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Raven Belasco 📚
@ravenbelas.co
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author of the 🩸📜 Blood & Ancient Scrolls vampire series 🤓 geek girl 🖤 old school goth 🌈 queer 🥄 fighting for spoons every day 🐺 in a pack with a scruffy terrier #booksky

FREE new story "Finding Bela Lugosi" Grab it: https://BookHip.com/TCAPFXV
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Raven Belasco 📚 @ravenbelas.co · Sep 4
It's finally live! Amber Benson (Tara from #buffy) and I were interviewed at Hellmouth Con '25, and here is proof of what total nerds we are 🤓💪

#booksky #bskybookclub #buffythevampireslayer #vampires
It's Tara's turn to be a Vampire! From Buffy to Dracula, the witchcraft of the authorial journey
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Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Here's a page from the first novel (science fiction🚀) I tried to write 📝

How that led to my current vampire🧛‍♀️ series is the topic of today's newsletter. Go sign up to get the full story (& the best swag & discounts)
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November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The Horror Writers Association featured a #halloween post by *me* today! 🎃

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October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Do what he says or he'll bark at you to walk the plank! 🏴‍☠️🐺

These are the final days of sale on That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story & we're not doing this sale again, so get that plunder before it's gone!

Also, isn't Archie the Goodest Boy and cutest pirate ever⁉️

#booksky #bskybookclub #halloween
Cute terrier dressed as pirate in a wooden pirate ship, with a pile of books beside him. Text reads: "The Dread Pirate Archibald commands you get That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story while it's on sale only 99 cents" with a cute jack o' lantern Stack of books by Raven Belasco titled That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story in a wooden room with an old fashioned candelabra on the wall. Text reads "Shiver me timbers! Get it! Only 99 cents! Halloween sale" with a cute jack o' lantern
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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You'll never guess the 3 #bannedbooks that influenced me

#booksky #bskybookclub #authorsagainstbookbans
You'll never guess the 3 Banned Books that influenced author Raven Belasco
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October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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What 3 #bannedbooks influenced me? Care to hazard a guess...?

(I'll post the answer tomorrow)

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October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It's that time of year! The annual punkin buying extravaganza 🎃

My favorite farm stand is right near to one of Archie's & my favorite places to have a long hike, so I combine a nice long walkies with my favorite holiday shopping 🍂🧡

Have you bought your #pumpkin yet?

#goth #halloween
Author Raven Belasco in goth makeup and big glasses hugging a pile of pumpkins Author Raven Belasco in goth makeup and big glasses buying of pumpkins in a pumpkin patch Author Raven Belasco in a flowy goth dress and leather boots on a stone wall in the woods with her small terrier Archie on leash, looking out as the sunset light turns everything golden
October 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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A snippet from The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 323: On the Shelf for September 2025, Heather Rose Jones interviews Raven Belasco about That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story

Full episode: youtu.be/CivDgBGJXdc?...

More about book: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...

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October 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Reviews like this make every hard part of being an #indieauthor worth it 🥰

To grab your own copy: ravenbelas.co/lesbian-vamp...

#bskybookclub #booksky #queerbooks
Book titled That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story" is overlaid over a ship's steering wheel, underneath is a glowing review from Amazon
October 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Amber Benson (Tara from #buffythevampireslayer ) and me in conversation about #vampires and #writing and #audiobook at Hellmouth Con 25 🥰

#bskybookclub #booksky
September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Think 'cause it has such an accessible title that That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story has no secrets for you? Think again 🤔

All of the ship names in the book are either a shout-out to a valued reader of the series - or a multi-lingual pun...because you know that's how I roll 🛞

#booksky #bskybookclub
Secrets of the ship names in That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story by Raven Belasco #queerbooks
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September 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I had an amazing time at Vampfangs Salem Vampire Market on Saturday. My best sales day ever, and the people buying books were so kind and supportive - they actually *thanked me* for writing 🥰

I feel spoiled! Very happy indie author ☺️

#booksky #bskybookclub #vampire #darkfantasy
September 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Unbox my new #stickers with me!

Message me to find out how to get yours 📩

#booksky #bskybookclub #librarian
September 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Everyone who drinks #tea with milk has the *exact right shade of brown* the tea turns when your correct amount of milk has been added. Tea drinkers - post your shade of "perfect cuppa tea"

(This is PG Tips brewed strong with soy milk and sugar - "no cow builder's" 😉)

#authorlife #teadrinker
White mug of tea with enough milk in it to make it light brown
September 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Picked up these cool queer, vampire books by @ravenbelas.co at the Peabody Oddities Expo today. Thanks Raven!
Three books by Raven Belasco; Finding Bella Lugosi, Blood ex Libris, and That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story.
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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It's finally live! Amber Benson (Tara from #buffy) and I were interviewed at Hellmouth Con '25, and here is proof of what total nerds we are 🤓💪

#booksky #bskybookclub #buffythevampireslayer #vampires
It's Tara's turn to be a Vampire! From Buffy to Dracula, the witchcraft of the authorial journey
YouTube video by Maven of the Eventide
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September 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Want to enjoy all that Salem has to offer without the hassle of finding & paying for parking? Dark Forest Oddities Expo is your home for everything Halloween!

📍Marriott Hotel Peabody MA
🗓️Saturday September 6th
⏰11am to 6pm
🎟️Tickets at the door only $10
🅿️FREE PARKING

#booksky #bskybookclub
September 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This is how it feels being a vampire author heading into #spookyseason 😂

#authorlife #booksky #bskybookclub #halloween
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And so it begins
September 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Hey friends! Would you pretty please take a moment to vote for That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story in the Best Sapphic Rivals-to-Lovers poll? You don't have to sign up for anything & it would mean so much to Sadie the Goat, Gallus Mag, & me 🙏

(Scroll down to #29)

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Vote for Best Sapphic Rivals to Lovers - It's time to vote in the latest Best of the Best poll! How do we decide on the sapphic books to include in these polls? We value reader input, so we ask
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September 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This is kinda my gooiest, lovey-doviest one. But if any character deserves to find love again, it's absolutely Zoraida, who did not have long enough with the "patar" who made her into a vampire, and she lived for so long with the pain of that loss

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August 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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My most recent piece for Booklife just dropped: "The Funny Business of Sex Scenes" (yes, of course puns weren't optional!)

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#booksky #bskybookclub #indiewriters
August 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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#nationalbookloversday Bookworms party! 📚🪱🎉

Celebrate all weekend with a sale on Blood Ex Libris:
The ebook is dropped down to ONLY 99¢💥
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Or head over to ravenbelas.co for a signed paperback ONLY $6.99💥

Grab your copy before this sale is GONE‼️
#booksky #bskybookclub
August 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I’m sure you all have world maps up on your walls and are moving the pushpin every time I post one of these, so get to it! 📌

Noosh is finally leaving Tangier and making her way to the next part of the adventure in Book IV, Blood Depths

#wip #booksky #bskybookclub
"Where in the world is Noosh?" and "Writing today: 05 Aug '25" and "Western Sahara" is over an ancient map graphic and the character Noosh's face on the far right. Under that is a map of Western Sahara overlaid over a shot of a motorcyclist traveling along the Atlantic coast of Africa, dessert beside the ocean
August 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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New interview up about That Lesbian Vampire Pirate Story 🏴‍☠️ There’s some great questions, including what the perfume for the book would smell like & “What song does your character put on to start your book launch party?“

Go check it out: iheartsapphfic.com/2025/07/31/a...

#booksky #bskybookclub
August 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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In bed w/ food poisoning & I finally allow myself the final Ncuti Gatwa #drwho season

Having all the feels by ep 5, I call my partner to both gush & rant. At end of the call I say, "This is probably the nerdiest stuff I've ever said to you"

Without missing a beat he says, "No, it really isn't" 😂
July 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM