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Saint (S.T.) Gibson

@stgibson.bsky.social
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Sunday Times bestselling author of A DOWRY OF BLOOD and other gothic romances, she/he/they. SAVAGE BLOOMS (Unearthly Delights #1) out now, TANGLED ROOTS (Unearthly Delights #2) May 2026

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One could argue that as the most widely read genre, romance is most deserving of care and attention, a refusal to concede to bland extruded text from the Average Intelligence machine. The potential to reach the greatest number of readers with your art, with your intellect, can be through romance.
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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
in honor of #BiWeek starting today (9/16-9/23 every year, ~mark your calendars!~) enjoy a collection of some of my personal favorite bisexual books! featuring gems by @brosandprose.bsky.social @feliciadavin.com @stgibson.bsky.social and other brilliant people 🩷💜💙 bookshop.org/lists/bi-boo...
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Bi Books for #BiWeek (and Beyond!)
Check out this list on Bookshop
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
October events and appearances! Get hype for Halloween season, come see me and fellow writers like @stgibson.bsky.social and @caitlinstarling.com (and more!), buy some spooky books 👻
October Events:
10/10 @ 3pm w S T Gibson, Butcher Cabin Books 4th Anniversary, Louisville KY

10/13 6-8pm, Midwest horror and Gothic lit fest, Indianapolis IN @ Guggman Haus Brewing Co.

10/25 10-2:30 Hops & Horrors at Destihl Beer Hall in Normal IL

10/29 6:30pm in convo w Caitlin Starling at Bucket O Blood in Chicago IL
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If want men to read more (and I think more men should, because reading is one of the greatest pleasures and most enriching things for a body) you’ve gotta stop bullying them for “performative” reading in public and thirst trapping with books on IG. Keep it moving and let him have fun.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every American citizen deserves access to the level of personal privacy and data security Donna Tartt maintains. I don't know how she's doing it beyond being incredibly discrete and litigious; at this point it's almost performance art. It's damn inspiring
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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hey this is one of the best books I've read this whole damn year -- so go get it!
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every American citizen deserves access to the level of personal privacy and data security Donna Tartt maintains. I don't know how she's doing it beyond being incredibly discrete and litigious; at this point it's almost performance art. It's damn inspiring
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Where to find me this fall!! I'll be doing events here in Kentucky and I'm so excited to be traveling with @stgibson.bsky.social to Kansas City (I hear everything is up to date there!) for a suuuuper cool event next month!! Hope you'll join me for books, samples, and great conversation!!
September 10
Louisville Give For Good 
Louisville Book Festival

October 3
Boozy Book Festival
Kansas City, MO
October 24
Louisville Book Festival
Louisville, KY

November 14
Kentucky Book Festival
Lexington, KY
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Venus retrograde can bring challenges in love, but as a Venus Scorpio retrograde native, I can attest she also brings deep and committed love that is unorthodox, custom-built, a little unfathomable to outsiders.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Get well soon to everyone else who is about to experience a Venus retrograde in Scorpio but for me…..that’s my natal placement baby. A placement so intense it has led me to Venusian devotional work, a career writing gothic novels, and some gorgeously intense love affairs. Have fun!
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
can any astrologer explain to me why I feel absolutely every transit that I’m gonna feel two days before the peak of the transit. I can set my watch by it
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
my libra moon + libra mercury will always bring the piledriver of "words mean things so let's use them accurately in the interest of fairness" to the conversation. I cannot help myself
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"sapphic" includes bi women who may experience attraction to men alongside attraction to women. if you're reading a "sapphic" book you should expect love between women, but perhaps not to the exclusion of men on the periphery. Not everything is for you. That doesn't make it false advertising
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You’ve heard of no vampire is straight, now get ready for no vampire is cis 🦇
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the biggest difference between dating in your twenties versus dating in your thirties is “I just want it to work out” becomes “I want it to be right for both of us”
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As a bisexual genderqueer artist, I often find stronger reflections of myself in historical queer figures who defy easy categorization or labels than in modern ones. We have always existed and we have always been fluid, crossing and re-crossing category lines, impossible to forget or to define.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We were at this same GenAI art and labor tipping point 150 years ago, albeit with different technologies! Read the whole article here for my alternatives to doomerism and compliance: saint.substack.com/p/asking-cha...
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The labor crisis brought on by the AI push isn’t new. It’s actually a problem so old its been enshrined in fairy tales, and its one William Morris and the arts and crafts movement laid the groundwork for solving. saint.substack.com/p/asking-cha...
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Asking ChatGPT to Spin Straw Into Gold
I need you to lock in arts and crafts movement style
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The reason Finley/Eileen toxic friends to lovers thing in SAVAGE BLOOMS goes so crazy is because Eileen is insane she can never be Daddy's (literal) favorite boy and Finley is insane he will never be Daddy's (nonliteral) legitimate heir, and the two of them bang about it. That's the secret sauce
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
this corner of the collective unconscious isn’t big enough for the two of us
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
voila, the essay on discover gender and desire through fictional fantasy, queering romance dynamics, jung, and dark romance booktok that I have been trying to write for two! years! I definitely 👉🏻 overshared 👈🏻 but it’s all for the good of psychoanalysis saint.substack.com/p/the-romant...
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the romantasy book boyfriend was you all along
romancing Jung's animus by psychoanalyzing smut
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
envy is an arrow pointing you towards what you desire, and becoming what you envy is the only way to keep it from stabbing you, or someone else. actualize or die
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New essay on what the hullaballoo about a spicy Wuthering Heights adaptation can teach us about our psychosexual shadows, the Enlightenment illusion of a split chaste mind and carnal body, and desire and trauma in Wuthering Heights and Savage Blooms! saint.substack.com/p/resurrecti...
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resurrecting wuthering heights sex scene discourse
that book is simply not about what you think it is
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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026
“The Bluesky Experience™”
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you have somehow made the exact point of my post, in a reply to my post, without having understood my post
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The most interesting kind of second chance romance by far is “I want to thank you on my knees for coming back, but I also want to punish you on yours for leaving”
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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 17/07/2026
Shout-out to @stgibson.bsky.social and "Savage Blooms" for being one of the very few books I've absolutely *devoured* in recent years. The atmosphere just completely sucked me in. Dark, sensual, and wild. I want to make art about it so badly!! When I finish my current comm I probably will 💚💚💚
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My 3 part essay series on the vague, coded catchphrases of the publishing industry, what they really mean, and how we can push for more transparent communication with our publishers, is complete! Start with "Nobody's In This Industry To Make Money" saint.substack.com/p/nobodys-in...
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Nobody's In This Industry To Make Money
3 publishing industry mantras that need to die
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
a smoky, slutty little mocktail for my soapy wizards!
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One year after committing to rebuilding my ability to pleasure-read after it got shredded by doomscrolling and burnout, I’m happy to report these strategies seriously work. I often carry a book around in my purse now, to steal a few pages here and there. Euphoric! saint.substack.com/p/learning-h...
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Learning How to Read (Again)
Burnout wrecked my relationship to books. Here's how I fixed it.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the AI push is just a modern version of a mythic confidence trick: the promise that one may become proficient without practice and celebrated without skill via a miracle technology with a hidden price.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“How do you write so much” because it keeps the fear of death at bay and gives my neurotic mind something to chew on that isn’t existential dread I hope this helps
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the minute they release a JSTOR on your kindle feature I am going to become unstoppable
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jenjanet.bsky.social @jenjanet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My pick for your #gothic #vampire book needs. Follow me for more recs 📚 Book: A Dowry of Blood by @stgibson.bsky.social #booksky #horror #dracula
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hear my full review of EVOCATION by @stgibson.bsky.social (available now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social) and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube. Plus enter to win signed hardcovers of EVOCATION and COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES to celebrate the anniversary!! youtu.be/eeJsv-JHObg
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Mocktail Recipe & Book Review: The Hanged Man (EVOCATION by S.T. Gibson) + GIVEAWAY!!
YouTube video by Bar Cart Bookshelf
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LitPins&Co @litpinsandco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our special edition of An Education In Malice has finally arrived and we are OBSESSED! We still have limited copies of this edition available, and we expect to begin shipping them next week 🤭🥀 #LitPins #LitPinsAndCo #STGibson #AnEducationInMalice #SpecialEditionBooks @stgibson.bsky.social
A photo of the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education In Malice which shows the main characters on a burgundy and blue toned cover with aged gold/copper foil. The books are displayed in a variety of ways to show off the cover, the spine, the sprayed edges decorated with a flower motif, and the signed and numbered tip in page.A pile of LitPins&Co special editions of An Education In Malice, displayed edge out to show off the red, blue, and green toned floral motif.
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TheAfterwords @theafterwords.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#DEAL ALERT! Calling all one clickers because ASCENSION @stgibson.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle US until the 26th at 11:59pm PDT! amzn.to/3StHOmi #Ascension #TheSummonersCircle #ad #amazoncom
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Ascension: Book II in The Summoner's Circle
Ever since Rhys McGowan was a boy, he's only wanted two things: power and love.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It's Pride! It's a rainbow stack! I'm posting *at least* one a week this month because I have so many wonderful queer books on my shelves to celebrate. See any favorites? What's on your TBR?
A stack of books burnished in golden hour light (bottom to top): THE BOOK OF LOVE by Kelly Link, THE MONSTER BARU CORMORANT by Seth Dickinson, THE PHILOSOPHER'S FLIGHT by Tom Miller, A DROP OF CORRUPTION by Robert Jackson Bennet, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez, EVOCATION by S.T. Gibson, WITCH QUEEN OF REDWINTER by Ed McDonald
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.
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TheAfterwords @theafterwords.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
UK #DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because A DOWRY OF BLOOD @stgibson.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK until the end of the month! amzn.to/4ucPKWV #ADowryofBlood #ad #amazonuk
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A Dowry of Blood: THE GOTHIC SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . .
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Today's great news: Amplitudes was selected for the @otherwiseaward.org longlist!! Extending my deepest gratitude to the committee and all the contributors who made the book possible 🖤
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LitPins&Co @litpinsandco.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It's time for a rundown of all the artwork for our edition of An Education In Malice! 🖤🥀 Dust Jacket - Isabel Burke Printed Hardcovers - Buttercup Grove Sprayed Edges - Isabel Burke Endpapers - Kieran Mikolajova Overlays - Therese #LitPinsAndCo #AnEducationInMalice #LitPins @stgibson.bsky.social
Digital mockup of the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background. The cover features character artwork and a moody atmosphere, with an illustration of a gothic-esque school on the back cover. Text reads "Dust Jacket & Sprayed Edges. LitPins&Co special edition. Cover & Edge artwork: Isabel Burke, Art Direction: Jamie-Lee Turner"Digital mockup of the printed hardcover of the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background.  The printed hardcover is a purple-toned burgundy, with a golden yellow illustration of a wilted rose, and is intended to mimic a poetry book. Text reads "Printed Hardcover. LitPins&Co special edition. Hardcover Artwork: Buttercup Grove"Endpaper illustrations featured in the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background. The first illustration shows two girls running through a courtyard, and the second shows the same girls kissing under the moon in a lake. Text reads "Endpaper Artwork. LitPins&Co special edition. Endpaper Artwork: Kieran Mikolajova"Overlay illustration for the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background. Illustration is largely black and white and pictures a woman slitting a girl's through, with red highlights used for the blood and the woman's eyes. Text reads "Overlay artwork. LitPins&Co special edition. Overlay artwork: Therese (@warickaart)"
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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You can get your own copy here as well (including a MMPB paperback!) www.amazon.com/Scales-Seduc... riengray.shop/b/9gEkw riengray.itch.io/the-scales-o...
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The Scales of Seduction by Rien Gray
Blood-drenched F/F romance between Medusa and a transfem Basilisk.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If you want to know what hypomania feels like, it’s just how a non-bipolar person feels on the first summer-warm day of the year.
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
gonna start telling manhattan men in powder blue button downs and quarter zips I like their "cute businessmen costumes", will report back
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It's a marvelously misty morning in my neck of the woods, so I *had* to pull together a stack of books that just feel foggy to me. Have you read any of these yet??
[Image desc: a stack of books on a fence post amid fog and mist (bottom to top): THE NAMING SONG by Jedediah Berry, THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, THE BELL IN THE FOG by Lev A.C. Rosen, SAVAGE BLOOMS by S.T. Gibson, LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR by Mizuki Tsujimura, THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark, THE DREAMING OF MAN CRYPT OF THE MOON SPIDER by Nathan Ballingrud, YELLOW JESSAMINE by Caitlin Starling, THESE PRISONING HILLS by Christopher Rowe, LUD-IN-THE-MIST by Hope Mirrlees]
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Oh noooooo, I drank the gin that makes you crave attention 🤪
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You simply cannot resist a Bee’s Knees when it is 73 degrees in March. You simply cannot resist.
Holding up a Bee’s Knees cocktail in front of a Bees and Honey poster
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
they’re telling me I’ve gotta stop calling holy prayer cards of the saints and Our Lady my “trading cards”
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Saint (S.T.) Gibson @stgibson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
My mental health would be a lot better if I could just stop seeing parallels and understanding cycles
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