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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I disappeared for a while but I am back! And I also have a new audiobook available. The follow up to Love, Rebooted is called The Code of Love and once again features autistic representation, body positivity, and lots of your fave tropes like just one bed and a road trip. There’s also a bit of 🌶️ 😉

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I guess now's a good time to remind publishers that AI-generated material is not copyrightable. The author can use it to generate ideas, but the material must substantially be created by a human. So, good luck with making money off those 1,000 books a year.

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Emily Goss @barrowmember.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"Good #access should be the norm, not the exception. The Inklusion Guide is here to help with that: a free, kickass guide to making literature events accessible for #disabled people" Equally relevant for all event organisers. A #MustRead: useful, clear & important www.inklusionguide.org #Disability

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The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @autisticbooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Books with Autistic characters, written by Autistic authors. Published March 2025.

Graphic with text Books with Autistic Characters by Autistic Authors. Published March 2025. Displays the book covers for:

- A Summer with the Immortal by Paris Vivian
- Love, Rebooted by Katy Summers

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📚 Buy a trans person a book! 📚 It's Trans Day of Visibility on the 31st but trans people don't need just visibility, they need better human rights, and nice treats. Get someone a treat, and then fight alongside them. penfightdistro.com/product-cate... (please share 💗)

Reads: buy a trans person a book! For trans day of nice book

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Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com · 24/03/2025

Who knew the possibility of a US book tour could be so nerve-wracking? With shifting visa rules and authors being sent home on arrival, is it worth the risk? I’m sharing my thoughts and asking, ‘Are you still booking that flight?’ nadinematheson.substack.com/p/passport-p...

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Passport Pandemonium: My Guide To U.S. Book Tours

Are you ready for your next American adventure?

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Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Me and countless other authors today…😂

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I’ve received my first review on Audible for my book Love, Rebooted and I am crying. My one wish was to help even one person feel seen. There have been tears. #Romancelandia #BookSky #ActuallyAutistic #WomenInStem #Neurodivergent #autism

A screenshot of a review from Audible which says:

Love, Rebooted

5.0*****
Honestly wow
Donna • 6 hours ago
What a book .....
The story was well rounded with context and grit to bring the characters to life. Realistic trials and tribulations that are well conveyed and accessible as a reader. A touch of SEnding in a HEA and narration that knew the assignment and executed it perfectly.
I have never come across characters portrayed in such a way was just amazing. As a parent of a teenage autistic daughter and a son with PDA, i genuinely have never felt so seen in fiction.

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The gorgeous narrators of my book, Love, Rebooted discussing it, and many other things in this video. Gosh I couldn’t be happier having Emily Atack and Stuart Martin play Liv and Finn - they are both SO PERFECT. youtu.be/Q3d774mO4Kk?...

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Emily Atack & Stuart Martin obsess over Andrew Scott, Accents & Love Rebooted 😉🥵 | Audible UK

YouTube video by Audible UK

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

So happy that it’s publication day for my debut novel “Love, Rebooted” - available today as an Audible Original narrated by the gorgeous Emily Atack and Stuart Martin. This book was a joy to write www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN... #Romanclandia #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity #ActuallyAutistic

The cover of Love, Rebooted by Katy Summers. Featuring a couple in a lift with the London skyline behind them. On the left is Liv, a gorgeous plus sized red head wearing a green tartan pinafore. On the right is Finn, a tall, gorgeous dirty blond in office attire. They’re both holding laptops and looking at each other smiling.

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Just finished My Big Fat Fake Marriage by @charlottestein.bsky.social and what a treat it is!!! Featuring the sweetest, spiciest cinnamon roll you could ever hope to find. Wonderfully funny, so well written and a joy to read.

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cya 西田 🩵 working on comm/zine @cyanishida.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The time has come to break the seal on book two in my series. Did I spend this morning creating a wholly unnecessary spreadsheet to track my progress? Yes. Am I still a ridiculous pantser who doesn’t think they can write? Yes! But I’ve done it before, so I can do it again. #Author #Romancelandia

A screenshot from the Scrivener app showing targets for a manuscript. The. Word count target is 80,000 and the Deadline is 7 May 2025 - in 80 days.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Speak up for trans people every single day, especially to your shithead friends and relatives and especially when it’s awkward. Make it your business to make it awkward.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If you're listening out for the winds of resistance, the folks at the Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social are worth following

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Elon Musk tweet: We spent the wekend feeding USAID

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This bill in OK is exactly what Project 2025 threatened: to make all pornography illegal, and criminalize the people who make it, using a WILDLY broad definition of pornography, which would include any book with sex in it. We're talking jail time for romance authors. oksenate.gov/press-releas...

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Deevers Introduces Slate of Legislation to Restore Moral Sanity in Oklahoma | Oklahoma Senate

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, announced on Tuesday a bold slate of eight legislative measures aimed at restoring moral sanity in Oklahoma.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 02/02/2025

Where's that post about what advice you'd give to yourself if you could go back in time? Because it's "Woman, do not get rid of your CDs and DVDs. Around 15 years from now, you're going to get very cross about having to rent the things you love, assuming they're available. Save yourself the trauma."

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

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Elsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

To be an autistic woman is always feeling a little bit like a Sylvanian Family hamster that's landed in Barbie World

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 29/01/2025

"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️

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Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist

Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And I'll keep saying it 📣📣

Illustration that says "no human is illegal"

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/01/2025

This is true! They give you a "discount" for driving traffic directly to your shop vs being found organically by folks searching! 99% of my sales are direct links I posted somewhere. 😂

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 25/01/2025

Gonna put some more fire on this take. Many publishers are not manually going through each and every review when they are looking at reviews to determine if they want to re-sign an author or acquire an author previously published elsewhere. They just see that Paige O'Woord's last book has a 3.5 on

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carolyn @papersquared.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Please stop publishing on Substack.

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Paula Knight 🎨✒️♿ @paulaknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When online community via SM is the only community you have as a result of disability/ chronic illness, it can be devastating when it falls apart. Please make sure to find your disabled and chronically ill friends and peers when changing platforms. #Disability #Comics #bookSky

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 23/01/2025

Daphne Press has signed Andrew Joseph White’s You Weren’t Meant to Be Human, a horror novel about a "mute trans man aiding the covert invasion of parasitic alien species, until an unwanted pregnancy puts his own future at risk" #BookSky 👇 www.thebookseller.com/rights/daphn...

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Daphne Press signs 'groundbreaking' adult horror from Joseph White

Daphne Press has signed Andrew Joseph White's You Weren't Meant to Be Human.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Looks like this may be a good affordable range of clothes for many people : Notable features include magnetic zips, hidden access points for stomas, insulin pumps, or other medical equipment, & cropped-cut jumpers that ensure clothes fit better on seated wearers www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

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Primark launches clothing range designed for people with disabilities

Range of womenswear and menswear contains 49 pieces adapted from brand’s bestselling items to suit variety of needs

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

They didn’t burn witches, they burned women is a fact.

Found a sticker on a pole that says THEY DIDN'T BURN WITCHES THEY BURNED WOMEN. And this is a truth.

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Soila Kenya @soila.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It's been beautiful to watch this unfold over the past years. So happy for us African readers and writers ❤️

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 22/01/2025

Nigella's recipe for the day today is Bitter Orange Tart, and I don't think that is a coincidence.

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trying to get into writing book 2 in my RomCom series but it’s not happening. So I’m rewatching the Walking Dead because a world full of zombies feels safer than the real one, plus there isn’t a greater romance arc than Rick and Michonne.

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Emma Darwin @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Possibly the most popular Itch of Writing post of all: Everything you need to know about Showing and Telling - and why you absolutely, definitely, need both! buff.ly/42pg9Wt

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allie! ally! allé! 👩🏽‍💻🥃✨🥳🌸 @allieiswriting.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

For romance book people who've made the jump recently and are still trying to figure everything out, I've a few things to help you out. Romance Starter packs (authors, reviewers, and other accounts associated with the romance book community): bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 21/01/2025

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

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People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years

It's nothing new.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

👇👇👇 Fix this in your minds. Last time they were in power they did this about the OK sign. Now they’re literally doing Nazi salutes and STILL trying to act like people are hysterical for calling it what it is.

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Leslie Mac @lesliemac.com · 20/01/2025

STOP MEME-ING FACISTS!

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 21/01/2025

(Reposted with corrected typo because here at The Daily Tism we respect pedantry)

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Ruthelizabethreads @ndwithbooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This lovely collection of essays has been published in the UK today! I got to read it early and really appreciated all the diverse and intersectional perspectives. #disabledbooksky #diversebooks #booksky

The cover of Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities & Experiences, Edited by Alex Iantaffi

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is very sad news. I hope all of the authors and agents affected find new homes. These voices need to be heard.

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Eddie Pasa @eddiepasa.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

You are seen. You are loved. #TransRights

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

People were worried Lynch was retiring, he made it clear he was isolating due to Covid. He said he could perhaps direct remotely but didn’t really want to do it that way Like many of us with disabilities, he was left behind. People craved his work but wouldn’t wear a mask so he could create safely

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I can’t say this enough: Unmasking saves lives. Believing people when they tell you they’re autistic saves lives. Accommodating and supporting autistic people (especially those who have unmasked, and may be anxious about judgment or rejection) saves lives. Kindness saves lives ❤️ #autism

A pastel green graphic saying “unmasking saves lives” and with smaller text underneath, stating “including accepting and supporting autistic people who have unmasked”. There is an illustration of two yellow masks next to the text, one with a happy expression and one with a sad expression.

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Katy Summers @katysummersauthor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I was supposed to go to see The Graham Norton Show filming tonight but exhausted myself getting ready 🙃 So, I’ll be watching it on TV tomorrow like any other week lol. Sigh. #ChronicIllness

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

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In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires

"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🦓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Your ongoing reminder that denigrating fascist political leaders, or indeed anyone else, by implying they are physically or mentally disabled is literally using the same eugenicist rhetoric that is an essential part of fascism. Yes, that includes “jokes” about incontinence, mocking gaits or

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