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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Guess the 15 Saraband book covers correctly and be in with a chance of winning one of the featured books! (Pssst...if you find yourself in need of some help, visit our website) Send your answers via the below link by midnight on 14th December. UK entrants only. ✍️ tinyurl.com/yrnv8zye #Booksky 📚💙

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Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Announcing our 2026 bursary for small presses and crowdfunder AND book that Heather and I have secretly been writing about @404ink.bsky.social over the last few months. Our way of saying farewell! www.404ink.com/blog/publish...

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404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink

404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.

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Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop

UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.

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Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 12/11/2025

Following from our announcement that Quindrie Press will be closing at the end of 2026, I want to make people aware that in Spring 2026 we will be opening a one-off comic fund for UK creators. More details will be released next year. Sign up to our newsletter: quindriepress.com/newsletter

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Freya JN @goblinstunts.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Dead Horses | 86 pages | Online at Shortbox Comics Fair October 1st-31st

two adolescent catgirls chasing a butterfly up a meat staircase (yuck! sorry). above them are 8 panels cropped from the comic with the text “What will you do when you finally get your wish?”

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby! Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something. ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Really glad to be done with my dissertation and looking forward to graduating with a Masters in November! But now I have the writing bug again and am planning a little personal project😈

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Freya JN @goblinstunts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

just over a month til you can read Dead Horses!

text reads DEAD HORSES, SHORTBOX COMICS FAIR OCTOBER 1st - 31st. Two catgirls in bug fashion enter a dimly lit lounge full of an eclectic mix of people

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Connor Tierney @connortierney57.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It’s my birthday!! And all I want this year is to keep the hype train for Kid Eastwood the Movie going!! You can pick up a copy here, alongside volumes 1-4, physically or digitally!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/129... #kickstarter #kickstartercomic

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Do you read fanfiction? Can you help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student Khushi Shokeen with her research by completing her survey, please? (Please share!) forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

While at @sequential-scot.bsky.social today I got that amazing energy that a great comic con gives me and I'm so so glad we've got an event like this in Glasgow again. I can't wait for next year! Hopefully I'll be back to being behind the table again by then

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ThirdBear Press @thirdbearpress.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It’s coming down to the crunch on the BOXES 4 Kickstarter! It’d be great to reach the funding goal this weekend 🤞

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🌊 Ell 🌊 @elljwalker.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

SQUENCHIES BABY! At @sequential-scot.bsky.social having the BEST time!! ⭐

A photo of Ell, a white person with glasses and shoulder length brown hair, behind their con table with their arms spread.

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ThirdBear Press @thirdbearpress.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

We’re in the final 10 days of the BOXES Vol. 4 campaign, now at 56% funded. Can you push us past the next milestone of 60%? Check the Kickstarter page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

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BOXES Comic Magazine #4

The 4th volume of BOXES Comic Magazine! Lots of new short comics from a diverse range of exciting UK based creators.

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Sequential Scotland Comic Con @sequential-scot.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

🚨 ONE WEEK TO GO!!!🚨 The maiden voyage of Sequential Scotland is very nearly upon us, make some NOISE!!!! 📣 We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone supporting us and well wishing, it means a lot 🥹💚 See you soon! #sequentialscotland #scottishcomics #indiecomics #comicon #glasgow

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Jenny @ hhhnnnnggg @slowedmountains.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Set up a donation goal and doing some cheap headshot #commissions towards a new iPad that isn’t falling apart and lightly electrocuting me haha! They’re £15 each. (You can also dm me if you prefer) ko-fi.com/c/23ab5b9b2b

Drawings of a shocked dog person with a sword in their head and a grinning tiefling woman. Text reads: monochrome headshots £15/each!

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I'm back at Forbidden Planet for Small Press Day today! Come down to Sauchiehall Street for indie comics, small press, zines and more!

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- ̗̀ Sidney ̖́- @hesitantdoodle.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Seeing the @sequential-scot.bsky.social poster up around town and on the Glasgow subway is so exciting and such a surreal experience 🥹 Make sure you don’t miss this incredible event! 💛 Buy tickets here ➡️ tinyurl.com/449cysj8

Photograph of Sequential Scotland poster advertisement on the Glasgow subway

Photograph of Sequential Scotland poster in shop window

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Have you read any retellings of Greek myths? Could you help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student Konna with her dissertation research by taking 5-10 minutes to complete a survey, please? (Please share!) app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/g...

"Hey! My name is Konna and as a masters student at the University of Stirling, I am running a survey about Greek and International readers' reception of Greek mythology retellings! If you are a reader and you ahve read even one of the following: Percy Jackson, Song of Achilles, Ariadne, Silence of the Girls, and you have ten minutes to spare, please take the time to check out my survey! Your help is truly valuable.

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Buggy gay simping @beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK. Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it. Contact your MPs about the bill too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I'll be sad to see 404 gone but it sounds like this is a positive decision and I love Saraband's output! Best get buying those inklings!!

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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Can't stand that guy.

A drawing of a smiling yellow face, with the text, "the sun is a beautiful and alluring man".

A line drawing of a girl smoking a cigarette with one arm around the moon. Text reads: "but we know... he sucks".

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Chloe Richardson @clrichardson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🔍 Are you a sensitivity reader, authenticity reader, or cultural consultant with experience working with authors, agents, or publishers in the UK? Your insight would be appreciated to help with my dissertation! For further details, please email clr00053@students.stir.ac.uk Thank you.

Call for interviewees:

Are you a sensitivity reader, authenticity reader, or cultural consultant?

Your participation is requested for an upcoming research project exploring the implementation, reception, and importance of sensitivity reading in the UK publishing industry.

I'm looking to speak to professionals who:
• Have experience conducting sensitivity reads for authors, agents, or publishers within the UK publishing industry.
• Are willing and able to reflect critically on their role and the industry.

What's involved?
Participants will be required to partake in a 30-60 minute
online interview.
Your input will contribute to discussions on representation and authenticity in publishing and help shape a practical guide for publishers, authors, and
editors.

For Further details reach out to Chloe Richardson over email
cIr00053@students.stir.ac.uk

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I have also just backed this! Excited to get my hands on it and you should too!!!!

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Lauren MacFarlane @laurenmacfarlane.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hi! I am looking for people who have knowledge about BookTok and who read - or have opinions about - romantasy fiction to complete my survey for my master’s dissertation in publishing. Please share! To take part please click the link below: forms.office.com/e/M80FVJCBj3 #booksky #romantasy #booktok

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davidt dunlop @davidtdunlop.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Advert that I made for my Etsy a while ago to big myself up… all the quotes are real (I’ve screen shots), it’s just the sincerity of them that’s fake. 😂

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Omar - Imidak Art 🇵🇸 @imidak.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

the lovebirds are back! in sticker form!! you can get them now from my online shop at imidakart.bigcartel.com :))

two water bottles full of stickers, next to a sticker sheet of lovebirds (desc in image 2)

a sticker sheet of birds holding lgbtqia+ pride flags:

a grey heron with a rainbow flag,
two bullfinches with a lesbian flag,
a rock dove with an asexual flag,
a magpie with a gay flag,
a woodpigeon with an aromantic flag,
a peregrine falcon with an intersex flag,
a lesser black-backed gull with a non-binary flag,
a kingfisher with a transgender flag,
and a pheasant with a bisexual flag

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Hello people of #booksky ! I am asking for responses to my survey looking into book reader culture in Scotland. If you are an adult in Scotland who considers yourself a reader, please fill out my quick survey! On average so far, it takes about 4 minutes to fill it out. forms.office.com/e/WR37aGcjFF

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Sequential Scotland Comic Con @sequential-scot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Final day to apply for this! Get those CVs in to us 🥰

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Neil Slorance @neilslorance.com · 26/06/2025

I feel like this story got lost in the mix and it's absolutely heartbreaking. Thinking of all the amazing librarians having to leave their school. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Librarians set to be removed from every Glasgow secondary school

A principal librarian and a team of assistants would cover Glasgow's 30 secondary schools if council budget cuts are approved.

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This was a struggle because all of my favourite movies are from the 90s

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Happy #makeaterriblecomicday2025! It’s mandatory that you create some piece of sequential art — what it is and how you make it is up to you! Have fun! You might as well!

a comic. a possum is rummaging around inside a trash can. It erupts from the can holding something in its paws. “hey!” she says. She holds out the desktop calendar. “Today is June 24th! Look!” She leans on the edge of the trash can. “that means today is make a terrible comic day!” She produces a ballpoint pen from the trash and clicks it. “the idea is to just make something! no rules, just enjoy the act of creation! (Or don’t and just do it anyway)” she is drawing on the cardboard back of the calendar. “tell a story, tell a joke, make something silly or sublime or totally abstract! make something and don’t stop making it until it’s made!” She holds up her little comic with pride. “tell your inner critic to ‘fuck off!’ make a terrible comic!”

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Today for #makeaterriblecomicday (started by @pseudonymjones.bsky.social ), I have actually put pen to paper and drawn a comic!

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The first SPD I ever ran!! It was such a great day and taught me so much about organising events

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy birthday Kamila!! Her work is supremely gorgeous please go visit her shop and grab some Slavic delights!

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I've been reading for my dissertation for maybe two months and I'm still finding new sources

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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

if you listen to an audio book while you play balatro for 3 hours then you're doing important intellectual development and no longer "wasting your time"

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Gustaffo is such an incredible world-builder and his comics always draw you in. The art is incredible and everything is so considered and well-designed. Back this when you can!!!

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Leah @leahyeah.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Next month, I'll be working with Scottish Opera for a week in a pastoral care role for children doing workshops. I just popped in to finalise some admin and their cafe was giving out free overnight oats- already paying off!

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

make something terrible!

An illustration of a cartoon possum drawing a comic by holding a pencil in her teeth. She is giving the thumbs up with both free hands. Over her there is the text: make something terrible. The “terrible” is scratched out.

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