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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#authors looking for an #editor? Background: 20+ years alpha + beta reading, editing for publishers. Member of ACES, LGBTQ+ Editors Assn. Free: ☑️sample edits ☑️30-minute Zoom consultation No AI. I support human creation www.lzedits.com

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, I won’t use any service that uses AI, so that’s out. I’d rather use @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social Bookfinder iheartsapphfic.com/bookfinder

Lesbian Romance Reads @lesbianromance.bsky.social post:
Ever finish a romance and think "I want THAT feeling again"?
EIKNA lets you find your next read by mood, trope or heat level, or just describe it to Lyra, our Al book guide.
Cozy, slow burn, dark-but-HEA... it's all there.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 29. Closing out #sapphicseptember with Lilith: Book of Genesis and Lilith: Original Sin by @tjdallas7.bsky.social 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ ⚔️⚔️⚔️ sword sapphics www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH2ZP5XT

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 28. The Wrath Trilogy by @tjdallas7.bsky.social is still part of the author's Seven Sins universe, but dives even more heavily into the biblical lore, and fully introduces the Four Horsewomen 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️of the Apocalypse www.amazon.com/dp/B08W35J853 #sapphicBooks #fantasy #LGBTQ

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anybody else write replies to a post that runs out of character limit, and then try editing like three times to cut it down enough to fit, only to finally just give up, go “ugh no one wants to hear my thoughts, anyway” and delete? No? Just me? Figures. I’ve been told I’m too long winded most of my…

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Day 26. Short stories! Check out this volume of erotic shorts from the incomparable @tjdallas7 set in the Sevens Sins universe (there's a second collection!) www.amazon.com/dp/B099FDRJRP

Sapphic Spolight centers the cover of A Shot of Absinthe by TJ Dallas which features a woman laying on her back nearly naked (only a sheet drapes over her waist) with a rainbow "kiss" image in the air above the figure. The word Absinthe is mostly white, but has the letters SIN in red

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got my location assignment for Oviedo Mall’s Page & Pen next Saturday (October 3)! No. 66: Just off the food court and mall’s north entrance, in front of the B Dalton. #romance #sapphic #LGBTQ #bookstagram

Flyer for Oviedo Mall’s Page and Pen, located at 1700 Oviedo Mall Blvd, Oviedo, FL 32785 is clouds on a blue background with details of the event: meet and greets, vendors and more! Oct 3 Sat, 11 am to 5 pm

A map of the vendor spots numbered along the central mall corridor from 1-110.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Day 24 of #sapphicseptember The beginning of the Erudite Shifters series by @tjdallas7.bsky.social : The Last Caspian No lie, I'm very much in love with Rex www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... ~ LZ #sapphicBooks #wlwRomance #lesbian

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Day 20! #sapphicseptember Score to Love by Johana Gavez features women's soccer. www.amazon.com/dp/B09CLH6C8P Also, if you're celebrating #NationalHIspanicHeritageMonth the author is Latinx and both story leads are Latinx, one American, and one from Brazil #SapphicBooks #wlw #Lesbian #romance

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fun get to know you! ⊹ name: Lara ⊹ height: short ⊹ star sign: Leo ⊹ nicknames: LZ ⊹ siblings: 2 younger ⊹ relationship: 1 ⊹ crushing on: Lucy Lawless (yes, *still*) ⊹ fav season: summer ⊹ pets: none ⊹ fav color: purple ⊹ live: Florida

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Day 18 of #SapphicSeptember The Planck Paradox by Taryn J Dallas (aka @tjdallas7.bsky.social) is a delightful wlw contemporary romance novella The dog vs cat and philosophy vs science debates in this opposites attract romance are a delight. Check it out! www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BLYBM2ZR

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Day 17. #SapphicSeptember. Do you love sports romance? This is a great little series starter. Full Court Crush by Sasha Brennan is set in a UK pro women's basketball league www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKHN5MJY #sapphicBooks #wlwBooks #queerRomance

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Amazing! We're halfway through a month of #SapphicSeptember books I have edited. This one was my first in 2nd POV Day 15: Welcome to The Cardinal by @tjdallas7.bsky.social , a "choose your own (erotic) adventure" www.amazon.com/dp/B09TYM4XKX #wlwBooks #queerLit

Sapphic Spotlight centers the cover of Welcome to the Cardinal by TJ Dallas, which features a scantily clad woman under red light that illuminates only her

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Welcome to Day 14 of #sapphicSeptember. Today's spotlight shines on When the Bell Rings by Claire Donniere. More known for her suspense thrillers, WBR is a rom-com where a mix up at the holidays brings two women unexpectedly into one another's orbit boldstrokesbooks.com/books/when-t...

sapphic spotlight centers the cover of When the Bell Rings by Claire Donniere, which features two women, one in a black cocktail dress and red hair, and the other in a long jacket over a white blouse and black dress pants, holding a drink. They stand backs toward each other on either side of a festively decorated Christmas tree.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember Day 12 Tell Me What You Want, by Johana Gavez, is a contemporary wlw romance with (older) Latina characters and high spice www.amazon.com/dp/B09WKLQ1J5 This was the first book I edited for @johanagavez.bsky.social

Sapphic Spotlight centers the cover of Tell Me What You Want by Johana Gavez, which features a purple toned cover of a woman slowly undressing facing the camera

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The Lesbian Review @thelesbianreview.com · 12/09/2026

NEW AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH CARLY BRYANT Find out: - How Carly Bryant went from hiding her stories to publishing them. - Writing two types of stories and using two author names. - Younger self advice. - Reading science fiction. f.mtr.cool/smz66v6txf

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Day 11 of #SapphicSeptember brings me to Fall Into Me by Terri Cutshall, a butch/femme vacation romance @terricutshall.bsky.social www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7Q5VN6V #wlwBooks #Romance

Sapphic Spotlight centers the cover of Fall Into Me by Terri Cutshall, which features two women in winter coats, hats, and scarves, holding hands as they look away over a snowy mountain vista.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember Day 10 spotlights LM Bennett's Bad Beat, a Vegas enemies to lovers romance with Black leads I worked on the 1st ed, hence the different cover than what you'll find available now (and why I'm linking to GR not AZ) www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... #wlw #lesbian #queerLit

Sapphic Spotlight centers the cover of LM Bennett's Bad Beat which features two Black women in closeup holding cards with the lights of a Vegas casino behind them

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy #SapphicSeptember! my books #SapphicBooks Bingo categories: TURNING POINT mybook.to/LZTurningPoint ✅published before 2015 ✅scenes set in the mountains ☑️masturbation scene (hidden gem)

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember Day 9. Book 2 of the Pride series, Pride and the Stranger, by TJ Dallas, is 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️erotic fantasy IIRC, editor for book 1 (The Bartender's Pride) couldn't do book 2. TJ asked around for help. I got the job, and have been editing TJ's books ever since www.amazon.com/dp/B08B1VPLWT

Sapphic Spotlight centers the book cover for Pride and the Stranger by TJ Dallas, which features two women's bodies in just thong lingerie and a strapon.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day 8 of #SapphicSeptember brings me to a pair of books I edited and proofed: Natural Exposure and Negative Exposure by Koriana Brackson. Kenzie is a boudoir photographer in Bijou Basin, in an open marriage. www.amazon.com/dp/B08HB6DZ85

Sapphic Spotlight centers the book cover for Natural Exposure by Koriana Brackson, which features a scantily clad woman within the curved lens of a SLR camera

Sapphic Spotlight centers the book cover for Negative Exposure by Koriana Brackson, which features two women in bathing suits wearing tank tops sitting intimately together on a floating dock in a lake

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember Day 7. Moving a bit forward in my editing history. Insatiable Jane Travers, by Isabelle Lauren. The novel is a historical romp about a bisexual woman set in 1920s New York, faced with a choice between her female lover and her male beau. books2read.com/b/3RajLx #biVisibilityMonth

Sapphic Spotlight centers the cover The Insatiable Jane Travers by Isabelle Lauren, which features a woman in 1920s formal evening gown with a cocktail in hand looking out a large window.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember Day 6 is here! I worked on this one just as the publishing house was folding, then the author came to me and asked for help preparing it for indie publishing The Rosebush Murders by Ruth Shidlo, book 1 of 3 ft. Det. Helen Mirkin www.amazon.com/dp/B0753F824H #mysteryBooks

Sapphic Spotlight centering the book cover for The Rosebush Murders by Ruth Shidlo, featuring a hand with marionette controls from which hangs a gun, a DNA helix, and a red rose

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember day 5. Check out this book I helped with, connecting with this author through a shared fandom as writers. Under the Midnight Cloak by SY Thompson is a shapeshifter (panthers) romantic suspense. It was a Goldie finalist in 2013 www.sythompson.net/under-the-mi...

Sapphic Spotlight centers the cover of Under the Midnight Cloak by SY Thompson featuring a forest scene with a black panther lounging on a tree limb.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember Day 4. When I edited this one, I told the author it was going to be an award-winner. I was absolutely right. It won a Goldie (Golden Crown Literary Alliance sapphic book awards) in 2010 👏 @geonncannon.bsky.social GEMINI www.amazon.com/dp/B00B2EBELW #SapphicBooks #queerLit

Spotlight Sapphic features the cover of Geonn Cannon's Gemini showing a woman underwater, looking up at her own reflection.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Been a few days, but I had a newsletter drop larazielinsky.substack.com #SapphicBooks

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Day 3. Another from those early days of contract editing. Kim Pritekel's 1049 Club. Sapphic love is found between two survivors of a plane crash Kim's books can all be found through Sapphire Books these days: www.sapphirebooks.com/store/produc...

Spotlight Sapphic features the book cover for Kim Pritekel's 1049 Club which shows a plane falling toward an island beach.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#SapphicSeptember Another early proofread I helped out with was the first edition of The Veil of Sorrow by @crystalmromero.bsky.social A thoroughly gothic tale, the descriptions are haunting... and stunning #SapphicBooks www.amazon.com/dp/1508642044

spotlight sapphic features the cover of Crystal Michallet-Romero's THe Veil of Sorrow with a gothic gravestone with a weeping angel statue atop it.

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Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's #SapphicSeptember! 💛👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Here are a few recs of sapphic books I really loved!

Sapphic Recommendations on a pastel rainbow background:
- The Queen of Ieflaria by Effie Calvin
- Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
- Sister Thrust by Dani Finn
- Bear My Heart by Karen Lykkebo
- The Wine-Dark Sea by Kris Madigan
- Forgive-Me-Not by Mari Costa

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Sam, Polite Menace 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 @wanderolah.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

My #Sapphic September tentative TBR 🩷💜💙 🩷🤍🧡 #booksky 💙📚🌈🎧

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Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Want something fun (and free) to do during #sapphicseptember ??? Join us for what I'm sure will be an amazing night!! Sapphic regency romance, and two Austen continuations? What more could you want 🤔👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social and Erin's books are amazing, and I'm sooo excited to host 💜

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Soph 🖤 @flannelqueen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bisexuality visibility month, if I see any biphobia, you're being made into compost for my flowers 🥀 It's also Sapphic September, so I absolutely chose the right time to start writing a sapphic romance with not one but two bisexual girlies 🥰

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 01/09/2026

Oh shit! It's #SapphicSeptember. It's me, Morgan, sapphic sci-fi author. I have a book, Project Tasman, which is a sapphic dystopian thriller. We're fully funded, but through September 4th, you can still pick up the book, get bonus stretch goal stuff, and help support sapphic indie authors!

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London Price, author 🌈 @londonpriceauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Need a little something for #sapphicseptember? I got you covered! Free for the first time publicly, it's a little side quest I did for the Portland Symphony series! #freebook 📖📢📚🌈🩵📚 bookhip.com/JSFRNMP

A blue book cover with Portland in silhouette at night and a dark-haired Italian woman in a white suit standing, looking into the camera. The title is Solo: A Portland Symphony Short story by London Price.
On the backdrop of a photo shoot read the words "Maybe we're all art and the world's just a shitty appraiser."
Free for September

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Since we're in #Sapphic September, I'll just remind that ALL of my currently published works are led by sapphic romantic pairs, and both NICEF and Demon King Daughter have /multiple/ sapphic pairs. No doomed yuri. The girl gets the girl, and they both love it. Buy: pjccahill.carrd.co #booksky 📢📚

art by Luigiix - 4 book covers - top right Demon King Daughter book 1, top left Demon King Daughter book 2, bottom right Cry Wolf, bottom left N.I.C.E.F.

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Mackenzie 📖🍵 @mackenziespocket.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

happy september everyone! you know what that means - it's #SapphicSeptember! and so i have a few sapphic lady knight (and knight adjacent) book recs. this is obvi an incomplete list but hopefully you can find something to check out! full list will be in next posts hehe #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 🌈📚🌎📚🪐

A graphic showing 9 book covers on a light tan background. The books are:
- Name Her Holy
- The Starving Saints
- The Gryphon King
- Where Shadows Bloom
- Valerin the Fair
- Tarnished
- Her Pretty Knight
- By Her Sword
- Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

A graphic showing 10 book covers on a light tan background. The books are:
- The Dragon Next Door
- The Afterward
- A Ballad for Slayers and Monsters
- Holy Wrath
- A Knight to Remember
- Stone and Steel
-Spear
- Gideon the Ninth
- The Unspoken Name
- Knight of Nights

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Sarah Clowder (she/they) @sarah-clowder.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Check out the first book of my series! 📚 sarahclowder.com 🏷 payhip.com/SillyGooseInk 🖼️ Main art by @robinade.bsky.social

A green background with faded gold leaves in the background.

"Indie Adult Fantasy Romance"

"Older bisexual lead. Found family. Polyamory endgame (F/F/NB). Enemies to lovers. Magic, gods, and demons (oh my). This book can hold so many lesbians!!! Sequel coming 2027."

To the right of the tropes list is the cover with "Book 1 of the Fools Trilogy Fools Rush In by Sarah Clowder." It features an older female elf with gray hair sitting in a red chair with shadowy creatures behind her. There is a fog that covers a vault in the background. She's holding a glowing sword in one hand and a goblet that's spilling out in the other. The spilled wine makes a demon grinning puddle.

There are 5 chibi versions of the main characters. Brick with a pair of wings and a shiny star next to her as she flexes one arm. Alik who is wearing an eyepatch and there are breakfast items floating (an egg, waffle, cheese, and sausage on a fork). Leslie with an angry emote and two blue flames. Daphne winking with a heart, behind her is a stack of books and potions/poisons. Eavie with a floating crown as she sighs, and ravens floating next to her.

"Available in paperback, audiobook, and ebook. Free 70+ page preview available at sarahclowder.com."

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#BiVisibilityMonth Hello 👋 Bi author here Do you long for complex, messy bi characters? Check out bi poly erotic romance duology We Three bookshop.org/p/books/we-t... and We Fit bookshop.org/p/books/we-f... support #indieBookstores too

Tropes, Tags for We Fit include: Connecting, five chile heat, dating, polyamory, ffm, ff, and mf sex, and lovers to partners vibes

Tropes, tags for We Three include: insta lust, five chile heat, flirting, swinging, ffm, ff, mf sex, and friends first vibes.

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm celebrating #SapphicSeptember spotlighting books w sapphic characters I have edited. Nene Adams' Barking at the Moon is a werewolf fantasy. A female sheriff discovers the secrets of the wolves of Malingering Deep. Rural mountains setting #sapphicBooks #wlwBooks #queerLit 1/2

Spotlight Sapphic features book cover of Nene Adams' Barking at the Moon, featuring a huge rising moon over the mountains with a tree shadow partially across it in the foreground

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Editor-me for #SapphicSeptember: can I put together some posts spotlighting sapphic, wlw, lesbian books I’ve edited? Maybe 10 or so? Nope. Instead, I will have **30** spotlighted books, and that won’t include the 2 dev edits I am working on til the end of the year

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reminder: today is National love your bookstore day so #sapphicBook readers in the Orlando area, stop by Shelf Life in Altamonte this weekend to grab my books

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Maybe it's because I did a public reading of my work this morning and that has made me -- extreme introvert that I am -- exhausted, but I feel like I need a nap #authorLife

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Lara Zielinsky @lczielinsky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@goldencrownls.bsky.social conference starts August 5. Here’s where you’ll find me.

Lara Zielinsky’s visibility at GCLS. Wednesday Aug 5: find me between panels at the convention space. Thursday, Aug 6: author signing 12:15-1:15. Friday, August 7: author spotlight 1:00 am to noon. Saturday, Aug 8: Awards buffet and Sunday, August 9: closing brunch

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