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Lara Zielinsky
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Blue Dot in a Red State (Fla). Bisexual author writing stories of women loving women. #LoveIsLove https://larazbooks.com/links
Editing as LZ Edits www.lzedits.com
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596 words written on my #sapphic novella today. Support @goldencrownls.bsky.social a group dedicated to supporting sapphic writers, publishers, and readers secure.givelively.org/donate/golde...
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#writingCommunity Sprinted this morning, but that was it. Back spasms sent me to bed for the rest of the day. Total words today though: 889

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November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Morning sprint: 723 words. Crossed 50% AND reached a major plot point.

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(penny a word would only be $7.23)
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November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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596 words written on my #sapphic novella today. Support @goldencrownls.bsky.social a group dedicated to supporting sapphic writers, publishers, and readers secure.givelively.org/donate/golde...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Today is the one year anniversary of launching my podcast, Rebel Ever After!

- 37 authors interviewed about writing progressive romance novels
- over 10,000 downloads
- 4.8 ⭐ rating on Apple Podcasts

Big thank you to everyone who has listened, subscribed and bought a book by one of my guests.
the logo for the Rebel Ever After podcast with Ella Dawson. It is an American-style tattoo sketch of a heart with an arrow through it, a drop of blood dripping from the arrowhead.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Hallelujah! #marriageEquality #LGBTQ #SCOTUS
Breaking news headline: Supreme Court denies request to revisit same-sex marriage decision. Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 decision.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Word count in Nov for #SWAG4GCLS as I begin week 2's writing sprints is 3,001 words (I've written more on WIP, but counting only words written since 11/1 for fundraiser).

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November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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#SapphicLineShare #lesficfri #licoriceandmint #QueerWriters #sapphic #lesfic

From Licorice and Mint Chapter 9: Demons, Divas, and Devas.

archiveofourown.org/series/1962421
“You can’t be serious. You’re blaming Vola for what happened to you? You’re blaming everyone in this city for the actions of a few shitty people? You’re willing to let someone innocent die because some assholes kidnapped your first crush!” “Shut up!” Mara gripped the metal door frame. “Every single one of them is guilty. Every. Single. One.” Bright orange flames coated her hands as her ex-girlfriend slammed her palm against the softened metal. The deadbolt sparked at the contact, and Nat’s jaw dropped as the door fused closed. Mara’s bitter, triumphant laugh left her skin crawling.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 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
Dark brown image featuring a copy of the audiobook cover for Virginia Black's Incendiant. Features three white crows in flight and the Bywater Books logs. Says Audiobook Coming Nov. 18. Also Narrated by Trey Taylor. Also says Joan of Crows Returns to Calvert in this high-octane thriller that pits good versus evil in a pentultimate showdown.
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“This book has a bit of everything. Romance, humor, mystery, spice, and a sexy ice queen. Read it, you won't be disappointed.” #SapphFic #lesfic #books #romance
https://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Fine-Kelli.../dp/B0CH7F9BPD
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#LesFicFri and the theme is **Smooth**
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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For #lesficfri the word is *smooth*.

Poor Rebecca. Trying to do something good and her libido gets involved.

#lesfic
#sapphic
#reading
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Thyllis is VERY smooth. And confident. And very open-minded. #LesFicFri
We watched Thyllis strut towards the bar, approaching an Aiksonosk woman a few years older than me. The woman sat coiled around her stool, idly sipping a colourful drink. Like all Aiksonosk, her segmented exoskeleton protected a long, flat body several strides long, supported by many short legs. Unlike most, this one had painted her exoskeleton in a vivid pattern of yellow flowers. The woman brightened upon seeing Thyllis and retracted her proboscis from the now-empty glass. Thyllis waved the bartender over. Clarke’s eyes bulged. “How do you think she does that?” Anento mused. “Thyllis?” Captain said. “She's just good with women.” “That’s what I’m saying,” Anento said. “Women. That's her type. Not tall Dodishodan moms who work out. Not Tilnar. Not bipeds. Women.” “Oh, that,” Captain said. “Oh, that,” Anento snorted. “How does it work?” The woman at the bar flicked her mandibles shyly as Thyllis placed a hand on a chitinous foreleg, gazing into the woman’s compound eyes. “She just likes women,” I protested. We didn’t have to understand genders to accept her! “But how does it work?” Anento repeated. “She goes to a bar, meets someone—” “And they leave together,” Captain agreed. “She’s always done that. Nothing wrong with it.” “I know there’s nothing wrong with it!” Anento groaned. “But why women? Why not everyone if she’s not picky about how many mandibles they’ve got?” He had a point, but it was Thyllis’s business, not ours! “Are you jealous?” Captain laughed. “Maybe she can give you some tips.” “Should we be talking about this?” I asked uneasily. “Women,” Anento said. “That doesn’t even mean the same thing to everyone! Practicing Dodishodans don’t even think Amascada has women.” Clarke wore an odd expression as we watched the Aiksonosk woman laugh at Thyllis’s jokes. “I’m sure this one’s a really nice girl,” Anento continued. “Little young for her, maybe, but they’re both adults. But how’d Thyllis know she’d be interested?”
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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A snippet from The Price of Peace for #lesficfri

Links are here if you're interested in reading the rest! senkaheksum.carrd.co#pub

#sapphic #folkhorror
Frida clears her throat, interrupting the increasingly impassioned explanation and Anders looks momentarily ashamed. Her expression is serene as ever. "Beg your pardon, miss." The matching rings on our hands don't factor in for him. His eyes unabashedly appreciate her other qualities, the blindness overlooked in favor of her soft lips. Even loose clothing doesn't conceal the appealing curve of her waist. In the silence, I consider turning Anders back out into the cold; letting the forest and the frost have him. I picture what his frozen corpse would look like, picked over by weasels and crows. It's too late, though. The thing in the back of my mind salivates at the inevitable. I wonder why Frida, gentle and conscientious, has ordained this. Is it a test I'm fated to fail or does she recognize that something in me must be sated? Phantom pain radiates from the smooth gap where my right ring finger used to be as the agitation builds. The sensation wanes when Frida's foot bumps mine under the table again. Her toes trace along the length of it, then wiggle up between my trousers and the woolen underlayer. Her soothing touch rescues me from my own thoughts, not for the first time, and the throbbing ceases.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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happy #lesficfri from my MC meeting love interest # 1 for the first time.
white text box on a red, black, and white collage background. the word "smooth" is highlighted green. the text reads: "The woman's eyes looked up at them, not asking so much as directing, cool and composed, not flustered like they'd expected. Emrys nodded, flipping their lighter open and sparked the flame. With her eyes closed as she inhaled, the woman looked almost doll-like. Pale, smooth skin, subtly upturned nose, her lips, sculpted and full, a true mask of perfection painted and adorned in a way that didn't stifle or hide what was there naturally, but served to accentuate it. She opened her eyes when Emrys's lighter snapped shut, and they quickly pulled back from her, averting their eyes. It wasn't like them to be so interested in patrons."
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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#SWAG4GCLS Today's morning sprint came to 929 words. If you'd like to support my team for this GCLS fundraiser, visit secure.givelively.org/donate/golde...
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Missed sprinting yesterday and today had a lot of appointments, but I managed 659 words toward my November #writing goal for #SWAG4GCLS fundraiser. To support:
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November 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#writingSprint #SWAG4GCLS Total words today: 1,419. If you support me at 1 cent per word, that's a $14.19 donation secure.givelively.org/donate/golde...

My WIP is looking healthy too: 11,008 words total. My goal this week would be great to add 7k. What are your writing goals this week?
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Celebrating #Pride in Gainesville this beautiful Saturday! With @elleire.bsky.social
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November 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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#writingSprint✍️ word count: 547. Bit of a struggle today, but the total for the week is 4,001 words. Not bad. Reached 33% on the WIP👍
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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#writingSprint yielded 716 words today. Yay! How many of you in the #writingCommunity do morning sprints? Share your word counts here.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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#SapphicBooks Wonderful fiction and romance books by sapphic authors! ✔️ books.bookfunnel.com/bfhostffsloc...
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Morning sprint yielded 727 words. And the ask to the baby shower.

#writingCommunity
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I wrote a lot of words in sprint today: 285 new ones on my story, and 500-ish words for a column on crafting setting for my editing newsletter. All in all, very productive.
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Excellent advice, which I constantly give to writers I coach. My go-to is to remind myself I have gotten through every other time before, to produce five published books I’m rather proud of. So it’s always possible, even probable, that I will overcome this time as well
October 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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#writingLife I apparently wasn't done with creative words for today. Added another 500+ over my lunch break just now. Makes for a total of 1,112 words over two writing sprints today. This light little romance (don't we all need something lighthearted right now?) is shaping up nicely.
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM