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Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum

@drtanenbaum.bsky.social

In the last 5 minutes of my #sapphicseptember I thought I'd share a brief excerpt from my T4T sapphic romance story, The Egg Prime Directive.

I'm in the homestretch of writing it, and there are over 50k words of adorable trans lesbians thirsting already online!

www.scribblehub.com/series/17665...

October 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM Everybody can reply

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Nat Lawless 🌈🦄

@nat-lawless.bsky.social

Seven books for sapphic September! Amelia, If Only and A Memory Called Empire were my favourites of those.

🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚🌶️
#booksky #fantasy
#romancebook #romantasy #sapphicSeptember

A collage of book covers, mostly queer romance and/or fantasy. Some are circled in blue.

October 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️

@magicariot.com

It's the last day of #SapphicSeptember I gather so please consider my queer magical girl novel wherein the protagonist is a trans lesbian who has a relationship with a cis lesbian and the entire main cast are lesbian or bi/pan women.

It's a good time. magicariot.com/buy

Buy Books - Magica Riot - The Official Site

A novel about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.

magicariot.com

September 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM Everybody can reply

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S. Morgan Burbank

@anotherindiewriter.com

Today is the final day of my 40% off sale on my Ko-Fi. Get stickers, sapphic books, bookmarks, and pins for 40% off and help support your local trans author while doing so!

#bsnm 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #sapphicseptember 🌈🚀💫 #booksky 💙📚 #queeradultsff 📚🌎

ko-fi.com/anotherindie...

September 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Ame ✨Emergency comms - check pinned ✨

@autumnchildart.bsky.social

At the last day of #SapphicSeptember I finished this fullbody painting of my FMC Serara from #Ame_NephilimWIP. Look at my beautiful girl! 🥰 I'm so happy how she turned out.
First in a series I'm gonna paint of all the major characters.

#art #FantasyArt #OC #OriginalCharacter

Digital fullbody painting of Serara. She has brown skin, reddish brown curly hair and green eyes. She's dressed in a blue tunic with purple and gold patterns, and blue pants. A dusky pink bag is slung over her shoulder with a small knife attached to it's side. The background is a gradient blue with her shadow in darker blue.

September 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦

@vriccithode.bsky.social

I'm currently obsessed with The Last Hour Between Worlds and The Last Soul Among Wolves by @melissacaruso.bsky.social I even bought the Illumicrate editions which is a new thing for me. Just superb and weird sapphic shenanigans #booksky #SapphicSeptember

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 20d

Recommend a piece of art (any medium) that's not yours that you've recently enjoyed or re-enjoyed. Just something you think might help someone else, cheer 'em up, escapism, w.e.

Just wondering. :)

September 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM Everybody can reply

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Terran

@terranstorm.bsky.social

Here are my September Reads! #AmReading #BookSky #QueerReads #SapphicSeptember

Covers for 29 recent reads: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, In Universes by Emet North, Run Away With Me by Brian Selznick, Little Sip of Sin by Clio Evans, Deep as the Sky Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig, In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson, Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, Founder's Mercy by Owen Lach, How to Bite Your Neighbor & Win A Wager by DN Bryn, Metal from Heaven by August Clarke, Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan, They Hate Each Other by Amanda Woody, Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland, Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett, The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi, The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Pumpkin Spice and Poltergeist by Ali K Mulford & K Elle Morrison, Chlorine by Jade Song, The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, Lady Dragon by AM Strickland, Cosmoknights (Book Two) by Hannah Templer, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson, The Sugared Game by KJ Charles, Subtle Blood by KJ Charles, The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

September 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM Everybody can reply

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Arden Powell 🍂🍁

@ardenpowell.bsky.social

OF SOCIALITES AND PRIZEFIGHTS is on this list! A butch/femme sapphic romance set in 1920s London with magic, where the butch is an underground boxer and the femme needs true love's kiss to break her curse (a scorned suitor turned her into a leopard) 🧡🤍💖 #SapphicSeptember
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSC1JHLV

Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 21d

It's still September, just about, but it's always time to read queer books. If you're looking to read more books featuring sapphic and lesbian characters, then here are 15 SFF books by indie authors to celebrate Sapphic September:

www.readindiefantasy.com/15-books-for...

A banner image featuring the sapphic flag (pink, white, and pink bands with a purple flower in the middle) and the text 15 books for sapphic September.

September 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM Everybody can reply

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WriteWorks

@write-works.bsky.social

First Sapphic Kisses Part 2 😘 not all first kisses are created equal!🤣

Celebrate #SapphicSeptember with two fabulous #indiebooks by @crjones13.bsky.social and @author-c-hickcox.bsky.social 🌈

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#Booksky #writingcommunity #indieauthorlife

September 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM Everybody can reply

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻

@beverlyannemichel.bsky.social

🩰 HAVE IT ALL: sapphic romance 🩰

b2r: books2read.com/hia
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/have-it-all
etsy: spilledinkcoffeebook.etsy.com
kofi: ko-fi.com/s/cd2d0b76b3

#booksky #sapphic #sapphicseptember #lesfic 💙📚 🌈📚 🌶️📚

Have it All: trope map.
Lesbian x bisexual.
Single parent.
Rivals to lovers.
Found family.
Ballet dancers.
Grumpy x grumpier.
Futch fmc.
Ace himbo.

September 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing!

@cathypegau.bsky.social

It's the last few days of #SapphicSeptember, my bday month AND Bi Visibility Month!
Let's celebrate!
Get a copy of one of my books with Sapphic/bi characters!
Rulebreaker
Deep Deception
The Charlotte Brody Mysteries (not Charlotte, but others)
The Demon Equilibrium
Blood Remains
A Murderous Business

September 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Audrey, CMS

@amayna60.bsky.social

Really enjoyed Fair Play, Tove Jansson. “She began to anticipate a solitude of her own. She felt something close to exhilaration, of a kind that people can permit themselves when they are blessed with love.“ #SapphicSeptember
*technically* #SpinsterSeptember 📚💙

Image of a paining by Jansson of the artist Tuukikki Pietla, her longtime companion. Bent over her artists table in a studio surrounded by art.

September 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM Everybody can reply

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Game Master's Book Club

@gmbookclub.bsky.social

#sapphicseptember Day 12-BINGO!-Choose your own prompt,Lesbian Role Playing Game Thirsty Sword Lesbians by April Kit Walsh #ttrpg #ThirstySwordLesbians #TTRPGCommunity #rpggames #queerstories #melodrama #PBtA #poweredbytheapocolypse #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

September 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM Everybody can reply

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Ruby Love Cat Witch Vtuber

@witchrubylove.bsky.social

#sapphicseptember is almost done! Don't forget to pick this up before then :)

Ruby Love Cat Witch Vtuber @witchrubylove.bsky.social · Aug 20

MY FIRST BOOK IS OUT!

⚔️Monsters & Magic⚔️
⭐️ urban fantasy
⭐️ mutual pining
⭐️ plenty of trauma
⭐️ bloody violence
⭐️ eldritch monstrosities vs teenage girls
⭐️ power rangers for some reason?

Buy on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS58CZL

OR More information: witchruby.love

September 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM Everybody can reply

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S. Morgan Burbank

@anotherindiewriter.com

ICYMI (and I am annoying online so I'm sorry if you haven't missed it): Almost everything on my Ko-Fi is 40% off. This includes paperback books, stickers, pins, &bookmarks. Help me deplete my stock & get cool things!

#bsnm #writingcommunity 🌈📚 #sapphicseptember #ohio

ko-fi.com/anotherindie...

A number of stickers laid out on blue construction paper. They feature a gold star sticker, a number of weird little creatures, a drawn blue jellyfish with a small smile, a number of queer/LGBTQIA+ stickers, and a small sticker reading "certified social media safe"

A pair of bookmarks on an orange bandana. The one on the left is a text bookmark made from pages of a book. The one on the right features a drawn light blue jellyfish and text reading "Here's a jellyfish to guard your book. His name is Bellamy."

A bumper sticker reading "Sorry You're in Ohio". It features black text and a brush style yellow word Ohio over a dark red outline of the state of Ohio.

September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM Everybody can reply

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Rainbow Crate

@rainbowcrate.bsky.social

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy final days of #SapphicSeptember! We are here to celebrate sapphic books and writers. This features almost every single sapphic special edition we’ve done! There’s also some hints as to what’s coming next. 🧵

A graphic with a background of the striped sapphic flag featuring five horizontal stripes in coral, pale yellow, white, mint and amethyst. A white translucent square is overlaid with a thin white outline. Text reads “76 Sapphic Books for Sapphic September”. The 29 is in sapphic colors and each line of text follows in a new color of the sapphic flag with a thin black outline.

September 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author

@daxaeterna.ink

#SapphicSeptember - it's not too late to enjoy my sapphic epic fantasy books. No lesbians get fridged and ladies get to kiss ladies and enbies and live happily ever after. Most of them have knights, disability rep, and all also fit into the Indie / self pub category, too!

Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 25d

#SapphicSeptember is winding down but you can still read literally any of my books if you are looking for fantasy with a sapphic lead / main character. I don't think I am physically capable of writing anything else.

Available direct at store.dax.ink and also major retailers.

🌈📚

Stars and Soil. Revolutionary Fantasy, Sapphic Romance. Caitlin must conceal her identity as a spy for the rebellion while pretending to be a dutiful fiancée to the crown prince. But danger lurks around every corner, including a new alluring lady at court, a lady who threatens to steal the prince away just as she has stolen Caitlin's heart.

A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams. A sapphic Swan Lake retelling. Katya will do anything to please her mentor and partner. But when he asks her to keep a princess prisoner, she must reconcile the kind of man she has always known with the villainous schemer he presents himself as. With the princess missing, war threatens to tear their magical forest apart. She must decide if she can betray her partner or the woman she is falling for. A sapphic epic fantasy, also available in audiobook narrated by Danni Deguire.

September 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Llinos Cathryn Thomas

@llincathryn.bsky.social

Today's #SapphicSeptember rec:

Sixpenny Octavo, by @annicktrent.bsky.social

Lovely historical set in 1790s London. It has a beautiful slow-burn romance but also lots about working-class queer community, found family and solidarity, plus an absorbing setting and real-feeling characters.

The cover of Sixpenny Octavo, by Annick Trent. It shows two women in old-fashioned clothing, from behind, as they stand beside the river Thames, looking across it towards St Paul's Cathedral.

September 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦

@vriccithode.bsky.social

looking for a fun read for #SapphicSeptember? check out my sapphice ace romantasy about two disaster queers raising a baby dragon! #WeeknightWriters
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6
vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...

September 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM Everybody can reply

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Game Master's Book Club

@gmbookclub.bsky.social

#sapphicseptember - Day 11 - Disabled Sapphics - Mooncakes by Wendy Xu #FantasyReads #witches #werewolves #WerewolfRomance #cozyromance #CozyRomantasy #graphicnovels #ya #romance #booktok #bookstagram #booksky #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest

@kateforrest.bsky.social

Oh hey... since it's still #SapphicSeptember we should totally make my book post more popular than my "work sucks" posts.

Godpunk urban fantasy featuring punk rock, magic, deities walking the earth with a sprinkling of smooching.

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · Jul 15

What happens when your new fling turns out to be a legit goddess? And her ex is trying to overdose humanity on old magic?

What to do, what to do.. 🤔

Once Upon a Punk Show. Sing together. Save the world together. Out now!

Full blurb and links below ⤵️

katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...

Once Upon a Punk Show

For Giulia Caesari, a small-time punk singer chasing a stage high, embracing the chaos of her life is a night in the mosh pit. Until she learns chaos is not an abstract thing. Chaos is a flesh and …

katelynforrest.com

September 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Carrie

@onekdramamomma.bsky.social

Finished my drama and read another book for #SapphicSeptember. This time a short story for the Sci-Fi category. I wish it had been longer. I wanted more! #BookSky 💙📚

Book Cover - Waiting on a Bright Moon by J.Y. Yang

Sapphic September Readathon graphic
The square getting a heart this time is Sci-Fi book.

September 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM Everybody can reply

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author

@daxaeterna.ink

#SapphicSeptember is winding down but you can still read literally any of my books if you are looking for fantasy with a sapphic lead / main character. I don't think I am physically capable of writing anything else.

Available direct at store.dax.ink and also major retailers.

🌈📚

September 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM Everybody can reply

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 is being a hermit in the woods rn

@clericofthevoid.bsky.social

#SapphicSeptember is almost over which means ✨last call✨ for the Name Her Holy signed hardcover pre-orders (and the goodies that come with it) ✨👁️🌸🌑⚔️

ko-fi.com/s/2d4dda2eb3

Promo for Name Her Holy signed hardcovers pre-order. Featuring the cover with a swirling dark void wreathed in pale violet and earthy flowers. Two stickers featuring the main characters Kye and Jude in Gothic arch frames, and one flowery art print of Jude in armor holding Kye in her long acolyte robes.

September 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM Everybody can reply

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Victoria Janssen

@victoriajanssen.bsky.social

What happens after rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire, but don't quite win? A trilogy about choosing hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life on the utopian planet Refuge. #Hopepunk #sapphicseptember #solarpunk #wlw #cozy💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky

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3 books in a boxed set with covers by Augusta Scarlett; volume 1 features a beautiful black woman with a shaved head, against a blue background featuring a spaceship and a planet. Volume 2 features a smiling white woman, and Volume 3 features a stern black woman with gold inlays at her throat.

September 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM Everybody can reply

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