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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy birthday to Tommy Fairfield! Book 2 "Winging It" is a queer YA portal fantasy romance. Cover artist: @pinkpiggy93 Published by @renaissancebookpress Art in top left square by @talhibriones Universal book link: www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt

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River City Siren Press @rivercitysiren.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Book giveaway! Comment here to enter. Feel free to comment on our other socials for more entries. ❤️ #bookgiveaway #giveaway

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Ah, so that's how it would work. Might I suggest North Island-Powell River? Aaron Gunn doesn't deserve to represent Canada.

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Just letting fellow New Yorkers know that you can get access to Mango through your library card!!! FREE!!!! and it is a better language learning program!!

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I loved this book! Thank you for giving me a chance to read and blurb it, @kamielke.bsky.social! Made me feel like a real author(TM)!

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🌈 Do you or someone you know have an May queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by April 27th! (No AI books or covers) Include: -title & author (& series name) -release date -link to the cover or the cover image We will be adding these to our new release list! 🏳️‍🌈

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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Hedge Wizardly 🌱🌈 @hedgewizardly.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We are ZEBRING! to see so many friends of the con nominated for this year's Aurora Awards! www.csffa.ca/awards-infor... Congratulations to S.M. Bieko, @kercoby.bsky.social, David Clink, @geoffreywcole.bsky.social, @andregeleynse.com, @kateheartfield.com, @ourmankoto.bsky.social ...

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Having a long memory sucks. Because it means having to watch shitty people in the field crop up repeatedly. Finally looked at the full Aurora list and René Walling is back to conrunning? René who is, unless something changed in the last decade, still banned from Readercon for life. ->

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We are still dealing with the fallout of Harris decades later If PP is elected and allowed to do this at a critical moment for Canada, this country may *never* recover

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Gift article - ‘Buy Canadian’ movement could add $10 billion annually to Canada’s economy, says BMO economist www.thestar.com/business/buy...

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thought… 🐆💀

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's the Ace Day of Visibility and my big ace monster novel just got nominated for the Hugo for Best Novel! When I poured my soul into this, I never imagined how many people it would touch. Thank you all so, so much.

The Hugo announcement of Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell for Best Novel

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Rainbow Crate @rainbowcrate.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this April? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"Winging It" is a queer YA portal fantasy romance. A wedding and a summer camp that Tommy and Carter are never going to forget. The only way they, and their relationship, can survive is if they start Winging It! Cover artist: @pinkpiggy93.bsky.social UBL: www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If you're boycotting AMZ, but still want to buy/read books: please, have a look at whether the relevant big publisher/small press/indie author sells direct This month and last is hitting everyone's book sales hard, and all of us - trad, small press & indie alike - still need to pay our bills :)

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We're eligible for a bunch of nominations. (Only Canadians can nominate, I'm afraid.) How do you nominate? Go to this website: www.csffa.ca/members-home/ Join, pay membership fee Nominate up to 5 works per category www.csffa.ca/members-home...

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'm not saying I have a favourite character, but somebody shares my birthday... Top corner art by @talhi.bsky.social Middle and bottom art by @pinkpiggy93.bsky.social "Crushing It" available now, "Winging It" available in pre-order (even on Kobo+ !) www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-CrushingIt

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Melinda M. Snodgrass @melindas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This has me shaking with rage. I have an autoimmune disease. I get the Covid booster ever 6 months. Viruses mutate, evolve so the vaccines have to evolve too and this asshole is stopping that research & development.

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Got my voter's card today, but thankfully you don't need it to go vote! Grab ID with your address and you're good to vote! Go do it if you haven't already!

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Addendum: if IRL hockey starting having gay romances between the players, I would watch. Probably.

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Okay ads, pay attention. Yes, I read hockey romance. No, I don't watch hockey. I do not want ads for hockey unless it is in fiction book form with romance. Got it?

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Desiree DuBois, Author @desireeduboisbooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Back cover art for "I Knew I Loved You", published by @rivercitysiren.bsky.social this July 2025!! Art by @pinkpiggy93.bsky.social Yes I'm drawing this out! Want to see the cover art sooner? Share this and tag me!

Warm lighting illuminates a cozy living room couch with 3 pillows

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Love this! Listened to it while I was editing images.

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

@ericdesmarais.bsky.social and I had a lot of fun (and sold well!) at @robertplantegreen.bsky.social's book fair this past weekend. Here's hoping they do another one!!

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Desiree DuBois, Author @desireeduboisbooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Initial sketch by @pinkpiggy93.bsky.social of my cover "I Knew I Loved You" Are you already dying over the gorgeousness? I can't even breathe. Published by @rivercitysiren.bsky.social this July!!

A sketch of three people, two men and a woman, cuddled together on a couch.

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Kate Mathos | Author @katemathos.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hi friends! I had the pleasure of doing an interview for Indie Author Book Spotlight! It was so fun! Check it out below #booksky 💙📚

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This afternoon I did Arts and Crafts in preparation for the book fair at @robertplantegreen.bsky.social on Sunday February 23, 10-3. Can't wait!!

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"Winging It" is a queer YA portal fantasy romance. Cover artist: @pinkpiggy93.bsky.social Universal book link: www.jeneric-designs.ca/UBL-WingingIt

A white teen boy playing guitar stands in front of a mixed race teen boy looking at the other with adoration. Behind them is a ruin of a building, and in the pink sky is a dome with a city.
The entire image is laid out like Netflix, with the summary of the book on the left side.

Other books similar to "Winging It" are listed here, including Heartstopper, Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, and Losing Hit Points.

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hey, need some queer magic? Right now—and until the end of April—you can nab my collection of queerly-retold holiday tales (including the newest Village holiday romance, "Folly") on audio for *half off*! Also? @gianster98.bsky.social and @hschooner.bsky.social are legit magic. 💙📚🏳️‍🌈

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Holiday tales, retold queerly… A silk hat turns snow into life and a chance at love for a man with little hope of either. Two men with a connection sparked in passing attempt to withstand ever...

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

ONTARIANS: In a move taken straight out of the Republican playbook, Doug Ford has made it harder to vote. You MUST register to vote even if you a) have voted before and b) haven't moved - and you only have until the 17th to do it Go to elections.on.ca to register 1/2

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Finished the short story "Snow Day" with Tommy and Carter, and submitted it to @rivercitysiren.bsky.social . It's so cute and fluffy. Like snow. Full circle, see what I did there?

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Jen Desmarais, Author (she/her) @jendesmaraisauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ew I just got a text from the CPC. As if I'm going to a rally for that sniveling radish.

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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Put this another way... Mob money and organized crime (plus PC party leadership race fuckery) put Ford in office, via Vaughan Working Families. (Another RCMP "investigation" you'll never hear about again.) In power, they rewrote Ontario's laws to make sure they would remain in office forever.

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Roan | S&T Rewrite: 144/145k @faindriart.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hi, I'm Roan, a transmasc writer & artist currently focused on writing an epic fantasy novel series with prominent trans and queer characters. 🐺 Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/FaindriArt Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/faindriart Art Commissions: faindriart.carrd.co#commissions

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My birthday is the 16th of February (this coming weekend!) and I shall be 32! 🥰 So if anyone wants to buy my books or toss a coffee at me (sorry, not literally this time 😉) then this is the perfect week to do so! 🎂🎁🎊 mah books: linktr.ee/rjcrunden coffeeeeee: ko-fi.com/rjcrunden

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