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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Currently working on a house of leaves graphic design video that will hopefully be out around halloween. Stay tuned. #booksky

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/10/2026

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rona/Ro any pronouns 📚 My bookish youtube channel is Ro is Reading / @Ro.Reading! ✏️ I’m a writer of character-driven genre fiction (mostly fantasy), graphic designer, and generic book + warm drink enthusiast ✨ Ace | aro queer in ways mysterious to you ✨

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/06/2026

I have just DNFd yet another debut novel that read like a first draft--often incoherently overwritten, inconsistent characters, agonising pacing. Great idea and obvious talent but in need of a brutal three-page dev letter they didn't get, so now the book will tank & the author will probably give up.

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One more book until I’m through my #NetGalley backlog! Hooray! #booksky

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

stick a pin in this metaphor

…because these covers are a microcosm of the entire conflict; Walden's book is mostly built on writing and other objects left by Sylvia Drake, Charity Bryant, and others. Her work includes many elements from these records that Cleves does not refer to in her book, and many of her interpretations of those records are different from Cleves's interpretations, often intentionally so. In addition to her historical basis, Walden's book includes fictional dialogue and story elements that are original to her work, some of which are inspired by Walden's own life.

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 25/06/2026

So much this. Is it so hard to say what that content is? Lumping it all in as "content" is a way of dehumanizing the art we all work to create in different ways. It's a way to try and devalue our work.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/06/2026

Does this news outrage you? Does it make you want to make zines? Do you want to know how, even without a computer? Here's an easy step-by-step guide by @thorazos.bsky.social. Print out the pages below or purchase copies cheap at the link. www.etsy.com/listing/6936...

The Thuban Pres Guide to Analog Self Publishing, by Julia Gfrörer

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Trying new things! My first video #netgalley review is posted! Definitely check out The Nightingales by Emil Wilson when it comes out on August 4th. #booksky youtube.com/shorts/9g7zt...

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ARC Review: The Nightingales by Emil Wilson

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Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 17/05/2026

I feel like everyone who’s used it as a therapist needs to see this “By using it, Client waived confidentiality”

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We are the LARGEST union in trade publishing history, and we want better for our workers in order to make a sea change for creatives everywhere. Let's take a stand together against the existential threats to the arts, whether stagnating wages, the AI slop machine, and destructive layoffs.

Screen cap of Publishers Lunch article stating "Hachette Boom Group Employees Unionize" by Erin Somers. Start of article: "Employees of Hachette Book Group announced they have unionized with Washington-Baltimore News-Guild Local 32035 of the AFL-CIO. They have signed up a supermajority of 600 workers, making it the largest union in trade publishing history. The union says it is seeking better benefits, protections, and rights for workers, as well as increased equity, transparency, and agency in the workplace."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/04/2026

Over on Whatever, I use my recent visits to film/TV companies as a framing to note how my not "cognitively offloading" any part of my creative process to "AI" is making my career more secure, not less: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/04/24/a...

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An Anecdotal Observation About Career Longevity

As most of you know I spent much of this last week in Los Angeles, taking meetings with film/TV folks and pitching things to them, both from books I’ve written and ideas I have currently not …

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

My Trans Rights Readathon video is finally complete! I worked hard on this one, so if you like queer people and/or graphic novels, give it a watch! #booksky #trr2026 #graphicnovels youtu.be/lsXXJRzSaWk?...

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My 2026 Trans Rights Readathon | Focusing on Manga and Graphic Novels

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Trans Rights Readathon final weekend is HERE! Chewing my way througb this stack of books. #booksky #trr2026 youtube.com/shorts/fg_Sr...

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Trans Rights Readathon TBR, part 2 🏳️‍⚧️

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404 Media @404media.co · 24/03/2026

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

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This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Trans Rights Readathon starts today! Their website is here: transrightsreadathon.carrd.co #trr26 #booksky

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

morning glory + sunflower bulbas 💫

Digital artwork of a blue morning glory themed bulbasaur and a green sunflower themed bulbasaur

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER! I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is! On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/03/2026

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Happy #Pokemon Day! My latest video is out. It’s a bit goofy silly but I promise it gets at some thematic analysis. #booksky #pokemonday2026 youtu.be/RVvxqPchm6Y?...

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Giving Fictional Characters Pokemon for Pokemon's 30th Anniversary

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SushiFerret @sushiferret.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I often meet people from famously safe cities for trans people who sorta look down at red states as this lost cause where the only existence to be had there is a hellscape that you can only escape from. But we LIVE here, we have loved ones, communities, networks, all fighting to stay!

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

My latest video is live now! I can promise you all a truck 🚛, and perhaps some animal morphers. #booksky #youtube #animorphs youtu.be/pDwSqlaGrgg?...

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Everything I read in January | Witch Hat, Animorphs, Romances, etc

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Book Riot did a roundup of the Best Romance Books of Century So Far, and I had the great pleasure of choosing @itsamia.bsky.social's glorious BITTER MEDICINE, published by @tachyonpub.bsky.social! Check out the rest of the list! bookriot.com/best-romance...

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Best Romance Books of the Century So Far

Here are the romance books that top our charts this century so far.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The intention of policies like this proposal is to introduce so much friction, so much pain, so much discomfort and humiliation, that a child desists rather than continue to assert their true identity. It is nothing less than conversion therapy being written into school policy.

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Faolan @brujofaolan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Discord lied. they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company. “facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

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Greg Bartell @gregbartell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This sort of smug, dismissive superiority from pundits - "oh, you were naive to think anything could be better" - is defeatist and lazy. There are a million different ways the world isn't the way it should be. That is an invitation for improvement! Use your platform to rally people for change!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026

Again, I have to laugh because if you say racism is central to the thinking of leaders in our society, people will treat you like a loon, but look at all the resources dedicated to racism.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/02/2026

I think that “people having beefs” seems to be a pretty inevitable part of the process of activism. Arguably, it can be productive - people have to hash out disagreements in decentralized movements one way or another. But maybe…try to keep more of that stuff to the Signal group chat.

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The storygraph challenge I’m talking about in this video is available to join here: app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... And there’s also a lovely, hand-lettered bingo card if you’d prefer.

White and gold bingo card on a green background. The title is: 2026 Ro.Reading Bingo. The boxes read as follows:
1. 5 books you already own
2. A reread
3. About a systemic problem
4. Published in 2026
5. Published in 1926
6. In translation
7. With a green and gold cover
8. Nonfiction about immigration
9. About internet culture
10. Featuring or containing a queerplatonic relationship
11. Read for story research
12. An essay collection
13. Free space: your favorite book of the year
14. Published after 2016, facing/has faced a book ban
15. Self- or indie published
16. Recommended by a friend
17. Finish a series
18. By a queer black woman
19. New-to-you subgenre
20. For a community event
21. Own voices, about disability
22. With someone’s photograph on the cover
23. Featured in a video essay
24. 12 nonfiction books
25. 12 books you want to give your full attention to

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I use Xigxag, which I switched to a couple of years ago in order to avoid funding Bezos's evil empire. I've found it very good so far. xigxag.co.uk

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Audiobooks From $13.95 (or less) - xigxag

xigxag: no subscription audiobooks, better prices the more you listen and exclusive access to the listen-and-read x-book®. Proud B Corp™.

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My December reading wrap-up just dropped! It was a month of great books, most very fairytailesque. 🐦‍⬛ #booksky #fantasybooks #readingwrapup youtu.be/Ijqmhnc0dWI?...

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December Reading Wrap-up + Way Too Many Storygraph Stats

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Rona is Reading @rona-is-reading.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Well. This might be the worst alternate cover design I’ve seen since the trade paperbacks of Rainwild Chronicles. You’re telling me I have to look at this rather than the gorgeous valdemar illustrated cover?! #booksky #coverdesign

The audiobook cover of The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey. It has two badly cut out stock photo women ln the cover, one dressed in brown and holding a sword, the other dressed in chainmail and holding two swords. In the background is a badly blurred 3D model of a hawk’s head that looks like it was rendered on the first Playstation. The title is on top in gray.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

7pm: “Ugg I didn’t get any writing today done. I feel like a horrid failure. I’m gonna self care, build legos & listen to my Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook.” 7:15pm: just opened legos: “oh shit, I had an idea, I’ll jot it down!” 11pm: “fuck did I just write 4000 words?” Repeat the next day.

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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 09/01/2026

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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