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Chel | Ink Drinker 📚 @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today is the last day of the #transrightsreadathon so here's a starter pack made by my friend @vcyarr.bsky.social 🥰🥰🥰 #booksky #bluesky go.bsky.app/VamK3SD

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Beck 🌈📚 (she/they) @becklovesbooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

An important message to share today as the @trreadathon.bsky.social comes to a close 💙📚🌈

Photo collage of trans rep books in the colour of the trans flag that says read trans books all year over it

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Library book of the day! I know nothing about it except it’s QUEER and there’s dragons and maybe an assassin? Don’t know - don’t care. I will continue to read all the queer library books I can get my hands on. I’ll let you know how this one is. Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha #booksky

Book cover of Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha featuring an hourglass with red sand on a background of flames

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Has anyone read House of Frank by Kay Sinclair? My brother passed away last year and I’m wondering if it will be healing or traumatic. #booksky

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Library Book of the day! The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon. Sapphic, YA Fantasy dealing with darker political, familial, religious and afterlife themes. Overall, a good read. 3.5 ⭐️

Cover of the Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon on a bookshelf. Cover depicts two crowns with roses.

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For absolutely no reason at all here’s a great indie book set in a post-apocalyptic world with a trans MC. @lmjuniper.bsky.social is also a gem you should be following. How We End by LM Juniper #booksky #indiebooksy

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

One of my favorite creators has a Bindery. Today we should all think about raising up BIPOC voices. This is a great way to do that. #booksky

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If you want a great coming of age story about a princess who doesn’t dream about a prince with some amazing humor. Check this out!

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’m mourning the loss of #booktok if I’m being honest. Some of my absolute best friends came from that space and I’ll miss the community more than I can say. I will still be championing our indie authors everywhere I can. #booksky #indiebooks

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So, fun fact. “Power Born” was in my first ever indie book haul. It helped start my whole love for indie authors. You should check it out.

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Feeling queer and cozy? I am! One chapter in to this gem by @jprindfleisch.bsky.social and I’m hooked. #booksky #audiobooksky

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I love reading for the season. And I’m cold today. So I’m continuing my read of The Winter Mage by @tjmuirauthor.bsky.social. So far, so great!! #booksky

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

One of my goals for 2025 is to finish more series I’ve started and loved. Some examples: The Curoria Chronicles by @emilyalmanza.bsky.social The Silver Locket Series by @kennedysutton.bsky.social Living Legend Trilogy by @allieshantewrites.bsky.social I loved the first books so much!

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This! Very few indie authors are on physical bookshelves anywhere. Don’t forget about them!

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 25/11/2024

Writers! If you're looking for a developmental edit on a SFF manuscript, I now have an extra spot open in February. You can learn more about me and what I edit by checking out the 🔗in bio or visiting cameronmontaguetaylor.com. #writesky #fantasywriters #queerwriters #indieauthor

“My background is in journalism, and editing in that field is all about correction: cutting what isn’t needed, fixing what is needed but doesn’t work. I entered into the developmental editing process thinking that’s what it was going to be like. But what I learned while working with Cee is that a good editor isn’t just trying to point out all your mistakes. A good editor begins with the question, “What are your goals with this book?”, and then works with you to help you achieve those specific goals. When Cee and I first connected, I explained to her that I wanted to use Frostbitten to introduce a world in which I could tell more stories. So when I got her edits back, every suggestion and comment she made was from the perspective of, “You are trying to do this, and I don’t think it’s coming across how YOU want it to.” If a piece of worldbuilding was important to me, even if it wasn’t absolutely crucial to the book, Cee didn’t tell me to cut it. She helped me find a way to weave it in so that it worked for the book. It was not only a process that helped me take huge leaps towards writing the book that I wanted to write, but it’s one that taught me the importance of knowing what your goals are with your writing. Not every story is trying to do the same thing. Some writers want to kick off a twelve-book edit. Some writers want to write the most commercially viable book for the market and sell as many copies as possible. Some writers just want to find an agent. An editor like Cee starts with understanding what you want to achieve, and helping you tell the best story possible that will help you get there. It was a hugely rewarding process, and my book will be light years better for having partnered with Cee.”

–Dietrich Stogner, author of Frostbitten
https://www.tiktok.com/@dietrichstogner

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Allie Shante @allieshantewrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The cover is here ✨

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José Orlando @orlandoreads.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

📚🌈 Hey! I started a queer book club on the @fableapp.bsky.social ! We'll be reading 1 queer book every month—mainly romance and fantasy, though I might mix it up now and then. We're kicking off in January with Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves. Come join me! 🥰❤️ fable.co/club/queer-a...

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Marshall J. Moore @marshalljmoore.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’m thrilled to announce that today is the release day for Enemy of the Empire, the third book in my Son of a Sailor series!! Captain Redbeard’s adventures continue as he searches for the legendary Valley of Gold alongside a band of unlikely allies. 🏴‍☠️

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It’s that time of year! Time for winter reads! Can I recommend one of my favorite reads of last year? A Hunt So Wild and Cruel by @rebeccafkenney.bsky.social is a spicy, fae, fantasy romance retelling of a Christmas Carol with a miserly young queen as our FMC. SO GOOD. #booksky

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’m not mad at this. 99% Indie Author support. Where’d I lose my 1%?! #booksky

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✨CM Aragon✨| Author @worldsofaragon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you've been considering giving The Call of Chaos a go, now is the time to take the leap! On sale for 99¢ for Black Friday (until 11/30)!! Get it here: a.co/d/dVAkGah #booksky📚💙👀 #bookcommunity #booksale

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Allie Shante @allieshantewrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Sale starts TODAY

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If YOU have a book or an item ON SALE for #BlackFriday, please put it here below and I'll share it. Support small business! Support authors! Support artists!

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I don’t know what’s better in Living Legend by @allieshantewrites.bsky.social - the tension during the sparring scenes or the banter! The audiobook gives it such oomph! #booksky

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My signed copy of The Griffin and the Rose arrived! This is a novella set between Parts One and Two of the Guileful Rose, a political fantasy by @emilyalmanza.bsky.social. I beta read it and absolutely love it.

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Bought new copies of my faves by @rebeccathorne.bsky.social to donate to a wonderful queer-owned used bookstore in Asbury Park, NJ. If you’re in the area go visit @wolfeandkronbooks.bsky.social!

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“Did you really have to make an obnoxious entrance?” Elise asked, the annoyance in her voice obvious. Reese scoffed. “You can just admit you’re impressed and feel inadequate.” I love the banter between these supporting characters in Living Legend by @allieshantewrites.bsky.social ! #booksky

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today is my birthday! And as my birthday present one of my favorite authors released a book today! Go check out Villains Like me by Kennedy Sutton. Congratulations @kennedysutton.bsky.social!

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Bell 📚🌈 @bellandherbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Currently listening to Living Legend by Allie Shante on Audible and loving it! Katrina Medina and Jacob Storm are perfection so far!

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