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melusinagr.bsky.social
Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (ie Satura journal). Luddite. Dabbles in art, with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History by researching Indigenous NA newspapers. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
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🎙️📚 Our first guest! SHARP folx will remember Swara from one of the keynote presentations at Reading last year. Her research on serialization and the Wattpad book publishing ecosystem is really fascinating.

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Here’s the thing. If you don’t like the fun and the challenge of 1. Reading widely 2. Going to archives 3. Searching for new sources 4. Playing around with book structure 5. Writing and revising Why are you even writing a nonfiction history book? Fame? 😆 Money? 🤣 I just don’t get it.

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Episode 4!

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Being part of the whole Unbound saga has not been fun; one consolation has been the support of the many other authors involved. And so, in that spirit, we've put together a list of some of the great books that now need publishers and agents. Please do share! open.substack.com/pub/therebou...

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Go Nashville!!! 💜💜💜✊

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Helpful to some folx in #bookhistory as well!

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#bookhistory

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Dear US trans ppl, I’m a historian & interested in Queer, science & art history. As a result I’ve studied the rise of fascism & its impact on Queer ppl. One of the features that comes up is that so many people couldn’t believe it was happening, didnt believe it would happen to them or…

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#bookhistory

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"Voynichese has no punctuation, so I was curious if spacing might unconsciously reveal sense units. If there are no patterns (e.g. equal spacing across a line) that might imply that Voynich words aren't really words" 👆(extracted from downthread, but read the whole thing!)👆

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I love these bits of ephemeral #bookhistory

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Just to be clear: Taylor & Francis, like Palgrave Macmillan, which is owned by Springer Nature, a company heaquartered in Cham, canton of Zug, Switzerland, is part of a global tax evasion racket. Taylor & Francis is a subsidiary of an entity called "Informa". And, of course, Informa is, as

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Good books: The 20 best holiday reads this summer www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301... This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!

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Historians are a weird bunch. Is it normal that we see a huge volume like this one and think: “ok, I’ll go through all these hundreds of pages with so-so handwriting to find the half a dozen documents that might be of interest?” 🤷🏻‍♂️

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#BookSky

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Why have the people who attack "postmodern gender studies" etc. started throwing "phallocentric" around like a first year Eng Lit undergrad?

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Heard alot of this "AI is just a tool" about AI. AI is not a tool. It's an agency. WE ARE THE TOOL TO AI.

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Small Press Day is all about fostering links between shops and local creators to celebrate our amazing comics self-publishing scene and community. Register your event for #SmallPressDay 2025 here: smallpressday.co.uk/event-submis... We're looking forward to hearing from you!

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A new website w/database on the 1680s Scottish migration to East New Jersey is 'live' #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica eastjerseybound.scot

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Excited to announce a new series from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'Book History for the Future', edited by Lisa Gitelman, Tom Mole and Sarah Werner. Now soliciting proposals, so drop me a line if you're working in the area and interested in learning more!

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This is a very important public service announcement.

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So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

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Don’t forget to register for the Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives conference on 28 June. Only £10, with follow—up support for your school and travel bursaries available!

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#bookhistory #newspaperhistory

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#bookhistory taking a lot of hits under the current U.S. administration.

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The team is chugging right along with this! We currently have almost 300 items plus another 20 or so contributed via this form. Please submit if you have published something or know of publications and useful resources about LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!

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“Reading Kew Gardens with a Carving Tool” - from a linocut workshop I participated in yesterday at the University of Münster Book Studio. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s self-printed work “Kew Gardens”, 1919 and 1927 editions.

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