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Melissa is write here
@purplepsychnurse.bsky.social
Exploring mental health themes in queer fiction while I write my own. Let's break down the stigma one word at a time.

I am querying my first sapphic romance novel. "You Being You" is a story of love that manages to survive the darkness of mental illness.
I finished nanowrimo on my 3rd try! Anybody else write a novel this month?
#sapphicfiction #writingcommunity
November 30, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Thanks to the bomb cyclone I had no light or phone service...thanks @jaeauthor.bsky.social for getting Bachelorette #12 on audiobook so I had something to do! If you need good #sapphic #lesfic you can always count on Jae!
November 23, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Survived the bomb cyclone. Grateful for heat and power and phone services and my wife #huddleandcuddle
November 23, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Woke up this morning...still gay.
#Sapphic #pride #LGBTQ
November 12, 2024 at 3:28 AM
I'm still writing and I'm still fighting for a safe space for mental health seekers and my LGBTQIA+ family. Almost halfway done with NaNoWriMo!
What are you writing and reading about??
#writingcommunity #amwriting #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #bookstagrammer #lgbqt #sapphic #lesfic
November 11, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Happy Pride! I lived in the closet for far too long and my book shelf is still pretty straight. Help me queer my bookshelf--what do you recommend?
#lesfic #pridemonth #queeryourbookshelf #lgbtqwriters
June 1, 2024 at 9:44 PM
A friend sent me a beautiful card to celebrate writing my first book! Editing and agent searching to come but I have created something I'm proud of. Stay tuned for a sapphic romance about mental health!
#mentalhealthawareness #lesfic #amwriting
June 1, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Celebrating mother's day is complicated. I was blessed with a mom that read to me and taught me to love books. Thanks mom! But we can't celebrate mother's day without a pile of books that canonize the delight of having a dysfunctional family. #amreading #booksbooksbooks
May 18, 2024 at 5:13 AM
"It did not overshadow the darkness but rather embraced it. The light was just as much a part of her, the only match for her sadness, not better or worse, but also. Sabine was more than just her sorrow, she was dark and light and everything that existed in between."
#MentalHealthMatters #lesfic
May 8, 2024 at 2:10 PM
10 books in April. Highlight was reading Scorched Grace after meeting Margot Douaihy--the unique MC is a punk rock lesbian turned nun who has a penchant for solving crime. Searching as always for queer and mental health rep. #amReading #amWriting #amQuerying #lesfic #MentalHealthMatters
May 7, 2024 at 2:16 AM
It's MAY! Here is my month of books: M-a MG novel about a transgender child A-a book that my sister recommended Y- (a tricky letter to find until I realized it was on my book) sending to beta readers this month! QOTD: What can you spell with your books?
#MentalHealthMatters #lesfic #amQuerying
May 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM
What books make you feel seen? My first sapphic romance I felt naughty and thrilled in a way hetero romance never had. I'm writing my own #SapphicRomance so we can see queers with mental illness get their happily ever after too. #MentalHealthMatters #lesfic #lgbtqWriters #amWriting #amQuerying
May 1, 2024 at 4:22 AM
How did you feel when religion had no space for your queer identity? Unmoored, disconnected from the umbilical cord? Burned and ready to burn it all down? Sometimes you have to write your own gay girl prayers. #Poetry #LGBTQ #QueerWriters #lesfic #Sapphic #amwriting #amreading
April 23, 2024 at 4:23 AM
For anyone else who has ever felt like a Molotov cocktail... May the stinging shards of your trauma become memorable metaphors whose beauty brings you healing. (Sensitive Creatures by Kirsten Reneau) #MentalHealthMatters #QueerWriters #lgbtqWriters #amWriting
April 14, 2024 at 5:43 AM
I'm writing a sapphic romance where mental health professionals are struggling with their own mental illnesses. I work in psychiatry to help others like I've been helped. That's why I write too. Can a romance be healing? What books are healing you? #mentalhealth #lesfic #sapphicromance #amquerying
April 12, 2024 at 3:45 AM
"Holy Mary, Mother of God. Let the afterlife have central air and hot women." Prays the punk rock lesbian turned nun in Margot Douaihy's Scorched Grace. How nice that religious trauma gave queer authors a path to explore spirituality in radical ways? #amwriting #lesfic
April 10, 2024 at 4:40 AM
Saints and Sinners literary festival in NOLA last week. It was delightful to rub shoulders with so many queer writers. What's your favorite queer fiction? Bonus points for mental health themes.
#MentalHealth #QueerMentalHealth #LGBTQMentalHealth #QueerReaders #LGBTQWriters #lesfic #SaintsAndSinners
March 31, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Mental health tip for my sapphic writer friends: As you work to send rainbows out into the world, don't forget to look for the ones meant for you. They always show up just when things seem gloomiest.

sapphic | sapphic books | mental health
January 10, 2024 at 5:28 AM
Happy solstice and merry Christmas this week!
December 24, 2023 at 9:17 PM