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Something I love about subscribing to @thebookseller.com is seeing names I recognise in print! @callummcsorley.bsky.social @caileansteed.bsky.social good luck for #LBF2025 !

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s only a month until we kick off Helensburgh Book Festival 2025! Friday’s event with Ambrose Parry is sold out (you can sign up for the chance of waitlist tickets), but our hugely popular Book Quiz from last year is back and tickets are still available! tinyurl.com/433zk6kk

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Author endorsements are a complex issue, but I'm grateful to those like @caileansteed.bsky.social @philippaeast.bsky.social who make time in their busy schedules, as it does help debuts. (And don't feel guilty if you've got a copy but not read yet! Plenty of time & no obligation 😀) #BookSky

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We’re very excited to have @jennycolgan.bsky.social join us at the Hill House on 29th March! 💙📚 Buy your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/author-jen...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵 1/10 “Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place” —A 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career: www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/read...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

If you love crime fiction you won’t want to miss our final panel on Sunday 30th March! @susiesbookreviews.bsky.social will be speaking to @jocallaghankat.bsky.social and @spacemandan13.bsky.social about their fantastic series 📚💙 Buy your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-scen...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Petition: Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

UK friends, you know what to do.

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We’re very excited for this event with Adam! Buy your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adam-farre...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Super excited to be taking part in @hburghbookfest.bsky.social this spring! Looking forward to chatting about book journeys, pitching and being on the other side of the panel! Come and join the fun. 📝💫📚

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This will be a great panel and you can get the chance to pitch your novel idea to a team of industry experts! Find out more here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/helensbur...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 74 days ago • 71 comments

This is interesting - I've never been sure if blurbs work or not (except for a few specific authors - I HAVE def bought a book cos @benaaronovitch.bsky.social blurbed it...and was not disappointed). It would defintely take a lot of burden off a lot of people if we DIDNT have them! #Booksky

submitted 30 days ago • 23 comments

Check out all the amazing 2025 authors and guests for @hburghbookfest.bsky.social! 👇🏻

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a handy starter pack so you can follow all of our 2025 authors and guests. Who are you looking forward to seeing? 💙📚 go.bsky.app/KQB29u

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️

submitted 32 days ago • 39 comments

If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.

submitted 32 days ago • 50 comments

OK, here we go. It's #buyastrangerabook day. People buy each other books, cos they can and they're ACE! @spacedlaw.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE people a book each. Your choice of book. Whatever you like. So, if there's a particular book you'd like, get in touch. UK only

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

This was an idle thought when I posted it, but trans folks: If you have wishlists of items you need/want for your transition, surgery/hrt fundraisers, or MA needs, drop your links here. Cis folk especially: See what you can give. Transition is expensive in the best of times, & this ain't that.

submitted 34 days ago • 52 comments

£4305/£8000 this is just £95 away from 55% now!! please share to help keep this moving - i know you’ve all seen it but have all your followers? maybe they’d like to donate! boost boost boost #MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfunder

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

My classroom book showcase for Lunar New Year! Any recommendations for more brilliant books I could feature? 🧧🐍

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments