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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Friends don’t let friends buy books on Amazon. Invite your friends to shop on Bookshop.org where every purchase supports independent bookstores. Give your friends 20% off and you'll get 20% off after their first purchase.*

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 15h

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Free educational video alert! Catch up with @radicalcopyeditor.bsky.social Alex Kapitan's recent "Editorial Tools to Counter Sexism and Transphobia" presentation. Free for everyone to watch through 11/14, after which it will be a member-only video. www.edsguild.org/editorial-to...

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Editorial Tools to Counter Sexism and Transphobia — Northwest Editors Guild

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 02/10/2026

Good morning, illustrators! Next month I’ll be joining @scbwi.bsky.social San Francisco to chat about discoverability with my fellow Scholastic AD, and friend, @dbuu.bsky.social, and also offering a limited number of portfolio/reviews. Will be a Zoom. Join us! #kidlit www.scbwi.org/events/sfsou...

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Deep Dive into Discoverability for Illustrators

Are you an already-published illustrator looking to get more work or trying to get more eyes on your illustrations? Join us for a conversation with Brian LaRossa, Véronique Lefèvre Sweet, and Doan Buu...

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

POV: You’re in an office building for a meeting with strangers on the third floor and the elevator door opens to this scene . Do you get in, take the stairs, or run screaming back outside into the sunlight without looking back? 👀 😳

Photo of elevator door that’s partially open revealing dirty gray quilted blankets hanging from the ceiling and covering the interior of the elevator

Are they for soundproofing or padding or to catch spills — who knows ?

A wider photo of the blanket against the back wall

A closer photo of the same blanket in which it’s easier to see the big dark splotches — or splatters ?

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite editing tricks: 1. Open your Google Doc. 2. Edit ➡️ Find and Replace 3. In the Find box, paste: \bwas\s\w+ing\b 4. Check all the boxes was watching ➡️ watched was smiling ➡️ smiled

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Little Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy Gilmore Girls season to all who celebrate! 📚

Young woman in a library holding an old book, expressing curiosity and nostalgia about its smell and feel.

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Jennifer Chambliss Bertman @jennbertman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here’s a preview of the letter I wrote that I’ll be putting in the mail starting tomorrow as a fun new perk for my paid subscribers on Substack. Would you or someone you know like to receive snail mail from a children’s book author? Visit my Substack newsletter (link in my bio) to sign up!

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Andie Smith @andiesmithbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We’re at it again… It’s Krampus, baby!!!

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 27/05/2025

Authors & Publishers posting about illustrated books launching this week: pls credit ILLUSTRATOR. Doing a #CoverReveal? Credit illustrator & designer. Not only does this help boost artist but it shows people that you hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness Art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social

Illustration of a blue round creature with wings and a tail, containing the text “#PicturesMeanBusiness.” Beside it, hand-lettered in blue, is the question: “Why do so many book people keep forgetting to credit illustrators?” Small text at the bottom credits illustrator Sarah McIntyre and the website

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My sweet Callie turned 9 (probably) yesterday. I adopted her from a rescue and the vet gave an educated guess about her age. I’ve only had her for three years, so it’s hard to believe that she could be so grown up already. 🎂

Very close up photo of Doodle face (left side) against background of light brown floor

Light-haired shaggy Goldendoodle against a background of green grass , her front left leg raised as she walks

Close up of same Doodle inside with a dark brown floor and light pink walls in the background

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People who like each other, romantically, still do things like gradually meet each other’s friends, don’t they? Or is that a relic of the past?

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a watched despot never myocardial infarctions

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SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SCBWI BookStop is the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ annual online book promotion designed to help members showcase and sell their books directly to readers, parents, educators, and librarians. Learn more here: www.scbwi.org/bookstop-faq

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CultureSonar @culturesonar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the 21st of September. If you haven't seen the HBO Earth Wind and Fire doc, here's your reminder. Ba-dee-yah. www.culturesonar.com/earth-wind-f...

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Earth, Wind & Fire: The Weight of the World

Questlove's new documentary on Earth, Wind & Fire reveals how an abandoned child formed a vision where music would bring the world together.

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Kimberly #MaskUp Ratliff, MSc @kimberlyratliff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're voting absentee by mail in NC, see below for recommended mailing deadlines for your ballot. #ncpol

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gloria Steinem’s latest & last memoir goes on sale Tuesday. You can order it now. (I would be very grateful if you ordered it from me, using the link below. If you can’t afford to buy it, request it at your local library!) 📚 #Booksky bookshop.org/a/108292/978...

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An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

In her final memoir, Gloria Steinem offers a candid, inspiring portrait of her early life and journey as an activist, while looking ahead to the next chapters of the fight for equality—a rare opportun...

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One hand petting, two tails thumping. Winning. #DogsOfBluesky

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

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Lynn Becker @lynnbbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review for Bathtime for Snow Monkeys, a picture book that uses eloquent haiku and elegant illustrations to immerse readers in the peaceful bliss experienced by a troop of macaques in a mountain steam bath. lynnbeckerbooks.substack.com/p/shelf-awar...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just got fed a very angry Facebook post about Meryl Streep voicing Aslan in the Narnia story, because she’s a lady. Their concern is that she’s not a man, but I feel like it’s a bigger deal that she’s not a lion.

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I need to eat more vegetables. But I want to eat more pastries.

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The NC county (mine) w/ by far the most damage from #Helene received the lowest percentage of federal recovery funds. I’m sure being the most purple county in the region w/ a largely blue city as county seat had nothing to do with that. 🙄🤬 #gotv mountainx.com/news/local-g... subscribers

A chart listing several NC counties and CDBG-DR awards each received with Buncombe County (county seat Asheville) at bottom with only two and a half percent of funding

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m honestly not sure which I’m more excited about—a job offer or this little tease from Kristin Cashore. I’m texting everyone I know about both! 🤣

Photo of a notebook with a firebird scene on the cover

Kristin says in pIG post that she added a little blue fox that she made out of post it notes because it is TOPICAL TO WHAT SHE IS WORKING ON

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎶Ed Shee-ra-a-an Sheeran so far a-way-a-ay 🎶

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nice things still happen. 🧘‍♀️

An outdoor stage in the afternoon light with trees in the background . Audience members sitting on the ground or in camp chairs waiting for the play to start .

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Seriously, ladies, why are christian conservative men having trouble finding women to marry them and have children with them? They’re so upstanding , not to mention charming! On a related note, I am about to officially give up on dating and just get another houseplant if this is what’s out there.

Screenshot from dating app . This is a message I actually received today .

“ They wrote you an intro :

I don't want to sound rude or disrespectful .
I wouldn't be interested in a relationship but if you happen to be interested in a hookup.

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Monogamous | Single
& Average build
* White | Christianity |
conservative

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have traveled thousands of kilometers for this precious bebe

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Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Would a free weekly or bi-weekly writing workshop interest the #writingcommunity? Each session would cover a basic writing-related skill (e.g. writing dialogue, log lines, character arcs, etc.) with opportunities to discuss specific challenges matching the theme. Let me know!

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The only active conversation needed is “What is Jason Segel’s schedule looking like?”

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 10/09/2026

Remember when Amazon raised over $50 million for independent bookstores? Oh, no wait, that was us. 😎 Thank you for choosing bookstores over billionaires. 💜

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Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not a bad day. The announcement went out this afternoon: The Poetry Foundation chose moi as the next Young People's Poet Laureate! That's reason enough to smile, don't you think?

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Rebecca Eskildsen @rebeccaesk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

QUERY UPDATE: I will close to queries on October 1! If your query is ready to send before then, I'd love to see it! But please don't rush, as I'll aim to open again in the new year. 🫶

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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CultureSonar @culturesonar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Attention all Beatles collectors: we do a deep dive into a little-known aspect of the White Album. Is one hiding in your vinyl? www.culturesonar.com/how-george-h...

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How George Harrison Saved the White Album

When George Harrison first heard the American pressing of the White Album, he blew his top and demanded an important "do-over."

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The president of @booklife.bsky.social pleading w/ indie authors who use AI to also employ a "quality professional [human] editor." I don't agree that ("generative") AI has any place in a writer's career, but I imagine that a certain amount of placating seemed called for. youtu.be/Wc4Ke8Rziio

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AI-Generating Writing: A Message from BookLife President

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Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm really craving a popsicle and I'm pretty sure it's @clairewillett.bsky.social 's fault.

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Describe your manuscript or WIP...badly! Go!

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CultureSonar @culturesonar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy birthday to Chrissie Hynde. “...Chrissie Hynde has let it be known that she has zero f***s to give. She combines rock/punk defiance with in-your-face lyrics and a voice that can both challenge you – and break your heart.” www.culturesonar.com/5-great-cove...

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5 Great Covers By Chrissie Hynde

Ahead of an upcoming jazz covers project, we take a look at some other great songs that Chrissie Hynde has tackled.

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