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⚧️ Victoria Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️
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British trans queer author, dog lover, cat adorer, rodent apologist, wasp nemesis. Ageing disgracefully.

#trans #queerfic #specfic #lgbtq

https://christianblackwellauthor.com/bluesky
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⚧️ Victoria Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️ @victoriablackwell.bsky.social · Sep 13
So, here's a thing. It turns out I've been suffering gender dysphoria. All those books written with only queer female protagonists should have been the biggest clue, yet I missed it somehow🙂

So as July 18th, "W" day, I'm proudly transgender. The chrysalis forms 🥰 🌈

#LGBTQ #Transfem #queerlit
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Feminisation hair transplants in. Despite the bloody mess, the real me is emerging already. So exciting! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️.

Anyone else feel like they are being carried along by their true selves, and they're just along for the ride? 😊

#translife #trans #transauthors
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I love the excitement of getting something out of my head onto the page. The desperation, almost. It's quite a rush.

Least favourite is probably editing. I don't mind it but the pure creativity is over and it's focused refinement - a different beast 🙂.
cjaralore.bsky.social 🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · Oct 20
#QueerPrompts October 20: National Day on Writing: Favorite/least favorite part of the writing process
Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters. Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font. Center text is: #QueerPrompts October 20: National Day on Writing: Favorite/least favorite part of the writing process
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Without the ECHR, the UK Human Rights Act will be watered-down, unchecked, to exclude the politically inconvenient.

Which could suddenly be you.

It won’t stop with immigration.

#ECHR #TransRights #RefugeesWelcome #UKPolitics

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UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says
The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Featured on Reedsy Discovery, Newborn is "A gritty tale of love, rebellion, and redemption set against a fractured society grappling with economic collapse and AI ethics."

Read free now on KU!

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#litspecfic #scifireads #dystopian #reedsydiscovery #queerfic
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September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Well now don't I feel silly. Turns out I am. I wondered why this hit so hard 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#LGBTQ #DifferentNotBroken #QueerVoices #LGBTQAlly #BeYourself #JodieFoster
victoriablackwell.bsky.social ⚧️ Victoria Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️ @victoriablackwell.bsky.social · Jun 20
I’m not queer myself, but I believe this to my core, and I don't think I've ever seen it quite so well articulated.

#LGBTQ #PrideMonth #DifferentNotBroken #QueerVoices #LGBTQAlly #BeYourself #JodieFoster
Being gay is like being left handed. Some people are, most people aren't, and no one really knows why. It's not right or wrong, it's just one of the many natural ways to be. The world works best when everyone gets to live as they truly are. So if you ever feel out of place, you're not broken, you're just beautifully different, and that's something the world needs.
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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So, here's a thing. It turns out I've been suffering gender dysphoria. All those books written with only queer female protagonists should have been the biggest clue, yet I missed it somehow🙂

So as July 18th, "W" day, I'm proudly transgender. The chrysalis forms 🥰 🌈

#LGBTQ #Transfem #queerlit
September 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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#LGBTReads #specfic #dystopian #litfic
victoriablackwell.bsky.social ⚧️ Victoria Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️ @victoriablackwell.bsky.social · Sep 5
Newborn. Read free on KU.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "...a gripping blend of character-driven storytelling and high-stakes action that had me hooked from the first page."

- Reader Review
September 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Newborn. Read free on KU.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "...a gripping blend of character-driven storytelling and high-stakes action that had me hooked from the first page."

- Reader Review
September 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Newborn - Life for sale. One Careless Owner

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "... a gripping blend of character-driven storytelling and high-stakes action that had me hooked from the first page."

📖 99p or free on Kindle Unlimited!

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#indieauthor #queerfiction #lgbtqreads #specfic #sapphicreads #KUbooks
Newborn by Christian Blackwell. Only 99p this week. A fractured mind. A corrupt utopia. And a hidden truth. Jenna Marquez lost five years—and the woman she loved. Now she drifts through the wreckage of a world shattered by a solar event, forgotten by the new order. When Barnaby offers her a chance to reclaim her life, Jenna hooks into The Lake: an artificial paradise where the dead live on, the rich play god, and criminals trade in secrets. Someone inside holds the key to a powerful AI core—its origin unclear, its potential dangerous. But the AI hides secrets of its own. And Jenna isn’t the only one hunting it. Pursued by enemies and haunted by her past, she faces the ultimate question: will she protect her future… or the future of humanity?
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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DId you feel that? The universe just... sighed.

Unleashed Winter2025 - Karen, Destroyer of Worlds

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Death, you see, could not exist without life—specifically, the end of life. The scientists would have called it the conservation of something, or the something constant. Since this was conceptual, and nothing to do with science, the philosophers got involved—cravatted, pipe-smoking types who would debate it endlessly instead of getting a real job. They did little more than talk about it, though. But no one was expecting them to. And that’s their secret. Death, however, was unconcerned with what it was. It was more than happy just being, for millennia of millennia, existing only to be the ultimate foil for life. The bags of proteins evolved legs, arms, aerobic respiration, and eventually, language. Not content merely to expire by running out of food, dying of old age, or killing each other, they began to tell one another stories of how mighty, eternal beings had created them from dust, ribs, or clay. The logical conclusion they drew? There had to be more than just death at the end of a life. From the fervent prayers and questions of these believers, the gods were born. They regarded death with suspicion, jealous of its reach, longevity, and supreme power. They begged, bullied, and bribed it to divulge its secrets. Yet it remained implacable, immovable, impervious to their imploring. Death just… was. Until, one high summer’s night in ancient Sumer, a gaggle of gullible idiots—the sum of whose fingers and toes far exceeded their collective IQ—succeeded where the gods had failed. Beyond all comprehension and expectation, they captured the essence of death in a human vessel, intent on bending it to their will. And, oh my gods, did she make them wish they hadn’t. Death had become Karen, Destroyer of Worlds. Cover of Karen, Destroyer of Worlds, by Christian Blackwell, featuring Death herself, standing in the molten crater that delivered her to us. The sun rises in the background.
July 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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📘Newborn - out now.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "From the very first page, I found myself completely hooked"

Read for free on Kindle Unlimited.

What would you sacrifice to Remember?
Everything might not be enough.

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#indieauthor #queerfiction #lgbtqreads #specfic #sapphicreads #KUbooks
"5 Stars - Genuinely struggled to put it down" Newborn book cover showing Jenna Marquez in a vest top, silhouetted before a vibrant blue glowing circuit. Out now - Newborn. A fractured mind. A digital afterlife. A truthg worth killing for. Read for free on Kindle Unlimited.
July 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Newborn - Life for sale. One careless owner.

Pursued by enemies and haunted by her past, she faces the ultimate question: protect her future… or the future of humanity?

Read for free now on Kindle Unlimited.

shorturl.at/cQUSc

#indieauthor #queerfiction #lgbtqreads #specfic #sapphicreads #KUbooks
Newborn book cover showing Jenna Marquez in a vest top, silhouetted before a vibrant blue glowing circuit. Out now - Newborn. A fractured mind. A digital afterlife. A truthg worth killing for. Read for free on Kindle Unlimited.
June 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I’m not queer myself, but I believe this to my core, and I don't think I've ever seen it quite so well articulated.

#LGBTQ #PrideMonth #DifferentNotBroken #QueerVoices #LGBTQAlly #BeYourself #JodieFoster
Being gay is like being left handed. Some people are, most people aren't, and no one really knows why. It's not right or wrong, it's just one of the many natural ways to be. The world works best when everyone gets to live as they truly are. So if you ever feel out of place, you're not broken, you're just beautifully different, and that's something the world needs.
June 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Top 100 in LGBTQ+ Sci Fi... 😳

The dream... it's coming true!

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#IndieAuthor #QueerSciFi #LGBTBooks #SapphicFiction
#CyberpunkVibes #SpeculativeFiction #SciFiWithHeart
#ReadMoreQueerBooks #DebutAuthor #MustRead2025
A screenshot showing Christian Blackwell's debut release, Newborn's rank on Amazon, number 84 in LGBTQ+ sci fi, 180 in Cyberpunk and 561 in Dystopian. Newborn book cover showing Jenna Marquez in a vest top, sihouetted before a vibrant blue glowing circuit. The cover shows Kindle Unlimited and 99p promos Newborn back cover blurb: Life for sale, one careless owner. Jenna Marquez, A veteran with a five-year memory, drifts through the fringe of a solar-event-wrecked society, discarded and forgotten. When fellow veteran Barnaby offers her a chance to reclaim her life and the woman she loved, she follows him into The Lake: an artificial paradise where the dead live on, the rich play god, and criminals trade in secrets. Someone inside know the location of an invaluable AI core - one that could change their lives forever. But the AI core holds secrets of its own. And Jenna isn't the only one after it. Hunted by ruthless forces and haunted by the life she lost, Jenna faces the ultimate question: secure her future, or the future of humanity. Read Newborn by Christian Blackwell for free with Kindle Unlimited, or buy this launch week for just 99p!
June 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Writer Or Author?

Here we go, you're thinking. What's he railing against this time? Well, it's the usual, really. Artificial barriers, gatekeeping, and elitism. This time, the perception of the difference between writers and authors. A small point, perhaps, but taken as one of the thousand cuts…
Writer Or Author?
Here we go, you're thinking. What's he railing against this time? Well, it's the usual, really. Artificial barriers, gatekeeping, and elitism. This time, the perception of the difference between writers and authors. A small point, perhaps, but taken as one of the thousand cuts that an author must suffer...? As with every opinion I offer, this is my perspective. What happens to me, and what conclusions I draw, may differ greatly from your own. Who Is A Writer? A writer is someone who writes. That's the definition in its simplest form, and covers a lot of ground.
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June 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Newborn is just outside the Top 100 in LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi!

I could not ask for more on day two of launch.
Huge thanks to everyone who’s bought it already.
If you haven’t yet, it’s free on KU and just 99p to buy!

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#indieauthor #queerfiction #lgbtqreads #specfic #sapphicreads #KUbooks
A screenshot showing Christian Blackwell's debut release, Newborn's rank on Amazon, number 133 in LGBTQ+ sci fi, 235 in Cyberpunk and 676 in Dystopian. Newborn book cover showing Jenna Marquez in a vest top, sihouetted before a vibrant blue glowing circuit. The cover shows Kindle Unlimited and 99p promos Newborn back cover blurb: Life for sale, one careless owner. Jenna Marquez, A veteran with a five-year memory, drifts through the fringe of a solar-event-wrecked society, discarded and forgotten. When fellow veteran Barnaby offers her a chance to reclaim her life and the woman she loved, she follows him into The Lake: an artificial paradise where the dead live on, the rich play god, and criminals trade in secrets. Someone inside know the location of an invaluable AI core - one that could change their lives forever. But the AI core holds secrets of its own. And Jenna isn't the only one after it. Hunted by ruthless forces and haunted by the life she lost, Jenna faces the ultimate question: secure her future, or the future of humanity.
June 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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📘 Newborn is out now!

Ex-soldier. Ghost in the machine. A heartfelt middle finger to the system.

Read it now on Kindle or KU for 99p during launch week.

🕶️ For fans of broken futures, sharp edges, and queer, messy, female protagonists.

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#KUbooks #specfic #lgbtbooks #indieauthor
Newborn - Jenna Marquez silhouette in blue, wearing a vest top with circuits glowing behind.
June 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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The world: What the hell goes on in his head?

Me:

#writingcommunity #amwriting #authorslife #specficauthors

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Five images capturing the author's stories, with text overlaying the images, but behind the characters. A cup is central, foreground, with the words "Fuck Off, I'm Writing." on the side.
May 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Sign up and get an exclusive deleted chapter from Newborn - a sci-fi thriller about memory, betrayal, and second chances.

Get to know the fiery, fractured Jenna Marquez, as she heads to The Lake. After this, everything changes.

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#LGBTQFiction #WritingLife #SpecFic #SciFiWriters
victoriablackwell.bsky.social ⚧️ Victoria Blackwell 🏳️‍⚧️ @victoriablackwell.bsky.social · May 10
My debut novel Newborn releases June 12th. Pre-order now open! Excited, scared and hopeful are fighting for top emotion. Scared is winning.

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#writingcommunity #selfpublish #indieauthors
#debutnovel #speculativefiction #amwriting
#writerslife #newbookrelease
May 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Exactly a month to go until Newborn launches!

Meet Jenna Marquez—fiery, fierce, and forced to forget—in this exclusive pre-launch deleted chapter:
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#Cyberpunk #QueerSciFi #IndieAuthor #SciFiBooks #BookLaunch #MemoryAndIdentity #ReadingCommunity #FoundFamilyFiction
May 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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My debut novel Newborn releases June 12th. Pre-order now open! Excited, scared and hopeful are fighting for top emotion. Scared is winning.

shorturl.at/fENfb

#writingcommunity #selfpublish #indieauthors
#debutnovel #speculativefiction #amwriting
#writerslife #newbookrelease
May 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Newborn is available on pre-order on Amazon! Marketing underway, Funnel active. Bring it on!

Please, writing gods, if you wouldn't mind, please let someone buy it and like it? Thank you so much in advance. 😁

#writingcommunity #self-publishing #writinggoals
April 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I did it again. Got caught up in promotion stuff and forgot to write! Tomorrow, I get back to it properly. The site is up. The cover is done. I can BREATHE 😊

#witingcommunity #selfpublishing #indiepress #authorlife
March 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The cover for my debut, Newborn (which is actually my 4th book - long story), will be ready in a couple of days. It's all getting a bit real. Can't wait to see see how much better it will be than my placeholder effort! 😊

#writingcommunity #writers #selfpub
Simplistic cover of Newborn by Christian Blackwell. A chrome, round ended cylinder, with a central ECG with the faintest impression of a fetus, sits centrally on a black background. Light green neon announces the title and author.
March 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Having spent 5 days getting my website up and running, I'm finally back writing. I'd missed it more than I thought I would, and it welcomed me back like a lost love. This is why we write. The love of the craft.

#writingcommunity #writers #authorlife
March 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM