It’s here, publication day! Now available in paperback and ebook, On Fire and Under Water is crime fiction that matters. Explore the existential crisis of climate change through the eyes of everyday people struggling to survive this sick world in these 15 stories.
30.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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15.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
The Queers have landed!
Thank you @bestbookstore.bsky.social
Crime Ink: Iconic is officially available at your favorite Palm Springs Bookstore!
Run and secure your copy now
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08.09.2025 00:28 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
…I’ll ask again…❤️
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06.09.2025 05:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited and grateful to be featured in this wonderful anthology.
Happy pub day, everyone, and thank you to @bywaterbooks.bsky.social @salemwest.bsky.social and @johncopenhaver.bsky.social
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02.09.2025 20:15 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
'Tis the event of the season!
Hope to see you there!
27.08.2025 16:50 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Two weeks until this little gem drops!
So thrilled and humbled to be in the company of these cool cats.
Now, run along & preprder your copy today
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19.08.2025 15:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy pub day, dear Megan, can’t wait to read!
Hugs from the desert, m
24.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
colorful graphic with various stripes from Pride flags over the image of a person wearing a bowtie sitting at a typewriter. Text over the graphic reads: Attention emerging LGBTQIA+ crime fiction writers! Do you know about the $2000 pride award? wwwsistersincrime.org/pride
🏳️🌈It's Pride Month and that means it's time for our 2025 Pride Award!🏳️🌈
We're looking for emerging LGBTQIA+ crime writers with unpublished crime fiction - everything from kid's books to adult mystery! You don't have to be a member to apply, but why not join today!
#writingcommunity #booksky #lgbtq+
15.06.2025 18:51 — 👍 18 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2
Crime Ink: Iconic - Bywater Books
Prepare for intrigue, suspense, and unforgettable twists in this groundbreaking anthology of queer crime fiction.
Crime Ink: Iconic is where queer icons meet killer stories.
In 2023, fewer than 1% of major crime anthology stories were written by LGBTQ+ authors—this is the course correction!
Foreword: Ellen Hart. Afterword: Katherine V. Forrest.
📖 Preorder: bywaterbooks.com/product/crim... or bit.ly/4cH27CL
24.04.2025 18:58 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for our Queer Short Story Panel, June 10 2025.
Sign Up/Register via the link below or through link in profile now!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#writing #lgbtqia #shortstories #mystery
03.06.2025 00:13 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A fantastic lineup for a great cause
31.03.2025 20:03 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Double fisted. Because — @christafaust.bsky.social
Happy pub day, love!
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18.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
That’s a wrap. Thank you ##LeftCoastCrime2025: Rocky Mountain High Jinks
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17.03.2025 15:29 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
That right there!
😍
@christafaust.bsky.social @johncopenhaver.bsky.social #LeftCoastCrime2025: Rocky Mountain High Jinks
15.03.2025 04:19 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Very much looking forward to this at #leftcoastcrime in #Denver!
And Thank You, @gvaljan.bsky.social , for the visuals
11.03.2025 01:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here we go again…
@ the lovely #cafemonamour in #PalmSprings
#writing #crimefiction #lgbtqia
13.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Such wonderful news, and a dream come true to be included in this fantastic lineup
28.01.2025 17:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#LCC2025 1 of 2 @ellenbyronla.bsky.social @catrionamcp.bsky.social @roboslerwriter.bsky.social @richardosman1.bsky.social @johncopenhaver.bsky.social @diannefreeman.bsky.social @laurajensenwalker.bsky.social @audreyleeauthor.bsky.social @cindygoyetteauthor.bsky.social @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social
13.01.2025 18:24 — 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 7
A big, warm THANK YOU to everyone who reached out to me yesterday! Mark surprised me with this self-made, caramel-adorned birthday card that ‘depicts’ my weekend getaway. The ‘riddle’ is as literal as it’s cerebral—took me 10 minutes.
‘Caramel’ by the ‘C’
😂
Why I love him so much—such a dork! 😍
12.01.2025 16:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I don’t care that it’s only 9am—someone get me a damn cocktail 😉
#baking #swiss #cookies #christmas2024
20.12.2024 17:09 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bywater Books represents the coming of age of queer literature.
We Are All Stories.
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NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com
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Publisher of exceedingly good crime fiction. Atlantic Crime is an imprint of Grove Atlantic.
A small-press independent publisher delivering crime, noir, and dark fiction chronicling bad decisions and desperate people.
Fiction writer: The Fireballer ("Frank Ryder is a classic American hero." - Stewart O'Nan). The Allison Coil Mystery Series. No Lie Lasts Forever coming 06-01-25 from Thomas & Mercer.
Edgar and Anthony Award-nominated author of CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL and LOWDOWN ROAD. Repped by The Story Factory.
I write thrillers and paranormal where queer women kick ass and bigots get got. Transgender. Lesbian. ADHD. Wife. Cat mom. Latte artist. Witch. she/her 🏳️⚧️
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American crime fiction writer living in Denmark. Putting the adventure into my stories and keeping you guessing what is truth and what is fiction.
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Sisters in Crime has been supporting crime writers since 1986. We offer education, advocacy, support and community for all writers. We're where writers belong.
Author of the Micky Knight series. Set in New Orleans. One of the first to feature a lesbian PI. Retired from public health doing HIV/AIDS prevention. My wife is an immigrant. #queerwriter
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