'Girl Reading in a Hammock,' (1910) is a minor masterpiece in Robert Graafland's body of work. The picture was painted in his Italianate garden in Limburg, a place where he left the influences of the Hague School and adopted the colourful influences of the French Impressionists.

This week is Lesbian Visibility Week, and we're celebrating with 20 indie and self-published SFF books by lesbian and queer women authors! 🏳️‍🌈 www.readindiefantasy.com/books-for-le...

It's time for the Lesbian Visibility Week Bundle on Itch! If you like - lesbians/sapphics - supporting independent artists - great deals - lots and lots of books Please check it out! 🎉 itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...

btw tomorrow the Lesbian Visibility Week Mega Bundle goes LIVE! itch.io/b/3635/lesbi... Have it All is included as well as so many wonderful sapphic books!! #booksky #lesfic #sapphic 💙📚

My sapphic vampire novel is in this promo as well 🥰🥰 Do check it out when it goes live tomorrow!

Hello BlueSky. Do you like lesbians? Of course you do. You're on BlueSky. You can get 94 sapphic and lesbian books for just $40 all week next week. It includes Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher, as well as many books more famous than mine. I am very excited to get it. itch.io/b/3635/lesbi...

It's baffling to me that in the year 2026 after the billions that Microsoft makes, Word still can't recognise when a possessive is necessary

@ninafairweather.com Hi Nina! Hope you don't mind me pinging you a message - I noticed that you haven't accepted the lesbian visibility co-op bundle on Itch yet. Just wanted to let you know in case you missed the email! 😊

Spending the day putting the finishing touches on the Gathering Shade proofs today! It's filled with plenty of sapphic vampire shenanigans, including: - Quintia being an impulsive fool & falling for a human scientist - Lavinia's 250th birthday doing wrong - A secret lurks beneath the ground...

I'm always so happy to share the cover of The Rising Dark because the illustration by Claudia Caranfa is fantastic! 🥰

66% OFF ALL BOOKS! There's just over one month left until we close our creaking doors for good, so head to our website and grab yourself a scarily good 66% off all our books. Use code at checkout: HAUNT66 www.hauntpublishing.com/books #Gothic #Horror #DarkFiction #GothicLiterature #HorrorBooks

Coming April, 29 The Gathering Shade is the second Book in the Sister of Twilight Series Quintia’ and Dr. Rosalind Johnson story is beautiful and a great second installment @celiathorn.bsky.social thank you 🫶🏼 #review #arc #NetGalley #vampires #lgbtqia+ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Celebrating today because my debut, The Rising Dark, has now officially sold over 500 copies! 🥰🏳️‍🌈

the constant lady from @caitlinstarling.com would not stop haunting me until i got this piece out of my brain. the starving saints was such a squeamish, sticky, delight to listen to! will forever be on the hunt for medieval horror that made me feel like this one.

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

Today seems like the a good time to back away from the social medias and wrote more fun queer stories

Hey guys! I'm running a new online interactive workshop in April and you can come along! We'll be diving into Byron's early queer poetry and queer history Come join me! Choose the session that works best for you! www.eventbrite.com/cc/byron-que...

Happy world poetry day folks. Not enough things rhyme with Bert

The weather has been lovely which means I'm being blasted in the face with pollen every time I leave the house. Thanks, spring 🖤🌹

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Reasons to buy Woman of Sorrow and Blood: You love horror You love QUEER horror You love GOTHIC queer horror And of course, because you love supporting indie authors so we can keep making awesome books 🥰 Grab your copy on Itch: diannagunn.itch.io/wosab Or elsewhere: books2read.com/u/m0p0kW

Looking for books to read for the #TransRightsReadathon? How about some sapphic fantasy/urban fantasy, featuring trans characters, and by a trans woman author? ^^ www.amazon.com/stores/Issy-... issy-waldrom.itch.io (and also on most ebooks stores as well)

There's been a huge increase in scam emails that just have some other author's book in there. If you're going to try to scam me, at least get the book right 😅

The irony of saying "No one reads anymore" is that there are more people alive on earth who read books now than there have been at any point in history. It's *percentage* of public who reads for pleasure that changed

Happy Friday 13th, pals! Celebrate by grabbing yourself 50% off all our books! 📚 Help us clear our goffice shelves before we close 📈 Contribute to a higher final author royalty payment 💀 Receive incredible Gothic/horror/dark fiction books to haunt you forever www.hauntpublishing.com/books

✨ Book reviewers wanted ✨ My second sapphic vampire romance book is now available for request on Netgalley! "Quintia was a Sister of Twilight, a vampire warrior. She didn’t do feelings… did she?" Human scientist meets impulsive vampire warrior and sparks fly 🏳️‍🌈 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I'm on this list too! And there are so many other wonderful new sapphic authors to discover 🏳️‍🌈 A huge thank you to Jae for creating such a fantastic resource 🖤

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

The world is on fire but it looks like we're adopting a sweet kitty that needs a home this week 🥰

TODAY IS THE DAY: Over 200 books from all genres! Discounted to $0.99, or free! Sapphic, sale, spectacular! Browse the selection at yearofqueerlit.com! 🌈📚😱 - 🧡👻📚 - 📢📚💙

Do you love sapphic fiction? Over 200 F/F books are on sale for $0.99 or free! Tell all your friends and enjoy some wonderful indie sapphic fiction 🥰🏳️‍🌈 For paranormal/sci-fi: yearofqueerlit.com/2026/02/24/s... #lesfic #booksky #wlw

We're celebrating today because The Rising Dark is an Amazon bestseller in the Lesbian Romance books category! 🎉🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has bought the book on sale this week 🖤

Ahhh can't wait to watch this! Ncuti Gatwa is such an excellent choice for an Oscar Wilde play

Happy Valentine's Day! 🌹 If all you wished for on Valentine's day was a tall, gorgeous vampire to kill some demons for you, then maybe try THE RISING DARK! It's only $0.99 at the moment 🥰 #wlw #lesfic #lgbt #writingcommunity #ff

THE RISING DARK is currently on sale for only $0.99 on all major retailers! 🖤 Vampires killing demons with swords 🖤 Sweet sapphic kisses 🖤 First in a series, book two is coming in April Please tell a friend who loves FF vampire novels 🥰 #lesfic #wlw #lgbt #booksky

THE RISING DARK is currently on sale for only $0.99 on all major retailers! 🖤 Vampires killing demons with swords 🖤 Sweet sapphic kisses 🖤 First in a series, book two is coming in April Please tell a friend who loves FF vampire novels 🥰 #lesfic #wlw #lgbt #booksky

Do you like sapphic Wodehouse aunts solving crimes on a cruise ship in space, alongside their winsome yet irksome nephews? Do you like books on sale? Good news on both fronts — Murder by Memory is $2.99 this week!

There’s a statue in Parliament that’s been deliberately left damaged for over a century. The reason why takes us back to one of the most important protests in British history. Let me show you one of Parliament’s hidden stories.

Draft2Digital is very helpfully telling me it's only 79 days until the release of The Gathering Shade and don't mind me I'll just be freaking out in the corner over there #lesfic #wlw #queer #booksky #writingcommunity

If you're an author with a vampire book coming this spring, why not help each other out? 😊 Indies very much welcome #booksky #writingcommunity

Perhaps a great moment to let everyone know my sapphic vampire book is on Bookshop. Get it away from the evil corporation 🥰

We are sad to announce the closure of Haunt Publishing this year. Rising costs, marketing difficulties & work/life balance issues are making it hard to thrive. We will formally cease trading on 1st June 2026. The Bookseller have the exclusive: www.thebookseller.com/news/scottis...

If you've been eyeing up my sapphic vampire book but the price has been prohibitive, you should keep your eyes peeled because there might be a $0.99 sale coming up soon 👀 #lesfic #writingcommunity

I'm publishing a queer fantasy story on the first of every month this year, alternating between reprints and exclusive new releases with the goal to build up my readership over here. February is this one, March is gay isekai ✨

The Society of Authors joins forces with other creator-led organisations to co-launch Brave New World?, a groundbreaking report on the onset of a creative jobs crisis in the UK. More and a link to download the report here. Essential reading. societyofauthors.org/2026/01/30/b... #JusticeForCreators

If you're an author with a vampire book coming this spring, why not help each other out? 😊 Indies very much welcome #booksky #writingcommunity

DO YOU HAVE A VAMPIRE BOOK COMING OUT THIS SPRING? I'm seeking authors with vampire books coming out this March/April/May who want to band together for a fun cross-promotion in March & hopefully boost all of our preorder campaigns! If that's you, sign up below! #IndieAuthors especially welcome

I know most authors dream of seeing their book turned into movies or TV shows, but my pie in the sky dream is a Sisters of Twilight dating sim game. It should have an art style like Hades and you get to choose which buff lady vampire you want to romance (or all of them) 🥰 #lesfic #sapphic

The space between worlds, a product of both and neither, a place of its own. And for those touched by it? Their lives never the same again. Mayhap I can interest you in a sapphic shifter series? Dragons, wolves, and a world in which things aren't always as they seem. www.amazon.com/Where-Our-Pa...

Bookshop.org is SIX today. 🥳 In these six years, we’ve raised over $44 MILLION for local bookstores—and we have all of YOU to thank for that. Thank you for loving and supporting indie bookstores as much as we do.