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supersherjohnlocked · 1 year

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You want:

To support independent bookstores?

Support carbon neutral nonprofit?

Keep money from Bezos?

Then checkout

#books #books & libraries #books are amazing #books are everything #books are better than people #ya books #bookshop #support independent bookstores #support indie books #support independent artists #support indie creators #buy books #books addict

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apolline-lucy · 16 days

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hey i did a little redesign of my book cover because i didn’t like the way the blurb was written before… how do you like it now?

check out my book, THE SILVER BIRDS, if you’re into sapphic dark fantasy with witches, monsters, spooky deaths, and a whole cast of grey characters!

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shinesurge · 13 days

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OH hey denver folks: Mutiny is officially the second comic shop on the planet to carry Kidd Commander books (next to Danny the Comic Shop), I met Jim and The Professor at the show this weekend and they were really into the comic! If you're in the area and want to help support me and a local shop (and also help make me look like a good investment lmaooo) maybe stop in and grab a book! I already got paid for these so don't feel bad about not going through my shop, this would save you shipping costs AND make me look like a good investment to the store. I didn't have a lot of stock so there aren't very many, I think they have volumes 1 and 2 and three copies each of the specials, so if they run out somehow or just haven't put them out yet or something going to the counter and asking about them would probably also help my reputation a little bit hehe

#volume 2 is officially out of stock in the online store too so like. i think this is the only way to purchase one rn lakjsdf #this goes for any indie person in print that you like but AS USUAL #a really cool way to support me is to ask your local Book Dealers to carry my stuff!#THIS INCLUDES LIBRARIES I WANNA BE IN LIBRARIES SO BAD #shoutout to the Hopkinsville Public Library in Kentucky for having a full set after inviting me out there lol

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gailynovelry · 11 months

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#dark fantasy #queer fantasy #political fantasy #queer books #writeblr #indie publishing #if you want to support a weird little lesbian and a sweet potato of an orange tabby #give it a whirl!#i have done everything for this project myself #writing and editing and book covers and book design and also this advert; it's a lot of work but really fun #so uh take this as your cue to have fun and go whole-hog on whatever silly project you personally want to make #i didn't need to query to get this done

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thistlearts · 3 months

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Vote for my book cover art!

I'm very honoured that two of the book cover artworks, made by me, were nominated for Queer Indie Awards. If you feel like supporting my art as a book cover artist, please consider giving me your vote here

#art #illustration #queer community #support queer artists #watercolor #digital art #trans artist #queer art #queer artwork #lgbtq artist #queer artist #queer books #indie books #historical romance #m/m romance #m/m fiction #romantasy #fantasyart #fantasy romance

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dionyrtal · 2 months

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orange banner alert!!!

oh, i am at a loss for words. my only wish for this book was to find people who just wanted to read another sapphic vampire romance book and i'm so glad i found them. but also, this book release has already surpassed everything i could only dream about a year ago. i'm forever grateful and so glad that you're here<3

happy reading and thank you for being a part of this journey, enduring my silly tiktoks and reels to market this book, and waiting patiently for paperbacks (if i don't get a response soon, i'm in your walls ingramspark!!!!!)

#writeblr #dionyrtal #dark academia #words #indie author #dark academia aesthetic #writing #sapphic books #wlw #sapphic vampire #carmilla #support indie authors #w #wlw romance #wlw books #sapphic romance #dion anja

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thesylverlining · 10 months

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Coming This Halloween: CHAMELEON MOON, in glorious audio!

Pre-orders (with a crapton of bonuses!) open Now!

Yes, I am vibrating into another dimension and beyond excited to announce, the first book of the queer-AF rebelliously hopeful dystopian superhero epic Chameleon Moon series is here - for your ears, at last!

If you haven't heard of this Weird, Queer Indie SFF series, have some important points in meme form!

Funded on Kickstarter in under 48 hours, this audiobook edition features the incredible voice of Kyle Rocco East!

(And a special guest narrator! ........ Me. It's me. Yeah, I make sounds/songs as well as words!)

This baby can hold so much ear-goodness, including sixteen (16!!) hours of enhanced narration and original music including two full songs!

And we've got free bonuses, boy howdy! Every pre-order comes with:

CM-verse short stories "Runtime" and "Always Be You"

Narrated short story "Un-Dead" MP3 (Recommended to listen after reading CM!)

"What You Remember" and "Dream Sweet" song MP3s

All 6 character portrait phone wallpapers, seen above and below!

And that's all cool, but need some examples of said audio mastery? As you should!

So, you can listen to the ENTIRE PROLOGUE as a free preview, right here!

... And lastly, hi there. If you read this far, THANK YOU. If you reblog or like, THANK YOU. And oh boy, if you pre-order, THANK YOU FROM THE ACTUAL BOTTOM OF MY HEART. <3

This project has been a labor of utter love, but it HAS been a labor for both me and my incredible narration partner Kyle Rocco East, and I'm happy, relieved, and exhausted to have it finally UP AND DONE.

Halloween can't come fast enough.

(...More than usual, I mean.)

THANK YOU!

~ RoAnna Sylver

#Queer books #Indie books #Pride Month #Pride 2023 #Audiobooks #Chameleon Moon #RoAnna Sylver #Kyle Rocco East #Support Queer Creators! This and every month!#...god I am STILL vibrating lmaooooo. gay-ass dreams coming true rn!!

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marydublinauthor · 21 days

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Little personal post! Last night @kendsleyauthor and I were featured with another local author at a fantasy panel via our local indie bookstore! (Anne joined via discord on my phone!) We got to talk about world building, magic, The Heart Between Kingdoms and Shot in the Dark!

Dreaming forever that I can do this full time someday 🥺

So wild to be talking about Jon and Sylvia and Cliff to THE WORLD IN PERSON?? After all this time!

#support indie authors #gt #g/t #gt writing #shot in the dark #the restoration program #fairies #indie authors #indie books

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chaospixiemagic · 11 months

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Shame on the publishers supporting and PROMOTING the AI trend. Shame on the studios for trying to REPLACE writers with AI bullshit.

This series is my life. I have poured over a decade of myself, my wins and losses, my heartbreaks, into MY books. AI can never replace or replicate real human experiences, nor should it. Otherwise, what is the point of living? What is the point of art, enjoyment, tragedy, love, loss, triumph?

Writers are HUMAN. Artists are HUMAN. Keep it that way.

If you’d like to support this human writer, you can click here to check out The Mapweaver Chronicles!

#am writing #fantasy books #writer #books #indie author #writers strike #support the wga #wga strong #no ai art #ai is theft

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lizzardson · 13 days

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people spreading the pirated version of tsc are driving me crazy its 99 cents I will literally buy it for you

#i fully support piracy but not from indie authors Please #ESPECIALLY authors who have kept the price of their books one dollar each for the last 10 years #im being serious btw send me your email and i will buy the book for you #the sunshine court #aftg #tsc #kal.txt #also i dont mean this to sound judgy i very often have less than a dollar in my bank account #i just dont love people publicly spreading around the pdf or whatever

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b0rtney · 1 month

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you want homosexuals in every conceivable scenario?

Boy oh boy do i have the substack for u: mine!

NO PLEASE LEMME TELL U THE STORIES BEFORE U LEAVE--

Current is Cinnamon Muffins. TLDR: Six queer boys in a homophobic tiny town in Iowa are trying to survive winter break dodging awful parents, social stigma, and mental health crises.

Next up is How to Get Away with Marriage. TLDR: Guy with awful, religious parents marries guy who is living paycheck to paycheck so they can both get all their younger sisters out of their shitty situations (but they fall in love ofc).

Longer desc of these plus the stories coming in the next months are below the cut! (Genres include fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian, mystery/thriller, coming-of-age)

Cinnamon Muffins centers on Taylor Macready, a homeless senior in high school holed up in a sleeping bag under a bridge after his parents kicked him out. He's fully ready to just accept death when it starts snowing on him while he's stargazing, but social outcast Wes Post is taking his nightly walk in a new direction and stumbles (literally) on his longtime crush, Taylor. Dragging Taylor home, Wes's parents prove themselves the only reasonable parents in this book by setting Taylor up on their pullout couch and nursing him back to health. Then Wes, whose closest school relationships include the kids who bully him for his anxiety-related speech impediment, has to get in touch with Taylor's friends to let them know the situation. Meanwhile, the mean girls of Swisher High School are starting a campaign to get homosexuality banned at school. Administratively, it gets nowhere, but it inspires several small-minded shitwads to take matters into their own hands. While Taylor is used to getting into fights, Wes isn't, but he'll have to sink or swim, because the teachers are not paid enough to care what happens in the hallways during lunchtime.

How to Get Away with Marriage opens with Luke Providence, son of a devoutly Baptist family in Nebraska, proposing to Patrick Demden, son of a recently-deceased alcoholic mechanic. The wealthy Providence parents have a longstanding agreement that once their children get married, they will receive a trust of $100,000 to use on the down-payment of a house and to start a life with their spouse. Patrick's younger sister tutors Luke's younger sister, but Patrick's sister is 16. This age gap doesn't matter much to the Providence parents, but it matters a lot to Luke, so he strikes a deal with Patrick: tell the parents he'll marry the sister, legally marry the brother, everyone gets to move to Colorado and escape abusive religious parents and crushing poverty. He needn't have done something so elaborate, Patrick would have married him for any reason at all. But the secret doesn't stay secret forever, and the Providence parents eventually come knocking, trying to recollect their children and their money.

Future stories I'll keep shorter, but feel free to ask about them either in the replies or my askbox and I'll elaborate!

Assassin x Demon King will be getting books 2 and 3! ADK is about an assassin and the king he was supposed to kill, both of whom have quit their jobs and started trying to save as many people as the assassin killed before he dies of a slow-acting poison in twelve months. Books 2 and 3 will have things getting awfully tragic and somewhat more horny than before! (No smut will make it into the print versions of these, that will remain on my substack alone)

How to Find Your Friends After the End of the World is a fantasy inspired by the isekai anime genre. Five friends in their 20s are on earth as it is wracked by a violent battle between the Heroine of the Gods and her Nemesis, and then, suddenly, they aren't. Earth has been destroyed and they are now on a new planet, in new (non-human) bodies, strewn across continents! On their new wrists, they have tattoos with each others' names, plus one (or two) new ones: their soulmates. Court politics and wastelands of monsters await them as they try desperately to reach each other, and their soulmates try desperately to reach them.

HtFYF will also have a prequel, focusing on the events that led to earth's destruction, and the battle between the Heroine of the Gods, a young woman, and her Nemesis, who seems to know more about the gods than she says. Why do the gods keep choosing such young heroes? What has the Nemesis done to put the world in such peril? Will the Heroine get to graduate on time despite the sleep she's been missing!?

The following do not yet have titles, but are fully fleshed out works ready to be thrown onto Substack:

A trilogy of eleven teens assisting in the fight against an agency that traffics, tortures, and then sells children with preternatural powers and abilities, and an exploration of the trauma those kids emerge with.

A murder mystery where a woman's sister dies, the police rule it suicide, and the woman enlists the help of a rumored contract killer to help her solve the murder-- but why does this rumored murderer-for-hire seem to know so much about her sister's death? And who was truly responsible?

A campy novel about a woman who graduates college, goes back to her hometown, and finds her highschool crush is still there, still single, and has since come out as gay. Of course, the only solution is to co-adopt an at-risk child from a neighbor.

This post will remain pinned on my profile, but for the next few days I'm having a sale on my substack tiers-- 20% off! That makes the cost to you just $8 per month to get a chapter every other day. 15 chapters for $8; that's a steal!

#support the author #indie author #substack #book recommendations #queer fantasy #queer scifi #queer mystery #queer romance #queer ya #wlw #mlm #queer rep #mlnb #wlnb

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stjohnstarling · 1 year

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—A sensual and transgressive story of forbidden love

Father Sebastian Black might be a saint, or he might be the devil himself. Poor Agent Quentin Day, sent to investigate a wine forgery ring, finds himself irresistibly falling for the silver-tongued, mysterious priest. It’s a tragedy for him - after all, priests are off-limits, aren’t they? Or is Father Black more than meets the eye?

Please consider helping to support a self-published queer author's first novel fighting back against copaganda narratives:

Amazon || Payhip || Goodreads

"A devilishly good read" - Goodreads Reviewer

"Father Black was both what I expected it to be and a very unexpected wonderful surprise." - Goodreads Reviewer

"I read it all in about two days, only setting it down for work and sleep. I was even reading it during meals!" - Amazon Reviewer

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apolline-lucy · 9 months

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i am beyond thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel, THE SILVER BIRDS 🐦‍⬛🖤 it will be released September 26, 2023!

On a cursed island where birds steal hearts and blades of grass cut sharper than knives, two young women driven by revenge take on solving a series of mysterious deaths.

•flawless art and design by @ouijacine who did a phenomenal job bringing my characters to life✨

•the book is already on Goodreads and StoryGraph, if you’d like to add it to your tbr 🥺

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kjscottwrites · 2 years

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I wanna help get LGBTQ indie writers paid this month so let's start a thread! If you've got a piece of writing (be it a novel, a collection, a book of poetry, a short story, erotica, whatever!) for sale online or in bookstores that u would love for more people to read, HERES YOUR SIGN to reblog this with links to your work <3

#writing #indie writers #pride month #support indie authors #writers on tumblr #writeblr #lgbtq writer #bookblr #book recommendations #reading

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heathercauthor · 2 months

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Gotta love when they forget to clue others in 🤣

Book info:

The series is called Earth Sucks! A queer apocalypse tale that brings Tumblr's Humans Are Space Orcs to life.

It's the apocalypse, and Feng has a knack for pissing people off.

Mercenary Feng is both the hunter and the hunted, searching for his missing family while hunted by the alien intruders who are trying to get him to stop blowing their shit up.

Life gets worse when he must befriend one of the alien creatures to survive. She grew up on stories of humans, and Feng’s about to upend everything she's ever known—if they don't get each other killed first.

"Readers may appreciate the many twists and betrayals..." —Kirkus Reviews

"Action-packed, fast-paced sci-fi story bursting with psychological games and manipulations..." —Readers' Favorite

If you like the Last Of Us, the 100, or unlikely allies in the slightest, check out Earth Sucks On Amazon, Kobo or Barnes and Noble!

#enemiestofriends #booktropes #bookblr #dark books #darkreads #dystopian #character dynamics #scififantasy #scifi books #support indie authors #indieauthor #indiebook #rebels suck #rebellion #haso #fyh #hfy #humans are space orcs

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uranusguided · 7 months

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Hey my publisher finally got my book series, The Silent Trilogy, up on Apple Books! Check it out!!!

My publisher calls Silent Trilogy 'X-Men meets Good Omens'. That's not wrong but it is a series about abuse, colonialism and the importance of love in ways those aren't.

In more detail: the Silent Trilogy is an urban fantasy series set primarily in Hobart, Australia. It tells the story of the dainisa, a not-so-hidden magical community, focused primarily on their non-binary Princess, Torao Yamaguchi.

Desperate for her child to have a better life than she did, the leader of dainisa Amaya Yamaguchi sparks a revolution to claim Australia as a magical continent where dainisa can live in accordance with their own laws, not those of humans. However fighting power is a complex thing in a world built to function on injustice, and a pretty siren desperate for revenge could ruin it all…

Narrated through the eyes of a human who doesn’t quite get it, the Silent Trilogy is about the narratives we build of history. It's an exploration of trauma, the ways people learn to live with it, and how bigotry works. Also there's angels and demons messing things up. More info on the website!

I finished this series a long time ago but I'm still very proud of it!! It's a niche story I had a lot of fun with. I wrote this NB protag before I even came out myself so that's always cool. And every time I have to reread a part of the series I have a really hard time stopping cos I enjoy my own work so much lmao. So hopefully you'll enjoy it too!!

(it's also on Amazon if you prefer kindle, and if you don't wanna support either, well, chuck me a couple dollars on Patreon)

#support indie authors #silent trilogy #booklr #support independent books #original fiction #uhh i think that covers the tags i was meant to use lol #no shade to xmen or good omens btw those are literally two of my fave things #i'm very pleased by the comparison #writers on tumblr #idk please reblog #and pls buy my books if you can!!#auslit #australian fiction #tasmanian fiction #tasmania #loveozlit #ozlit

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