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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Queer authors, if you will be publishing a book on ITCH DOT IO and/or KOBO PLUS between now and Dec 31, please make that book known to me below. Especially if you're not publishing on the Evil River! Pre-order link is best, itch profile is great (so I can follow you), or whatever ya got. 🌈📚

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I....just realized I forgot to tell y'all I have a new short story/novelette out. Oops. Can I interest you in some middle-aged sapphic spice with a sci-fi twist? 👀 Only $0.99!

Pink ombre square with "butch femme short story" and then a quote from the short story. "Are you a succubue?" Blanca asked. "Do you lure butch lesbians into this room then kill them with your matching lingerie?". To the right of the quote is the image of the cover, an open matchbook with the title of the story THE DESERT NEEDS RAIN and pink matches on a sapphic flag bartop background.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My client really just had the gall to say in a phone call that my word loss (I forgot the word for something while on the phone with him) is a result of AI use. I have never been more offended in my life for MULTIPLE reasons.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I am as guilty as the next author but not all MCs have to the body of a god to be attractive, good lord

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Too homosexual, into older women, and retired from academia to do anything but roll my eyes when the lead cishet FMC starts talking about the chiseled masculine male perfection of [checks notes] an academic

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I hate being cold. Am rather famous for it. One of my family nicknames is "the lizard." Before COVID, I worshipped a sauna. Tell me why the main side effect of my newest drug is making my body think it's freezing cold all the time and covering me with goosebumps?

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Four of my queer romances are only 99 cents this week at Smashwords! If you 💙 an epub you can read anywhere, check 'em out. First, SHAKE THINGS UP, an FFM road trip romance: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... Tipsy bowling, hella flirting, bi-pan solidarity, & a warm and optimistic polyam HFN.

Shake Things Up is the second book in the Love at Knockdown series. Read if you like: polyamory, road trips, sapphic crushes, bi awakening, and nerdy talk. The cover shows three white people holding hands, one shorter blond woman, one taller woman with long dark hair, and one nerdy-looking guy with dark hair who thinks Tevas are awesome.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

--have great appointment with new dysautonomia doctor and get officially diagnosed with hyperPOTS (yay?) --spend evening with low-grade fever and full body rash because the MCAS was mad it wasn't included Sigh.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

does anyone have good resources for an author (aka me) researching limb differences? Looking specifically into the topic to write a character with hand/arm loss below the elbow, but I will take whatever folks reccomend!

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Jae 🏳️‍🌈 @jaeauthor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's Give Something Away Day! Dozens of sapphic fiction authors have put together a big event for our readers: 🏳️‍🌈 60 book giveaways 🏳️‍🌈 25 free ebooks 🏳️‍🌈 30 book gift cards Head over to my website to get the free books & enter the giveaways: jae-fiction.com/give-somethi...

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just got the draft concept covers for A DESERT NEEDS RAIN and y'all! aren't! ready!!!!! Omg!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The anticipation of getting these damn biopsies back so I can get more medical stuff in motion is KILLING me. I hate sitting in this gray area waiting zone 😭

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I had an outpatient procedure done yesterday. 24 hours later, I'm still thinking about how pretty the nurse who walked me down to my friend's car was. Also, her hijab had gold glitter in the fabric. My post-anesthesia brain thought this was AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL and I made sure to tell her so 😂

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Tell me you're an author with AuDHD without telling me you're an author with AuDHD, I'll go first 😂

A screenshot from an extensive google excel file with dates and drop downs and color coded by type of post and status

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Releasing a short story right before a big event as you are also planning to release the first three chapters of your sapphic book for free WHAT could go wrong?

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The cursed project continues to be cursed. After dealing with [redacted] amounts of flood damage this morning, almost passing out twice because POTS + busted AC, and bashing my finger, all I wanted to do as come home and regulate with a book... So WHAT are my neighbors doing? 🫠🙃😭

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Kurt @truk77.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

With sincere apologies to @tkingfisher.com.

A meme that with the headliner: "T. Kingfisher Writing a Book", and below it it "I am going to put that sensible middle aged woman in a situation."

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

another one for lesbian visibility week!

a black and white typography edit that reads "my life is better with dykes in it." in all caps. above and below the text are swords. the image is textured to look photocopied.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm reading a YA book for an upcoming blog post. Every time I read YA, I am reminded about why I historically don't. I am not the target audience for YA! It is not for me! And that is okay!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I did manage (finally) the edits on my short story that I'm trying to publish before September, so I have that going for me, I suppose!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This month in "why is Long COVID the way that it is": --Audiobooks, previously gold standard to accommodate my ADHD? Bad.* --Manga? Good. --Music? Good. --Writing and editing fiction words? Bad. --Writing and editing blog posts? Good. --Designing covers? Good. Don't get me started on the MCAS.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I wrote words on the Agatha All Along fanfic today. I'm gonna finish it, I swear!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The real fun thing about being chronically ill and in the doctor's office with all the boomers is that you're treated like a saint for using the online check in portal when in reality you're just a Zillenial

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Listen. I love a coffee shop AU as much as the next person. But the romanticizing of the working class and the hospitality industry in romance drives me absolutely bonkers.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I have the urge to jump on my bike and go for a quick jaunt. I'm aware that is the CI/MCAS devil talking. But gods do I want to get on my bike!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

676 words on the new project this morning. Approximately 1,200 last night. I will take it!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I always run into @ridelee.bsky.social in the most random places. 😂 This time, the gem show!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you're reading for the Trans Right Readathon, I have a sweet and spicy sci-fi short story with a trans male POV MC you might be into!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It's all fun and games as an author until you have to punnily NAME the twee cat cafe you thought was such a good idea two weeks ago

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Some Universal Soap Opera writer has clearly decided I am their beloved blorbo that deserves pain. 🫠

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

*sighs* *checks another Solarpunk Sapphic Nostradamus Bingo Box*

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Before MCAS, I didn't appreciate the spices I used on my food. Now I have sea salt and this probiotic I sprinkle on my food and thats...it. And you know what? I can taste the probiotic. It has become its own flavoring. It's literally the spice of life.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Fuuuuully missed that this last week was Women In Construction week (which, in my defense, makes sense for me....but not my characters....) We will let that marketing fish go, put it on the author calendar, and try again next year 😂 there's always Pride in Construction!

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My extremely dedicated editing crew hard at work!

Two white cats with orange tails sit on a lap and on a teak desk yawning and washing. A laptop open to a document sits between them on the desk

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 03/03/2026

…Bumping this for the Evening Crowd. 😄

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 01/03/2026

one of the funny truths you learn if you write in the cross-genre romance space is that people who don't like the sex will hallucinate massive amounts of it in your book, and people who wanted more sex will be able to estimate an exact sex word count within like 75 words. They'll both be mad tho.

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Ale @alepresser.com · 28/02/2026

*sigh*

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In the last 72 hours my brain provided me the plot of a fully fledged cozy romance novella, so that is where I am at with the state of the world right now

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

You are a chronically-ill author writing for the first time in months. The sun is shining w/o a cloud in the sky. You can't quite get into it, because you know the people responsible for The Horrors in your phone this morning are less than 5 miles away in any direction. You live in Washington D.C.

Photo of the sun in a clear blue sky taken over a building parapet

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Today I (finally) wrote a scene I have been fighting to write for almost a year. All I had to do was change character POV! Funny how that works out....

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Another day of being chronically ill, another day of indifference from doctors who seem fit to be trying to kill me....again. *ben affleck smoking meme*

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The yard velociraptors await the new round of white sky shit.

Two rusted metal lawn velociraptor yard aets against a semi wooded backdrop. They are wet and blend in

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I need joy today, show me your fun desk art/toys/displays/fun things plz? Here's mine, aka the "still life" that sits on the shelf above my desk at work. I have never pretended to be normal, I'm not about to start now. 😂

A wicker chicken toy with a sign that says "the chimken of loving correction" sitting on top of a container with a brain cell plushie labeled THE FINAL BRAIN CELL. In front of them on the face of the shelf is the "oh concrete step we're really in it now" cat meme and a screenshot of Pelia from Star Trek on the phone looking Over It.

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Oh yeah, I managed to prepare a newsletter and a blog post while at Katsu. Go meeee 🎉 but I'm genuinely afraid they might be my last for quite some time. 🫠

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T.M. Kuta (@ solarpunk sapphics) @tmkutawrites.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I have been very ill the last few days because of the ill-advised medication taper my doctors have forced me on. Sorry if I missed you at Katsu (I was hiding in Central for most of it). Hopefully I will see many you next year under healthier circumstances. Xo

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I send out a periodic newsletter highlighting new self-pub & small press queer romances I think look promising. IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar. Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️

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