Bywater Books

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Bywater Books represents the coming of age of queer literature. We Are All Stories. www.bywaterbooks.com

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Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· 28d

🏳️‍🌈 Too queer to quit. 🔕 Too stubborn to be silent. 🧽 Too human to be erased. 👊 We are Bywater Books. #BookSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit #IndiePress

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· 29d

📚⛔ Every banned book marks the spot where someone decided another person's existence was negotiable. ▶️ Lives aren't negotiable. 🏳️‍🌈👊 Reject censorship of LGBTQ+ books & lives. #BookSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #BooksNotBans #FightCensorship

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 17

If your bookstore kryptonite is... 🏰 Haunted manors ❤️ Yearning lesbians 📜 Forged Brontë manuscripts 🕯️ Creepy portraits 🗝️ Family secrets 💋 A sharp-tongued maid... ...you're exactly who this one was written for. Preorder today. #SapphicBooks #SapphicSuspense #BookSky #LiteraryMystery

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 16

“It's impossible not to love courageous butch Jaye Brannigan . . . a page-turner of the best sort.” –Ann Aptaker, Lambda Literary and Goldie award-winning author of the Cantor Gold series #BookSky #SapphicBooks #ButchFemme #SapphicRomanticThriller #LGBTQBooks

Promotional graphic featuring the illustrated cover of Sandy Bailey's She's Onto Something. It sits on top of a blurred background of the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico. It reads: She's on to Something, Sandy Bailey, Coming October 12, 2026. A queer, outspoken SEC prosecutor targeted by a hostile administration uncovers an investment scam steeped in religious patriarchy and offshore secrets. As danger mounts and the evidence unravels, a magnetic woman may save her—or be her undoing. A sharp, sapphic romantic thriller about justice, desire, and refusing to stay quiet in a world built to silence you.

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 16

🐻‍❄️ The chances of a polar bear falling in love with one of our books are low, but never zero. 🏳️‍🌈 Bywater Books: queer stories with big feelings. ✅ Occasionally polar bear approved. #BookSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 15

☎️ FOMO called—said, “Everyone at GCLS will get their books signed.” 🏳️‍🌈📚 If you can't be there, we'll bring the autographs to you. 👀 But only through August 6th! ✍️ Get yours today: https://loom.ly/SW-8cuE #BookSky #SapphicBooks #SapphicRomance #GCLS2026

A promotional graphic with the text: NINE AUTHORS. FOUR DAYS. ORDER YOUR AUTOGRAPHED COPIES TODAY. It features seven book covers displayed in two rows against a dark background. Below the books are the logos for Bywater Books and the Loud and Proud GCLS Orlando 2026 event.

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 15

🥃 Mickey was murdered in 1923. 🏳️‍🌈 Ciara falls for her in 2022. 🥂 The speakeasy is haunted. ⚛️ The chemistry is not. ➡️ Get it here: https://loom.ly/lS7eqCA #BookSky #BookDeals #BookRecs #SapphicRomance #ParanormalRomance @elleeire.bsky.social

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 14

🏳️‍🌈📚 NEW RELEASE 📚🏳️‍🌈 🎈Some books entertain. 👀 Some books haunt. 🧩 Some books quietly rearrange the pieces of your heart. ❤️ This is a story about becoming, belonging & finding your way when life alters the map of your world. #BookSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #BookRelease #BookRecs

$Promotional graphic with a black background reading, NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE, and The long wait is over. The release date, 07/14/2026, appears vertically along the right side. At center left, text reads: When the ground shifts beneath her, one woman rebuilds from fracture into form, choosing her own voice, her own love, and the life she was always meant to live. The cover of The Malign Ghosts of Summer by Ann McMan appears on the right, featuring a woman gazing upward beneath a layered image of a lakeshore sunrise. The Bywater Books lighthouse logo is at the bottom left.$

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 13

🏳️‍🌈📚 @TheLesbianReview.com has spoken... 👀👊 This one is easy to read & not too angsty 🔥🥩 A fun romp with sapphic sizzle ⁉️ Read it today! #SapphicRomance #EnemiesToLovers #SecondChanceLove #BookSky #SmallTownRomance

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 12

🏳️‍🌈🚨 TIMELINE INSTABILITY DETECTED 🚨🏳️‍🌈 🌻 Becoming 🤍 Belonging ❤️‍🩹 Heartbreak 🌈 Hope. 🏠 A novel about coming home to yourself, your voice & the love that endures. 👀 This one will break you in all the right ways. #BookSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks @annmcman.bsky.social #BookRecs

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 11

🎧 Headphones recommended. ❤️ Feelings are unavoidable. 🏳️‍🌈 Narrated by @Abby_Craden. 💧Now available everywhere. ⁉️ What are you waiting for? #BookSky #SapphicAudiobooks #SapphicBooks #BookRecs @Jules.Revel.Writes

A squire blue gray promotional image for the audiobook of Coltswood by Jules Revel, narrated by Abby Craden. It features mid-century modern graphics and the audiobook cover for the book. It has a quote by M the Avid Reader: “Intense, steamy, heart-wrenching...”

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 10

🔋Dear Unrequited Love Girl is peak queer crush energy. 🏳️‍🌈📚 Bisexual MCs Pen Pal F/F Romance 👀 Obsessed. Tender chaos. Fandom-fueled heartbreak joy. ‼️ What are you waiting for?!?!? #BookSky #SapphicRomance #QueerYAbooks

A promotional book review graphic for "Dear Unrequited Love Girl" by Audrey Wilson, published by Bywater Books. The left side features a purple brick-walled background covered in green vines, displaying the book cover, a list of tropes including "Fandom/Fanfiction" and "Queer Awakening," and representation tags for a bisexual and questioning female main character. The right side has a solid pink background with a quote from reviewer SJ (Queer AFictionado) praising the powerful slow-burn, long-distance romance where the characters fall in love online before ever meeting.

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 9

2️⃣ queer short stories. 🏳️‍🌈 2️⃣ Macavity nominations. 👀 1️⃣ anthology that left plenty of fingerprints. 🐈‍⬛🔥 👏 🎈👏🎈👏🎈👏🎈👏 Massive congratulations to Cheryl Head & Christa Faust on their nominations! #BookSky #MacavityAwards #CrimeFiction #MysteryReaders #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 8

🎧🏳️‍🌈 SAPPHIC AUDIOBOOK REVIEWERS 📚 Now available as an ALC on NetGalley. 📢 Narrated by Christine Williams ⏱️ Available through July 14. ❤️ Beautiful. Atmospheric. Heartbreaking. Impossible to shake. ➡️ Get it on NetGalley now! #BookSky #NetGalley #AudiobookReviewer #SapphicBooks

Graphic with a blue and white background reading Calling All Audiobook Reviewers. The audiobook cover for The Malign Ghosts of Summer by Ann McMan appears on the left, featuring a contemplative woman overlaid with a lakeside sunset. Text on the right reads, The Advance Listening Copy is available on NetGalley now thru July 14th. NetGalley, Bywater Books, and Tantor Audio logos appear along the bottom.

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 8

✊ Jewish. Lesbian. Unapologetic. 🏳️‍🌈 Fighting for a better world. 💥 Every victory has a price. 💔 Every stand comes with a sacrifice. 🔥 How much would you risk for the life you believe in? ➡️ Get it here: https://loom.ly/MnWggAA #BookSky #LesbianBooks #SapphicBooks #BookRecs #FeministFiction

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 7

📚🚫 Indie presses don’t wait for permission. 🏳️‍🌈👊 We build the door, kick it open & publish the book anyway. 🎈🌈 Support legacy queer presses—where queer lives come first. #SmallPress #QueerBooks #SapphicBooks #FreedomToRead #LGBTQBooks #BookSky

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 6

🏳️‍🌈🚨 SYSTEM UNHINGED 🚨🏳️‍🌈 🔥 When the overlords expect you to accept the nightmare, but you burn the handbook instead. 🔌 RECLAMATION by Kristen Zimmer—feel the power! #BookSky #SapphicBooks ##QueerDystopia

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 5

Scientists have confirmed a catastrophic double-hit of sapphic energy this fall 🏳️‍🌈 ⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈 🎡 Sep 08: Our Last Fall by Lyvia Martinez (YA) 🐾 Sep 15: The Path to You by Sam Callaway (Romance) Symptoms include immediate preordering. Reading is the only cure. #YAQueerFiction #SapphicRomance

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 4

🐺 Freedom is wild. 👊 It finds its own stories. 🕘 Keeps its own hours. ❓Asks its own questions. 📓 Turns its own pages. 🎆🏳️‍🌈📚 LET FREEDOM READ! 🎆🏳️‍🌈📚 #BookSky #LetFreedomRead #ReadQueerBooks #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #SapphicBooks #FreedomToRead

Graphic from Bywater Books reading It's Called Freedom for a Reason. A rainbow-colored book with a black heart is set against patriotic red, white, and blue stars, stripes, and fireworks. The image emphasizes that freedom includes the right to choose what you read, including queer stories.

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 2

💣💥 BREAKING NEWS 🏳️‍🌈📚 Scientists have discovered that reading a new Ann McMan novel creates an inexplicable gravitational pull toward Catherine Friend's newest release. ⚛️ No known cure exists. 👀 Only preorders. 🔬 Because science. #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #BookSky #IndieBooks

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 2

🏳️‍🌈📚👊❤️👊📚🏳️‍🌈 Your common sense: “I have enough books right now.” Your bookshelf: “FEED ME!” Us: “The bookshelf makes a compelling argument.” #BookSky #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit #ReadQueer

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jul 1

🎸🔥 Rock star. Hometown. 💔 The girl she left behind. 🎶🏳️‍🌈 Old sparks. New songs. One second chance. 💕 Some loves never fade. ➡️ Get it here: https://loom.ly/hIr6MoE #BookSky #SapphicRomance #SecondChanceRomance #BookDeals #BookRecs

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 30

🏳️‍🌈📚👊❤️👊📚🏳️‍🌈 Pride doesn't end on June 30th. Neither do we. We're still queer & publishing great books. 👋 See you tomorrow! #BookSky #PrideMonth #Pride2026 #LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #SapphicBooks

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 29

🏳️‍🌈🔥 Heat. Hunger. Havoc. Heroines. 💯% Sapphic. 👊 Supercharge your summer & fall—preorder today! 👀 What are you waiting for⁉️ #BookSky #SapphicRomance #BookRecs #LGBTQBooks #QueerLit

Promo graphic for Bywater Books featuring five book covers arranged in two rows.

Top row: The Malign Ghosts of Summer by Ann McMan and The Lost Brontë by Catherine Friend.

Bottom row: Our Last Fall by Livia Martinez, The Path to You by Sam Callaway, and She’s On To Something by Sandy Bailey.

Website text at the bottom reads: BYWATERBOOKS.COM.

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 27

🏳️‍🌈🌎 A world where every story belongs is a world where everyone can. 👊 Read boldly. ✊ Be the reason another story gets told. #LGBTQBooks #QueerBooks #SapphicBooks #FightCensorship #ReadPride #BookSky

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 26

💔🌊 A broken heart washes ashore in Amberwick. 🍻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 A bartender, a village full of meddlers & zero respect for privacy. 🏳️‍🌈🔥 Slow-burn, found family & a love story nobody saw coming except literally everyone. ➡️ What are you waiting for?!?! #SapphicRomance #SlowBurnRomance #BookSky

Deep blue promo graphic featuring a sapphic romance ebook on sale at Amazon, displayed on tablets, with bold text highlighting a limited-time discount and a purchase link for books set in England. The book featured is Full English by Rachel Spangler, on sale for $3.99. The sale ends today

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 25

🏳️‍⚧️❤️ This one grabs your heart with both hands & refuses to let go. ✊ Heartbreaking, defiant & fiercely human, it doesn't just stay with you... 👀 It follows you home. ➡️ Don't wait, get it everywhere today! #LGBTQBooks #BookRecommendation #BookSky #TransFiction

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 25

🎨 The official palette for fall has arrived! 🤔 Are you more of a Coyote Glow or a Mesa Market? 🕛💰 We’re guessing 100% Panic Ledger when the questions start. ‼️ Preorder now! 🔜 Coming October 2026! 💋 Secrets. Scandal. Seduction. #BookSky #BookRecs #Butch/Femme #SapphicBooks

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 24

🤠⚔️ A demon hunter chasing the woman she can't forget. 🧠💔 A lost memory stands between them. 🔥🏳️‍🌈 Old sparks reignite. 🏹🏳️‍🌈 Soulmates. Never good at goodbye. ➡️ Get it here: https://loom.ly/kS99n3Y #BookSky #Romantasy @cathypegau.bsky.social

Bywater Books@bywaterbooks· Jun 23

💙 You matter. Your story is not over. If you’re struggling or thinking about suicide, you don’t have to carry it alone. 📞 Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) 🌎 For LGBTQ+ support: The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678678 💬 Stay. You are worth the next page. #BookSky