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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 9h

Last day to grab the #ADHDAwarenessMonth bundle!

Mostly #ADHD authors, ADHD characters. 22 books for only $25

There's some #LGBTQ rep in there too

💙📚📢 #BookSky #Books

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction by Elise Carlson and 22 others

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction: 22 items for $25.00

itch.io

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1h

if only real claw machines were as easy as the one in Link's Awakening

#Zelda #VideoGames

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 9h

Last day to grab the #ADHDAwarenessMonth bundle!

Mostly #ADHD authors, ADHD characters. 22 books for only $25

There's some #LGBTQ rep in there too

💙📚📢 #BookSky #Books

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction by Elise Carlson and 22 others

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction: 22 items for $25.00

itch.io

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 13h

If you see this, QTP with a sword ⚔️

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 13h

Been playing Link's Awakening for the first time since I was a kid. (That was a long time ago.)

So nostalgic and cozy

#Zelda #VideoGames

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

🏃‍♂️ Fast-paced narrative (try and keep up)
💥 Explosions
🔫 Flirting at gunpoint
🗣️ Taunting and banter
💥 More Explosions
🏎️ A flying car chase
🔗 and some kink
🐦 This Is How You Lose the Time War x Cowboy Bebop

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #PromoSky #SciFiBooks 🪐📚🌶️🌈📚💙📚📢

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

wp.me/Pg9m23-2k

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙📢📚

- A bounty hunter falls for her bounty
- Collateral damage
- A kick-ass leather jacket
- Handcuffs, a camera and a belt
- Enemies to lovers romance
- Planet-hopping space opera

A drawing of a woman in a leather jacket using her pistol barrel to lift the brim of the cowboy hat of a woman in a tanktop with the following

Title: Do You Know What You're Worth, Bombshell Jones?

Tagline: When the bounty hunter out for your head starts sending nudes

By RJ Martin

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Tiffany E. Taylor | Sapphic Author 📚🌈 @tiffanyeauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Book covers of upcoming butch/femme fiction releases currently in pre-order status on Amazon as of 10/14/25 on a starry purple and pink background with the quote “There are never enough books.”

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 22h

Sometimes I struggle to find words that express what I want, even with a thesaurus, and idk if I'm failing to search correctly, or if the word I want just doesn't exist

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

🏃‍♂️ Fast-paced narrative (try and keep up)
💥 Explosions
🔫 Flirting at gunpoint
🗣️ Taunting and banter
💥 More Explosions
🏎️ A flying car chase
🔗 and some kink
🐦 This Is How You Lose the Time War x Cowboy Bebop

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic #PromoSky #SciFiBooks 🪐📚🌶️🌈📚💙📚📢

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

wp.me/Pg9m23-2k

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙📢📚

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

there is not

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

Most women can't keep up with B—until K shows up. K is smart, sexy, dangerous, and came back even after B threw a grenade at her

The problem is K is trying to collect the price on her head

wp.me/Pg9m23-2k

#LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #LesbianBooks #WLW #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈📚🌶️📚💙📢📚

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Trixie Adara 🏳️‍⚧️ @trixieadara.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite cruel disaster lesbian Vampire is back!

www.patreon.com/posts/sins-s...

#coverreveal #darkacademia #queerfantasy #indieauthor #queerauthor #spicyfantasy #smuttybooks

Sins & Sorcery Cover Reveal! | Trixie Adara

Get more from Trixie Adara on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 1d

🤔

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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be at two events the next two weekends - Tri County Diverity's Pride in the Park in Yuba City on October 18th, and Cklockwork Alchemy in Redwood Shores form October 24th-26th.

www.jscottcoatsworth.com/point-of-vie...

#GayPride #Events #Conference

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 1d

Today's affirmation:

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision to create despite it.

#monday #motivation #relax #breathe #water #shadowsparkpublishing #booksky #writesky 📚🪐💙

Monday Mindfulness

Woman sitting cross legged with eyes closed

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Tiffany E. Taylor | Sapphic Author 📚🌈 @tiffanyeauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Ready for a new week? Butch/Femme Fiction suggestions for the IHS reading challenge category for the week of 10/13/25: Spooky Sapphics.
📚💜💙 | Sapphfic | Lesfic | Sapphic Book | Queer Romance
#romancelandia #booksky #sapphicbooks #readingchallenge #butchfemme
@iheartsapphfic.bsky.social

Book covers for the I Heart SapphFic reading challenge category for the week of 10/13/25 on a shoreline/distant horizon background: Spooky Sapphics.

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The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · 1d

The fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (#SPSFC) has begun taking entries from authors. Details and the entry link here:

spsfc.space/2025/10/13/h...

If you're not entering a book join us as a judge!

spsfc.space/2025/09/19/j...

How to Enter SPSFC 5

The fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) has begun taking entries. The authors who’ve been asking us when SPSFC 5 will begin as they get their manuscripts ready can be giv…

spsfc.space

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

#WIPSnips

Don't try this at home (unless you are also inexplicably immune to all magic)

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters

A white-hot arc of lightning burned the air between them, buzzing through her sword. If she’d been wearing her armor, it would have arced all through her, and still it would have only been a tickle on her skin.

By the time the staffcaster processed the failure of its spell, she’d closed the distance and impaled it. She grabbed the staff, any residual spell focused into the gem dissipating at her touch, and wrested it from its clawed hands, pushing the body back off her blade. When it didn’t die on the spot she stabbed it again.

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Drop something DEVILISH 😈 🖤 👿

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 3d

✒️ Xena but the subtext is just the text
💪 Buff sword #lesbian
🍐 Full figured MC
😏 Snarky best friend
🐍 My ex is a literal monster
🪦 and I thought I killed her
🤜 punching a bitch who deserves it

🌈📚🪐📚💙📚📢 #BookSky #SFF #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #WLW #LesFic #Sapphfic #RomanceBooks #LesbianBooks

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 3d

Zoe the Amazon has a cushy life in Egypt, but when she wakes up cuffed to her one-night stand, she's forced to take Kyra the Bard on a mad-dash adventure across Greece and ultimately confront her own past

wp.me/Pg9m23-1N

#LesbianBooks #RomanceBooks #BookSky #LGBTQBooks #SapphicBooks 🌈📚💙📢📚🪐📚🌶️

"Unchain My Heart, A Sapphic Fantasy Romance in Classical Greece" by RJ Martin

- Overcoming Their Pasts
- A Quest, A Deadline and a Mutiny
- Adventure & Misadventure on the road to Athens
- Slow Burn Romance
- Forced Proximity
- An Amazon and a Poet Wake Up Cuffed Together

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

Wingspan is neat. I actually won against my partner for once

I like scoring with an action cubes

The eggs looked like candy

#BoardGames

🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

it's #BoardGameNight! we borrowed Photosynthesis and Wingspan from the #LocalLibrary and learned both

Photosynthesis is really fun, and satisfying to see the forest build up

Still playing the forst gsme of Wingspan

#BoardGames

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

it's #BoardGameNight! we borrowed Photosynthesis and Wingspan from the #LocalLibrary and learned both

Photosynthesis is really fun, and satisfying to see the forest build up

Still playing the forst gsme of Wingspan

#BoardGames

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

ohyeah both #FionaAndCake and #HazbinHotel start their second seasons this month :3c

a cartoon of a woman in a blue dress with a crown on her head

Alt: a cartoon of a woman in a blue dress with a crown on her head

media.tenor.com

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🏳️‍🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author. @rjmartinwrites.com · 2d

*chance and luck. dammit