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🗡️Dark Fantasy🗡️ ❤️‍🔥Comedic Romantasy❤️‍🔥
I write about magic that comes at a cost & absurd misadventures || rep: @helleborelit
books here⬇️

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

😈 Monsters!?!?! 😈

Yes! And all kinds exist in these beauties 🤭 so definitely check them out.

@meltedsunsets
@nomipalmerauthor
@author_annacartwright
@imaginationlost
@ajbraunauthor
@vanrelleva
Cassandra Clare

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I am always on the brink of making questionable choices of all kinds 💁‍♀️

I saw someone else make this on my personal page but I don’t remember who 🙃 if you do, please tag them!!

What questionable choice are you one inconvenience from making??

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❤️💫 COVER REVEAL GIVEAWAY 💫❤️

To celebrate the cover reveal for Shadow of the Crescent Sun, the second book in @writerwoodruff dark fantasy romance series the Soultappers Saga, we’ve teamed up with 24 other amazing Adult SFF Romance authors for a 26 BOOK GIVEAWAY 🎉

RULES:
💜 You must have a US Shipping address
✨ Follow all of the authors (we’ll check!)
💜 Tell us in the comments if you’re Team Romantasy or Team Romanti-sci (or a secret third thing??) and tag a friend!
✨ Each friend you tag counts as an additional entry (tagging celebs doesn’t count unless you are one 👀)
💜 Share to your stories for an extra TWO entries (be sure to tag @writerwoodruff)

Winner will be selected on October 20th!

Disclaimer: This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram. By entering, participants release Instagram from any responsibility related to this giveaway. Open to US only. Participants must be 18 or older to enter. Entries close on October 18th at 11:59PM PST. The winner will be selected at random and contacted by @writerwoodruff via direct message. Please be aware of fake accounts, and never provide payment details to claim a prize.

AUTHORS:
@writerwoodruff
@avathorne_author
@jaclynrodriguezauthor
@j.a_good_author
@nicovincentywrites
@laceylehotzkyauthor
@alexkenningtonwrites
@authorsierrabranham
@lilbookgoblin
@ajbraunauthor
@authorashleyjvinson
@sarahpagestories
@hayleyturnerauthor
@shiloh.briar
@lorenhuxleybooks
@cablooming
@meganphillipsauthor
@theukrainiangirl
@samantha.amstutz.author
@amberraetoro
@authorkldevore
@scrimscribes
@alex.bree.writes
@abritbookish

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It’s nearly 1am (ooopps) but this weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving and I’m sitting here grateful for this space 🫶🏻 if you celebrated, hope you had a great time with friends & family and ate lots of yummy food. If not, I hope that for you anyways and that you had a great long weekend or weekend & Monday 🥰

On Sunday i went to Zumba class & for a long bike ride enjoying the lovely weather and have also just been relaxing and eating a lot of vegan coffee cake (which i made hehe) and pumpkin pie 🙌🏻

Grateful for the opportunities booksta has brought me and all the amazing people I’ve met on here, some IRL 🫶🏻 books and yapping books on here non stop brings me so much needed joy! shout out to my book besties (idk if I wanna tag everyone, but you know who you are) and amazing indie authors (tagging some faves) 💖

What are you thankful for ?

(Also cause it’s Indigenous Peoples Day I’d like to recognize I live on un-ceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory, and am grateful and privileged to live and have grown up in Canada, as an Immigrant)

AND GO AWAY Instagram & @meta there was no AI used here WTF why is this flagged 😭😭

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🏳️‍🌈Happy International Lesbian Day!!🏳️‍🌈

Thank you @fierce.shieldmaiden_reads for wishing me a good day and the reminder 😘

Have you read any of these? What books would you add to the list?

#internationallesbianday #sapphicbooks #wlwbooks #lesbianbookstagram #lesbianbooks

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What are some of my favourite Novellas? Well let’s see here! We have a wide variety of Sapphic, D&D, Gods and immortals, contemporary and more!

Featured:

@annaworthwrites
@meltedsunsets
@karamzone_writes
@catyrogan
@rochellewolfauthor
@mt.envy_author
@ajbraunauthor
@imaginationlost
@arabellajknightauthor

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“The price of life would always be pain” 🌿

Here is Sylzenya, from the book Of Blood & Stone
Commission character for @ajbraunauthor 🫶

I had such a crush for this FMC and her concept 🥹
Visceral feminity in romantasy? I’m in 🫶

#bookillustrator #bookstagram #characterart #fantasyart #authorsofig

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Q3 reading wrap up 💖

Started with a lil bit of cottage time, Euro summer (Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Naples, Corfu, England to see family, & Paris)

Mostly Not too much going on here since, but there’s been lots of visits to local markets, comic con, Pride, love hypothesis movie, Montreal dance competition, and Threshing Day 🫶🏻

So many great books this quarter !

Cottage time in Nova Scotia

Beta read at the airport 👀

LOTS of gelato was consumed

Barcelona

Rome

Amalfi coast & Falling for Demons🫶🏻

Went to Greece and didn’t find Alexiares ?? Weird @authornellenikole

London cafés 🫶🏻

Golden hour bike rides 😍

My baby after Pride hehehe

Some orders placed with the local queer indie bookstore hehehe

Love Hypothesis was so good AH !!
(Also those are dill cauliflower wings hahaha)

Vegan cosmic brownie at a market 😋

Post dance competition pizza
(I have no dance pictures from last weekend apparently)

Threshing Day release yaaay !! Went to Such a fun release day event

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Beyond The Churning Tides - Read on KU or wherever paperbacks are sold!!

Short blurb:
Seven authors and nine stories come together to give you an experience that will parallel the mighty waves on a stormy night. Through the salty ink dripped into every word you’ll explore myths that refuse to stay dead, unique realms full of strange underwater curiosities, and tales that will leave you asking…could there be a lurking terror within the depths of us all?

We believe you’ll find the answer after treading far Beyond The Churning Tides.

Tropes:
🧜‍♀️ Mermaids, Monsters, & Myths
🗡️ Strong FMCs
💋 Enemies to Lovers
🩷Sapphic
❤️‍🔥Yearning
🥵 Slow Burn
💫 Unique World Building

The Night Devours Us All - Preorder today! Releasing October 15!!!

Blurb:
9 creative authors and 9 unforgettable stories unfold into an eerie ride that will send goosebumps across your arms, cause magical moths to flutter in your stomach, and leave you breathlessly gasping for more. Wolves howl, witches stir, demons trick, and vampires lurk in the darkest shadows waiting for their perfect prey. Would you dare to dance with the devils who cackle after midnight? Or run through the dark, damp forest landscape willingly knowing what chases you plans to keep you for a spectral eternity?

We bet you would.

Because we already know under the autumn sky The Night Devours Us All.

Tropes and Such:
🖤Vampires, Witches, Ghouls, and More!
🍂Dark Gothic Atmosphere
🦇Twists you won’t see coming
🧡Page turning romance
😈Grim Reaper owns a bar
👻Haunted Mansions with a story to tell
🎃Headless Lovers
And so much more!!

Want to know more?? Head to the link in my bio!!

—> Do you read more in the summer, fall, winter, or spring??

#anthologybooks #bookfyp #falltbr #mermaidbooks #gothicromance

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My epic romance book haul from @romancingportland .

10 series and 10 stand alones.
A mixture of romantasy and spicy, with slow burns, spicy one shots, and everything in in between.

Shout out to @nicolatyche @authormorganvayle @vivianwoodwrites @chelseyanntompkins @jesikahsundin @caseylblair @coral.a.moore @ennahauthor @ashleymcleo @ajbraunauthor @gwendolynharperrr @authoramandashelley

#bookstagram #romancebooks #bookhaul #spicybookstagram #bookstagrammer

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Saturday at @romancingportland !

Romancing inviting me to yap about tropes with @pccastauthor @kimberlylemming , @analeighsbrana , and @taylorjlarue was truly a dream 🩷

Can’t wait for round 2 tomorrow!

#portland #romancingportland #authortalk #romantasy #romance

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Last Day for this Sapphic Rep Book Bundle!

Snatch one of these Sapphic Rep books up for September September! You’ll be supporting indie authors and finding some creative new reads. Watcha waiting for?!

QOTD: What was your last sapphic rep read?
(Comment and I’ll tell you mine!)

#indieauthors #sapphicseptember #sapphicbooksta #sapphicseptember2026 #sapphicbookrec

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