Audrey, CMS
@amayna60.bsky.social
Captain of Book Displays, Emeritus. Devoted to Reader’s Advisory.
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
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5 ways to give your fave authors free-to-you gifts over the holidays! 💙📚
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
5 ways to give your fave authors free-to-you gifts over the holidays! 💙📚
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
1. post about their book on socials
2. rec on other posts & Reddit threads
3. suggest their book to a book club!
4. order their book from a library/ask can it be ordered in!
5. add it to GoodReads lists for discoverability!
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hello hello I wrote about Eden Royce's novella about death, grieving, and what we owe each other. it's a fantastic read and felt particularly relevant (grief stories always do!) as we're all trying to process our pandemic emotions.
"Royce ably navigates the contradictions of caring deeply about family while recognizing people’s flaws and pursuing a life that aligns first and foremost with your own core values."
@readingtheend.bsky.social reviews Eden Royce's novella Psychopomp and Circumstance!
@readingtheend.bsky.social reviews Eden Royce's novella Psychopomp and Circumstance!
Horizons Beyond Grief: Psychopomp and Circumstance by Eden Royce - Reactor
Jenny Hamilton reviews Eden Royce's "beautiful, spooky, and deeply heartfelt" novella.
reactormag.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
hello hello I wrote about Eden Royce's novella about death, grieving, and what we owe each other. it's a fantastic read and felt particularly relevant (grief stories always do!) as we're all trying to process our pandemic emotions.
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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I promise I'm not going to complain about this anymore (today) but Readers' Advisory and Collection Development go. together. THEY GO TOGETHER! You don't have one without the other! If you're buying the books but nobody knows about them, you fail. If you want to tell everyone about the cool books
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I promise I'm not going to complain about this anymore (today) but Readers' Advisory and Collection Development go. together. THEY GO TOGETHER! You don't have one without the other! If you're buying the books but nobody knows about them, you fail. If you want to tell everyone about the cool books
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Join me, Diana Wichtel, and Sarah Shieff on Dec 9th as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Join me, Diana Wichtel, and Sarah Shieff on Dec 9th as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.
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It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
The 2025 Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction (TFR Awards)
Thirteen early contenders for the best transfeminine novel of 2025. Voting is open until December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷
Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
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The thing about the generational discourse is that if you do the research you can prove that the best generation lived from 399-429 CE.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The thing about the generational discourse is that if you do the research you can prove that the best generation lived from 399-429 CE.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
Just a bunch of winners all around. Didn't judge each other, made great hummus, built a generation starship and left Earth. Great folks.
On my 2026 TBR! 🤗
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
Cloti & her spouses cling to each other in the hollow shell of their occupied city.
Rebellion brews among the Maer & in Cloti’s heart.
She has foreseen how this will end:
In flames.
But visions never tell the whole story.
CLOTI'S SONG
danifinn.itch.io/clotis-song
books2read.com/b/mgYKlD
Rebellion brews among the Maer & in Cloti’s heart.
She has foreseen how this will end:
In flames.
But visions never tell the whole story.
CLOTI'S SONG
danifinn.itch.io/clotis-song
books2read.com/b/mgYKlD
Cloti's Song by danifinn
A steamy F/F/M +M fantasy romance featuring a married throuple in their 50s who take on a fourth in their occupied city.
danifinn.itch.io
December 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
On my 2026 TBR! 🤗
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
The related Wings So Soft is on my soon-to-released top 10 romance list 🦉💜
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I CAN make my friends laugh 😌
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I CAN make my friends laugh 😌
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you: “hey Darryl how can I become as cool and chic as you are?”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
you: “hey Darryl how can I become as cool and chic as you are?”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
me: “oh, I use my public library card”
you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”
me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Mockingbird’s Muses prints!
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Mockingbird’s Muses prints!
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🤖 Books cannot be #translated in a click: @ceatl.bsky.social
& the @europeanwriterscouncil.eu call on the global book sector, incl. writers, agents, publishers & readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary #translators after Amazon’s launch of Kindle #Translate
ceatl.eu/books-cannot...
& the @europeanwriterscouncil.eu call on the global book sector, incl. writers, agents, publishers & readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary #translators after Amazon’s launch of Kindle #Translate
ceatl.eu/books-cannot...
Books cannot be translated in a click!
CEATL and EWC call on the global book sector, including writers, agents, publishers and readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary translators after the announcement of Amazon to launch Kindl...
ceatl.eu
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🤖 Books cannot be #translated in a click: @ceatl.bsky.social
& the @europeanwriterscouncil.eu call on the global book sector, incl. writers, agents, publishers & readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary #translators after Amazon’s launch of Kindle #Translate
ceatl.eu/books-cannot...
& the @europeanwriterscouncil.eu call on the global book sector, incl. writers, agents, publishers & readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary #translators after Amazon’s launch of Kindle #Translate
ceatl.eu/books-cannot...
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We're also hiring for a YouTube-focused producer to adapt our longform investigative journalism into mid-length videos for the platform.
All the details and application here:
All the details and application here:
YouTube Producer
New York City, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We're also hiring for a YouTube-focused producer to adapt our longform investigative journalism into mid-length videos for the platform.
All the details and application here:
All the details and application here:
For January Romance book group, just picked up library hold of The Perks of Loving a Wall flower by Erica Ridley. This one involves daring disguises and an old manuscript. 🧐 What do you have cooking this #ThursdayBookChat?
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December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
For January Romance book group, just picked up library hold of The Perks of Loving a Wall flower by Erica Ridley. This one involves daring disguises and an old manuscript. 🧐 What do you have cooking this #ThursdayBookChat?
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The Duality of Kitten
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Duality of Kitten
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It’s the bird whose name sounds like a Shakespearean insult!!!
A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker for #WoodpeckerWednesday. #birds 🌿
A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker for #WoodpeckerWednesday. #birds 🌿
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It’s the bird whose name sounds like a Shakespearean insult!!!
A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker for #WoodpeckerWednesday. #birds 🌿
A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker for #WoodpeckerWednesday. #birds 🌿
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
The legend returned! 💐🐣
Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross (Mōlī), is at least 75 years old and the world's oldest known wild bird. She and her mate of last year have returned to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the 2026 nesting season.
Wisdom was first seen and banded in 1956, after she had already laid an egg...
Wisdom was first seen and banded in 1956, after she had already laid an egg...
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The legend returned! 💐🐣
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Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
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Call or email the US House Energy & Commerce Committee at 202-225-3641 or [email protected], ask to leave a public comment about their November 20 hearing. Tell them to oppose permanent DST and amend to permanent Standard Time, for health and the overall economy!
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Call or email the US House Energy & Commerce Committee at 202-225-3641 or [email protected], ask to leave a public comment about their November 20 hearing. Tell them to oppose permanent DST and amend to permanent Standard Time, for health and the overall economy!
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December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM