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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I reacted just like an appalled mama, complete with a gasp and fluttering my hand in lieu of a fan. She shan't be allowed near my eligible son!

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just...talked to each other?! Just like that?!

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

And people wonder why Ulysses is so prone to keeping details to himself. It's no surprise when the get all alarmed every time things might, possibly, be fucked

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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In retrospect, I should have seen that twist coming

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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The letter from the man asking to purchase his children and the enslaved woman who bore them will be with me for a long time.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

That is a phenomenal and thought-provoking exhibit. I was lucky enough to stumble across it on a walking tour and had to go back to admire for longer

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I love garlic, but I recoiled in horror at the idea of a scratch-and-sniff garlic book.

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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Yeah, Ryan's last two posts were disturbing and good

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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I can't help but think Dottie wants everyone to celebrate

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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Is it helping, do you think? I haven't tried it

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Yes, hello. Please tell us more.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I got 8 little feets done yesterday. The cats were most tragic but generally accommodating

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Hmm...this particular combination of off putting traits makes me feel like I'm back in a club in my college days. Apparently I've danced with koalas?

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I suppose they do catch your eye? Also, people seem to be making fun of cyber trucks, not pulling people onto the street and harming them

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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A fun surprise when he gets home?

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

My big news, in the Bookseller!

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It's pure chance that I have the paperwork to show how my name changed, never mind that I've held valid passports under all of them. I just happened to take the box with the right paper work in the divorce

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"Yes, hi- I'd like to book a tour with the guide most likely to talk about blowing up monasteries please"

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Honestly, I want to be friends with this guide.

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Yeah. That disconnect actually pushed me to change careers. I could not pretend to care about what senior leaders cared about with a straight face

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

*snort* it's almost like there's a disconnect between what employees want and what employers want...

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Same. And lots of teeny tiny little pansies too

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I would also want my 100 dollar tree back

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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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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Awww! What charming baby vegetables

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Scare-a-dactyl @pstegosaur.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Nachos should be wide, not tall!

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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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