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J.E. Leak | Author
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Author, photographer, illustrator, geek. Lover of vintage things. Writer of the sapphic noir Shadow series. she/her https://sleek.bio/je-leak-author
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J.E. Leak | Author @jeleakauthor.bsky.social · Sep 16
✨Do you have a road trip coming up? A long-haul flight? Or maybe you’re just itching for an unforgettable series?✨

Pour some Abby Craden into your ears and settle in for one heck of a ride!

A sultry spy falls for her mark in this sapphic noir historical fiction series.
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WLW | 🌈📚💜
Graphic showing the four books of the sapphic noir Shadow series by J.E. Leak. Text reads: Film Noir? Sultry Spies? Abby Craden? Yes, please!
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Curled up and sleepy. Purrrfect! #HappyCaturday! 😻

#Cats #Caturday
Black and white cat curled up in flannel sheets.
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Happy #LesFicFri 🏳️‍🌈
Theme: Thank
Old Hollywood classic film vibes, but sapphic! From 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 (Shadow Series Book 1).

Dark secrets and forbidden desires collide in this noir WW2 spy series. 💄👠🥃

Available in audiobook, narrated by Abby Craden!
books2read.com/itsotp
#BookSky 🌈📚💜 #WLW
A book quote graphic for In the Shadow of the Past (Shadow series Book 1) by J.E. Leak. The text reads: Kathryn appeared from behind the screen, struggling with the zipper behind her back. “Say, could you—” “Sure.” Jenny sprang from the chair a little too eagerly. “Thank you,” Kathryn said with a frustrated exhale, placing a hand on her chest to hold up the dress. “I swear, if a man designs a dress, you can bet he’ll put the zipper in the most inconvenient place just so he can help you out of it later.” “The swine,” Jenny said in mock indignation, trying not to notice the lack of undergarments on the delicate valley of bare skin she’d just uncovered.
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Tonight's #Noirvember film was 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺! Barbara Stanwyck is fire in this film! 🔥 One of the most underrated actors of her generation. Honestly, everything about this film is exceptional.

Now I'm in a Veronica Lake mood. Help me pick tomorrow's film: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘒𝘦𝘺 or 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘎𝘶𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘪𝘳𝘦?
Photo of a DVD collection of 10 Noir Films.
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Kathryn isn't a bad girl. Just misunderstood.
Jenny is a good girl. She just has a penchant for trouble.
When misunderstood meets trouble, intrigue and desire ignite a love that brings a bad girl to her knees, and a good girl to the edge of ruin. Willingly.
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#Booksky 🌈📚💜 #Noirvember
The four audiobook covers of the sapphic noir Shadow series by J.E. Leak. Text reads: Film Noir Vibes? Sultry Spies? Yes, please! Sapphic love, intrigue, secrets, and spies. Shadow Series narrated by Abby Craden.
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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A day without catnip is like a day without sunshine! (he said) #HappyCaturday! 😻

#Cats #Caturday
Black & white cat laying on his back staring at the camera, surrounded by catnip toys.
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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#Book & #movie. Available in many countries @ numerous booksellers & on #TV channels & #film streaming services. #lesbian #romcom #family #sapphic #India #film #novel #Screenplay by Gabriel Constans.
Book: tinyurl.com/2c4nkm8n
Film Trailer: tinyurl.com/3urnkz6w
💃🏽 Shandra, "I LOVED BOTH!"
Book cover, with woman as green tree. Background orange. Title "The Last Conception a novel" and author's name "Gabriel Constans". Movie poster with yellow background and blue circle in center with two women gazing at one another. Below circle is title of film in white letters "The Last Conception". Below title, in green letters, is "Directed by Gabriela Ledesma" and below that is "Screenplay by Gabriel Constans".
June 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A dead body.
A cryptic note.
Two women searching for answers in a world they dare to occupy.
#BookSky
#AMurderousBusiness
#ResistTheHeteropatriarchy
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A Murderous Business 9781250356482 - Macmillan
A sharp, captivating historical mystery about two queer women in turn-of-the-century New York, for fans of Lavender House and A Most Agreeable Murde...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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From a collection of Sapphic thoughts on love, loss, laughs, and life titled "Love You Like A Woman"
💞🌈
#SapphicPoetry
#Lesficfri
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November 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Happy #LesFicFri 🏳️‍🌈
Theme: Chill
Classic Noirvember film vibes, but sapphic! From 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 (Shadow Series Book 1).

Dark secrets and forbidden desires collide in this sapphic noir spy series. 💄👠🥃

Available in audiobook, narrated by Abby Craden!
books2read.com/itsotp
#BookSky 🌈📚💜
This is a book quote graphic for In the Shadow of the Past (Shadow series Book 1) by J.E. Leak. The text reads: The moonlight through the skylight’s rectangular panels splayed a grid pattern across the floor. “I feel like I’m in that Hitchcock film,” Kathryn said, as they were bathed in shades of gray. “Suspicion.” “Yes, that’s the one. The spiderweb effect.” “On the stairwell,” Jenny said, “with the ominous glowing—” “Glass of milk,” they said in unison. While Jenny laughed, a chill skittered up Kathryn’s spine. If things didn’t go as expected tonight, Jenny could be caught in a web of intrigue that would ruin her life.
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Author events are 90% “So what’s your book about?” and 10% you dissociating while trying to summarize 80,000 words into one compelling sentence that doesn’t make you sound unhinged.
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Are you kidding me?!?! Okay, I was not expecting this with a little short story that I barely even told you about, but THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 🤯🤗🥰

I hope you love Laurel and Dana's story, because I really loved writing it! ❤️

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November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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My painting HIGHLAND LIGHT
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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After two years in the wild and thousands of listens, 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 (Shadow Series Book 3) has received 100 ratings and reviews! I know this book was a test of emotional fortitude, so thank you, thank you to everyone who read it and was moved enough to rate and review.🫶🫶🫶
#SapphicBooks
Audiobook cover for In the Shadow of Truth (Shadow Series Book 3) by J.E. Leak celebrating 100 ratings with 4.8 stars. Narrated by Abby Craden.
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Elisabeth Welch photographed by Sasha, 1933
Actress and singer Elisabeth Welch — dressed in a black gown and wrapped in a black cape — captured almost in profile while seated and posed against a well-lit background, looking upwards, her left hand resting on her chest, in a medium-length black-and-white studio portrait taken by the photographer Sasha
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Happy #LesFicFri 🏳️‍🌈
Theme: Leg
Old Hollywood vibes, but sapphic! From 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 (Shadow Series Book 1).

Dark secrets and forbidden desires collide in this sapphic noir spy series. 💄👠🥃

Available in audiobook, narrated by Abby Craden!
books2read.com/itsotp
#BookSky 🌈📚💜
This is a book quote graphic for In the Shadow of the Past (Shadow series Book 1) by J.E. Leak. The text reads: Jenny blinked at the shimmering figure before her. She looked like a tap dancer out of a Busby Berkeley musical, with her silver and gold lamé tails and short shorts, separated by a burgundy cummerbund. Jenny couldn’t help but notice the woman’s legs, as was the intent, and she silently reprimanded herself for falling into the club’s web of sexual vice.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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For National Fountain Pen Day, my favorite is a Sheaffer Tuckaway in carmine red striated celluloid (circa 1940–44). I have hundreds of vintage fountain pens that I've restored, but I'm especially fond of Sheaffers. Isn't she a beauty? Writes like a dream!
#FountainPens #AuthorLife
An uncapped Sheaffer Tuckaway fountain pen in carmine red pictured with a vintage RolliFlex camera and a vintage photograph in the background.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Happy #LesFicFri 🏳️‍🌈
Theme: Smooth
Old Hollywood vibes, but sapphic! From 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 (Shadow Series Book 1).

Dark secrets and forbidden desires collide in this sultry noir series starter. 💄👠🥃

Available in audiobook, narrated by Abby Craden!

books2read.com/itsotp
#BookSky 🌈📚💜
This is a book quote graphic for In the Shadow of the Past (Shadow series Book 1) by J.E. Leak. The text reads: Jenny placed her hands gently on each side of the wayward seam and began slowly and methodically working her way up the limb until she found the heat beneath her hands seeping into her fingers, up her arm, and through her body, settling—mmmph ... God ... hello—somewhere just below her belly. She tried to remain neutral, but the warm, firm leg in her hands, the smooth hose, and the subtle hint of perfume dabbed behind the singer’s knee made indifference a struggle.
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Good night, Taos. Your sunset display was spectacular!
#authorlife #sunset
Gorgeous sunset over mountains. Gorgeous sunset over mountains.
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I did not have running into George R.R. Martin in a café in Santa Fe on my bingo card today, but 2025 has just been weird that way! 🤷‍♀️
#Author
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Audrey Hepburn photographed by George Douglas atop the Rockefeller Tower in New York City, 1952
Actress Audrey Hepburn — dressed in a black coat, white scarf and gloves — captured standing in profile, face turned toward the camera, smiling as her right hand rests on the railing of the observation deck at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan skyscrapers and buildings visible behind her in the background, in a medium-length black-and-white shot taken during a break from appearing in the Broadway production of Gigi in New York City Actress Audrey Hepburn — dressed in a black coat, white scarf and gloves — captured standing in profile, face turned toward the camera, smiling at someone off-camera as she stands by the railing of the observation deck at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan skyscrapers and buildings visible beneath her, in a medium-length black-and-white shot taken from above during a break from appearing in the Broadway production of Gigi in New York City
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Saw this sobering exhibit today. The importance of art and culture in society cannot be overstated. History can't be ignored, lest the past become prologue.
#HistoryMatters #StayVigilant
Exhibit poster for MODERN ART AND POLITICS IN GERMANY 1910-1945 Featuring the painting Sonja by Christian Schad
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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New look for an older book!

One Way or Another has had a refresh and is now available in KU 😀 Link in comments!

➡️ player / hopeless romantic
➡️ lawyer / teacher
➡️ found family
➡️ London setting
➡️ feisty elderly aunt
➡️ snarky banter
➡️ safe sex
➡️ strap on
➡️ femme top
Book cover for One Way or Another, by A. L. Brooks. The cover is a stylised graphic depicting the London skyline at night with a quarter moon hanging over and being reflected in the river
October 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Good night, #NewMexico!
#sunset
Bright orange and blue sky. Sunset over the mountains in New Mexico
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Rest stops just hit different here. 😬
#NewMexico
Beware Rattlesnake sign.
November 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Months after we lost Forrest, Winston has adopted Forrest's bed over his own. We put the bed on the table to finally put it away and Mr. Man hopped right in and made himself at home. This makes my heart smile. #HappyCaturday, all!😻
#cats
Black and white cat in a cat bed.
November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM