leboncanon ✏️🌈

Rose and Mina, writers and best friends; co-authors. Our first novel, 'Portrait of a Stranger', was released December 2018.

[leboncanon ✏️🌈 @leboncanon]

Happy New Year, everyone! First tweet of the year, first tweet EVER! ‘Portrait of a Stranger’, our first novel, came out last week. We love it and we'd love it if you checked it out. Peace and love, Rose and Mina

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[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

This is a fantastic resource for freelance artists impacted by COVID-19 – everything from financial aid (grants to apply to, legal help with unemployment benefits) to mental health aid https://t.co/WFaxAoQJBc (via @NationalSawdust's wonderful newsletter)

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

An antidote to helplessness and disorientation – the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm, born on this day in 1900, on our human fragility as the key to our survival and our sanity https://t.co/dHJhvNeyRQ

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

I got a moving note today from a woman saying how the final page of "Figuring" was helping her live through these confusing and uncertain times. Figured I’d share, in case it helps anyone else.

[leboncanon ✏️🌈 @leboncanon]

#LGBTQ Young feminist and LGBT+ activist, Yulja Tsvetkova, was charged with violating the Russian "gay propaganda" law for drawing a rainbow family. Help her fight back. https://t.co/gDTVljqtaX

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The shortest academic paper is called ‘The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block”’. It contains no words.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Marcus Aurelius in love – the passionate LGBT love letters of a Stoic, rediscovered 2,000 years after we began calling our loves "LGBT" https://t.co/J9UfPir4Lu

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. MARK TWAIN

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Don’t write at first for anyone but yourself.”

On this day in 1952, T.S. Eliot sent to a little girl aspiring to be a writer a warm letter of advice on writing and, in a way, life https://t.co/SLQvq2KtlL

[leboncanon ✏️🌈 @leboncanon]

#writeLGBTQ

Two boys, first love - a heartwarming tale of trust and discovery with a dash of romance.

'Portrait of a Stranger' is a #freebook for one day only today, Feb 14.💕

https://t.co/MzOyM5Nayj

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

On this day in 1876, "Dracula" author Bram Stoker sent Walt Whitman this fiery love letter, which he had been nervously saving for four years: https://t.co/2jV4qYVuyv

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

On Judy Blume's birthday, queer kids' endearing letters to the beloved author, patron saint of children's self-possession, and her advice to their parents https://t.co/h4KpydKbKs

[leboncanon ✏️🌈 @leboncanon]

#amwritingromance #writeLGBTQ

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Why we fall in love – the paradoxical psychology of why frustration is necessary for satisfaction in romantic love https://t.co/2c81SD2Tw9

[leboncanon ✏️🌈 @leboncanon]

@EvieDrae #promoLGBTQ Check out The Stand-In if you're after a fun&touching read on second chances and happily ever after.

💛 Two ex-boyfriends
💛Reality TV cameras
💛 The beautiful city of Barcelona
💛 Secrets&passion

An #mmromance available on #KindleUnlimited
https://t.co/01MFcfwzQX

[leboncanon ✏️🌈 @leboncanon]

All profits from sales of our books on #GivingTuesday go to @AllOut - a global movement in support of LGBT+ people. Especially excited about their project in Brazil: launching a public library filled entirely with LGBT+ books: either by #writeLGBTQ authors or about LGBT+ people.

[Brad Brookins (he/his) @BradBrookins]

My review of The Stand-In, a new novel by @leboncanon authors Rose Brookins and Mina Petkova

https://t.co/ksPNPqxvoG

[leboncanon ✏️🌈 @leboncanon]

@TorchlightInDrk We just did 'Cheeky darling falls for quiet cinnamon film's (great wording) - felt VERY satisfying.😍🌈📚

[TheLesbianReview.com @LesbianReviews]

Did you know that I keep a list of #LesFic authors who are on Twitter?

You can find it at the link below.

If you are not on there and you write wlw stories then comment and I will add you. It's not always clear who does and doesn't so I miss some

https://t.co/AEfXDoQ4oZ