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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1h

#WIPSnips

From the second chapter of DeadGirlsWIP 💙📚

But Wilhelm released her and turned on his heel. “Uncle! We must celebrate Ser Bellwind’s homecoming. She is a war hero, after all.”
With a silent grimace, Selba watched as all hope of a productive conversation vanished into thin air. Mayor Redcreek mopped another of his handkerchiefs across his dampened brow.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 2d

DeadGirlsWIP official progress report:

Officially done with chapter seven, moving on to chapter eight! 💙📚

a screenshot from google docs showing the document has 83 pages and 11,421 words

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · Aug 29

My commissions are still open! Use this link to get 50% off any editing or beta reading service!

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨NOVELLA NEWS🚨

Veteran hunter Nadine accepts a high-paying bounty to capture a crafty art forger, expecting an easy job... but one look at her mark tells her she's in over her head. 💙📚🪐

Now priced at $2.99... forever! Available on Amazon, Ko-fi, Itch, & Payhip! elizamares.carrd.co#catmouse

The CAT/MOUSE cover on a dark purple background. Surrounding it are arrows and the phrases: “Sapphic science fiction with a noir twist!”; “heisting on a space station”; “far-flung future”; “steamy nightclub encounter”; “all the yearning”; “supporting women’s rights and wrongs”; “femme alien art thief”; “butch human bounty hunter”. The ebooks are $2.99 and they are available on Amazon, Itch, Ko-fi, and Payhip.

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⟢ Avilone ‹𝟹 ₊˚.⋆ @faeriegasm.bsky.social · Aug 29

Watching SWERFs insist their ideology isn’t fascist while they’re being backed by Christian nationalist lobbying groups

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 4h

24 more hours to grab this amazing deal 👀

✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 6d

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A collage of indie books for sale in the Itch.io Under-Rated Bundle. Runs 10/9 to10/13, bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 4h

#LGBTQWriteAThon

From chapter six of DeadGirlsWIP ❤️

Selba cracked open her trunk and dug her hands inside. “What’s the weather like over in the big city?”
“Cooler than here. There’s no hills or valleys to trap the day’s heat after dark.”
“So… layers?”
“Layers.”

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

My week was alright! Some good and some not-so-good. I hit over 11,000 words in DeadGirlsWIP, which is definitely part of the good!

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 11:

Check in day! How was your week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 11: Check in day.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

My week was alright! Some good and some not-so-good. I hit over 11,000 words in DeadGirlsWIP, which is definitely part of the good!

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 11:

Check in day! How was your week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

My debut novella is included in the Under-Rated Itch Bundle rn, alongside 60+ other titles w/ under 15 ratings and reviews! Only $38 for a curated collection of the best books you've never heard of.

Give it a looksee here: itch.io/b/3305/under...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that the itch sale is still going strong. Go get ALL these books at a bargain price!!!

Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 3d

The Under-rated books bundle on Itch, hosted by @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social is now live. That is more than 60(!!!) books from over 40 authors, including 2 of my short story collections. Find the bundle here: itch.io/b/3305/under...

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 2d

DeadGirlsWIP official progress report:

Officially done with chapter seven, moving on to chapter eight! 💙📚

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 3d

If you guys would like to pick up a print or would like to send me a tip or a little tea money n you have a generous heart and disposable income, would appreciate it my way ♡ dont have any spare money for food today 😊

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Inprnt and patreon also takes 30 days to pay out! If you would just like to send me a direct tip and youre blessed with disposable income and a generous heart you can send a tip here hehe
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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 2d

Unfortunately the streak is over. But hey. I still have a book I'd love to get out into the world. Preorders available below.

💙📚 #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 #indie 📢📚 🩷 🪐📚 #Books 🌈📚 #booksky 📚🌎

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 3d

This is day 4 of Opus being announced to the world. I've been fortunate that I've gotten at least one preorder every day since announcement. Can I run that streak to 4 days in a row? Would you be the one to help my trans self-discovery story find a home?

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

They say they want new things in fantasy, then authors from marginalized groups do new things, but they don't like that, they want the new thing to be like the old thing except new.

What they really want is a book to rewind time and make them young again, something no book or anything else can do.

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Spoukee PD 🏳️‍⚧️ Resident Evil is my hyperfixation @pdloupee.blog · 2d

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

My debut novella is included in the Under-Rated Itch Bundle rn, alongside 60+ other titles w/ under 15 ratings and reviews! Only $38 for a curated collection of the best books you've never heard of.

Give it a looksee here: itch.io/b/3305/under...

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 3d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

DeadGirlsWIP is so queer-norm that they don't really delineate between sexualities in any firm way, BUT Selba is a bisexual woman and Valerie is a lesbian!

The rest of the main cast includes a gay ace man, a straight-ish woman, a bisexual man, and a token cishet blonde guy.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Gotta have one 😂

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 3d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

DeadGirlsWIP is so queer-norm that they don't really delineate between sexualities in any firm way, BUT Selba is a bisexual woman and Valerie is a lesbian!

The rest of the main cast includes a gay ace man, a straight-ish woman, a bisexual man, and a token cishet blonde guy.

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 4d

#WIPSnips

Changing things up with a snip from THE DEVIL'S BIND, my ongoing dark romance between a 1950s secretary and the Demon Lord she's bound to when a ritual goes wrong. It's free to read on Wattpad 👀

This comes from Chapter 6, in which Arlo is judging a sinner's soul. 💙📚

“You can’t do this to me! I am a good Christian man — I prayed, I went to church every Sunday!”
“You forget your other Sunday habit: ingesting a bottle of wine and smacking your wife around if dinner was late. It seems to me that these two things did not cancel out as well as you predicted. But ‘that’s life’, as they say! So I present you now with your choice:
“Enlist your soul eternally into my army and be reforged, or endure a millennium in my dungeons so your soul may be cleansed.”

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fernybee @fernybee.bsky.social · 5d

unicorn 🩸

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✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · 4d

It's #LesbianDay!!!! Read about these space lesbians!!!

✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨NOVELLA NEWS🚨

Veteran hunter Nadine accepts a high-paying bounty to capture a crafty art forger, expecting an easy job... but one look at her mark tells her she's in over her head. 💙📚🪐

Now priced at $2.99... forever! Available on Amazon, Ko-fi, Itch, & Payhip! elizamares.carrd.co#catmouse

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