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Author | Lesbian | Book Reviewer | Library Stan | Oxford Comma Enthusiast | 💫 Proud @RNAtweets New Writer 💫 ✍🏾🏳️‍🌈📚 #LousReview #LesFic #RespectRomFic

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

9 months

I DID IT! 🥳I wrote 50,000 words of lesbian romance in 22 days during @NaNoWriMo . The draft's not quite finished yet - a couple more chapters left to go. But #NaNoWriMo has been like rocket fuel propelling me towards a complete manuscript. I am so absurdly happy. 📖🧡

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

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Meryl Streep’s daughter, Louisa Jacobson, came out publicly and posted a picture with her girlfriend. Which is lovely. But there is no way that a 33 y/o Millennial lesbian can be 100% unaware of the spicy Mirandy fanfics her mother inspired. Moment of silence for the good sis.

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White Eurocentric patriarchal beauty standards constantly tell us how ugly women’s natural body hair is, and yet a glimpse of Lily Gladstone’s armpit hair turned me feral. There’s so much beauty outside narrow dominant standards… and the lesbian gaze feels like a blessing. 😌

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SAVE ME LILY GLADSTONE LILY GLADSTONE SAVE ME

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Butches belong on the covers of sapphic romance novels. I’m beyond tired of almost every butch/femme dual POV romance only showing the femme protagonist in cover art. Skinny white femmes aren’t the sum total of our community. There’s no excuse for butch erasure in 2024.

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What’s your current publishing/writing community hot take?

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I am really going to miss Gerri Kellman. It’s still too rare that we get to see a woman in her sixties being ambitious, ruthless, razor-sharp, and powerful on screen. Or recognised as sexually desirable without it being treated like a punchline. Thank you, @j_smithcameron .

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I’m thrilled for everyone involved. But frustrated that McQuiston’s F/F novels — also brilliant, also best-sellers — are unlikely to get even one adaptation, while their M/M romance gets an adaptation *and* sequel. Sapphic romances are screen-worthy too. 🫤

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Red, White & Royal Blue Updates

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There is going to be a Red, White & Royal Blue sequel! It’s happening!

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I say this as someone who grew up obsessed with Scrubs — what does Zach Braff actually add to this film? Why can’t we just have a gorgeous, funny sapphic second chance romance starring Evelyne Brochu and Vanessa Hudgens? Not every story needs a straight white man.

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The trailer for ‘French girl’ with Evelyne Brochu, Zach Braff and Vanessa Hudgens has been released. In theaters on March 15.

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11 months

There are lesbians in it. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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P.S. Literary Agency

11 months

Why did you choose the book you're currently reading?

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Goodreads: You've just finished This is How You Lose the Time War. Here are some ideas on what you can do next! Me:

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Couldn’t be more thrilled that a sapphic romance is being adapted for television! And with two lesbian icons at the helm! By-and-for representation makes a world of difference. Massive congratulations to @merylwilsner ! 🥳🍾🎉🎊

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Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe’s A Touch More Sets First Scripted Series With Soccer Romance ‘Cleat...

Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe’s A Touch More and Future Shack Entertainment acquire rights to ‘Cleat Cute,’ the bestselling novel from Meryl Wilsner.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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For all the gains we’ve made in sapphic representation over the last 50 years, we’re going backwards in terms of butch visibility. Contemporary romances are disproportionately femme/femme. And even if there is a butch MC, she almost certainly won’t be on the cover of her story.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

5 months

Not QTing because I don’t want to contribute to the harassment of OP, but to believe there isn’t an ever-growing treasure trove of spectacular sapphic books says far more about OP’s limited reading habits than the quality of existing lesbian & bi fiction.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

A rainbow shirt in Target won’t turn your kids gay, but Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly will.

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CRIT Award nominated Laura Tutu 🩸🖤

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a rainbow shirt in target won’t turn your kids gay but Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie will

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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For #LesbianVisibilityWeek , I wrote about which women are often invisible in the sapphic romance community - specifically, the erasure of women of colour. And what we can all to to support meaningful, pluralistic representation: #TuesNews @RNAtweets

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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On behalf of all lesbians, we love it. And if you can’t handle women’s bodies, we will gladly show them full appreciation. 😌

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✞𝙻𝚒𝚕𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚍⋆✰𝙸𝚜 𝙽𝚘𝚠 ᗯᗩ𝘠ᗯᗩᖇᗪ✞💣💨

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On behalf of all men, we haté this😡

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. It’s not bad. But sapphic authors have been writing about sapphic relationships in equally inventive and far more authentic ways for decades, rarely getting the same coverage or industry support as a straight woman did. That doesn’t sit right.

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Arumi needs more sleep

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Have you ever read a really popular bestselling book and become really confused as to why it became so popular? #WritingCommunity

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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I was going to share my concept for a lesbian romcom until I realised it was the plot for an entire novel, which I need to write myself instead of splurging on Twitter. All I’m going to say is: my fancast stars Michelle Yeoh & J. Smith Cameron. And thank you, @nothnghppens !

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enough straight rom com fan casts who do you want to see in a queer rom com together

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This permanently altered my brain chemistry.

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what’s one photo of your fave that fucked you up so bad you couldn’t think of anything else for days?

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@nocontextroyco @ternhavens An increasingly common Willa W. And a very rare Marcia L.

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Another issue with takes like this: people *never* read a few books by & about straight people & subsequently decide the whole community are publishing substandard books based on that limited experience. But marginalised writers are treated & judged as a monolith. Deeply unfair.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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#Pride should mean celebrating the full, glorious spectrum of our community. So, I've curated a list of 10 sapphic YA book recommendations, all centring young women of colour as protagonists. Happy reading! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #TuesNews #PrideMonth @RNAtweets

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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Butch women are worthy of being loved, seen, and celebrated. They belong on the covers of romance novels. Yet traditional publishers, small presses, & indie authors keep treating femmes as the only acceptable face of the sapphic community. We ALL need to challenge butch erasure.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

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Does anybody else ever look at those romance novels with illustrated covers, see a femme and an elfin butch with short hair on the cover, get excited enough to look it up with intention to purchase… only to realise it’s a man? 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

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@XiranJayZhao @aidenschmaiden The five star rating for Yellowface took me all the way out 💀

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1 year

Evergreen writing advice.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

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Here’s a little #PrideMonth treat dedicated to any other sapphics who find older women irresistible... My Top 10 Sapphic Age Gap Romances. Books I don’t ever want to live without. @RNAtweets #TuesNews #Pride2023 #Pride 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

3 months

The confidence with which people talk about stealing ebooks on this very public website is wild. Piracy is theft. Theft is not victimless crime. You are stealing authors’ hard work and intellectual property. If authors can’t make a living, we can’t create the stories you enjoy.

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I put together a list of 10 book recommendations for readers new to sapphic romance. They'll make you fall in love with the genre. Happy #Pride ! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎📚 @RNAtweets #TuesNews #PrideMonth

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@LouMorganWriter

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Sapphic romances written *BOTH BY AND ABOUT* women of colour. And for those #OwnVoices books to get at least the same ready support from the sapphic book community as colourblind romances by white authors currently enjoy.

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7 months

What do you want to see more of in romance? #Question #Books #Fiction #lesfic #sapphic #amreading #BookTwitter #booklovers

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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Miranda Priestly. I fell for her HARD. My reaction to seeing The Devil Wears Prada in the cinema age 13/14 was an early and major clue that women stirred feelings in me men simply weren’t capable of evoking. And in retrospect she definitely influenced my taste in women.

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what fictional character absolutely changed the trajectory of your life?

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Unpopular opinion: I wish the sapphic community would get even half as excited by sapphic media created by women of colour as white, heterocentric media like the Barbie film or Taylor Swift’s music.

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@WritingRoslyn Yes. Though I also feel sad for her that she’s never going to be able to enjoy any of the classics.

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There is no heterosexual explanation for this.

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joelbrielle . โจ🩸—

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These two in a nutshell.

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please be nice to me unless you're being mean in a hot way

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My #TuesNews : I've started a new series of literary criticism! Books in Profile. 📚 Here are my thoughts on The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the flaws in its sapphic and Black representation, and why I prefer reading #OwnVoices romance: @RNAtweets

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I can’t get over the irony of Matt Shaw calling Hailey a snowflake when he was so wounded by one single negative review that he wrote AN ENTIRE BOOK as revenge then had a very public mantrum when she rejected his podcast invitation.

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Discover Latinx Lit 💀🇳🇮

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Author Matt Shaw was upset with a reviewer and so he wrote a book dedicated to her.

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If you don’t enjoy the sapphic books you read, try other genres and authors. If you read primarily trad books, try indies & small presses. Because — while we are underrepresented by mainstream media — for decades sapphic authors have been creating original, revolutionary work.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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I started writing French Kisses because my heart craves more Black lesbians in sapphic romance. Also, if we're being real, I desperately want more authentic depictions of interracial relationships than 'colourblind' white-authored stories. #CampPride

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Swords, Sapphics, & Scribbles

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Happy Saturday! The first week of #CampPride is almost over. On day 6 we're sharing what inspired your story. Tell us all about it. As always, you can do so by using our social media templates – 😍 Don't forget to tag us! inspired

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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This #LesbianDayofVisibility I wrote about an issue very close to my own heart: why I write interracial lesbian romance. Women of colour deserve to be seen in this community too. 🧡 … #LesbianVisibilityDay #LesbianVisibilityWeek

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@LouMorganWriter

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As we gear up for Pride Month, my lists of sapphic book recommendations are going to centre work written by and about women of colour — stories that don’t often make the Pride listicles, but are every bit as worthy of love and celebration as their white counterparts. Stay tuned!

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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My author copy of It Takes Two has arrived! 🥳📖 And my first spicy short story — Miriam, Undone — is officially in print. Thanks so much to @raquelita for the opportunity to celebrate lesbian love and desire. #TuesNews @RNAtweets

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@sagaciousapphic I thought my dating life was a mess, but finding a lesbian in this age bracket who didn’t experience at least part of their sexual awakening during The Devil Wears Prada… If there is a god, Louisa is one of his strongest soldiers with that struggle.

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@LouMorganWriter

1 year

*Laughs in Lesbian* Older women are divine.

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H. Pearl Davis

1 year

Yes you’re less attractive at 35 than at 25 as a woman. This used to be common sense 50 years ago.

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This is my nightmare. I almost emailed 100,000 words of spicy lesbian longing to one of my grandmother’s friends while backing up my manuscript at 3am. My soul wants to exit my body every time I remember it.

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Veronica Henry

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Emailed the back up of my WIP at 4am to a random person in my address book whose name also started VER.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

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Today I finished a last pass of edits on A Change of Heart. Tomorrow I’m sending the manuscript to my agent. Whatever happens next, I am so proud of putting my heart and soul into this lesbian romance. And hope you get to read it soon. 😬

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Mostly, whether or not there are lesbians. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Tim McKay

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📚 Be honest: Is it the blurb or cover that makes you buy a book?📚 Or something else?

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Me: You need to finish writing your two contemporary romance WIPs. Also me: Start a historical romance about two lesbian pirates.

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@XiranJayZhao The contrast…

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@LouMorganWriter

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This was utterly pointless. Gratuitous violence against a Black lesbian just when she had found love, all for the sake of giving white viewers a Police Brutality is Bad teachable moment. And the lengths OITNB writers went to absolve Poussey’s white male killer in the framing… 🤦🏾‍♀️

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JOLLY J✨

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what's the dumbest / most unnecessary death or sacrifice in TV & film history??? a death so pointless and badly handled that it either confuses you or pisses you off.

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#TuesNews : New blog post! Here are my top 5 Ice Queens in sapphic romance. ❄️ It's a sizzling hot trope. Feat. @IHeartLesfic & @MMacLeodAuthor , @LolaKeeley_ , @WritingRoslyn , @LeeWinterOz , and @quinnivins . cc. @RNAtweets

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@LouMorganWriter

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Happy #PrideMonth ! Inspired by @JaeFiction , here’s my list of sapphic book recommendations to celebrate – every last one from small LGBT+ presses and indie authors. 📚🏳️‍🌈 #Pride2023

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I’m a British lesbian drafting the first of my contemporary romances set in the USA. Begging one of my North American mutuals to explain what Hamburger Helper is/how it gets used, because I have heard it referenced countless times but the Wikipedia left me with more questions.

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Utterly demoralising to see the @Soc_of_Authors Chair playing Devil’s Advocate in defence of someone who spent months sabotaging BIPOC debuts — including those with their own publisher and agent. This is how inequalities in publishing continue to flourish.

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This is why I will never, ever get tired of reading romance novels. Haters argue that tropes and plot beats are stale, but when the sexual tension is well written it makes everything feel brand new.

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Sexual tension is really funny. Both of you know that you want to devour each other, but you continue to pretend and deceive yourselves 😂

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Gentleman Jack, First Kill, A League of Their Own, Warrior Nun, Dare Me… basically every quality sapphic show that was cancelled prematurely in spite of having good ratings and an enthusiastic fan base.

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What TV show got canceled that you’re still mad about?

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

6 months

Sapphic women are massively underrepresented in mainstream movies. And I resent the implication this sapphic relationship must be shown through the eyes of a straight man for the story to be ‘relatable’… whereas heterosexual love is assumed to have universal relevance & appeal.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

It’s here! 😍 I printed off the first draft of my first lesbian romance novel — Miriam, Undone — so that I can edit it. Miriam, Undone is an interracial love story. And the first in a series of Opposites Attract x Age Gap romances I have planned. Hope to share with you soon!

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@LouMorganWriter

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I feel like a lot of recent illustrated covers have lost that kind of raw sensuality. As a reader this is exactly what I want from a romance novel’s art — something which emphasises the spark between the lead couple.

@ahopelessreader

winning the points that matter

@ahopelessreader

5 months

can I just take a moment to appreciate @authorMsBev 's book covers? they're all STUNNING. this isn't even all of them, just my very favorites that always catch my eye

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

7 months

BLACK SAPPHIC ROMANCE!!!! WITH TWO DARK-SKINNED WOMEN ON THE COVER!!!! I am reading the living daylights out of this book. 🥰

@Author_KLee

Karmen Lee

7 months

It's officially 2024 which means THE 7-10 SPLIT is out this year!🌈 For my lovers of: -Sapphic romance👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾 -Small towns🏠 -Second chances 💞 -Bowling rivalries🎳 Coming May 21, 2024 from Afterglow Books ( @HarlequinBooks )

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

3 months

At fourteen I loaned Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith to my English teacher. They were the most wonderful books I’d ever found and, when she expressed interest in what I was reading, it felt vitally important that she experience those stories too.

@a_bar90

disco clone

3 months

Fellow homosexuals, what’s the gayest thing you did while you were still in the closet? When I was a freshman at BYU I took a figure skating class, and my end-of-semester routine was a disco medley of Macho Man and Hot Stuff.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

There are men imagining complex systems of magic, whole races of magical creatures, and centuries’ worth of sociopolitical history into being… yet still they remain incapable of writing a three-dimensional female character. 🤡 Too many “her breasts bounced boobily” books exist.

@MadelynKnecht

✨Madelyn Knecht | Fiction Editor✨

1 year

What is your fantasy book hot take? 👀

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

8 months

A character whose fate on a series still makes you mad.

@RachelBowdler_

Rachel Bowdler / Bryony Rosehurst / Bonnie Woods

@RachelBowdler_

8 months

A character whose fate on a series still makes you mad

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@LouMorganWriter

3 months

Actually, my biggest nightmare is marriage to a man.

@em_Lazzy

Lazzyyyyyy

3 months

Every woman’s biggest nightmare is late marriage.

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@LouMorganWriter

1 month

@LeeWinterOz You have brought boundless joy to countless lesbians, and probably a few therapy sessions to one. 😂

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@LouMorganWriter

11 months

My #TuesNews is that I'm doing #SapphicSeptember ! 📚🥳 It's "the perfect opportunity to embrace my love for romance while broadening my horizons, stepping far enough outside my comfort zone to question how & why I choose which books to read." @RNAtweets

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@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Went to follow up on a book recommendation. The Kindle version is £11.99, which is ridiculous in itself given the publisher doesn’t have to pay for paper, printing, storage, transportation, etc. with ebooks. But the paperback is significantly cheaper. AND SO IS THE HARDBACK.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Exciting news! My author website is now live. As well as updates about my writing, it'll include regular blogs about lesbian fiction and reviews of sapphic books. LesFic is my passion and I'm keen to champion fellow writers. 🧡

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Lesbian Romance

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Are there lesbians in it? If the answer is yes, there’s a very good chance I want to read the book enough to buy it.

@Benjamin_Percy

Benjamin Percy

@Benjamin_Percy

1 year

What makes you buy a book? By that, I mean what's a trigger that compelled you to head to the bookstore or order online. An interview? Word of mouth from a friend or bookseller? Or? I'm genuinely curious, especially for authors you've never read before.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

New blog alert! I've read hundreds of lesbian romances, and these are my top 7. 📚 Books I couldn't live without. Feat. @LeeWinterOz , @WritingRoslyn , @tashadrinkstea , @EDonoghueWriter , @JaeFiction , @shelleypchan , and @Kallmaker . #TuesNews @RNAtweets

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I have read hundreds of lesbian romance novels, and rooted for countless heroines as they fell in love with each other. Picking favourites isn’t easy in such an exceptional genre; not when every sa…

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Sincere question: how do we support indie authors, who are trailblazers in the lesfic community — but also often dependent on Amazon to sell eBooks and print paperbacks — without contributing to a monopoly?

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Very exciting #TuesNews ... I'm now officially a LesFic author! 🥳 My first short story – Miriam, Undone – is out today in @raquelita 's It Takes Two anthology, published by @cleispress . I wrote this blog post to celebrate:

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

10 months

Wheel of Time has an interracial sapphic relationship with Sophie Okonedo and Rosamund Pike, and *none of you* told me? 💔

@siuandamodred

garnet sedai

10 months

i love domestic siuan and moiraine. siuan will forever be moiraine's home

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

7 months

I completed 2 cards for @JaeFiction 's Sapphic Book Bingo 2023! 🥳Which means my round-up post contains 50 lovingly curated recommendations for sapphic books. Reading all these romances about lesbian & bi women has been an absolute joy. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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@LouMorganWriter

4 months

@_ADWills My therapist calls it maladaptive daydreaming, but personally I think it’s me putting in the work as a writer.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

“Novelist” isn’t a mere status symbol. It’s what writers become through skill, hard work, and perseverance. Through believing in an idea so intensely that they spend hundreds of hours pouring their heart and soul onto the page. There’s no easy substitute for craft or commitment.

@matt_everson

Matt Everson

1 year

@EdMcDonaldTFK @jamesjyu I am a programmer (so not a writer per se), but I've had a few decent ideas over the years and I'm excited to bring them to life in a fraction of the time it would have taken before AI. Having "novelist" in my LinkedIn bio would be pretty cool, too!

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

With strong themes of adventure and freedom, the Western holds a powerful place in the popular imagination. So I put together a list of the rootinest, tootinest sapphic romances to celebrate #PrideMonth ! 🤠❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤠 #Pride2023 #TuesNews @RNAtweets

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

2 months

There is no such thing as apolitical writing. And if a book appears so, it’s because the novel or the reader’s politics echo dominant systems of power. In much the same way people of colour are perceived as racialised and white people racially neutral, when they have a race too.

@Nickyshearsby22

Nicky Shearsby

@Nickyshearsby22

2 months

Do you ever include politics in your writing, and is it appropriate to do so? Personally, I keep it out of my novels. Interested in what everyone else thinks.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

MILLS AND BOON HAVE A MEDICAL SAPPHIC ROMANCE, WITH BLACK PROTAGONISTS, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

@MillsandBoon

Mills & Boon

1 year

✨ Harper returns to Sydney as Head of the ER. But her intense job is nothing compared to seeing first love, firefighter Yarran again. ✨ Nurse McKenzie seeks out the help of her estranged wife Dr Saana...By pretending their marriage is going strong!

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@LouMorganWriter

6 months

If the creative team behind French Girl had the courage to tell a sapphic love story without filtering it through the lens of a straight guy, they could have produced a groundbreaking romantic comedy centring a bi woman. Instead we have Sweet Home Alabama with rainbow sprinkles.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

4 months

Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins. And not because of any character deaths. But rather Katniss always insisted that she didn’t want kids then ended up with one baby and another on the way. Straight culture at its worst. 🤢

@fangruninss

greer ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹ ᡣ𐭩

4 months

drop the saddest books you’ve ever read

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

The woman in picture 2 is so absurdly gorgeous that I would gladly be her wife and raise her kids. A marriage doesn’t have to be either/or — it can be both. 😏

@godlywomanhood

The Transformed Wife 🦋

@godlywomanhood

1 year

I will never understand women having the dream of a job for strangers rather than cuddling and raising eternal beings created in the image of God!

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Unexpected sapphic book haul from the charity shop! 📖 Not My Problem, by Ciara Smyth 📖 Some Girls Do, by @JL_Dugan Can’t wait to read these beauties. 📚😍

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

3 months

When TV shows insist on shoehorning female leads into relationships with men they have absolutely zero chemistry with instead of romancing a female character with whom they share crackling sexual tension. Compulsory heterosexuality is so dull.

@Getthebagcoach

Maybe: Jacoby

@Getthebagcoach

3 months

In honor of all the hate that’s going on…. Name something you hate and nothing will change your mind on it… For me it’s easily easily any Amy Schumer movie

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

3 months

You can borrow an unlimited number of books for free from your local library. Which will have digital services, like BorrowBox & Libby, allowing readers to access ebooks and audiobooks. You can make stock suggestions too. And (in the UK) authors are paid royalties. It’s win-win.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

7 months

Lesbian pining.

@writingoutlook

Writing Community

@writingoutlook

7 months

Can you describe your book in just two words for my audience? #book #writersoftwitter

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

6 months

Precisely 666 books in my Kindle’s “Lesbian and Bi Fiction” collection. 😌

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@LouMorganWriter

9 months

I BROKE 20K WORDS WITH #NaNoWriMo ! 🥳🥳🥳 So happy about hitting this milestone. And proud that I have continued to walk in my purpose, towards the goal of sharing this lesbian romance with the world.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Had an utterly brilliant time at the @RNAtweets conference. Met friends, danced, learned, laughed. And my five appointments with industry professionals led to five full manuscript requests! I could never have anticipated such a response to my lesbian romances. 😧🥰

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

If Nate has a million haters, I’m one of them. If Nate has five haters, I’m one of them. If Nate has one hater, that one is me. If Nate has no haters, I’m no longer alive. If the world is for Nate, I’m against the world. ‘Til my last breath I’ll hate Nate.

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Cassie (She/they)

@cassiekayreads

1 year

Claim yourself as the biggest hater of a character. [I hate both of them. So much. I hate them more than they hate each other. I think @MissDahlELama is the only person who could out-hate them in a competition]

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

5 months

*cough* Rizzoli & Isles *cough*

@LeeWinterOz

🧊 Lee Winter - @leewinteroz

5 months

Reason number five billion why so many queer people write fanfiction... 🤣

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

7 months

This x 1,000. Calling some romances clean because they don’t contain sex scenes implies that books including such scenes are dirty. But there is nothing inherently dirty about human sexuality or the expression of it.

@susanareadss

Susana ♡

7 months

my wish for 2024 is that people stop using the term clean romance

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

10 months

The bad news: I have flu. The good news: I have lots of sapphic romance audiobooks. Currently curled up in bed listening to The Lily and the Crown, by @WritingRoslyn . A truly remarkable story. And, as narrators go, Angela Dawe is perfection.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

“It’s catfishing. It’s appropriating a queer identity as a marketing tool to sell books, when he’s neither a woman nor queer—nor does he understand (or care about) all the ways in which his scheme is harming the LGBTQ+ community.” Well said, @JaeFiction .

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Jae 🏳️‍🌈

1 year

If you are a part of the #sapphic fiction community, you've probably heard the rumors about one of "our" authors deceiving everyone by claiming a fake persona. He's still not telling the full truth, so I & some author friends are doing it instead:

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Writing a strap-on scene. 💦🤤

@sarcasmlemons

C.J. Subko 🖤 is ready for Halloween

1 year

Your question for tonight: what excites you most about your current writing project?

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

Currently listening to the audiobook of @Kallmaker ’s Touchwood. I love revisiting this gorgeous story. And Angela Dawe’s narration is perfect in every way.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

6 months

TFW you go to a writing workshop and the advice is “stop editing as you draft.”

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

6 months

This is a really well-made point. Small publishers like @YlvaPublishing , @bellabooks , and @boldstrokebooks have all transformed the landscape of sapphic fiction by prioritising stories that readers from this community will enjoy. And that approach has been revolutionary.

@ParanormalJunk2

Eva Writes Stories 🛁🍸🦇🖊🛩🫶🍉🌈

@ParanormalJunk2

6 months

The reason that I query small publishers rather than agents is that agents have to think 'Can I sell this?' but small publishers go 'will people enjoy reading this?' At least I think that's the way it goes anyway.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 month

It is so on brand that my most popular tweet to date is about Mirandy. I’ve been in that fandom since I was 14 and it will have a chokehold on me ‘til I die. 🫡

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 month

Meryl Streep’s daughter, Louisa Jacobson, came out publicly and posted a picture with her girlfriend. Which is lovely. But there is no way that a 33 y/o Millennial lesbian can be 100% unaware of the spicy Mirandy fanfics her mother inspired. Moment of silence for the good sis.

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

1 year

My #TuesNews is that I've written an account of my @RNAtweets conference experiences! It was wonderful. 🥰 "Our shared interest in romance is a unifying force, bringing everyone together. There are no strangers when you all love the same thing."

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Lou Morgan 📚🏳️‍🌈 (LouMorgan.bsky.social)

@LouMorganWriter

6 months

Day 1 of writing, and I've broken a thousand words. My third sapphic romance is officially underway. 🥳 It feels *so good* to be drafting in earnest again. Plus I'm really enjoying writing a story where autism explicitly shapes character lens.

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