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Raven Belasco 📚
@ravenbelas.co
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author of the 🩸📜 Blood & Ancient Scrolls vampire series 🤓 geek girl 🖤 old school goth 🌈 queer 🥄 fighting for spoons every day 🐺 in a pack with a scruffy terrier #booksky

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Dec 14th! 12 PM to 5 PM! I'll bring free hot chocolate & of course my red sharpie for signing your books ✒️ If you're looking to shop local/indie or just need to grab a few more gifts, there'll be unique vendors selling a variety of geeky wares 🎁 See you at Pandemonium Books & Games! ✨

#booksky
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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How's the vampire Xmas story going?

Oh, just researching shackles for plot reasons... 🧛‍♀️🎄🤓😁
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Just a picture of me and the prettiest little Viking (and bestest Service Animal!) at 100 Minutes War, on a belated birthday weekend with good friends and good whisky and (later) a perfect hot tub under the stars 💝
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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There's a *new feature* in my newsletter: The Raw View 🥩 — snippets of my work in progress

I know it's not a new concept...but I hate sharing my rough work! My readers wanted to peek behind the scenes tho

Not one of my newsletter readers yet? Really easy to fix that! ⬇️

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November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I'm in the flow and can't stop now, so pushing ahead on the story at the salon today ✍️

(Yes, still writing the torture scene, and no one around me has the slightest idea what's going on right next to them 😂)
Author Raven Belasco with bleach in her hair, looking at the camera with her laptop beside her at the hair salon
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Here's a page from the first novel (science fiction🚀) I tried to write 📝

How that led to my current vampire🧛‍♀️ series is the topic of today's newsletter. Go sign up to get the full story (& the best swag & discounts)
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November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The Horror Writers Association featured a #halloween post by *me* today! 🎃

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October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Do what he says or he'll bark at you to walk the plank! 🏴‍☠️🐺

These are the final days of sale on That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story & we're not doing this sale again, so get that plunder before it's gone!

Also, isn't Archie the Goodest Boy and cutest pirate ever⁉️

#booksky #bskybookclub #halloween
Cute terrier dressed as pirate in a wooden pirate ship, with a pile of books beside him. Text reads: "The Dread Pirate Archibald commands you get That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story while it's on sale only 99 cents" with a cute jack o' lantern Stack of books by Raven Belasco titled That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story in a wooden room with an old fashioned candelabra on the wall. Text reads "Shiver me timbers! Get it! Only 99 cents! Halloween sale" with a cute jack o' lantern
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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What 3 #bannedbooks influenced me? Care to hazard a guess...?

(I'll post the answer tomorrow)

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October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It's that time of year! The annual punkin buying extravaganza 🎃

My favorite farm stand is right near to one of Archie's & my favorite places to have a long hike, so I combine a nice long walkies with my favorite holiday shopping 🍂🧡

Have you bought your #pumpkin yet?

#goth #halloween
Author Raven Belasco in goth makeup and big glasses hugging a pile of pumpkins Author Raven Belasco in goth makeup and big glasses buying of pumpkins in a pumpkin patch Author Raven Belasco in a flowy goth dress and leather boots on a stone wall in the woods with her small terrier Archie on leash, looking out as the sunset light turns everything golden
October 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Both! I just did the Historic Lesbian Motif Podcast (audio, although I got a clip of vid for promotion) and closer to Halloween I'll be doing an IG live with the amazing Paulette Kennedy
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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A snippet from The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 323: On the Shelf for September 2025, Heather Rose Jones interviews Raven Belasco about That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story

Full episode: youtu.be/CivDgBGJXdc?...

More about book: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...

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October 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Reviews like this make every hard part of being an #indieauthor worth it 🥰

To grab your own copy: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...

#bskybookclub #booksky #queerbooks
Book titled That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story" is overlaid over a ship's steering wheel, underneath is a glowing review from Amazon
October 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Amber Benson (Tara from #buffythevampireslayer ) and me in conversation about #vampires and #writing and #audiobook at Hellmouth Con 25 🥰

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September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I had an amazing time at Vampfangs Salem Vampire Market on Saturday. My best sales day ever, and the people buying books were so kind and supportive - they actually *thanked me* for writing 🥰

I feel spoiled! Very happy indie author ☺️

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September 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Unbox my new #stickers with me!

Message me to find out how to get yours 📩

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September 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Everyone who drinks #tea with milk has the *exact right shade of brown* the tea turns when your correct amount of milk has been added. Tea drinkers - post your shade of "perfect cuppa tea"

(This is PG Tips brewed strong with soy milk and sugar - "no cow builder's" 😉)

#authorlife #teadrinker
White mug of tea with enough milk in it to make it light brown
September 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Want to enjoy all that Salem has to offer without the hassle of finding & paying for parking? Dark Forest Oddities Expo is your home for everything Halloween!

📍Marriott Hotel Peabody MA
🗓️Saturday September 6th
⏰11am to 6pm
🎟️Tickets at the door only $10
🅿️FREE PARKING

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September 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This is kinda my gooiest, lovey-doviest one. But if any character deserves to find love again, it's absolutely Zoraida, who did not have long enough with the "patar" who made her into a vampire, and she lived for so long with the pain of that loss

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August 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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My most recent piece for Booklife just dropped: "The Funny Business of Sex Scenes" (yes, of course puns weren't optional!)

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August 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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#nationalbookloversday Bookworms party! 📚🪱🎉

Celebrate all weekend with a sale on Blood Ex Libris:
The ebook is dropped down to ONLY 99¢💥
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Or head over to ravenbelas.co for a signed paperback ONLY $6.99💥

Grab your copy before this sale is GONE‼️
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August 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I’m sure you all have world maps up on your walls and are moving the pushpin every time I post one of these, so get to it! 📌

Noosh is finally leaving Tangier and making her way to the next part of the adventure in Book IV, Blood Depths

#wip #booksky #bskybookclub
"Where in the world is Noosh?" and "Writing today: 05 Aug '25" and "Western Sahara" is over an ancient map graphic and the character Noosh's face on the far right. Under that is a map of Western Sahara overlaid over a shot of a motorcyclist traveling along the Atlantic coast of Africa, dessert beside the ocean
August 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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New interview up about That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story 🏴‍☠️ There’s some great questions, including what the perfume for the book would smell like & “What song does your character put on to start your book launch party?“

Go check it out: iheartsapphfic.com/2025/07/31/a...

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August 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I had put on makeup on this hot-ass day so you lot better appreciate it!

Also, here are all the ways to get your hands on That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...

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Author Raven Belasco in make-up and a punk jacket and big rings on her fingers , laughing, her smiley and tongue piercings showing, holding a copy of her book That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story in front of a bookshelf. Text says "Grab a signed copy directly from the author: www.ravenbelas.co"
July 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Well then. I now have one person in this world who I know definitively I am NOT writing books for. Thanks for making that clear, buddy 👍

#booksky #bskybookclub #diversebooks #inclusion
July 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM