Lara Zielinsky

#fantasyBook From fantasy to reality: CARON AND THE HUNTRESS book cover Final cover images credit: Arina (IG: arinagelbarts) Earlier covers are mine, such as they are Pros are WAY better. larazielinsky.substack.com/p/a-fantasy-... #NoAI #HumanArtists #witchFantasy

Do you have an indie bookstore nearby? What do you love about it? Give a shoutout in the comments. I recently had a reason to reflect on how an indie bookstore can be such amazing, welcoming #thirdspace larazielinsky.substack.com/p/indie-book...

If you see this, post a witch (Gonna go old school here)

I've released another audio story from my sapphic romance collection TURNING IN. "Galway Getaway," Bren and Cass (who got together in my first 2 books) take a family vacation to Ireland. A cozy sapphic read with a bit of sexy times larazielinsky.substack.com/p/galway-get...

Got edits back Friday on my fantasy novel from Andrea at Quirky Pen Editing. Inline edits and comments so helpful. ✍🏼 Even things she loved 🥰 It's getting real. CARON AND THE HUNTRESS will be available April 2026, barring complications Request ARC: tinyurl.com/CATHarc

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 summits.indieauthortraining.com/wide-for-the...

Popped up at Page & Pen today @oviedomall.bsky.social ! #books

#authors looking for an #editor? Background: 20+ years alpha + beta reading, editing for publishers. Member of ACES, LGBTQ+ Editors Assn. Free: ☑️sample edits ☑️30-minute Zoom consultation No AI. I support human creation www.lzedits.com

Well, I won’t use any service that uses AI, so that’s out. I’d rather use @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social Bookfinder iheartsapphfic.com/bookfinder

Day 29. Closing out #sapphicseptember with Lilith: Book of Genesis and Lilith: Original Sin by @tjdallas7.bsky.social 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ ⚔️⚔️⚔️ sword sapphics www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH2ZP5XT

Day 28. The Wrath Trilogy by @tjdallas7.bsky.social is still part of the author's Seven Sins universe, but dives even more heavily into the biblical lore, and fully introduces the Four Horsewomen 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️of the Apocalypse www.amazon.com/dp/B08W35J853 #sapphicBooks #fantasy #LGBTQ

Day 28. The Wrath Trilogy by @tjdallas7.bsky.social is still part of the author's Seven Sins universe, but dives even more heavily into the biblical lore, and fully introduces the Four Horsewomen 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️of the Apocalypse www.amazon.com/dp/B08W35J853 #sapphicBooks #fantasy #LGBTQ

Anybody else write replies to a post that runs out of character limit, and then try editing like three times to cut it down enough to fit, only to finally just give up, go “ugh no one wants to hear my thoughts, anyway” and delete? No? Just me? Figures. I’ve been told I’m too long winded most of my…

Day 26. Short stories! Check out this volume of erotic shorts from the incomparable @tjdallas7 set in the Sevens Sins universe (there's a second collection!) www.amazon.com/dp/B099FDRJRP

Got my location assignment for Oviedo Mall’s Page & Pen next Saturday (October 3)! No. 66: Just off the food court and mall’s north entrance, in front of the B Dalton. #romance #sapphic #LGBTQ #bookstagram

Day 24 of #sapphicseptember The beginning of the Erudite Shifters series by @tjdallas7.bsky.social : The Last Caspian No lie, I'm very much in love with Rex www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... ~ LZ #sapphicBooks #wlwRomance #lesbian

Day 20! #sapphicseptember Score to Love by Johana Gavez features women's soccer. www.amazon.com/dp/B09CLH6C8P Also, if you're celebrating #NationalHIspanicHeritageMonth the author is Latinx and both story leads are Latinx, one American, and one from Brazil #SapphicBooks #wlw #Lesbian #romance

Fun get to know you! ⊹ name: Lara ⊹ height: short ⊹ star sign: Leo ⊹ nicknames: LZ ⊹ siblings: 2 younger ⊹ relationship: 1 ⊹ crushing on: Lucy Lawless (yes, *still*) ⊹ fav season: summer ⊹ pets: none ⊹ fav color: purple ⊹ live: Florida

Day 18 of #SapphicSeptember The Planck Paradox by Taryn J Dallas (aka @tjdallas7.bsky.social) is a delightful wlw contemporary romance novella The dog vs cat and philosophy vs science debates in this opposites attract romance are a delight. Check it out! www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BLYBM2ZR

Day 17. #SapphicSeptember. Do you love sports romance? This is a great little series starter. Full Court Crush by Sasha Brennan is set in a UK pro women's basketball league www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKHN5MJY #sapphicBooks #wlwBooks #queerRomance

Amazing! We're halfway through a month of #SapphicSeptember books I have edited. This one was my first in 2nd POV Day 15: Welcome to The Cardinal by @tjdallas7.bsky.social , a "choose your own (erotic) adventure" www.amazon.com/dp/B09TYM4XKX #wlwBooks #queerLit

Welcome to Day 14 of #sapphicSeptember. Today's spotlight shines on When the Bell Rings by Claire Donniere. More known for her suspense thrillers, WBR is a rom-com where a mix up at the holidays brings two women unexpectedly into one another's orbit boldstrokesbooks.com/books/when-t...

#SapphicSeptember Day 12 Tell Me What You Want, by Johana Gavez, is a contemporary wlw romance with (older) Latina characters and high spice www.amazon.com/dp/B09WKLQ1J5 This was the first book I edited for @johanagavez.bsky.social

NEW AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH CARLY BRYANT Find out: - How Carly Bryant went from hiding her stories to publishing them.  - Writing two types of stories and using two author names. - Younger self advice. - Reading science fiction. https://f.mtr.cool/smz66v6txf

Day 11 of #SapphicSeptember brings me to Fall Into Me by Terri Cutshall, a butch/femme vacation romance @terricutshall.bsky.social www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7Q5VN6V #wlwBooks #Romance

#SapphicSeptember Day 10 spotlights LM Bennett's Bad Beat, a Vegas enemies to lovers romance with Black leads I worked on the 1st ed, hence the different cover than what you'll find available now (and why I'm linking to GR not AZ) www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... #wlw #lesbian #queerLit

#SapphicSeptember Day 9. Book 2 of the Pride series, Pride and the Stranger, by TJ Dallas, is 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️erotic fantasy IIRC, editor for book 1 (The Bartender's Pride) couldn't do book 2. TJ asked around for help. I got the job, and have been editing TJ's books ever since www.amazon.com/dp/B08B1VPLWT

Day 8 of #SapphicSeptember brings me to a pair of books I edited and proofed: Natural Exposure and Negative Exposure by Koriana Brackson. Kenzie is a boudoir photographer in Bijou Basin, in an open marriage. www.amazon.com/dp/B08HB6DZ85

#SapphicSeptember Day 7. Moving a bit forward in my editing history. Insatiable Jane Travers, by Isabelle Lauren. The novel is a historical romp about a bisexual woman set in 1920s New York, faced with a choice between her female lover and her male beau. books2read.com/b/3RajLx #biVisibilityMonth

Checked in and set up for writing with @writersatelier.bsky.social #amwriting

#SapphicSeptember Day 6 is here! I worked on this one just as the publishing house was folding, then the author came to me and asked for help preparing it for indie publishing The Rosebush Murders by Ruth Shidlo, book 1 of 3 ft. Det. Helen Mirkin www.amazon.com/dp/B0753F824H #mysteryBooks

#SapphicSeptember day 5. Check out this book I helped with, connecting with this author through a shared fandom as writers. Under the Midnight Cloak by SY Thompson is a shapeshifter (panthers) romantic suspense. It was a Goldie finalist in 2013 www.sythompson.net/under-the-mi...

#SapphicSeptember Day 4. When I edited this one, I told the author it was going to be an award-winner. I was absolutely right. It won a Goldie (Golden Crown Literary Alliance sapphic book awards) in 2010 👏 @geonncannon.bsky.social GEMINI www.amazon.com/dp/B00B2EBELW #SapphicBooks #queerLit

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Been a few days, but I had a newsletter drop larazielinsky.substack.com #SapphicBooks

Day 3. Another from those early days of contract editing. Kim Pritekel's 1049 Club. Sapphic love is found between two survivors of a plane crash Kim's books can all be found through Sapphire Books these days: www.sapphirebooks.com/store/produc...

#SapphicSeptember Another early proofread I helped out with was the first edition of The Veil of Sorrow by @crystalmromero.bsky.social A thoroughly gothic tale, the descriptions are haunting... and stunning #SapphicBooks www.amazon.com/dp/1508642044

It's #SapphicSeptember! 💛👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Here are a few recs of sapphic books I really loved!

Want something fun (and free) to do during #sapphicseptember ??? Join us for what I'm sure will be an amazing night!! Sapphic regency romance, and two Austen continuations? What more could you want 🤔👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social and Erin's books are amazing, and I'm sooo excited to host 💜

Bisexuality visibility month, if I see any biphobia, you're being made into compost for my flowers 🥀 It's also Sapphic September, so I absolutely chose the right time to start writing a sapphic romance with not one but two bisexual girlies 🥰

Since we're in #Sapphic September, I'll just remind that ALL of my currently published works are led by sapphic romantic pairs, and both NICEF and Demon King Daughter have /multiple/ sapphic pairs. No doomed yuri. The girl gets the girl, and they both love it. Buy: pjccahill.carrd.co #booksky 📢📚

happy september everyone! you know what that means - it's #SapphicSeptember! and so i have a few sapphic lady knight (and knight adjacent) book recs. this is obvi an incomplete list but hopefully you can find something to check out! full list will be in next posts hehe #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 🌈📚🌎📚🪐

Check out the first book of my series! 📚 sarahclowder.com 🏷 payhip.com/SillyGooseInk 🖼️ Main art by @robinade.bsky.social