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Elizabeth Briars
@elizabethbriars.bsky.social
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Author of The Steer Queer Series
Presale for The Gossip and The Guest (releasing 11-20) available now:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1886858
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Hit a huge goal today: I was included on a hide your wallet from @smartbitches.bsky.social Did I put myself on this list? Maybe, but that doesn't make it any less cool!!
A screenshot of a hide your wallet post from the smart bitches, trashy books newsletter: With fewer and fewer historical romances being traditionally published, I’m finding it harder to find arcs of books that scratch that itch for me and I’ve pretty much exhausted my small town library’s supply of historical romance. Where I was going wrong was letting myself be intimidated by the self-pubbed and indie-pubbed world. It seemed vast to me and I had no idea where to start. Who could I trust to deliver the kinds of stories I need in my life? The bitchery, of course! I submitted a Rec League request and I was overwhelmed by the responses! The books available are thoughtful, plentiful and, for the most part, cheap! Heaven! Thank you so much for sharing your recommendations with me! I started with three books which I’ve briefly discussed below. But I’ve enjoyed myself so much that there will definitely be additional installments of this series as my reading in this world expands. Disclaimer: I haven’t done a deep dive on these authors. I know some have some traditionally published books or their books were traditionally published then they got the rights back and decided to self publish. The books listed below either have no publisher listed on Amazon or the author has a self titled company that published them. I’ll be continuing my quest and would love any suggestions you have. Here is the full list of recommended historical romance authors who are self-pubbed or indie-pubbed according to the Bitchery: AJ Demas Alice Coldbreath Alissa Johnson Anna Campbell Annick Trent Aster Glenn Gray Aydra Richards Bliss Bennet Celia Lake Christi Caldwell Constance Hussey Courtney Milan E.E. Ottoman EH Lupton Elisa Braden Elizabeth Briars Elizabeth Cole Emily Larkin Emily Windsor Erica Ridley Gail Carriger Grace Burrowes Grace Callaway
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Finally got to hold my copy of The Gossip and The Guest in my hands! If two queer love stories, told concurrently with shared characters in regency England sound like your thing, preorder now to hold your own copy on Nov. 20th!
books2read.com/u/4DGrEd

#queerbooks #historicalromance 📚💙
A maroon book stands on a wooden table, a sprawling pothos surrounding it. The cover features a couple silhouetted in silver, standing in front of a stained glass arch. The title, in scrolling silver handwriting reads: The Gossip and The Guest. At the bottom, a black banner says: book two of The Steer Queer Series.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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There's something deeply right about listening to Chappell Roan while dressed as a clown from the 30's

#halloween2025
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Always love a community thread! I wrote a queer Regency Romance series (well, only one's out for now). A scandalous list, a secret identity, a flood of alarming bets: can Gregory and Henrietta navigate the London season and find each other again?
books2read.com/u/3kdAP6
A book cover with a dark purple background. In the center there is the masc and fem presentations of a person in regency clothes. The title reads The Lady and The List. A gold banner at the bottom says: Book one of The Steer Queer Series
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Listen, I know you have someone on your Christmas list that you can't get another dnd book this year. But you COULD gift them an incredible portrait of their OC showing you're thoughtful and have great taste!
Lyanna did a fantastic job on my line art for my novel, see? I would cried if it were a 🎁!
Henry Crofton, a character from The Lady and The List, stands in the center of this illustration. She is wearing a regency style gown constructed to mimic Greco roman columns with epaulettes of layered chiffon to look like bunches of grapes. She has a wide gold belt and match parure (diadem and necklace).
October 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Not sure what I did, but I'm currently having the best month of sales I have yet for my little #queerromance

So if you also want to be cool like those Very Nice People™️, grab a copy of The Lady and The List today!

#historicalromance #readqueerbooks 📚💙

books2read.com/u/3kdAP6
A book cover with a dark purple background. Surrounded gold filagree is the masc and fem presentations of a person in regency clothes. The title, The Lady and The List, is above and below the heads. At the bottom a banner reads: Book one of The Steer Queer Series
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
I also got this stunning sibling portrait of Kabil and Louisa Hardwick, the other mcs in Isabella's story.
Art by the talented @cuatrojosz.bsky.social !

Book one in The Steer Queer Series: books2read.com/u/3kdAP6

Book 2 coming soon 👀 (like, November?)

#queerbooks #historicalromance 📚💙
A portrait of two people, a woman seated on the left in a red regency style gown with upswept dark hair, and a man on the right. He's heavier, wearing a regency style suit with long dark curly hair. Both people have dark eyes and brown skin (they are half white, half indigenous to what is now Mexico).
October 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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To stop myself from commissioning more art (portfolio day is killing me!) allow me to show you some I have. This is Isabella Marshton, one of the mcs in book 2 of The Steer Queer Series, The Gossip and The Guest (coming soon!)
Art by @cuatrojosz.bsky.social (spots open👀)
📚💙 #queerbooks #characterart
A young woman with honey blond hair sits facing the audience in a portrait. She is wearing a white regency dress with small flowers and pink piping. Her features are cute and she is... Bustier than average.
October 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Made a graphic, hate it

But I do LOVE this art of Henry I commissioned from the endlessly talented @lyannatropes.bsky.social ! She was so easy to work with and brought my antisocial MC to life!

The Lady and The List is a queer historical romance available: books2read.com/u/3kdAP6

#queerbooks 📚💙
A black background with an illustration of a Caucasian person in a cream regency style gown. This person has dark hair and the shoulders of the gown are purple and maroon layers. The bottom right corner houses an ornate gold frame with the dark purple book cover of The Lady and The List inside. The texts reads: About me I'm Miss Henrietta Crofton, but my friends call me Henry I can be a little standoffish and I've never been to London before Oh, and the other thing you should know about me? Some days, I'm a man Henry, sent to London for a season she doesn't want, navigates the return of an old friend and the prying eyes of the 'Ton as she tries to express who she really is
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
There's no time like the present to snag the ADHD Awareness Month bundle featuring 22 great works either by authors with ADHD or featuring characters with it!

itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

📚💙 #adhdawareness #indiebooks #booksale
Adhd Awareness Month Fiction. By mostly ADHD authors, most with 1+ significant ADHD character(s) 22 Book. Oct 1st-15th Covers: The Lady and the List, Elizabeth Briars Side Tracked, S.K. Kelly The Harmony of Falling Snow, Andora Brokaw Bestiary Beas The Players Act 1, Amy Sparks The Weight of Her Gaze, RJ Martin He of the Trees, Rob Macwolf Song of the Wolf, T.C. Smith Tales of Yamato, Odessa Silver The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, Steve Hugh Westenra Manipulator's War, Elise Carlson A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Heart of Stone, Johannes T. Evans Lantern, Burgundy Athena Pendragon Wizard's Debt, Niranjan Blood, D.C. Hart Ancient as the Stars, Maya Darjani A Dark Hole Darly, Drew Melbourne Translucent, Wayward Spark War of the Space Dargons, L'Poni Baldwin Ants Waking, R.J. Huneke Rage in a Cage, Joachim Heijndermans
October 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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It's been a minute since I posted anything from The Gossip and The Guest. But this scene was actually born of my realization that it had yet to rain. In England 😂
#queerromance #writesky #writingcommunity
Isabella made a split-second decision- she was almost certain she was closer to the greenhouse than the abbey- and plunged forward, uselessly trying to ward the rain from her head with her arms while she ran. It was difficult to see through the curtains of pounding raindrops and she made at least one wrong turn and had to backtrack. As she crossed the same section she had just trod, her slippered foot, already unsteady in such conditions, slid in the mud she had churned up. Without purchase, she grabbed at the only thing near in an attempt to steady herself but the branches of the shrubbery proved a poor defense, scratching her arms and snapping as she felt backward with a cry. As her head connected with the mossy cobblestones, eyes closing against her will, she felt a jolt and wondered briefly if she had been struck by lightning. The crack certainly sounded like thunder in her skull.
September 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
About to write a scene in which my MMC is just this

#writesky #queerbooks #regencyromance #hefallsfirst #hefallsHARD
A blond anime man (Tamaki from Ouran Highschool Host Club) hides his mouth behind his hand while blushing profusely and sweating (a little)
September 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
Got a new kitten who was too scared to come close to me. Yesterday I coaxed him out finally by just talking to myself about future pairings for my Regency series 😅

Anyway this is Phantom

#writesky #writingcommunity #authorproblems #kitten
September 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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My middle sister(22) has been my cover artist for years {see examples}. I recently commissioned my youngest sister (13) to draw the puppy in The Gossip and The Guest. So far she's asked 2x the questions I ever got for a cover render 😅

#artcommissions #selfpub #sisters
The cover art for The Lady and The List A dark purple, textured background with the gold silhouettes of the masc and fem presentations of a person in regency clothes. A gold banner at the bottom says: Book one of The Steer Queer Series The cover for The Commander A white silhouette of a fox lays on a slab, surrounded by trees in shades of teal. The cover is drawn in a layered paper art style The cover for The Catalyst A white silhouette of a red haired woman, surrounded by trees in shades of red and orange. The cover is drawn in a layered paper art style
September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
*Writes a 22 point to-do list*
*Buys game *
Guess those aren't getting done
The title screen for Story if Seasons Grand Bazaar There is a large red windmill in a pastoral scene in the background
August 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Want historical romance with queer protagonists? A real historical list of prostitutes wreaking havoc on an otherwise good boy? A bi awakening through a daring rescue?
Check out The Lady and The List (on sale if not the zon, until 8-31!)

books2read.com/u/3kdAP6

#queerbooks #romance #booksky #sale
A dark purple book cover. In gilded gold, surrounded by leaf flourishes: The Lady and The List [the silhouettes of the masc and fem presentations of a person in regency clothes] At the bottom this is a gold banner reading: Book one of the Steer Queer Series
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Holy shit! Somewhere there's a library that stocks digital copies of The Lady and The List! Getting into a library as a self published author feels like a dream come true, to be honest. Thank you to whoever is responsible 💚

#writingcommunity #booksky #queerbooks #queerromance
A screenshot of Libby app search results. The Lady and The List, a dark purple book cover with gold silhouettes of the masc and fem presentations of a person dressed in regency clothes, returns the following options: Notify me, Read sample, Save. Below is a brief blurb: A London season was not something Henrietta Crofton ever wanted. An estate crumbling under the weight of his recently deceased father's gambling...
August 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
elizabethbriars.bsky.social
I'm overrun by tomatoes which would be great, if I like vegetables. Still like growing them though!
Truly the garden has become such an escape for me. Even turned me around*very* slightly on hating summer
#gardensky #abundance
A shot down into a wicker basket: tomatoes in several hues are intermixed with bachelor button, black eyed Susan and Cosmo flowers. Sprinkled in are beans with red spots on their pods. Oh, and two tiny onions
August 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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My goal for July was to sell 15 copies of The Lady and The List (I've sold one). I think my August goal is even scarier: one review on any platform.
If you'd like to help me achieve either of those, you can find my queer Regency Romance here:
books2read.com/u/3kdAP6
#booksky #queerbooks #romancebook
A dark purple book cover with simulated gold foil details in the corners and in the center. The center has the masc and fem presentations of a person from the regency era, facing away from each other with the title: The Lady and The List A banner at the bottom reads: Book one of The Steer Queer Series
July 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Not my normal posts but look at this flower I grew!
#gardensky
Grass, alyssum, and an orange Cosmo form the background for a pinky Shirley Poppy, fully open with white edged petals
July 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Wow @gamechangershow.bsky.social really upped the stakes this season
Can't wait to see what the prompt was. I hope it's: Jurassic Park Something
A photo of two people on a rocky landscape, a helicopter in the back right of the frame. The title of the article reads: In New "Game-Changer", Scientists Extract 24-Million-Year-Old Protein Fragments From Extinct Rhino Tooth
July 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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I'm shocked I didn't get a bingo!
"Isabella was sprawled across the drenched cobbles, her white dress muddied and sodden, plastered to her body. Her honey blonde hair was strewn across her face and the path and Kabil gasped when he saw that it was tinged with blood."
#writesky #writingcommunity
A bingo card with the following squares checked off for The Gossip and The Guest, my WIP: there are tears shed, steamy scenes, a character needs a hug, eye color description, own voices bipoc or LGBT+ rep, there's blood, there's a lot of smiling, parts set in the summer, FREE SPACE, character returns home, set in a different country, multi-pov, features a dog or a cat, features a love story, a character who is an immigrant
July 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It's crazy to me that this was written in January of this year. 60,000 words later and I'm closing in on the conclusion of The Gossip and The Guest, hopefully by the end of July I'll have stepped into editing!
#WIPSnips #writesky #writingcommunity #regencyromance
Once they had both finished eating, Louisa excused herself to go change out of her habit, leaving Isabella in the care of the housekeeper who was introduced as Ms. Spencer. Ms. Spencer seemed a touch young for a housekeeper, and though she was very kind and attentive as she showed Isabella some of the paintings in the foyer, it was clear she hadn’t been working in this house all that long. Isabella, disappointed to not have a deeper well to peer into, still tried to ferret out what information she could. Ms. Spencer pointed to a small, complicated looking statue sitting next to a figurine of a goat and one of a pig. “These Sir Hardwick brought back with him from New Spain.”
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I'm reading The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennett and it's very good so far. This was so funny I immediately sent it to my sister 😂
God, Mr. Collins has always claimed, did not have a sense of humor. Charlotte had privately thought of that were so, perhaps God had not yet seen her husband without clothes on.
July 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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A scandalous list, a secret identity, a flood of alarming bets: can Gregory and Henrietta navigate the London season and find each other again?

The Lady and The List is a Regency Romance with a genderfluid MC
books2read.com/u/3kdAP6
a.co/d/3b5bjIA

#booksky #romancelandia #lgbtqia #queerbooks
The text reads: Henrietta found herself in a small clearing with a quite natural looking stream, damned to a small pond. And, perhaps more damning, she also found herself no longer alone. The Lady and The List And there is a graphic of a red rose in the bottom left
June 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM