S. B. Barnes

@sbbarnes.bsky.social

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Author of queer murder mystery romances, queer hockey romances, and more. linktr.ee/sbbarnes

Illustrated author image of a white woman in her thirties with brief tongue in cheek author bio
Petrol background with a black bar at the top reading "Who is S.B. Barnes?". Centered is a photograph of the back of a woman's head. She has light brown hair in a fancy up-do with a wire of pearls over the top of her head. Surrounding her are arrows with various attributes. They read: disembodied head, no face, writes, reads, knits, eats, sleeps, teaches, mom of 2 cats and 1 human, German (sort of), teaches two languages, still sucks at punctuation, teaches computer science, still can't do decent graphics, author of queer romance, terminally online
Petrol background with the headline "Playing defense never won the game...or the guy". The cover of Two for Holding is centered. On it we see the title "Two for Holding", the author S.B. Barnes and the series "Minor Penalties Book 1". The art shows two hockey players in a locker room. One is shirtless, sitting on the bench in the background, staring at the other. The man in the foreground is wiping sweat from his forehead with his teal and navy jersey. He's holding a hockey stick in a suggestive position. Surrounding the cover are various tropes: M/M hockey romance, inexperienced older man/experienced younger man, practice kissing, opposites attract, slow burn(ish), mild animosity to lovers
Cover of Two for Holding with excerpts from positive reviews
Cover of Two For Holding with header "available now"
Microtropes for Two for Holding
Trope map for Two for Holding
Excerpt from hockey romance Two for Charging
Cover and trope sheet for hockey romance "Two For Holding"
Cover for a hockey romance novel with one player sitting on a locker room bench shirtless while the other uses his jersey to wipe sweat off his brow. Title: Two for Holding. Author: S.B. Barnes. Tagline: Playing defense never won the game...or the guy. Tropes: mild animosity to lovers, m/m hockey romance, inexperienced older man/experienced younger man, slow burn (ish), opposites attract, practice kissing
Book covers of Heart First and Second Chance with the Text "Half-Price at the Smashwords Summer Sale"
Book covers of "Heart First" and "Second Chance" side by side. Below them text "40% reduced in June! Use coupon code "PRIDE2025"" in fluorescent pink
Book cover for Second Chance by S.B. Barnes. Tagline: Will solving the crime mean losing his lover? Cover shows the Hudson River Valley in upstate New York in the lower third and above that a mechanic in coveralls working on a car
Dark turquoise background, title "Two for Holding", tagline "Playing defense never won the game...or the guy". Image showing two hockey players in a locker room, one fully dressed in gear and wiping sweat off his face with his jersey, the other shirtless and watching the first man from the bench. Text reads "That was the energy he tried to project as he walked into the San Francisco Sea Lions locker room for the first time at the tail end of training camp. No one had seen his trade coming, least of all Jax himself, and he’d missed all the team bonding events to start the season out, but he was used to coming in as the underdog. He could make this work for him. He would make this work for him. With that in mind, he strolled up to Tom Crowler, team captain, absolute beast on the ice and averaging comfortably over a point per game for the last decade. “Hi. Nice to meet you. Tom, right? I’m Jax, I’ll be—” “I know who you are,” Crowler said."
Navy background with teal text box and an image of a sea lion in the bottom right corner. Title "Two for Charging". Text reads "Luca was clever, handsome, good with women and had fantastic edgework on skates and unbelievable hockey IQ. By contrast, Chris was a solid enough defenseman, more of a protector than a playmaker, with a string of failed relationships and the looks of a potato balanced on a boulder."
Black and white book cover with the word "Bloom" above and the word "creep" as a mirror Image. Light grey vines at the top and mirrored dark drey vines at the botton
Hudson mountains with the title "Second Chance" over the sky. Text reads: "Hi." He kisses the tip of Daniel's nose. Daniel's Arms snake around his waist. "Hey." Not too long ago, kissing was a rare novelty reserved for the few times Tony found someone to meet up with. Now, it's a regular fixture in his days, and he's shocked it's still just as exciting each time it happens, the slide of their lips a little spark in the jumper cables forming Tony's spine.