As we head into the last shopping weekend before Christmas, please consider using Interac instead of a credit card. Better for merchants AND Canadian: what's not to like?

@mollytempleton.com addresses the most difficult question for The Holiday Season: How do you buy books for other people??

Just in time!!! We've got new cafe mugs, and they're for sale too! 😍 A lil bigger, a lil chunkier than the old model, for a few extra ounces of caffeine in your morning. 👌 Not to mention the easiest $20 last-minute Christmas gift for the cafe-bookstore lover in your life! ☕️🎄

While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.

This and Chuck Wendig's recent post about his cats (terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...) are excellent reading on the unreliability of AI

It's a quiet snowy day! Ask us anything! Recommendations? Want to know the seventh word in the fourth book on the third shelf closest to the door? How many stuffed animals are in the store? We're here to answer or to make things up.

Our holiday party is today! Come by for tasty treats, book bundles, recommendations, and sales! Can't make it? You can also enjoy 10% all books on our website, today only. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com

Happy First Saturday in December to all who celebrate! Be nice to your retail workers. Wish them comfortable shoes!

Our holiday party is today! Come by for tasty treats, book bundles, recommendations, and sales! Can't make it? You can also enjoy 10% all books on our website, today only. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com

December is right around the corner, and with it, our somewhat-annual holiday party! Come by during store hours on Saturday December 6th! We'll have tasty treats, discounts, and almost all our staff will be in! Come pick our brains for the perfect recommendations for holiday gifts or for yourself.

My loves we are EIGHT BACKERS AWAY from a sweet cool 100 backers and we LOVE triple digits in this house IT WOULD BE SO SATISFYING www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...

📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess use code UGHFINE or you could just buy them! up to you 📚 www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks

December is right around the corner, and with it, our somewhat-annual holiday party! Come by during store hours on Saturday December 6th! We'll have tasty treats, discounts, and almost all our staff will be in! Come pick our brains for the perfect recommendations for holiday gifts or for yourself.

Do any of us really need a reason to head out the door and find a brick-and-mortar used bookstore to get lost in? In case you do, @jdnicoll.bsky.social offers five reasons used bookstores should be cherished 📚

It was a crazy busy in the bookshop today. I took almost four times what I'd expect to take on a normal Weds. I guess the ramp-up to Christmas has started, which is good news. Independent bookshops make around a third of their yearly income over the seasonal period, so remember to shop local!

Reasons why our job is great, example # umpteen @marthawells.com

Huge thanks to everyone who braved the cold and rain on Saturday! Avi and I got to talk to a PACKED HOUSE, which is always wild for a bookstore event and really appreciated 💜 If you missed it, conveniently you can order our books direct from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social!

It's a rainy day! Come inside and be warm, dry, and cozy while @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and @thescreambean.bsky.social discuss their new books and messy found families.

Today in #Toronto at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social!

This afternoon's going to be grey and damp: liven it up with us!

This wknd, consider buying a book from your local indie bookshop? (It doesn't have to be mine) Other ways to show your support: tell other people about your local indie bookshop, share this post. Also see my Indie Bookstores & Booksellers list: bsky.app/profile/debb... #IndieBookstores #ShopLocal

Jumping on this to say that we also have a selection of signed books by @kevinhearne.bsky.social!

TOMORROW! @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social hosts @thescreambean.bsky.social and Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and we have been promised things will get WEIRD!!

Only a few days to go! Join us this Saturday at 3:00pm for an afternoon with @thescreambean.bsky.social and @brandoncrilly.bsky.social in conversation!

fellow Canadians 🍁! when you pre-order The Iron Garden Sutra from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social or Queen Books in Toronto, you receive some pre-order goodies! A custom button! A bookmark! A signed bookplate! The Iron Garden Sutra comes out in 3.5 months! where has the time gone?!

One week from NOW! You can see Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and Certified Brilliant @thescreambean.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social discussing found family, their rad new books, and what else? WHO KNOWS? YOU MUST COME AND FIND OUT!

Thank you to everyone who came out for Saturday's launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social. It was standing room only and featured readings from 13 of our wonderful authors and poets. If you're looking for a copy of the anthology, Bakka has a bunch!

Huge turnout today for the launch of The Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, stretched from wall to wall to wall @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @ourmankoto.bsky.social

I love @brandoncrilly.bsky.social, I love found family nonsense, and I love that this event is in ONE WEEK! I am rarely in Toronto these days and miss so many good people there! if you're available at 3pm on the 15th, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see you and get weird in @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !!!!

Today's the day! Join us at 3:00pm to celebrate the release of YEAR'S BEST CANADIAN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 3! There'll be readings, signings, and snacks!

One last bump for this: hope you can join us TOMORROW, Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. We now have a lucky 13 authors joining us, with James Bow, Kerry C. Byrne, and Geoffrey W. Cole able to attend. Meet authors! Buy books (and get them signed)! Snacks! @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social

One more sleep! See you at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon!

Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.

We'll be closed all day Sunday November 2nd for our semi-annual inventory count. We'll be back open for our regular hours on the 3rd. On a totally unrelated note, on Saturday November 1st, all books will be 10% off! (Please buy everything in the store, that way we don't have to do inventory.)

We'll be closed all day Sunday November 2nd for our semi-annual inventory count. We'll be back open for our regular hours on the 3rd. On a totally unrelated note, on Saturday November 1st, all books will be 10% off! (Please buy everything in the store, that way we don't have to do inventory.)

Can*Con is done, but another event looms! In Toronto! Join me and @thescreambean.bsky.social as we talk messy found families at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on November 15. This'll be my first bookstore event for CASTOFF, and my first ever event at Bakka!

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it. www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

thank you, toronto!! thanks especially to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social for hosting! they have loads of signed stock if you missed out, so go show them some love!

Happening now: Im conversation with @clclark.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social!

Only a few hours to go! Can't make it? There's still to reserve @clclark.bsky.social's books online and we'll get them signed for you. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/events/36102...

This is happening tonight! Come join us and @clclark.bsky.social at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social if you're in Toronto! Doors open at 6pm!

Reminder: my event with @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social and @storyenginedeck.bsky.social is Tuesday, Oct 21 @ 6:30 PM! Last stop before I skate out of town!

Had a fabulous time at @canconsffh.bsky.social . Amazing job by @mariebilodeau.bsky.social and @brandoncrilly.bsky.social . Always a pleasure to see @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social (I signed some stock for the Toronto crowd.) And yes, this happened, but it was for @premeemohamed.com so it’s OK.

I signed ALL the books at the Bakka Phoenix table in the Dealer’s Room at Can*Con! They’ll take whatever’s left back to the store in Toronto, so Toronto peeps, stop by tomorrow at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social and pick up something!

Kevin Hearne(?) is looking a bit @neuvel.net y today, but we've been assured he'll sign whatever you'd like in the dealer's room at CanCon!

The winners of the raffle have been picked! Thanks to everyone who entered! If you’re one of the winning tickets, pick up your signed ARC at the @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social booth!! WINNING NUMBERS: 3740014 3740016 3740019 @canconsffh.bsky.social

Looking forward to @canconsffh.bsky.social! Tomorrow you can find me at the opening ceremonies, where, I assume, @premeemohamed.com and @ourmankoto.bsky.social and I run relay in circles with a torch. Then my kaffeeklatsch. @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have my books for sale in the vendors room.

One week to go! Join us next Tuesday to celebrate the release of @clclark.bsky.social's THE SOVEREIGN!

This event is today, Tuesday Oct 14. Tomorrow I’ll be in Vancouver, Canada, with @nalohop.bsky.social and Thursday I’ll be in Portland with . @jennreese.bsky.social