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he/him🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 avid reader and reviewer | library worker | lover of queer fiction, fantasy, Sci-Fi, and historical fiction | autistic storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ech0reads
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ech0reads.bsky.social @ech0reads.bsky.social · Jan 30
hi i'm echo! i'm an avid reader and reviewer of queer fiction, mostly fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and historical fiction.

my storygraph is in bio
my goodreads is www.goodreads.com/user/show/15....

you can contact me at [email protected]

thank you for stopping by!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 8h
🔥💀COVER ART REVEAL💀🔥

As if this day couldn't be awesome enough, we have this wraparound cover art for @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE, immaculately crafted by @jennacha.bsky.social

OLYOKE sets the world afire in March 2026! Much more info to come🖤☠️
Cover art by Jenna Cha; jaundiced yellow and sickly greens depict a fluttering human figure, seemingly free of bones, just skin flapping in the breeze, over a small farm and industrial town, a Jesus Saves billboard, and ferris wheel. Blurbs from Bitter Karella, Hailey Piper, and Briar Ripley Page
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11d
linktr.ee/junostump
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tips super appreciated

i am a trans girl indie journalist w/ 16 years exp.

bylines formerly included: game informer, polygon, gamespot, kotaku, ign, the daily mail, etc etc etc '

im behind on bills, need groceries, more HRT, more cat food, etc et ♥️
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Boo Stardust 👻 @loustardust.com · 8h
#cats #catsky #proofofcat

Have you ever seen anything so cute before?
Grey and white tabby kitten laying on a scarf sleeping Grey and white tabby kitten laying on a scarf sleeping
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 10h
Your worth isn't linked to your productivity.

Just reminding others, because sometimes, I forget, too.
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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 8h
✨manifesting sales this week✨

etsy: spilledinkcoffeebook.etsy.com
kofi: ko-fi.com/beverlyannem...

#booksky #bookboxes #etsy #smallbiz #queerowned 💙📚 🎨💼
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Kelsey - but spooky 🎃 @carska36.bsky.social · 7h
Infographic about me with a portrait (art by Nushdeco) of a blonde haired woman with glasses wearing a green dirndl with a rabbit next to her. Under passions and interests it reads: anime, TV series, movies, books, manga, games Listening to Emo, Indie, Ska and podcast History, food, singing, and women. Under fun favorites it reads: Series: Neone Genesis Evangelion Animal: Rabbit Food: pizza and wings There's also a quote "I still don’t know where to find happiness. But I’ll continue to think about whether it’s good to be here…whether it was good to have been born. But in the end, it’s just realizing the obvious over and over again. Because I am myself."
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 7h
Sad Girl Hours by Anna Zoe Quirke. 📚👍🏼
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#kidlit
Sad Girl Hours is a raw, relatable story of friendship, love and self-discovery, as two young women face the complexities of mental health, identity a...
Sad Girl Hours by Anna Zoe Quirke
Sad Girl Hours is a raw, relatable and honest story about love, friendship and navigating mental health struggles.
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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 2d
Starting Today!!

Ace Pride Week itchio bundles!!

riyati.ink/acepride2025

#booksky #asexual #acebooks 💙📚 🌈📚
Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025
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Laika L. Gagarin but YINGLET?! @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 2d
Alright, the goal of 50%(Or 48% but close enough) has been here for a bit, but i will need to do this again for next month anyway, so if i can get this up to 100% by the end of November, i will greatly appreciate that too!
ko-fi.com/laikalgagari...
Support LaikaLGagarin
Support LaikaLGagarin
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Sidian @sidian.bsky.social · 9h
A deer needed to happen, so here's @kobuk.bsky.social and his tasty pumpkin
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C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · 11d
ARC sign ups for my next book are open!

🎄30k novella
🎁Spies
🎄Contemporary Era, and 1999 Millennium Era
🎁Christmas themed

Early Nov release for the ARC.
💙📚🌈 #mmromance #gayromance

Sign up here
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Text says Jingle Jingle KlLL coming December 2.
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G.M. Gray @gmgray.bsky.social · 15h
All three bundle links are here!
kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com Kai Zeal 🐱📘🔮 | Author of Riyati @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com · 2d
If you're looking to start #AsexualAwarenessWeek off with a bang... check out the #AcePrideWeek itch bundles going on, which ft ace authors, characters, and many ownvoices!

Megabundle 🔗 riyati.ink/acepride2025
Bundle 1 🔗 riyati.ink/ace2025-1
Bundle 2 🔗 riyati.ink/ace2025-2

📚📢📚💙 🌈📚🌎 🪐📚⚔️🌈🚀
Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025 Ace Pride Week itch.io bundle 1 Oct 19 - 25 | 25 books for $25! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen How Six Saved the Frogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strife - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh Bridges of Smoke - Julie March Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart Pet - H. S. Kallinger Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilean Puppetry - Nina Waters A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Doce Drosera - Anita Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontide The Harmony of Falling Snow - Audora Brokaw Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/ace2025-1 Ace Pride Week itch.io bundle 1 Oct 19 - 25 | 26 books for $26! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Yours Celestially - Al Hess Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Junk Junction - Sara Codair Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Journey Home - Mary Barros Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Spade - Brittany M. Willows Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon Blood - D. C. Hart The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/ace2025-1
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 18h
Slow Horses x Ministry Of Time

When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.

#SFPit #A #Q #TT
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Anni K. Comics @annikcomics.bsky.social · 1d
I just posted page 1 and the sketch of page 2 of the new smutty #transfusionscomic extra to patreon 👀
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 18h
I tapped my private channel to Miki and then had no idea what to say. (“Thank you for not exposing my lies” seemed a little too blatant.)
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Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · 21h
METAL BONES, PLASTIC HEART
👩‍💻Lonely teenage hacker
🤖Mysterious android boy
❤️‍🔥Slow-burn romance
🩸Powerful mega-corporations
🌃A sprawling city
🔎Scavenger hunt for computer chips that hold answers about more than just a murder...
🎨: @kaelidem
#SciFiPit #SFPit #YA #CB #Q
white hair boy stands next to girl with black braid on the roof of a cyberpunk city
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Aldrea Alien @aldreaalien.bsky.social · 18h
A jaded mage-hunter. A mystery that's better left unsolved. And a choice that tests morals against codes.

Read it today! books.aldreaalien.com/TT

#darkfantasy #queerbooks #queerfantasy #booksky
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb-brighton.bsky.social · 17h
My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Download and share while you can . . . #histbio #histsci #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #OAweek 🗃
royalsocietypublishing.org Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 1d
We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25
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Angus @fightandwrite.bsky.social · 17h
And here we have the majestic cat loaf
Nyx, a black cat, loafing on a red pillow. She is photographed from the side, making her look truly royal. Which, being a cat, she of course is
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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 18h
It's ace week!

Did you know MC Merlon from my debut is demi-ace? He's also neurodivergent and struggling with depression and and grief but he's out adventuring through unknown galaxies anyway.

If you like Treasure Planet vibes but wanted more space crocodiles and cannibals, check out my duology!
arrow graphic with dark, spacey background. Cover of book is also blue space but with a wooden ship and purple nebulas. Gold title, River in the Galaxy. White text statements are around the book with white arrows pointing from the statements to the book: wait, wooden ships in space? Depressed MC, but he's adventuring anyway! Found family. Space crocodiles (they might eat you). Powder alchemy. Creepy villains (they might *also* eat you). Graphic with a blue spacey background and full figure character art to the left imposed onto a blue square. The art is of a man standing with crossed arms and looking towards the viewer. He is wearing brown trousers and a black and silver compass hangs from his belt. His shirt is faded yellow and hair is dark cut above the ears. Black text on blue square from top: Captain Merlon Ricosta. Age at first book appearance: 29. Main Residence: City of Amule. Language: Old Galaxian, Squamate. Occupation: Intergalactic merchant. Sexuality: Bisexual, demi-ace. Bio: Merlon was one of the youngest-ever to sit the full captain’s exam in Twin Cities Galaxy. He’s the owner of the intergalactic traveller Lucia, left to him by his parents before they went on an exploration trip and never returned. He lost his best friend to cancer 2 years prior to his first book appearance and has been struggling with depression since.
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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 17h
Just spent vast amounts of last few days in A&E sorting out scans for a back problem.
They did find problems to be sorted & treated by specialist spinal teams.

So, massive thanks for the orders.
I'm still on my feet though, capable of queuing in the post office over the next few days :)
jambookshopuk.bsky.social David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 4d
OK, going to have trouble paying rent again this month due to back injury.

Would appreciate so much the spreading of my online shop to get some cool orders sent out next week.
All signed.

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Hel ✨ || Untwining... 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 17h
It's #AceWeek! I'm ace...ish. I write ace-ish. #BookSky

The space smuggler main character of Skylark in the Fog, Jeane Blake, is ace, and the book has been described as very ace-friendly, as it focuses on platonic relationships, deep friendships. #scifi

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The cover of Skylark in the Fog by Helyna L. Clove A character art of Jeane Blake from Skylark in the Fog. She is a white woman with blonde hair in a ponytail, wearing a brown jacket, a white tank top, and green cargo pants. Labels around her art say: - captain, lanehunter, human - smuggler, scavenger, coward, angry, stubborn - lonely (but it's crossed out) got some things to work through - not: your chauffeur, your tour guide, your responsibility - and definitely not: the heroic type The art was made by @nightshading
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 19h
With stories by Danie Ware, Juliet McKenna, Anna Smith Spark and many others, Fight Like A Girl #2 has been a feature on award short lists this year. Find out why people love it so much:
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Cover of Fight Like A Girl #2. Art by Oisin McGann. Image is of a brown-skinned girl in light armour wielding a Very Big Sword. She is surrounded by images of other things she might use to fight, not all of them obviously weapons.
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 20h
National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran:

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
www.theguardian.com
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Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com · 17h
Tonight!!!
clclark.bsky.social Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 1d
Reminder: my event with @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social and @storyenginedeck.bsky.social is Tuesday, Oct 21 @ 6:30 PM! Last stop before I skate out of town!
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