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Author Danielle Forrest

@danielleforrest.bsky.social
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Neurodivergent and queer author writing alien romance. There will be spice. There will be action. There will be cursing. Get free books/early access: www.danielleforrest.com Join my review team: forms.gle/8SFeTWJv7VmytJse8

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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love how Jess and Davin have to navigate the implications of fated mates together; they are a great match. There is wonderful adventure and the supporting cast are vibrant characters. I can't wait to read more of their stories. -M. Purcell on Amazon 🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love how Jess and Davin have to navigate the implications of fated mates together; they are a great match. There is wonderful adventure and the supporting cast are vibrant characters. I can't wait to read more of their stories. -M. Purcell on Amazon 🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I love how Jess and Davin have to navigate the implications of fated mates together; they are a great match. There is wonderful adventure and the supporting cast are vibrant characters. I can't wait to read more of their stories. -M. Purcell on Amazon 🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
You know you wanna... 😉 #alienromance 📚🌶️ #booksky 📚🌈 www.theeternalscribe.com/shop/matched...
Image of Matched to the Alien Workaholic book cover surrounded by arrows pointing to it.  The arrows say:

-Veteran FMC
-Bisexual FMC
-Meddling Loved Ones
-Only One Bed
-Forced Proximity
-Matching Service
-Available in eBook, Paperback, and Hardcover formats.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Of course, I've already opted out.
Book catalog > Manage AI settings

Configure global AI capabilities for your catalog. These settings act as your catalog-wide default. You can override preferences for individual titles at the book level or use the CSV upload template.

Enable Book insights?

Generate recaps with "Catch me up" or ask the AI assistant questions about the content of the book. Only available for select languages and content types. Learn more.

Image gives an option for Yes or No.  No is selected.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
More AI shenanigans. Google just sent out an email to authors about "Book Insights." Fortunately, they make it easy to opt out. See instructions below. It goes live July 6. #writer #writercommunity #booksky
What if I don’t want to enable Book insights?
We recommend that you try out the feature in one of the free-of-charge books to see the reader's experience.If you decide not to enable Book insights, you can opt out in your Partner Center at the title level or at the account level. This setting is in the Partner Center, Book Catalog →Advanced Settings. Note: If a title is enabled for Book insights and a user purchases it, and you subsequently opt out the title, the user will still be able to use Book insights in the title. However, any future purchases after your opt-out would not include Book insights.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“Civilized invaders”. Well ain’t that an oxymoron. #booksky #readersky 📚🌶️
Passage from a book resting on someone’s lap. 

“…who've followed her in there over the past few months, wanting nothing more than to tear apart any civilized invaders..."

But apparently, there was now one person in the world whom e
Count couldn't intimidate...
Which meant that Felix had just discovered exactly where to run.
He only had to find a way in.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Want a fun short read (novella-length)? Involves: -Meddlesome family/boss -matchmaking service -bisexual veteran -only one bed trope -a warrior's honeymoon planet www.theeternalscribe.com/shop/matched...
Image of Matched to the Alien Workaholic book cover on tablet.

Beside it reads:
Now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, Google, Smashwords, Direct, and more.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ever have someone set you up on a blind date? Well at least you didn't end up on a warrior honeymoon planet... #alienromance 📚🌶️ #booksky 📚🌈
Cover of Matched to the Alien Workaholic.

"Now on Pre-Order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, Google, Smashwords, Direct, and more."
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I love how Jess and Davin have to navigate the implications of fated mates together; they are a great match. There is wonderful adventure and the supporting cast are vibrant characters. I can't wait to read more of their stories. -M. Purcell on Amazon 🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Only a couple more weeks until the official launch of my next book! Also, if you're wanting to get it early, it releases on my website on the 17th (a full 2 weeks early!). #alienromance 📚🌶️. 📚🌈. #booksky
Cover image of Matched to the Alien Workaholic surrounded by phrases with arrows pointing to it:

-Veteran FMC
-Bisexual FMC
-Meddling Loved Ones
-Only One Bed
-Forced Proximity
-Matching Service
-Available in eBook, Paperback, and Hardcover formats
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Want a fun short read (novella-length)? Involves: -Meddlesome family/boss -matchmaking service -bisexual veteran -only one bed trope -a warrior's honeymoon planet #alienromance 📚🌶️ 🌈📚
Cover of Matched to the Alien Workaholic.

"Now on Pre-Order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, Google, Smashwords, Direct, and more."
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As a neurodivergent person in science... sounds valid. #autism #science #vaccines
Quote by Christopher Penn @cspenn:

Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Okay, ProWritingAid, this is kind of epically bad. Lol. #amediting #writer
Highlighted: wasn’t 

In ProWritingAid popup window:

Better phrase is possible
-> wasthere n’t
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I love how Jess and Davin have to navigate the implications of fated mates together; they are a great match. There is wonderful adventure and the supporting cast are vibrant characters. I can't wait to read more of their stories. -M. Purcell on Amazon 🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
lol. 📚🌶️ #booksky #readersky
Say You'll Remember Me
I could smell the kitten. It smelled like her. Like flowers.
"Are you keeping it?" I asked.
She leaned on the exam table. "I mean, yeah. You don't turn down the cat distribution system."
The corner of my lip twitched.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
ProWritingAid really hates it when I curse... #amediting #writer
Screenshot from ProWritingAid, where it has highlighted "fuck's" to suggest that it get changed for a "better" phrase, "goodness".

Full sentence from screenshot: "He was a leader, for fuck's sake."
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Recently discovered this. Sounds pretty cool. #booksky 📚🌶️ #alienromance sfrswoon.com
Resistance is future... let these alien heroes take you away!

Get free & discounted sci-fi romance books at SFRSwoon.com!
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm participating in a promo through my subscription site. Check out a bunch of free romance reads: reamstories.com/library/mc0u... #booksky 📚🌶️
1 week of free books on Ream!

February 14-21, 2026
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Suspect the author might have a different interpretation. In the third image, this is a transcript of a video interview where he highlights a book cover of Lolita which sexualizes a young girl. In the fourth, he’s using a term from the book used against Lolita to refer to a real life girl.

“There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction and, despite John Ray's assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann.” [6[6] Vladimir Nabokov (1991) “The Annotated Lolita”, Ed. by Alfred Appel Jr., New York: Random HouseNABOKOV: “I have here, err- some, not all, some of the editions of- of Lolita. One of my favorite ones is that's- that's a very pretty edition I find, you- you have a here, you see, err- that's a French edition. And you have here, other side! Delightful French- French edition. This is beautiful, that is, Dutch edition, isn't it nice? Beautifully done! Absolutely charming! Dutch.”Here's a line Nabokov wrote about the first time he saw photographs of Sue Lyon, the girl who would go on to play ‘Lolita’ in Kubrick's film adaptation.”

NABOKOV: “My final meeting with Kubrick must have taken place on September 25, 1960, at his house in Beverly Hills: he showed me that day photographs of Sue Lyon, a demure nymphet of fourteen or so ..."
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I love how Jess and Davin have to navigate the implications of fated mates together; they are a great match. There is wonderful adventure and the supporting cast are vibrant characters. I can't wait to read more of their stories. -M. Purcell on Amazon 🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Why am I not surprised? Anyway, please share and send a message using the link (or by other means) stating this is not okay. #ice action.aclu.org/send-message...
Don’t let Indiana target immigrant communities.

Stop senate bill 76
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Okay. I got home. It started out tidy at least.
Picture of a book shelf with books stacked all over.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I feel like this just exemplifies the reality when it comes to AI.
Screenshot of an AI public vote by DuckDuckGo showing 94% of 19,821 votes being against AI.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The answer to this riddle is supposed to be “the truth.” In what universe?! #booksky 🌶️📚
"I am a terror many try to hide.
I am a secret that no one will find.
1 am only used by the brave.
When issued properly, I will save.
1 am the source of everyone's strife.
If you wield me wrong, 1 will cut like a knife.
What am I?"
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
It is literally warmer in Antarctica right now.
Screenshot of weather app showing local current temp of 23F and low of -4FScreenshot of Antarctic temps, most of which are higher than here.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Omg. 😆 📚🌶️ #booksky #paranormalromance
““OK, what in the fucking pod people is this shit?” Coll drew closer, peering at my face with exaggerated concern. “Who the hell are you, and where is my bestie?””

— Grin and Bear It (Ursa Shifters Book 3) by Sam Hall
https://a.co/8to4Uk6
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Okay, I just checked. Metricool can schedule IG stories.
A screenshot of the Metricool Create a post screen showing the ability to post to IG stories.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Most of my ebooks are available as part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! Find your next favorite book this month at smashwords.com/sale and follow @smashwords for more promos like this! #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks #alienromance 📚🌶️ #booksky
Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale
smashwords.com/sale
eBooks discounteed between 25-100% off 
Dec 8-Jan 1
Shop the Sale
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I feel like this is high praise. My dad usually takes like weeks to months to read a book. #booksky 📚🌶️ #alienromance
Text messages from my dad. First a cover of my book then a message saying, “Finished this book in like a day!”
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I am starting to get traction on Kobo! Woot! #author
Screenshot from Kobo dashboard showing $3.35 in royalties.Screenshot of Kobo Plus dashboard showing $1.40 in royalties for October and $8.80 for the year.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Surpassed 300 followers AND it's a palindrome. Makes my nerdy heart happy. :-)
Screenshot of my profile page on BlueSky, showing 303 followers.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The things women pull out of their skirts in this series… #booksky #monsterromance 🌶️📚
“I couldn’t help but eye the burly woman who just pulled a full ax out of her skirt.”

— That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps Book 2) by Kimberly Lemming
https://a.co/eJAF00I
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Three guesses what the character is referring to. lol. #booksky 📚🌶️ #monsterromance
““What can I say? I’m sustained by the souls of the damned.””

— That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps Book 2) by Kimberly Lemming
https://a.co/8ibz9NB
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
40 million people, including children, have lost their SNAP benefits. I just donated. Have you?
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This author bio made me laugh. #booksky
Cover jacket for book. Has picture of a blonde woman. Beneath it says, “Samantha Downing lives in the Bay Area and is currently working on her next book.”
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Lesson 2 Bonus Challenge. A couple tennis balls. One ended up kind of egg shaped but oh well.
Drawing of two tennis balls.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Working on lessons from “You can draw in 30 days” by Mark Kistler Sorry some of the images are seeing bleed through from page behind it.
Drawing of house, donut with sprinkles and airplaneDrawing of sphere with cast shadowDrawing of Apple Drawing of overlapping spheres.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We're approaching the final days to support this great bundle (and a great deal). $5 for 3 books OR $25 for all 11. All these books are SciFi/Fantasy from Indianapolis authors. storybundle.com/magic #booksky 🪐📚
Pink fuzzy circle in middle of image that says "Circle City Magic Storybundle.com" with small pictures of the book covers included in the background.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
ProWritingAid trying to censor me... It thinks I should change "shit" to "stuff". Like fuck no. I can curse if I want to. #amediting
Screenshot from ProWritingAid.  "Shit" is underlined, indicating a suggestion.

"They were all covered with screens and dials and shit, giving him no information to calm his mind."  
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
lol #readersky 📚🌶️
“I’ve put a lot of work into maintaining this physique—mainly beer and pizza.”

— With A Little Luck by Jillian West
https://a.co/5c7irzW
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Another one of the books from the StoryBundle I'm participating in. "The perfect read for fantasy fans and animal lovers alike!" – Chelsea Bobulski, author of The Wood and Remember Me storybundle.com/magic #booksky 🪐📚
Cover image for Whisper of Weapons by Savannah J. Goins
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
One of the books from the StoryBundle I'm participating in. "…a triumph of a novel that demands to be experienced more than once." – R. Dugan, author of A Story Spun in Scarlet storybundle.com/magic #booksky #romantasy
Author is holding up a copy of their book, Smoke and Light, while standing behind a table stacked with the same book.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Conversely…
Read state
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Look at all those beautiful book covers.   Doesn't it make you want to collect them all?  🥰 storybundle.com/magic #booksky 📚🌶️  🪐📚
Image of 11 book covers:

Whisper of Weapons by Savannah J. Goins
The Gwythienian by Savannah J. Goins
Smoke and Light by Kristin Ardis
That Girl Who Ran Off and Kissed a Vampire by K. R. S. McEntire
Alice and the Voodoo Queen by K. R. S. McEntire
Suspended in the Stars by E. A. Hendryx
Shifting Cargo by Danielle Forrest
Mila's Shift by Danielle Forrest
Argent's Menagerie by Christopher Clouser
The Lost Legends by Cait Marie
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm in a StoryBundle! #booksky  📚🌶️  🪐📚 storybundle.com/magic
Local Author Book Sale

Seven Authors
Eleven Books
One StoryBundle
Choose-Your-Price

Storybundle.com/magic

Support Independent and Small Press Authors in Indianapolis
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Help support some local Indianapolis authors (and save some money).   $5 for 3 books OR $25 for 11 books #booksky  📚🌶️  🪐📚 storybundle.com/magic
Local Author Book Sale

Seven Authors
Eleven Books
One StoryBundle
Choose-Your-Price

Storybundle.com/magic

Support Independent and Small Press Authors in Indianapolis
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If this is actually kobo, I'm kind of fascinated that I'm one of the top 42 people they decided to follow on here... And if it's a scammer, I'm kind of fascinated that I'm one of the top 42 people they decided to follow on here... #writer
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Sadie so desperately wants to chase a squirrel right now…
My dog intently focused on the squirrel on the back porch.
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Author Danielle Forrest @danielleforrest.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Things are about to get spicy. #alienromance #booksky 📚🌶️ reamstories.com/page/lgcjnfv...
“And now all we can do is wait.”  Scottie was now doing something intentional with his gaze, though Van couldn’t quite figure out what.
“Well, I suppose we could try to barricade the door more.  Or do something to temporarily disable the plant.”
Scottie scoffed and rolled his eyes.  “My God, Van, you can be so dense.”  He lifted his other arm, slapping the object into Van’s hand.  “I’m trying to seduce you.”
Van’s brain stuttered to a halt, and he looked down, seeing the object Scottie had put there.  It was a tube of something.  Made him think of a lotion container.  He lifted it, trying to make out the wording, but Scottie beat him to it.
“It’s lube, dumbass.  I want you to fuck my brains out.”
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