QotD: What show are you watching right now? Hola readers! Okie dokie, while I'm pivoting and rearranging projects, I've decided to try and release The Phasma Storm next year, and I'm going to aim for Pride Month 2027, aka June. No date picked out yet. 🧵/1

🌈 Do you or someone you know have an July queer book release? Indie or Trad books! Add it by June 22nd! (No AI books or covers) Include: -title & author (& series name) -release date -Cover image/link -Cover artist/designer 🏳️‍🌈 We will be adding these to our new release list!

🌈 We still have FOUR different books that are only $5 in our PRIDE SALE!

if A Turn of the Wheel was ever to go to the big screen & I magically made the calls I would show everyone involved Babe & the hobbiton parts of LOTR & say listen I want a cozy miniseries with lots of orchard life/pastoral shots & frizzy-haired people & real teeth & FILM & a good score

Just dropped an update on my search for our next publishing project! I talk about three manuscripts I am really excited about currently. Feel free to go check it out!

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy Tuesday, we have some shop updates including new shop items, timeline updates for our sets and some general reminders! 🧵 📷: Photo of our AFTG set from @/Elle.Cheshire on IG!

QotD: Where would you go to watch a sunset? Hola readers! When you get your days mixed up and posted things on the wrong days. It's fine. It's totally fine. I SAID IT'S FINE! Anyway, Valhalla book 2 update. 🧵/1

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the July Roll for Romance crate! Next up is Cynthia @cynicaldrawings.bsky.social who illustrated the Dust jacket for Non-Player Character by Veo Corva! 🧵

It's a good day to be gay and like queer books, because we are having a SALE!

🌈 Happy Pride Reading Rainbows! We’re celebrating with a sale! All of our books AND boxes from 2025 and earlier are discounted in our shop. 🧵

Every time my Halo hype bubbles to the surface, I miss them

I finally finished this today… Lady Elizabeth Hartweald! Height relative to Alexander and Blackthorne. I have a pretty good handle on how to cartoonify menswear of the time, but women's fashions I find more challenging, so this was good practice wrangling the silhouette!

🏳️‍🌈 It’s your last chance to get a one time purchase or subscribe to Rainbow Crate for the June Rebirth crate! Our June books are our third anthology: Let Your Queerness Bloom edited by Rachel Skelton and Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows! 🧵

My art account is @talunaria91.bsky.social You guys know about The Kiss painting? Well, I finally did my own take of it by using my most recently created characters! 🧵/1

If you'd like to read a little somethin' by me (as Cassia King), check out the Scholarly Pursuits antho by @duckprintspress.com! My sapphic fantasy romance short story, "Partnered Up," features an elf phys-ed professor + a shy orc literature professor in a cozy academia setting. #sapphfic #lesfic

QotD: What's your fave orange book? Hola readers! Happy Pride Month everyone! Orange book day! I'm so happy I have a book with orange on the cover or this would've been a hard month for me lol. 🧵/1

So excited to be a part of this with the Cardplay Duology! It's for such a good cause, and having seen some of the bookish goodies Alek is putting together for this, I can say you're definitely gonna wanna check it out 😉✨

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the July Roll for Romance crate! Next up is Kateryna @vitkovskayaart.bsky.social who illustrated the hardcase for Non-Player Character by Veo Corva! 🧵

Hi! I'm Holly. 👋 If you've followed me for a while, you probably know me as either Ivy L. James or Aurora Blackwood. I write cozy sapphic romance and poetry as Ivy, and soft-hearted sapphic omegaverse romance as Aurora. (1/3)

After giving it some thought, I’ve decided to bring Of Bards and Quests and Falling In Love’s release date forward. Instead of the 8th of September, it will now be published on the 11th of August.

Valérie and Avanelle, the bards who put Bards in Of Bards and Quests and Falling In Love! Of Bards and Quests and Falling In Love is my next queer cosy fantasy that’s like The Hobbit meets Baldur’s Gate 3, coming out on August 11, but ARCs are available now 👀

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Happy Friday we have a couple shop updates for you today. 🧵 📷: Thanks to @becklovesbooks.bsky.social for the photo of our books!

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! Our February Here There be Dragons photo challenge is officially underway! Entries are open until June 15th! 🧵

I need 500 people to subscribe for $5 so that we can publish more stories. We’re trying to get more aggressive with our publishing schedule so that we can keep this momentum going & take more projects. If you see this status, consider it the universe inviting you to invest in Black & brown art.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our pride month book lists! Every June, we put together book lists as an extra pride treat. Let us know what kind of themed list you’d like to see next! 📷: Thank you to @/LittleMissStar55 on IG for the cover photo featuring our editions!

QotD: Do you have a favorite seashell? Hola a todas! Happy Pride and Caribbean Heritage Month all! It sucks I have to bring some bad news today, but it can't be helped. 🧵/1

Happy one year publication anniversary to Reins of Magic! My missing special edition finally showed up. It was supposed to arrive back in November. #books #booksky #mmbooks #romantasy #indiebooks

I'm officially starting the revision stage of VULTURES WIP (title coming soon!). There's also a possibility at least one edition of this book will be available in October because I am terrible at keeping my own secrets. So yes...please clap & stick around for me to market this spooky gothic book. 💚

BLOODY SPADE & BLEEDING HEART ebooks are also discounted to $0.99 all month long on the 'zon and itchio! If a slow-burn YA fantasy about a snarky pansexual thief and an asexual scythe-wielding girl sounds up your alley, check it out~ 🌈✨ bloodyspade.carrd.co #BookSky #WritingCommunity

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this June? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?

QotD: Sun or moon? Hola readers! Happy Pride Month everyone! New month, new read, sort of. I read a very early ARC of Firstborn of the Sun by @justmarvewrites.bsky.social and seeing as book 2 comes out THIS November, I wanted to read the final publication version. 🧵/1

"it's pride month eve, get your marketing posts prepared!!" I'm stuck in drafting hell at the very end of this goddamn vultures wip. Literally a chapter left & I keep getting interrupted. It's gonna be a late dive in to the festivities I will tell you that right now 🚬 💀

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! In June, we are hosting an Anniversary photo challenge to celebrate our sixth anniversary and give away some prizes! Entries will be open throughout all of Pride Month! Winners announced the first week of July! 🧵

Getting this one in practically last minute because I have not lacked things to do while I've been abstaining from posting as much! The big takeaway here is that vultures wip is almost done & it's going to be a season of announcements this summer.

Good morning, happy Pride 🌈 Also happy "I don't keep track of these things and am now scrambling to make themed posts for June OOPS" to those who celebrate

Happy Pride Month, and happy first day of Pride Book Fair!! From June 1-8th, you can get my anime-inspired urban fantasy BLOODY SPADE with 37 other fabulous queer stories for $40 in one of PBF's four itchio bundles 🌈✨ itch.io/b/3677/pride-book-fair-bundle-3-live-free-or-pride-hard

With a roll of the die, love has cast its spell. Come with us as we explore new characters and worlds through table top role-playing games! The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our July 2026 theme is… 🎲 ROLL FOR ROMANCE 🍄 Read on to learn more 🧵

QotD: Have you been sailing before? Hola readers! Not a mermaid book, but I wanted to end Mermay with a pretty blue book.

One chapter left, just passed 125k words total, & this book is almost whole & ready to be revised. (I just finished a rare evening writing session powered by old faithfuls - the vampire knight ost, ds3 ost, & some Elden Ring tracks).

Scarecrows would never hurt you... If you like burning down the patriarchy, tearing apart your enemies, and communing with the spirits of the forest, This Too Shall Burn might be right for you. Sample chapters available on my website, Catrector.com Art by the amazing @egallagher.bsky.social

I'm running a poll over on Instagram with a few basic questions for authors. I'm trying to gauge if people are feeling a particular gap the way I am. If you want to toss your answer into the fold, you can find it in my stories for another 11 hours or answer here! www.instagram.com/cat_rector/

I'm changing all my ebooks over to D2D from Ingram, and I'm trying to see if I can complete all four moves before I need to drive spouse to the airport in 40 minutes 😂

QotD: I don't know, you like sports? Hola readers! Anime monthly wrap up! Went to Epic yesterday and I'm still exhausted today. So short post today. 🧵/1

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! We are extending our March Cosmically Queer photo challenge! Entries are open until June 15th! 🧵

I'm ramping up my local markets and book fairs this year and am about to become a person who has vehicle expenses on her yearly business taxes I've got five applications out and two acceptances, so fingers crossed!

Are you an abolitionist? And what does that mean? I think this is one of the more important conversations we can have and I am SO excited to have it right here with this community. Go check out my latest blog and see how to get involved!

🌈 June Renewal Reminder! Renewal day is June 1st, 2026 and all subscribers will be charged! There’s about 4 days left to skip your June renewal if you would like to. 🧵 📷: Thank you @/Beth_FullyBooked on IG for the photo of our edition of Static Crush!

Paid patrons who are Fan Tier and above get to see the finished cover of Witch-Touched on my Patreon at 2pm Mountain time today! a lesbian friends to enemies to allies to lovers, necromancer x healer, butch x femme romance 🩷 www.patreon.com/authorivylja... #lesfic 🌈📚 #sapphfic 💙📚

QotD: Favorite cinnamon roll character? Hola a todas! Stuck between believing the words of his older brother or the actions of the king that took them in, choices have been made, and now Kaius must make his own. 🧵/1