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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Meet PLAYING MARRIED, my nblw sapphic cont. romance - Publisher Jamie pays starving actor Luca to play the part of her fiance at a family retreat in order to properly inherit her family company, only to learn that it’s a marriage clause and Luca is now the only option - art: @queerente.bsky.social

two people drawn at the end of a spin. On the left is Jamie, a white woman with light brown hair wearing a floral dress and sandals. On the left is Luca, an Arab non binary person with dark hair in a bun wearing a tshirt, long pants, and boots

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Mars 🌟 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Pre-order campaign for my debut graphic novel HOLLOW MAGIC is live! Order from @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social or @alwaysherebooks.bsky.social for SIGNED/PERSONALIZED copies with 3 character cards! No other action required 💖 (1/2)

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Adelaide Cabernet (is Querying✨️) @addiecabwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE DEAF MAN’S GUIDE TO SEDUCING A SIREN 🐚 [MATE X TENTACLES & TRIATHLONS] After a lifetime of chasing people away with his siren song, Jasper never expected to meet a human he wanted to keep. 🧜‍♂️ Siren x HoH Surfer 🌊 Dual 3rd POV 🏄‍♂️ Tangled Vibes #QueerPit #CR #R #PNR #A #Q #agentsguide #amquerying

A man on a surfboard turns away from the camera to look at a siren who is perched on rocks. Text reads: “The Deaf Man’s Guide to Seducing A Siren” and “An adult paranormal romance complete at 72k words”

The siren is back with a text block that reads: Determined to stay in affluent Sunset Cliffs, hard of hearing surfer Noah strikes a sugar agreement with standoffish siren Jasper, but when Jasper's dangerous and scorned would-be mate

The surfer returns with a text block that reads: “Tropes:billionaire/thief, Fast heat, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, Reformed playboy, monster fucking, Touch him and die, He wears his sweater

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

for the maybe two people who follow me and will see my posts today, I am participating in the pitch event QueerPit so there will be four identical posts total throughout the day :) art is by queerente on instagram!

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

PLAYING MARRIED | 85k words To solidify ownership of her company, Jamie hires struggling actor Luca to play her spouse, marriage papers included, but feelings don’t follow a contract—even when trying and failing at a real relationship could destroy both of their careers. #A #CR #QueerPit

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

can vouch for this, they’re pretty great at creating art you will want to stare at forever

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Linds (she/they) @lindsayrenee86.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Please add these books to your TBR!!

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

okay so fun fact when you’ve never seen art of your characters before, reading your book afterwards is like reading it in vivid technicolor (so…thanks @queerente.bsky.social)

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵 @trreadathon.bsky.social

About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to participate: read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community.

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

why on earth does every single machine calculate weight differently?? what is the point of PRs and such when it’s all useless the moment you’re somewhere else

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I officially have to shelf MTAS for a rewrite and that sucks, but I and grateful to my past self who wrote another book right after finishing that one because it means I’m right on track to try again without a large gap and I think that’s the best option there is

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

you have to read to write. a lot. Like you have to read way more than you write for your writing to be worth anything. there are zero exceptions to this

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

look I know building shoulders is really helpful for a masculine look but the joints are loose enough that I’m pretty sure I can mildly subluxate one at will so they do not care about this fact

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Planeta Diário @planetadiariodc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Relembrando essa arte magnífica sem nenhum motivo específico — por Daniel Warren Johnson.

ilustração do Absolute Batman enforcando um policial ICE

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I’ve officially started editing the second novel I drafted and guys I’m biased but also it’s kinda great like why am I so excited over my characters meeting for the first time?? I literally wrote the book

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

so what if I finished my current wip within the month? what then?

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

ah the joy of putting your current wip into a plotting document and realizing it does in fact fit very nicely and you didn’t accidentally pace it horribly

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

just so everyone knows, there is no serotonin boost like overwhelmingly positive beta reader feedback

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I’m officially in the beta reader stage…time to look at agents and hope people enjoy it (no worries this isn’t stressful at all or anything)

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

so I know that having your best friend tell you that your book is good means nothing in the professional world but knowing that someone liked it is still really exciting (she did have good notes for me and also doesn’t read romance much so my bsf is top tier actually)

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

making edits is actually so satisfying like I knew something was off and now someone told me what it is so I can fix it and it’s no longer annoying

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Linds (she/they) @lindsayrenee86.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Yes, i'm posting this everywhere, okay!! I commissioned Sarah @queerente.bsky.social for a drawing of Gene & Luis from KT Hoffman's The Prospects!! I adore it!! If you'd like to work with Sarah, check out their work & website here: www.sarahcorrente.com

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

as of a week ago, my second novel has been entirely drafted it went much faster than I thought and is a little short, but draft one is done

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

book 1 draft 2 is officially in the hands of my alpha readers this isn’t extremely terrifying (and also so exciting) or anything

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I’m at a gym (in a different state) and have officially outstayed every single man that came in when I was here it’s been like an hour but still

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jonny garza villa @jgv.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

being an author on Valentine’s Day is spending the day writing characters having their meet cute and getting some kisses while I myself get reminded paragraph by paragraph how single I am

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My neighbors are watching the superbowl so loudly my entire wall is vibrating I can hear it and also feel it in my brain. It’s literally shaking my spice rack I can hear every word coming out of his TV very clearly

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

writing dual pov is so fun because you get one character’s view talking about the things they like about the other character followed by the other character thinking they’ve immeasurably screwed up by doing something socially awkward and of course actually doing the thing the one character liked

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

being a writer is so ridiculous— what do you mean I’ve been too scared to write a chapter for the last few days bc I want it to be perfect it was my idea. I outlined it. I’m the only one who’s going to read the draft who is it supposed to be perfect for???

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

sometimes you get to do what you want and sometimes your muse takes the reigns and decides you’re going to write until it’s satisfied (5k words) and not read a single page all day I have to be up at five am tomorrow I’m going to sleep now

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One of the nice things about being an adult is that you can just incorporate your culture into your life without fanfare I made za’atar chicken for dinner. Just za’atar, olive oil and garlic on chicken and into the oven. Would it be in a middle eastern restaurant? Probably not

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This! My second novel is dual pov and I’m trying to make very specific choices about how they narrate from the beginning because they are very different people. It’ll obviously change as they grow and then when I edit but better to be aware early

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you saw me post this the first time, no you didn’t

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

meet Alex and Charlotte, the MC and LI of my first novel More Than A Showmance, now in the editing stage. Art by the brilliant @mmarsloud.bsky.social be sure to stick around to be part of the process as I query and/or to beta read in the future #queerbooksky #booksky

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Me at the gym, in between sets: *searching the library catalog* that is my vibe in a nutshell

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I agree. I love sci-fi but there are so few sci-fi romances. Can I write one? Probably not—I’m not STEM-minded enough for that—but I’ll take queer recs!

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I don’t know how people usually feel when they finish writing a novel but if it’s some combination of lost and feeling like they forgot something, I’m nailing it

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I read this (& loved it) and I think everyone else should too

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

maybe having a multitool is something we came up with in hive mind; I’ve got a Swiss Army knife

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hey I called it

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I can’t find any romances that have masc lesbian main characters with their masculinity as something to be loved and also who are disabled in some way I guess I’ll just be writing that into every book but until that, any recs?

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

reason no. 117 women should date masc lesbians instead of men: we have better forearm definition than the men you’re looking at

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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

NIGHTWING

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

getting to give my characters the things that they have always wanted is such an amazing feeling and I mean that in a romance author way, no one is being killed off here

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I genuinely forgot I have a deadname for a moment I got an email from my bank and was like who on earth is that and then realized that’s literally just my government legal name

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

it’s absolutely stunning! I’m so excited to read this book

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I kid you not there was this white guy in the gym just giving unsolicited advice first to the disabled man about Japanese experimental medicine then to me on my kickboxing technique — after I saw his bad kick form and told him I learned in high school and neither of us know who he was

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

my new physical therapist made an offhand reference to the fact that it’s “been a decade” of my chronic illness and I was about to correct her—because that would put me at middle school age—and then realized she was right

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Emerson Matir | Aspiring Author @emersonmatir.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

it’s time, once again, to very visibly be the youngest person in the doctor’s office waiting room

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