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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Currently offering my queer magical school fantasy trilogy ebooks for $20! You can also grab the paperbacks in my shop if you prefer hard copy media - all come signed & with stickers, bookmarks, and other goodies I've made over the years. ko-fi.com/astervaughn/... #pridemonth #queerauthor

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Visit Aster Vaughn | CorvidWitxh's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

‘AI is in everything! If you use spellcheck, you can’t be mad about ChatGPT!’ Look, you determinedly obtuse cantaloupe, don’t slander spell check, first created in 1961, made for PCs in 1980. NO ONE THINKS A SPELL CHECKER IS GEN AI. What in the ever-loving straw-man tomfoolery.

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I’ve been posting more on my tiktok lately 📚 besides that, lots of writing/revising/editing/repeat. #authorsky #authors #writing #writers

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ebooks are now available in my shop! My time with the Kindle Select program has ended (and it did not help me at all) Grab both Book 1 & 2 for the price of one paperback :D ko-fi.com/astervaughn/...

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hello👋I'm Aster Vaughn, an autistic, queer, indie published author of the series #BriarthorneUni & a sapphic poetry collection (Finally, She is Home). I've been a book lover and writer for as long as I can remember. Libraries saved my life in a world before the internet. Nice to meet you! #booksky

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Time to shout out my bookish artists starter pack again! #booksky #booktok #writers #artists #bookishart #coverart #illustration #illustrators

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I'm no popular or trending author, but I will always send my books to libraries for free. If there are any libraries interested in carrying a NA modern fantasy magical college series with queer, autistic, and diverse representation, please send me a message! #libraries #booksky #authorsky

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Do any other authors write fanfic for fun? It's a nice break from my original work to play around with other people's characters in media I like 💗 #authorsky #booksky

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Day 4 of #BriarthorneUni (my book) aesthetics for the main cast! Introducing Francesca (Frankie), a rich-girl-witch from a New Jersey coven. She's at BU to master her craft...and not welcome home until she does. #originalcharacters #characterart #storytelling #fantasynovel #booksky

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's so difficult to remember to post here sometimes. I was off Meta for a week (a boycott that didn't seem very effective) and deleted my presence there for my personal, author, and jewelry business pages (kept my cosplay page, it has the most community engagement & threads) -

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

20 books that influenced you in 20 days; covers only. Day 8 #booksky💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge

book cover for angus, thongs, and full frontal snogging by louise rennison

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

20 books that influenced you in 20 days; covers only. Day 7 #booksky💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge

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dee 📚✨ @readsbymurcielago.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My mom got a grant for a book vending machine so that students can get free books! She’s been buying books to stock it out of pocket, but she’s also made a wishlist if you’d like to help. She teaches at a Title 1 elementary school, so it would be very appreciated! #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

That feeling when you're on a forced break to work on other stuff but it's so hard to focus on other stuff when all I want to do is write my book #justauthorthings

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Day 3 Aesthetics of my #BriarthorneUni cast! This student is Dura, a half-orc fitness oriented woman dedicated to her path as a healer. She's queer, and on a path of self-discovery in more ways than one during the series. #booksky #originalcharacter #characterart

aesthetic moodboard for my character Dura in the #BriarthorneUni series featuring green hands, face, lemon hearts, clouds, and scrubs

character art for my half orc student Dura in the #BriarthorneUni series by Aster Vaughn

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

20 books that influenced you in 20 days; covers only. Day 6 #booksky💙📚 #booksky #bookchallenge

pink book cover for the princess diaries by meg cabot

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Black indie authors to support! List in comments cos alt text isn’t working for videos. #booksky #blackbooksky

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📚 kmartbooks 📚 @kmartbooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This seems more important than ever right now. BIPOC authors with great political plots ... For reasons! 🙃 Books are Inherently Political. So here are some that have political plotlines and are also diverse! #booksky #booktok #bookrecs #bipocbookrecs

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Day 2 of sharing character aesthetics for my novel series #BriarthorneUni - Introducing Cian, my gruff, grumpy, runaway werewolf man (A main POV in the series). He's on campus against his will, but for his protection. Maybe he'll learn to trust again 🐺 #fantasynovel #booksky #aesthetic #authorsky

aesthetic collage of Cian, my werewolf character, featuring wolf, guitar, black jeans, a broken mirror, and boots images

drawing of a werewolf man, Cian, my character from the #BriarthorneUni series by Aster Vaughn

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

20 books that influenced you in 20 days; covers only. Day 5 #booksky #booksky💙📚

book cover for a woman among warlords by malalai joya

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Day 1 of posting Aesthetics for the cast of my novel #BriarthorneUni: The Living Doll (book one) This is Lavendula, an undead human who has no access to her soul, and therefore, no magic. She's an ace-lesbian solitary artist. This year, she begins to uncover her lost past. #booksky

collection of lavender and lilac images of flowers, stars, lips, hair, and clothes.

lavender haired white woman with a black hat, giving a peace sign to the camera

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Malcolm Bolivar @malcolmbolivar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

People on the "dump Amazon" bus related to books. Remember that many writers don't have money to print, market, and get our books in front of Indie bookstores. Bookstores still rely on big publishing to select books to sell. Without Amazon, our books don't exist. #indiebooks #booksky #authors

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Haley Kay ✨📖 @haziekay.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Genuinely pissed I haven’t been whisked off to a fantasy world yet #booksky 📚

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Elhyana🏳️‍🌈 -Commissions open 0/3- @elhyana.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

#Booksky important term: -Book Worm: Avid devour of stories, in any way shape or form -Book Dragon: Avid collectors of book, mostly in physical form -Book Wyrm: The dangerous combination of the first two, and I admire them so much

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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When online community via SM is the only community you have as a result of disability/ chronic illness, it can be devastating when it falls apart. Please make sure to find your disabled and chronically ill friends and peers when changing platforms. #Disability #Comics #bookSky

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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Read more queer books! 📚🏳️‍🌈 [ #cuteart #artshop #booksky ]

A photo of a hand holding a square art print and a glittery sticker. They show the same art of a chubby little white cat sitting on a bookshelf amongst books in rainbow order, also holding & reading a small book. The cat has big red glasses and pink blush. The spines of the books each have a word on them and read, in order, “read more queer books.” They’re all pastel colored. The illustration is off a pale yellow background and drawn in a sketchy colored pencil style, with colorful sparkles around it all.

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Mecireads🌸 @mecireads.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

PSA ‼️ A black author writing a contemporary romance with black characters does not make it urban fiction novel. Black Romance is not synonymous with Urban✌🏾 #booktok #blackbooksky #booksky

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I started my author journey in 2019, and self-published in 2023. Since then, I've found community, but few writer/author friends. 📚 BookTok was hard to break into as an author. BookThreads was better, but not great for positive engagement. So hopefully #booksky is the charm 💗

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

20 books that influenced you in 20 days; covers only. Day 4 #booksky💙📚 #booksky

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Queer books about priests, nuns, angels and religion. List in comments! #booksky #queerbooksky

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Lyss @lyssabyss.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Okay, I’m hoping this will gain some traction on Bluesky *inhales* SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY IN OREGON IS IN DANGER OF CLOSING. This sets a dangerous precedent for state capital libraries!! This is a continuation of the saga from last year, when we were saved at the last second by the then-mayor. (1/2)

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I can't wait to write book 6 of #BriarthorneUni. I need a good board wipe to set the stage for new stories

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Bonnie 🪷📚 @bonnie5913.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A book fell on my head. I can only blame my shelf. #booksky #books

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TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Queer Your e-Reader is live this Saturday (25th), courtesy of @divinationhollow.bsky.social! Reading queer titles and listening to queer voices has never been more vital - and I'm happy to say that HUMMINGBIRD will be free all weekend, along with many other awesome stories Mark your calendars!

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Queer Your eReader — Divination Hollow Reviews

Queer Your eReader is a book blast event taking place on 25th January, 2025, hosted by Divination Hollow Reviews.

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Transgender fantasy book rec of the day A trans girl joins a women-only coven of witches. She learns magic, makes friends and fights against an evil blight, but she worries what would happen if the coven discovers she was born a boy I love this witchy coming of age story! #booksky #queerbooksky 🪐📚

Front cover of The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy. Illustration of a skull inside an intricate golden cage, with foliage emanating from it and climbing up the sides and filling the top of the image

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

20 books that influenced you in 20 days; covers only. Day 3 #booksky💙📚 #booksky

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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Nor am I!

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Part One done ✔️ 40k words (oops) ✔️ #BriarthorneUni Book Three comes out in May 2025!

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Aster Vaughn | Author @astervaughn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

When you're halfway through writing book 3 so making the outline of book 4 comes more naturally (plz brain let me work on one project at a time) #justauthorthings

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profiterole-reads @profiterole-reads.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Much love for the whole Cute Mutants series! <3

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kylosten.bsky.social @kylosten.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Share more books with trans MCs by trans authors? Don't mind if I do. If you take the fungal zombie premise of The Last of Us but make the story focused on a group of adults (and a dog) you'd have this book. It's a solid start to the series! #Booksky 📚💙 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚 #SciFi #LGBTQIABooks 🌈📚

A left hand holds a digital tablet with the cover for How We End by LM Juniper.
It shows a ruined city scape with two people facing away from the camera.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

my fairytale short story and my magician short story haven’t sold all month but are currently on ✨SAAAALE✨ so mayhaps check them out 🥺👉👈 FINAL ACT: mybook.to/H6oGDdB FINGERTIPS: mybook.to/WDd0F [ 🧡🦄📚 ] [ 🌈📚 ] [ 💙📚 ]

kindle cover for fire at her fingertips by rebecca crunden; picture is of a hand holding flames

cover for the final act of jonas black by rebecca crunden; shows a faceless figure in a hat with glasses, black and white colour scheme

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