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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

There's a reason every single one of my friends and family think I would die first in a zombie apocalypse and they are not wrong 😅

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

horror/dystopia lovers, for one day only my horrible baby is available on kindle for £0.99/$0.99! for less than a buck/quid you can buy something that took me 7 years to write & the New York Times called ‘an impressive debut worth losing sleep over’. what’re you waiting for?!

Publicity image for Amazon kindle showing a kindle with the cover for awakened on it and the text ‘one day only’ for the deal

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

THE REANIMATOR'S FATE (TRM #4) is coming January 29th! 25 days to preorder your copy for: 📚A conspiracy to undermine the Society 📚A cursed book 📚Felipe battling his demons 📚Oliver truly embracing who he is 📚And a way for them to save their community books2read.com/trm4

The Reanimator's Fate by Kara Jorgensen. preorder now, out January 29th.
autistic necromancer x undead ADHDer, mm romance, book curses and malicious magic, mutual aid, support, community, a new beginning, if im not a weapon, what good am i?, gwen to the rescue, the paranormal society is in peril, book 4 final book

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Forgot to post my 2026 Author Goals here on Bluesky (maybe if I post them in enough places I'll hold myself accountable!) 2025 was a bit of a disappointing year for me author-wise, but I'm trying to head into 2026 with a more positive attitude! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Once tried to claim that conception helps to prevent pregnancy (contraception, Sarah, contraception!) This was in a uni essay that I did submit. My lecturer literally just commented '?'

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

📚 MY FAVOURITE READS OF 2025 📚 Just a modest 56 this year 😅 Honestly, I've had a great reading year, and that's definitely reflected here. Hope everyone has a lovely NYE (or had!) and best wishes for the new year 🥂 #BookSky 📚💙 #ReadingCommunity #FavouriteReads #ReadingWrapUp

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I'M ONLY 4 SALES AWAY FROM SELLING 100 COPIES TOTAL OF REFLECTIONS OF LILJE DAMSELFLY! It's my birthday in a week so ALL my books are 0.99 through January 7th. Cosy historical fantasy. Sapphic romance sideplot. Chronically ill MC. What more can you wish for? Grab a copy today!

Lifestyle of a book on a yellow chevron backdrop. A brown leather notebook lies to the left and pink flowers to the right of the book with jewellery and other props scattered around. Angled on top and to the right is a paperback book with an art nouveau style cover. title: Reflections of Lilje Damselfly by Natalie Kelda and features a woman holding a water lily in one hand. She’s dressed in a blue water dress with water swirling around her arm and the hand that doesn’t hold the lily. Beneath her feet are two fish. Around the woman is a set of circles with the top half lined with water lilies and their lily pads. Around the scene is a swirling pattern in 3 tones of blue.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/12/2025

ALL OF US MURDERERS is on cheap on Amazon today! Get your Gothic second chance romance for £/$1.99! (I have no idea how long for or if it's going to other sites, sorry.) www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murde...

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All of Us Murderers

All of Us Murderers eBook : Charles, KJ: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Reminder! Turn off AI in your Canva settings. Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > privacy controls > turn off AI. Click on your name initials at the bottom of the menu on the left > 'ai personalisation' > TURN OFF.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 25/12/2025

If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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The River Has Roots ebook by Amal El-Mohtar - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The River Has Roots The Sweeping, Magical Solo Debut by the Best-Selling Co-Author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR" by Amal El-Mohtar available from Rakuten Kobo. Follow the river Liss to t...

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Jae 🏳️‍🌈 @jaeauthor.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It's time for the big finale of the Sapphic Book Advent Calendar! We're wrapping up our event with: 🎁 28 book giveaways 🎁 6 free ebooks 🎁 10 books on sale Plus there'll be more free & discounted books & giveaways tomorrow. Head over to my website and open door 24: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...

Sapphic Book Advent Calendar: Big finale on December 24-25 on jae-fiction.com.

Depicted is a Christmas tree made of stacked books, with a Pride star on top.

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

can we collectively let the yearly "audiobooks aren't reading" and "how can someone read 100 books a year" discourses die? Like. For the betterment of mankind. in general .

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

📚🎄 CHRISTMAS BOOK SALE 🎄📚 To celebrate the festive season, both books in the Louisa & Ada series are now 99p/99c (or worldwide equivalent) for the rest of December! www.sarahbellwrites.com/where-to-buy 📚💙 #SapphicBooks #IndieAuthors #BookSale 🌈📚

Graphic with Christmas decorations and snowflakes and two tablets showing the book covers for THE MURDER NEXT DOOR and DEEDS AND WORDS by Sarah Bell.

The text reads:

Christmas Book Sale!

Two books for under €2/£2.

Available at: Amazon, Kobo, Google Play, Apple, NOOK (B&N) Itch.io, Smashwords, Fable, Thalia, Vivlio

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

December 14th for the last ten years has meant a queer story or retelling inspired by a holiday story or song. Here’s this year’s offering: "A Winter’s Hourglass," inspired by "Let it Snow" and offering two revisits to tales that came before. I hope it reminds us of a truth: we’ve always been here.

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A Winter’s Hourglass

Every December 14th for the past ten years, I’ve re-written a holiday story through a queer lens, retelling it as a way to retroactively tell stories to my younger self that include people like me.…

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Treating myself to a post 'putting the Christmas tree up' mulled wine 🎄🍷

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Robert 'bele' Sienicki @rsienicki.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 30/11/2025

First frost this morning! Which seems like a good time to remind people I have a sad bastard holiday historical romance novella you can pick up, about rival lesbian chicken breeders in a small-town poultry competition and also everyone’s traumatized by the Crimean War.

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Hen Fever

Lydia Wraxhall is on her best behavior every day of the…

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Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I have never once succeeded at the #HiddenBookGame but maybe this year is the year? Or maybe once again I'll be left questioning if I even read a single book this year? (The second. It's gonna be the second one.)

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The AI spammers continue to only ever email me about books written by other Sarah Bells 😅 #WritingLife #WriteSky

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

✨️ Completed all my reading goals for the year ✨️ 📚💙

Screenshot from Storygraph showing three completed challenges for 2025:

Books - 200/200
Pages - 38,115/35,000
Hours - 774.17/500

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Me, staring at this knowing damn well we're in October and still convinced it's gotta be an April's fool. Like, it's gotta be...

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Some Latinx authors to buy instead: Anna-Marie McLemore Gabe Cole Novoa Tehlor Kay Mejia Aidan Thomas A. E. Bross Isabel Canas Silvia Moreno-Garcia Natalia Hernandez There are many more, but those are the ones within immediate reach on my Kindle and TBR pile

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

🧙 wild witches 🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two) 🔮 portal fantasy 🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in 👨‍❤️‍👨 true love 🗡️ revenge 👑 evil faeries 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #booksky

Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

🍁🍂 AUTUMN TBR 🍂🍁 Cheering myself up as the weather gets colder (I'm a definite sunshine girlie) with a little Autumn TBR full of gothic stories, autumnal romances, mysteries, dark academia and fantasy. 📚💙

Background is woods in autumnal colours and the words Autumn TBR in a circle

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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 23/09/2025

For this Bi Visibility Day, pick up a sapphic historical romance by a bi author, with a bi heroine! Lady’s Guide is science vs art bi awakening, Waspish Widows is small town bees and bi/pan, and Hellion’s Waltz is bi4bi enemies to lovers with a heist element! #Romancelandia

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The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, l...

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Anwen Kya @kyatic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

My most recent entry in my challenge to read a book by a woman from every country in the world is Poland, for which I read a rediscovered book of lesbian short stories from 1925, because queer history is incredible: theglobalwomenslibrary.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/p...

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Poland: Lesbian Love, by Chawa Zloczower / ‘Evelyn Addams’

A series of short stories about lesbian relationships and intimacy, first published in 1925 and considered lost for 74 years.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 09/09/2025

This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR

Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book: The Murder in the Next Town Over

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I'm wearing a jumper and slippers in August and I'm incredibly grumpy about it 🥶

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I think part of the reason I'm struggling with writing so much atm is I can't focus on any one WIP - I keep bouncing from story to story to story and I'm not sure how to make myself focus. #WritingCommunity 📚💙

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

No. No, thanks. I want my computer to be literally none of those things...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/08/2025

Also, I'm just a cis woman asking cis men to shut the fuck up about Why Cis Women Totally Need Me To Attack Trans Women On Their Behalf (Even If They Don't Think So, The Little Dears).

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I mean this entire statement is complete BS but 'I'll ask not to be shortlisted if all the debut authors return' is some absolutely wild logic. (I know the answer is he wants to act all 'woe is me' self-sacrificing, but like, still, what?)

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The number of times I've been like 'hmmm, maybe I should just double check that' on historical details is So. Very. High. (And sometimes I was right and sometimes I was wrong and sometimes I gave up because the Internet was no use...)

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

New release! (Sapphic Greek myth retelling - yes please 😍)

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Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

You can pre-order this sapphic Medusa retelling here: www.katherineshawwrites.com/osas 💙📚👀 🌈📚

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OF SERPENTS AND SORROW — KATHERINE SHAW WRITES

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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Why are my sales so low when I've done zero marketing? How could this possibly be? Truly the great mystery of our times 🙃 📚💙 #WritingCommunity

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 24/07/2025

I understand the assignment. Recommend EVERYONE on Itch now do this.

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You can decide what percentage of your sales will go towards itch.io. All money collected is used directly for running servers, paying for bandwidth, and supporting the development of new functionality. You can read more about itch.io's mission on our About page.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Happy Disability Pride Month! THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 3 books with 💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes 🫀An autistic necromancer ⚰️His reanimated lover 🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC 🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance 🔗⬇️Available wide!

Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen
Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer

The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem

The Reanimator's Remains by Kara Jorgensen, out now in ebook, audiobook, and paperback, book 3, mm romance, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, the trees are watching, dealing with trauma... poorly, dont go where I can't follow, family secrets, breaking the cycle, the dead are out for revenge

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Ah yes. The best article title ever

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/07/2025

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

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Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Support Disability Pride Month with a HUGE bundle of books & games spanning SFF, horror, & contemporary romance genres. With a range of LGBTQ+ and disabled characters, there’s representation for everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 $15 for 12 items 🏳️‍🌈 usually $44! 🏳️‍🌈ends 21st July tinyurl.com/disabilitypridebundle

The Swords & Sapphics Podcast is hosting a Disability Pride bundle, which includes 12 LGBTQ+ books & games featuring disabled characters for $14:
a girl's guide to college experimentation by aurora light
Cursed in Love by Bryony Rosehurst
Dandelion by Merlina Garance
Just Stu by Merlina Garance (achillean; scoliosis)
An Unexpected Invitation by Ceillie Simkiss
Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong
Dice Dragons by Helios Marzocca
Higanbana by Jake Vanguard
Shades and Silver by Dax Murray
Tales of Yamato by Odessa Silver
eyetooth by mars adler
My Lord by L.B. Shimaira

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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 01/07/2025

happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Queer contemporary, queer historical fiction, queer mystery, queer thriller -- all at a great discount :D We had a ton of enthusiasm boosting the call for submissions, it'd be really cool to get the bundle some love! itch.io/b/3078/pride... 💙📚 🌈📚 #PrideBookFair

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Pride Book Fair - Contemporary & Historical Fiction by Claudie Arseneault and 16 others

Pride Book Fair - Contemporary & Historical Fiction: 16 books for $30.00

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