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Support indies and get free shipping on @bookshop.org today! Here's my shop with my author booklist. bookshop.org/lists/katie-...

I hope this book quote from my sapphic modern-day Hamlet retelling Only Dark Edges shows up correctly. Get it for $2.99 this month only! Universal link ➡️ books2read.com/b/31VXkr Author website ➡️ katielcarroll.com/purchase-boo... Itch ➡️ katie-l-carroll.itch.io/only-dark-ed...

I hope this book quote from my sapphic modern-day Hamlet retelling Only Dark Edges shows up correctly. Get it for $2.99 this month only! Universal link ➡️ books2read.com/b/31VXkr Author website ➡️ katielcarroll.com/purchase-boo... Itch ➡️ katie-l-carroll.itch.io/only-dark-ed...

A little over a week to get my sapphic YA psychological thriller Only Dark Edges! Perfect for your #PrideMonth or #SummerReading list! Universal link ➡️ books2read.com/u/31VXkr Author website ➡️ katielcarroll.com/purchase-boo... Itch ➡️ katie-l-carroll.itch.io/only-dark-ed...

We're here, we're Queer & Disabled! 🏳️‍🌈♿ Our books are mostly Fantasy & or SciFi, with some contemporary. This book bundle is on now till July 11th! 🌈📚🧠📚🪐

A little over a week to get my sapphic YA psychological thriller Only Dark Edges! Perfect for your #PrideMonth or #SummerReading list! Universal link ➡️ books2read.com/u/31VXkr Author website ➡️ katielcarroll.com/purchase-boo... Itch ➡️ katie-l-carroll.itch.io/only-dark-ed...

Monday morning ask. Please go follow my sapphic psychological dystopian novel, Project Tasman, on BackerKit. We're a little over a month from crowdfunding starting. I'm so excited to share this book with you all. 🌈🚀💫 #booksky 🌈📚 I even bought a fun URL to redirect to it :D gorlskiss.com

For the last week of Pride & 1st week of Disability Pride (July), I give you a bundle of books by Queer AND Disabled (including Neurodivergent) authors. You'll find plenty of Queer & Disabled characters here too, like my aro-ace, gay, autistic, CPTSD MC Rarkin. 🌈📚🧠📚💙 itch.io/b/3669/we-ex...

#PrideBookFair Today I'm looking for WEIRD queer indie recs. Stuff that's hard to quantify, isn't easily distilled to a set of marketing tropes, and/or combines or defies genre in some way. Think: Jeff VanderMeer, Sayaka Murata, Samanta Schweblin, Indrapramit Das, Nalo Hopkinson, Aliya Whiteley

They already are.... What libraries need are less "libraries could be" and more "libraries are," with people getting off the computer and into the seats and board rooms where decisions about libraries are being made. Advocate for them, support them, champion them, do the work to keep them alive.

This month only get my YA psychological thriller Only Dark Edges for just $2.99! Author website ➡️ katielcarroll.com/purchase-boo... Itch ➡️ katie-l-carroll.itch.io/only-dark-ed... Universal ➡️ books2read.com/u/31VXkr

My YA psychological thriller Only Dark Edges is just $2.99 this month! It's a sapphic, modern-day Hamlet retelling about a teen girl grappling with the death of her sister. "Beware the storm!" books2read.com/u/31VXkr

I'm always fascinated by wordless picture books like The House That Floated by Guojing, which made us think about what a home really is. #picturebooks26

A Night at the Bookstore, by Josh Funk and illustrated by Jessica Gibson, is cute and sweet. #picturebooks26

This isn't the first time we've read The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, and it won't be the last! #picturebooks26

Whales in the City, written by Nancy F. Castaldo and illustrated by Chuck Groenink, is one of those nonfiction picture books that bring light to something that most people don't know about. It was interesting to see how the whales in NYC fit into the bigger ecological picture. #picturebooks26

"There is a conversation to be had about writing 'didactic' books skillfully, but every book that contains a message is not the 'enemy of storytelling' and 'art.' This privileged perspective is one that is often used to gatekeep diverse books from publication." -Joanna Ho www.slj.com/story/In-Def...

My YA psychological thriller Only Dark Edges is just $2.99 this month! It's a sapphic, modern-day Hamlet retelling about a teen girl grappling with the death of her sister. "Beware the storm!" books2read.com/u/31VXkr

My 14-year-old covered Romeo + Juliet in his freshman English class, so I had to share the 1996 version with him. I went to the movie theaters on a class trip to see the movie my freshman year, so it felt like a real full circle moment.

Cool people buy sapphic gothic horror books from indie authors And REALLY cool people order them from indie bookstores 👀

I haven't done any pride-ish promotion this month but if you're trans, nonbinary, queer, or simply chill you could do worse than treating yourself to some funny, award-winning Regency romances

Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Otherwise Disabled Authors with books on Itchio, This bundle is OwnVoices, for books with a significant character identifying as & or learning to manage queer/ neurodivergent/ disability life/ non-fic. See graphic for eligibility. Let me know if you'd like the sign up form!

Instead of focusing on taking things away from kids, I wish politicians and people in power would focus on what we can give children. Food. Housing. Healthcare. Education.

Congrats to Renee Watson, who's just been named a TIME Visionary - the only author on the list! I love that they chose a writer and advocate who's been such a true ambassador for poetry, stories, and the voices of young people. time.com/collection/v...

An incredible view of the surface of Mars, taken two days ago. You can almost feel like you're standing there—the sand shifting underfoot, the absolute silence, the unreal sensation of walking on a surface never before visited by a living creature. (Also your suit is leaking, you'll die here)

Three! Just three more followers needed for Project Tasman's BackerKit to hit 100. Could you help my sapphic dystopian novel's project get there? Crowdfunding will start August 3rd. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

It's time for #PrideBookFair Wishlist Week! From June 16 thru June 22: 🌈 Share queer books on your radar or wishlist 🌈 Offer recs of your favorite queer reads 🌈 Make rec requests Remember to tag your posts! 🌈📚

My sapphic, modern-day Hamlet retelling Only Dark Edges is perfect for Pride Month or to start your summer reading! That's why it's only $2.99 for the month of June! books2read.com/u/31VXkr

This month only get my YA psychological thriller Only Dark Edges for just $2.99! Author website ➡️ katielcarroll.com/purchase-boo... Itch ➡️ katie-l-carroll.itch.io/only-dark-ed... Universal ➡️ books2read.com/u/31VXkr

Once more, the Google Play store does something I'm grateful for. Amazon just activated AI in people's books, but Google Play gives you an option to turn off GenAI recap features for your books. Under Book Catalog > Advanced Settings > AI Settings. #Booksky #Romancelandia

In honor of the World Cup, busted this classic Simpsons clip out for my soccer playing kids. youtube.com/shorts/NCPD0...

Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo by Bess Kalb and Erin Kraan adds an adorable new character to the series, though Buffalo Fluffalo isn't exactly excited about the new addition. #picturebooks26

It's My Bird-Day! by Mo Willems is a fun addition to the pigeon books with an appearance by my favorite character Duckling. The 8-year-old very astutely pointed out the speech bubble with the title is not being said by the pigeon! #picturebooks26

My 8-year-old is obsessed with the name "Bob," so Chez Bob by Bob Shea was an obvious pick for him. This funny picture book went deeper than I expected, and we both really enjoyed it. #picturebooks26

"Matt Rockefeller’s cover illustration and Julia Tyler’s cover design for A Martian’s Story is GORGEOUS! I love how well it matches with A Rover’s Story, but also is its own thing." —Jasmine Warga mrschureads.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-ma...

🚨URGENT: Tell TEA what you think about the state’s proposed mandatory reading list. The deadline to submit written comments is MONDAY, June 15. Click here: form.jotform.com/210613021857...

How utterly disappointed I am in this world.

Go on a wildly imaginative journey in The Great Escape by Deborah Marcero. This author/illustrator is once again proving why she is one of my all-time favorites and a master of form following function in picture books. #picturebooks26

I think a lot of grown-ups would benefit from a reading of Wants vs. Needs Vs. Robots by Michael Rex. #picturebooks26

Continued our run of humorous books with The Mushroom of Doom!, words by Becky Davies and art by Thomas Elliot. #picturebooks26

Not to brag, but I'm seeing so many of my #picturebooks26 reads hitting favorite and best-of lists right now! Let's celebrate all things picture book this year! #booksky

My sapphic, modern-day Hamlet retelling Only Dark Edges is perfect for Pride Month or to start your summer reading! That's why it's only $2.99 for the month of June! books2read.com/u/31VXkr

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock in them. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word.

World Cup watching tip: If you have access to a Spanish language channel, put it on and rewatch every goal.

Calling all disabled authors with books on Itch! Join this epic bundle I'm putting together!

Among the many things the Author's Guild got wrong or left out of this article is the implication that readers don't pay for library books and authors don't get royalties for those books. Readers pay taxes that fund libraries, and authors get royalties on library books.

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

I have so many books I've bought after checking out from the library. Most recent one is BLOB by Anne Appert.

The AG is wrong. Protect libraries as the public good that they are. Licensing to libraries is already onerous for the libraries. Libraries are no enemy here.