Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
LightNews LightNews
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
@swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
810 followers 530 following 370 posts
A podcast about all things representation hosted by queer book lovers, designed to spotlight marginalised authors & creators.

Hosted by Rachel Bowdler & Ivy Marikova 🌈

https://linktr.ee/swordsandsapphicspodcast
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast @swords-andsapphics.bsky.social · Oct 1
This week, we were joined by Maddie Martinez to chat about her debut sapphic novel, The Maiden and Her Monster. We talked about the Golem of Prague legend that inspired the story, how Maddie created the fantasy languages, and so much more!

Listen now: linktr.ee/swordsandsap...
Swords & Sapphics | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
View swordsandsapphicspodcast’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!
linktr.ee
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Celebrate all things mythical with historical fantasy novel Binding the Cuckoo by Gabriela Houston! In this interview, we learn all about Gabriela’s indie debut, including her interest in the Victorian period and the impact of Slavic folklore on her work.🧚

www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/binding...
Binding the Cuckoo: An Author Interview with Gabriela Houston
Happy Halloween! Celebrate all things mythical today with historical fantasy novel Binding the Cuckoo by hybrid author Gabriela Houston! In today's interview, we learn all about Gabriela's indie debut...
www.swordsandsapphics.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Today we’re joined by indie fantasy author Jess Skultety to chat all about her debut, The Great Tree of Iris, including how she balanced seven(!) POV characters, why bisexual and plus-size rep is so important, and what she’s learned on her journey so far.

www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/the-gre...
The Great Tree of Iris: An Author Interview with Jess Skultety
Today we're joined by indie fantasy author Jess Skultety to chat all about her debut, The Great Tree of Iris, including how she balanced seven(!) POV characters, why bisexual and plus-size representat...
www.swordsandsapphics.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Celebrate all things mythical with historical fantasy novel Binding the Cuckoo by Gabriela Houston! In this interview, we learn all about Gabriela’s indie debut, including her interest in the Victorian period and the impact of Slavic folklore on her work.🧚

www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/binding...
Binding the Cuckoo: An Author Interview with Gabriela Houston
Happy Halloween! Celebrate all things mythical today with historical fantasy novel Binding the Cuckoo by hybrid author Gabriela Houston! In today's interview, we learn all about Gabriela's indie debut...
www.swordsandsapphics.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Today we’re joined by indie fantasy author Jess Skultety to chat all about her debut, The Great Tree of Iris, including how she balanced seven(!) POV characters, why bisexual and plus-size rep is so important, and what she’s learned on her journey so far.

www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/the-gre...
The Great Tree of Iris: An Author Interview with Jess Skultety
Today we're joined by indie fantasy author Jess Skultety to chat all about her debut, The Great Tree of Iris, including how she balanced seven(!) POV characters, why bisexual and plus-size representat...
www.swordsandsapphics.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social
🚨 This is not a drill! 🚨

This week is your last chance to sign up as an ARC reader for Hearts of Bark and Scale. Final eARC copies will be sent out over the weekend! Blurb in alt text. Linktree in my bio, or ask me to DM you a link.

#BookSky #WriteSky #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #ARCreader
Background image of desert dunes at sunset. Foreground image of cover art for Hearts of Bark and Scale by Nicole Leland with the silhouette of a snake wrapping around it. Text reads: ARC sign-ups are officially open! Last Chance! Blurb: The world is blood and pain, but still there’s love. All Kvisti has ever wanted is to protect her desert village in a way that would make the Mother Tree proud. Unfortunately, an old injury has left her once-potent dryad powers broken, and she can’t even stop the ruthless magic poachers that invade her village for the scraps of magic she still holds. Snake shifter Iason is bound to a criminal snake den for the sake of his rare healing magic. But the magic poachers want his magic, too. When the poachers throw Kvisti in the same magic-proof cell as Iason, the two are inexorably drawn together, bonding over past traumas. In their isolation, they begin to heal each other, finding a connection deeper than they imagined possible. But when disaster strikes the poachers, Kvisti and Iason are abandoned in their cell with no hope for freedom. In a world that thrives on cruelty and despair, love may be their only salvation. Can Kvisti and Iason break free of their prison and the pasts that haunt them before their connection is torn apart? Will the delicate new feelings taking root in their hearts bloom, or will the desert bury them? When blood and pain are a constant, love is a fragile thing—but one worth fighting for.
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Today, we bring you a lovely interview with @nicoledisneyauthor.bsky.social, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting range of jobs and her experience with publishing.

www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/tapout-...
Tapout: Interview with Nicole Disney
Happy Friday! Today, we bring you a lovely interview with Nicole Disney, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting...
www.swordsandsapphics.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
vesperdoom.com
I'm looking for ARC readers/reviewers for METROPOLIS DOWN!

Coming 03 March 2026, METROPOLIS DOWN is an adult space horror novel about grief and trauma.

ARCs will go out in two batches: November for eARCs, and January for physical ones (limited to 10).

Link below!!
Large white text on a starry black background. The text says: ARC READERS WANTED! SCIFI HORROR ROMANCE White text on a starry background says: SCIFI HORROR M/M SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCE STAR TREK X EVENT HORIZON BRAINS X BRAWN AUTISTIC X PTSD COSMIC AND SENSORY HORRORS FIRST IN A SERIES
October 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
beverlyannemichel.bsky.social
🐦‍⬛ THE HORRORS: a collection of short horror stories 🐦‍⬛

🕸️ small town horror
🕸️ spiders
🕸️ demons
🕸️ a loyal basset hound
🕸️ older protagonists

On Sale!! 99cents or FREE on itch!!

b2r: books2read.com/thehorrors
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/the-horrors

#booksky #horrorsky 💙📚 🩸📚
Halloween sale. 99cents.
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
bookspotlight.bsky.social
🧙 wild witches
🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨‍❤️‍👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

#booksky
Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.
October 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
danifinnwrites.bsky.social
Hey girl! Quick question:

When’s the last time you sharpened your knife?
October 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
The authors below were also unfairly affected by this week’s events & still deserve love on their books! Support if you can.

After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved.

Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️
Stars & Soil by Dax Murray, Dawn Weaver & Soul Flames by Issy Waldrom, Jagged Shard by Dani Finn, Beyond Bringers by Visceral Hit, & Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray.
October 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
authoralexharvey.bsky.social
HEY YOU! Do you like free paperbacks? Do you like chronically ill baddies? Do you like magic schools that weren't invented by a TERF? I'm hosting a giveaway for my sapphic fantasy dark academia novel RIGHT NOW!

2 winners announced October 10th!
A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Release-iversary Giveaway celebrating one year of ASMLP's release!" And an arrow. To the right is an image of a book cover for A SHARPER, MORE LASTING PAIN wearing a Clipart party hat. The cover is read and features two shadowed hands circled around the title. A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Rules" followed by a list reading as follows: -Must be a US resident -Follow this account -Comment which school of magic you would choose to study at Voterique (see next slide) -Bonus entry: share to stories or tag a friend! A celebratory image featuring balloons, candy confetti, and a cupcake. Over top is "Schools of magic" followed by a list reading as follows: -Abjuration -Conjugation -Corpomation -Divination -Enchantment -Evocation -Illusion -Transmutation
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Today, we bring you a lovely interview with @nicoledisneyauthor.bsky.social, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting range of jobs and her experience with publishing.

www.swordsandsapphics.com/post/tapout-...
Tapout: Interview with Nicole Disney
Happy Friday! Today, we bring you a lovely interview with Nicole Disney, author of new sapphic sport romance Tapout. We asked about Nicole's inspiration, the characters, but also about her interesting...
www.swordsandsapphics.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
isaingram.bsky.social
Where the Moon Keeps Her Heart is now available wherever books are sold online!

A fantasy adventure for gentle spirits.

💖 Strong friendships
🍵 Engaging conversation
🔮 Wise-women healers
🗡️ Girls with swords
🐉 Mythic creatures
🌷 First love
🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic love
🌕 Moon magic
✨ Epic quest
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
iwaldrom.bsky.social
#lesficfri and the theme is TEMPT. Riley may indeed be a little tempted ^^
(Who wouldn't be, after all)

[Heart's Claim, a #sapphic shifter romance]

books2read.com/u/4AABOo
Cover of Heart's Claim, with the following excerpt: The packaging all screamed out at her, making all sorts of promises as to the euphoria that lay within, alluring, tempting her, a form of magic in itself, but she’d been in shops like these enough times to ignore it. Mostly.
October 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social
New character art reveal! 😍 And it's double sided!!! 😱

Kvisti and Iason from Hearts of Bark and Scale in their human forms (top) and shifted forms (bottom). Aren't they gorgeous? Warickaart (on IG) did an amazing job bringing my babies to life 💜

#BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #CharacterArt
Double-sided image with a woman with red hair and a man with black hair in the top image, and an eldritch plant woman with bark skin and flower hair and a giant black snake in the bottom (upside down) image.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
This week, we were joined by Maddie Martinez to chat about her debut sapphic novel, The Maiden and Her Monster. We talked about the Golem of Prague legend that inspired the story, how Maddie created the fantasy languages, and so much more!

Listen now: linktr.ee/swordsandsap...
Swords & Sapphics | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
View swordsandsapphicspodcast’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!
linktr.ee
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
nicolezelniker.bsky.social
I just finished and loved this book! It's so profoundly Jewish, not only bc of the mythology and traditions, but because it's a book about storytelling, perspective, and faith. Not just faith in the religious sense, but faith in other people and, through the main character, in ourselves.
THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER by Maddie Martinez.
October 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
authoralexharvey.bsky.social
Coming back to say it's DOUBLE weird how much some of yall want to ignore years and a patterned history of harassment and dogpiling because YOU don't like how some people label themselves.

Get a fucking life.
authoralexharvey.bsky.social Alex, Hisui's #1 Pokémon Documentor @authoralexharvey.bsky.social · Sep 29
Idk man I just think it's weird to harass sapphic authors who know better than you if their books are sapphic are not lmao
October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
lavndr-macaron.bsky.social
On that note, here’s actually a newer report written by the creator of the Shinigami Eye extension after she got harassed by Bee and fans over her refusing to take down evidence of transphobia by Bee against trans men, from her now offline soupcan extension.
bethylamine.github.io/library/inve...
Benjanun
A resource for debunking and combating transphobia online.
bethylamine.github.io
October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
Due to the unkindness of some of the participants in the Swords & Sapphics bundle, we have decided to unpublish the sale as they do not deserve to profit from our name. Please be sure to support the authors affected. Thank you for your love & support. We truly hate this. 🧡
Since our last announcement, we have discovered that some participants in the bundle have been feeding the main bully — an author named Benjanun Sriduangkaew whose “online activity” section on Wikipedia is the same length as her “work” section — information from our Discord server, which was only created to be a safe space for the queer community. For this reason, we have decided to unpublish the bundle, as said participants don’t deserve another penny in relation to our name and brand. I would like to apologise to anybody who has purchased this bundle in good faith — we hope you still found books you adore. For those interested, we will be hosting another Swords & Sapphics bundle in the next couple of weeks for those who stand with us in the belief that “sapphic” is an umbrella term and should be celebrated as such. If you’d like to support the books affected in the meantime, please do! All of these titles are available on Itch.io: Dame Ophis by Merlina Garance, Kiss of Death by Bryony Rosehurst, Tide Breaker’s Curse by Ivy H Marikova, Shadows Dark & Deadly by Andrea Marie Johnson, Born from Earth by Jake Vanguard, My Lord by LB Shimaira, The Price Peace by Senka Heksum, Of Serpents & Sorrow by Katherine Shaw Thank you to the outpouring of support we received on our last post. We truly hate to be mixed up in someone else’s false narrative, but we will continue to act as best we can to protect our community and the diversity of sapphic identities.
October 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
This week, we were joined by Maddie Martinez to chat about her debut sapphic novel, The Maiden and Her Monster. We talked about the Golem of Prague legend that inspired the story, how Maddie created the fantasy languages, and so much more!

Listen now: linktr.ee/swordsandsap...
Swords & Sapphics | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
View swordsandsapphicspodcast’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!
linktr.ee
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Reposted by Swords & Sapphics: The Podcast
lacrimamundi.bsky.social
The usual problem on the interwebs: someone with not much of a clue about terminology shouts some bullshit into the world and some equally misinformed plonkers jump on the bullshit train.

'Sapphic' does NOT mean 'lesbian'.

Look shit up before you start bashing people because some arsehole said so.
October 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
mind you she has an entire section on her wikipedia page about her targeted attacks on marginalised folk. hope everyone supporting her is feeling particularly cool and superior for being part of her clique!
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
swords-andsapphics.bsky.social
definitely the posts of a secure non-toxic adult who only wants the best for the queer community 🧡

maybe you, benjanun, should be more careful, since you’ve been cancelled…. what? five, six, ten times already?
October 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM