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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 15h

✒️ Xena but the subtext is just the text
💪 Buff sword #lesbian
🍐 Full figured MC
😏 Snarky best friend
🐍 My ex is a literal monster
🪦 and I thought I killed her
🤜 punching a bitch who deserves it

🌈📚🪐📚💙📚📢 #BookSky #SFF #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #WLW #LesFic #Sapphfic #RomanceBooks #LesbianBooks

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 19h

This wasn't the adventure Kyra the Bard was expecting when she hooked up with a tall, muscular woman: she's woken up manacled to Zoe the Amazon, and now she's being dragged across Greece in a mad dash to Athens

wp.me/Pg9m23-1N

#LesbianBooks #RomanceBooks #BookSky #QueerBooks #SapphicBooks 🌈📚💙📢📚🌶️📚🪐

"Unchain My Heart, A Sapphic Fantasy Romance in Classical Greece" by RJ Martin

- Overcoming Their Pasts
- A Quest, A Deadline and a Mutiny
- Adventure & Misadventure on the road to Athens
- Slow Burn Romance
- Forced Proximity
- An Amazon and a Poet Wake Up Cuffed Together

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 15h

✒️ Xena but the subtext is just the text
💪 Buff sword #lesbian
🍐 Full figured MC
😏 Snarky best friend
🐍 My ex is a literal monster
🪦 and I thought I killed her
🤜 punching a bitch who deserves it

🌈📚🪐📚💙📚📢 #BookSky #SFF #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #WLW #LesFic #Sapphfic #RomanceBooks #LesbianBooks

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 19h

This wasn't the adventure Kyra the Bard was expecting when she hooked up with a tall, muscular woman: she's woken up manacled to Zoe the Amazon, and now she's being dragged across Greece in a mad dash to Athens

wp.me/Pg9m23-1N

#LesbianBooks #RomanceBooks #BookSky #QueerBooks #SapphicBooks 🌈📚💙📢📚🌶️📚🪐

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 16h

Necromancy has long been outlawed, but the undead plague the villages in the capital province (and perhaps beyond). Many have been dismembered and reburied, but over time they dig their way out, leading to plagues of hands

#FireSkingAndBone #WritingCommunity #WorldBuilding

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me about your undead (that aren’t vampires)! Zombies, ghosts, etc! 👻 #WritingPrompt

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 19h

This wasn't the adventure Kyra the Bard was expecting when she hooked up with a tall, muscular woman: she's woken up manacled to Zoe the Amazon, and now she's being dragged across Greece in a mad dash to Athens

wp.me/Pg9m23-1N

#LesbianBooks #RomanceBooks #BookSky #QueerBooks #SapphicBooks 🌈📚💙📢📚🌶️📚🪐

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Tris~~ @trishusband.itch.io · 1d

We are live on itch!

For a very limited time, you can get both of these brand-new, trans sapphic cyberpunk noir novels for the price of one!

itch.io/b/3330/new-t...

#lesfic #sapphic #cyberpunk #booksky #sff

A bundle graphic containing two books: Machines of Consent by Sophia Turner and Keeping The peace by Tris Husband

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Make an assumption about this book based solely on the cover

Tu e workd within by dani finn, a weirdwater romance, showing an ethereal woman dancing in a light blue dress against the lavender and pink background of a temple pool

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 1d

If you like Diverse Books, don't forget to save and pin the feeds you wish to use to your feed menu, so you can find them again. (Select the feed you want, select the 3 dots menu.)

Or just save👇 and use the thread as a menu to access all the feeds 😉.

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 2d

I've made some new Diverse Book feeds.
-Trans & Nonbinary Books 📚💙💕
-Black Booksky 📚🖤
-Black Queer Bookworms 🌈📚🖤
-Disabled & Neurodiverse Books ♿📚

They're linked with emojis & or keywords they pick up/to put your posts on them, in this thread🧵👇

Also in thread: Queer SFFH 🌈📚🪐. Aro & or Ace Books

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

Page 33 (1.5 line spacing but eh?) is the middle of an attack by one of the various horrors that haunt the world

#Wednesday #HumpDay #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQWriters

“Terrafol’s many tits,” Dollo swore, poking at the scorched tendrils to make sure they were dead.

“If any god reached through the veil of death to create those things, it’s an angry one,” Elsa hissed as the thing rattled back against her weight on the door. “I’m open to suggestions on escape routes.”

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 1d

my lesbian knight book being framed by swords delights me in so many ways I cannot express!

Kris Madigan @krismadigan.bsky.social · 1d

It's HEREEEEEEE and it is SO DELIGHTFUL AND SMALL! A thousand blessings upon the house of @riengray.bsky.social for offering hard copies of this series. I can't wait to add the others to the bookshelf when they're available.

a small, mass market paperback sized copy of Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray rests against a black fur background. Two small swords (witcher 3 replicas) are layered behind the book. The book's cover is a parchment colored base with green designs that look like crowns.

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Last day to grab the #ADHDAwarenessMonth bundle!

Mostly #ADHD authors, ADHD characters. 22 books for only $25

There's some #LGBTQ rep in there too

💙📚📢 #BookSky #Books

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction by Elise Carlson and 22 others

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction: 22 items for $25.00

itch.io

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

if only real claw machines were as easy as the one in Link's Awakening

#Zelda #VideoGames

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Last day to grab the #ADHDAwarenessMonth bundle!

Mostly #ADHD authors, ADHD characters. 22 books for only $25

There's some #LGBTQ rep in there too

💙📚📢 #BookSky #Books

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction by Elise Carlson and 22 others

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction: 22 items for $25.00

itch.io

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

If you see this, QTP with a sword ⚔️

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Been playing Link's Awakening for the first time since I was a kid. (That was a long time ago.)

So nostalgic and cozy

#Zelda #VideoGames

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

🏃‍♂️ Fast-paced narrative (try and keep up)
💥 Explosions
🔫 Flirting at gunpoint
🗣️ Taunting and banter
💥 More Explosions
🏎️ A flying car chase
🔗 and some kink
🐦 This Is How You Lose the Time War x Cowboy Bebop

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #PromoSky #SciFiBooks 🪐📚🌶️🌈📚💙📚📢

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

wp.me/Pg9m23-2k

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙📢📚

- A bounty hunter falls for her bounty
- Collateral damage
- A kick-ass leather jacket
- Handcuffs, a camera and a belt
- Enemies to lovers romance
- Planet-hopping space opera

A drawing of a woman in a leather jacket using her pistol barrel to lift the brim of the cowboy hat of a woman in a tanktop with the following

Title: Do You Know What You're Worth, Bombshell Jones?

Tagline: When the bounty hunter out for your head starts sending nudes

By RJ Martin

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Tiffany E. Taylor | Sapphic Author 📚🌈 @tiffanyeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Book covers of upcoming butch/femme fiction releases currently in pre-order status on Amazon as of 10/14/25 on a starry purple and pink background with the quote “There are never enough books.”

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Sometimes I struggle to find words that express what I want, even with a thesaurus, and idk if I'm failing to search correctly, or if the word I want just doesn't exist

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

🏃‍♂️ Fast-paced narrative (try and keep up)
💥 Explosions
🔫 Flirting at gunpoint
🗣️ Taunting and banter
💥 More Explosions
🏎️ A flying car chase
🔗 and some kink
🐦 This Is How You Lose the Time War x Cowboy Bebop

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #PromoSky #SciFiBooks 🪐📚🌶️🌈📚💙📚📢

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

wp.me/Pg9m23-2k

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙📢📚

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

there is not

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

wp.me/Pg9m23-2k

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙📢📚

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Trixie Adara 🏳️‍⚧️ @trixieadara.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite cruel disaster lesbian Vampire is back!

www.patreon.com/posts/sins-s...

#coverreveal #darkacademia #queerfantasy #indieauthor #queerauthor #spicyfantasy #smuttybooks

Sins & Sorcery Cover Reveal! | Trixie Adara

Get more from Trixie Adara on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 3d

🤔

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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be at two events the next two weekends - Tri County Diverity's Pride in the Park in Yuba City on October 18th, and Cklockwork Alchemy in Redwood Shores form October 24th-26th.

www.jscottcoatsworth.com/point-of-vie...

#GayPride #Events #Conference

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 3d

Today's affirmation:

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to create despite it.

#monday #motivation #relax #breathe #water #shadowsparkpublishing #booksky #writesky 📚🪐💙

Monday Mindfulness

Woman sitting cross legged with eyes closed

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