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Bywater Books
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Bywater Books represents the coming of age of queer literature.

We Are All Stories.

www.bywaterbooks.com
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💛 The message is pretty simple...
👊 Visit us today @ BywaterBooks.com
🏳️‍🌈📚 We're here, we're queer & we have great books.

#SapphicBookSky #SapphicRomance #LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks
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November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 You can strip the shelves.
✂️ You can destroy the pages.
🚫🔩 But you’ll never bolt down a mind on fire.
☑️ 🔥 Writers, readers & publishers don’t break—we burn brighter.

#LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBooks #FreedomToRead #StopCensorship #BooksNotBans #BooksAreResistance #WordsHavePower #Read2Live
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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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✅ What's your Ideal day checklist?
🌈 Here's ours...
☕ Caffeine
🏳️‍🌈 Queer lit
💋 Questionable decisions
0️⃣ Zero apologies
⛽💣 We’re fueled by fiction & feelings.

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit #ReadOutLoud
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November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚Hey, Richmond friends!
⛔ The final stop of the CRIME INK: ICONIC book tour lands at Shelf Life Books.
🍸 Baby Bear Botanicals will prepare themed non-alcoholic beverages.
🎟️ Ticketed event—click here to sign up: https://loom.ly/wL6Byaw

#OutRVA #LGBTQBooks #Mystery #CrimeFiction #BookSky
Red image featuring Crime Ink: Iconoc book cover and photos of John Copenhaver and Cheryl Head announcing the final stop on the book tour at Shelf Life Books in Richmond on Thursday, November 13th at 7 p.m. Also has a Bywater Books Logo, a rainbow handprint, and a mention that themed non-alcoholic drinks from Baby Bear Botanicals will be available.
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📲 Calling all sapphic book influencers & reviewers who live for rebellion.
👊📚 Advance Review Copies of RECLAMATION by @Kristen_Zimmer_Author are live on #NetGalley through Dec 12.

#LGBTQBookSky #NetGalleyARC #DystopianThriller #DystopianRomance #SapphicFiction #QueerLit
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November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚 The #BywaterBookDrop for November 12 is Olive Oil & White Bread by @GeorgiaBeers.
1️⃣ eBook • 1️⃣ day • Only $3.99
❤️ A sapphic second-chance story—not about falling in love, but staying in it.

https://loom.ly/iYpAUWs

#SapphicRomanceSky #SecondChance #OppositesAttract #BookSky
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November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Service is a story—one written in courage, sacrifice, and pride.
🎖️To queer veterans: thank you for your chapter in our shared history.
📚 We are all stories.

#LGBTQSky #PrideAndService #RepresentationMatters #LGBTQVeterans #QueerVeterans #LGBTQ #QueerLit
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November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🐈 This one’s packed with a saddlebag full of juicy sapphic catnip.
📚🥊 This Means War by @BennaBos.
👉 Preorder today everywhere fierce sapphic books are sold!

#SapphicRomanceSky #EnemiesToLovers #SecondChanceRomance #FieryRomance #SmallTownRomance #StrongFemaleLeads
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Should you read today?
👀 ➡️ Spoiler: it’s always yes.
👉 Find us at BywaterBooks.com

#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBooks #ReadersGonnaRead #BookishHumor #SapphicRomance
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November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🏳️‍🌈💍 A wedding, obsession, and rebellion. Margo isn’t playing by their rules anymore.
🖤 The Ever End by @AudreyWilsonAuthor is a brilliant bisexual feminist horror manifesto.
✔️ Check out the @Women.Using.Words review.

https://loom.ly/USeeosI
#SapphicBookSky #BisexualBooks #LGBTQHorror
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November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 At Bywater Books & Amble Press, stories aren’t just what we publish—they’re who we are.
👊👉 Inclusive. Respected. Queer-centered. Authentic. Artistic. Bold. Independent.
👀 Check us out today: bywaterbooks.com

#LGBTQBookSky #QueerReads #QueerBookRecommendations #BookSky #AuthorSky
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🔥 Ready to get scorched & bothered?
🎧 The audiobook of Incendiant by @VirginiaBlackWrites.
👄 Narrated by the captivating Trei Taylor.
👀 Preorder everywhere today!

#SapphicBooks #Audiobooks #BookRecs #SpecFic #DarkFantasy #MustListen @mommyonthemic
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November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 ⚓ Set sail on a storm of secrets, courage & spicy chaos!
🎧 The audiobook of Windlass by @AnnaBurkeAuthor.
👄 Narrated by velvet-voiced @QuinnRileyReads.
👀 Preorder everywhere today!

#SapphicRomanceSky #Audiobooks #BookRecs #Romance #Spicy
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November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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⚖️🏳️‍🌈 SCOTUS will meet today to consider overturning marriage equality.
🏳️‍🌈❤️ No matter what today brings, love remains our bedrock.
❤️☮️ Every family deserves dignity, equality & peace.

#LoveIsLove #EqualityForAll #MarriageEquality #LGBTQVoices #StandForLove #LoveWins #LGBTQ
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November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚🦋 Every time you share a post or post a review, an indie publisher gets its wings.
👊 It also helps us to do the things we do to publish the books you love.
🕺 Now dance with the queer presses who brung ya!

#LGBTQBookSky #SupportIndiePublishers #QueerLit
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November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🎾 Love All by @AuthorRachelSpangler—a slow-burn sapphic sports romance with a swoon-worthy redemption arc.
🎧 The audiobook is now available everywhere.
❤️ Get it today!
#SapphicRomanceSky #SapphicSports #SapphicAudiobook #QueerLit #LGBTQRomance #SportsRomance #TennisRomance #FierceSapphics
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November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚The #BywaterBookDrop for November 5 is Finding the Grain.
1️⃣ One eBook • One day • Only $3.99
🌪️🥃 Sometimes healing means shaping what’s broken into something beautiful.

https://loom.ly/W0sRmp8

#SapphicRomanceSky #BookSky #SlowBurn #SecondChance #SmallTownLove #RuralRomance
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November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Bel thought the past was behind her—until Wolf walked through the door.
🔥 Old flames. Fierce memories. A reunion that changes everything.
👊 Coltswood by @Jules.Revel.Writes—preorder now—everywhere great books are sold.

#SapphicBookSky #SlowBurn #SecondChance #OppositesAttract #QueerLit
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November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚🔊 Big news from the Bywaterverse!
👊 We’re thrilled to welcome Sandy Bailey & Sam Callaway!
🚀 Get ready for stories that will crack open your heart, challenge the rules & make you feel everything.
👀 Coming to a bookstore near you in fall 2026.

#SapphicBookSky #QueerLit #LGBTQBooks
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November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 Hope’s not dead—it’s just pissed off. 😡
👀 Reclamation arrives December 9th.
🔥 You don't want to miss this one.
⏳ Preorder it today—everywhere dangerous queer books are sold.

#SapphicBookSky #BookSky #EmotionalWreckInABook #QueerDystopia #LGBTQBooks
@kristen_zimmer_author
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November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚 If you never try a new author, you’ll never find the one who ruins you for all the rest.
👀 Check out all of our authors & titles at https://bywaterbooks.com
😍 Go ahead. Risk a new obsession today.

#SapphicBookSky #BookSky #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit #SapphicBookstagram #BookRecs #TBR
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Every day, the world tries to break us—don’t let it win.
Staying is brave.
Holding on is rebellion.
We’re proud of you.
📞 The Trevor Project—call or text anytime.
❤️🧡💛💚💜🖤🖤

#LGBTQBookSky #QueerCommunity #QueerVoices #LGBTQSupport #MentalHealthMatters #YouAreNotAlone #SapphicBookSky
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November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🏳️‍🌈📚☕ Crisp air. Cozy blankets. Queer stories.
🍁 Autumn, you’ve never looked better.

Check us out at www.BywaterBooks.com
#SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit
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November 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 📚Hey, Richmond friends!
⛔ The final stop of the CRIME INK: ICONIC book tour lands at Shelf Life Books.
🍸 Baby Bear Botanicals will prepare themed non-alcoholic beverages.
🎟️ Ticketed event—click here to sign up: https://loom.ly/wL6Byaw

#LGBTQBooks #Mystery #RichmondEvents #CrimeFiction
Red image featuring Crime Ink: Iconoc book cover and photos of John Copenhaver and Cheryl Head announcing the final stop on the book tour at Shelf Life Books in Richmond on Thursday, November 13th at 7 p.m. Also has a Bywater Books Logo, a rainbow handprint, and a mention that themed non-alcoholic drinks from Baby Bear Botanicals will be available.
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🎃🕺💀 Our logo learned a few new moves—and then things got a little weird.

🏳️‍🌈📚👻 Happy Halloween from all of us at Bywater Books—may your treats be sweet & your stories even sweeter.

#HappyHalloween #BOO #BookishFun #QueerReads #HalloweenVibes #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #BookSky
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM