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This new book by
@aliciagael.bsky.social is rising to the top of my #tbr.

Can't wait to read it.

🤗📚🤗

#sapphicbooks

🏳️‍🌈📚🔦 Turn the lights down and the pages fast—some stories like to bite. 🩸

🦇💀 🎃 Shop the darkness → www.bywaterbooks.com

#SapphicBooks #QueerHorror #BooksWithBite #HalloweenReads #QueerLit #DarkFiction #BookSky #HalloweenSky

Classes today! Interiority!
#gclswa @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social @goldencrownls.bsky.social

New Release: Gold For The Dead by Ann Aptaker

Friendship. Betrayal. Blood in the streets. Cantor Gold is back with butch swagger sharp enough to cut & charm enough to ruin you.
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#NewRelease #LesFic #Book #lesbianromance

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Only day only eBook sale of Jenn Alexander's sweet and sexy Bloodline. $3.99 at Bywtater Books. The image has a copy of the book cover—which is a coffee cup with fangs dripping blood in the shape of a heart. Includes halloweeen logos for Bywater Books and Amble Press.

🏳️‍🌈📚🦇 The #BywaterBookDrop for October 22nd is Jenn Alexander's Bloodline.
One eBook • One day • Only $3.99

Click it to get it: https://bywaterbooks.com/product/bloodline-by-jenn-alexander/

#SapphicBooks #VampireRomance #SapphicReads #DarkFantasyReads #WLWBooks #ParanormalRomance #QueerLit

Quote of the day

“But here you are and… you’ve changed me. Now, I am someone who dreams about getting married.” Charlotte glanced down, her breath leaving her in a heavy tremble, honesty and sincerity written all over her features.

~ Haley Cass. Forever and A Day: A Those Who Wait story

#sapphic

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Poster of Sapphic Writers Achieving Goals #SWAG4GCLS coming this November. Authors, sign up now -- link in comments!

Unlike your favorite heroine, #SWAG4GCLS is only come once this year. (In November.)

Authors, sign up now. The link is in the comments!

#gclswa #sapphicwriting #sapphicwritingprograms

Happy #aceweek 🖤🤍💜

“Does the Asexual Headquarters award you a toaster oven if you convert a certain quota of women into cuddle bugs?”

~ Jae. Perfect Rhythm

#lesfic #sapphicfiction #wlwbooks

Black graphic for Informaiton Overload Day. Text reads "Buffering" and"Information, with a green progress bar. Also includes a Bywater Books logo.

🏳️‍🌈 📚🔋 TODAY IS INFORMATION LOVERLOAD DAY.
👊 Step back—allow yourself to take a break from social media & online news to emails & text messages.

We'll be back tomorrow to talk about great books & other things that matter.

Quote of the day

“But here you are and… you’ve changed me. Now, I am someone who dreams about getting married.” Charlotte glanced down, her breath leaving her in a heavy tremble, honesty and sincerity written all over her features.

~ Haley Cass. Forever and A Day: A Those Who Wait story

#sapphic

#NationalComingOutDay may have been yesterday, but it's never too late to come out as your true self!🏳️‍🌈

Join us for our "The Secret Crush Book Club" #BookClub & Q&A event on Saturday, 10/25 @ 2pm(EST), with the fabulous @authorkarmenlee.bsky.social!🤩

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An excellent review for Beth Strauss' Tangled Webs. For additional info on this title visit bellabooks.com/product/9781642476941e/

Cool for the Summer Check out Cool for the Summer - <p><b>Lara finally lands the guy of her dreams, only to have her unexpected(ly female) summer fling transfer to her school, in Dahlia Adler's beloved award-winning YA q...

Cool for the Summer is 20% off in paperback for Banned Book Week using code BBW25 at Bookshop! bookshop.org/a/2228/97812... (You can check out the entire great list of books to support thanks to the partnership of We Need Diverse Books here: bookshop.org/info/banned-...) 🌈📚

Cover of A Language of Limbs. An orange background against a photo of two people embracing in front of a blue sky. One person is topless while the other wears a long-sleeve white shirt.

Loving this.

"Sometimes I think, I cannot love her more. But then I see her put down her paintbrush and scoop up a wad of paint with her hand, turn to the canvas, and flesh out an ocean with her palm, and I feel the edge of my love expanding."

Dylin Hardcastle. A Language of Limbs

#sapphicbooks

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Abby Craden's narration of sapphic novels has us experiencing all levels of flushed (and not just from perimenopause).

#lesfic #sapphicfiction #wlwbooks

Writing academy 1: psychic distance Writing academy 2: using shorter and longer scenes appropriately Writing academy 3: author websites -- creating a plan

Check out the topics for our forthcoming classes!

#gclswa #sapphicwriting #sapphicwritingprograms

Cover of In Bloom, by Kat Jackson. Pink carnations against a black background.

Sapphic quote of the day.

"A trickle of late winter air, the kind that wants to warm to the oncoming spring but is still tipped with a frost that won’t let go, wound itself around the room, sweeping into corners and swirling idle dust motes into flurries."

Kat Jackson. In Bloom

#sapphicfiction

I stand with GCLS & SASS because every story matters! #SapphicsWithTheBanned #BannedBooksWeek

🏳️‍🌈👊 Living your truth is an act of courage and revolution.
We see you. We love you. We value you.

#NationalComingOutDay #VisibilityMatters #LiveYourTruth #RepresentationMatters #ComingOutDay #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Another great gem from a GCLS Writing Academy presenter/teacher @premeemohamed.com
Premee: A story is the answer to a question.
#gclswa #gclswritingacademy

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From GCLS Writing Academy 3 today:
Sheree: (Paraphrased) Teach yourself the language of your book’s uniqueness about what you are contributing to our literary community.
#shereegreer #gclswa #gclswritingacademy #sapphic👍

Covers of banned BIPOC LGBTQ+ stories: All Boys Aren't Blue; The Color Purple; Flamer; Lawn Boy; Cinderella is Dead

Cover of banned trans books: Cemetery Boys, Gender Queer, Almost Perfect; Felix Ever After; Melissa (previously published as George)

These are just a few of the most banned queer books in the U.S. today.

GCLS champions sapphic and women-loving-women literature by elevating its quality, visibility, and community.

Every banned book is proof of the power of our stories.

#ReadBannedBooks #SapphicStories #WLW

Protecting Sapphic Stories. As book bans rise across the US, GCLS stands with readers and writers to ensure these stories are recognized, celebrated, and never erased from our shelves.

At the Golden Crown Literary Society, we uplift sapphic and women-loving-women voices so they’re seen, celebrated, and never erased.

GCLS is excited to partner with SASS to promote protecting Sapphic Stories.

#SapphicsWithTheBanned #SapphicLit #BookBans #LGBTQAuthors #WLWStories #GCLS

*sending this to everyone I know who writes sapphic historical romance*

Writing Academy 1: Writing short fiction for novelists Writing Academy 2: Creating believable scenes Writing Academy 3: What makes you and your book stand out

Check out what's in our upcoming classes!

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Lavender and Gin by Abigail Aaronson: Book Review · The Lesbian Review Lavender and Gin by Abigail Aaronson is reviewed here. Our review includes what we did and didn’t like and an excerpt to show writing style

ICYMI:  Lavender and Gin by Abigail Aaronson is a slow burn historical romance set in Detroit doing the prohibition era. The romance is between a wom... Read it now

Check our website for more information on our writing classes. www.goldencrownliterarysociety.org/education

"That's what community is all about: finding places where you feel comfortable and you're getting what you want."

WA2: Building your writing community

Learn more about our writing academy in the comments 😀

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