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BJ Sikes 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇧
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Indie author, writing fantastical history for modern feminists. Three novels published so far with a sapphic historical romance coming soon... #queerauthor #steampunk #specfiction #indieauthor 🏳️‍🌈📚 ⏳📚 Brit abroad 🇬🇧 www.bjsikesauthor.com
I have a queer short story in an upcoming anthology with the Women Writing Other Worlds group! It's about a fae trapped in a clock, set in early 20th century Berlin. Kinda romantasy. 🌈📚 ⏳📚
February 12, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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Mark your calendars! #PrideBookFair returns in June! 🌈📚

Participate in weekly events, share and wishlist your favorite queer books, and enjoy sales and giveaways!

This event is open to all book lovers, authors and readers alike. Stay tuned for more updates!

pridebookfair.carrd.co
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Introduce yourself with:
One book 📚 — Psalm for the Wild Built
One movie 🎥 — Moulin Rouge
One album 💿 — Ofnir by Heilung
One tv show 📺 — the Apothecary Diaries
February 6, 2026 at 3:18 AM
My ever so fierce bisexual Roboticist is a healer for veterans with broken prosthetics in The Vitruvian Mask. #steampunk #womenphysicians #indieauthor books2read.com/u/3G6xgn
February 4, 2026 at 10:55 PM
The aristocrat Louise-Marie in my upcoming sapphic historical romance is nicknamed Lulu by the milliner's errand girl. The love interest Solange immediately starts using it.
#QueerPrompts January 20: No Name Calling Week: Any name-calling or nicknames in your story?
January 23, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Truth
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
@clockworkalchemy.bsky.social This year's Clockwork Alchemy, Gaslight fantasy, begins in 18 days! At the Grand Bay Hotel in Redwood City California #steampunk #makers #convention
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I'm so pleased that I have convinced some of the Clockwork Alchemy authors to collaborate in the new Basilisk's Bookshop at this year's @clockworkalchemy.bsky.social #indieauthors #steampunk #gaslightfantasy #halloween
📖🔖 Brand-new this year, we'll be selling books from eight authors in the Basilisk's Bookshop, located at the back of the Aster Artists' Bazaar. Come by and meet the authors and peruse their latest works.
October 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Romance overules mystery if there's a HEA
Mystery overrules romance if no HEA.
Horror overrules both.
Scifi overrules Horror unless horror is central element.
Fantasy overrules all other genres.

You can have a science fantasy romantasy horror mystery, & it will still be 'Fantasy' on store shelves.
September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Yep, got two emails recently that were definitely AI review scammers. Don't fall for it.
The new hotness is review spammers using "AI" to synopsize one's new novel to make it look they read your book and can offer you a useful service
September 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
English is a funny, funny language
September 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Had a fantastic day at SacAnime selling books and meeting fans! Two delightful readers stopped by to tell me that they loved my book The Cultist's Wife! I sold it to them at the last anime event. I am chuffed to bits. #writerslife #animecon #indieauthor
August 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
My gothic horror The Cultist's Wife currently on sale for $0.99 at books.bookfunnel.com/horrorbooksa...
#cheapbooks #horror #gothic
August 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Post the last picture you took of your pet. This is Dimity. She is a very good hen.
July 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.

We are having opinions about Mom going away to Readercon for days and days and I am hearing all of them.
July 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's on! Now is your best chance to find my entire ebook collection for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books and many more at www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords
July 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I absolutely love hearing these stories.
Thanks, Moms for Liberty! ✊🏳️‍🌈📚
June 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Looking for some cheap historical romance reads?

books.bookfunnel.com/june99centsa...

#cheapbooks #historicalromance #readers
June 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Looking for #lgbtqia+ spec fiction?
Happy Pride! Looking for books representing our queer community?

#indiebooks #booksky #ReaderSky

🏳️‍🌈Gay Fiction
🥀Urban Fantasy
🧛Vampires
👽Aliens
👼Angles
💅Drag Queens
👻Ghosts
🐉Dragons

📚Amazon: www.amazon.com/stores/M.D.-...
📚Website: www.mdneu.com/shop
📖 Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
June 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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My publisher NineStar Press is offering 40% off all books (including mine). Support a local queer publisher and a local queer author and save money! Click the link below and use the Promo Code: PRIDE2025 at check out.

Happy Pride!!!!

🏳️‍🌈👬📚

#booksky #Queerbookworm

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M.D. Neu
M.D. Neu M.D. Neu is an award-winning queer Fiction Writer with a love for writing and travel. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California) and growing up around technology, he’s al...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I scored 15. Yeah. I like books.
What's your score? Mine is 5.
May 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Hi, I'm Bel, a queer elder goth who writes about alternate histories where queer people were openly part of society and women could have agency.
WIP is Her Runaway Lady, a sapphic romance set in Paris during a Belle Epoque That Never Was. #indieauthor
#QueerPrompts May 1: Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book
May 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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We are accepting proposals for panels, lectures and workshops for Clockwork Alchemy 2025! Follow the link to our presenter guidelines and submission forms below:

www.clockworkalchemy.com/panelis-guid...
April 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you've got literary type panels you want to present in the Authors' Salon at @clockworkalchemy.bsky.social please mention that when you apply! #steampunkbook
We are accepting proposals for panels, lectures and workshops for Clockwork Alchemy 2025! Follow the link to our presenter guidelines and submission forms below:

www.clockworkalchemy.com/panelis-guid...
April 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM