@ivymarikova.bsky.social
(she/her) author ✍🏻 Tide Breaker’s Curse out NOW for only 99c/99p, or free on KU 🥰 ⚔️half of Swords and Sapphics Podcast ➡️ https://linktr.ee/ivymarikova
I’m the luckiest to have truly the best friend like Rach 😭❤️
01.06.2025 14:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Thank you! ❤️
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Happy birthday to Ivy! An image of ivy wearing a party hat along with her ebook, which is just 99c and on KU. Also, there is a shark holding a balloon.
It’s Ivy’s birthday today! She is half of Swords & Sapphics and also half of my heart. I hope you’ll all join me in celebrating by wishing her a happy birthday and perhaps purchasing her epic short story, TIDE BREAKER’S CURSE!
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Happy Pride Month! Celebrate with a new book or ten - there are plenty of new releases to choose from this month!
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I finished my second short story, Magic in the Unexpected! 🥰 Here's a little taste of what's coming (at some point).
✨cinderella retelling
👩🏻 sapphic main character
🧙🏻♀️ sapphic witch living in the woods
❄️ inspired by czech christmas fairytale
🩸little bit of torture and murder ofc
Are you looking for a short fantasy to read this weekend? Don’t look any further. ☺️ Tide Breaker’s Curse is only for 0.99 c/p, or free on KU. Get your copy through the link in the bio! 😇
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Happy Friday! Get stuck into our interview with Avrah C. Baren and learn about the inspirations behind sapphic sci-fi novel, FIRST COMES DEATH, plus the creation of the queer SFF anthology, Of Stardust.
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Tide Breaker’s Curse is for free until March 10 as part of The Author Indie Spring Spectacular. 🌸🥰 There’s been overwhelming amount of downloads and I can only hope that people will love it as much as I do. 😍
Grab your copy now! The link is in my bio.☺️
A graphic reading: find my books on ko-fi with a laptop whose screen shows Rachel Bowdler’s Ko-fi shop
After three long long days my books are now up on Ko-fi as well as Itch! When it comes to ebooks, Ko-fi is the best place to support me directly, so if you don’t mind the extra faff of sending PDF/EPUB files to your ereader, please consider heading there first.
Ko-fi.com/rachelbowdler
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For this week's episode, we were joined by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social to talk about her new book, Wooing the Witch Queen. She told us all about the first book in this series, where she finds her inspiration, and so much more!
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The Indie Author Spring Spectacular is starting on Friday! 🥰🌸 During the event, Tide Breaker’s Curse is going to be completely free, so don’t forget to grab your copy. ☺️
More about the event: indievisibleevents.com
cover for the final act of jonas black by rebecca crunden; shows a faceless figure in a hat with glasses, black and white colour scheme
He’s had many names, lived many lives, worn many disguises.
🎭 a magician’s last act
💖 a burgeoning romance
🗡️ brothers at odds
📓 21 pages
🤍 only ✨99c✨
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Are you a queer writer or reader? 🏳️🌈
Comment or DM us to be added to our queer starter pack!
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Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges
✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨
🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
🏰 second pov
🥀 only 99c 🎉
🔖 book link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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BRB, still thinking about that one line from the Epic saga and gnawing at the bars of my enclosure.
"After everything you've done, how will you sleep at night?"
"Next to my wife."
Thank you! ☺️ and done
03.03.2025 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is this you?🤔
💜Identifies as a woman or fem-presenting nb
🩵Likes reading OR writing about FEMININE RAGE in any genre 💅🤬😈❤️🔥
💚Didn't vote for 🍊
❤️Doesn't support problematic authors
Comment or DM me to be added to a new starter pack!
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#femininerage #girlpower #womensupportingwomen
Me please! 😍🖤
03.03.2025 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0if you sign up for a blog interview with us & haven’t heard back around your proposed date, please check your email spam ‼️ we have no other way of contacting you unless you follow us on other platforms, & we hate to see the effort that goes into scheduling & writing the interviews wasted.
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Have you joined our Discord server? Everyone is welcome!
🖤 queer-friendly community
🖤 authors, readers, & friends
🖤 support spaces
🖤 discussion channels
🖤 self-promo
🖤 writing tips & sprints
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🖤 fun, no pressure!
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Spring is hopefully springing, and what better way to celebrate more daylight than with books? There are lots of highly anticipated queer reads publishing this month, so prepare your TBR pile for even more books!
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I love good sapphic romantic suspense, so throw your recs my way please!
#books #booksky #sapphicbooks #reading #WLW #romanticsuspense #lesfic
Safe & Sound by Rachel Bowdler: A romantic suspense novella Cover shows a blonde woman looking at a brunette woman with a gritty black backdrop of windows and bricks behind them in an illustrated style
Saving the Star by Rachel Bowdler: A Romancing the Stones Novella Cover is red with a black and white illustration of two women: one looking to the top left corner with her hair in a bun, and the other looking at the reader with a distorted reflection below
The Flourishing by Merlina Garance: a romance novel A green and black illustration on a white background depicting a woman covered in leaves
I have a couple if you don’t mind self-recs!
SAFE & SOUND and SAVING THE STAR - both bodyguard romances, at least kinda, and high stakes.
I also love THE FLOURISHING by @merlinagarance.bsky.social
I started watching Bluey last night and it’s all I can think of, it’s all I want since the moment I woke up.
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A graphic reading cover design by Rachel Bowdler with the cover of The Devil Inside by Bethany Russo: a silhouetted man with Angel wings faces deep red and black fog, with burnt edges in the corners
Bethany Russo’s books are some of my favourites to design covers for, and this new edition of THE DEVIL INSIDE might make it to second place. (First is yet to be revealed 👀)
My cover design services are always open, with paperback wraparounds available.
In today's interview, we chat with @clericofthevoid.bsky.social all about their debut novel, Name Her Holy, which came out earlier this month. If you're looking for an epic sapphic tale, dive right in!
#booksky #sapphic
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Rachel/Bonnie smiles and points to KINDLING by Bonnie Woods on a supermarket shelf
Kindling by Bonnie Woods on a supermarket shelf between Behind the Net by Stephanie Archer and Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
My book is just chilling next to Bridget Jones in my local Asda, no biggie!!!! very normal!!!!
What a dream. 🧡
Our first guest this year is author of Modern Divination, Isa Agajanian. We talked about what inspired this book, all the changes it went through, and Isa's experience in both indie and trad publishing. They also teased a few more projects they're working on. 😍
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Happy Aromantic Awareness Week! To celebrate, we’ve put together a list of books that feature characters on the aromantic spectrum. 💚🤍🩶🖤
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