Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 19/11/2025If you want to barf look up the plot of Lionel Shriver's new book lol 100
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 10/09/2025lithub.com/zibby-owens-... just a reminder that this happened 🙃lithub.comZibby Owens withdraws sponsorship for the National Book Awards over its “pro-Palestinian agenda.”As reported by Publishers Lunch earlier today, Zibby Owens—the CEO of Zibby Media and creator/host of the Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast—has withdrawn her sponsorship of tomorrow’… 150
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable. 1128388019412
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 15/01/2025please, if you have the means, help the displaced black families of altadena, ca hit their gofundme goals. we need each other.docs.google.comDisplaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory 2144129
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I got another one ...very few people seem to know about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's many anti-trans comments so the media attention surrounding her new book will undoubtedly be positive and voluminous 100
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Nina McLaughlin announced today that the Boston globe was cutting a page from their book section and that she had written her last column if you want something else to be depressed about 240
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Today in You Can't Make This Up (review of The Barn by Wright Thompson) 010
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Pick a movie, keep one actor, the rest are muppets This is an earnest one I want this movie to exist Clue, keep Tim Curry 020
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 03/12/2024The theme of this year's New York Times top 10 books is "look you can order 8 of the 10 titles in one handy publisher order" 040
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt James @exhaustdata.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Here is my deranged merch proposal for a little tote bag (10 x 7 x 3) that holds Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (9.25 x 6.5 x 2) and NOTHING ELSE 77211
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It's almost like.....publishers do stuff to make books good 🤨 161
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"I trust everything is going smoothly, right?" 😭 030
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Based on my calculations it seems like they will announce the new York times top 10 today?media.tenor.coma woman 's face is surrounded by mathematical equations such as x + 2ALT: a woman 's face is surrounded by mathematical equations such as x + 2 100
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Lindsay Buckingham has got to be monitoring the progress of a legal precedent for “this song is unlawfully mean to me” with bated breath 392673598
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Oh my god there is a scene in this where in 1990 Trump goes to a bookselling conference to promote his book! Does anyone know anything about this? I am dead 😭 320
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Idk maybe don't include your book in a holiday gift guide if you're going to let it go out of stock ☺️ 020
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 18/11/2024One thing they don't tell you about being a serial book hoarder is that it makes attempts to declutter the stuff of the other people in your house ...sort of comical. "Oh you think these baseball hats are a bit much?" *Points practically anywhere* 140
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌 324174364034
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Booksellers, are you on here? Can we finally recreate the halcyon days of twitter where we had a nice community that was actually helpful??media.tenor.coma little girl looks through a magnifying glassALT: a little girl looks through a magnifying glass 181
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 14/06/2024The special edition hardcovers of books that are already out in paperback... I just 😵💫 020
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 06/06/2024I am honestly shocked that people want to read (let alone **write**) novels with covid storylines. Like there is nothing I want to read about less. We all went through it. Like not that long ago. It isn't revelatory? It isn't interesting? Anyone else? 11503
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 06/05/2024When do we think Intermezzo will be available to download on Edelweiss....any theories 000
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 05/02/2024Imagine being the editor of the new york times book review then being like....nah I'd rather write poorly researched hit pieces about children 030
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 03/02/2024The absolute upstairs downstairs vibe of the "assistants' pick" in the Harper catalog is sending me 120
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 12/01/2024Hi has anyone read the new Kiley Reid 110
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 04/01/2024Aww the pleas for indie next noms are coming in, you know I am a sucker for a personal request 🥹 010
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 04/01/2024What I miss about Twitter is having a place to complain about industry stuff 🥺. ...for example that I always forget reps send out promo codes a few days into the new year but I always send big orders right before 😥😥😥 110
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 12/11/2023Every person on earth — every baby, every middle-aged man, every elderly woman — deserves peace. There is no purpose to our lives if not to liberate one another. 7697125
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 12/11/2023Have we all read the Andrew Wylie interview yet 130
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 04/11/2023You know what makes book buying harder than buying for any other type of store? All of our vendors are selling (variations of) the same thing. It's not like I can say "oh I already ordered candles I am set with candles"...it's like "I feel like I have ordered 6 different titles about trees??" 170
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt lizwhatsherface @lizwhatsherface.bsky.social · 28/10/2023Action item for Americans. The emails are already written for you & this only takes seconds. Let these politicians know they'll get voted out for this. Defund Israel. And keep boycotting, protesting, speaking. (graphic & url via /itswalela on Instagram) tinyurl.com/defundisrael 03218
Reposted by Stef Kiper Schmidt TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 08/10/2023Bluesky is offering journalists and newsrooms direct access to this platform. Spread the word. 🗞 2624211804
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 06/10/2023It should be illegal for audiobook readers to do whiny kid voices for the kid characters..like, we know. 060
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 24/09/2023I don't know, I feel like I would be pretty annoyed if a book reviewer in a manor publication used the first lines of her review to do a dumb AI joke 🤷♀️ 130
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 12/09/2023Just a little digital galley brag from the Riverhead spring list! 🥹 380
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 09/09/2023Still kind of can't believe what happened to Elizabeth Gilbert 👀 020
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 07/09/2023This is SO good but let me just say if you happen to not like toilet talk like me...well you will just have to get over it lol 020
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 30/08/2023AJ Finn has a new book. Pursue your dreams. Anything is possible apparently. 161
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 29/08/2023Can't recommend this book highly enough. Every page blew my mind. 010
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 24/08/2023I love a big social history book but sometimes you're in the mood for KARDASHIANS or something gossipy but FIRST you have to read 3 chapters about 12th century monks 110
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 22/08/2023If you see a bookstore buyer right now and they look at peace but also vaguely haunted it's because they finally finished buying for fall but will start buying for winter in like 2 weeks 020
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 20/08/2023I am reading Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino and I am ~obsessed~ 250
Stef Kiper Schmidt @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social · 20/08/2023Okay so this where you've all been hanging out 👀 180
