A reminder to people that independent bookshops that are coming to here from Twitter are taking a financial risk as that social media outlet is a major factor in marketing and getting sales.

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer. @pipofsuffolk.bsky.social has sent me £10 to buy someone a book with! So, if you're based in the UK and there's a paperback you'd like, get in touch.

More book people are here, hurrah! More 📚 posts! Spotted two new titles I want already…

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The Bookseller is doing a survey on advance and royalty payments (and timely payment status) Feel free to let loose, as I did!! www.thebookseller.com/news/the-boo...

At Literary HQ we’re beginning celebrations to mark our 15th Birthday! We’ve got a bunch of competitions (15 or so) and some special offers (maybe 15 of those too) but you will need to be a newsletter subscriber to find out more. Sign up at www.theliterarygiftcompany.com

Been making some more changes today but certainly not going to make the same mistake again of asking anyone to take a look 🤦‍♀️

We‘ve been making some changes to the website. I have one of these mugs up for grabs for the first person who spots a typo… www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/products/go-...

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Here are my Summer Reading episode picks for this @backlisted.bsky.social: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Faber/FSG) and A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton (Granta/Ecco).

Any other online businesses having to go round switching off AI automations left right and centre on various platforms? It’s exhausting. #ratherbereading

National Book Lover‘s Day you say? Um we did that yesterday. And Wednesday too. Oh and all of last week. And most of July. 😂😁

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I see the old: "Trollope said no-one should publish a book before the age of 40" conversation is happening again. Just a reminder: Books are for people of all ages, all cultures, all backgrounds The voices of old, dead white men are not the only ones worth hearing

Hey Brits! Please share around! The Govt has an open call for evidence on their proposed changes to fit notes. This is open to disabled people, carers and medical professionals. It's open until 8th July.

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🚨 @joannechocolat.bsky.social is running amok near Kings Cross hiding free books! 🚨

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And this morning the Shed is a briefcase, with tarnished brass hasp, rotten stitching, and a bellyful of faded books, boxes of chalk, coloured pencils and confiscated slingshots...

Congratulations Ros, you are our winner! Can you you contact us with an address to send your prize! Please email us via the contact link on our website.

National Black Cat Day (Bestiary, 13th c.) digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/3665...

Are you signed up to our newsletter? We really don't bombard, & there are always interesting new products featured. Sign up via the link (scroll down). 📚❤️ AND to be brutally honest it's so much better if your hear about us from *us* rather than via ZuckerMusk platforms that take cut of everything.

I have a little helper today it seems. 😬😬😬 #buzzoff

Not only a chance to win, but check out the comments, some great reading recs!

Competition time!! We’ve teamed up with @robinince.bsky.social and Atlantic Books and you could win this trio of goodies. To enter, 1) like this post 2) comment with the best book you’ve read this year Good luck! Open to UK and ROI only, closes at 11.59pm GMT 31st October 2023.

Hey blue pals. It's Wednesday, so it's "Buy A Stranger a Book" evening. Been doing it on Twit for 5 years. Look! bit.ly/31i9Xwk Now starting it on Bluesky. I'll give away two books. FOR FREE. If there's something you want let me know. If YOU want to "Buy a Stranger a Book" get in touch!

There are Bourbon Creams in the office and who even knew they were a thing?

Once upon a time there was….

Look who's here!

Bookish people: help me identify a board book. My 4.5 year old is looking for a specific book with these qualities: Cover has a "red hexagon" Characters: people Plot: People saying hello and goodbye while waving Is this a real book?

It’s great answering the phone at the office because you regularly get congratulated just for being a human being. Except the calls from spam bots, they‘re not that fussed.

Just writing a product description for this and whilst I decided this might be depicting a tender fraternal moment between Hazel and Fiver, M. thinks it’s a fight! 😱 🐇

How to be a Writer, No 927378: Open laptop Stare into the void Address the void: "You lookin' at me?" Do a few press-ups Punch the void Feel marginally better Tea.

I have more Bluesky "Buy a Stranger a Book" day action! @mr-omneo.co.uk has sent me some dosh, so I can buy five people a book each. Yes, it's true. I'm not making it up. So, if there's a particular book you want (within reason), get in touch!

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AND 10% off with us too! 🎁📚❤️😊

A quick message to new Blue Sky friends: We're entering the final week of our Short Story Prize submissions! Closing date = Saturday 30 (midnight UK-time). If you've a short story to share, we'd love to hear from you - and so would our amazing judges! Full details: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

A poem for today from our office copy of the Emo Poetry Generator. It’s been a tricky Monday; we‘re very low on biscuits.

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Struggling to find fresh and exciting #childrensbooks? Need books that will make them laugh and smile, but that also might also understand the world around them a little bit better? Stop endlessly scrolling. Supoort indie publishers. Support indie bookshops. *bows*

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Also, just remembered that deep in our spreadsheet of potential products (it is a BIG spreadsheet) is the idea of creating The Necessary Biro as (sort of) featured in @jonathancoe.bsky.social's brilliant novel What a Carve Up!

Current WIP at Literary HQ is collecting writerly quotes to print onto pens. Because stationery. Our favourites so far: "Oh! Write, write. Finish it at once." Jane Austen "I write because I cannot NOT write." Charlotte Brontë "Write me of hope and love." Emily Dickinson The list is growing though.

This is a rubbish poem.

Hi! We're here. With hope. x