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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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✨️ Completed all my reading goals for the year ✨️

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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
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🍁 Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology edited by Celine Frohn
🍂 The Monsters We Defy by Lesyle Penelope
🍁 Mort by Terry Pratchett
🍂 Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
🍁 A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
🍂 Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn
Book covers on an autumnal leaf background
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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🍁 What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher
🍂 Love by Lou Willingham
🍁 Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
🍂 Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
🍁 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
🍂 Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang
Book covers on an autumnal landscape background
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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🍁 Trauma by Lou Willinghan
🍂 Kindling by Bonnie Woods
🍁 Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist by Ali K. Mulford and K. Elle Morrison
🍂 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
🍁 All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles
🍂 My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Book covers on an autumnal leaf background
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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🍁 The Wish and the Demon by Rebecca Crunden
🍂 A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
🍁 The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
🍂 Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Book covers on an autumnal leaf background
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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🍁 The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
🍂 Hekate: The Witch by Nikita Gill
🍁 The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tashi Suri
🍂 Copper Script by KJ Charles
Book covers on an autumnal leaf background
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 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.

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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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We also have the The Big Bundle of Queer Awesomeness for any one who wants to treat themselves to over 100 queer books!

itch.io/b/3084/pride...
Pride Book Fair 2025 Bundle. The Big Bundle of Queer Awesomeness. 100+ books for $100! pridebookfair.carrd.co. An itch.io logo is in the corner. The background of the image is a blue-purple to pink gradient with a violet blob shape overlapping it. A sketched, pink and purple ribbon sits to the right of the bottom portion of text.
June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🌈 The #PrideBookFair bundles are now available on Itchio! 🌈

My book THE MURDER NEXT DOOR is in the Contemporary & Historical Fiction bundle - 16 books for $30!

itch.io/b/3078/pride...

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Pride Book Fair 2025 Bundle. Contemporary & Historical Fiction. pridebookfair.carrd.co. An itch.io logo is in the corner. The background of the image is a blue-purple to pink gradient with a violet blob shape overlapping it. A sketched, purple-colored star sits at the upper right corner of the text. 16 of contemporary and historical fiction book covers are tiled on the image, featuring: Love at the Rock Show by Katta Kis; Even If We're Broken by A.M. Weald; Winner Takes All by Claris Lam; In the Eye of the Beholder by Beverly Anne Michel; Spicy Sapphic Treats by Victoria Janssen; Sweet Mother, I Cannot Weave by T.D. Cloud; A Forgotten Melody by Rari Rajesh; Destined to Be Normal by Abigail de Niverville; Refused by Dee Holloway; Those Summer Nights by D.T. Brandt; Kitten Caboodle by Candace Harper; Maurice & Julia, 1968 by S.S. Genesee; Victory Lap by K.A. Mielke; The (Virtual) Bodyguard by Chace Verity; The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell; Bulletproof Heart by Mel Grebing.
June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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And an arrow graphic to give more of an idea of what to expect!
Arrow graphic for books The Murder Next Door and Deeds and Words. The arrow point to: Murder Mystery! Amateur Sleuths! 1910s! Yorkshire! Opposites Attract! Ace Rep! Established Couple! Sapphics!
June 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🌈 PRIDE MONTH SALE 🌈

To celebrate Pride Month, both books in my sapphic historical mystery series are half price on itch.io! Or get both in a bundle for only $2!

itch.io/s/154719/-lo...

📚💙 📚🌈 📚⌛️ 📚🌈♠️ #SapphicBooks
Graphic advertising a Pride Month Itch.io sale for books The Murder Next Door and Deeds and Words at 50% off or a $2 bundle
June 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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It's the start of Pride Month, so just a casual reminder - I have two very gay books out 🏳️‍🌈

📚💙 📚🌈 📚⌛️ 📚⚡️📚🌈♠️ #SapphicBooks
Graphic showing the book cover for THE MURDER NEXT DOOR with a series of arrows pointing at: Murder mystery! Amateur sleuths! 1912! He had it coming! Yorkshire! Sapphics! Opposites attract! Established couple! Ace rep! Graphic showing the book cover for DEEDS AND WORDS with a series of arrows pointing at: Murder mystery! 1913! A cat! Complicated family ties! Sequel! Yorkshire! Suffragettes! Established sapphic couple! Ace & bi rep!
June 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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And synopses for both:
Graphic with the synopsis for The Murder Next Door: July 1912 Leeds, England A man is found dead on his study floor and his now-missing wife is the obvious suspect. To their neighbour, Louisa Knight, it's a shocking piece of news but nothing more. However, when she tells her 'companion' over breakfast, Ada Chapman nearly breaks their teapot and looks ready to run out the door. For Ada watched Mrs Pearce leave from the window of her painting studio. A moment's glance of a fearful face brings back old memories and gives her doubts. As far as the more pragmatic Louisa is concerned, Ada's determination to investigate is bound to lead them into trouble. Again. Yet Louisa's curiosity cannot be denied, and as the pair delve deeper into their neighbour's life what they uncover only clouds the issue further. The question soon becomes not just 'Who killed Mr Pearce?' but also 'Does that person deserve to hang for it?' Even if the couple can find the guilty party, will they be able to agree what should become of them? Graphic with the synopsis for Deeds and Words: June 1913 Leeds, England. When a man is shot dead in an alleyway and a suffragette arrested for the crime, Louisa Knight and Ada Chapman are once more pulled into a case that hits too close to home. It’s not long before they're mired in both the investigation and their local branch of the WSPU. Amongst the suffragettes, they'll find dedicated women fighting to secure the vote through whatever means necessary but also missing money, blackmail threats, and an unexpected familial connection. As questions arise and doubts surface, they not only have to face a difficult investigation but a reckoning with their part in the suffrage movement.
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The Murder Next Door link: books2read.com/u/bPpqGA

Deeds and Words link: books2read.com/u/mK5agB

Itch link: sarahbellwrites.itch.io
Graphic listing the available stores: Amazon, Kobo, Google Play, Apple, Nook (B&N), Smashwords, Itch.io, Fable, Evardand, Thalia, Vivlio, Angus & Robertson
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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.
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Anyone who's published on Kobo know why the preview is showing my chapter title formatting all odd?

(It look fine when I reviewed it before publishing.)

#IndieAuthors
Screenshot of a ebook chapter page where the formatting has gone wrong leaving 'Chapter One' on one page and the image for below the title as another
May 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Ummm... 'Zon, I got questions about how the book that left KU 2 weeks ago is getting page reads????

📚💙 #IndieAuthors
Screenshot from KDP reports showing the book Deeds and Words with 107 page reads today.
April 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Like a lot of indie authors, I'm pulling my books from the KU programme and going wide. This is a scary new step for me, but I'm hoping it'll help introduce my books to a whole new audience (whilst also making me less reliant on the 'Zon.)

📚💙 🌈📚 #IndieAuthor
Picture of the book cover for The Murder Next Door with the title 'Leaving Kindle Unlimited 14th May'
April 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Bit late to the conversation, but just discovered my book (alongside many fellow indie authors) was pirated and then used to train AI by Meta because they didn't actually want to pay for copyrighted work.

Which, well, frankly, f*** that!

#Author #IndieAuthor 📚💙
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March 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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SNOW! ❄️❄️❄️
A back garden covered in snow
January 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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📚 Non-Fiction 📚

I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy

IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado

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January 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📚 Short Stories & Anthologies 📚

BEING ACE edited by Madeline Dyer

UPON THE MIDNIGHT QUEER by 'Nathan Burgoine

THE SIX DEATHS OF THE SAINT by Alix E. Harrow

THE ANGEL OF KHAN EL-KHALILI by P. Djélí Clark

THE PRACTICAL MAN'S GUIDE TO CHEATING DEATH by Alice Scott

WHAT THE DEAD KNOW by Nghi Vo
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January 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📚 Novelletes & Novellas 📚

UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED by Sarah Gailey

LETTERS TO HALF MOON STREET by Sarah Wallace

THE POET X by Elizabeth Acevedo

HEN FEVER by Olivia Waite

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January 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📚 Series 📚

WOLF DEN series by Elodie Harper

GREAT MYTHOLOGY series by Stephen Fry

THE BROKEN EARTH series by N. K. Jemisin

THE MURDERBOT DIARIES by Martha Wells

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January 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📚 Novels Cont. 📚

DON'T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND by Emma R. Alban

OPHELIA AFTER ALL by Racquel Marie

BAND SINISTER by KJ Charles

GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN by Bea Fitzgerald

THE POISONS WE DRINK by Bethany Baptiste

YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY by Cat Sebastian

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January 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM