Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈
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Alicia Vane 🏳️‍🌈
@aliciavwriting.bsky.social
A queer and sentimental writer of stories (she/they). #amquerying a cult of strong women with dark secrets.

www.aliciavane.com

Current bookish obsessions: unsavoury women, relentless yearning, a prickling sense of dread (Carmen Maria Machado style) 🌈📚
So excited to share my tender little short story that was published in Fruitslice Magazine today❤️‍🔥

“Synchronicities” is a story about the power of connection, the tender moments that can soothe our deepest aches, and the spark that can bring us to life again.

#booksky #writesky #queersky 🌈📚
September 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Have had such a fun launch today - thank you everyone who preordered/ requested/ reviewed In Your Head, the support has been incredible 🥰

IYH: A spicy sapphic novella for fans of Black Mirror, Women (Chloé Caldwell) and Want (Gillian Anderson).

aliciavane.com/books/in-you...

🌈📚 #booksky
September 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
One week until my spicy sapphic novella is officially out in the world 😱

trying not to freak out about the preorders coming in from actual bookshops!!

eeeeek!!

(ps I will not cope if I encounter a copy in the wild haha)

www.aliciavane.com for details ❤️‍🔥

🌈📚 #booksky #queersky #writesky
August 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets

For fans of:

❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity
❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs
❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power

THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN

(98k, speculative lit fic)

#QueerPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #litfic #amquerying
August 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The scream I just had to stifle (it’s 10pm here) when I saw that my novella is one of the most requested titles in the LGBTQ+ category of @netgalley.bsky.social

well, I definitely won’t sleeping now 😂

Thank you everyone who requested to read In Your Head ❤️‍🔥

🌈📚 #booksky #writesky
August 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Eeeek my spicy sapphic novella is available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social now!!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

(and I feel absolutely fine about this 😅😂❤️‍🔥)

#queerbooks 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Brushing up on the craft with Ursula K Le Guin and an almond croissant cookie.

#booksky 🌈📚 #amwriting #writingcommunity
May 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets

For fans of:

❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity
❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs
❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power

THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN

(98k, speculative lit fic)

#QuestPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #amquerying
May 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets

For fans of:

❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity
❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs
❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power

THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN

(98k, speculative lit fic)

#QuestPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #amquerying
May 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets

For fans of:

❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity
❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs
❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power

THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN

(98k, speculative lit fic)

#QuestPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #amquerying
May 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Catching up on writing group feedback now that I’ve emerged from my story writing cave.

How are you spending 1st May?

#amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky 🌈📚
May 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Lovely day at the Northern Publishers’ fair ❤️‍🔥

So great to see all these excellent indie publishers in the North.

@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
@commapress.bsky.social
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Trying to leave novel alone (with agents) and novella alone (with beta) so back to studying the craft.

I usually pick up these books and read the bits I’m interested in.

I’m not sure that’s how you master the craft but it does seem to be the best way to get me to write.

#amwriting #writesky 🌈📚
April 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I absolutely loved The Unworthy (I read an eARC) and couldn’t wait to reread a physical copy.

I wasn’t as obsessed with the UK cover as the USA one (LOOK AT ITTT) so I ordered it from a US distributor.

I just think it’s stunning.

Have you read this? #booksky 🌈📚 #readsky #queerbooks
April 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Three of my favourite reads from March ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

What was your favourite??

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooks #bookwrap
April 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wow @yorklitfest was SO GOOD this year!

I have a soft spot for the festival because it’s where I met my wonderful writing group in 2018. But this year, the line-up was next level!

I was delighted when they reached out to ask if I wanted press tickets for some events YES PLEASE!

Highlights in pic!
March 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A strong start for the #transrightsreadathon 🏳️‍⚧️

Stag Dance by Torrey Peters ❤️‍🔥

I’ve been looking forward to this for ages - I absolutely loved Detransition, Baby.

What’s on your list for the readathon? 🌈📚 #booksky
March 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There is such a SPECIFIC group of people

who will understand THE GASP i just guspt:

#amquerying #writers #writingcommunity #booksky

Now back to ignoring QT I swear 😂
March 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reading update:

#amreading #thesafekeep 🌈📚 #booksky
March 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Screamed when my friend sent me this pic! My novel on its first holiday!!

I can’t wait for the day that Nascent is published officially, getting sand between the pages on the beach, getting crumpled in a bag, damp edges in the bath.

I can’t wait to see it come to life ❤️‍🔥

#amquerying 🌈📚 #booksky
March 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
When I see people reading queer, intersectional, anti-colonial books it encourages me to raise the bar of my thinking.

It reminds me to challenge my world view.

It helps me imagine a world beyond the narratives we are told are possible.

It reminds me to stay hopeful.

#writingcommunity #booksky
March 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
February reading wrap ❤️‍🔥

Finally got round to reading I Who Have Never Known Men after a Lit Agent told me it was a strong comp for the novel I’m querying.

Apologies to everyone who told me to read it months ago, you were right I did love it.

What was your favourite read in February? #booksky 🌈📚
February 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I enjoy these big Tony’s Chocolonely bars because I have no business deciding what a portion is. They break as they see fit 🙂‍↕️

Writing today and it feels good to be back in the flow after the querying focus of Feb.

What’s your favourite writing snack?

#amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity
February 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets

For fans of:

❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity
❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs
❤️‍🔥 Female rage
❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power

THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN

(98k, speculative lit fic)

#WSPitQ #LGBTQ #A #writingcommunity #WSPit #amquerying
February 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets

❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs
❤️‍🔥 Female rage
❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning
❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity

THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN

(98k, speculative lit fic)

#WSPitQ #LGBT #amquerying #A #WSPit
February 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM