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Bailey Elizabeth
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💗💜💙 she/her | romance & horror author | editor | cover designer | spooky gamer | connoisseur of useless trivia | grad student | bailswrites.com
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Bailey Elizabeth @bailswrites.bsky.social · Aug 24
Hey everyone, check this out :)
Screenshot of Plot Twist Cafe Kickstarter showing $15,000 / $15,000 funded with 14 hours to go
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anotherindiewriter.com
Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina is out today! (Omg, so brave! Love wins!)

If you'd like a trans self-discovery story & enjoy short (~50 page) reads, it's perfect for you. Get it from the retailers below or many others

Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
PayHip: payhip.com/b/7MrKy
Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina
A girl playing guitar in a bar was more than enough to catch Daniel's attention. But she was more than that: something hypnotic, something ethereal, something familiar. What if the girl of your dreams...
payhip.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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tallimorgan.bsky.social
Fridays are for shitposts because I said so. Is this shitty enough 😂

Read my gay vampire book!
https://tallimorgan.com/<a href="/hashtag/cityofsilver" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#cityofsilver
An intentionally badly designed graphic that shows the cover of my book Silver Blood with text above it that says "add a heading" and text below it that says "bottom text" in the default canva font.
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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impavid.us
If you guys are looking for a chonky, moody dark fantasy series with an autistic protagonist and a big cast of other characters being put through the narrative equivalent of a salad spinner full of sadness and knives, you should buy and read The Impavidus Cycle: linktr.ee/1mpavidus
December 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
FINAL ESSAY DONE, I AM FREE FROM GRAD SCHOOL (until January)
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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earlronove.bsky.social
BE NOT AFRAID is out now!
A deadbeat guitarist's bad night gets worse when he's thrust into hell, seraphs demanding his death hot on his heels. His only hope is another angel, one with eyes he used to know.

retailers: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
itch: earlronove.itch.io/benotafraid
#booksky 💙📚
A release day graphic for BE NOT AFRAID by S. Jean. A 3D version of the book is to the left with a phone displaying the same cover as an ebook. There is a short descrption to the right of the book and it reads: a fast-paced blaze through hell... When deadbeat Trent Cain takes a shortcut home through the park at 3AM, he find five angels there to greet him. Unfortunately, despite their proclamations of "be not afraid", they mean him harm. His only hope is another angel wielding a lead pipe, but there's something familiar about this one... Along the bottom of the graphic is the url for where to find your copy: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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kitauthor.com
Very difficult vet visit today. Arthritic senior mare may not be with me much longer, and goofy gelding has cancer. If just 25 people joined my author membership at kitauthor.com/muse-happens for $5/mo I could afford meds without worry.

You get lots of goodies including short stories & discounts.
Muse Happens Membership Group - Kit Author & Charmed Chicken
kitauthor.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
I think about this tweet exchange every time I write a grad paper.

Anyway I'm halfway through a bottle of final paper wine and @jstor.bsky.social I love you foreverrrrrr <3
a tweet saying "I'm soooooo drunk @JSTOR Jstorrrrrrrr" with a quote tweet from JSTOR saying "Please stay hydrated!"
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
Spent my bday weekend opening Plot Twist Cafe! It was wonderful and I am so grateful to everyone who helped spread the word and make this happen.

I wish I could relax now, but instead I have grad finals. Maybe after all this I can breathe?
Blonde woman with glasses standing in front of bookshelves and a chalkboard sign saying “Plot Twist Cafe opening day”
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
I was busy for most of the day and it barely felt like a birthday but at least I have leftover meatball sub
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
bailswrites.bsky.social
Guys my bookstore opening day event is tomorrow and I’m freaking out
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
A lonely ex-lab subject on the run, a sweet failed mercenary trying to move on, an exploration of each other through space.

Help fund the audiobook and get exclusive content!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#queerscifi #scifi #booksky #books #audiobooks #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #ad
A blue space background with a large planet taking up the right side and a spaceship along the bottom. In the center is the cover of Gems and Star Flowers by Amara Lynn and Primrose Song, which has a space scene with a planet taking up the right half and a space ship along the body. In the center is an illustration of two people. The one on the left has brown hair, white skin with pearls scattered on his arms, and wears goggles, a dark blue shirt, brown pants, and dark brown shoes. The person the the left has purple floral skin, light blue hair with purple streaks, a pink shirt, and purple pants. Text at top of the graphic reads: Back it now. On the bottom is a logo of fanned out book and text the book bazaar.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
Drinking to forget (the scenes I have to cut to get this short story down to word count limit)
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
bailswrites.bsky.social
how to cut 1500 words out of an 9000 word story in a day, serious answers only 😰
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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anotherindiewriter.com
I woke up to being only 7 sales away from my big milestone for 2025. I'm sick and my brain isn't processing it. But thank you all. I got my first ever author blurb for Opus from @tabithawrites.itch.io. Feels worth sharing again.

Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb
White text on a beige background reading "A story of self-discovery that embraces all the messiness that comes with that process, while showing that it's still 100% worth it. The protagonist's pain hits hard -- but so does their joy". The quote is then listed as being by Tabitha O'Connell, author of Structural Integrity.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
We are a Small Business. And it is Saturday.

Give the Gift of Weird to your Loved Ones.
Give the Gift of Weird to Yourself.
You deserve Weird. We all deserve Weird.
🖤☠️

💀print books
💀eBooks
💀audiobooks
💀magazines
💀shirts, patches & more:

store.tenebrouspress.com
Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror
Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
Chopper watched the literal entire Good Boy movie last night. Missed maybe 5 minutes of it going outside, and fought back the sleepies to remain glued to the film.

We cried. Chopper barked. Good Boy is dog approved.
Blonde staffy mix in a puddle on a brown couch looking toward and out of frame TV
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Women want one thing*, and it's disgusting.

*A dystopia where the love of your life comes back but actually she's a robot and the world is going to shit and over the course of the series you have to save it and oh yeah the mental illness is overbearing.

books2read.com/kotovsyndrome
A drawing of two women sitting on a bench. The one on the left (Abby) has very straight brunette hair. She's wearing red and black flannel with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows. She has a black shirt underneath the open flannel and black leggings. The one on the right (Erika) has light brown hair that is mostly hidden under a grey beanie hat. She's wearing an orange hoodie and blue jeans. Erika is resting her head on Abby's shoulder and looking at her lovingly.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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juliemarchbooks.bsky.social
*ahem* this is a Marketing Post

Bridges of Smoke will be $1.50 for the itch Black Friday/Creator Day sale
itch.io/s/168249/bla...

My Etsy is currently 25% off for BFCM
porchlightdesignco.etsy.com

You should check out my recs page
juliemarchbooks.wordpress.com/rec-room/
Bridges of Smoke | Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Julie March
A sale by Julie March, 50% off Bridges of Smoke
itch.io
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bailswrites.bsky.social
Feeling positively out of my mind with how busy I am and how much I need to do still, but I just finished ordering my opening book stock!!!
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Can't decide which one to submit! Do you have a favorite among these 8?

1) buff-tip moth in 2 poses
2) would you still love me earthworm
3) green-lipped mussel spat
4) red-banded leafhopper

(choices 5-8 in comment!)
Digital painting of a buff tip moth in two poses. One has wings spread to show the soft gray brown wings with buff colored "eye" spots at the tip while the other is the moth sitting on a tree branch. When its wings are closed, the moth resembles very much a twig as it is an expert in camouflage. Black and white drawing of an earthworm in an S-shape on its side. The words would you still love me follow the curve on the left and the words if I was a worm follow the curve on the right. The background is an elaborate symmetrical doodle of teardrop shapes of varying sizes. A semi-realistic digital painting of deep red seaweed that is covered with young mussels, which are called spat. Their developing shells are a creamy beige with burgundy red lined patterns. Digital drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) perched on a branch amid fanciful looking yellow flowers that reflect the same color as the insect's head, belly, and legs. The insect has strikingly colorful wings in a swirly pattern of turquoise and deep pink.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Look. I get it. Sex sells. And I have not been appealing to you with attractive people in my posts enough. Well no longer! Lust. Drool over their visage. Do as they say. Consume. Acquire.

anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus

or

books2read.com/opus

or

ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb
A pair of white rectangles superimposed on a beach. On the left is hand scrawled text reading "pretend a hot person is here". On the right is the cover of Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina. It is a beige/off-white cover with the book's title in gray-blue text. At the top is the text "A novella in three movements" and at the bottom is the author's name, S. Morgan Burbank. At the bottom reads "bottom text"
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
Speaking of Ingram, you’ll all be thrilled to learn that it is just as shitty and confusing and hard to work with on the bookstore end as it is on the indie pub side 🙂
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
bailswrites.bsky.social
I see a lot of indie bookstores in the groups I’m in refuse to carry indie authors that are published through KDP because “fuck Amazon, they’re bad for authors.” And I wonder how many of them realize that Amazon actually pays comparatively better than Ingram etc. 🥲
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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blackbirb.bsky.social
I cannot stress enough that I would rather be getting work than having to ask for help like this. So check my services or idk... if anyone knows any opportunities for someone whose skills involve translation and/or knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese... Help in that regard would be extremely valuable.
blackbirb.bsky.social Blackbird @blackbirb.bsky.social · 22d
So, I hate to be coming here for stuff like this, especially when I haven't been very active like I used to... but I am very stressed about this in particular and I don't have much recourse right now. More info below, if you'd like👇
Support Blackbird
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ko-fi.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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aebennettwrites.bsky.social
lots of depressing news right now

BUT LOOK - A SALE!

6 books for 6 bucks

go here: aebennettwrites.itch.io
All 6 Serrulata Saga books on a starry background.
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM