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Author Padma Venkatraman @padmatv.bsky.social · 5d

If you haven’t added this #Anthology to your collection yet now’s the time!

@holidayhouse.bsky.social @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social @emmalong.bsky.social #BannedTogether #BannedBookWeek #BannedBookWeek2025 #BannedBookWeek25

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · 1d

I've been trying to push myself to finish the book that we set for our group read this month and man... I'm just not in a Fantasy headspace right now. My brain is craving Horror books.

Sorry book, I just don't think it's the right time for you.

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · 1d

Thank YOU for such a wonderful read!

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · 1d

Book review is now up for THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS by @chuckwendig.bsky.social, please pardon any ramblings. Still thinking about how much I loved this book. 💙📚

www.hopelessbibliophile.com/2025/10/book...

Book Review: The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig - Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile

A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods. While on a camping trip, five high-schoolers bound by an oath to always protect one another discover something in the m...

www.hopelessbibliophile.com

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · 5d

Finished THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS by @chuckwendig.bsky.social and all I can coherently say is that it got me. Right in the feels. I don't like to compare books often, but this book is right on par with how I always feel after an IT re-read. 😭 Loved it.

💙📚

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hey Horror Fans,

How many of these books by #StokerCon2025 attendees have you read?

There are 50 books in this thread.

> Repost your faves
> Share your scores ??/50
> Or just add to your tbr!

#HauteCover
#HorrorSky
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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · Jun 1

Haute Couture looks for Horror books! 🧵

Welcome to the blood-red carpet of #HauteCover
#StokerCon2025 Edition

Featuring author attendees & Stoker Award nominees

An ongoing thread:
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#StokerCon is hosted by @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social

A pale model with bright red lips wears a Christian Dior Fall 2009 ensemble consisting of a white shirt hidden between the vivid red of a fitted but unfastened riding jacket. A dark gray skirt hits below the knee and is gathered at one side. The model also wears a black top hat with a veil, small black gloves, black boots and what looks to be a riding crop. Mary Wyrd would wear this at StokerCon 2025.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 7d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · 12d

I missed the deadline to download this review book and usually I'll just borrow or buy a copy anyway. Except this one is solely being sold through Amazon, which I am actively boycotting.

Sigh.

Moral dilemma.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 12d

Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But all roads lead back to Stephen King.

Poking around the scary, horrible, disgusting, excellent cauldron of new horror lit

Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But all roads lead b…

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 14d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · Jun 2

GO-MAN: CHAMPION OF EARTH is available to preorder wherever you get your comics or via the link in my bio!

This is a middle-grade superhero book with themes of friendship and self-belief with an autistic lead!

Volume 1 is out August 26th!

#comic #autismawareness #autism

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14d

FWIW I don't think that "everything is terrible" and I don't actually believe that most of you believe this either.

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Watt 🔜 AX C5 @onemegawatt.bsky.social · 14d

My finished FFTactics piece, just in time for the The Ivalice Chronicle release. Excited to pour another 100 hours into this masterpiece all over again!!

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 14d

I can’t do too much about the world being constantly on fire, but if you need a cozy little romantic break, I have a free story on my site about a potions witch and her new neighbor. No signup or login required! <3

www.jessiemihalik.com/story/the-so...

Happy reading!

The Sorcerer Next Door

Visit the post for more.

www.jessiemihalik.com

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · 19d

New #bookreview is up, after a long time of forgetting to write about this book alas. HEARTWOOD by Amity Gaige is absolutely wonderful. 💙📚

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

www.hopelessbibliophile.com/2025/09/book...

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 22d

Let's do a low number need for classroom #7. This California charter school educator wants to help her school's Genders and Sexuality Awareness club build a rad LGBTQ+ library.

$151 is all that's needed.

www.donorschoose.org/project/lgbt...

LGBTQIA+ Library Books, a project from Mrs. Marie LoPrell

Help me give my students a variety of books that feature LGBTQIA+ characters and also real life role models. The students in our GSA (Genders and Sexuality Alliance Club) would like to create a lib...

www.donorschoose.org

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gup cat @linnybun.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oooh not yet! Do you have a favorite to rec?

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey Bluesky! I'm quite worried about the possibility of losing my health insurance in the coming year. Signing up for my Patreon is a great way to support my art, my writing, and me as a human being.

Any signal boosts are also very much appreciated.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

fabric art, weird little guys, puppets

www.patreon.com

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm #currentlyreading Hello Stranger by Katherine Center and how, HOW does she always write the sweetest men EVER?!?

I can tell my brain is in desperate need of escape because I've teared up so many times. 💙📚

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · Sep 8

I know I haven't been around here much but man, just existing in the US right now is exhausting. I spent a nice weekend out with friends and as disconnected as I could be. Monday is already kicking my butt again though.

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · Aug 29

Working on my #bookreview backlog, so here's a new one! 💙📚

www.hopelessbibliophile.com/2025/08/the-...

The Night Birds by Christopher Golden - Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile

The next gripping, atmospheric horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden, set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, TX. Charlie Book and Ruby Cahi...

www.hopelessbibliophile.com

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · Aug 28

I just love when I pre-order a book and forget about it, and then either the bookstore reminds me or it just shows up. Thanks, past me. You rock so hard.

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Jess N @roses7184.bsky.social · Aug 28

Me: *having a tough day*

B&N: Hey just a reminder, your pre-order of HELLO SUNSHINE by @keezyyoung.bsky.social ships soon!

Me: *having a better day*

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