Read in September: [ @emmaruthrundle.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social ]

Swans @ Bluebird Theater

On the Pike's Peak cog railway.

When does autumn start? I'll have to look it up. I Love September as An ecotone, between two Domains, like a riverbank. - Quentin S. Crisp.

Read in August - featuring an atypically large number of @snugglybooks.bsky.social @adamscantwell.bsky.social @justinisis.bsky.social @nosubstance.bsky.social

Read in July. @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social @justinisis.bsky.social

The Dillinger Escape Plan with Converge @ Mission Ballroom

A small selection of PS Publishing's enormous output over the years.

It's #worldsnakeday! My dad, a herpetologist, didn't read much fiction but I think he would've enjoyed this, the snakes' oral history of their expulsion from Ireland. - from @nightjarpress.bsky.social

J u n e @theauthorguy.bsky.social @punktowner.bsky.social @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @lavietidhar.bsky.social

Thanks buddy. I was already planning to rob everyone in this town, but your cooperation is noted.

Napalm Death with Melvins @ Summit

Read in May 🌻 🐝 🫐 🐦 > @glasgowsurrealist.bsky.social @strangelymagic.bsky.social @kijjohnson.bsky.social @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social

Read in April. cc @harkaway.bsky.social @gabino.bsky.social

Looks like someone was casting a spell on the sidewalk outside my building.

I'm genuinely curious, has any other author attached themself to the career of another like Richard Chizmar has with Stephen King?

You kids and your fancy website queues. Back in MY day, we sat on a cold sidewalk outside Toys R US at 7 am when a new batch of Wiis arrived, and we liked it!

Many of the finest hardcovers I have come from Centipede Press. I only wish they all had the top edge stain. Books by @michaelcisco.bsky.social, @jackdann.bsky.social, @kkoja.bsky.social, @joerlansdale.bsky.social and others.

Arrived from @swanriverpress.bsky.social today!

March 📚 ...by @pflugu.bsky.social @thisisindexed.com @sgj.bsky.social @swanriverpress.bsky.social @rioyouers.bsky.social and others.

Pelican @ Gothic Theater

musical art by akira kusaka

Bookmail coincidences.

The Fern Cat https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/the-fern-cat

Books 🟥 in February - by @asphodel-farmer.bsky.social @justinisis.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social and others.

Cats Paradise https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/cats-paradise-1955

I'm quite fond of the solid color pages @zagava.bsky.social books often have between stories or parts of a novel, those extra touches that make physical editions irreplaceable.

from "Rain Against a Face That Isn't There" by Quentin S. Crisp

"Bring me... blue pages"

from "An Invitation to the Voyage" by Charles Baudelaire

Random brain detritus: Damian Murphy's story titles and Meshuggah's song titles have a similar... something. Without prior knowledge, would you know which is which?

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

January ❄️

Best soundtrack ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-u...

2019

I'm not sure how many books I have from @subpress.bsky.social so here's a sample. Their trade hardcovers put the mainstream press to shame and the limited editions don't disappoint.

@swanriverpress.bsky.social Is there any chance of a trade paperback of The Scarlet Soul?

To partake of a mystery that one can't possibly hope to understand is an attainment in itself. - Damian Murphy, The Acephalic Imperial

Seagulls are the souls of dead sailors my father was told by war-hardened old tars at sea Then what about pigeons? ... @glasgowsurrealist.bsky.social "Pigeon Industria"

"I made a mental note to investigate later the obscure and potentially fascinating relationship between armadillos and time." - @glasgowsurrealist.bsky.social's The Drowned Labyrinth

November - December books.

Everyone wants quick Answers. If you don't commit To a conclusion Before you've reached it, they doubt Your virtue—whose side you're on. - Quentin S. Crisp

I think it is amazing that stuff like this - and like having ebooks you bought deleted from your readers etc - happens for "copyright" and "IP" and yet LLMs and similar can just... hoover up everything they want and say "oh well that's life" when people complain? Baffling.

It's a "no take only throw" day.

Pretty good book mail for one day.

My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.

We could all use a reminder about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.