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A. E. Bratchford (they/them)
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🇦🇺 | 🏳️‍🌈 | anxious bean
author - poet - reader - tea drinker

Author of ‘Hearts, Cages, and other, Locked Boxes’ and ‘Forget Me Not: a sapphic sci-fi verse novel’
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A. E. Bratchford (they/them) @writingsby-anna.bsky.social · Nov 24
🧵 Book Release Thread! 🧵

I’ll be sharing books I’ve already released as well as future publications in this thread as they are published ☕️💜
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Preorders are open (ebook & paperback) for ‘With Love, the Stars’, the short story collection I have written with T. W. Night 💜✨

🔗 www.amazon.com.au/Love-Stars-B...
🔗 teaandbookspress.com.au/products/wit...

#preorder #indieauthor #queerauthor #sciencefiction #fantasy #shortstories
February 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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✨ Author Wrapped 2024 ✨

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December 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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How about some Sapphics in Space ?!? It's time for a Hidden Gem on Jae's Sapphic Book Bingo. "Rescue Her Heart" made the list of 15! 🥳🥳🥳 I really should write another book in this series. They are so much fun!
jae-fiction.com/sapphics-in-...

🌈📚💜💙 | Sapphfic | Lesfic | Sapphic Book | Queer Romance |
The cover of Rescue Her Heart for 2024 Sapphic Book Bingo. Sapphics in Space List Hidden Gems #11.
November 21, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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I am honoured to be a part of the cover reveal and share this gorgeous cover my friend designed and illustrated for their upcoming sapphic fantasy romance novella ‘The Fox and the Bladesworn’ 💜🦊🗡️
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November 26, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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We revel in Death
Like two suns
To eclipse each other
In an infernal kiss

#originalcharacters #art #illustration
A night scene with two figures kissing in front of a big fullmoon. One, Gou, is floating in midair as though taken by a gust of wind, the other, Endres, standing with a paper lantern in his right hand. Flower petals fly around them.
September 18, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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my first cover I did for the Worldbuilding Magazine's The Arts issue in 2020 — hope you enjoy an oldie but goldie
A sun-flooded hall with tall windows and marble flooring and a big statue of a dancer. On the wall a big painting depicting a musician and a young lord holding a book. The hall is visited by three people, two of which hold each other closely.
September 17, 2023 at 10:21 AM
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jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · Nov 25
This short story needs 500 words cut.

Lets do this! Knife and easy.
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Authors! Let's start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book. "Quote post" the cover, a link, and three words about it. Here is mine.

Hearts, Cages, and other Locked Boxes (2022)

🩷 reflective
🩷 queer
🩷 poetry

🔗 teaandbookspress.com.au/products/sig...
November 24, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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'Finding Dragons With You' AKA Book One of Dragon WIP 🧵

✨Cosy noblebright adventure fantasy
✨Sapphic, slowburn, enemies(?) to lovers
✨The Princess Saves Herself (and then the Prince)
✨Dragons, Magic, Legacies

#LGBTQwriters #writingcommunity #writesky #queerwriters
Image is of a mock up book cover with text overlaid over a photo of a garden. Text reads "Finding Dragons With You". There are arrows around the cover that share tropes for the book, which read: Enemies with a question mark next to it to lovers, slowburn, dragons, the Princess saves herself, found family, and sapphic
November 16, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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The challenge of being an author on social media is making your potential readers aware of your books without being too annoying about it.

I can’t say I always succeed at the latter 😂
November 24, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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The second love interest and best friend in FIRST ROSE - Julyen!

He's the sweetest guy, cares deeply about Helio, and is thrown right into self-discovery.

Want to meet him?
🌸 OUT MAY 25, 2025 🏳️‍⚧️ PREØRDER & ARCs NOW! 🌸
Chibi by @/ante.kun
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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The (main) love interest in FIRST ROSE - Ambroz!

He's handsome, sweet, and absolutely smitten with Helio
Want to meet him?

🌸 OUT MAY 25, 2025 🏳️‍⚧️ PREØRDER & ARCs NOW! 🌸
Chibi by @/ante.kun
November 20, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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🤩😍🤩😍
Congrats!! 🎉🥳
aimeedonnellan.bsky.social Aimee Donnellan (queer fantasy author) @aimeedonnellan.bsky.social · Nov 23
My book is finally out!

I love these angsty, pining sapphics so much I can't contain it. I can't believe so many others feel the same way 💕🌈
A book cover with a night time forest, the partial moon shining in the background. Two women are depicted in a close half-embrace. One is tall and muscular with medium brown skin and a strong nose, with a wolf-print tattoo on her upper arm. Her hair is dark and up in a practical bun, and she’s wearing a leather breastplate piece of armour. She is holding the other woman who is pale skinned and has soft strawberry hair, and wears a pale dress with a leather jacket over the top. This woman is leaning into the taller one’s neck, with fanged teeth bared, as if to drink from her. Both regard each other with an intimate intensity and seem deeply affected by their proximity. The taller woman’s left hand, where it rests on the shorter one’s waist, is furry and clawed. RELEASE DAY: A Crimson Covenant, Aimee Donnellan, Nightwalkers of Concord Lesbian werewolf Demi vampire High magic Adhd & depression rep Lifelong acquaintances to lovers Petty grudge vs one-sided pining Horny biting Sapphic romantasy
November 24, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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reminder to subscribe to indie author newsletters, as just today a massively popular indie author had their insta and threads banned by some automation and the appeal process is glitching. email newsletters are a much safer way to keep up with your faves!
November 23, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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🧵 Book Release Thread! 🧵

I’ll be sharing books I’ve already released as well as future publications in this thread as they are published ☕️💜
November 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM