Adopt A Rent currently has 3 outstanding needs: one for $1200, one for $700, one for $550. And we just got a $550 match offer! Rent’s due: let’s get these Minnesota immigrant families in need covered! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🌷

support this incredible read free hero if you're able!

a reminder that HR 7661, the national book banning bill, has passed the house education committee. the federal government is trying to tell YOU and YOUR kids what you're allowed to read. Call your rep NOW to tell them to vote NO on HR 7661 Action Link to share: action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661

#Booksky Today is a great day to preorder Joyce Chng’s queer pirate collection, SAILING THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE, with a gorgeous cover by Dhiyanah Hassan and a lovely print interior by Terry Roy! Releasing 4/9! queenofswordspress.com/product/sail...

#Booksky Do we publish “apolitical” books? Let’s see: menopausal werewolves dealing w/ aging and coming out at midlife, a dapper capybara pirate modeling acceptance & support for trans kids, bi Latina railcar pirate stopping a genocide in an alternate American West…guess not! queenofswordspress.com

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How Target lost its nerve — and then lost its business minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/30/h...

See you tomorrow!

#Booksky It’s award-winning publisher/editor/author Catherine Lundoff’s birthday today! Her works include the Wolves of Wolf’s Point books (menopausal werewolves!), multiple short story collections, 3 anthologies, articles, media tie-ins for World of Darkness and more! catherinelundoff.net

#Booksky Today is a great day to preorder Joyce Chng’s queer pirate collection, SAILING THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE, with a gorgeous cover by Dhiyanah Hassan and a lovely print interior by Terry Roy! Releasing 4/9! queenofswordspress.com/product/sail...

#Booksky Happy posthumous birthday thoughts to @mchristian.bsky.social. Miss you a lot. 😢

Now Available! www.amazon.com/Transit-Shor...

#Booksky If you’d like to learn more about Michael Merriam’s terrific (SSBA Award finalist!) Weird West novella, TERROR AT TIERRA DE COBRE, here’s a great virtual session with him at the always delightful Temporal Textual Steampunk Book Club! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9v2...

This series is REALLY INCREDIBLY GOOD

#Booksky Today is the LAST day to nominate for the Hugo Awards and we have a qualifying nominee for Best Series! The Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett is brilliant, queer af and POINT OF HEARTS is the example title! www.lacon.org/hugos/

JSYK this account is gonna be all about the GoFundMe for Piper J Drake for the next little while. I love her so much and I want her to be able to finish her novel and hopefully get a chance to hug me (& others) one last time. Donate, Share, Boost pls 💖 gofund.me/b2674e924

Currently available for sale on our website: The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by @ajfitzwater.bsky.social. It's new, $10, and fantasy with capybaras. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/products/the...

Thank you for the reskeets, lovely people! They are much appreciated! 💖

This series is very, very good and imo exactly what the series Hugo should be recognising. Suspect a lot of people will be struggling to fill up their series ballot; if you have a spare you should absolutely nominate Astreaint.

#Booksky For the PM crowd! The Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A.Barnett, Point of Hearts is the example book, is eligible for the Best Series Hugo if you’re nominating! This series includes 1 Lambda Award Winner and 1 MIPA Award winner! Help us hit the big time. www.lacon.org/hugos/

Last 24 hours of #HugoAwards voting and many more small press editors are now eligible! Confirmed eligible for Editor: Long Form Bill Campbell, Rosarium Publishing @rosariumbill.bsky.social Catherine Lundoff, Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social E.D.E. Bell, Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com

#Booksky Hugo Award nominations close tomorrow and we have a terrific qualifying gay fantasy series! Help us make the ballot! 🎉

Personal Me: so I need to be at work at the bookstore so I won’t be going to No Kings in St. Paul, but I kinda think Minneapolis is getting dissed on the speaker lineup. By all means, skip our useless Boy Mayor, but no Zaynab Mohammed, Jason Chavez, Elliott Payne, etc.? 🤔

One of the books we have in stock is The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper. It's new, $10, and fantasy with lesbian capybaras. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/products/the...

#Booksky 1/2 Okay, there’s just 2 more days to nominate for the Hugo Awards and we have a terrific series that’s eligible for Best Series and we have no marketing dept. Instead, I am asking you politely to nominate the Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett. www.lacon.org/hugos/

The Pets of ICE As the ICE surge continues, the fate of the pets affected remains uncertain. Organizations like Pet Haven, the Bond Between and ICE Hurts Animals, Too have mobilized overnight as hundreds have reached out for help with pets in the last several months. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Pre-orders for 'Sailing the Golden Chersonese' by @jolantru.bsky.social is up on @qospress.bsky.social 🎉 queenofswordspress.com/product/sail... The stories in this collection are wonderful! You'll definitely wanna join Neo and Maria on their adventures through re-envisioned SEA 🌊 #books #bookSky

#FundraiserPerk This glorious dragon tiara by Hugo Award winner Sara Felix could be yours! Think of the marvelous occasions you would wear it to. All proceeds from the sale support Locus. Donate at http://locusmag.com/...#FundraiserPerk or through our bio!

#Booksky Come celebrate #WerewolfWednesday with the menopausal werewolves of Wolf’s Point! Book 3 is in progress! books2read.com/ap/xqMXwx/Ca...

#Minneapolis Boosting for my part time employer! You can now get your very own Greg Ketter from DreamHaven Books yelling at 🧊 from a cloud of teargas t-shirt and stickers if you can’t make it to the store! Proceeds to local food banks and schools! www.cottonexpressions.com/im-still-ang...

Catherine, Melissa, the team - they deserve this.

Personal Me: I would like to see sf fandom be a lot less inclined to imagine redemption arcs where none exist and to throw a whole lot less $$ to living creators who are utter shit humans. There are so many great creators doing amazing work who need your support and don’t get off hurting others.

#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...

I'll be giving a short speech along with the other international guests about Chinese #scifi and these writers. Join us in celebrating these 7 fantastic authors on Thursday 26th March, at the PageOne Bookshop in Beijing or online (link and code in poster). 11am GMT (7pm Beijing Time).

#FundraiserPerk Your new favorite mug is here. Support Locus Magazine and enjoy one of many exclusive designs! Start your morning with coffee and sci-fi by donating to our fundraiser! 🛍️ locusmag.com/igg26#FundraiserPerk(link in bio)

boosting this one for the feeds, as I know some of you are preserving vegetables 🌱 🍽️

#Booksky Fan of fairytale retellings? Looking for aromantic MCs? Check out Heather Rose Jones’s THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES! Heather @heatherrosejones.bsky.social has a great podcast on sapphic history and fiction and a great sapphic fantasy series, Alpennia! queenofswordspress.com/product/the-...

In Minnesota, we’ve seen the federal government at its worst -- and showed the world how to fight back. Now, I'm honored that the flagship No Kings protest will be held here in the Twin Cities. Together, we'll show Donald Trump that we don't do kings.

#Booksky Love your local library? You can request almost all our titles in print or ebook (Wolf’s Point books in audio too!), including the glorious forthcoming minicollection SAILING THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE by Joyce Chng, through Overdrive, Hoopla or Ingramspark! www.overdrive.com/publishers/q...

So what other indies do we have for the revised Hugo Long Form? One novel (40k+) in 2025, four total. So far, I have: Bill Campbell, Rosarium Publishing Catherine Lundoff, Queen of Swords Press E.D.E. Bell, Atthis Arts Who else? Let's get those keys a tapping!

she's here! issue six of Bloodletter, "Play," which includes my story "Such Hunger As Ours." pretty sick over the cover & story art. I hope you check out the full issue! bloodlettermag.com

#Booksky For the evening crowd! The Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa A.Barnett, Point of Hearts is the example book if you’re nominating for Best Series Hugo! These are some great books and include one Lambda Award Winner and one MIPA Award winner already! Help us hit the big time. :-)

Day three of my under-loved #TransRightsReadathon recs is for fans of short stories! (Including those fans who have yet to be converted!) Including two lovely all-ages collections (Alia Terra & Cinrak the Dapper)

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater All-ages stories featuring Cinrak, the dapper lesbian pirate captain who also happens to be a capybara. With a diva, a queen, a merman, a spy, chinchillas, cats, kraken, fae, & stars. All while being consistently JOYFUL in the best ways.

#Booksky Shoutout to our multi-talented authors! Here’s Jenny Goloboy talking about here screenplay for her novel OBVIOUSLY, ALIENS - m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYjo...

Made me think of the wonderful @qospress.bsky.social's "Silver Moon" and @lydiamhawke.bsky.social's Crone series. Loved both, and both featured women coming into power and change alongside, y’know, coming into power and change.

#FundraiserPerk Connie Willis is kind and welcoming to all, you want to grab this chance for a 30-minute one-on-one video chat. Warm beverages and friendly chatter encouraged. + April e-issue of Locus and digital cover art. Donate @ locusmag.com/igg26#FundraiserPerkor via our bio!

#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/

It's on my nomination ballot for the Hugos

#Booksky Look for us at the Rewind Book Fair at the Fairgrounds in St. Paul 4/18-4//19 11-5PM! rewindbookfair.com