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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 24/05/2026

A very small part of a current project for @thebiblionaut.bsky.social ! #MyArt #WIP #DigitalPainting

Screenshot of a painting of some apple blossoms.

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Veronica O'Neill @zookie-art.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For those who come after 🌹

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hey friends, I'll be chatting with the incredibly lovely folks over at the Booked All Night podcast this Saturday 12pm EST to talk about my YA gothic horror fantasy debut, THE DARKEST GLASS and answer fan questions! 💜 Be sure to get questions in before Saturday (🔗 is below) Can't wait to chat! 🥰

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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A huge #BBNYA2026 welcome to @thebiblionaut.bsky.social and The Darkest Glass! Good luck!

Cover of the darkest glass. A confident looking woman on a throne

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

When you find a bookmark that fits the vibes of your new read perfectly >>>>>

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I need everyone to know now when the Expedition 33 art book hits my doorstep I will be INSUFFERABLE

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

While the ped0 in chief continues to inch us all towards WW3, this is a gentle reminder to take a moment, even a brief one, to unplug and find what brings you joy and hold onto that. You need to breath, reset, and keep yourself centered the best you can. Here's some of my joys right now ✨️

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/03/2026

ICE Out. No War. Trump for Prison. Here’s what Americans Sharpied on their signs for the nationwide mobilization.

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No Kings demonstrators protest Trump across the country

ICE Out. No War. Trump for Prison. Here’s what Americans Sharpied on their signs for the nationwide mobilization.

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It's official—The Darkest Glass is a BBYNA 2026 entrant! 🎉 I'm thrilled to share my debut with y'all and over the moon to finally have an entry of my own 🥹 If you haven't already checked out my YA gothic horror fantasy, go get that TBR updated bestie! 💜

The book cover for the The Darkest Glass (a young girl wearing a deep purple Victorian gown, a slight mischievous look in her eyes, sits upon an engraved throne holding an intricately silver crown. Behind her, obscured by the throne and to the viewer, are two, pale monstrous hands with long black talons, its nails scratching into the stone). The cover is framed against a cute green palm frond background. It is an the announcement for The Darkest Glass by Olivia Danson being a contender in the BBNYA 2026 contest.

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

What a wonderful day to not use A.I. slop in your book at all 🙂‍↕️

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm almost done listening to The Rose Bargain and I'm in TATTERS 😭 It's making me want to do a Folk of the Air reread SO bad but my fall TBR is nearing collapse and I'm also in the middle of drafting soooo 🫠🫠

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a man is carrying a suitcase through a living room .

ALT: a man is carrying a suitcase through a living room .

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Commissioning a cake to celebrate the release of my YA gothic horror fantasy debut? YES MA'AM ✅️

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

✨️THE DARKEST GLASS IS HERE!✨️ My YA gothic horror fantasy is book 1 in an epic horror series. Perfect for fans of Bloodborne, Pan's Labyrinth and Penny Dreadful! Available in ebook and print here: books2read.com/u/mvEqd2

A sixteen year old girl in a deep purple Victorian lace gown sits on an intricately carved stone throne holding a beautiful silver crown adorned in flowers. She has a mischievous look on her face. There are two monstrous hands holding the back of the throne. Only the long, pale spindle fingers are shown. Its long black nails are carving jagged lines into the throne. The girl does not appear to notice the hidden monster behind the throne.

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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 02/10/2025

Art vs Artist 💚

A young woman with reddish blond hair in a Victorian updo sits in an intricately carved stone throne. She looks with a mocking smirk at the viewer, and an elegant silver crown dangles from one hand. Monstrous hands with long black nails reach from behind the throne, and are scoring deep gouges into the stone.

It's me, a white person with shoulder length wavy brown hair, red framed glasses, and orange lipstick.

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dimes disparu @monsurifan520.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 24/09/2025

I got my contributor copy today!!!!!!! I'm so freaking hyped!!!!! Thank you @thebiblionaut.bsky.social for trusting me with your cover, and for being an absolute treat to work with!!!! The Darkest Glass officially drops on October 10th. You can pre-order at: books2read.com/u/mvEqd2

It's me, a white person with red glasses and brown hair holding a copy of Olivia Danson's debut novel "The Darkest Glass", which I did the cover for!!!!

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Personally celebrating bi visibility day with a feature in the amazing Book Lover Laura's new video!! 🥹🫶 If you haven't already checked it out please do and show some support to her fantastic bookish channel! And stick around until the end to see THE DARKEST GLASS cameo! 😘💜 youtu.be/XrWBmfDz_vM?...

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Does this Book Box Use AI?

YouTube video by Book Lover Laura

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

✨️PREORDER SALE ANYONE?✨️ Use code PREORDER25 at B&N and save 25% on your copy of THE DARKEST GLASS, releasing 10/10! 💜 You know your spooky TBR needs a YA gothic horror fantasy that's going to keep you up at night. And you get to support an indie author in the process! 😉

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Instead of a barbecue and some cool graphics this year, prepare for Black history month by investing in actual Black people. Subscribing to my publishing imprint for $5 or $12 will make a NOTICEABLE difference in my life & in the lives of the authors I champion: leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Presidents' Day is a reminder that presidents are elected to serve the PEOPLE. Not unelected billionaires. Not giant corporations. Not special interests. Not their families. Not their ultra-wealthy friends. The people.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/02/2025

The @socialists.nyc, who organized this rally in NYC two weeks ago, are holding a mass call for trans rights TOMORROW at 7 pm ET - you can sign up here! actionnetwork.org/events/mass-...

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Mass Call for Trans Rights

Join us to help build a grassroots, people-powered campaign to protect trans rights.

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Corey Danks @coreydanks.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

There were protests across the entire country today and I’ve barely seen it covered. This thread is full of them and there will be more in the future. If you cannot attend a protest, you can at least spread awareness and repost

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dear Libraries, I love you more than I can say! Thank you for helping me read more books than I could possibly ever afford to buy ♥ Thank you for everything you provide to your communities! You are such a powerful resource and a gift ♥@authorsabb.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social

A valentine on pink and cream paper with a line drawing of author Maia Kobabe making a heart with eir arms next to a stack of books. The text reads: A Love Letter to Libraries. Dear Libraries, I love you more than I can say! Thank you for helping me read more books than I could possibly ever afford to buy. Thank you for everything you provide to your communities! You are such a powerful resource and a gift ♥

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Ripley🪽 @skullingway.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Reposting as a reminder

Design that says ‘trans existence is resistance’ with swords and flames decorating the text

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Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com · 13/02/2025

We have to do this differently this time around, and one of the ways I hope that we do that is by collectively understanding that people can care about two things at once (or even, gasp, MORE than two things) especially while people are out there banning books: TALK ABOUT BOOKS!

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

in this house we stand for inconvenient queers, trans people who don't give a shit about passing, angry Black women, undocumented immigrants who are tired of being polite to racists; mentally ill people on public transit; and everyone else you're too proper to stand on solidarity with.

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Bookshop is going into selling ebooks and you can still get an epub to send to your reading device! Game changer. www.theverge.com/tech/597137/...

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Bookshop.org is launching an ebook store to take on Amazon

The Kindle has a new competitor

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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Some great orgs and efforts to support and help victims of the LA wildfires (and they’re not all the usual big ones)

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Here are some gorgeous queer indie bookshops worth your time and money. Some have coffee. A few have cats. There are no cats in the coffee. go.bsky.app/G321HCf

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LaurenWalshArt @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Creativity is like a houseplant, not an endless well. You need to seek out sunlight, water, and nutrients in art, shows, music, experiences, and more to tend to it. And just like plants it has its dormant and active periods and you may not seem improvement for some time.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 20/01/2025

I'm planning on doing 2 very important Things on this particular Monday: -Reading -Making Art Can't think of anything else more vitally important than those, today.

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shawndra (she/her) @shawndra.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

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Fae’rynn is Writing @faerynnistired.itch.io · 20/01/2025

i wish i had hopeful shit to say but atm i’m just gonna say to others what i’m saying to myself most often these days: just fucking live. wake up tomorrow. keep waking up. hold on tight to your friends and loved ones and keep each other alive

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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 14/01/2025

Hey hey, #PortfolioDay! I'm Ashley, a NY-based illustrator who works on book covers, tarot cards, and TTRPGs! I'm on a mission to do more traditional work, and here is one I made last summer. I'm dying to do more, so keep an eye out!!! #DarkArt #Illustration

An interpretation of the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which the knight is seduced by both Lord and Lady Bertilak. Here we see the knight in between the couple, head tilted back, eyes closed, as Lord Bertilak wraps a large hand around his neck and presses in close from behind. Lady Bertilak is pulling off his green belt with one hand, and reaching below to undo the lacing on his pants with another. The knight’s visible hand squeezes Lady Bertilak’s thigh tightly.

A graphite drawing of a woman with a huge flower crown and long, flowing hair with her head tilted up and back. She is in front of a huge stylized sun, done in gold leaf. The words "Daughter of the Sun" surround the sun. It was inspired by the Green Lung song "May Queen".

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617: Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel. Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2025

remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Being a writer truly means being in constant flux 😅 Like what do you mean my brain is juggling a gothic horror fantasy, a star crossed romantasy, and a secret 3rd thing that grew from a contest pitch that may or may not have angler fish inspired mermaids???

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Y'all reading #GideontheNinth is fantastic and I'm so happy to finally have dived in! 🥹 Humor? 10/10. Worldbuilding? No notes. Gideon? A mood.

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 : ✊🏾 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11/01/2025

On this third anniversary of the publication of my novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS fires rage in Los Angeles, whose paper the LA Times published this full page critical review of my novel at the time it came out. I’m reflecting on how my novel has changed my life & others’ lives since its debut today.

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Review: Surviving the storms of New Orleans and Black history with help from a meddlesome saint

Chantal James' debut novel, "None but the Righteous," sees New Orleans through the eyes of a young Black man and the spirit that leads him home.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The best advice I have for you is to start building robust, alternative networks now and quickly Don’t assume you will have access or the ability to distribute your material online forever Make hardcopies. Build local in-person communities. Build relationships with brick & mortar indie stores

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Following the Fable discourse and now Storygraph, one thing comes back time and time again -- AI is learning the racial, gender, and discriminatory biases from the data it's given, aka the call is coming from inside the red, white and blue house.

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Digging into the nitty gritty of a character's emotional state. Showing the reader all of the bright spots, dark corners and locked doors that make up their inner self.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Take no shit in 2025. Make hatred LOOK ignorant. Show it its cruelty. Be intolerant of bigotry. Don't abet a worsening. Lose friends who insist only some people deserve dignity. Understand who has your back and who's only there because it's convenient. Dig in. Set your jaw. Rewrite the narrative.

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🪱 gabriel 🪱 @gabrielandworms.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

So many AI images are so texturally gross to me. Looking at them is like the visual equivalent of getting out of bed and stepping into cold cat vomit. It's like wearing a polyester shirt completely divorced from the idea of breathability. It's like eating a frosted cookie where you can taste the dye

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Olivia 📚 The Biblionaut @thebiblionaut.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hello Bluesky folks and all new here! 👋 I'm Olivia, an indie author full of stories and caffeine 💚 My debut novel, THE DARKEST GLASS is releasing Fall 2025. It's a YA gothic horror fantasy set against a Victorian inspired backdrop perfect for fans of Bloodborne, Penny Dreadful and Pan's Labyrinth!

A fifteen year old Caucasian girl in a Victorian age inspired violet purple dress is sitting on an intricately carved stone throne holding a silver crown. The crown is embelished in flowers similar to ones on her dress and carved throughout the throne. There is also the depiction of a raven carved on the throne, seen right above the girl's head. Behind the throne and right above the girl's head there arw two pale hands, slender, monstrous and not human, and its nails are carving into the stone as if coming for the girl who is unaware of the creature.

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