iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 54m

Any day is a good day to spend in the bookstore but today was particularly nice.

Sunlight shines through the open doorway of a small bookshop

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 5h

Publishers imploring us to stock up need to also be ready for increased returns. I’m a good salesperson, but am I that good? We’ll see! I hate returns but went to a panel on doing returns at a recent trade show & everyone on it LOVED doing returns. Convinced me I just need to change my perspective.

010

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 5h

Inventory management this time of year is no joke.

011

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 11h

Even when they’re dying, they’re so pretty.

000

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 11h

Getting ready to go to Germany!

The book Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

030

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good god it’s nice to see someone supporting artists like this.

020

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man, Six Stories a Semester came out even better than we'd hoped. I tell ya! Grab it for yourself here: bookshopofbeverlyfarms.com/cool-stuff/s...

032

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

119115002854

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So many people have told me the audiobook of THE CALAMITY CLUB is such a banger but it’s over 28 hours long and I have a mental block on anything longer than 14 hours.

000

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Going to Frankfurt next weeks means I need to be so incredibly organized. Event orders are in early. I’m completely packed for our next book fair two weeks early. Spring orders are built and mostly ready to go. Xmas is priced and organized in the basement. Just need to pay some bills and it’s ON.

000

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In college I woke and felt a presence. In the corner by the closet. Next morning, my roommate says, I had the strangest dream there was someone in the room…in the corner by the closet. A little later, we run into the guy who had our room two yrs ago. Oh yeah, he says, that room is totally haunted.

161

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Haven’t touched the phone for hours. A woman from Texas calls and starts yelling at me for calling her over and over and I need to stop. I tell her I haven’t dialed out on this line today. “Someone there keeps calling me and I don’t appreciate it!” I’m here alone. “Stop calling me!” I’m shook.

000

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

155164205540

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just started an email “Thanks for your persistence, but…” So that’s how this day is going to go.

010

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Downpour all day and the UPS guy is telling me (again) he can’t possible carry all these big heavy boxes to my door and must leave them in the freestanding garage. Like, I’m literally half your size and how do you think the boxes are going to get into the store?

120

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ordering books for a conference and authors have entered their own ISBNs for the books they’ve requested we carry. Shocking to me how many authors get their ISBNs just completely wrong. I don’t get it. Aren’t you cutting and pasting?

020

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I also finished Kate Atkinson’s new book OUR NOBLE SELVES over the weekend. It took a long time for the mystery to come in. But you could see the clues being planted (not in a bad way). She’s so good at madcap. She’s so good at pointing out the bizarre in funny ways. It’s just a fun read. #booksky

160

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finished reading SOPHIE, STANDING THERE by Meg Mason. Loved her first book SORROW & BLISS. Sophie took a bit longer to get into but I’m glad I persevered. There’s a character (not Sophie) I can’t stop thinking about. She was so perfectly known on the page with incredible dialogue. #booksky

120

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No, why would we want to regulate these guys? I’m sure they have our best interests at heart.

010

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

191389196

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Six Stories a Semester, our new literary magazine, is a real thing you can now hold in your hands. It looks so good right by the cash wrap at Papercuts bookstore in JP!

At Papercuts bookstore in Jamaica Plain, Boston, a bookseller smiles as he sells a customer a copy of the new literary magazine Six Stories a Semester

042

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Laurie is the best. She was attentive to our kids when we visited the library regularly when they were younger. After I bought the bookstore, she called me up to come sell books whenever they had an author visiting. We’ve been so lucky to have her in Ipswich. It’s cool she got a proper send-off.

092

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ Today, we’re bringing out the first edition of Tolkien’s The Hobbit 🐉 It started off with a single sentence and became a well-loved children’s book, complete with illustrations and decorations from the author himself.

15632176

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is one of the many reasons we launched Six Stories a Semester. We don’t charge to submit. We pay $500 per accepted story. Submissions for issue two will open in December. bookshopofbeverlyfarms.com/cool-stuff/s...

bookshopofbeverlyfarms.com

The Book Shop of Beverly Farms

The best bookstore in Beverly Farms and the North Shore and Cape Ann area since 1968.

021

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sunday morning read, finished MISS ARCHER by Jordan Harrison. A really enjoyable dystopian story where the past and the future meet, with lots of surprises in store and reflections on what it means to be human.

A cat’s foot pokes an advance reading copy of Miss Archer by Jordan Harrison

130

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How is this real life www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/b...

Image of quote: The book, featuring a picture of Owens’s office on the cover, is dedicated to the weight loss drug Mounjaro.

020

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Really think Emma Cline has gone next level with SWITZY.

110

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You should come to this!

011

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Banger day in the shop so far. Some days it feels like the only section anyone can find is Bestsellers. Today is not one of those days. We are all over the map and I like it.

040

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the message: yes, shop early, but also, be ready and willing to trust the expertise of booksellers. There's a way of shopping at bookstores that acts as if the booksellers are just there to stock the shelves with product. I guarantee you, bookselling is not that kind of job.

0228

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The message booksellers are getting for Q4 is December is going to be (another) shitshow. Paper and ink shortages, printer back-ups, warehouse back-ups/staffing shortages, carrier delays. Order up now, we’re being told. Who knows what stock will be available later.

16135

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My son is going to a quinceañera party this Saturday. He said his friend loves TWILIGHT and he didn’t think she had the deluxe edition. Did I still have it in the store? I did not. It’s Monday. Could I find it in time? This is a story about community. 1/7 #booksky

281

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

FINALLY, author #6 from Six Stories a Semester! Jason Rice's "Buffalo" is an elegant piece of dialog, like riding along in the back seat. Dude worked on "The Adventures of Pete & Pete," "The Joan Rivers Show," and "Can We Shop?" WUT.

041

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Paul Swydan @swydan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Let's say that again: "Forgetting how to read is part of the surrender." If we think our kids are suffering from a reading crisis, the solution starts with us. Pick up a book and read.

031

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jill Lepore gave the keynote at our bookseller trade organization conference yesterday and she is a real gift of a human being. She was talking about her new book THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ARTIFICIAL STATE, which she called “a grim story, but a fun read” (and then laughed at herself).

120

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just my dad capturing the joy of sport on a Tuesday morning.

Text message between father and daughter about hope and possibility being why we play sports.

000

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Packed and ready to go. NEIBA, here we come!

Open suitcase with clothes on one side and a cat named Napoleon on the other side

010

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I like RECEIPTS FROM THE BOOKSHOP by Katie Clapham because basically I could have written it, which is also the reason I don’t like it (why didn’t I write it?). Anyway, most days feel like this.

Short, funny paragraph excerpt from a book about running a bookshop

111

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just remembering the two tween girls whispering in the bookstore the other day and then one turned to me and said, do we have to whisper? And I said, nope, it’s not a library, and they looked all around and seemed satisfied that bookstores and libraries are in fact similar but different spaces.

100

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s weighted blanket season.

091

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

358155522732

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just sold books at an author event at a library. Librarian: we’re just so happy to support local businesses, thank you for coming. Go check out a book, attend an event, sit and read a newspaper. Show libraries how we much we love and need them.

031

Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Finished THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones over the weekend. Still not convinced I’m a horror reader but I get it, this book is great. I’m still thinking about it, it’s going to stay with me for a while.

110

Reposted by Hannah Harlow

Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did I write and record a campaign song? Why yes I did. Happy Labor Day! The unofficial start of Maine campaign season. (Also, you should support and join your local and relevant union. I'm very proud to be endorsed by the AFL-CIO, the MEA, and SEIU Local 1989!)

035