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@desdevivo.writes

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📚 Award Winning Indie Author
🏳️‍🌈 queer writer • queer stories • hard-won HEAs
🐈 An Appreciation of Cats ⤵️

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Yeah, @eternitysraven, I did not appreciate how difficult this was. 😤

My favorite Irish bean challenged me to do this and so I did it.

I don't have anyone to challenge, so if you'd like to, definitely go for it!

This was hard, like really hard actually. 😖

#booktrends #bookrecs #bookrecommendations📚❣️ #bookmemes #bookstgram

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This novella has been recommended to me by SO many people, and I finally picked it up today.

And honestly? My heart is absolutely wrecked. 🥹 in a good way.

This is a story about love, acceptance, and learning that sometimes… it’s not too late. That you can love someone for so long, get caught up in everything happening around you, and still eventually stop, breathe, and truly appreciate them and what you have.

This story was absolutely beautiful.

I may have shed a tear or twelve. 🥲 The emotions, the love, the little moments… EVERYTHING.

My heart is sore after this one, but it’s that good kind of sore. The kind where you finish a book and just sit there for a minute because you need to process the feelings it has left behind.

Genuinely beautiful.
Absolutely worth the recommendations. @desdevivo.writes 🫶🏻

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Fill a bookish cats bag to celebrate our first cat adoption event with @akiraapocalypse_catrescue 📚🏳️‍🌈🐈

🗓 Saturday 9/19 from 2:30-5PM
📍 312 S Myrtle Ave, Monrovia

#CatAdoption #CatRescue #CatBooks #CatTarot #CatGifts

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If I have to have the dragon tales theme song stuck in my head, so do you. 😤😤

I watched the hell out of PBS when I was a kid, so here are are the shows I remember watching religiously as a kid and the books you should definitely read if you also watched these shows. 👀

Some of them are on the nose, but others I guess you'll have to read them to figure out why I chose them. 🤷‍♀️

Ok love you, byeeee 🫡

#bookrecs #booklist #pbskids #bookrecommendations📚❣️ #bookstgram

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✨10K Celebration Giveaway✨

Part One

To celebrate this community growing to 10K, I’ve gathered some of my favorite people in the bookish space to give away all kinds of goodies!

Part One of Five:

One reader will win the following goodies:

Blade of Broken Scales paperback shipped from Amazon
Starfire’s Heir signed copy
The Mechanics of Broomstick Racing signed copy
Where The Gods Rot signed paperback & goodies
Violet veins paperback
Across the Water signed paperback
An Appreciation of Cats ebook

Here’s how to enter:

✨ LIKE and SAVE this post
✨FOLLOW all of these lovely authors and stick around (if we go to pick a winner & you’re not following everyone, we’ll move on to the next person).
⭐️ @flipthapaige
⭐️ @authorlaurenmorrison
⭐️ @vermilionhbaine_author
⭐️ @meganphillipsauthor
⭐️ @laney_lockett
⭐️ @desdevivo.writes
⭐️ @makaylamariewrites
⭐️ @e.f.watsonwrites

✨Tag a book lover (or a few!)

BONUS ENTRY:
✨ Share this giveaway to your stories (tag @efwatsonwrites so I see and count it)

Winners will be chosen at random. Contest closes Friday, September 4th at noon PST. Winner will be contacted via private message within 24 hours. If there is no response from the winner within 24 hours, a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Instagram or Meta. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary to win. Book giveaway open to US residents only—sorry international friends!

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What are the Underdogs reading? Here’s your top picks this week from in-store and online at @librofm and @bookshop_org 📚🏳️‍🌈🐶

SLIDE 1: Top picks in-store

AWKWARDLY EVER AFTER @lindsay.maple.author

A CLASH OF STEEL @cblee_cblee

RECOVERY RUN @melissa_whitneyauthor

AN APPRECIATION OF CATS @desdevivo.writes

THIS IS WHY THEY HATE US @aaronaceves

THE BONE PICKER @devon_mihesuah

THE WITCH AND THE HUNTRESS @luna_mcnamara_writer

DISFIGURED: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space @amanda.leduc

SLIDE 2: Top picks online

ONE FOR ALL @lillielainoff

DEARLY DEPARTED by Chip Pons @booksovrbros

BOOKS, ICED COFFEE & A SIDE OF DRAGONS: A Graphic Novel by Amanda Lovelace @ladybookmad, illustrated by @raqueltraveillustration

LAST NIGHT AT THE TELEGRAPH CLUB by Malinda Lo @malindalo

CINDERELLA IS DEAD @kalynnbayron

I’LL HAVE WHAT HE’S HAVING @adibkhorram

THE DUCHESS OF KOKORA by Nikhil Prabala @nprabala

THE MAGIC FISH by Trung Le Nguyen trungles

#indiebookstore #books #DiversifyYourShelf #ReadMoreBooks #ShopIndie

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What all the cool cats are reading this week! 📚✨

These are all titles we sold in-store and through our Bookshop.org and Libro.fm storefronts.

🩷 - local author
✨ - book club pick

You can always check our current stock on our website; if we don’t have a title in stock we can order it for you! Orders arrive in about a week after payment is processed. If you’re looking for something a little sooner Bookshop and Libro.fm are awesome alternatives that give a little back to indie bookstores.

Find our Book Purchase Request form and links to our online partners on our website! 💜🐈‍⬛

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Tomorrow is Bookstore Romance Day... there will be a lot of fun romance bookish activities!

Here are a few romance books you could pick up in celebration!

📚❤️ Sunshine with You by @laynajameswrites
📚❤️ She's a Catch by @authortembersapphire
📚❤️ The Art of Taking Second Chances by @author.varshachitnis
📚❤️ The Dance by @kvargasauthor
📚❤️ The Bear and the Lamb by @halleoakwrites
📚❤️ An Appreciation of Cats by @desdevivo.writes
And
📚❤️ Late Match by me @authordwbrooks!

Support your local romance bookstore!

#bookstoreromanceday

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Join us over in the SBM Facebook group (link in bio) and celebrate this new release from Anouk 🧡

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Y'all like book recs, so here's some based on Chloe's pantone birth chart palette with the help of the ever so colourblind Buddha.

You might question some of our choices towards the end... but we worked hard okay! We have a mix of genres including fantasy, sci-fi, horror, romance and thriller. Something for everyone! You're welcome 😊 🙏

Have you read any of these?
Any you'll be adding to your TBR?

#readingcommunity #bookish #bookworm #readmorebooks #bookstagram

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Hiiiiii, my friends! 👋

July is over so you know what that means! I'll have the full list up tomorrow, but until then, he's a list of my favorite books I've read this month 😚.

There's honestly more, but they're books I have either alpha read or have been editing, so I'm not allowed to spoil them quite yet 🤭.

Have you read any of these yet? If not, whatever are you waiting for??

#julywrapup #bookwrapup #bestofbooks #bookstagram #bookreviews

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I wasn't planning on doing this trend, but then I thought, why not 🤷‍♀️.

So meet me in 5's, book edition 📚.

Do we have any of these in common? ✨️

#meetmein5 #booktrends #booksbooksbooks #bookrecs #meetthebookstagrammer

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