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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 05/10/2026

Adelaide always knew she wanted more than the life of a Marquis' daughter or a nobles wife. She forgot to be more specific when asking for more... f.mtr.cool/6vp798hql5 #Booksky #Backerkit #IndieAuthor #Fantasy #Bookish

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The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026 @the-book-bazaar.com · 29/09/2026

It's 30 days until The Book Bazaar 2026 launches... We have 35+ HUMAN authors funding! YOU can help! You can!! Here are some ways: 📚 Support your favorites (back them) 💙 Share Bazaarian campaign posts! (Spread the word!) 🎉 Join us for launch night live, nightly streams, and #TBBChat (Saturdays)

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William C. Tracy @wctracy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's time for Space Wizard Year 5, part 2! Our campaign to fund 8 new queer science fiction and fantasy books starts October 29, as part of The Book Bazaar! Follow for author interviews and more cool stuff! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 5, part 2!

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My next vampire anthology, LOVELY TERRORS, launches on BackerKit 1 month from today! Follow now for sneak peeks and launch reminders, and check out all the amazing projects in The Book Bazaar! tinyurl.com/lovely-terrors @backerkit.com

Launching soon on BackerKit: Lovely Terrors, an Anthology of Vampiric Horror. Launching in one month!

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SharrOne And Only Photography 🪶 @sharronephoto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌲 COVER REVEAL 📖 Shuttered Stanzas Vol 3 launches in just one month with The Book Bazaar! Follow a journey into the woods, pairing photography with sonnets about quests, wandering, and everything we find along the way. October 29. Pack snacks. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Hero image for the BackerKit page of Shuttered Stanzas Vol 3. Features this year's cover art - pale and pastel greens and lots of florals. Even caught a bumblebee on film for the cover.

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 29/09/2026

One month remains until #BookBazaar26 On October 29th, I'll take you on another adventure with The Forgotten Princess, the highly-anticipated sequel to The Backwards Knight. You do not want to miss out on the next installment of my Eldritch Remnants series. You can help bring it to life. #Booksky

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The Forgotten Princess - Eldritch Remnants Book 2

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Arledge Comics 🏳️‍🌈 🪶 @arledgecomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📚 ONE MONTH TO GO! 🐾 Adorable Assistants: Tails Behind the Art launches on @backerkit.com in just one month as part of @the-book-bazaar.com! Comics. Art. Animal assistants. Creative chaos. Extremely questionable levels of supervision. Save the date: October 29 📑 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

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Adorable Assistants - Tails Behind the Art

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 29/09/2026

I prefer paperbacks so I can read them easier on the go. That being said, if the hardcover is *super nice*, that's what I want.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 29/09/2026

On Oct 29th, come with me on another wild ride for a new novella: The Gone Machine 🤖 Follow depressed cyborg Sylvan as he gets adopted by bots, struggles with regret/grief, gets his dream chance at fashion design, & cements his place in the robot resistance. #TGM #IndieAuthor #TheMachines

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The Gone Machine: Coming October 2026!

From Aimee Cozza Illustration - The Gone Machine: Coming October 2026!

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 28/09/2026

I've got a funky hip from tearing my ACL when I was a kid, resulting in a life of walking a little weird to avoid pain, and I'll say that one of the best daily stretches I do are side lunges. I don't stay in the pose, I move back and forth going lower each time and it keeps (some) of the pain at bay

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 26/09/2026

Hello readers of #BookSky and #Booktok! Are you looking for a new indie author to follow? A teller of tales both fantastical and horrific? If so you've come to the right place. If not? Stick around and follow along and you might just realize you were meant to be here this entire time.

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Emil Bronze - Heart of Oak @tangurple.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heart of Oak is a single year in a world tens of thousands years old. So why now? Well a tree god has returned from the dead and no one knows why One does wonder though, what will he do next? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e... #WritingCommunity #Promosky #Bookish #BookSky #WriteSky #Amwriting

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FANTASY NOVEL BY EMIL BRONZE
HEART OF OAK
OAKENGROVE
FALCHER RANDELL
RODERICK FRANCO
HELSMOUTH
SIMADGER
HOW DOES A WORLD RECOVERING FROM CATASTROPHIC LOSS, RESPOND TO THE RESURRECTION OF AN OLD-WORLD DEITY?
FOLLOW OAKENGROVE, A REBORN TREE-GOD, AS HE NAVIGATES A WORLD THATIS TERRIFIED OF HIS RETURN, TO REDISCOVER HIMSELF AND BECOME
THE FATHER OF THE FOREST.

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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can we get 2 more follows today? Fire and Feathers is a gay villain x superhero slow burn grump x sunshine romance! Expect lots of banter, snark, revenge, and some kissing! #tbb26 #bookbazaar26 #books #backerkit #queerbooks www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

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Fire and Feathers

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 22/09/2026

We are 37 days away from the launch of #BookBazaar26. What does that mean? That means in a little over a month you'll be able to throw your love and support at #TheForgottenPrincess to help bring it to life. I would love YOUR HELP! I'd love to hit 50, or even 69, maybe even 100, by launch.

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The Forgotten Princess - Eldritch Remnants Book 2

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Kit Author @kitauthor.com · 22/09/2026

I am 👀 for 2 more followers (more would be nice) for my cozy adjacent fantasy featuring a scuba diving cat, a shark army, and mythology (both human and feline). Can you help get me across the (pre-launch) finish line? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #TBB2026 #Cozy #Fantasy #Cats 💙📚🐈🪐

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Becoming Neptune's Cat: A Feline Cozy-Adjacent Fantasy

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 14/09/2026

Friends: This is it. This is the cover! Design: @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social It was revealed in the Night Beats newsletter a couple weeks ago. I'm showing it to you here too. Attis & Aleph will be offered in the #BookBazaar26 on BackerKit which starts Oct. 29. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Attis & Aleph by Tucker Lieberman. There are violets around the ampersand in the title. Everything else is in black-and-white: a Sphinx with white wings and an Art Deco head.

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 10/09/2026

Today we’re excited to host a cover reveal for A Feast for the Void by @spookyxpickle.bsky.social, one of three poetry collections in the Fistfuls of Poetry Backerkit campaign launching as part of @the-book-bazaar.com this October by Pickle Jar Press: www.readindiefantasy.com/cover-reveal...

A banner image for the cover reveal of A Feast for the Void. The background shows a giant hand holding an open book in a forest with a blurry version of the cover.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 08/09/2026

That being said, @laurenobrienauthor.bsky.social, I would love to developmental and line edit your next book for no charge. As a Canadian indie author, I'm here to support other Can Indie authors. You have a story to tell and it's honestly getting lost in the sauce.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 08/09/2026

I read Tide Bound this past weekend. I love a swashbuckling romance, which is what this book promised. There is a great story here. But at 599 pages, that story got lost in repetition, backtracking, and inconsistent characters. I'm going to do a full video review when I have a chance. #booksky

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 04/09/2026

Spent some time yesterday taking promo photos for my upcoming novel, Thistles and Thorns. Come join me while I edit the photos and talk about my book! #booksky #indieauthor #canadian #sapphicromance

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HeartThistle - Live on Twitch

Photo Editing! | Streaming art.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 02/09/2026

He thought the marsh was only water. He was wrong. Saltwrought unspools a haunting M/M fantasy where a widower and a finfolk test what they're willing to lose for obsession. Warning: this is not a romance. #booksky #indieauthor #horror #fantasy #QueerBooks

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 26/08/2026

My newest project, a gothic sapphic fairytale fantasy, is on Backerkit! The rest of my novels (also mostly queer fantasy) are available at my website (katebutlerbooks.ca) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

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Thistles & Thorns

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 25/08/2026

They don't care about the residents protesting. They don't care that they'll drive coyotes and deer into the city. They don't care that they're destroying endangered plants. All they care about is money.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 25/08/2026

All that undeveloped area is currently field and forest containing endangered plants and a lot of local wildlife. Qualico is going to rip it all out and build tightly packed houses in an area that lacks the infrastructure to support it.

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 20/08/2026

Have you heard the good word, baby birds? There's ANOTHER forgotten princess lurking out there, and one that needs YOUR help! #BookBazaar26 project for Thistles and Thorns just earned its tophat, but needs MORE followers. Can you be a hero and follow along? #Booksky, check it out! #TBB2026

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Thistles & Thorns

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 20/08/2026

I'm so close guys!!! If you like fairytales, ghost stories, and sapphic love, you'll probably really enjoy Thistles and Thorns!

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 19/08/2026

Adeline has always had a rebellious spirit, which has only doubled as her wedding to a philandering fiance approaches. When a little anarchy goes too far, she flees into the Woods, knowing those who enter don't return. A sapphic fairytale for fans of Crimson Peak and Beauty and the Beast (1740).

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 19/08/2026

Are you queer? Are you here for the queers? Do you just like women kissing each other? Good news! I'm writing a book where two beautiful women kiss each other (after many chapters)! It's dark! It's gothic! It's full of whimsy! Check out my Backerkit! #TheBookBazaar26 #TBB #BookSky #Fantasy

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Thistles & Thorns

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 18/08/2026

REVERSE TROPE TIME! Thistles & Thorns definitely has Too Many Beds, but any other would be spoilers 😜🤗 #BookBazaar26 #TBB #Backerkit #NewRelease #FantasyNovel #BookSky

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

the most annoying thing about stupid book marketing is that you know most of the time the author doesn’t want to be doing this either. they also don’t want to be up there telling you their book is like [popular thing] mixed with [popular thing] and contains [ao3 tag] [ao3 tag] and [vague aesthetic]

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Spooky Pickle 🧚‍♀️Beware the Fairy Seasons🧚‍♂️ @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I can see you're hungry. Not just for food, though. You're hungry for #books Well I know a guy. And some women. And some enbies. And all those in between and beyond. And they've got some books cookin'. And they're all part of the #BookBazaar26. Check em out! #booksky go.bsky.app/SXEmk3N

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Kit Author @kitauthor.com · 10/08/2026

Can you help me get a (virtual) top hat? Do you love cats? Do you love sharkey sharks? How about shark mages and a shark army? Too much? No problem, Orains will protect you. I need 5 more followers paw-lease! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #BookBazaar2026 #Fantasy #Cats #Booksky 💙📚🪐🐈🦈

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Becoming Neptune's Cat: A Feline Cozy-Adjacent Fantasy

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 09/08/2026

If you like: - Lost kingdoms - Sapphic Slow-Burn romance - gothic horror You'll probably really enjoy my novel, Thistles & Thorns!

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 08/08/2026

I have a Backerkit going for my new book, Thistles & Thorns. Do you like Crimson Peak? Do you like Beauty and the Beast? You'd probably like Thistles & Thorns! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #TBB #TheBookBazaar #BookSky #Horror #Fantasy #Queer

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 30/07/2026

Do you like: - Fae - Ruined Kingdoms - Cursed Forests - Women Taking Back Their Power - Slow-Burn Sapphic Romance - A Little Horror Then you'll probably enjoy Thistles & Thorns! Follow my Backerkit to get updates on the launch! #BookSky #Fiction #Sapphic #TBB www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 28/07/2026

I don't post nearly enough but I'm tryyinggggg!! I'm part of a super cool group this year for launching our new books! The Book Bazaar on Backerkit! Please see the link below & check out my cohorts as well! Psst! If you follow, you get the first chapter free! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 29/10/2025

booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... Casually dropping a link to sign up to ARC read my upcoming novel. If you like gay romance, a knight in love with his lord, and lovers torn apart by war, you'll probably like this. #arcreaders #newrelease #booksky #indieauthor

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Oath

A lord in a gilded cageA knight forged in war.An oath that binds them tighter than chains.Lord Aerion Valemont is everything the court whispers; vain, venom-tongued, and untouchable in his sapphires...

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 03/09/2025

Did you know that I write erotic short fiction? Of course you don't! I do it under a (read:multiple) pen name(s). Anyway, I guess I should advertise myself once in awhile. A fresh one up today. a.co/d/5iFHQkI

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Bride of Folly eBook : Farawke, Selane: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 03/08/2025

I'm really bad at remembering to promote my own work but Blue Door Café came out on July 1st! #BlueDoorCafe #NewBookRelease #QueerRomance #ComingOfAge #Booksky #TransLoveStory #IndieBookRecs #CozyReads #FoundFamily #HeartfeltFiction #BookishVibes Cover by Kamaji Studio

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 25/07/2025

The wonderful and strange Lord Selane of Farawke I got to play at LARP last weekend. He is a delightfully debaucherous writer and sole heir to the Farawke estate. #larp #nonbinary #crossplay #canadianlarp

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 20/05/2025

Hopefully not too gauche to post that I'm looking for ARC readers for my queer Canadian new adult romance. booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... #queer #newadultromance #arcreader #cozyromance #newadultfiction

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 26/04/2025

I'm thankful to now have friends that I can check in with and they'll tell me when they're upset or reassure me when they're not. Check in with your friends. Be honest with your feelings. Communicate. That's the only way to have healthy relationships.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 26/04/2025

I can't know unless I'm told. I've always been in favour of talking about things, but that hasn't always been reciprocated. I have ASD, ADHD, and BPD. I have trouble catching social cues and big abandonment issues. I need reassurance in relationships that they don't hate me. They want me around.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 26/04/2025

A friend in MB had been secretly building anger and resentment for years without ever saying anything to me about it until one day she stopped talking to me. I stopped posting in a group chat and no one in that group chat ever posted there again. When I'm the common factor I know I'm the problem,

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 26/04/2025

When I moved to AB, my friends said they were glad I left so they didn't have to pretend to like me anymore. They only put up with me bc I had more money. In HS, a girl became a close friend just to get close to my BF (who she was stalking). Anyway, here's a rough ref for my MC in Blue Door Café.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 23/04/2025

I think I got bored halfway through and gave up. Sometimes that happens. I'm allergic to chicken and ate some tonight and I'm suffering for it. #artsky #digitalart #originalcharacter #oc

A drawn portrait of a noble young woman with wavy brown hair pulled back into a fancy hairdo. She has striking green eyes and wears a necklace of small pearls. She's wearing a dark purple dress with white lace accents and a crystal brooch.

An unfinished drawn portrait of a noble young woman with wavy brown hair pulled back into a fancy hairdo. She has striking green eyes. She's wearing a dark purple dress.

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HeartThistle @katebutlerbooks.ca · 21/04/2025

Like a cat, I would nap for most of the day if I could. Anyway, finished the piece from yesterday. Princess Matilde from a novel I'm working on. #digitalart #art #oc

A portrait of a young woman with hazel eyes and long silver hair. She's wearing a dark green. medieval style gown with gold trim and an opal brooch

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