Friends! Tonight’s event with @laurenfsharma and jacindatownsendthewriter is postponed due to a power outage!!! If it ain’t one thing it’s another 🤦🏽‍♀️. But! We will be rescheuling so stay tuned for a new date and we hope to see you soon! 💙

Last day to take advantage of our summer sale with 20% off all in-stock books and preorders of upcoming books! Don't sleep on our special preorder campaigns with signed copies and swag. Use code SUM20 while checking out on our website, www.loyaltybookstores.com!

It's summer sale time! Get 20% off all the books on our shelves and pre-orders of upcoming books, in-store and online, this Friday 8/22 through Sunday 8/24. Plus $1 paperbacks and $3 hardcovers on our sale cart! Come see us and help us make room for new fall inventory!

Saturday 8/30: Loyalty cannot wait to kick off back to school with the coziest fantasy with your new favorite heroine! Verity Vox opens up a world you will want to return to again and a again! . #LoyaltyBookstores #ShopLocal #YALit #PageStreetYA #DonMartin #ChristinePlatt #YoungAdult

I truly love this book & feel so lucky to have worked on it as an editor. And we are ALL lucky to get to learn from @chanda.bsky.social, a fantastic guide through the wonder of the cosmos. Preorder from one of our favorite bookstores, @loyaltybooks.bsky.social: loyaltybookstores.com/book/9780593...

Tomorrow 4 PM ET is fave Love Is Queer w/ authors @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social @edwardunderhill.bsky.social @roanparrish.bsky.social @chenciachiggins.bsky.social @blumagaincurios.bsky.social & @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social Moderator Christine Bollow of @loyaltybooks.bsky.social Tix: bit.ly/3HhDIsc

Drag Story Hour is here! Sunday 8/10 at 11AM at our DC Pop Up at Walter Reed! loyaltybookstores.com/dsh28

Romance Bookstore Day is on Saturday, and our romance section is restocked and ready! Come spread the love with us!

Petworth is open 1-5PM today (Sunday) as our booksellers head out to our trade show/ conference! See you next week all inspired and ready to rock those *gulp* fall and holiday books!

Listen, I think if it is gonna storm every afternoon for some random amount of time it should count as automatic reading breaks. We all just stop, drop, and read. No email, no real life, just book. Seems entirely reasonable to me.

Two days later… still gay. Holding onto our queer lit extra tight right now. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

To share, for those in DC area, @loyaltybooks.bsky.social will host convo between myself and @venessakelley.bsky.social on Thurs., July 10 at 7pm, at the DC Pop-Up as we discuss The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery and When the Tides Held the Moon. For free RSVP, visit loyaltybookstores.com/gwendolyn

Well, I guess they just declared war on us, but it was either that or having a Black character in Star Wars

Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Because we are a tiny staff run by overwhelmed elder millennials and mainly by one with rather intense ADHD we sometimes forget to say hi on here. But HI! The bookish community here has been so kind and we're grateful for you tags, props, and questions. 💕

“I asked ChatGPT” Well, I asked your mom and she said she wasn’t mad, she was just so disappointed in you

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

A helpful reading guide to expand your TBR – and your imagination – this #Juneteenth and beyond!

We’re claiming this time to be free and celebrate with our friends and community. Loyalty staff have juneteenth as a paid day off every year at loyalty and always will. You can still support us and the community by shopping online 6/19! Proceeds above expenses will be donated to Ward 4 Mutual Aid!

The DC Pop-Up is closed all weekend due to the nonsense parade running through DC's streets. We will be open our usual hours at the Petworth shop and the Drag Story Hour on Sunday AM at the Pop-Up is still on! Please reach out to us at [email protected] with any Qs. Stay safe, friends!

Our friends at The DC Pop-Up at Walter Reed are out sick today so that location is closed! They'll be reopen for bookish and gift goodness Thursday 12-6! 💙

Hi friends! Due to chasing packages down we will be opening Petworth at 11:30! See you soon hopefully with some boxes in tow!

Does everyday sort of feel like a Monday now? How is everyone getting through their emails in during a fascist takeover? hahahahasob.

Drag Story Hour makes Daylight Savings worth it! Enjoy some Sunday Sunday with us at The DC Pop Up today at 11AM for storytime with our Queen! www.loyaltybookstores.com/dsh23

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the women and gender non comforming folks 💜 — Hannah, Christine, and the Loyalty Team #LoyaltyBookstores

Thank you to @loyaltybooks.bsky.social for being the official bookstore for the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025. Support adoptee authors and indie bookstores and order today! bookshop.org/lists/adopte...

greatly enjoyed this little dive into bookselling over at ad astra—why independent bookstores are beacons, why historically that has made them targets, and how to support them. adastrastories.substack.com/p/volume-xlv...

Black every month. Happy Black futures every year.

the nazi bullshit persists, but damnit so do we. and we are much, much cuter.

We're so excited for fun times with our beloved Thien-Kim Lam, Taj McCoy, and our Romance community this Wednesday! A great chance to check out the DC Pop Up as well! See you there! www.loyaltybookstores.com/somethingche...

btw if you want this shirt, you can buy it AND support kick ass indie bookstore @loyaltybooks.bsky.social at the same time:

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

A little cozy treat today and tomorrow in Petworth! Get 10% off in stock Romance and Kids books! Plus our friends at Lulabelle’s Sweet Shop are offering $2 hot coco with a Loyalty receipt 😍! Get warmed up and shop local friends! Wednesday-Thursday 11-7!

Tonight's event with @yishunlai.bsky.social & @lillielainoff.bsky.social will now be VIRTUAL and still at 7pm ET (Tonight/Tuesday, 2/11) See y'all virtually! Register here: crowdcast.io/c/suffragistsguide

Hi friends! Our event tonight with the awesome Chad Sanders is postponed due to the weather! We’re working on a rescheduled date with our partners @dcpubliclibrary and will post as soon as we have one. We’ll be celebrating this awesome book IRL soon. Stay warm and safe everyone!

The DC Pop Up at Walter Reed is closed today for weather reasons friends! We’ll post as soon as they let us know if they’re opening tomorrow (Wednesday) so y’all can grab your pickups and enjoy all the beautiful makers and our book selection. Until then, stay safe and warm!

Friends! We had to cancel this morning’s story hour due to health issues and are so bummed!! We hope to see y’all on the next DSH on March 8th (and every second Sunday of the month!)

Drag story hour continues Sunday 2/9 at 11AM at The DC pop-up (on the Walter Reed campus next to JINYA Ramen)! We’re psyched for story, song, and queer joy! See ya soon!

A line from Andrea Long Chu's piece, in which she skewers her subject as "far center" like an entomologist with a specimen pin: "So the far center is liberal, in that its highest value is freedom; but it is also reactionary, in that its vision of freedom lacks any corresponding vision of justice."

Friends! While we move feel free to use coupon code CHILL10 for 10% off on your order due to the delay during our move and new store setup! A great time to snag some preorders or signed exclusives especially 👀😍. But if you need something quickly we suggest using our Bookshop.org page! Happy reading!

Early copies of BED AND BREAKUP have landed, and 1 out of 1 cats agree: It’s the perfect book to stick your nose in! I’ll be signing & personalizing all copies preordered through @loyaltybooks.bsky.social — support a queer author and a queer BIPOC owned small business and preorder today!

Hey there writers! Red Hen Press would love to read your submissions for the Ann Petry Award ❤️ This literary award seeks to publish prose literature by Black authors. Do you have something for us? Visit our submission guidelines here: redhen.org/ann-petry-aw...

Part 2 of my essay series on how the most powerful people in books should respond to the Trump administration. Over @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/what-publish...

Day one of packing complete and ah yes, the aches they are a comin! lol. But for a few hours we were in community with lovely people and physical labor is so wonderfully distracting from news! We’ll be packing again 3-7 Tuesday and moving in earnest (the important of being) from 4-8 Wednesday!

Clear description of the moment from Timothy Snyder plus suggestions for elected officials, media, federal workers, and ordinary citizens here—the latter mirroring what organizers have been saying for months. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

If YOU are an author of ANY KIND OF BOOK--ANY KIND!, even unpublished!--or an illustrator, if you are in comics, cookbooks, nonfiction, tentacle romance, WHATEVER, JOIN AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS RIGHT NOW. CLICK THIS LINK! www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

We’re here till 6pm at our current Petworth location! Our move begins tomorrow so come say hi/by while you can! 😘

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner