Huuuge thanks to @ravencrime for naming Remington Platypus the book of the year 🖤 This means so much to me. Currently 25% off with the code NORTHODOXMAS until 5th of Jan at www.northodox.co.uk/product-page... 🙏🖤🙏🖤🙏

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Also, while I'm recommending indie/small press selections available from comics shops online, you should def check out @littledeercomics.bsky.social here too: littledeercomics.ie

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

That lamp is very cool. Today's Nice Thing.

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The Northodox sale continues until 5 January - fill your boots with multiple genres and genre-defying works from an indie press challenging publishing's lack of representation of the history, culture, language and people of the North of England 💙📚

People who have turned down OBEs, MBEs etc: Roald Dahl, JG Ballard, Aldous Huxley, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Robert Graves (twice), Lucien Freud, LS Lowry, Benjamin Zephaniah.

ruin two bands by combining them: REMinem

It's Monday again and today I'm still reading "Thinking the Photobook" by Bettina Lockemann What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Buy books and support indie bookstores! For example: my middle grade historical fantasy novel set in Manchester 🌈📚 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cott...

It’s increasingly clear that social media is a net social evil which shreds attention spans, and this is why the only appropriate remedy available in this space is spending time observing Morris company wallpaper patterns

Massive 20% off sale over at Queer Lit Manchester 👀 who needs more books? 🙋 www.queerlit.co.uk

Looks like my publisher's giving away some arcs over on @thestorygraph.com Enter and/or boost this genderfluid Regency romp please and thanks! app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/91...

Buy books and support indie bookstores! For example: my middle grade historical fantasy novel set in Manchester 🌈📚 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cott...

Giveaway! I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase. Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose? (UK only)

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

Another #Christmas present from us to you! @nicolettejones.bsky.social interviews Jamila Gavin about her #nerobookawards shortlisted MY SOUL A SHINING TREE: it has musical prose and historical facts about a hero who won the Victoria Cross. #KidLitUK @farshorebooks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y5ry8d8f

Thank you! 💐 My MG debut Cottonopolis is short, pacy and was shortlisted for Little Rebels this year ✊ 🪡🧵 Victorian Manchester 🏳️‍🌈 Family, friendship & first love 👱 Ideal for young history lovers, and equally for adults who missed out on queer children's books uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cott...

Just watched an interview about the book The Fabric of Civilization. I feel vindicated in my desire to see more world building address where the cloth comes from!

Fancy a post-Christmas Regency and sapphic chill reading sesh in your pjs? Like and repost this skeet (is that really what we call them?) for a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Open worldwide until midnight 23rd Dec, winners drawn on Christmas Eve.

Time to shine a spotlight on just some of the gorgeous middle grade books we've enjoyed this year. There are so many more we could add. #kidlituk

Wrap your 2025 with our new festive wrapping paper, designed by @Stanchow.bsky.social! All proceeds help us to support vendors and fight homelessness and poverty in the north of England, so your gifts can go even further this Christmas. Get yours today: https://shop.bigissuenorth.com/

"It's 5.45am and the rats are out" - Jason Reynolds Worth watching in its entirety for a whole education on revolution, hope and futurity, plus a nod to Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry for the historical #kidlit crowd 🌱

Shortlisted for the Litte Rebel Award this year, you can grab the incredible Cottonopolis by SF Layzell in our sale with 25% off! This beautiful midgrade historical fantasy novel set in Manchester is not to be missed: share.google/GaZ3g6JMDiaF...

Aotearoa seems to have courts which still care about facts rather than anti-trans fictions Worth a read 👇

Another lovely #buyastrangerabook offer. Some of @sarahjp.bsky.social 's children's favourite books. The Tiger Who Came to Tea Owl Babies Tabby McTat Otto the Book Bear Sarah is offering to buy one of them for someone, so get in touch if you'd like one.

#callforsubmissions #writingcommunity

This feels like a queer author milestone somehow...

I wrote about THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, its enduring emotional power, and the importance of throwing objectivity aside and opening yourself up to cinema. Free and open to the public, a small Christmas gift from me to all of you <3 www.patreon.com/posts/118684...

Prepping for the holidays by stocking up on mulled wine and watching two of my favourite people talk about one of my all-time favourite authors: History is Lunch: "Celebrating the Legacy of Mildred D. Taylor" - Tammy Mielke and Michelle Martin #booksky #kidlit m.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Ar...

📚 NOW AVAILABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH KIESE LAYMON—interviews revealing the HEAVY author’s life as writer, activist, & Mississippian. 🔗 Order today!https://buff.ly/XbhJlWQ #KieseLaymon #ConversationsWithKieseLaymon #UPMississippi #Heavy

Thank you! I've been updating my page for my magical Manchester middle grade novel Cottonopolis with links to indie bookshops, quotes & a reading of one of my favourite scenes (featuring lots of cake) 🍰 sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/

Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other #WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚 alt text please

The Great Orme is waiting for you... #BookSky📚💙 #DarkThrillerBooks

The Exhibitor Application Form for the inaugural SCARF is now open! Please go here to fill it out: forms.gle/uXsDuKcCyhdr... And please let me know if you find any issues with the form!

Still looking for a Christmas gift? One for that most discerning friend? Look no further, The Mill is offering heavily discounted gift subscriptions this Christmas. It's thoughtful, local, and totally sustainable. Click here for more info: manchestermill.co.uk/give-the-gi...

The special section of @ijyalnews.bsky.social on diversity and inclusion in young adult sports fiction is now live + open access (all essays free to download) at ijyal.ac.uk Paging academic sports fans! @bssh.bsky.social @footycon.bsky.social @kaseysymons.bsky.social @garyjames.bsky.social ⚽🏀🥊🤺

Last day! For this set of; portal, epic, romantic, dark, gaslamp, hopepunk, grimdark and cozy fantasy books. 🌈📚💙📚🪐https://itch.io/b/3409/end-of-year-indie-fantasy-mega-bundle

The Tenebrous 2026 Book Club is open! 💀Get all 9 of our ‘26 fiction titles 💀save on shipping 💀exclusive bonus content 💀print+ebook or ebook-only options available Invest in risk-taking, true independent, Weird publishing. Here's all the info: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

I have submitted a general complaint about the BBC's relentless dehumanising biological-ising of trans people

Lovely to see people embracing @stevenashwrites.bsky.social #RemingtonPlatypus The most refreshingly different book I have read this year.. #BeMoreBadger 🐾🐾🐾 @northodoxpress.bsky.social @tednorthodox.bsky.social #BookSky💙📚

Would you or your organisation like to promote the UK’s free LGBTQIA+ support service? We have a variety of marketing materials available. Email [email protected] to find out more!

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

Starting the day with a podcast on the history of Madchester with Gaz from the Happy Mondays - worth a listen! #Manchester www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZSt...

Good morning! My debut novel is on sale right now: set in Victorian Manchester, it's a story of hardship, first love, and the meaning of magic 🏳️‍🌈📚 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Absolutely thrilled to share the front cover by Melissa Chaib for my new book THE DAD TRAP! Any reposts would be amazing!!! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #LGBTQ #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky @scholasticuk.bsky.social

Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other #WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚 alt text please

This is still true for your faves who write only short stories! Anthologies, collections, and even some magazines are eligible for all five of these!