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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 1d

You have the eye 😌

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 1d

COVER REVEAL

Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 1d

We are so excited to reveal the cover for THE HARPY KNIGHT by @omersarae.bsky.social! ✨

In this thrilling sequel to The Gryphon King, old rivalries and new threats pull Bataar and Nohra into a swirling cauldron of gods, monsters and djinn.

Coming July 2026! 💙

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 4d

Query letters can be the worst! Get a subscription + query letter critique from the amazing Sara Omer, author of The Gryphon King, for invaluable query letter insight! Big thank you to @omersarae.bsky.social for offering this!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

A blurry purple background with white text. It reads "Live now on Kickstarter! Query letter critique by Sara Omer, author of THE GRYPHON KING (Titan Books 2025) with short fiction in The Dark, PodCastle, Small Wonders, elsewhere!". Sara is pictured smiling and looking up on the left side.

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 6d

Monthly reminder that I have a Ko-fi account, and that probably it will end on acquiring more books, not going to lie.

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Buy Jamedi a Coffee

Become a supporter of Jamedi today!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Mar 5

NEW VIDEO ALERT! The Dune-isode has arrived! A classic’s classic of science fiction, DUNE is always a joy to revisit, especially with the arrival of Dune Part 2 in theaters. Desert worms & fanaticism abound. The Spice must flow, blue as Fremen eyes & redolent with layered flavors.

Dune by Frank Herbert alongside a bright blue cocktail in a stemmed glass rimmed with golden sugar.

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 6d

Do you want:
✨a fantasy with the same wonder of dragon riders but with flying, man-eating horses
✨lady knights in a non-European fantasy world
✨to witness the outbreak of a mythic disease that turns men into ghouls?

All this and more in The Gryphon King

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 6d

🥰💕

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 6d

LGBT rep in TGK:

Lesbian older sister who is better than you at everything
Demisexual warlord doomed by the narrative
Nonbinary eldritch god in the sky
Bisexual girlfailure (feral)
Poly woman with game
Codependent homoerotic friendships
“Straight” couple that’s probably bi for bi

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 6d

I’m so excited to finally reveal that Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love has an audiobook! 🌸📚
It’s narrated by the fabulous Cody Sloan and available now!

books2read.com/u/b5YEw1

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 6d

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Purchase links

Audio All audio retailer links Major Retailers Barnes and Noble Books-a-Million Forbidden Planet Waterstones Amazon (US) Amazon (UK) Indigo ...

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 7d

If you’d like a sisterhood of female knights, political plotting, Ottoman Empire and Turkic tribe-inspired cultures, and a main character riding a man-eating pegasus, then you should read my debut adult dark fantasy The Gryphon King.

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 7d

YOU DID IT! We hit $15,000 and unlocked a bonus reprint in every issue! Our next stretch goals are all about sustainability and survival: each goal funds a Year 3 issue of OTHERSIDE! We want to keep bringing you fantastic queer art for a long, long time.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Over a hazy purple background, there's the header "stretch goals." Four goals of $12000 (reprints), $13000 (more art), $14000 (nonfiction), and $15000 (+1 reprints) are now illuminated in rainbow with a picture of an open lock next to them. The remaining goals of $17000 (Issue 9), $19000 (Issue 10), $21000 (Issue 11), and $23000 (Issue 12) show a closed lock.

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 9d

Oooo scaaarrryyyy hallloooowwweeeen time what if you paid a ghastly $13.99 for a high quality paperback (BOOOOOO!) of Shiver Me from Amazon which is also full of horror and terror but definitely pays me the most per copy (haunted) … pirate romance not that scary unless you are avoidantly attached

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 11d

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Vermillion @byvermillion.bsky.social · 13d

I’m getting review bombed (by my own characters)

Ty to @omersarae.bsky.social for signing them up for goodreads 😫

A digitally drawn ocean background with a fake goodreads review pasted over it. It’s a one star review from Connor which says: “
The author lacks heart!
Setting a MMC up for repeated embarrassment as a stand in for plot should be illegal. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.
Would read more about the FMC, though...”

A digitally drawn ocean image with a fake goodreads review pasted over it. The review is from Regula and it’s a one star. It reads”
Insipid excuse for a book
Can't believe how much time I wasted reading about a pirate's disheveled golden hair, amber eyes struck just right by sunlight, callused hands and lightly muscled forearms.
I have better things to do. Maybe I'll write my own book
Thanks for the gifted copy.”

A digitally drawn ocean image with a fake goodreads review pasted over it. It’s from
Rory and it’s a one star. It reads “Connor’s lawyer here. Cease and desist or else. Not enough smut either.”

A digitally drawn ocean background with a fake goodreads review pasted over the top. It’s from Odette and it is a 5 star. It reads “
Oh, what a treat!
Read it in 24 hours and I swear I was holding my breath the entire time.
Cannot wait for book two... there's this one character who deserves the world and I think she'll get it!”

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 14d

I hate this 🙃

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 14d

🎉🎉 COVER REVEAL TIME 🎉🎉

I am so, so hyped to bring you THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY 🥳 coming May 2026!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 16d

Enter to win THEE hiking fantasies of the year, if not the decade!!

Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 23d

Hear my full review of THE WITCH ROADS by @kateelliottsff.bsky.social (available now from @torbooks.bsky.social) and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube. PLUS, ENTER TO WIN A COMPLETE DUOLOGY SET!!

youtu.be/6Y1J8-Ssepk

GIVEAWAY!! Cocktail Recipe & Book Review: Deputy Courier (THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott)

YouTube video by Bar Cart Bookshelf

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 16d

Hoping it will be so soon! 👀

Cat Changing The Clock Changing The Time GIF

ALT: Cat Changing The Clock Changing The Time GIF

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 16d

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree. A sere novella of death & haunting in east Texas, a mournful & moving read, cut through with ghosts & the dry burning heat of surreality. Our drink, a mocktail, is the Safeheart.

SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED by Josh Rountree, a coffee colored book alongside a coffee drink on a bookshelf.

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On Wednesdays We Read Pod @owwrpod.bsky.social · 16d

Today we have a BONUS EPISODE! We spoke with @nghivo.bsky.social, one of our favorite authors (and panelists!). Listen to OWWR talk on A Mouthful of Dust, part of the Singing Hills series! @tordotcom.bsky.social #booksky #singinghills #pubday
linktr.ee/OwwrPod?utm_...

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 16d

My sequel has a title and a cover (coming very soon!). You can add The Harpy Knight on Goodreads and read The Gryphon King now if you’re interested in zombie ghouls, man-eating horses, ravenous beasts, Southwest Asian inspired worldbuilding, or princess knights.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 22d

Monthly round up! We covered five books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this September: time travel shenanigans, parallel worlds, gods, monsters, & mortals, the raddest & radish of wives, clever foxes, deadly assassins, & stalwart couriers. Have you seen all this month's episodes? Have you tried the drinks?

[image desc: a stack of books in front of several bottles of absinthe (bottom to top): THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, A RUIN, GREAT AND FREE by Cadwell Turnbull, THE DEAD CAT TAIL ASSASSINS by P. Djèlí Clark, STARSTRUCK by Aimee Ogden, AUDITION FOR THE FOX by Martin Cahill.]

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M. R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 22d

If you love gift-giving (or just love queer art) but don’t have a specific recipient in mind, you can add a gift subscription to your pledge and we’ll make that sub available to someone who wouldn’t be able to afford one otherwise.

OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 22d

There were requests for an option to gift someone else an OTHERSIDE subscription—and now you can! We've updated our add-ons to include gift subscriptions! For those who want to lovingly throw OTHERSIDE at friends and family AND support our Kickstarter 👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE 2026: A New Magazine of Queer SFF!

A new queer-led literary magazine devoted to speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists.

www.kickstarter.com

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Sara Omer @omersarae.bsky.social · 29d

Read my interview with Danai! Learn about vile ladies and Vile Lady Villains!

Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you so much to @omersarae.bsky.social for interviewing me for her Substack (subscribe, if you haven’t already!)

We chatted all things Vile Lady Villains and my current obsessions.

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Vile Never Tasted So Good

Interview with Danai Christopoulou author of “Vile Lady Villains"

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