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Sarah Bell
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LGBTQA ♠️🏳️‍🌈 She/ Her 💬 Feminist 💁🏻‍♀️ History nerd 🏰 Awkward Brit 🇬🇧 Author✍ THE MURDER NEXT DOOR and DEEDS AND WORDS out now 📚
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Sarah Bell @sarahbellwrites.bsky.social · May 18
The LOUISA & ADA series is now available wide 🎉

This means it's no longer on KU but is available at a variety of different e-book stores (see below) and on Kobo Plus.

📚💙 #SapphicBooks #IndieAuthors 🌈📚
Graphic showing the book covers for The Murder Next Door and Deeds and Words by Sarah Bell, with an Edwardian street as the background. The text says 'now available wide' and then a list of bullet points about the book: murder mysteries, 1910s Yorkshire, Ace rep, established sapphic couple, opposites attract.
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waterstones.bsky.social
NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
I have never once succeeded at the #HiddenBookGame but maybe this year is the year?

Or maybe once again I'll be left questioning if I even read a single book this year?

(The second. It's gonna be the second one.)
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
The AI spammers continue to only ever email me about books written by other Sarah Bells 😅

#WritingLife #WriteSky
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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✨️ Completed all my reading goals for the year ✨️

📚💙
Screenshot from Storygraph showing three completed challenges for 2025: Books - 200/200 Pages - 38,115/35,000 Hours - 774.17/500
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
Me, staring at this knowing damn well we're in October and still convinced it's gotta be an April's fool.

Like, it's gotta be...
emilyhughes.bsky.social Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · Oct 2
no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask
A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."
October 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Some Latinx authors to buy instead:
Anna-Marie McLemore
Gabe Cole Novoa
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Aidan Thomas
A. E. Bross
Isabel Canas
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Natalia Hernandez
There are many more, but those are the ones within immediate reach on my Kindle and TBR pile
ingloriousgigi.bsky.social Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · Sep 29
Just a reminder that Freydis Moon's new book is going to released tomorrow and that they are NOT Latinx or Mexican. They are a serial Brownfisher who loves to appropriate and steal from BIPOC people and be a cyberbully on top of that.

Please give your money to real Latinx Authors instead.
September 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🧙 wild witches
🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨‍❤️‍👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

#booksky
Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.
September 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🍁🍂 AUTUMN TBR 🍂🍁

Cheering myself up as the weather gets colder (I'm a definite sunshine girlie) with a little Autumn TBR full of gothic stories, autumnal romances, mysteries, dark academia and fantasy.

📚💙
Background is woods in autumnal colours and the words Autumn TBR in a circle
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow
September 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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For this Bi Visibility Day, pick up a sapphic historical romance by a bi author, with a bi heroine! Lady’s Guide is science vs art bi awakening, Waspish Widows is small town bees and bi/pan, and Hellion’s Waltz is bi4bi enemies to lovers with a heist element!
#Romancelandia
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, l...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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My most recent entry in my challenge to read a book by a woman from every country in the world is Poland, for which I read a rediscovered book of lesbian short stories from 1925, because queer history is incredible:

theglobalwomenslibrary.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/p...
Poland: Lesbian Love, by Chawa Zloczower / ‘Evelyn Addams’
A series of short stories about lesbian relationships and intimacy, first published in 1925 and considered lost for 74 years.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky

www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a book:

The Murder in the Next Town Over
kjcharleswriter.com KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book:

Some Of Us Murderers
michaelastackpole.bsky.social Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book:

Gone With The Breeze...
September 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
I'm wearing a jumper and slippers in August and I'm incredibly grumpy about it 🥶
August 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
I think part of the reason I'm struggling with writing so much atm is I can't focus on any one WIP - I keep bouncing from story to story to story and I'm not sure how to make myself focus.

#WritingCommunity 📚💙
August 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
No. No, thanks. I want my computer to be literally none of those things...
August 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Also, I'm just a cis woman asking cis men to shut the fuck up about Why Cis Women Totally Need Me To Attack Trans Women On Their Behalf (Even If They Don't Think So, The Little Dears).
August 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I mean this entire statement is complete BS but 'I'll ask not to be shortlisted if all the debut authors return' is some absolutely wild logic.

(I know the answer is he wants to act all 'woe is me' self-sacrificing, but like, still, what?)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · Aug 14
Polari prize update: John Boyne has now made a statement. I'm putting it below.
For 6 years, since the publication of My Brother's Name is Jessica I've been the focus of an extraordinary amount of bullying and intimidation not just at the hands of trans activists but also by a small group of toxic novelists My views on trans rights have never changed and they're quite simple: All human beings should have the same rights, but if the rights of trans women come into conflict with the rights of what you call 'cis' women, then the latter must take precedence. There's 4 billion of them, after all, and it took them 2,000 years to achieve even a semblance of equality. That's pretty much my only thoughts on the subject To the organisers and judges of the Polari Prize: thank you for standing strong in the face of extraordinary intimidation To the writers who withdrew from the prize and those who organised petitions, I say this: You may have meant well. You may have thought you were doing an honourable thing. But you forgot one crucial fact. That the novelist you're protesting, and the novel you tried to exclude, is part of a sequence about sexual abuse from a gay man who endured that very trauma at school, was denied justice because my abuser died in the months leading up to the trial, and is still coping with not getting my day in court. And how do I cope? When I published my debut novel in 2000, I would have given my left arm to find myself on a prize list. The attention it brings to a new writer - or, more importantly - a writer's work is terrific. You sell more copies, your publisher starts thinking about your next contract, and you get to continue doing the job you love. It seems absurd and wrong to me that so many debut writers are losing their opportunity for this either through misguided ideas about who I am or as I'm aware has happened in some cases because you too were bullied or intimated into withdrawing. I love fiction I love literature and I've always supported new writers through reviews and blurbs so this and this alone weighs on me. So, I propose the following. I have shelves full of awards at home and my book sales are extremely healthy. I would encourage all the debut writers on the Polari Longlist to return to the list, to look forward to the shortlist announcement and, in time, the fun and excitement of the ceremony. One of you gets to win the prize, and that's as it should be. The organisers stood firm and didn't expel me from the longlist, which I appreciated. And I am not withdrawing from the longlist. However, should the debut writers all return, I would respectfully ask the judges not to consider Earth for the shortlist. I don't think I can say any fairer than that. I came very close to the edge this week because of endless harassment at the hands of both strangers and fellow writers. I remained silent throughout but there's been a few moments where I thought it would be easier not to go on. There's really only so much abuse one person can take. However, I'm still here. Because I have too many books in me that I still want to write. And so do all of you. The Elements, the combined edition of the novellas Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, will be published on September 9th in the US and September 25th in the UK and Ireland. I hope you get a chance to read it. I'm very proud of the book. But then I'm proud of all my books and of the fact that I've spent my 33-year career helping other writers, elevating them, and finding opportunities to promote them, rather than trying to tear them down. Online bullying has has to stop. John Boyne
August 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The number of times I've been like 'hmmm, maybe I should just double check that' on historical details is So. Very. High.

(And sometimes I was right and sometimes I was wrong and sometimes I gave up because the Internet was no use...)
kjcharleswriter.com KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · Aug 14
Basically it's the Rumsfeld Problem: the unknown unknowns, aka Things You Didn't Realise You Should Have Googled. If anyone finds a solution better than "check literally everything", let me know.
August 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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New release! (Sapphic Greek myth retelling - yes please 😍)
katheroony.bsky.social Katherine Shaw @katheroony.bsky.social · Aug 12
LAUNCH DAY 🩷🩷🩷 Of Serpents and Sorrow is officially OUT 😍😍😍 Oh my goodness, I am thrumming with excitement. Medusa’s story is ready to be told and I am desperate to know what you think 💙📚👀

Are you ready to read Medusa’s story? 🐍 🩷

🌈📚
A graphic showing A piece of character art showing two women in an embrace. One is taller and fuller figured and has her back to the viewer, but is wearing a fancy Grecian dress with her hair finely braided with beads. The woman facing her is darker skinned with loose brown curls and a simpler dress, with a pink scar across one cheek. In the background is an Ancient Greek temple. At the top it says “out now” and down the left it says: Sapphic Medusa retelling Romantic tragedy Historical Fantasy At the bottom right is the book cover for Of Serpents And Sorrow
August 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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You can pre-order this sapphic Medusa retelling here: www.katherineshawwrites.com/osas

💙📚👀 🌈📚
August 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
sarahbellwrites.bsky.social
Why are my sales so low when I've done zero marketing? How could this possibly be?

Truly the great mystery of our times 🙃

📚💙 #WritingCommunity
August 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I understand the assignment.

Recommend EVERYONE on Itch now do this.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Happy Disability Pride Month!
THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 3 books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem The Reanimator's Remains by Kara Jorgensen, out now in ebook, audiobook, and paperback, book 3, mm romance, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, the trees are watching, dealing with trauma... poorly, dont go where I can't follow, family secrets, breaking the cycle, the dead are out for revenge
July 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Ah yes. The best article title ever
I believe in miracles Hugh sexeys thing
July 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM