NO to Book Banning. NO to controlling our librarians and our communities. Those here who are safe to call your Rep in the US House of Representatives, please doso. Leave a quick voice mail. It matters. Let them hear you. Find your Rep's contact info here: www.house.gov/representati... #BookSky

So we post a lot of links for buying books direct from our site. This is because we get paid faster and our authors get paid more and our publisher can pay for extravagances like recycled paper bags, auction donation packages and the mortgage and such. Thanks for the boosts and for buying from us!

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It's my book's birthday!!! Balloons and pie for everyone!

This is a super deal! “Filled with political intrigue and with a main character struggling with his religious convictions, this is a great read for fans of dark gritty fantasy.” — Martha Wells, bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries

Congratulations to our very own @wtalabi.com for making the Nebula finals for his Sauútiverse novella, Descent! 💫🔥❤️ Fantastic. Read it.

And ... let's do this. So I haven't talked much about myself for Hugo eligibility because I sure the hell know the deal. However, now that a novel I edited is a Nebula finalist, *throws up hands* here we go. ✨ E.D.E. Bell is eligible for Hugo Long Form Editor ✨ See my editing credits at:

Our press started because I needed to write to survive, and my spouse learned the business side, and then people wanted our help, and then I realized I was a good editor... And 13 years later we have a NEBULA FINALIST. Dreams do come true. Keep believing. The road is often long. Keep believing.

Watching the Nebula finalists -- the voice actors are doing a fabulous job; I'm really enjoying it. But they should NOT be introduced as "narrated by". "Read tonight by" would be much more appropriate (and legal). If I were the published audiobook narrator of one of these books, I might be upset.

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for this year's Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction! #SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards

The audiobook editions of Renegade and Heretic by Gregory A. Wilson are complete and available now, narrated by the wonderful Tren Sparks. To celebrate, all Gray Assassin paperbacks are on sale (at an extremely low price) on our website, and include both the e-book and audiobook, while codes last!

We love seeing this four year recap of the @sauutiverse.bsky.social and including our own novella Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy, a beautiful reflection on grief and purpose. We believe the Sauútiverse is the best thing going on in literature and it deserves much more attention. #BookSky

Holy shit!! and yep this happens all the time You’ll see me and @brooklynmarie.bsky.social reference it opaquely But uh me and a couple Brown folks ended up getting a whole TED project shuttered On civic media The woman who helped still funded ! Still cool so are the bystanders

Read my new column. I decided to be more detailed about an effort to get me to shut up about #MeToo revelations. It’s important to understand how the hush-hush behind-scenes silencing and punishment work. Women get caught in a quandary due to financial and career threats.

You can now order the beautiful cover of my queer fairy tale novella THE DRAGON OF YNYS as a print or poster! Ulla Thynell has the illustration up on Inprnt. 🐉 Support awesome human artists! 🤩 💜 www.inprnt.com/gallery/ulla...

In the opening chapter of Hornytown Chutzpah, a demon enters Detective Sol Weiss' office because she's been framed for murder. She's wearing a "Sucker 4 Sin" T-shirt that features a giant lollipop. So when my audiobook co-narrator came to read @charmcityspec.bsky.social, she came in costume.

45 minutes left. Last post. Thank you all for the support. So many people are grateful. We sing together. Today, tomorrow, and always. I love you. I really do.

GV Lingua really went in on the questions they asked me, so I tried to honor those with openness. #BookSky #WorldBookDay Where does activism cross the path to books? Why is *human* translation important? And yes: (🔥!) What's the landscape like for independent publishing of literature these days?

Giant best-selling, represented-by-a-full-service-agency author telling book clubs to f'off because they don't pay you to sift through the AI slop is a choice.

Figured I'd bump this once since it has been a month, and I'm still (not really) surprised that there has been not a single comment on this apology by SFWA that I can find. I guess people are really worried that they might upset the wrong people, er... person.

Final typographic checks are always important to the layout. In this example the lines on the right justified side of this paragraph need some changes. The repetition of "had" "had" and the d in "laughed" and the "own" rhymes should be adjusted so the eye isn't drawn to the patterns in the text

Whatever the bundle can get these last three days *will* make a difference to real people around this planet. Thank you. For your consideration, for your love. ❤️ It's here: storybundle.com/translation #BookSky

URGENT call to those in USA. 1) Look if any of these are your reps. 2) Choose from the talking points on the slide below this one, to tell them to vote NO - and you feel very strongly about this - for HR 7661. Follow @authorsabb.bsky.social for more. #BookSky

Please spread word about this horrific bill and if you're in a position to call US Reps, please do. I also urge people, while protecting queer, trans, and intersex people to not decontextualize this fight from racism and misogyny. It's all one goal. The stand MUST be strong and MUST be together.

Does anyone have *personal* good experience w. any trans relocation orgs, before I tell people to send them money. I have had a not-great experience last year (just general total unresponsiveness - I know people are overloaded, but a "sry we're overloaded" would've been nice.) Feel free to DM

Whether your disabilities can be easily perceived by others or not, your lived experiences are valid. Gaslighters and gatekeepers cause real harm. Yeet them into space. #Disability

Most translation funding still goes to bestsellers or colonial languages. This campaign shifts that balance by supporting translations from Shona, Nishinaabemowin, Ukrainian, Malay, Hausa, isiZulu, Tamil, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, and more. storybundle.com/translation

I still have one media download code for the StoryBundle, if anyone is interested in covering it. A lot of people would be very grateful!

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

*taps the board with pointer stick* DO YOU KNOW, this bundle contains: - This year's Palestine Book Awards winner for translator - Quiet fantasy written by a murdered combat medic - A beloved early century trans novel - Experimental short stories from the streets of Bangkok (1/4)

This project was built by a worldwide community of writers, editors, and translators. It shows what happens when global storytellers collaborate: they share, build, and learn across languages—just like the mission of @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social.

I think I've found a solution to my conundrum with Substack nazi issues that I'm happy with. I'm just putting EVERYTHING on my website and I'll do some footwork to increase my reach. So...if you like ancient history (as well as some forays into other times), give me a shot! www.melaniermeadors.com

Honored to see Faraway Dreaming by Ulla Thynell in Illustrated and Art Books. We hope that you'll consider this artist-built, community-realized exploration of art, dreams, and hope. We also hope you'll consider a Collections write-in for the extraordinary: Wolf's Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)

Thrilled to see the In Translation @storybundle.bsky.social covered by Writing Africa! #BookSky #AfricanLit #Translation

Honestly shocked (maybe I shouldn't be) that SFWA's posthumous apology to Jean Rabe isn't being discussed. www.sfwa.org/2026/02/05/i...

Nishinaabemowin is an endangered, spoken (not written), language. Most speakers of this language are elder. This translation (Sit with Us) is extremely special.

An interview with our editor, on now at @globalvoices.org. Please talk and tell people about Global Voices, their work, and the ability to donate on a one-time or recurring basis. Independent storytelling - fiction, representative, non-fiction, activism, journalism - is vital. #BookSky #Journalism

Read @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social interview with the bundle's curator @edebell.com and then check out the amazing selection of translated books! lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...

On now, a StoryBundle curated by our own E.D.E. Bell and including our own The Factory, alongside wonderful, important stories from around the globe, and supporting @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social. May the light of these stories shine brightly. #BookSky #Translation storybundle.com/translation

We're deeply honored to see our collection, Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng on the BFSA Longlist. Congratulations to emma burnett and Cheryl S. Ntumy for two nominations each, and to Atthis Arts published creators Jason Sanford, Premee Mohamed, A.D. Sui, Stewart C Baker, and Stephen Embleton!

Happy Birthday Dr. King! Today, I will address, on the floor of the House of Representatives, one of your most profound quotes, “the ultimate measure of a man.” Tune in to @CSPAN at the 11 o’clock hour ET by clicking here: cspan.org

You guys win. You got me. I guess I'll go off and grift somewhere else. It was a fun grift while it lasted.

UCLA just fired me (Dir. of Race & Equity) over Bluesky posts about not being sad Charlie Kirk died.

Again the magic for you average left/ lib public intellectual for something being “good” right now is an idea that was probably first introduced by a - Black person - Queer Person - Native - IPV survivor - disabled Remixed to remove the cultural/ material origins with a dash of cruelty

I'm saddened to see that the current head of the Gen Con Writers Symposium piling on attacking Emily. As Maurice is well aware, Emily was brought on as a disabled person tasked with helping make the GCWS a more welcoming place to those with neurodivergences. Unfortunately, GCWS is not a safe space.

Sporting my new Gwen C. Katz silkscreen tshirt next to this guy.

I can’t speak for the entire Jewish community, but personally I have been watching many of y’all under-react to ICE actions for the last year and suddenly understanding in a whole new way how my family ended up being rounded up and massacred in camps and y’all should think on that.

Do you want this to stop? Or do you want this to stop with the racial, social hierarchy intact ? Because those are two different goals and only one is attainable

The Vice President of the U.S. just defamed Renee Good, calling her brainwashed; she was murdered I.C.E. yesterday. We're a fascist nation, now. It's simply a fact. It didn't have to be this way. But White America couldn't bring themselves to vote for the sitting VP, because she was a Black Woman.

White Men, do better than this. If someone tells you that you are causing harm, listen. And if you disagree, use your privilege to de-escalate and then reflect on your disagreement to see if you can make a positive change.