Don't pass up this opportunity! We need people who love books to join us!

Don't pass up this opportunity! We need people who love books to join us!

We are looking for bookish influencers! Applications on our website in our bio!

Here at Virtual Shelf Event our goal is to make book events more accessible both physically and financially! That's why we are so excited that our first event Romance at Virtual Shelf Event on June 27th and 28th 2025 is accepting author applications!

AUTHORS AND INFLUENCERS! Our applications for Attending Authors and Panel Hosts for our June 27th and 28th are LIVE for all! You can find them on our website linked below! www.virtualshelfevent.com/home

The date of our first event has released on our newsletter as well as ATTENDING AUTHOR APPLICATIONS! We are so excited to see the applications roll in and will make it public to everyone not on the newsletter on Monday!

The more time goes on the more I just want to open a small publishing house. I just absolutely could not do it on my own, I'm more of a creative type than a businessy type and the amount of money needed to start it is more than I can currently fathom. But it's a dream nonetheless.

Y'all should sign up! It's going to be so good!

If your not on our newsletter you should be, very big surprise coming tomorrow morning that you don't want to miss!

I've gotten such an incredibly small amount of time to myself since getting my puppy that I may be going slightly insane. There are other factors at play too and I will be fine but today is rough. I love her though!

Genre Announcement for our 1st event coming on our Newsletter this evening! Don't miss it!

I got a puppy!

Canva mock up vs the final product! This premade is available currently!

Some book covers I'm still trying to find homes for! Details in the comments

I have started a Patreon. I will be working to put some short stories on there but for right now my novella Lost Goddess is on there... And hopefully soon it's sequel...

Saving up to get a paper guillotine and paper scorer bc if I just get those I can start making greeting cards! It's like $30 total for what I'm looking at. (Yes I know I can make due without them but it's really hard on my hands and body overall)

Been emotionally wonky. So here are some cute simple premades. Needing to step a way a little from the dark stuff. Trying out some new styles, I hope y'all enjoy them. Purchase details in the comments.

As an autistic women I've already had a problem with autistic men getting away with harmful behavior because they are autistic. The excuses people will make are ridiculous. Autism doesn't make you hateful, evil, or anything like that.

With all that's going on in just getting more fueled to bring this to you all.

I may just go hardcore into the book aesthetic posts and stuff while I take my time to write my next book. I feel like it would be fun and give me something to do.

We fall back into old habits easily and my word I am trying so hard not to right now.

I have a goal in life to be kind, not nice and some people really need to learn the difference.

I am ill and exhausted so here is my little attempt to market. Hi I'm one of the owners of a bookish virtual event company. It's called @virtualshelfevent.bsky.social our interest form is live if you are interested. Thank you.

Advice to #authors who’ve yet to publish: If you have even a thought you want to use a pen name instead of your name, do it. Because if you want to change it later, apparently not even you getting 💀 threats is enough for goodreads or kdp to make an exception to their policy & delete your legal name.

I am ill and exhausted so here is my little attempt to market. Hi I'm one of the owners of a bookish virtual event company. It's called @virtualshelfevent.bsky.social our interest form is live if you are interested. Thank you.

I literally don't think I could trust a professional ghostwriter to write my ideas how I want them. Letting AI mess with my work is gonna be a no. (And that's just my opinion on top of the harm it does to creatives and the environment)

Hi! I recently had to make some (not all) of my workbooks paid. For the rest of January I'm going to be discounting then 30%! That means most of my workbooks are $3.50 and social media templates are just $0.70! Only doing this for January! ko-fi.com/authorrosejo...

You know you've been sick when you have a good day physically and you question if you're actually feeling better or if you're just manic and it's masking your illness.

I am really dealing with the fact that as much as I want to, I may not complete the Topians series. It's based so much on my health struggles and the first book was written during a short period of time when we thought everything was going to be clear.

3 Interesting Facts About One of Our Owners! @rosejohnsonauthor.bsky.social 1) She is a queer and disabled author 2) One of her current WIP is a dark Fae fantasy story! 3) She was once mysteriously healed of an ailment by Star Wars (seriously) What are 3 interesting facts about you?

So excited to see what happens! In person events tend to take a lot out of me and since I live in the desert southwest, most book events are a long drive

#booksky 💙📚

I am thoroughly unprepared to have some of the medical conditions my Drs think I may have and are testing for. Mostly emotionally unprepared but unprepared nonetheless.

Help us grow our reach by sharing!

So today we've had people ask the question "how can I help?". While we aren't taking volunteer/hiring applications at this time, you can still help by sharing our posts and getting more authors and readers to fill out our interest form on our site! www.virtualshelfevent.com/home

So I can't go to physical book events. I'm both disabled and can't travel much and I can't afford them. That's one of the main reasons why I wanted to make @virtualshelfevent.bsky.social

It has been sooo hard keeping this a secret for the last few weeks! @rosejohnsonauthor.bsky.social have so many fun things planned and I cannot wait to share more with y’all! #booksky 📚💙 #DisabledRomancelandia

Welcome to Virtual Shelf Event! We are so excited to share this with you all!

Mine and @elsiesmithwrites.bsky.social secret project is out! Check it out!

My secret project is being announced soon...

And the power outages have started.... Hoping it doesn't hit my family and feeling heartbroken for those who are currently without power in this cold.

Something in the works...

Ok so I have a plan! One 8-12 week course (somewhat self led and no more than 1 hour a week to complete) on the basics of design Sophtware for authors Then a 8 week course (same 1 hour a week) on book covers specifically Won't be out for over 6 months but there is a plan!

Oops I forgot I have an account here 🙈 We had some technical difficulties that delayed the shop opening but they’re all fixed now. You still have a few more days to get the first boxes of 2025! More details on this month’s boxes below. www.novelcratebox.com

I’m sorry for being so annoying about this but sales are really low this month and I really hate that I haven’t been able to get our authors as much exposure as I want to. Today is the last day to order this month’s boxes and I’d really love to show our authors a bit more love.

I will be making a FREE PDF guide to making your own book covers... However, I also want to make an affordable online class for authors who need/want more help. What would you pay for a class like that? Comment your thoughts!

I'm going to be honest. I'm kind of in a, I need to make some income season of my life and sadly publishing books usually puts me in the red. It's one of the reasons I haven't self published for a while and probably won't for another year at least.

This year I may not publish. But I will actually finish a book, editing and all! That's the hope at least.

Looking into making a Udemy course for book cover design and social media for authors and... I may be WAY out of my comfort zone rn (I've only ever taught a lecture in person and it wasn't about design). Anyway this may take a year but it will happen eventually.

Working some this snow day. Made a new canva template for my Kofi. I decided yesterday to make my workbooks $5 and my social media templates $1. I want to make them accessible to as many people as I can while not disregarding the work being put into them. ko-fi.com/s/214dfb2835