Was hoping the Venus in Scorpio transit would make me (Scorpio venus retrograde native) extra sexy and magnetic but unfortunately it’s really only boosting the thirst for Vengeance. Any Vengeance really. Will report in as things progress
Saint (S.T.) Gibson
@stgibson.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author of A DOWRY OF BLOOD and other gothic romances, she/he/they. SAVAGE BLOOMS (Unearthly Delights #1) out now, TANGLED ROOTS (Unearthly Delights #2) May 2026
Sir Lancelot is so AMAB nonbinary to me
One could argue that as the most widely read genre, romance is most deserving of care and attention, a refusal to concede to bland extruded text from the Average Intelligence machine. The potential to reach the greatest number of readers with your art, with your intellect, can be through romance.
Tara O’Connor@taraocomics.bsky.social · last wk.What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!
in honor of #BiWeek starting today (9/16-9/23 every year, ~mark your calendars!~) enjoy a collection of some of my personal favorite bisexual books! featuring gems by @brosandprose.bsky.social @feliciadavin.com @stgibson.bsky.social and other brilliant people 🩷💜💙 bookshop.org/lists/bi-boo...
Bi Books for #BiWeek (and Beyond!)
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October events and appearances! Get hype for Halloween season, come see me and fellow writers like @stgibson.bsky.social and @caitlinstarling.com (and more!), buy some spooky books 👻
If want men to read more (and I think more men should, because reading is one of the greatest pleasures and most enriching things for a body) you’ve gotta stop bullying them for “performative” reading in public and thirst trapping with books on IG. Keep it moving and let him have fun.
Every American citizen deserves access to the level of personal privacy and data security Donna Tartt maintains. I don't know how she's doing it beyond being incredibly discrete and litigious; at this point it's almost performance art. It's damn inspiring
Hey this is one of the best books I've read this whole damn year -- so go get it!
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Every American citizen deserves access to the level of personal privacy and data security Donna Tartt maintains. I don't know how she's doing it beyond being incredibly discrete and litigious; at this point it's almost performance art. It's damn inspiring
Where to find me this fall!! I'll be doing events here in Kentucky and I'm so excited to be traveling with @stgibson.bsky.social to Kansas City (I hear everything is up to date there!) for a suuuuper cool event next month!! Hope you'll join me for books, samples, and great conversation!!
Venus retrograde can bring challenges in love, but as a Venus Scorpio retrograde native, I can attest she also brings deep and committed love that is unorthodox, custom-built, a little unfathomable to outsiders.
Get well soon to everyone else who is about to experience a Venus retrograde in Scorpio but for me…..that’s my natal placement baby. A placement so intense it has led me to Venusian devotional work, a career writing gothic novels, and some gorgeously intense love affairs. Have fun!
can any astrologer explain to me why I feel absolutely every transit that I’m gonna feel two days before the peak of the transit. I can set my watch by it
my libra moon + libra mercury will always bring the piledriver of "words mean things so let's use them accurately in the interest of fairness" to the conversation. I cannot help myself
"sapphic" includes bi women who may experience attraction to men alongside attraction to women. if you're reading a "sapphic" book you should expect love between women, but perhaps not to the exclusion of men on the periphery. Not everything is for you. That doesn't make it false advertising
You’ve heard of no vampire is straight, now get ready for no vampire is cis 🦇
the biggest difference between dating in your twenties versus dating in your thirties is “I just want it to work out” becomes “I want it to be right for both of us”
As a bisexual genderqueer artist, I often find stronger reflections of myself in historical queer figures who defy easy categorization or labels than in modern ones. We have always existed and we have always been fluid, crossing and re-crossing category lines, impossible to forget or to define.
We were at this same GenAI art and labor tipping point 150 years ago, albeit with different technologies! Read the whole article here for my alternatives to doomerism and compliance: saint.substack.com/p/asking-cha...
The labor crisis brought on by the AI push isn’t new. It’s actually a problem so old its been enshrined in fairy tales, and its one William Morris and the arts and crafts movement laid the groundwork for solving. saint.substack.com/p/asking-cha...
Asking ChatGPT to Spin Straw Into Gold
I need you to lock in arts and crafts movement style
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The reason Finley/Eileen toxic friends to lovers thing in SAVAGE BLOOMS goes so crazy is because Eileen is insane she can never be Daddy's (literal) favorite boy and Finley is insane he will never be Daddy's (nonliteral) legitimate heir, and the two of them bang about it. That's the secret sauce
this corner of the collective unconscious isn’t big enough for the two of us
voila, the essay on discover gender and desire through fictional fantasy, queering romance dynamics, jung, and dark romance booktok that I have been trying to write for two! years! I definitely 👉🏻 overshared 👈🏻 but it’s all for the good of psychoanalysis saint.substack.com/p/the-romant...
the romantasy book boyfriend was you all along
romancing Jung's animus by psychoanalyzing smut
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envy is an arrow pointing you towards what you desire, and becoming what you envy is the only way to keep it from stabbing you, or someone else. actualize or die
New essay on what the hullaballoo about a spicy Wuthering Heights adaptation can teach us about our psychosexual shadows, the Enlightenment illusion of a split chaste mind and carnal body, and desire and trauma in Wuthering Heights and Savage Blooms! saint.substack.com/p/resurrecti...
resurrecting wuthering heights sex scene discourse
that book is simply not about what you think it is
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The most interesting kind of second chance romance by far is “I want to thank you on my knees for coming back, but I also want to punish you on yours for leaving”
Shout-out to @stgibson.bsky.social and "Savage Blooms" for being one of the very few books I've absolutely *devoured* in recent years. The atmosphere just completely sucked me in. Dark, sensual, and wild. I want to make art about it so badly!! When I finish my current comm I probably will 💚💚💚