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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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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
forms.gle/baYYLuKgWMa4...

Text says Jingle Jingle KlLL coming December 2.

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G.M. Gray @gmgray.bsky.social · 6h

All three bundle links are here!

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 · 9h

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 · 19h

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 · 9h

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 · 12h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 🗃

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 8h

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 :)

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.

davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com

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Hel ✨ || Untwining... 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 8h

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

books2read.com/skylarkinthefog

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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 · 10h

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:
wizardstowerpress.co...

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 · 11h

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 · 8h

Tonight!!!

Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 17h

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Fair play for an actual honest headline by the editor of City AM.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Labours alarmed by the Green surge? So am I.

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Flat Six 🟢 @flatsix723.bsky.social · 11h

OMG it seems they’re already running out of things to say!

Zack hasn’t merely survived the first wave of media onslaught; he’s owned it, with thousands joining up every day.

Join the Green Party to bring your support against the next wave!

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.

We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 11h

UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee

The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation

Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now

www.ft.com/content/ced8...

Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds

Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs

www.ft.com

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 8h

Darius, a mage and one of the two MCs in my M/M Contemporary Urban Fantasy/Romance, is demisexual and often finds himself frustrated that people won't take the time to understand where he is coming from. 📢📚

See this rep and many others in this bundle for #AceWeek
riyati.ink/ace2025-1

Ace Pride Week
itch.io bundle 1
Oct 19 - 25 | 25 books for $25!

Cover of Where We Converge by A.E. Bross features the silhouette of a man standing on a raised train platform, eerie golden light glowing behind him.

All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres!
riyati.ink/ace2025-1

Book covers pictured are:
Secondhand Origin Stories by LeeBrontide
City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault
Sidetracked: Part 1 by SK Kelley
In Spite of the Inevitable by Morgan Biscup
The One He Brought Home by Skye Kilaen
Riyati Rebirth by Kai Zeal
Lost Blades by Liz Sauco
Bridges of Smoke by Jule March
The Whisperer in White by Y.R. Liu
Where We Converge by A.E. Bross
Child of the Forest by Audrey Simmons
A Dragon’s Treasure by Elis Madsen
Enemies to Enemies by Ash Kreider
Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong
Puppetry by Nina Waters
Devil’s Deal by Tessa Hastjarjanto
A Spark in Space by Janina Franck
The Harmony of Falling Snow, A Polyamorous Romantasy Novel by Andora Brokaw
How Six Saved the Frogs

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 7h

Happy book birthday to JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social! In festive instalment of the series, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery. ❄️

Out now! https://tinyurl.com/2jdvnut9

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11h

the two genders, wolf and mall

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Dani Fiend 🧟‍♀️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 7h

It’s chewsday innit

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 7h

The flying #saucer landed in the backyard. A pair of tentacled creatures emerged.

"Welcome to earth!" Garth said. "I'd be happy to show you around. …By the way, you might hear people calling me a pervert. That's just our term for a respected leader.”

“Yes, we’ve met politicians before.”

#vss365

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G. D. Penman @gdpenman.bsky.social · 7h

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 7h

Nearly half of UK garden space is paved over.

Where is the space for flora and fauna? 🌎

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nearly half of UK garden space is paved over, RHS study finds

Homeowners urged to use more robust planting and permeable materials to help mitigate flood risk

www.theguardian.com

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