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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.
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Happy Second Sunday in Advent!
We light this candle for Peace 🕊️
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 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.
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
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
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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
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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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
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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!!
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!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The Finch-go-round has a few riders this morning 🪶 Lesser goldfinches
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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
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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
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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
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
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Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Looking for a quick audiobook listen while you run around doing umpteen holiday errands? Pick up Untethered Sky, my fantasy novella about murderbirds for 50% off from @audiobookscom.bsky.social for the month of November only
50% OFF Untethered Sky
From World Fantasy Award–winning author Fonda Lee comes an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs. Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We have two - count that, TWO - Solaris books on @NPR's Best Books of 2025 list!

Pinch us, we must be dreaming

🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA, epic fantasy by Caskey Russell https://geni.us/doorsea

🖤 THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ, standalone horroromance by @isabelcanas.bsky.social https://geni.us/palbad
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Off to investigate books one and two.
A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Lowachee
- queer MCs
- gunslinging dragonriders
- traveling to the frozen north will fix us
- and if not, at least we'll have a little vengeance as a treat
- 3rd in CROWNS OF ISHIA series
A Covenant of Ice
Check out A Covenant of Ice - <B>The exciting conclusion to the gunslinging dragonrider trilogy!</B><BR><BR>After years of separation, Havinger Lilley has finally reunited with his lover, Janan. He no...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Snagged a signed (!) copy of this book by @itsamia.bsky.social at my indie shop the other day. Excited to read it. #booksky #reading
THE MEMORY HUNTERS by @itsamia.bsky.social
- f/f
- memories are extracted w/fungus
- an academic blithely pursues her memory research
- while her bodyguard protects her from murderous rivals
- when they discover a memory that doesn't align with "official" history
- things get weird... and dangerous
The Memory Hunters
Check out The Memory Hunters - <b><i>Inception</i> meets <i>Indiana Jones</i> in this cinematic, slow burn, romantic fantasy following a headstrong academic and her equally stubborn bodyguard as they ...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!
Hello queers and fears, it's almost Pride Month and I've got a gift for you:
the first six months of the 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
I'm organizing this by month so click on through!
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it.

"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."

'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'

I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.

"Thanks."
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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You can read my books for free by requesting it for purchase from a library. The library buys it, I get royalties, and you get it for free. And future readers also get my book for free. Easy! Everyone wins!
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Time again to hide inside warm books in this weather.

I’ll be in Edith Wharton’s “Summer” if you need me. - Michael
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Good morning, my friend!
It’s #Monday of #Thanksgiving week. Remember, almost everyone you meet is on the same journey this week.
May your grocery lines be short.
May your To Do list be…doable.
May your travels be safe.
May your patience not be tested.
And may your #coffee fulfill its promise.
Amen.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Corporate media shilling for corporations. I'll get my tiniest violin.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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#Booksky Kobo reader?
All our books are available on Kobo and Kobo Plus! Read more queer books! www.kobo.com/us/en/search...
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM