Hey indie authors...we know it’s not easy doing it all yourself! You wrote the book, you found an editor and a cover artist. Now you need help making it all look “book shaped”, not to mention marketing it by constantly churning out *CONTENT* But we can help!

Also, if you share anything I've ever posted, PLEASE SHARE THIS! I really, REALLY want to help my friend get her business off the ground. But I can't do it without you. Go support @goldfinchbkservice.bsky.social!! You'll have my undying gratitude! #WriteSky #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 📚🌈📚💙

This is the full art! Check out Premee's excellent books at @premeemohamed.com

When we say we're excited for this one...you have no idea 😎👭❤️🎻 Make sure you're keeping an eye out for this one, folks!!! #writingcommunity #booksky

Wow, it has been such a treat getting to share BLUDEYE BEACH by @eliwoodsgheist.com with the world! It's hard to not get emotional when we see reviews like this ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ hookandquillpress.com/our-books/ #booksky #writingcommunity #bludeyebeach #indieauthor

Some #knightsofguinevere fanart I did when it came out! This pilot was so hopeful for me because it showed that things aren’t so bleak for the industry after all… excited to continue supporting indie!! #kog #guinevere #glitchstudio

Personally, I think it's far better to focus on your ideal reader and why they like *you* in particular. I know my books' strengths: queer, character driven, high emotional intimacy, a bit of heat, angst, historical research, a tad morbid or creepy as a treat, a little weird or dark 6/

If you have a special something that others cannot duplicate or doesn't feel focus-grouped to death, readers will eagerly await your next book You are writing to market: YOUR market. The good thing is that I write these things because I like them and my readers also like them, so it isn't a drain 8/

If you attract readers who like your work because you wrote it and everything you make has that certain special something, they will stick around for all of your books, even when it's out of their normal niche because they like YOU. I sell thousands of books a year by being a little weird. 10/

i talk a lot on the power of our uniqueness, but often in a cosmic sense. we are also unique in our daily story, IN OUR WAVES, and a wave is not a wave without ups and downs. the CURRENT can carry you beautiful places, like waiting for your takeout order across from the hotel where you once dreamed

as creative buckaroos we sometimes are beholden to a specific path we dream up, but in my experience art becomes SO POWERFUL when we hand over the reins and let it teach us about ourselves. when we COLLABORATE with fate. when we realize there is no artistic failure, there are just WAVES

To give us an idea of books available on Kobo & Kobo Plus, I'd like to do a Kobo Books Thread🧵 So authors drop your; Genre & book or series description Kobo link & graphic Let us know if your book's also in Kobo Plus! 🌈📚🪐📚💙

No Kings 2025 Evergreen

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ICYMI: "Friends of Quillbert" & higher tiers on our Patreon get the treat of the delightful @carska36.bsky.social reading the prologue of BLUDEYE BEACH, written by @eliwoodsgheist.com : www.patreon.com/posts/weekly... #writingcommunity #booksky #bludeyebeach

New episode coming next week!

Casual reminder that Itch stole my money & I can no longer sell there, meaning I can't promote with my friends or participate in bundles & other opportunities. I'd really appreciate if y'all could help me get more discovery for my books on here instead! 100% human made, 100% queer creative team!

If he just ignores her she’ll go away!!! Too bad she’s like a fungal infection and will never leave. 🤡 #art | #OCs | #OCsky | #artsky

Happy New Year #queerwriters 🎉 after having a bit of a breakdown, I've made a really good start to the year in terms of writing. therefore, my goal is to continue that trend and plot/outline/write for Creek WIP every day this week 😤 (ideally, I'll write every day, but we'll see) good luck all!

I hope to post on here at least 4 days this week - Sat is a busy day w/ work so I may not post. I also want to juggle Unbreakable rewrites & make some new progress w/ #WOTV. #Shield&Scalpel is on edit break right now while some betas read over it. I need a break from it, fresh eyes. #QueerWriters

#queerwriters First goals of 2026! Hoping to edit/proof Safe Haven since I want to drop that in the near future. Also started a new WIP called The Linden Street Gauntlet that should start to morph into a solid shape by the end of the week. #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters 🌈📚🪐📚💙

#queerwriters Goals Day! My goals for this week are: -Start editing a project for a client -Get clients for Feb (in progress now) -Edit and schedule a blog for my website this weekend -Plot new Dark Fantasy WIP -Write a chapter of AnimalsWIP A lot to do, first work week of Jan!

#queerwriters My goal is simple: edit and post the jewelry blog post I wrote a couple of weeks ago. (Yes! I wrote it! It’s 2,000-something words.) I also want to crack open the novella and read through the chapters I haven’t revised. I need to re-engage with writing. It’s been months😭

Good morning, #QueerWriters. Happy Monday :) Goals for this week: 📖 Research/Outlining academic presentation for OER conference 📝 Draft Chapters 1-3 of Where We Converge 2 🖼️ Prep for cover reveal of cyberpunk Snow White retelling. Good luck this week, y'all!

#QueerWriters Goals: 📑 Compile all beta feedback to begin next edit pass for TSWBOO 🌟 Work on various publishing prep and promo tasks 📖 Spend time reading for fun 💪 Restart job hunt post-holidays

The words for the next week of #WIPSnips are here! January 5th through January 11th #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

UGH the unofficial 2025 roundup is live and free on my Patreon (p.s. thank you to my patrons, you do not know how many months of 2025 you literally kept the lights on) (it was not zero) (stupid bills) This post is basically "GO TO THERAPY" "I KNOW" www.patreon.com/posts/unoffi...

If y’all liked the chibis, I opened a few slots to get your own 🥰 they’d obviously be more detailed and I’d make a background! Here’s an example using Eunice who belongs to @coveofmadness.bsky.social !! link: vgen.co/Nushdeco/ser...

I’m just sayin if you have kobo plus, all my books are available. www.kobo.com/us/en/search... #booksky 💙📚

ALRIGHT LAST BATCHH! We did 16 chibis total and somehow reached 2.6k during the event 😅💜😁 Thank y'all so much again @artofshadowdrakkon.bsky.social @dfrauthor.bsky.social @havetsavain.bsky.social @sayaashrah.bsky.social

#QueerWriters Check-in: I'm back! I haven't gotten as much personal writing stuff done as I would have liked, but I finished running a month-long hashtag game, saw the launch of our first @hookandquillpress.com publication, and continued with settling in and planning for the new year.

#pretendpanel I've definitely leaned more on kink, and queerness, and all the things that make my characters feel more authentic to me. Switching from 3rd to 1st POV was also a big thing (for the better) #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#PretendPanel I think I've begun to take more seriously the themes that were always present in my work. I've always written about rebellion and escape, but earlier iterations were focused on the action - nowadays I interrogate the ideology and method more #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

#PretendPanel Definitely has got a lot darker. My first few books were a space comedy and some silliness, but age and experience have made me lean more into my horror roots. There’s still a smidge of humour in there, but it’s very dark. #writingcommunity #writers #authors

There's an obvious evolution from the little novellas I wrote in Uni, and that's due to my transformation into an enlightened, unapologetic pervert. Plots have moved from 'let's explore this part of my world' to 'wouldn't it be hot if...' 😆 (1/2) #pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#pretendpanel I am a chaotic pantser, so will write whatever movies mt characters are playing, in this sense, the writing also evolved into many different "sub-genres" (genres can get fucked but I have to use them to sort of get a point across...). It's queerer and there's more sex too. I also

Younger me never would have imagined an emotionally-driven romance would be the story that would click for me. But that's what finally did it after decades of false starts trying sci-fi & fantasy. Since then, I've come full circle and am nearing launch of my fantasy adventure serial. #pretendpanel

#PretendPanel I don’t know if I evolve as much as expand. Bloat, even, perhaps 🤦‍♀️🤣😅 My first attempts were sci-fi, then some fantasy and a lot of character-driven contemporary work. Urban fantasy and paranormal came in a bit later, and thats still beloved…🧵

In terms of original writing, I’ve always featured humour in my stories, but romance used to be more of a subplot, because I fell into that misogynistic trap of believing that romance-centric books were trash. And now it’s primarily what I write. #pretendpanel

#pretendpanel my earlier work had lots of threads and characters, so I’m snipping them both out to get a simpler more linear story. I’m also trying to give it cosier vibes as I went through a rather ‘fantasy needs to be grim’ phase. #writingcommunity #writingprompts #writers #authors

Happy #PretendPanel! My writing has, unequivocably, become far more self indulgent. My favorite tropes. My favorite scenarios. My favorite kinds of little guys. The two biggest projects I'm working on right now solely came from the thought of "lol you know what would be dumb & fun" No regrets 😂 +

It’s become increasingly pornographic. The people crave monsterfucking. #pretendpanel

#PretendPanel Jan 3 I cringe sometimes thinking about my older work, which in my memory was full of terrible cliches (but probably not actually as bad as I remember tbh 😅). I've been writing fantasy for forever, but I think what's evolved most is the way I use my settings to explore my feelings🧵

When I wrote fanfiction and attempted to write original stories in years past, I focused on fantasy secondary worlds with high magic, plus some sci-fi. Suffice to say, I surprised myself by writing a horror/thriller set on an alternate Earth for my debut novel. #pretendpanel

#PretendPanel My earlier writing tried to divorce itself entirely from real world problems (it didn't work very well). I think I've gotten better at grounding issues so that they feel real, and creating believable settings in both real-world and alternate world scenarios.

#PretendPanel The biggest shift has been from playing in worlds created by others to ones of my own making. (Fanfic to original.) Also I’ve moved to exploring topics which interest me rather than trying to please others. I hope I’ve found / am finding my own voice(s). #WritingCommunity #Writers

#pretendpanel The sorts of plays I wrote in my teens were often heavily influenced by other works e.g. fairytales, Shakespeare, Theatre of the Absurd. Then my first attempt at a novel was really influenced by Tolkien, Eragon, and Twilight. 1/2 >>>

#PretendPanel 1/3: My early works were adventure-focused and plot-driven, portal fantasies and quests for magical MacGuffins and whatnot. They were all about excitement and exploration and large casts of unique and interesting characters, lots of saving the world and other huge stages. (1/3)

Boosting this again. If you have questions, ask - for those who are new, I handled constituent calls for years. I’ve spent the past couple of years in think tank world, but know this world like the back of my hand. Also: my academic background is in global security and intelligence.

Throughout the week, we announced Team TBR's semi-finalists for the SFINCS novella competition. To round things off, we're sharing one last post listing all five books: www.readindiefantasy.com/sfincs-semi-... These are all excellent, and you should read them. #SFINCS #BookSky