BJ Sikes 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇧

It's nice to see a little attention for my debut novel, published 10 years ago this May!
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And it took me that long to realize that the main character is ace! I just didn't know there was a word for him.
#asexual
#steampunk
#queer
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I tend to the kindness side of things but when a character is mean, they have a lot of underlying hurt that's spawning the meanness.
#QueerPrompts
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5 star review for the sapphic historical romance Her Runaway Lady. Great chemistry, immersive world building and page turning romantic suspense.

5 star review quote for the sapphic historical romance Her Runaway Lady by Kristenereads at Instagram calling it cozy, tender and unique.

Early reviews for Her Runaway Lady are coming in and people love it!! My favorite so far called it cozy sapphic romance and I was like yes! You get it!
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I am so relieved. You write a book, you work hard to make it great, but you just don't know if readers really will enjoy it.

Book cover for the anthology Remnants, showing a blue eye staring out of a ripped map.

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. 🌈📚 ⏳📚

A promotional graphic for the #PrideBookFair event, which returns in June 2026. Text reads: This Pride Month, celebrate the vibrant works and voices of queer authors all over the world. Participate in weekly events, share and wishlist your favorite queer books, and enjoy sales and giveaways! Open to authors, readers, reviewers, and all book lovers! Featured link: pridebookfair.carrd.co.

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

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

Thanks for doing this Anya! I am a bisexual author and often have bi characters. The protagonist of my post-steampunk novel The Vitruvian Mask is bisexual. books2read.com/u/3G6xgn #books #novels 🌈📚

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

And then someone asked me if my MC was ace and I was like omg he is and I didn't even know

I had to have a reader point it out to me...as if I did it consciously. Errr no, queer characters fighting patriarchy and oppression just snuck into my books.

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.

Oh heck yeah. Based a character on an ex girlfriend. Yeah. She wasn't a very nice person. 😒

Truth

My writing go juice is tea! Hot, black. No, not Earl Grey. Do not add putrid perfume to my tea thenkyouverymuch

Red haired woman in flowing green dress holding a wand.

@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

Yeah I've done it before with other writer groups and it's a great way to sell books at an event

We are always so thrilled to see you in concert at Clockwork Alchemy!

Looking forward to seeing the Dust Bowl Faeries in concert!

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

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Hey authors, anyone need a cheap book cover? 48 hour sale. #bookcover #indieauthor

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.

Yep, got two emails recently that were definitely AI review scammers. Don't fall for it.

Always, always there's a woman fighting for her autonomy.

You are my star panelist! Six panels in three days! Phew!

From BBC "A few months ago, Kirk said: "it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."

English is a funny, funny language

It's about a woman sucked into a monster worshipping cult in the Bahamas in 1908.

Two women in anime outfits, one holding a book.

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

Horror book promotion $2.99 or less https://books.bookfunnel.com/horrorbooksale/ux2cbi2x7a

My gothic horror The Cultist's Wife currently on sale for $0.99 at books.bookfunnel.com/horrorbooksa...
#cheapbooks #horror #gothic

Post the last picture you took of your pet. This is Dimity. She is a very good hen.