Minerva Grey
@minervasowl.bsky.social
Support your local libraries. Read how you read. Support artists any way you can.
Knitting, reading, writing, spinning, weaving, cooking, and learning, usually to a soundtrack.
Knitting, reading, writing, spinning, weaving, cooking, and learning, usually to a soundtrack.
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You do not become a world builder by reading everything everyone else has to say about world building. You do it by the actual act of creating, the continuous and dedicated practice of the skill. You fail, you learn, you create again. This is what makes you a world builder.
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
You do not become a world builder by reading everything everyone else has to say about world building. You do it by the actual act of creating, the continuous and dedicated practice of the skill. You fail, you learn, you create again. This is what makes you a world builder.
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Alright Friends & Neighbors on #BookSky We're officially 10 days out from Xmas & hot books are starting to go out of stock. So, here's a big old thread of PSB staff picks that have at least 3 copies in stock as of, roughly, now. All 20% off!...
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Alright Friends & Neighbors on #BookSky We're officially 10 days out from Xmas & hot books are starting to go out of stock. So, here's a big old thread of PSB staff picks that have at least 3 copies in stock as of, roughly, now. All 20% off!...
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As promised, #BookSky, here's a thread of PSB staff picks for younger readers, all with at last 3 copies in stock at time of posting and all 20% off for being staff picks! Let's goooooo......
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
As promised, #BookSky, here's a thread of PSB staff picks for younger readers, all with at last 3 copies in stock at time of posting and all 20% off for being staff picks! Let's goooooo......
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Hi #BookSky! Just breaking away for a quick sec to tell you that your Blind Dates with a Books are ALWAYS in stock because we pull the books off the shelf!
Blind Date with a Book
Let the libromancers at Porter Square Books pick out a paperback for you! Use the order comments in check out to tell us a little bit more about the books you like to read.
portersquarebooks.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hi #BookSky! Just breaking away for a quick sec to tell you that your Blind Dates with a Books are ALWAYS in stock because we pull the books off the shelf!
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The REALLY nice thing about these is you can just tell us in the order comments everything about the recipient and we'll use our squishy human brains to pick out an incredible book for them.
Hi #BookSky! Just breaking away for a quick sec to tell you that your Blind Dates with a Books are ALWAYS in stock because we pull the books off the shelf!
Blind Date with a Book
Let the libromancers at Porter Square Books pick out a paperback for you! Use the order comments in check out to tell us a little bit more about the books you like to read.
portersquarebooks.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The REALLY nice thing about these is you can just tell us in the order comments everything about the recipient and we'll use our squishy human brains to pick out an incredible book for them.
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25% off a bunch of our books from now until year end using code
SBP25
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25% off a bunch of our books from now until year end using code
SBP25
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November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
[Spelled coupon wrong 4 times writing this (How?!?)]
25% off a bunch of our books from now until year end using code
SBP25
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
indiepubs.com/collections/...
25% off a bunch of our books from now until year end using code
SBP25
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
indiepubs.com/collections/...
You won’t regret giving the excellent @thomasdlee.bsky.social’s debut a read, if you haven’t already!
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Review: Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee.
An elegy for an England that never existed?
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December 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I need to find someone else who has read The Damned King by @justinleeanderson.com because I am having a moment of "Okay, but if that's how it goes, what was even the point of everything before the last 50 pages?!?" Book four is due in July, so it's not REALLY the end, but ... #reading #booksky
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I need to find someone else who has read The Damned King by @justinleeanderson.com because I am having a moment of "Okay, but if that's how it goes, what was even the point of everything before the last 50 pages?!?" Book four is due in July, so it's not REALLY the end, but ... #reading #booksky
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You can write anywhere with just a notebook and pen.
You don't need a computer or other 'stuff' - just you and your brain on an adventure. It is helpful if your words are legible so you can practice lettering too. Brain exercise is mostly free.
#writingcommunity #booksky #brainexercises #writing
You don't need a computer or other 'stuff' - just you and your brain on an adventure. It is helpful if your words are legible so you can practice lettering too. Brain exercise is mostly free.
#writingcommunity #booksky #brainexercises #writing
December 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
You can write anywhere with just a notebook and pen.
You don't need a computer or other 'stuff' - just you and your brain on an adventure. It is helpful if your words are legible so you can practice lettering too. Brain exercise is mostly free.
#writingcommunity #booksky #brainexercises #writing
You don't need a computer or other 'stuff' - just you and your brain on an adventure. It is helpful if your words are legible so you can practice lettering too. Brain exercise is mostly free.
#writingcommunity #booksky #brainexercises #writing
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@alixeharrow.bsky.social's latest novel The Everlasting is a powerful read about a nation's origin story and how such narratives can be manipulated.
Here's my review: www.andrewliptak.com/alix-harrow-...
Here's my review: www.andrewliptak.com/alix-harrow-...
Origin stories
Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting is a powerful book about a nation's origin story and how such narratives can be manipulated
www.andrewliptak.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
@alixeharrow.bsky.social's latest novel The Everlasting is a powerful read about a nation's origin story and how such narratives can be manipulated.
Here's my review: www.andrewliptak.com/alix-harrow-...
Here's my review: www.andrewliptak.com/alix-harrow-...
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My novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster is just $2.99 in all e-book formats today. (Kindle, Kobo, Nook,etc)
This is the book of my heart. It's a queer mother-daughter story about healing and forgiveness. It's got 18th century lit, riot grrls, and filthy weird magic.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
This is the book of my heart. It's a queer mother-daughter story about healing and forgiveness. It's got 18th century lit, riot grrls, and filthy weird magic.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. A young witch teaches he...
us.macmillan.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster is just $2.99 in all e-book formats today. (Kindle, Kobo, Nook,etc)
This is the book of my heart. It's a queer mother-daughter story about healing and forgiveness. It's got 18th century lit, riot grrls, and filthy weird magic.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
This is the book of my heart. It's a queer mother-daughter story about healing and forgiveness. It's got 18th century lit, riot grrls, and filthy weird magic.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Felt like shopping so I went an bought a bunch of stuff off wish lists at transanta.com. I love being Santa.
Transanta
Send gifts to trans youth in need, safely and anonymously!
transanta.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Felt like shopping so I went an bought a bunch of stuff off wish lists at transanta.com. I love being Santa.
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Just started reading The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy and what I can say so far is that if you loved the Tamora Pierce Tortall books and wish there was a genderswapped version by a trans woman about needing to be a girl to get trained as a witch, this could very much be the book for you
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Just started reading The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy and what I can say so far is that if you loved the Tamora Pierce Tortall books and wish there was a genderswapped version by a trans woman about needing to be a girl to get trained as a witch, this could very much be the book for you
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Happy Second Sunday in Advent!
We light this candle for Peace 🕊️
We light this candle for Peace 🕊️
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy Second Sunday in Advent!
We light this candle for Peace 🕊️
We light this candle for Peace 🕊️
Books of Wonder is amazing! They have a wonderful selection of books overall plus LOTS of signed\personalized offerings that frequently come with additional beautiful swag.
Signed books make great gifts!!! If you'd like a signed and personalized copy of THE SPELLSHOP, THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE, or THE LOST, either for yourself or as a gift, order from Books of Wonder by Nov 30, and I’ll be delighted to sign one for you! booksofwonder.com/products/978...
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Books of Wonder is amazing! They have a wonderful selection of books overall plus LOTS of signed\personalized offerings that frequently come with additional beautiful swag.
And some small businesses can't afford to offer black Friday discounts.
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
And some small businesses can't afford to offer black Friday discounts.
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HELLO IT'S BLACK FRIDAY
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
HELLO IT'S BLACK FRIDAY
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.
nora.jewelry
#bsnm
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We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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Rooted in Tlingit folklore, The Door on the Sea is a really well thought out, particularly designed and beautifully fresh piece of fantasy fiction. Very much worth your time, especially if you’re in the mood for something different.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#CaskeyRussell #BookSky
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#CaskeyRussell #BookSky
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rooted in Tlingit folklore, The Door on the Sea is a really well thought out, particularly designed and beautifully fresh piece of fantasy fiction. Very much worth your time, especially if you’re in the mood for something different.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#CaskeyRussell #BookSky
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#CaskeyRussell #BookSky
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The Finch-go-round has a few riders this morning 🪶 Lesser goldfinches
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Finch-go-round has a few riders this morning 🪶 Lesser goldfinches
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You can read the full essay—that Baldwin wrote after Angela had been arrested and put on trail—here
An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin
One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that...
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October 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
You can read the full essay—that Baldwin wrote after Angela had been arrested and put on trail—here
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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This is also the 1st year for a Nebula Award for Poetry! I had 5 poems out this year, but here are my favorites:
1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The Mourning Robot - Uncanny Magazine
They came with machetes asked if we knew the way to Wonderland. We were built to love the dead, to open our mouths and sing praise to broken bones, hands over our eyes, aluminum sheets over our he...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is also the 1st year for a Nebula Award for Poetry! I had 5 poems out this year, but here are my favorites:
1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...