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Ballast Book Company

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🐉 Rad indie bookstore located in beautiful & complicated Bremerton, WA 📚 Shop indie bookstores and support local 📍 Corner of 4th street and Pacific Ave www.ballastbookco.com

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Call me by your name? You'll have to, you're so old you'll have forgotten mine! Ohohohohoho!"
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
These weeks as we approach the election are going to frustrating & exhausting. You'll do a bunch of stuff & still feel like you still should do more. Find a focus of course, but also, remember to take breaks! Have fun! Read books!! Keep yourself well because we need your work.
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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Like all cats, they loved poetry and had no small opinion of themselves, so if you asked any cat its name, you were likely to get a very long and involved poem telling you of every exploit they’d had since they were a kitten. Even cats never used real cat names." BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ Huh. This feels like something y'all should be preordering, reposting, & generally losing your minds over🖤☠️ YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, companion to our beloved YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY 40~ 🏳️‍⚧️+GNC creators deliver the best Weird Cosmic Horror of the year. Out Oct 6. Get: store.tenebrouspress.com
Publisher holding a test print of YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If we are changing the names of lakes, then surely it's gotta be: Lakey McLakeface
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
have you heard of our lord and saviour @tkingfisher.com
Blue background with white text that says 'booksellers trying to get someone to read their fave author'. Beneath is a screenshot of a text conversation. Person 1 says 'do you want to join my religion?' Person 2 says 'what's your religion?' Person 1 responds with an edited picture of 12 book covers all by T. Kingfisher. Person 2 says 'I'm interested.'
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library
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Travis Baldree @travisbaldree.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you would like to help, Spokane has an online donation portal to support the homeless- my.spokanecity.org/endinghomele...
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H.O.M.E. Starts Here Donations
Donations to the H.O.M.E. Starts Here Fund go directly to supporting services for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 31/07/2026
The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Garden is unleashing such a tidal wave of fresh ripe cherry tomatoes that I'm gonna have to invite Denethor over for supper
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
You can log on to Bluesky where the Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians, and Culture critics are all yelling at one another about The Odyssey you can log on to X where people are debating if women are "real people"
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/05/2026
So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I socialized in person with a single adult today and had to tell her that Taco Bell didn’t do this. I don’t want this to get known as the Taco Bell Diarrhea Plague. Someone mentioned calling this thing “MAHA blast” and I say we make this name catch
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Shopping local is so Jessica
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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
HR 7661 opens the door to nationwide book banning. Have you called your reps to ask them to oppose this dangerous bill? @5calls.org makes it easy: 5calls.org/issue/federa... #UniteAgainstBookBans @uabookbans.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social
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Oppose Nationwide Book Ban Bill H.R. 7661 ⭑ 5 Calls
Rather than prosecuting people involved in child sex trafficking, House Republicans are trying to “Stop the Sexualization of Children” by turning the …
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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards voting is still open until August 8th at 12 pm Pacific! Don't forget to submit your ballots if you're an Attending, Virtual, or WSFS member. If you don't have a membership yet, you can sign up through our site now: lacon.org/register
Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Voting Now Open
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Cheryl Aruda @dirtyblondesinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Something to read about 2 of the many that make up the mosaic of our American history. #PrideMonth ends tomorrow. #LGBTQIA+PRIDE is everlasting.
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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 23/06/2026
Romanizing languages is fraught, and some languages have been romanized in different ways (think 北京, which Hanyu Pinyin represents as "Beijing" versus the older "Peking" of Wade-Giles / Imperial Post). Nahuatl is no different, as you'll notice if you ever search for words in it the language. 1/
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Everyone stop what you’re doing and preorder Bad Words by Ríognach Robinson right now bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...
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Bad Words: A Novel
A Novel
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 20/06/2026
This was a great interview with Murderbot production designer Sue Chan: tvobsessive.com/2026/06/19/s...
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Sue Chan Talks Building Dystopian World of Murderbot
Production designer Sue Chan talks building the futuristic world of Murderbot and its brutalist influences.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Some good news for your late night!
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Uptick in children and teenagers enjoying reading for first time in 5 years
More than one in three now say they like picking up books in their spare time, according to a literacy charity.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In Preservation culture, asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.
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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 07/06/2026
Whoah, wow: thrilled, floored, and honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award last night! Thanks, all. Signed, a horror writer stumbling around Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Scrooge leans out his window and calls down to a Muppet bunny: You there, gayboy, what month is it?

(Credit to computer_gay for the original).
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 01/06/2026
It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
BEING ARO IS OUT NOW! 💚 So excited to share this collection with the world! 13 authors writing about the aromantic experience across genres, all celebrating what it means to be aromantic! This was such a labor of love, and we hope you love it too! Get a copy: rosieethor.com/being-aro
hardcover copy of Being Aro (The title is written in big black letters against a green gradient background. Interwoven with the letters is a person with green skin, short black hair, white clothes and platform boots. They kneeling on the ground and are aiming a bow and arrow to the upper right. They are wearing the aromantic flag around their neck and it is trailing out behind them like a cape.) in front of a rose bush with light pink blooms.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/05/2026
oh another "I can't believe Ann Leckie, who writes about fictional AIs, doesn't like Spicy Autocomplete!!!!" My sibling in Amaat, if you actually read my books you might want to work on your reading comprehension and then try again.
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Heeeeeeeeey yooooou guuuuuuuuys!
A dark blue and gold flyer for a local author festival. The primary image is a giant book that says “Bremerton by the book vol. 1” in front of a hammerhead crane, a ferry in the water, with a cat leaning on the book and a seagull on the corner. Other text says: “local author festival Saturday May 23 11 am - 5:30 pm; www.bremertonbythebook.com” and logos for Quincy square, KNKX radio, and Ballast Book Company are in the bottom corner.
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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I don't know how to get readers to care about the nationwide book ban except to keep screaming
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Join me in being angry
I have been telling y’all about H.R. 7661 for a while now, and today I need to ask you for a favor. If you’re new to the newsletter or have been skimming...
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Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
What I’m promising you all tomorrow.. three fake engagements is too many they said… put down those tropes with your hands up, they said…
Trope graphic for ALL HAIL CHAOS
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fuuuuuuuck this.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 08/05/2026
Well, would you look at that. Free...free?!...free!! romance audiobooks available today and tomorrow! Yep :) Stuff your earbuds, folks, and spread the word: libro.fm/collections/...
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A very fine selection of loot. Thank you for crawling with us!
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!
To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC...
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Indie bookstore day highlights 😎
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I think @mattdinniman.bsky.social would approve of this post I wrote anyway it's dirty shirley o'clock, crawlers! pop by the store to snag this ultra-rare loot while supplies last 🍒🍫
Hand holding Maeve Virgin Dirty Shirley chocolate bar with Princess Donut the cat on the front. 8-bit style graphics with a pink background and black text say 'NEW ACHIEVEMENT! Willy Wonka! Congrats Charlie—you found Princess Donut's ultra-rare chocolate bar. It's now Dirty Shirley o'clock! Reward: a chocolate bar. Surprise!'
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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James L. Sutter @jameslsutter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
BREMERTON! Come hang out this Friday with me and @ballastbookco.bsky.social's Reading the Rainbow book club! I'll be chatting and answering questions about DARKHEARTS, writing, gaming, or anything else. Meet at 5:30 at Ashley's Pub, right beneath the bookstore! www.ballastbookco.com/events/20260...
Flier for an author event/book club discussion, showing the cover of DARKHEARTS (featuring two teenage boys about to kiss) plus James's face.

James L. Sutter
Author of Darkhearts
April 24
5:30pm at Ashley's Pub in Bremerton, WA
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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 16/04/2026
guys, this is how you lose the time war
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Please share as widely as possible. This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not. Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...
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Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions
Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Choose your own adventure with us on April 21st: www.ballastbookco.com/item/dmHOYK6...
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Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall by Jendia Gammon | Ballast Book Company
Delve into the gnarly guts of a long-dead mall in this gloriously weird and whacked-out romp, where friendship, 80s music, and food court slushies are your weapons of choice against spandexed supernatural creeps.
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We’re going to have fun with Mermicorno! 🧜🏻‍♀️🦄🌊 seriously we’re so excited to host you Shea
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We love to see book banners eat shit electorally
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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
i am deeply, deathly sick of seeing commercials for the harry potter series and i cannot imagine how sick of it i will be by fucking december
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026
Come on then, and remove him.
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🎃 Mr Too Damn Boo-no 👻 @bergoesbueno.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One of the very best from Clickhole
From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.
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Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Thank you so much for sharing your time and your story with us! Check out Jamie’s memoir about how creating affordable housing is actually very possible here: www.ballastbookco.com/item/OwX-Svr...
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Bittersweet Lane by Jamie Madden | Ballast Book Company
The Bitter Reality. The Sweet Solutions. The Lane Forward.Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works—or why it’s failing.
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