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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Dear 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky Has anyone invented the “romantasy” equivalent for speculative X romance yet please?? I need it for my pitch 👀 #agentsguide #litagents please lmk what you’re seeing in this space 🙏🙌

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

SO jazzed today because my new story is #4 on the Amazon Hot New Releases Bestselling Lesbian 🌶️ 🤩🤩🤩 Have been grinning all day 😄 Thank you everyone who has read or ordered Her Type on Paper 🙌❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky #newbooks www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXKP99F8

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I’ve been quiet over here because I’ve been working on edits for a story that is coming out end of June 😆🌟 And apparently I can’t read and write in the same month 🫠 What are you reading? 🌈📚 #booksky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Very excited to share that I have a poem in the gorgeous Spring Edition of t’ART Press ❤️‍🔥🍊 www.t-artpress.co.uk/springed26 #writingcommunity #writesky 🌈📚

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t'ART ONLINE. | t'ART: Spring Edition

This Spring we feature artists, poets and prose writers in our online edition.

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Andrea 📚🌈 @andreareads.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I like how this one almost looks like a collage

A double exposed image of pink magnolia blossoms

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I haven’t been reading much recently- but I still want to support the #transrightsreadathon Here are some books from my shelf that have trans characters/authors/themes. I haven’t decided which organisation to donate to yet so I’ll update that later 🏳️‍⚧️ What’s on your list? 🌈📚 #booksky #lgbtq

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

An #agentsguide to my speculative romance novel The Mothers of All Mothers ❤️‍🔥 - A winner of the BPA Pitch Prize - Agent and Editor interest - Topical themes of control of women and abuse of power - Such yearning 🌈📚 #amquerying #agentguide #queerbooks #booksky #writingcommunity #writesky #lgbtqia

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Sad that human authors have to do this but glad that something is being done to make the distinction obvious 😮‍💨😪

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Not reading or writing but a secret third thing (querying and journaling and eating pastries). What have you been up to? #querying #journalling #amquerying #booksky #writingcommunity 🌈📚

A black coffee, almond pastry and journal with the Audre Lorde quote “your silence will not protect you”

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I spend so long researching agents that on the rare occasion that I think: “Argh! You have SUCH good taste and I like your ethos and I think you’ll get what I’m trying to do with my novel. Omg I hope you feel the same.” I should be allowed to say it 😂 🌈📚 #amquerying #booksky #writingcommunity

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Gorgeous queer writing circle tonight creating “found poetry” and writing “shared histories” - was so lovely to do something in person with other local writers. 🌈📚 #queersky #queerbooks #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Me: “I’ll just have a quick check in on Bluesky before bed” ✨agent interest✨ OH. That’s far too exciting for bedtime isn’t it. #whatissleep #writingcommunity 🌈📚 #unhingedpit #queerbooks #writingcommunity #writesky #amquerying #sapphicbooks

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Caroline is always writing @carolinekwriting.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Brining back my Valentine’s Day posts for #Unhingedpit. Who doesn’t love clingy blood thirsty lesbians? #unhingedpit #Q #A #H #LGBT

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It’s like if I Who Have Never Known Men was extremely queer with slow burn sapphic romance and the unbridling of women’s rage. #unhingedpit #A #lgbt #q #queerbooks #booksky #amquerying #theyearn 🌈📚

Unhinged pitch for the novel The Mothers of All Mothers by Alicia Vane showing a picture of”womanhood is a spectrum” from relentless yearning to unbridled rage (heart to fist pictures). Background is the sea to capture the island setting.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Tonight I’m to start querying again! (me to myself every night for the past week 😅) #amquerying #writesky #booksky #bookcommunity #writers

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The writerly admin of going though all the submission calls you saved and putting them in a spreadsheet. Next step: submit 📮 (But not tonight because it’s way past my bedtime 🥱) 🌈📚 #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Just a quick note to other #writers that you can opt out of AI “features” on MS 365 by downgrading subscription to “classic” under account management. I did it last year when I noticed my account was set to renew with a higher price for new features (that I didn’t want!). 🌈📚 #writesky #writing

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Hey, just wanted to introduce myself properly over here ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #writesky #queerbooks #booksky

Meet the author / reader Alicia Vane photo

Samples of published work by Alicia Vane

Notebook on a wooden table in front of a mural of the earth

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I am so excited and nervous that this book is finished* After 3 years of intense writing Countless hours editing Reader feedback Agent feedback A prize win More edits It feels finished ❤️‍🔥 * it’ll only be truly finished when it’s gone to print 😂 But the STORY feels finished to me. #amquerying 🌈📚

Hand holding a printed manuscript of the novel:

The Mothers of All Mothers

❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets
❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs / rage
❤️‍🔥 Queer / sapphic
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity
❤️‍🔥 Watching the woman you love being pulled to the depths

Behind is a print of two women embracing by Kaethe Butcher.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

So you know how they play old songs in residential homes to get folks up and about… are they doing this to millennials with the 2016 trend rn because the world has gone wrong or—?? #twentysixteen #millenials

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Listening to Judith Bulter again to get back into the headspace to edit my novel Nascent (which has themes of gender socialisation) I love listening to audiobooks as I knit - particularly a simple, repetitive pattern like this vest. Do you like to pair crafts? 🌈📚 #booksky #queerbooks #knitsky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

So excited to share my tender little short story that was published in Fruitslice Magazine today❤️‍🔥 “Synchronicities” is a story about the power of connection, the tender moments that can soothe our deepest aches, and the spark that can bring us to life again. #booksky #writesky #queersky 🌈📚

Page one of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

Page two of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

Page three of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

Page four of the short story Synchronicities by Alicia Vane with photos by Sienna Joya Haag published in the Fall Issue of Fruitslice Magazine - theme “repair”.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Hi when do you stop having a small heart attack whenever you see your own book stocked in a bookshop please?? Or are other authors just more chill than me?? #booksky 🌈📚 #writesky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Have had such a fun launch today - thank you everyone who preordered/ requested/ reviewed In Your Head, the support has been incredible 🥰 IYH: A spicy sapphic novella for fans of Black Mirror, Women (Chloé Caldwell) and Want (Gillian Anderson). aliciavane.com/books/in-you... 🌈📚 #booksky

The paperback of In Your Head by Alicia Vane next to an almond croissant and black coffee

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One week until my spicy sapphic novella is officially out in the world 😱 trying not to freak out about the preorders coming in from actual bookshops!! eeeeek!! (ps I will not cope if I encounter a copy in the wild haha) www.aliciavane.com for details ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #booksky #queersky #writesky

Paperback cover of the spicy sapphic novella In your Head by Alicia Vane. Cover is a pixelated blue, purple, pink background with a heart shaped eye.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets For fans of: ❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning ❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity ❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs ❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (98k, speculative lit fic) #QueerPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #litfic #amquerying

Image shows the title “Womanhood is a spectrum” (with relentless yearning on the left and unbridled rage on the right) which is a theme of my novel NASCENT about a cult of strong women with dark secrets. Themes of sapphic yearning, gender non conformity, unbridling of rage.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The scream I just had to stifle (it’s 10pm here) when I saw that my novella is one of the most requested titles in the LGBTQ+ category of @netgalley.bsky.social well, I definitely won’t sleeping now 😂 Thank you everyone who requested to read In Your Head ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Thank you to everyone who shared and requested In Your Head on NetGalley - the response has blown my mind!! ❤️‍🔥 (exciting but also eeeeeek) 🌈📚

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Eeeek my spicy sapphic novella is available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social now!! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... (and I feel absolutely fine about this 😅😂❤️‍🔥) #queerbooks 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky

A vintage beige computer showing that the spicy sapphic novella In Your Head by Alicia Vane is available on NetGalley for August. Behind the screen is a trippy drippy pattern.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Oh hi 👋 I’ve been lost in books for a few months (reading and writing) Highlights: - The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden) - Boulder (Eva Baltasar) - Spoilt Creatures (Amy Twigg) I’ve also got a couple of sapphic stories coming out in the next few months ❤️‍🔥 What have you been up to? 🌈📚 #booksky

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Brushing up on the craft with Ursula K Le Guin and an almond croissant cookie. #booksky 🌈📚 #amwriting #writingcommunity

Coffee and croissant laid out on daisy speckled grass next to a notebook and
The book Steering The Craft.

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

writers: there's a piece of my soul in this book and I've agonised over every word for months and yet I STILL fret about whether it's good enough some random people: stop overthinking it you can just use Al to churn out books - no one cares readers: oooh we care alright. WE CARE. #booksky 🌈📚

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Just started reading Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. Usually it takes me 20-30% of a book to feel connected to a character but it was immediate with this. The tender letter opener really captured my heart ❤️‍🔥 Have you read this? 🌈📚 #booksky #queerbooks

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I wrote a sapphic short story about a farmer and postie and two readers asked me to develop it into a novel because they loved the characters that’s the sort of encouragement that sustains a writer and prompts the writing of 60-80k more words #amwriting #writesky #queerbooks 🌈📚 #writingcommunity

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Womanhood is a spectrum - a theme of my novel NASCENT about a cult of strong women with dark secrets. Themes of sapphic yearning, gender non conformity, unbridling of rage. Image shows an anatomical heart and a pinching fist to illustrate those themes.

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Damian is ✨️drafting✨️ @damian-santos.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀 🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC ❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance 🥩Cannibalism 🩸Religious horror 🫀Body horror 🔥Trans rage #questpit #A #H #RF #querying

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Alice Crow is finally writing ✍🏾 @acrowwrites.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🥀 Gilded Age-inspired college romantasy 🩸vampire MMC needs a mate bond to avoid bloodlust 🥀 alchemist human FMC is secretly plotting to take his power 🩸solving mysterious murders 🥀bi4bi 🩸dual POV 🥀black and curvy rep 🩸touch her and ☠️ 🥀divine chaos #QuestPit #W #A #PR

Photo collage of black, white, and red imagery, including a hand dipping into an ornate cup of blood, a Victorian street with a gas lamp, a gothic window framing a stone building, a bookshelf and staircase, the word vampire on a black background, potion bottles, a vampire bat wing, an altar with candles, a red eye, glass bottles with blood, and a bloody hourglass

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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈 @aliciavwriting.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The #QuestPit hashtag has been hijacked by a tat selling company so my feed is full of their posts. Please can someone add me to a list?? I want to see more pitches Thank you ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #writesky #queerbooks

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Kelly Crescenzo @kcresc12.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

FROM BLOOD AND ASH x SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME THE QUEEN IS RISING Stories are pretty, but the truth is real and full of pain. #1stLinePit #Q #A #RF

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Melanie is querying @melanielocke.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

ARCANE x OUR INFINITE FATES A dying mage and his partner seek to prevent magic from killing mages. Their efforts turn them both into soulless immortals. Centuries later, two magic scientists seek to stop a blight, and they must find a way to kill these cursed gods. #Questpit #F #W #A #LGBT

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Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Elle doesn’t want a second-chance romance, she wants revenge, heartbreak for heartbreak. She’ll pretend forgiveness, pretend love, until her ex hurts as much as she did back then. But the line between fake and real is harder to navigate than she expected. #Questpit #Q #A #R #LGBT

Heartbreak and romance themed moodboard with words 'one-sided fake dating for revenge or a real chance at HEA?'

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Sarah Hudson @sarahhudsonbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Plagued by the choice between duty to her people and following her heart, a competition for the princess’s hand in marriage holds the key to her Kingdom’s survival. 🏹Marriage Competition ✨Secret Romance 🔮Meddling Mind Magic 📚Secrets of the Past 💕Second Chance Romance #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

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Lia @lia-ash.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Apollo and Hyacinthus, but with an Indian spin to it.. In ancient India gods walk among men. Yashit, the Lotus Dancer is set to become a Nrityadeva, the elite dancers of heaven. But what's supposed to happen when Yashit falls for the Sun God himself? Bad idea. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #R #YA

Two men in the image. Dark/Prussian blue background. First man blends into the background while the other man is in the foreground. Man in the background has long flowing black hair, with blue undertones in the skin, seems to be blessing the man in the front. Man in the front has silver-ish hair, golden skin and is crying

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Ayla Yergin @aylayrgn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Garden of Gods 🩸🌹 THE HURRICANE WARS x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER (I like to think of it as Attack on Titan set in the Ottoman Empire with more magic and more romance) #questpit #q #a #f #r

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