So excited to share my tender little short story that was published in Fruitslice Magazine today❤️‍🔥 “Synchronicities” is a story about the power of connection, the tender moments that can soothe our deepest aches, and the spark that can bring us to life again. #booksky #writesky #queersky 🌈📚

Hi when do you stop having a small heart attack whenever you see your own book stocked in a bookshop please?? Or are other authors just more chill than me?? #booksky 🌈📚 #writesky

Have had such a fun launch today - thank you everyone who preordered/ requested/ reviewed In Your Head, the support has been incredible 🥰 IYH: A spicy sapphic novella for fans of Black Mirror, Women (Chloé Caldwell) and Want (Gillian Anderson). aliciavane.com/books/in-you... 🌈📚 #booksky

One week until my spicy sapphic novella is officially out in the world 😱 trying not to freak out about the preorders coming in from actual bookshops!! eeeeek!! (ps I will not cope if I encounter a copy in the wild haha) www.aliciavane.com for details ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #booksky #queersky #writesky

NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets For fans of: ❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning ❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity ❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs ❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (98k, speculative lit fic) #QueerPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #litfic #amquerying

The scream I just had to stifle (it’s 10pm here) when I saw that my novella is one of the most requested titles in the LGBTQ+ category of @netgalley.bsky.social well, I definitely won’t sleeping now 😂 Thank you everyone who requested to read In Your Head ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky

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Thank you to everyone who shared and requested In Your Head on NetGalley - the response has blown my mind!! ❤️‍🔥 (exciting but also eeeeeek) 🌈📚

Eeeek my spicy sapphic novella is available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social now!! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... (and I feel absolutely fine about this 😅😂❤️‍🔥) #queerbooks 🌈📚 #booksky #writesky

Oh hi 👋 I’ve been lost in books for a few months (reading and writing) Highlights: - The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden) - Boulder (Eva Baltasar) - Spoilt Creatures (Amy Twigg) I’ve also got a couple of sapphic stories coming out in the next few months ❤️‍🔥 What have you been up to? 🌈📚 #booksky

Brushing up on the craft with Ursula K Le Guin and an almond croissant cookie. #booksky 🌈📚 #amwriting #writingcommunity

writers: there's a piece of my soul in this book and I've agonised over every word for months and yet I STILL fret about whether it's good enough some random people: stop overthinking it you can just use Al to churn out books - no one cares readers: oooh we care alright. WE CARE. #booksky 🌈📚

Just started reading Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. Usually it takes me 20-30% of a book to feel connected to a character but it was immediate with this. The tender letter opener really captured my heart ❤️‍🔥 Have you read this? 🌈📚 #booksky #queerbooks

I wrote a sapphic short story about a farmer and postie and two readers asked me to develop it into a novel because they loved the characters that’s the sort of encouragement that sustains a writer and prompts the writing of 60-80k more words #amwriting #writesky #queerbooks 🌈📚 #writingcommunity

NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets For fans of: ❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning ❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity ❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs ❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (98k, speculative lit fic) #QuestPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #amquerying

A new #agentsguide for my revised version of A FEAST FOR LAMBS(made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) coming back to agents inboxes real soon 👀 🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC ❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance 🥩Cannibalism 🩸Religious horror 🫀Body horror 🔥Trans rage #questpit #A #H #RF #querying

🥀 Gilded Age-inspired college romantasy 🩸vampire MMC needs a mate bond to avoid bloodlust 🥀 alchemist human FMC is secretly plotting to take his power 🩸solving mysterious murders 🥀bi4bi 🩸dual POV 🥀black and curvy rep 🩸touch her and ☠️ 🥀divine chaos #QuestPit #W #A #PR

The #QuestPit hashtag has been hijacked by a tat selling company so my feed is full of their posts. Please can someone add me to a list?? I want to see more pitches Thank you ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #writesky #queerbooks

FROM BLOOD AND ASH x SPARK OF THE EVERFLAME THE QUEEN IS RISING Stories are pretty, but the truth is real and full of pain. #1stLinePit #Q #A #RF

ARCANE x OUR INFINITE FATES A dying mage and his partner seek to prevent magic from killing mages. Their efforts turn them both into soulless immortals. Centuries later, two magic scientists seek to stop a blight, and they must find a way to kill these cursed gods. #Questpit #F #W #A #LGBT

Elle doesn’t want a second-chance romance, she wants revenge, heartbreak for heartbreak. She’ll pretend forgiveness, pretend love, until her ex hurts as much as she did back then. But the line between fake and real is harder to navigate than she expected. #Questpit #Q #A #R #LGBT

Plagued by the choice between duty to her people and following her heart, a competition for the princess’s hand in marriage holds the key to her Kingdom’s survival. 🏹Marriage Competition ✨Secret Romance 🔮Meddling Mind Magic 📚Secrets of the Past 💕Second Chance Romance #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

Apollo and Hyacinthus, but with an Indian spin to it.. In ancient India gods walk among men. Yashit, the Lotus Dancer is set to become a Nrityadeva, the elite dancers of heaven. But what's supposed to happen when Yashit falls for the Sun God himself? Bad idea. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #F #R #YA

Garden of Gods 🩸🌹 THE HURRICANE WARS x THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER (I like to think of it as Attack on Titan set in the Ottoman Empire with more magic and more romance) #questpit #q #a #f #r

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

ONE DARK WINDOW x MALICE A cottagecore witch love interest with healing magic who would be the perfect main character for a cozy fantasy but instead her girlfriend is a shadow sorceress haunted by a monster so now she has to go through the horrors #questpit #A #F #Q #LGBT

🌌🎪 x Sapphic Moulin Rouge Raised on war and lost love, Carina acts out revolutionary stage plays in colonial Manila. Dissent is a death sentence, but she’s willing to risk it all when a familiar face from her past sits down one night to watch her perform #QuestPit #WIP #novella

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside– it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible #QuestPit #Q #A #R #S #SFF

NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets For fans of: ❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning ❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity ❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs ❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (98k, speculative lit fic) #QuestPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #amquerying

She must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family. ⚔️Age-old clan feud 🧪Unique magic & world 🐉Scandinavian folklore ❤️‍🔥Steamy Enemies-To-Forbidden-Lovers 🛡️"Who did this to you?" / "You did! 🗡️"Touch him & die" #QuestPit #Q #R #F #A #AgentsGuide

#questpit #UF #A #Q CARNIVAL ROW x Se7eN In a post war gothic city, a detective and his partner go on the trail of a serial killer who murders black marketeers in search of illegal garlic for his Paleblood "cure". Should they stop him before he wipes out the population of ruling Palebloods?

Talented Mr Ripley x Song of Achilles … If PATROCLUS were a vengeful wheelchair-using ASSASSIN on the hunt for a globetrotting ACHILLES who’s really a celebrated BLACK soccer sensation shrouding his sexuality in ruse 🦼🏟️⚽️🥅🏆🔪❤️‍🔥👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏿💔💘 #Questpit #Q #A #T #ownvoices

The God of Knowledge is dying and knowledge is withering alongside him. Lyara must uncover what happened to him and how to reverse it before all books turn to stone and her chance at finding a cure to her curse disappears with the crumbling of the Library of Yashay. #questpit #W #A #F

NASCENT ❤️‍🔥 A cult of strong women with dark secrets For fans of: ❤️‍🔥 Sapphic yearning ❤️‍🔥 Gender nonconformity ❤️‍🔥 Women’s wrongs ❤️‍🔥 Tearing down systems of power THE WATER CURE x I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN (98k, speculative lit fic) #QuestPit #Q #LGBTQ #A 🌈📚 #writingcommunity #amquerying

I said I was going to get my head back into querying today and that was just the motivation I needed to mow the lawn, cut back the overgrown tree, clean the kitchen and catch up on admin :) #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky 🌈📚

Catching up on writing group feedback now that I’ve emerged from my story writing cave. How are you spending 1st May? #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky 🌈📚

So I actually wrote and submitted this story!!! It’s a very cosy read and I absolutely loved writing it. (Deadline for submission was 30th April - nothing like a tight deadline to get the words down). What motivates you to ACTUALLY WRITE THE STORY? #amwriting #writingcommunity #queerbooks 🌈📚

Do you ever feel like one character arrives in your mind fully formed and you then have to quickly mock up friends for them?? Like one character has a whole life story and another is tentatively called Jessica. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky 🌈📚

Opened email to do something (important??) saw an exciting email from my beta reader read feedback squealed totally forgot what I was supposed to be doing. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky 🌈📚

Me: okay, Brain, I’m going to submit this short story now, you better not think of a completely different and significantly better ending as soon as I press send. Brain: I won’t! Me: promise? Brain: promise!! Me: *submits* Brain: … OR #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky 🌈📚

Lovely day at the Northern Publishers’ fair ❤️‍🔥 So great to see all these excellent indie publishers in the North. @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social @saraband-books.bsky.social @commapress.bsky.social @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

Since I started thinking about sapphic farmers I can't get the image of this strong, competent, weathered, weary butch farmer out of my head… I'm afraid I'm gonna have to write a short story to get it out of my system ❤️‍🔥 Where does your story inspiration come from? #writingcommunity #booksky 🌈📚

I see a lot of book recommendations for sapphic westerns, great, BUT where are the sapphic farmers?? Is this my next book project???? (pls send me books with sapphic farmers if you know any) #booksky 🌈📚 #sapphicbooks #writingcommunity

Trying to leave novel alone (with agents) and novella alone (with beta) so back to studying the craft. I usually pick up these books and read the bits I’m interested in. I’m not sure that’s how you master the craft but it does seem to be the best way to get me to write. #amwriting #writesky 🌈📚

I absolutely loved The Unworthy (I read an eARC) and couldn’t wait to reread a physical copy. I wasn’t as obsessed with the UK cover as the USA one (LOOK AT ITTT) so I ordered it from a US distributor. I just think it’s stunning. Have you read this? #booksky 🌈📚 #readsky #queerbooks

Writing really is just an extension of being a nerdy kid at school like every time you get edits from a journal or notes from a beta it’s like getting your homework back and being like ah yeah that’s a good point. #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #booksky 🌈📚

Me: I should submit more short stories to build my portfolio. Also me: another book idea wheeeeeeeee #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky 🌈📚