‘At a glance’ 😂😂😂 A good year in books for me! Apparently 108 new-to-me authors. KJ Charles (87) and Alexis Hall (47) top my most-read authors again, with first-timer (for me) @jordanlhawk.bsky.social coming a close 3rd (41). 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #romancebook #romantasy #romancem/m #romancelandia

CN for allusions to DV. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #WiPSnips

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What can I say? When someone reminds me about my Resolution Universe blorbos Kiem, Jainan, Tennal and Surit, of course I’m going to turn my back on every other book ever written! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 #booksky #library

Elyan is naughty in his flexible approach to laws that he thinks are ridiculous, but nice to people in general. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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A dream sequence, inspired by true events. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #WiPSnips

Niv loves chocolate, especially truffles, though any will do. As they’re impossible to get outside the cities, Elyan always brings her some when he visits & usually manages not to eat them (historically because he’s too busy huffing star smoke). 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #queerwriters #queerprompts

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Elyan seems to be a much better dancer than he naturally is because he reads his partner through body empathy and can fit himself to the way they move. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

10 Things That Never Happened! It’s an MM rom com with Alexis Hall’s usual deep emotional undercurrents. Will Watt’s narration is also absolutely top notch! Keep the tissues handy for this one… 🌈📚💙🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 #booksky #queerwriters #queerprompts

Elyan had a cuddly animal of some sort that he slept with and carried around everywhere (not sure what type, and doesn’t remember now either). His da took it away when they decided he was too old for it. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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Mara is proudly deaf & she and her sibling Ren developed a sign language to communicate. She’s patient with people learning it but🙄 at those who just think yelling will help. Elyan has a psychic disability and he, Niv & Rathi are ND. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #wip#queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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November reading wrap-up: Finally got up to date with @pretensesoup.bsky.social’s Wisconsin Gothic and loved the fourth book as much as the others! Loving @jordanlhawk.bsky.social’s Rath and Rune as much as Whyborne & Griffin! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romantasy #romancelandia

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Rathaliel… 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Most realistic elements: Ulysses’ anxiety dreams & preferring to face zombies and demons rather than defend his thesis. Most fantastical: getting your PhD 2 months after your supervisor asks for revisions to the conclusion & being handed a job… lol 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romancelandia

Niv and Elyan would co-author one cafe ‘Safe Foods’, which would include a set of recipes with consistent textures (Niv), and general stuff about food hygiene devolving into vibes (Elyan). Very niche. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

When you reread after a year and it’s just as delightful as the first two times! Magic academia queer romance with gods and demons. Looking forward to finally reading book 4. @pretensesoup.bsky.social 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romancebook #romantasy #romancem/m #romancelandia

Hero with heart definitely. None of them is interested in power or wealth, and Rathaliel and Elyan don’t care too much about unfair laws or rules so will flout or break them to get by when needed. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Elyan: Heartstopper (though he’d find the queerphobia super weird) and pulp fantasy. Rathaliel: action movies like Terminator and Aliens. Niv: historical (laughing at inaccuracies) and pulp #romance/ #fantasy 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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Not famous, exactly. They’re known, by different monikers, but in the ‘hey, that indie band I randomly saw last year is touring again’ way rather than ‘OMG METALLICA!!!’ 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Niv has an apprentice musician, and the MCs and others are all trying to learn and teach what magic they know. Everyone’s learning! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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Second Chances in New Port Stephen, @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social . Cute rom com with MCs in their 40s, Eli returns home post-transition and runs into his high school ex. An Unsuitable Heir, KJ Charles. Historical Genderqueer + m romance (you have to read the whole series for it to make sense!)

The calendar is divided into moons and tendays (which approximate the cycles of the two moons respectively). 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #WiPSnips

Rathaliel was the ‘gifted’ child who found schoolwork easy (and a bit boring) and constantly asked ‘why’. She was considered difficult by some, but only those who couldn’t keep up with her. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

In Anathlenor they can choose their genital configuration like anyone else, when they’ve figured out their gender ID. Some choose to change but others don’t. It’s not a big deal. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

I often find myself unexpectedly writing scenes. E.g. in my romance short story the MC has a queer romance book club and when I wrote a scene about it two of them were mean about one of my MC’s fave authors. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️🌈💜 📚 #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity

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A lot is happening in the world! Elyan is probably the most stressed, though he keeps his emotions barriered. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

I use notes on my phone. One of my favourite ways to brainstorm is while roller skating, so when I have an idea I’ll get off the rink, note it all down then get going again for the next idea! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

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Celebrating the return of my favourite bookmark from the ADHD portal. It has been missing for a week. Praise be! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #queerwriters

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I originally had the world becoming increasingly homophobic, but decided to make it mostly queer normative with magic as the main axis of oppression, because I deal with it enough irl. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Hard relating to Cicero this morning! I am part feline after all. ‘I’m wet, Thomas! Wet!’ @jordanlhawk.bsky.social 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romancebook #romantasy #romancem/m #romancelandia

Running out my KU free trial at the start of the month, increasing my audio listening in the middle as I started listening while commuting (and definitely not at my desk while working), and library books. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romancebook #romantasy #romancem/m #romancelandia

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My current library stash! A few rereads (inc @socallahanauthor.bsky.social), some new from familiar authors (inc @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social) and some completely new! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈💜 📚 #booksky #fantasy #romancebook #romantasy #romancem/m #romancelandia

Mara is deaf; she and her sibling invented a sign language that some of their friends have learnt, but fluency takes time! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #WiPSnips

Rathaliel would go scary all the way. Her friends when she was younger were a bit of a menace and they would’ve loved freaking people out - they delighted in shocking people anyway! 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Italics = mind speech 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #WiPSnips

Elyan: 1. Niv: 1 in the beginning, up to 4 by the end of book 1. Rathaliel: 10, but 3 if you know her and she likes you. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #queerprompts

Elyan has a phobia of healers/healing but also injury (great combo). Also heights and abandonment. He doesn’t know why, he’s just had them as long as he can remember. 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️ #booksky #fantasy #authorsky #wip #amwriting #queerwriters #writerscommunity #LGBTQIAWriteAThon