Porto is deep in the São João festival, and the city has gloriously lost its mind. City streets colorfully decorated, music on every corner, and everyone from toddlers to grandmothers armed with squeaky hammers to bop each other on the head. A full week of beautiful, joyful chaos. #SãoJoão #Porto

She'd rather control everything than want anything. Most of us know a woman like that. Some of us are her. She's the heart of Book 2, which I'm writing now. Start with Book 1: 3 chapters free, or on Kindle Unlimited. storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/92... #romance #booksky #spicyreads

This Pride, I want women who fall for women on every shelf, loud and unashamed. That's why I wrote the Fifth Floor Society: sapphic love that gets to be tender, spicy, and entirely its own. An Awakening in Lisbon is here if you want in. 🏳️‍🌈 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTRXDQ7G #Pride #SapphicBooks

My first written review is in. Five stars, and a title I'll never get over: "Breathtakingly Beautiful." To a debut author, this is everything! Thank you, truly. AN AWAKENING IN LISBON. Free on Kindle Unlimited. #BookSky #DebutNovel #SpicyReads

Tomorrow I take the train north. For five days Braga becomes Bracara Augusta again: legionaries and gladiators, mead and music, drums and dancers, the whole old city loud and gloriously alive. The full story is in tomorrow's letter. #Braga #Portugal #BragaRomana

Thirty-two years of pretending she didn't want what she wanted. Or whom. "The word left her mouth like a bird released from a cage, sudden, irretrievable, already in flight. She had said yes." AN AWAKENING IN LISBON. Free on Kindle Unlimited. #BookSky #DebutNovel #SlowBurn

There's a particular feeling that comes the first time you realize a stranger is rooting for your protagonist. Week one. I don't think it ever wears off. Thank you, truly, for reading her. #BookSky #DebutNovel #IndieAuthor

The Fifth Floor Society doesn't exist on any map of Lisbon. But if you've been there, you know the weight of the brass door. Ginjinha in the Salon. Silk in the Garden. Mirrors in the Labyrinth. The fifth floor, you still have to earn. #BookSky #DebutNovel #LiteraryErotica

I knew her from the start. I didn't know her story. Not until I wrote the woman who would see her. Mariana stepped onto the page with a camera, and Vivienne knew what to do. AN AWAKENING IN LISBON. Free on Kindle Unlimited. #BookSky #DebutNovel #SapphicRomance

A line from the Fifth Floor: Her body was not an apology. Her body was a landscape, not perfect, not ideal, but real. Present. Worth inhabiting. AN AWAKENING IN LISBON is out. Free on Kindle Unlimited. #BookSky #DebutNovel #SpicyReads

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It's here! My debut novel, AN AWAKENING IN LISBON, is LIVE on Amazon, free in Kindle Unlimited. Step inside the door. Stay for the awakening. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTRXDQ7G When you finish, an honest review means everything to a debut author. Truly. #BookSky #DebutNovel #SpicyReads

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One more sleep. Tomorrow my debut opens its door. Lisbon at dusk, candlelight and velvet, a woman done apologizing for what she wants. AN AWAKENING IN LISBON drops tomorrow on Amazon. Free in Kindle Unlimited. I've waited so long to share her. #BookSky #DebutNovel #SpicyReads

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YES....and also, yes!

Wonderful way to celebrate an incredible heritage through reading. Fabulous!

An invitation, dearest readers. 🔑 Through June 1, my debut An Awakening in Lisbon is on the table in a circle of free queer spicy reads. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Slip through and pick whichever authors' newsletters you'd like to follow. storyoriginapp.com/to/WtgqiU9 #queerromance #spicyromance #queererotica

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I live in Porto, but got a little obsessed with Lisbon while writing this book. The narrow ginjinha bars, the tile panels at the National Museum, the sideways light off the Tagus at 5pm. Portugal keeps giving me more than I can fit in one novel. #BookSky #Lisbon

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I tend to have two or three manuscripts open at once and let inspiration decide which one gets attention that day. Authors - single-project monogamy or polyamorous drafting? What works for you and why? #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting #IndieAuthor

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Margaret Atwood. Here in Porto! 📚 The BABELL Literary Festival lineup is absurdly good. Living within walking distance of a festival Atwood is headlining still doesn't feel real. I'll be there. #booksky #MargaretAtwood #literaryfestival theportugalbrief.pt/portos-new-b...

True now more than ever. Read banned books. Share them. Gift them. The books someone is afraid of are usually the ones that will change the world through the people brave enough to read them. 📚 #booksky #bannedbooks #readbannedbooks

Meet the Fifth Floor Society. 💋 "It has many names. Officially, it is the Sociedade do Quinto Andar. The Fifth Floor Society... a private society devoted to what the founder called a arte da entrega. The art of surrender." #booksky #spicybooks #sapphicbooks

Couldn't agree more. Stories let us sit in a life that isn't our own, to understand a motive we don't share, a pain we haven't lived. That's the quiet work of empathy, and it's in short supply right now. We need more readers, not fewer. 📖 #booksky #amreading #fiction

Funny thing. I used to roll my eyes at slow burn books. Then my characters refused to be rushed, and the pacing I fought the hardest turned out to be exactly what my story needed. I came in thinking I was writing them. By the end, I wasn't so sure. #BookSky #SapphicBooks

Some awakenings deserve to be quiet. Careful. Built at the pace of the person living them. That's what I gave my MC, and it's what I wish someone had given me. #BookSky #SapphicBooks

Lisbon. A city where the cobbled hills steepen without warning. Doors you walk past a dozen times without noticing.
Behind one of them, my novel begins.

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Sharing this from @lgbtqreads.bsky.social because it's exactly the kind of resource queer readers deserve. An LGBTQ bookshop with sections organized to help you find the story you actually want, and proceeds that help keep local bookstores alive. Beautiful project. Please go see it.

Hi, I'm Livia. I write sapphic literary erotica.
My debut novel releases May 12. It's about an art restorer hired to uncover erotic art painted over for centuries. She doesn't expect to uncover her own desire.

Lisbon. A secret society. Two centuries of patience.

📚💙 #BookSky #SapphicBooks

I've lived in Portugal for years and the azulejo tiles still move me. Not art behind glass — art in the streets, part of the lifeblood of this country. That's why they're woven into the cover and story of my debut novel. The Fifth Floor Society: An Awakening in Lisbon 🌈📖

Hi, I'm Livia Vale — debut author of The Fifth Floor Society, a sapphic literary erotica set in Portugal. I'm new here and excited to connect with the sapphic fiction community. 💙📚🌶️ #BookSky #SapphicBooks #IndieAuthor