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Bywater Books
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Bywater Books represents the coming of age of queer literature.

We Are All Stories.

www.bywaterbooks.com
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1️⃣ swoony sapphic romance.
4️⃣ unhinged holiday stories.
3️⃣ gloriously whacked kids on loan.
🅰️ Siberian husky with the energy of a small god.
🏳️‍🌈 This is the sweet & joyful chaos your season needs.
📚📱🎧 Available everywhere
3️⃣➕1️⃣ by Ann McMan

#SapphicRomance #RomCom #BookSky #BookRecs
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December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🏳️‍🌈💣 Fierce. Sapphic. Dystopian. Rebellious.
🔥📚 The kind of book you preorder when you want to support a queer author who’s poured her heart & about a quart of lighter fluid into her writing.

Available everywhere crazy good queer books are sold!

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit #BookSky
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December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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😫 Pantone chose Cloud Dancer?
💤 More like Cloud Snoozer.
🏳️‍🌈💙 Bywater Blue, on the other hand—that’s the color of good books.

#OurColorOurRules #LGBTQBooks #SapphicBooks
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December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Booyah!!
👀 Bywater Books made an impressive showing on this list!

Check it out: https://crimereads.com/queer-crime-writers-lgbtqia-crime-fiction-fall-2025-reads/

#BookSky #LGBTQIABooks #QueerMystery #QueerLit #MustRead #BookRecs
A square black image that features a white hardcover book with a rainbow bookmark. Beneath it in white type, it says, Queer Crime Writers Presents: 10 New LGBTQIA+ Crime Novels to Check Out this Winter. And beneath that, it says, 10 recently released queer mysteries and thrillers to keep you reading till spring.
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Books they hate?
✊ Darling, that’s our whole personality.

#BookSky #SapphicBooks #BooksNotBans #ReadQueer #LGBTQBooks
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December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Bywater Books.
🐾🐱 Queer, women-owned & judged by this cat.
👀 Follow us today—easy peasy sapphic squeezy.

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit
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December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚The #BywaterBookDrop for Dec. 3 is Catboat Road by Kate Rounds.
1️⃣ eBook • 1️⃣ day • Only $3.99
👊 🚫 This is a must-read for fans of messy families, taboo age-gap romances & bold sapphic stories.

Buy here 👉 https://loom.ly/LGUwrWE

#SapphicBooks #SapphicRomance #LGBTQBooks #AgeGap
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December 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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🏳️‍🌈👊 The rebellion’s on—at least for sapphic book influencers & early reviewers.
👀 Get your NetGalley ARC of RECLAMATION by @Kristen_Zimmer_Author.

eBook 👉 https://loom.ly/IpmrHI0
Audiobook 👉 https://loom.ly/rGGRo2U

#LGBTQBookSky #NetGalleyARC #DystopianRomance #SapphicFiction
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December 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🏳️‍🌈👊 Our stories are born from resilience.
🎗️🕯️ On #WorldAIDSDay, Bywater Books stands with our community—honoring the lives touched by HIV/AIDS and committing to a future built on dignity, care, and hope.

#LGBTQ #LoveIsLove #LoveNotFear #LoveNotHate
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December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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👉 Sometimes life gets heavy.
💛 Take what you need today.

#LGBTQSky
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November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🙆‍♀️🍖Queer. Women-owned. Indie to the bone.
📣 Foreword INDIES Publisher of the Year.
📚 We publish the queer books you can’t put down.
🛒 Shop Indie today.

#BookSky #SmallBusinessSaturday #LGBTQIABooks #LGBTQBooks #SapphicBooks
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November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Hope isn't lost—it’s just seriously pissed off. 😡
👀 Reclamation arrives December 9th.
🔥 You don't want to miss this one.
⏳ Preorder it today—everywhere dangerous queer books are sold.

#SapphicBookSky #QueerDystopia #RomanticThriller #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit @kristen_zimmer_author
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November 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Crime Ink: Iconic just hit Oline Cogdill’s South Florida Sun Sentinel 2025 best-of list!
👊🔪 A huge thanks for championing short queer crime fiction.
📣 And for the shoutout to editors John Copenhaver & Salem West.

#BookSky @johncope74 @salemwest @cogdilloline #CrimeFiction #LGBTQBooks
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November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Black Friday deals so good they’ll dog-ear your heart.
👀 👉 All titles, now through Dec. 1st.
🐶👂Coupon Code: GiveThanks25

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQIABooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit #BookDeals
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November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🍁 This season, we celebrate the readers and writers who give our stories life—and prove that every page matters.

#LGBTQIABooks #QueerLit #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #WeAreAllStories
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November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Our Reader Appreciation Sale is ON!
👀 25% off all ebooks & paperbacks.
📚 Build a bolder, queerer bookshelf.
💣 Code: GIVETHANKS25
🚫 Ends Dec 1.
👉 Grab your next favorite.

#SapphicBookSky #QueerLit #BookSale #LGBTQIABooks
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November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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🔥 RAVE REVIEW ALERT 🔥
🔨 GOLD FOR THE DEAD by @Ann_Aptaker.
🏳️‍🌈 Queer noir, vibrating tension & Cantor Gold at her best.
🔪 Found family, shifting loyalties, danger in every alley.
📚 Read the full review here: https://loom.ly/1noOyog

#SapphicNoir #SapphicBookSky #BookSky #CrimeFiction
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November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 To every writer pushing through the noise:
✍️ When the world shrugs—write.
💣 When everything feels like it’s cracking—write.
🫥 🦴 When you feel alone—trust the stories in your bones.
💯👉 Someone out there needs what only you can give them.

#AuthorSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit
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November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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👀📛 At Bywater Books, we’re not here to behave.
🏳️‍🌈📚 We’re here to reshape the queer lit landscape—one badass book at a time.
✅ Check us out: https://bywaterbooks.com

#sapphicbooksky #sapphicromance #sapphicmystery #SapphicStories #ReadSapphic
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November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 ⏰ Tick tock!
5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣+ sapphic books—including tons from Bywater Books—on sale.
💣 Deals vanish after Nov 24.
📚 Stock up while you can!
https://iheartsapphfic.com/2025/11/20/2025-ihs-sapphic-mega-sale-guide/

#BookSky#sapphicromance #sapphicbooks #QueerLit @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 It’s here: the IHS Sapphic Mega Sale.
👀 500+ sapphic books. Dirt-cheap prices. Wall-to-wall queer stories.
🚦Bywater Books is in the mix—so go fill your eReader!
💥 $0.99–$4.99 • Ends Nov 24
👉 https://loom.ly/EIaVPKY

#SapphicBookSky #SapphicRomance #LGBTQBooks @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Hope isn't lost—it’s just seriously pissed off. 😡
👀 Reclamation arrives December 9th.
🔥 You don't want to miss this one.
⏳ Preorder it today—everywhere dangerous queer books are sold.

#SapphicBookSky #QueerDystopia #RomanticThriller #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit @kristen_zimmer_author
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November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Bywater Books publisher Salem West talks mission, momentum & the future of queer publishing.
📣👊 A smart, candid convo with Jerry Wheeler of Out in Print, you don’t want to miss.

👀 Read it here: https://loom.ly/xnm-7Zc

@wheelerjerry #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit
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November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Ever wonder how your favorite sapphic romance authors got here?
1️⃣ eBook @ $3.99
👀 The very first book ever published by iconic Naiad Press—on sale through Nov 25.
📆 Clear your calendar. Charge your Kindle.

#SapphicBookSky #SapphicRomanceSky #SapphicHistoricalFiction #BookSky
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November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Looking for a great sapphic novel?
3️⃣ eBooks @ $3.99 each.
👀 These amazing historical sapphic novels are on sale now through Nov 25.
📆 Clear your calendar. Charge your Kindle. Thank us later.

#SapphicBooks #SapphicBooks #SapphicHistoricalFiction #LGBTQReads
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November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM