now. And if you want to get early access, just hit me up in DMs :) It’s free. CosmicCorrespondentsDinner.KEBartlet.com #standup #standupcomedy #transgenderwoman #humor #indieauthor #writesky #religiouscomedy

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 07/08/2026

having a genuine conversation and that I was already subscribed to their Substack (and would therefore see their articles already). They unsubscribed from me pretty much right after, which goes to show what I was to them. Thanks for removing yourself from the picture! #substack #writesky #booksky

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 07/08/2026

It’s amazing how setting boundaries can be “too much” for a person. I had this other author DM me on Substack today, who’s pretty much only ever DM’d me their book & articles. I told them that I didn’t appreciate that they only seemed to message me to get me to read their stuff instead of actually

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 06/08/2026

Still looking for a few more ARC readers. If you think you might be interested, just sign up & review when you can, no pressure! If you know anyone who might be, please share it with them! swpag-reviewer.kebartlet.com #arcreader #thrillerbooks #tomclancy #indieauthor #booksky #writesky #readsky

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lesbian romance is better conveyed than M/F romance right now. From what I am currently consuming. Everyone wants to push trad or to have the guy do all the right things but suffer emotionally alone no matter what.* Beyond tired of this. So let's go lesbos. *not Dispatch. Dispatch is love

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 06/08/2026

Like the malfunctioning brain to mouth filter? Come check out KEBartlet.com for more! Just like the Cosmic Correspondents Dinner where a trans comedian headlines a #WHCD inspired roast, ... and all the religions & deities are present. CCD.KEBartlet.com #trans #writesky #comedy #satire #parody

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 05/08/2026

Hey @chanareadshorror.bsky.social , found your profile through #arcreader. Any chance you could share what exactly makes a work splatterpunk for you? I’ve had some readers say that some of my work is that, but I’m not really sure, so I’m curious as to what avid readers like you see as splatterpunk.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 17/07/2026

12 years ago today, I started to live my life as my true, authentic self. To celebrate that, today I'm releasing the Advance Reader Copy of Shall We Play A Game? Get your copy for free while supplies last! swpag-reviewer.kebartlet.com #arcreader #booksky #writesky #author #sapphfic #readsky

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 03/08/2026

Thanks! Trying to use it for a story arc where a bunch of protagonists are sick of nonsense like L3Harris charging the U.S. Government out the ass for the V.A.M.P.I.R.E. System and build their own cheaper, better version.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 03/08/2026

So I don’t agree with people saying things like “a trans” but I’ll make an exception here. WDYT? A T.R.A.N.S. worth being scared of? (I’m a much better author than I am an artist, so please don’t discount my writing because of the art) #trans #art #author #military #humor #satire #jokes #comedy

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The Queer Gaze @queergazemag.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

To the trans family, you are valid, YOU EXIST. No law or belief will change that, which is powerful and REAL. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 25/07/2026

You’re welcome! Happy to help my fellow authors and readers whenever I can :)

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 25/07/2026

Since Bluesky's the other platform I mention in the article, makes sense to post this here too, right? This is specific to Substack, but the issue could be occurring elsewhere too, so Bluesky-ers, check your links! kebartlet.substack.com/p/urgent-psa... #author #writer #writesky #substack

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Aven McVie 📚✍️ @avenmcvie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When pulled into a weapons program, Vic expects routine - not a neural link wiring her mind with an alien officer's. No thought unshared. No feeling hidden... not even the ones growing between them. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program. #QuestPit #W #R #SF

Moodboard for TANDEM, a sapphic sci-fi romance, in blue and violet shades.
Top row: A person in a dim blue lighting wears a headset with glowing red lenses; a surgical room with lights shining down overhead; a close-up of dark snake scales; a moon against the sky with clouds.
Middle row: a purple sky with two galaxies; a glowing title card that reads "tandem: a sapphic sci-fi romance".
Bottom row: a photo of a blue circuit board; two silhouettes of women facing each other, close, against the sky; a round spaceship observation window.

When Vic Kohler is pulled into a high-visibility new weapons program, she expects it to be a fairly standard assignment - not a neural link wiring her mind with Naev, a Vamath officer.

The pair learns quickly that this new connection offers no privacy: no thoughts are left unshared, no feelings are left unhidden... not even the feelings that are growing between them. The institution must never find out, because the program’s exit procedure is safe for a human and lethal for a Vamath. Vic has a way out. Naev doesn’t. Falling in love was never part of the program.

TANDEM is an ~87,000-word sapphic sci-fi romance - military SF tension meets speculative fiction interiority, for readers who want yearning with total transparency.

Tropes: Space travel, Human/alien romance, Forbidden love, Mind link, Interstellar politics, Slow burn, Forced proximity, Sapphic yearning.

Comp Titles. For readers who loved: This is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone; Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell; The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 24/07/2026

When people are shooting at you and you shoot back, do people say “Why do you have to make everything about guns?” No. So then why is that when people are politicizing your existence and you talk about politics to defend your existence, it’s suddenly “Why do you have to make everything political?”

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 12/07/2026

Is it just me, or does it feel like: A person consuming AI slop calling themselves a reader is equivalent to A person who just eats McDiabetes calling themselves a culinary connoisseur? *cough cough Donald Trump* #author #booksky #writesky #readsky #art #ai

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Every trans author is a better writer than JK Rowling.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 11/07/2026

87,212 words (including the 1,576 for the Bonus Chapter that's only for ARC readers and other insiders). 85,636 words for the release version. 82,128 of which is story vs 3,508 of front & back matter.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 09/07/2026

If you’re interested in reading for free the misadventures of a bunch of misfit anti-heroes as they hunt down a rogue Iranian AI, I need more ARC readers! Sign up today at swpag-reviewer.kebartlet.com #author #thriller #booksky #writesky #writer #writing #writingcommunity

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yep, Trump we see you.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 04/07/2026

Took a break from writing military thrillers and romance novels to write a little satirical serial, exercising some of those First Amendment rights to poke fun at organized religions and deities. Enjoy! Psst! It's Free to Read on Substack! CCD.KEBartlet.com #author #art #booksky #satire #comedy

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Cosmic Correspondents Dinner

Chapter 1: In the beginning, there was a transgender comedian

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 26/06/2026

Which “free fiction satire” are you talking about? In Crayons We Trust?

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 24/06/2026

So I was procrastinating writing more of Shall We Play A Game?, my Tom Clancy meets Marvel’s Thunderbolts meets Terminator military / political techno thriller that’s going to be available for free for ARC Readers on July 17, my trans-iversary, and came up with this terrible joke. Happy Pride Month!

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 23/06/2026

I link to it in the end of the article, but it was LegalEagle's video about the case on YouTube, youtu.be/LxTWonQvXkw?...

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THE GREATEST BRIEF EVER FILED

YouTube video by LegalEagle

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 22/06/2026

It’s here. It’s only the first part, but it won’t be the last! (At least, I hope. What the American Gestapo will do will of course remain to be seen.) Read it for free at KEBartlet.com #politicsmemes #parody #fuckmaga #fucktrump #humor #art #writesky #parody #author

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 19/06/2026

Took a break from writing military / political techno thriller novels, & was inspired by the Onion's amicus brief in Novak v. City of Parma (932 F.3d 421 (6th Cir. 2019)), to write a free fiction as non-fiction article: kebartlet.substack.com/p/taliban-eq... #booksky #writesky #author #writer #art

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 11/06/2026

Support journalists! (And indie authors, who make even less!) #art #author #indieauthor #protest #washingtonpost Not endorsed or approved by the Washington Post, obviously. In WA and too Po (not a Billionaire) to catch the notice of Bezos.

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Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com · 03/06/2026

I procrastinate. Hard. 1/2 burnout. 1/2 ADHD. 100% me! Instead of finishing Vol 3, wrote a prequel! It’s In Media Res, where it starts w/ a bit of the end, leaving you wondering how it happened. #author #thriller #epstein #booksky #writesky #author #writer #amwriting #writing #writingcommunity

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