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WaywardBooksandRecs
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✨️Reader, writer, reviewer ♡🌈M/M Romance, Fantasy, Horror ♡ I talk about books a lot, especially my favorites ♡ Indie Ink Awards panelist 🤓
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divinerobotcat.bsky.social
Peace talks with the muse were a success. Behold the goddess.
#drcatart #FF7 #GenesisRhapsodos
FF7 fanart. Dressed in a P0-type uniform, Minerva holds a very young Genesis against her shoulder. Her face is cracked like Chaos', and mako leaks from where her right eye should be. A closeup reveals a planet within her iris instead of a pupil.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Enjoying my MM romance in nature today 🍁🍃
(Miners of the Mystics by Penny Moss 💚)

What are you reading?

🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 📚👀 #romancelandia
Vibrant photo of an eReader on a ledge with trees in hues of green and yellow and orange in the background. Some large yellow oak tree leaves sit to the left on the ledge. On the eReader screen is the cover of Miners of the Mystics by Penny Moss
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Release day!!

Rumpelstilzchen by Sam Northman is now live on the zøn!

I'm still reading this book, but I'm enjoying it so MUCH. If you like fantasy M/M romance CHECK THIS BOOK OUT.

I shared a couple of 🔥 quotes directly on my IG post if you want to be tantalized 👀

🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 📚👀 #romancelandia
Graphic for Rumpelstilzchen by Sam Northman that has New Release banners in gold across the upper left and lower right corners. The background is a swirl of shadows and gold. Rumpelstilzchen by Sam Northman is written in sharp front in the upper right with MM shadow daddy fairytale retelling romance in the center. An ereader, phone, and paperback are middle left, each displaying the book. Three, large, red strawberry outlines decorate the background and sneak out from behind the books. Another graphic with the background except Rumpelstilzchen by Sam Northman is written at the top, and a large paperback is in the lower left with arrows leading to content/tropes surrounding it. They list: shadow daddy, power imbalance, erotically hand-fed fruits and cheeses, morally gray MC, dominance/submission, "good boy," shadow falls first.
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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waywardchar27.bsky.social
Happy Spooky Month and happy October first to those who celebrate!

Made a small bingo card for reading more diverse books in autumn. Check it out and feel free to use this bingo card how you like. Have fun!

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Bookish Bingo card with autumn themes including colors of orange, light purple, and teal. It reads "Diversity Bookish Bingo" at the top and "for Autumn" at the bottom in bright orange. There are artistic candles in the top left, a cute ghost on the top right, and a graphic of an open book with an autumn leaf and pair of glasses folded on top of it on the bottom right. In the hazy background is an autumn tree with fallen leaves. The bingo is in a 3x3 grid. From top left to bottom right reads in order: Book by a non-binary author Book by a trans author Book by a POC author Book with an MM relationship or romance Free space for a diverse book Book with an FF relationship or romance Book with a bisexual character Book with an asexual or demisexual character Book with a gender queer (NB, trans, fluid, etc.) character Similar graphic but with in place of the bingo grid is a light orange rectangle with words in it that read Happy Spooky Month and happy October 1st to those who celebrate! I made a small Bookish Bingo for anyone looking to add more diversity to their bookshelves or for anyone trying to get in a few more diverse books before year's end. This is a fun little bingo to work on over the next couple of months. Three books in a row (including diagonal!) win you the bingo and a beautifully more diverse bookshelf. Or! For the competitive among us, try to complete as many as possible or all nine for a full card! Feel free to use this bingo card how you like and have fun!
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Happy Spooky Month and happy October first to those who celebrate!

Made a small bingo card for reading more diverse books in autumn. Check it out and feel free to use this bingo card how you like. Have fun!

🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 📚👀
Bookish Bingo card with autumn themes including colors of orange, light purple, and teal. It reads "Diversity Bookish Bingo" at the top and "for Autumn" at the bottom in bright orange. There are artistic candles in the top left, a cute ghost on the top right, and a graphic of an open book with an autumn leaf and pair of glasses folded on top of it on the bottom right. In the hazy background is an autumn tree with fallen leaves. The bingo is in a 3x3 grid. From top left to bottom right reads in order: Book by a non-binary author Book by a trans author Book by a POC author Book with an MM relationship or romance Free space for a diverse book Book with an FF relationship or romance Book with a bisexual character Book with an asexual or demisexual character Book with a gender queer (NB, trans, fluid, etc.) character Similar graphic but with in place of the bingo grid is a light orange rectangle with words in it that read Happy Spooky Month and happy October 1st to those who celebrate! I made a small Bookish Bingo for anyone looking to add more diversity to their bookshelves or for anyone trying to get in a few more diverse books before year's end. This is a fun little bingo to work on over the next couple of months. Three books in a row (including diagonal!) win you the bingo and a beautifully more diverse bookshelf. Or! For the competitive among us, try to complete as many as possible or all nine for a full card! Feel free to use this bingo card how you like and have fun!
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
I don't listen to audiobooks enough. It's fucking ✨️magic✨️ I can be doing chores/errands/eating a meal and READING A BOOK at the same time

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September 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Some Boba tea I got a bit ago. I should have a free Starbucks drink later so I decided to get a refreshing watermelon lime slush with pomegranate popping Boba here 🧋😋
A picture of four Boba beverages on a counter, one of them neon pinkish red, the other three shades of beige/brown. On the sides of the cups shows boba cups in a "Cheers" salute.
September 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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waywardchar27.bsky.social
Currently reading The Warm Machine by @aimeecozza.com and falling in love with the characters Sterling and Zev 🥺💖

This book is written SO well I'm becoming more obsessed with every chapter 🔥

Add to your TBR anywhere you track books! The Warm Machine is available wide.

🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 📚👀 #romancelandia
Photo of my eReader with The Warm Machine cover on the screen. The eReader has a case that depicts bookcases with books, and you can see it around the edges of the screen. "Currently Reading" is written vertically along the left side of the eReader screen with a squiggle slash to the left of it for emphasis. The eReader is leaning against a white brick wall that has rainbow lights and sparkles cast onto it. The same photo has a purple and teal overlay block with text on it. There is the profile of a robot from the waist up on the bottom left. The text is a quote from The Warm Machine that reads: "I think I may like a name," he said. "Bots do not 'like,'" answered the other bot. "What do you know about names for bots?" FLC0776 asked. "Bots do not name themselves," said the anonymous bot. "Do you have a name?" inquired FLC0776. "No." "Not even AZR4700?" "AZR4700 is a model number, not a name." "What if we name each other?" For a bot that responded almost before FLC0776 could send his message, the bot paused, like it was calculating every possible risk, every downside to having a name. It took almost a full minute before the other bot asked: "What would you name me?" The same image as last with the block overlay and text that reads: The Warm Machine is about a construction bot and spy bot that become anomalous, or in other words, experience FEELINGS that bots aren't supposed to have. They become friends and maybe something more, and when one of them is set for deactivation, the two bots run away together. There's a LOT more to it, but I don't want to give anything away! The Warm Machine is written SO well, and I'm becoming a little more obsessed with every chapter. The same Currently Reading photo but blurred a bit with "The Warm Machine Aimee Cozza" written in sharp cursive font at the top and copies of the book on eReader, phone screen, and Paperback displayed underneath it.
September 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Currently reading The Warm Machine by @aimeecozza.com and falling in love with the characters Sterling and Zev 🥺💖

This book is written SO well I'm becoming more obsessed with every chapter 🔥

Add to your TBR anywhere you track books! The Warm Machine is available wide.

🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 📚👀 #romancelandia
Photo of my eReader with The Warm Machine cover on the screen. The eReader has a case that depicts bookcases with books, and you can see it around the edges of the screen. "Currently Reading" is written vertically along the left side of the eReader screen with a squiggle slash to the left of it for emphasis. The eReader is leaning against a white brick wall that has rainbow lights and sparkles cast onto it. The same photo has a purple and teal overlay block with text on it. There is the profile of a robot from the waist up on the bottom left. The text is a quote from The Warm Machine that reads: "I think I may like a name," he said. "Bots do not 'like,'" answered the other bot. "What do you know about names for bots?" FLC0776 asked. "Bots do not name themselves," said the anonymous bot. "Do you have a name?" inquired FLC0776. "No." "Not even AZR4700?" "AZR4700 is a model number, not a name." "What if we name each other?" For a bot that responded almost before FLC0776 could send his message, the bot paused, like it was calculating every possible risk, every downside to having a name. It took almost a full minute before the other bot asked: "What would you name me?" The same image as last with the block overlay and text that reads: The Warm Machine is about a construction bot and spy bot that become anomalous, or in other words, experience FEELINGS that bots aren't supposed to have. They become friends and maybe something more, and when one of them is set for deactivation, the two bots run away together. There's a LOT more to it, but I don't want to give anything away! The Warm Machine is written SO well, and I'm becoming a little more obsessed with every chapter. The same Currently Reading photo but blurred a bit with "The Warm Machine Aimee Cozza" written in sharp cursive font at the top and copies of the book on eReader, phone screen, and Paperback displayed underneath it.
September 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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crainswriter.bsky.social
In every one of their games, the bard dies first. This time, she may be the only one who can save them. SHUDDER OF SPECTERS is #FREE until the 13th! Complete dark #fantasy #LitRPG trilogy. #booksky #freebooks www.amazon.com/Shudder-Spec...
Background image of spooky forest. Text reads: It would have been nice to convince some NPCs to join us, but it was probably better not to bring anyone where we were going. A queasy feeling in my stomach said it was probably better we didn't go where we were going.
September 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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pennymoss.bsky.social
Here are over 40 LGBTQIA+ historical romance books to read!
books.bookfunnel.com/lgbtqiahisto...
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#romance #books #reading #lgbtq #gayromance #queerbooks #queerpride #historicalromance #romancebooks
September 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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caramaconar.bsky.social
Bittersweet Revenge by @rileyhart.bsky.social , the brand-new contemporary, mafia MM romance and the first book in the Sins of the Father series, is live!
♥️ getbook.at/BittersweetRevenge

Secret Identity
Morally Gray
Possessive/Obsessive
Touch Him and Die
Vengeance to Lovers
Enemies to lovers
🌈📚
Graphic of Bittersweet Revenge by Riley Hart. It shows both the paperback and hardcover with the words in red: I Just like to watch him, study him, every dimple, every blemish, every curve and dip muscle thats is him, in white: and when he ultimately kilss me, i´l take that with me to the grave.
September 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
🌹 LOST TRADITIONS Cover Reveal! 🍇

Here it is, the cover for Nerezia's February 2026 reveal, the 7th novella in the series, "Keza's Episode", LOST TRADITIONS.

As always, cover illustrated and designed by @isthiseva.bsky.social 💙

For full blurb + links:
buttondown.com/ClaudieArsen...

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Cover for Lost Traditions, the Chronicles of Nerezia #7, with the title in bold letters at the top. It depicts a cat person seen from behind, staring at Horace, a warrior clad in yellow in a menacing position. Eir eyes shine golden. They are in the high grass of a marsh, in front of an old overgrown monastery with a hexagonal doors. The colours are in deep purple and grey-ish blues.
September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
I have been super afk from bluesky, but I'm trying to crawl back. Hello, friends! I'm sorry I've been so quiet and distant 💙
September 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Currently ARC reading Zel by @amandameuwissen.bsky.social before its release on Sep 11th!

This is an M/M Repunzel retelling in which the "damsel" is an assâssįn sent to woo the sorcerer of the tower to find out his weaknesses and kįll him. Except "Zel" starts to fall for his target.
⤵️

🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 📚👀
Photograph of my Kobo eReader displaying the cover of Zel by Amanda Meuwissen on its screen. The eReader is framed in its colorful case that depicts shelves and books. It's sitting on a moss-covered bench, green, soft moss beneath it and stretching beyond it on the bench. There's grass and dirt beneath and behind the bench in the background. The words "Currently Reading" are written in jaunty script across the photo along the left side of the eReader case.
September 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
I really like bluesky, but I've become very spoiled by the big character limit on Threads. I often try to copy post here, but it's enough for 2-3 posts here instead of the one on Threads and threading it or chopping it down doesn't give the same meaning/affect
July 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
So, I've fallen WAY behind on all of my reading, and I've missed a couple ARC release dates due to life stuff to put it simply. HOPEFULLY things should calm down for a while. Next up I must finish two books I'm judging, but then I will slowly catch up on late ARCs and review them as soon as I can 😭💖
June 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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wfutbolfan.bsky.social
Finished The Reanimator’s Heart, and loved this character-driven story - my catnip. And the last quarter was heart-pounding. If the following doesn’t grab you then you just have a cold, dead, heart. Oliver can help with that…

“He was angry. Angry that he was dead. Angry that he was alive.”
authorkaraj.bsky.social Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · Apr 25
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!
#romancelandia
🌈📚 #booksky
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 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
April 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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charlottetangle.bsky.social
// [6/6]
Final page. The boys are resting in their bed, which is conspicuously made up of two smaller beds from different rooms, pushed together. Gus is laying in the middle of Darius and Hawthorne, his hands tucked under their arms, holding onto them. He squeezes them a little tighter, pressing his face against Darius' hand. It reads: "I love you. I'm glad I exist."
January 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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cmcaplanwrites.bsky.social
HI THESE BOOKS ARE LEAVING KINDLE UNLIMITED IN ABOUT 2.5 WEEKS SO IF YOU WANNA GRAB IT OVER THERE WHILE YOU STILL CAN MAKE SURE TO ACT QUICKLY

geni.us/fourofmercies
Four of Mercies
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April 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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clh2oars.bsky.social
Going to use this as a reminder that we successfully kickstarted a full anthology of aromantic SFF (again!), and if you missed it, you can still preorder through the late pledges system!

(and good late pledges might = audiobook funds!)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

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April 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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gmgray.bsky.social
I certainly think they're cute! I hope you do too! 💜💜💜

Resharing this art in honor of Indie Bookstore Day and space pirates XD.
A page that says "What if...Triple Strike had a typical light novel title?" followed by "I was kidnapped by space pirates...and they turned me gay???!!!" Sven is suddenly taller than Alan, pulling back his arm in a ravishing gesture while Alan looks flustered. Below them, in chibi-form Alan looks like T.T and says "..." while Sven looks like :D and is saying "Wow, so tall!"
April 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Just ordered a queer indie paperback from an indie store that sells only indie books a smidgen early for Indie Bookstore Day!! Triple Strike: Threads of Fate by @gmgray.bsky.social from @salientbooks.bsky.social

This is an MM sci-fi romance with SPACE PIRATES and looks so cute! 🥰

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Cover of Triple Strike: Threads of Fate by G.M. Gray, features artwork of two characters, one sitting with wild lavender hair and a lizard on his shoulders and the other standing with brown hair, a clean cut outfit, and boots.
April 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
Talking myself out of spending money on a cis het white man's gorgeous looking indie book by scrolling through his social media and seeing nothing anti AI and zero support (or literally anything at all) LGBTQ related. Mans post dragons. Mans post heteronormative family. Mans very white.
April 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
waywardchar27.bsky.social
May monsterfuckery challenge 👀🐙⤵️ #terato
johannestevans.bsky.social Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · Jan 3
A few months ahead of us yet, but here are the prompts in advance for 2025's #MonstrousMay Challenge!

Monstrous May is an annual prompt fest celebrating monsters and monsterfuckery, where you're encouraged to create whatever you like for prompts that coincide with each day of the month of May!
est. 2021, the monstrous may challenge, #monstrousmay. kiss a monster today. Day 1 — Tentacles Day 2 — Sound Day 3 — Hypnosis Day 4 — Corrupted Day 5 — Size Difference Day 6 — In The Air Day 7 — Aphrodisiac Day 8 — Caught in Webbing Day 9 — Knotted Day 10 — The Werewolf Day 11 — Living Armour Day 12 — Consumed Day 13 — Eggs Day 14 — Grooming Day 15 — Bitten Day 16 — Pinned Down Day 17 — Transformed Day 18 — Belly Bulge Day 19 — Parasitic Relationship Day 20 — The Vampire Day 21 — All-The-Way-Through Day 22 — Spines Day 23 — Impregnated Day 24 — Dungeon Day 25 — Clawed Day 26 — Beneath the Earth Day 27 — Addictive Properties Day 28 — Commanded Day 29 — Scent Day 30 — The Minotaur Day 31 — Underwater
April 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM