For those of you in the NYC area, stop by the Bureau of General Services/Queer Division at 7pm on Wednesday, and join @johncopenhaver.bsky.social @annaptaker.bsky.social Christopher Bollen and me as we discuss CRIME INK an anthology of stories written by LGBTQ+ crime/mystery writers.

I’m reading this for #SapphicSeptember and enjoying it so far. The focus on an MC trying to deal with internalized shame and homophobia, while working out what her faith really means to her and how it fits with her queerness, hits hard for me. 🌈📚

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

The #BywaterBookDrop for September 17 is Beowulf for Cretins by Ann McMan. One eBook • One day • Only $3.99 https://bywaterbooks.com/product/beowulf-for-cretins-by-ann-mcman/#BywaterBookDrop #SapphicRomanceSky #SapphicBookSky #BookSky #LGBTQBookSky

There are a couple of great sales of my books going on this month in the UK! Audible has THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS (with incredible narration by Moira Quirk!) at £3.99! www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Last-... And the Kindle edition of THE OBSIDIAN TOWER is 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/Obsidian-Tow...

🏳️‍🌈🔪 Join us for the Crime Ink: Iconic panel.. 👁️ 👁️ Click here to watch: https://loom.ly/xNWvcB4 📢 Moderated by: Joshua Moehling & Meredith Doench ✍️ Participants: J.M. Redmann • Robyn Gigl • Anne Laughlin • John Copenhaver • Salem West • Kristen Lepionka • Ellen Hart #LGBTQSky #BookSky

Open for submissions for the 2026 Lammy Awards, through November 21st! 📚 #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

New episode alert!  @krisbryant.bsky.social and @taramdscott.bsky.social are joined by @salemwest.bsky.social & @johncopenhaver.bsky.social editors of Crime Ink: Iconic. Listen now: https://www.queerlyrecommended.com/2025/09/16/queer-crime-fiction-with-salem-west-john-copenhaver-qr-116/

New Releases: September 16, 2025 Young Adult Love and Video Games by Zachary Sergi In the real world, Keegan Thomas is a gay, eighteen-year-old mythology nerd with undiagnosed chronic pain. But in the myth-inspired, online video game world of Pantheonic, he is the glorious and powerful K.Odyssia,…

It's a big damn giveaway!! You could nab NINE new or upcoming historicals, which is pretty neat Enter: forms.gle/2dJteRjXmLxm...

Mark your calendars! Crime Ink: Iconic is hitting the road in Sept: Harvard Book Store (9/17, 7 PM), MWA Midwest Virtual (9/18, 8 PM), One More Page (9/23, 7 PM), & BGSQD NYC (9/24, 7 PM). Come celebrate queer voices in crime fiction! #CrimeInkIconic #QueerCrimeFiction

If you arranged a prison break and managed to make it back to the convent maybe you didn't need to be in a care home? just saying

How You Get the Girl is one of my faaaaaves. Anita's writing is so tender and kind and lovely. And who doesn't love Basketball Sapphics??

My 2013 essay "HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks on December 2nd. You can preorder the collection now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...!

The 2026 Lammy Awards call for submissions is almost open! You can share your literary work with us starting on September 15-November 21. The 2026 cycle will consider works published or forthcoming in 2025. Get ready for a hot Lammys summer, coming back to June in 2026! ☀️📚 #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!

Take a break from social media today and go pick up Anita Kelly’s books. I read “How You Get the Girl” and I loved it. The story is funny, sweet, kind, and just so compassionate. The characters deal with serious issues, but also act as support systems for each other. It’s so good🌈📚💙

Enemies to friends to lovers ✨♥️🌈 I adored writing this sapphic romance between two fabulous mature women with sparks, banter, awakenings, spice and a big happy ever after 🥰 Discovering Nicola can be read standalone or as book 3 of the Oxford Romance series 🙂 🌈📚 0.99 on Amazon for the next week!

The #BywaterBookDrop for September 10 is Spindrift by Anna Burke. One eBook • One day • Only $3.99 https://bywaterbooks.com/product/spindrift-by-anna-burke/#BywaterBookDrop #SapphicRomanceSky #SapphicBookSky #BookSky #LGBTQBookSky

"Authors @sharpegirl.bsky.social @nicolaz.bsky.social and Katrina Carrasco all write lesbian fiction that challenges and expands upon the genres they each work in... they show just how expansive lesbian literature can be. Enjoy this very queer conversation between three brilliant minds!"

New Releases: September 9, 2025 Middle Grade Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade with a full plate. Between confusing social dynamics of high school and juggling extracurriculars, Ro can only find peace in the reliable comfort of her kitchen,…

Do you love reading sapphic books? Feel like talking about them at least once a month? Want to be buried in an insurmountable pile of free sapphic ebooks? Join the Lesbrary! lesbrary.com/call-for-rev... #SapphicBooks #WLWBooks #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQIABooks

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

Oooh, Audible UK has THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS on sale for £3.99!!! The narration by Moira Quirk is SO GOOD—I still can't believe how lucky I am to have gotten my favorite narrator!!! 🤩 www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Last-...

did you know that september is library card signup month? @queerliblib.bsky.social is such a fantastic FREE resource www.queerliberationlibrary.org/members

Autostraddle’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books for September 2025 🌈📚 www.autostraddle.com/our-most-ant...

KDP has officially changed its guidelines about ebooks. You now can have an ebook in KU and in public libraries. kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/t...

New Releases: September 2, 2025 This week's new releases post is sponsored by Mark Romero in honor of the upcoming crowdfunding launch for his Sapphic Fantasy Romance Comic, Bound By Words! Click here for more information and/or to back Bound By Words! Middle Grade First Kiss With Fangs by Marker…

🏳️‍🌈🔪 OUT TODAY 🔪🏳️‍🌈 Queer icons. Fierce stories. Crime reimagined. CRIME INK: ICONIC is a bold, dazzling & essential anthology. 📚 Grit. Glamour. Guts. 📚 Stories that cut deep + linger long. 🌈 Representation that’s long overdue. #LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBookSky #BookSky #NewReleases

The YA sapphic romance Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick is $1.99 on Kindle. It’s an important story which explores the sense of isolation and fear that queer kids experience living in small conservative towns. Forget Me Not will leave you with joy and hope, but just be prepared to sob along the way🌈📚

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

I am looking forward to reading this upcoming queer crime fiction anthology (releasing on September 2nd) published by @bywaterbooks.bsky.social 🌈📚 A Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Crime Fiction Anthology | BookTrib. booktrib.com/2025/08/27/c...

“In some states, pharmacists are forbidden to administer vaccines that are not recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel.” We will unfortunately start to see more of this…. NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

The queer dark noir mystery “Lavender House” by Lev Rosen is $2.99 at your preferred ebook vender. A 1950s murder mystery that reads like the game “Clue” but with an all queer cast. The story doesn’t shy away from how difficult it was to be gay in that time period. A very good book (and series). 🌈📚

Dahlia Adler's LGBTQReads does a deep dive into the Crime Ink: Iconic anthology. Click on this link to read about the anthology and some of the great stories: https://loom.ly/HimcE4g

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

If you're in the NYC area (or feel like traveling!), I'd love to see you at the launch of FOR THE REST OF US, along with Natasha Diaz, Kosoko Jackson, and Katherine Locke! Come hear us talk about holidays, and anthologies, and whatever great Qs you come up with! booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcomi...

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Authors, if you think your book might have been stolen by AI, join the class action lawsuit! Here's the link to file a claim! authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

I loved The Last Soul Among Wolves (Echo Archives 2) by @MelissaCaruso.bsky.social. The audio narration by Moira Quirk was excellent too. The story is a blend of Indiana Jones and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None - a rollicking action packed adventure which features sapphics with swords🌈📚

Just a reminder that there are still a few days left to get THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS ebook for super cheap! (And the sequel is out now, so if you like it you can roll straight into Book 2 without waiting!)

It's the last pub day of August, so make sure you check out our highlighted new releases for month and see what hits shelves today! lgbtqreads.com/2025/08/05/n... 🌈📚

❤️🔥 House of Dusk is out today ❤️🔥 If you haven’t already, get yourself a copy of this romantic epic fantasy that features a fire-wielding nun grappling with her dark past and a young spy caught between her mission and a growing attraction to an enemy princess. buff.ly/2J5wroz

Oh HEY! I have just learned that the absolutely gorgeous Illumicrate edition of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS is 50% off in both the US & UK in their summer sale!!! It's an absolutely gorgeous book with incredible art and this is a steal!!! illumicrate.com/products/the... (Full box also on sale!)

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

The crosswalk was authorized by a Republican administration, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis decided abruptly the colors pose a safety risk.

Today, we celebrate Marsha P. Johnson's 80th birthday, a true icon in the LGBTQ+ movement. Tourmaline's book, "One Day in June," captures her vibrant spirit and legacy.

🌈 Introducing our Book 1 feature for September! 🎉 We are so excited to feature this warm & heartfelt story about a lonely witch consumed by grief who discovers a whimsical cast of characters. Welcome to House of Frank by Kay Synclaire @kaysynclaire.bsky.social 🧵

Powerful witches. Ferocious vampires. A looming threat terrorizing the land. Joan Matthews and Leigh Phan can't keep their secret forever. INCENDIANT from @bywaterbooks.bsky.social bywaterbooks.com/product/inde...

Got so caught up recommending books that I forgot I should mention my own! Sapphic historicals, sci-fi mysteries, and some Regency demons (a naked incubus walks into a ballroom — what is a debutante to do?) #Romancelandia 💙📚