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Aster Glenn Gray @asterglenngray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I recently discovered that Amazon now lets authors distribute ebooks to libraries and still keep the title in KDP, and now all my m/m books are available in Overdrive and Hoopla (and also various print retailers).

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

For anyone in the US (and maybe Canada as well? Please let me know if so!), Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for 7 days, starting today: www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch... www.kobo.com/us/en/search... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the... Enjoy! :) #romancelandia

An image of the North American front cover of Wooing the Witch Queen shows a sinister witch queen in a spectacular beaded dress embracing her handsome and adoring new librarian (in a black wizard's robe) inside a library of magic filled with crows and masks and flying books. The tagline reads: Love can be a witch. A blurb from Sarah Beth Durst (New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop) reads: “Full of charm, wit, and magic… I loved it!”
Around the image, against a starry night background, are various pieces of text connected to it by arrows. They read: “bi villainous heroine,” “sweet cinnamon-roll hero with a fake identity,” “crow friends,” “found family,” and “flirting with fountains pens.” At the bottom of the image are the words: On sale for $2.99!

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Chapters of Lion & Snake Book 2, The Summer Pass, will go live on Ream, Monday mornings starting November 10! Need to reread Book 1? Follow along in the forum on Ream, where I’ll be posting new notes and extras daily. reamstories.com/ajdemas

Lion & Snake, volumes 1 & 2, represented as cereal boxes because it's a serial and the author is a goofball

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prairieczar @prairieczar.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The birding trip to Baker Wetlands ended up being a bugging trip.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

#Booksky It’s Pride StoryBundle Day #2! Looking for #Fridayreads, #weekendreads or awesome queer books? Get 14 great books - cyberpunk to gay romantic fantasy, fantastical mysteries to short stories by award-winning authors! At the $25 level, you can support Rainbow Railroad! storybundle.com/pride

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 27/05/2025

Drumroll please... I am very pleased to share the cover of ALL OF US MURDERERS, coming Oct 2025 from @sourcebooks.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social, with utterly stunning cover art by Marcela Bolívar @tropicalgloom.bsky.social!

A cover for All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles. In full 1970s Gothic style, down to the curly 70s font in yellow and the blue/green colour palette. It shows a scary house on the moors with looming turrets and evil lighting, and two men running from it. The front one is extremely dishevelled with messy hair and skew-wiff tie. The back one is ginger, neater. Both clearly afraid. the tagline is 'Love. Hate. Secrets. It's in the blood.'

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

the "this fucking guy" theory of history is extremely compelling!!

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I actually prefer “we’ve had” in this case, exactly because it is less dramatic. Lovell was a guy who did not panic, and “we’ve had a problem” is an almost comically calm way to describe what was happening. Less dramatic, but there’s a reason he said it as he did.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 12/04/2025

My big news, in the Bookseller!

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I have Whomp! There It Is stuck in my head, and no, no I cannot dig it

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Whole herd of at least half a dozen manatees cruised past the Camera today. We love to see it! 🥹〰️🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #manatees #seacow #herd #seapotato #squad #welovetoseeit #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 01/04/2025

the birds in question: bsky.app/profile/rspb...

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neutral @neutral.zone · 26/03/2025

Ken Burns’ The Internet: A Series of Unfortunate Events A slow pan over a blurry JPEG of a dancing baby, accompanied by a somber violin score. A dramatic reading of a 1999 forum post.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 24/03/2025

Scorpio: Today you will envy someone until you realize that they are on fire. The fact that you set them on fire while envying them is irrelevant.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A friend of Laura's posted this on FB. I leave it here so you can laugh as hard as we did.

Toddler learning to talk excitedly calls ducks fucks and baby ducklings baby fuckleys.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I feel like not enough people know that Bruce Campbell had an action-adventure series where he played a Revolutionary War hero turned secret agent fighting Napoleon's plans for world conquest as a masked vigilante. It was called Jack of All Trades and it was big dumb fun.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/03/2025

An LLM chatbot's literal entire job— what it is designed, built, & trained to do— is to respond to you using words which, in tone & connotation, you are statistically most likely to accept, based on what you've said to it & how you said it. It's just stats & bullshit. (Original image w/ alt text)

By Alexander Nazaryan

March 17,2025, 9:00 a.m. ET

Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAl's artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its users share “traumatic narratives” about crime, war or car accidents. And when chatbots get stressed out, they are less likely to be useful in therapeutic settings with people.

The bot's anxiety levels can be brought down, however, with the same mindfulness exercises that have been shown to work on humans.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Hy-vee's yummy gooey cookies are deeply disappointing. Much like their cheese cake

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 17/03/2025

ME (to volunteer who led me to bathroom): Thank you! They tell you to stay hydrated, but… VOLUNTEER: Oh, I know. I’m a kidney doctor. ME: … DR: I once had a man come in who said “I haven’t urinated in five days. Should I be worried?” ME: …… DR: I have no medical explanation for how he was alive.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

do you wish laundry was an adversarial activity? consider kittens!

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Moonlit Dye Works @moonlitdyeworks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Not fabric or stitching related - but I attended a sea glass succulent workshop last night at Hammer and Stain and it was so much fun and I absolutely love how they turned out.

Three sea glass succulents in small terra cotta planters. The first in in shades of blue, the second in light green and yellow, and the third in burgandy and purple.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

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a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

#Booksky Astreiant Series book sale! In honor of the release of the first new Astreiant novel in several years, POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) by Melissa Scott, Books 1-5 are all on sale until 3/20 at the Queen of Swords webstore! queenofswordspress.com/product-tag/...

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Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant

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GothamMuse @gothammuse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits this project used the largest size needle I've ever knit with, a US 17 - a very CHONKY knit 🧶! Starry Light by Laura Nelkin Loved the FO so much I've made two. Have another string of LEDs to make a third one.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I was appalled to discover the existence of cucumber-lime Gatorade yesterday. Gatorade should not taste like vegetables. It should taste like Blast and Kapow! and maybe wildberry if you want to get gourmet.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I got sent yarn to test so obviously I’m making a submerged sea serpent 😂🧶 #crochet

A crocheted sea serpent made in purple-white-pink yarn, made to look like it is submerging under water or sand

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I signed up to help at a Repair Cafe for the first time!

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Moi @theredshoes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

OMG kitty

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I was useful today, and it was tiring. Feel sorry for me.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I love furniture that converts into other furniture. A chair that converts to a picnic table? A chest that's also a bed? A table turns into a bed? Sign me up! Apartments in Japan where 4 pieces move around & do 8 jobs are catnip to me.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Do you also automatically rotate things like toilet paper and paper towels as you replace them, or did you never work in food service?

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This was a beautiful and needed read this morning.

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@GBDinExile @gbdawkins.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

man on the route last night in a Pride sequined caftan with a grand headpiece gave me an idea: Writing an AbFab reboot but set in New Orleans and very gay.

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Cara @januaryone.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

OOOPS I DID IT AGAIN! I knit the F💣 over and over again. This time I knit a cowl. Pattern coming super soon! 🧶#knitting #showyourknits #knittheresistance #knittingisresisting

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It’s always great to be graced with a nurse shark, but it’s the fish tagging along behind it that has most excited: a leatherjack. In over 5 years of watching we’ve seen one before, making it the 214th species of fish we’ve observed here in Coral City #coralcitycamera

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Alex Pemberton @yellowbrickurban.com · 25/02/2025

New piece out today in the @nashvillescene.com about how the sprawl of large lots in West Nashville—and its resultant affluence—is less a product of intentional design than necessity. Sewer systems have never been so interesting! Give it a quick read: www.nashvillescene.com/news/citylim...

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Affluence and Effluence in the Favored Quarter

How seeping sewage and an absence of urban services spawned spacious lots in Nashville’s white suburbs

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Case @caselace.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Did #ShowMeYourKnits say it's lace week? My speciality! 🧶 All patterns by Herbert Niebling.

A round black hoop with royal blue lace knitting suspended within. There are sprigs if leaves falling towards the centre and looped shells around the edge.

Pattern is Waldesruh, knitted in approx size 10 cotton.

A close up of the very edge of a lace shawl, pinned to an orange blocking mat. A flower like lace cresent with i-cord loops is in the centre. The colours are pastel, with neon rainbow pops, the loops round the very edge are mauve with spaced rainbows.

Pattern was mashed together from several in order to use up all the yarn from an advent calendar. (Yarn dyer sells jkr merch so I won't list them)

A fine knitted round lace doily pinned to a lime green mat. The background is yellow with six flowers radiating from the centre. The stems and leaves are two shades of green. There are three different pinks in the petals, two flowers of each. The petal are each hearts coming out of the green stem, joining the next petal at the lobes. The edge is made of dark and light blue and orange. It doesn't fit the design well, and the three large holes in it look like gaping faces.

Pattern is Hertzblume, and used intarsia to highlight the different sections. While you can't see them, there are hundreds of ends tucked behind the knitting.

A folded up white doily is pictured, against a red and purple blanket. The knitting is a hex mesh background with a single large flower in it. The flower has rwo leaves and a long stem, with six petals, remeniscent of a peacock tail. The edging is all crumpled, but shows sprigs if leaves and a looped edging.

Pattern is Otto, worked in size 10 Anchor Aida. The cordonnet spin of this thread made it a joy to work with and a real shame that it has been discontinued.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I need to accomplish some things today, and this feels like a real oversight on my part

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 22/02/2025

Bouchercon, mystery writer/fan convention. 2010 San Francisco. Lee Child is there. Cool guy. Tall. Very gracious. Smokes like a chimney. Did I mention tall? Saturday night he bankrolls a party. For the whole con. And as he's one of the GoH, the place is crawling with Reacher Creatures.

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elpenguino.bsky.social @elpenguino.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

#showmeyourknits Lace... I warned you! I have so much. Evenstar Shawl by Susan Pandorf Beaded edge

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20/02/2025

The Bishop would save the kid in Omelas, but she’d make sure she had tents, clothes, food and water lined up first, for the massive refugee crisis that would occur when the whole city melted away and a whole bunch of people were suddenly displaced.

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