Treating myself to a post 'putting the Christmas tree up' mulled wine 🎄🍷

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

First frost this morning! Which seems like a good time to remind people I have a sad bastard holiday historical romance novella you can pick up, about rival lesbian chicken breeders in a small-town poultry competition and also everyone’s traumatized by the Crimean War.

NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems

I have never once succeeded at the #HiddenBookGame but maybe this year is the year? Or maybe once again I'll be left questioning if I even read a single book this year? (The second. It's gonna be the second one.)

The AI spammers continue to only ever email me about books written by other Sarah Bells 😅 #WritingLife #WriteSky

✨️ Completed all my reading goals for the year ✨️ 📚💙

Me, staring at this knowing damn well we're in October and still convinced it's gotta be an April's fool. Like, it's gotta be...

Some Latinx authors to buy instead: Anna-Marie McLemore Gabe Cole Novoa Tehlor Kay Mejia Aidan Thomas A. E. Bross Isabel Canas Silvia Moreno-Garcia Natalia Hernandez There are many more, but those are the ones within immediate reach on my Kindle and TBR pile

🧙 wild witches 🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two) 🔮 portal fantasy 🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in 👨‍❤️‍👨 true love 🗡️ revenge 👑 evil faeries 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #booksky

🍁🍂 AUTUMN TBR 🍂🍁 Cheering myself up as the weather gets colder (I'm a definite sunshine girlie) with a little Autumn TBR full of gothic stories, autumnal romances, mysteries, dark academia and fantasy. 📚💙

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

For this Bi Visibility Day, pick up a sapphic historical romance by a bi author, with a bi heroine! Lady’s Guide is science vs art bi awakening, Waspish Widows is small town bees and bi/pan, and Hellion’s Waltz is bi4bi enemies to lovers with a heist element! #Romancelandia

My most recent entry in my challenge to read a book by a woman from every country in the world is Poland, for which I read a rediscovered book of lesbian short stories from 1925, because queer history is incredible: theglobalwomenslibrary.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/p...

This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Slightly diminish a book: The Murder in the Next Town Over

I'm wearing a jumper and slippers in August and I'm incredibly grumpy about it 🥶

I think part of the reason I'm struggling with writing so much atm is I can't focus on any one WIP - I keep bouncing from story to story to story and I'm not sure how to make myself focus. #WritingCommunity 📚💙

No. No, thanks. I want my computer to be literally none of those things...

Also, I'm just a cis woman asking cis men to shut the fuck up about Why Cis Women Totally Need Me To Attack Trans Women On Their Behalf (Even If They Don't Think So, The Little Dears).

I mean this entire statement is complete BS but 'I'll ask not to be shortlisted if all the debut authors return' is some absolutely wild logic. (I know the answer is he wants to act all 'woe is me' self-sacrificing, but like, still, what?)

The number of times I've been like 'hmmm, maybe I should just double check that' on historical details is So. Very. High. (And sometimes I was right and sometimes I was wrong and sometimes I gave up because the Internet was no use...)

New release! (Sapphic Greek myth retelling - yes please 😍)

You can pre-order this sapphic Medusa retelling here: www.katherineshawwrites.com/osas 💙📚👀 🌈📚

Why are my sales so low when I've done zero marketing? How could this possibly be? Truly the great mystery of our times 🙃 📚💙 #WritingCommunity

I understand the assignment. Recommend EVERYONE on Itch now do this.

Happy Disability Pride Month! THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 3 books with 💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes 🫀An autistic necromancer ⚰️His reanimated lover 🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC 🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance 🔗⬇️Available wide!

Ah yes. The best article title ever

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

revising every time #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Support Disability Pride Month with a HUGE bundle of books & games spanning SFF, horror, & contemporary romance genres. With a range of LGBTQ+ and disabled characters, there’s representation for everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 $15 for 12 items 🏳️‍🌈 usually $44! 🏳️‍🌈ends 21st July tinyurl.com/disabilitypridebundle

happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.

Queer contemporary, queer historical fiction, queer mystery, queer thriller -- all at a great discount :D We had a ton of enthusiasm boosting the call for submissions, it'd be really cool to get the bundle some love! itch.io/b/3078/pride... 💙📚 🌈📚 #PrideBookFair

Seriously go check out all the bundles. We made neat little (rough) genre groupings to help you find your next favourite books. Lots of great queer indie books on sale (you can navigate from one bundle to the next easily)

🌈 The #PrideBookFair bundles are now available on Itchio! 🌈 My book THE MURDER NEXT DOOR is in the Contemporary & Historical Fiction bundle - 16 books for $30! itch.io/b/3078/pride... 📚💙 🌈📚 📚📢 📚⌛️

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🌈 PRIDE MONTH SALE 🌈 To celebrate Pride Month, both books in my sapphic historical mystery series are half price on itch.io! Or get both in a bundle for only $2! itch.io/s/154719/-lo... 📚💙 📚🌈 📚⌛️ 📚🌈♠️ #SapphicBooks

Did the classic writer thing of coming up with a great line at 2am when trying to sleep and forgetting it the next day. (I remember thinking it was a good line, I just can't remember what it was 😅) #WritingCommunity

It's the start of Pride Month, so just a casual reminder - I have two very gay books out 🏳️‍🌈 📚💙 📚🌈 📚⌛️ 📚⚡️📚🌈♠️ #SapphicBooks

So. This is very queer. In multiple ways. Word on the street is that the author is pretty damn queer, too. Just in case you're looking for Pride reads or for books to include on your pride lists. 📚🖋

Just realised next month THE MURDER NEXT DOOR will have been published for 4 years and... Huh? Sorry, what? HOW? 📚💙 #WritingCommunity

Not to mention… NO ONE HAS EVER GUESSED THE TWIST! I can GUARANTEE you won’t see it coming 💙📚👀

Looking for an indie book? Here are some recommendations! 📚💙 rebeccacrunden.com/2025/02/12/s...

The LOUISA & ADA series is now available wide 🎉 This means it's no longer on KU but is available at a variety of different e-book stores (see below) and on Kobo Plus. 📚💙 #SapphicBooks #IndieAuthors 🌈📚

Indie Bites 18: Bards & Bargains is OUT NOW! This issue is absolutely stacked with stories that explore the musical, the magical, and more - grab your copy for free from www.silversunbooks.com/post/bards-b... (paperbacks also available, and this baby is thick!) 🥰

Hey I'm organizing these and took an early look at the books signed up and although we have many, MANY books, I have only a tiny selection of books that aren't SFFH If you know indies who have queer thrillers, mystery, historical or contemp. romances, we'd love to have them! 🌈📚 #PrideBookFair

Anyone who's published on Kobo know why the preview is showing my chapter title formatting all odd? (It look fine when I reviewed it before publishing.) #IndieAuthors

I should be doing book admin things but the sun is out meaning it's drinking in the back garden weather ☀️ #IndieAuthors

So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!