Taking a sick day due to Hell Cold. If I owe you things, I’m working on them, albeit very slowly.

#Booksky Thanks for including BLOOD MOON on this list! ❤️

Also on Barnes & Noble. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fire-heart... #metakse #fireheart #swords #sapphics

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

Our In Translation bundle benefits Global Voices Lingua! Check out our curator Emily's interview with them! lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...

#Booksky Most of our catalogue is now available in ebook as well as print on Bookshop! You can also get our terrific queer sf and h at oir website, Kobo, iTunes, B&N, Weightless, DriveThruFiction and beyond! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

#Booksky Jennie Goloboy and Catherine Lundoff are teaching “To Market, To Market” at the Loft Literary Center on 2/28! Get thoughts and tips from a prominent literary agent and an award-winning small press publisher on what makes a manuscript “marketable.” loft.org/classes/mark...

Please please watch tomorrow night on PBS. Most people have no idea what librarians are dealing with. Some heavy hitters in our field are in this movie. @librarianjones.com @sassylibrarian.bsky.social @becalzada.bsky.social

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Signalboost of the Day Some of our neighbors are working to feed, get vet care for and fosters for as many of the pets who’ve lost their humans to ICE kidnappings or whose humans can’t work right now as they can and they need some ❤️. www.spotfund.com/story/a00a02...

#Booksky So…we were hoping to see Melissa Scott’s terrific gay fantasy novel, POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) on the Locus Recommended Reading List, but alas, it is not. But if you read and loved it, you can write it in when you vote! It really is that good! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Thank you for the reskeets, lovely people! 💖

#Booksky Did you know that we have a terrific urban fantasy set in #Minneapolis? LAST CAR TO ANNWN STATION by @mmerriam.bsky.social is Welsh mythology meets Uptown, circa 2007. Ghostly streetcars, the Hounds of Annwn, fae creatures + a sweet sapphic romance! queenofswordspress.com/product/last...

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Personal Me: this is peak Angie Craig. Local businesses supporting our communities all over the Twin Cities, she picks a coffee chain where the union organizers are currently asking for support against union busting. Read the room, Angie.

We’ve seen lots of reports of legal observers being arrested in North Minneapolis, South Minneapolis, and Eden Prairie. Exercising your first amendment right to observe is not a crime. This is exactly why congress can’t give another penny to DHS.

#Booksky Check our storefront at DriveThruFiction! Amongst other cool reads, you can find an ebook bundle featuring the Captain Ramos books by Alex Acks and SSBA Award finalist TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE by Michael Merriam for the princely sum of $10! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/5...

Today! It will also be available online after broadcast!

#Minneapolis #Signalboost of the day: the TC Pride Cultural Center could use both in kind and cash donations for their pantry. There are also Pride Rebel Loon shirts in @twincitiespride.bsky.social’s shop tcpride.harnessgiving.org/campaigns/20... & tcpride.square.site/product/prid...

#Booksky Comp time! If you loved the Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, you will also enjoy the Lynes & Mathey duology by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold! Available direct from us or wherever great queer reads are sold! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#Booksky Thanks for including THE VOYAGES OF CINRAK THE DAPPER by A.J. Fitzwater on this list! It was and is a great comfort read and it went on to win the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collection!

#Booksky The Astreiant Series, collected in our title THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, is eligible for the Best Series Hugo and Melissa Scott’s POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) is eligible for Best Novel in All the Things! queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

#Booksky Tune into Hannah’s Bookshelf on North Manchester FM (UK) this Saturday 2/7 or listen online to an interview with publisher Catherine Lundoff and other fun bookish news and interviews! hannahkate.net/north-manche...

Personal Me: All conversations now, especially with folks outside the Twin Cities: “Are you…okay?” Me: “More or less. I work part time for the guy you’ve seen walking through the teargas cloud and yelling at the fascist shock troops.” Them: “Oh. It seems…really awful.” Me: “It is. But we persist.”

#Booksky Did you know we have fun “extras” that our authors have created for their books? Buy a print copy of THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES by Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social from our website and get a coloring book that Heather created too! queenofswordspress.com/product/the-...

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Signalboost of the Day Some of our neighbors are working to feed, get vet care for and fosters for as many of the pets who’ve lost their humans to ICE kidnappings or whose humans can’t work right now as they can and they need some ❤️. www.spotfund.com/story/a00a02...

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Coming later this year.

Thank you so much again to everyone who has donated or shared the GoFundMe! It has been so heart-filling seeing the care and kindness for our family. (1/?)

#Booksky Thanks for including THE VOYAGES OF CINRAK THE DAPPER by A.J. Fitzwater on this list! It was and is a great comfort read and it went on to win the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collection!

#Minneapolis #Signalboost of the day. The Mercado is a Southside gem. Please kick in if you can.

Y'all Mercado Central still needs some help so that they don't lose their building

#Booksky In the mood for gay vampires with a twist? Check out M.Christian’s suspenseful RUNNING DRY, now an SSBA nominee in Horror! queenofswordspress.com/product/runn...

Author M. Christian died in earl January. Christian wrote the Running Dry series and the novels The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, and Painted Doll. His short fiction was collected in several volumes and he edited anthologies with Maxim Jakubowski, Jean Marie Stine, Todd Gregory, and Sage Vivant.

A home-grown protest song by local Minneapolis folksy Americana band Roe Family Singers. It's more common to see them play at the farmers' market and family-friendly events. A pretty good indication of how many in Minneapolis are feeling right now... roefamilysingers.bandcamp.com/track/blacke...

#Minneapolis Personal Me: This is so much b.s. This AM, neighbors on my friend’s block foiled a kidnapping despite being assaulted and gassed. A school bus driver had to block the door to keep them from entering the bus while they were at it. 4 legal observers were kidnapped near us yesterday. 😡

I'm reading the Astreiant series right now and enjoying it. So far we've had slow build, some light pining, and a bit of angst. All this threaded through some criminal doings in an alt-history world with magic. Fun storytelling and two frustratingly attractive male leads.

#Booksky Comp time! If you loved the Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, you will also enjoy the Lynes & Mathey duology by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold! Available direct from us or wherever great queer reads are sold! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#Booksky Did you know that you can get our great queer books at your local library? In print, ebook and audiobook (selected titles)! we are out on the Libby app under both ‘qospress’ and ‘Queen of Swords Press’ due to merger wackiness at one of our distributors. www.overdrive.com/publishers/q...

#Minneapolis #Signalboost of the day: the TC Pride Cultural Center could use both in kind and cash donations for their pantry. There are also Pride Rebel Loon shirts in @twincitiespride.bsky.social’s shop tcpride.harnessgiving.org/campaigns/20... & tcpride.square.site/product/prid...

#Booksky The Astreiant Series, collected in our title THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett, is eligible for the Best Series Hugo and Melissa Scott’s POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) is eligible for Best Novel in All the Things! queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

To celebrate the forthcoming fourth book in Jo Graham's space adventure series The Calpurnian Wars, the ebooks of the first 3 books are now on sale! Get caught up in this fascinating universe — at a bargain price. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2026/02/02/t...

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻They were cruising around my neighborhood this AM, “escorted“ by a cyclist and several honking cars. I did a donation drop-off at one of the centers this afternoon and believe me, no one there who needed food and diapers thinks there’s a ”draw down“ or positive change of any kind. 😡

it's the Year of the Fire Horse! limerunners might be born in the water, but they have hellfire in their souls 😈

#Booksky So…we were hoping to see Melissa Scott’s terrific gay fantasy novel, POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) on the Locus Recommended Reading List, but alas, it is not. But if you read and loved it, you can write it in when you vote! It really is that good! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

#Booksky Speaking of queer Southern gothics written by women, Dee Holloway @deeholloway.bsky.social’s novella, LITTLE NOTHING, is pretty great. Looking for sapphic historical fantasy with unforgettable characters and rich world building? 👇🏻https://queenofswordspress.com/product/little-nothing/

#Booksky This is so COOL! Our MIPA Award-winning title, POINT OF HOPES (Astreiant #1) by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane.bsky.social and Lisa A. Barnett, gets a shoutout in the Tiny Bookshop game!

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

#Booksky So…we were hoping to see Melissa Scott’s terrific gay fantasy novel, POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) on the Locus Recommended Reading List, but alas, it is not. But if you read and loved it, you can write it in when you vote! It really is that good! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

#Booksky Kicking off February with a big THANK YOU shoutout to our patrons! Thank you so much for your support! www.patreon.com/CLundoff