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We're a midsized independent publisher with a diverse collection of LGBTQ+ general and genre fiction (romance, intrigue, crime, erotica, sci-fi/fantasy/horror), adult & YA. Shop our webstore and our sales! https://linktr.ee/boldstrokesbooks
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Bold Strokes Books @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social · Dec 29
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While you’re at it with second chances...

Save the date for my next novel, Love Is A Contact Sport.

A Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance.

Out June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social ✍🏾📚💕🌈

#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky
Love Is A Contact Sport cover features two Black men in an embrace. The taller one has light brown skin, bald head, and a beard, and is wearing a college athletics jacket. The shorter one has dark brown skin, twists and a fade haircuts, and wearing a yellow sweatshirt with the words Black Romance Writer in it. The cover is purple with red, yellow, and white writing.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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💜📚 Cover Reveal 📚💜

Love Is A Contact Sport by Frederick Smith

A Black, Queer, 2nd Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance novel. June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social (6/16/26 pub date).

Cover design by Ray Jean-Gilles.
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Love Is A Contact Sport cover features two Black men in an embrace. The taller one has light brown skin, bald head, and a beard, and is wearing a college athletics jacket. The shorter one has dark brown skin, twists and a fade haircut, and wearing a yellow sweatshirt with the words Black Romance Writer on it. The cover is purple with red, yellow, and white writing. Photo features picture layout of book cover designer Ray Jean-Gilles and author Frederick Smith. Also pictured is artwork by Ray and the book cover Ray designed for One and Done.
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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It's general release day for our September books! That means you can find all of them wherever you shop. And if you shop in our webstore, www.boldstrokesbooks.com, you can use our everyday coupons to get 10%/20%/30% off your total book purchase.
September's new releases, the best sapphic summer reads, out now. [IMAGES: covers of the eight September releases over a background of a path through the forest with autumn leaves.] *ANYWHERE WITH YOU by Margo Glynn *BURNING BRIDGES by Lesley Davis *DREAMS ENTANGLED by Sophia Kell Hagin *ECHOES OF LOVE by Catherine Lane *MOONLIGHT OBSESSION by Sheri Lewis Wohl *MY BOYFRIEND'S WIFE by Joy Argento *TAPOUT by Nicole Disney *THE FAME GAME by Ronica Black
September 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Our brand new #MustRead #Pirate #Books list is live and features books by

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September 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The new book by Nicole Disney is coming soon and it’s sooooo good! 🥵❤️‍🔥
September, 9 - safe the date!

„Tapout“ by Nicole Disney
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#NetGalley #arc #review #Tapout
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September 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Also, if you enjoyed One and Done, you’ll love my forthcoming novel Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, 2nd Chance, College Reunion, MM Romance coming out June 2026 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social. Stay connected with me for updates. ✍🏾📚💕🌈
September 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Bold Strokes Books is releasing two more great books tomorrow 🎉
„Anywhere With You“ by Margo Glynn
and
„My Boyfriend‘s Wife“ by Joy Argento
Thank so much to
@boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social and #NetGalley for the #arc
#Anywherewithyou #MyBoyfriendsWife

#review on #goodreads 😉
September 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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EIGHT new sapphic romances for your reading pleasure ahead of general release! Exclusively at boldstrokesbooks.com in ebook and paperback (and That's Amore in audiobook!) before wide release on August 12.😍
[Image: rolling waves with book covers overlaid] August Releases Out Now! The best sapphic summer reads * AN EXTRAORDINARY PASSION by Kit Meredith * HEART'S APPRAISAL by Jo Hemmingwood * THAT'S AMORE by Georgia Beers * THE UNEXPECTED HEIRESS by Cassidy Crane * THROUGH SKY AND STARS by Tessa Croft * UNCOMPLICATE IT by Kel McCord * VANGUARD by Gun Brooke
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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New book alert

Love Is A Contact Sport
June 2026 @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social

A Black, MM, 2nd Chance, College Classmates Reunite romance with a little Detroit, a lotta Bay Area, and grown folks figuring out life and love.

✍🏾📚💕🌈🏀🎓 #BookSky #BlackBookSky #RomanceBookSky #MMRomance #Romancelandia
Computer screenshot with the words “Contract. Smith. Love Is A Contact Sport. 7/21/2025.” Black and white photo of Frederick Smith in front of a MacBook laptop.
July 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This was such a fun conversation on the @minoriteareport.bsky.social podcast in summer 2024. I enjoy listening now and then. We discussed my 2024 novel One and Done, a Black, Queer, Higher Ed, Bay Area romance on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social.

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#BookSky #LGBTQSky
Black Queer Author, Frederick Smith, is One and Done!
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July 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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NEW REVIEW
A Thousand Tiny Promises by Morgan Lee Miller is a romantic journey wrapped in grief, memory, and second chances.

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August 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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“You’re still every bit the heartbreaker.” Theo finally spoke, fixing her with her gaze. Mild amusement read on her features.

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August 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Update: A Conflict Of Interest by Morgan Adams. Just Finished!!!...aww amazing 🦁🧡🦁

Buy the book: www.amazon.com/dp/1636798705
A Conflict of Interest
Amazon.com: A Conflict of Interest: 9781636798707: Adams, Morgan: Books
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July 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Woohoo! Congratulations to @georgiabeers.bsky.social @jjhaleauthor.bsky.social @empresskristin.bsky.social and Ronica Black, writing as Alexandra Riley on your new @goldencrownls.bsky.social awards! Flash sale in the webstore www.boldstrokesbooks.com/offers/3910-...
Congratulations to our 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society Winners. 20% off all ebook formats. Ends July 22 11:59pm EDT. Georgia Beers - Aubrey McFadden Is Never Getting Married. J.J. Hale - Truly Home. Kristin Keppler - One Last Summer. Ronica Black writing as Alexandra Riley - The Curse. [image: celebration banner with the four book covers below]
July 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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As KRL continues to feature #LGBTQ+ mystery authors for #Pride month, up this week we have a review and ebook giveaway of "A Marvelous Murder" by David S Pederson and an interesting guest post by David kingsriverlife.com/06/28/a-marv... @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social #mystery #writing #books 💙📚🏳️‍🌈
A Marvelous Murder By David S Pederson: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post
by Sarah Erwin & David S PedersonIt’s 1939 in Hollywood, and notorious film director Orland Orcott is found dead in his locked study. Police quickly rule the death a suicide, but despite their dislike...
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June 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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For the month of June, all my books at @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social‬ are 20% off, including THE UNWANTED, my #QueerYA fantasy.

What if your mother wasn’t dead like you’d always been told?

And what if she turned out to be an Amazon? #BookSky
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Jeffrey Ricker is the author of Detours (2011) and the...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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We're here, we're queer, 365 days a year!
For the entire month of June, every ebook published 2004-2024 is 20% off.
We love celebrating our LGBTQIA+ stories, the authors who create them, and the readers who ask for more and who make what we do possible.
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June 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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IT'S JUNE!
And we've got seven brand-new LGBTQ+ reads for your PRIDE reading pleasure.
Get them in ebook and paperback exclusively from our webstore. They'll be everyone on June 10.
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June 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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"It’d been a long, long time since she’d let anyone please her like that. It always felt too personal, as if it was the next step to something more. Something like a commitment.”

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March 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Newsletter: in which I finally pay tribute to Felice Picano.

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Like People in History
Felice Picano was a very dear friend
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May 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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To Please Her, from @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social

It's heavy on the bdsm, but it's a romance at heart. it might be up your alley.

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To Please Her by Elena Abbott | Bold Strokes Books
A spilled coffee leads Sabrina into a world of erotic BDSM that may just land her the love of her life.
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May 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Black text on a grayscale photo of a crowd at a concert with smoke concealing the stage: “If you ruin your posture by sitting like that, you’ll never model again.” Conner slouched even lower in response, and Vittoria laughed. The sound, like ringing bells, brought back countless memories. When they weren’t in bed together, they’d spent half their time laughing. And spent the other half arguing. “Always such a child.” Vittoria tsked with a fond smile. “What do you want, Vittoria?” “You, obviously.” “A lot of people want me.” She laughed again. “Your ego! You have not changed a bit. I’ve missed you, Con.” She leaned toward Conner, her short skirt inching up her thigh. “Yet, you are alone tonight. Where are all these people who want you?” “Everywhere I go. I just wanted to be by myself.” The Rise and Fall of Conner Cody, coming this July
May 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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STOCK UP on LGBTQ+ ebooks!
For vacation, for staycation, for airport delays, for lazy weekends, for lunchtime reads, for always
All weekend long
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