Behold, the shiny cover for the shiny new UK edition of Raven & Reindeer!

The Dating Countdown by @trinielf.bsky.social was a delight! Really warm, fun, sexy F/F romance set in Trinidad & Tobago - Maxine and Remi were rivals as teens and when they meet again as adults sparks fly, but Maxine's freshly divorced and has never dated a woman before. Lots of fun and feelings!

"I have never seen such a coordinated and cruel withdrawal of care." 🏳️‍⚧️ The NHS decision to pause gender-affirming hormones for 16 & 17-year-olds is not evidence-based. International medical experts agree.

Read @MullenderRob's essay on the remarkable experiments — turning sound into image — undertaken by Welsh singer Margaret Watts-Hughes in the late 19th century. publicdomainreview.org/essay/p... #internationalwomensday #iwd2023 #happywomensday2023

Susan Schulten on the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

Ooohhhh this looks fantastic!

I was so absorbed by The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu, by @rubyopalmindy.bsky.social - beautiful contemporary fantasy about a midwife who develops magical powers as she enters perimenopause. It's got lots to say about community, identity, complicated family relationships and being true to yourself!

Aaahhhh happy birthday to these wonderful books! One of my favourite ever stories about storytelling.

So if you (like me) are incredibly sad / mad / furious about Kansas stripping trans people of rights with no notice, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Aahhhhhhh this sounds amazing, I'm so excited!

HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!! YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

I had SUCH a good time reading @kehealey.bsky.social's Magician First Class. Parks and Rec vibes at a supernatural community centre, great characters, tons of heart, plus my personal catnip, a badass competent middle-aged woman to adore. Can't wait for more in this series!

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A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Some Body Like Me by @ldlapinski.bsky.social was SUCH a good read, I'm still chewing over it weeks later. It's queer, it's complicated, it's about history and memory and bodies, what it means to be a person, what love is. Terrific apocalyptic sci-fi with characters I absolutely loved.

Well this sounds amazing!

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Yes. 25 years on, I teach differently: I read to them, we read silently together, we have weekly experiments week of setting different situations to read (with/out food, company, music; in/outdoors; varying light; &c) & discuss them. It's made ALL the difference to foreground reading as a process.

I just read this and it's DELICIOUS! - enemies-to-lovers with terrific chemistry - they both wear masks - hers is frivolity, his is stoicism - but they learn to see each other past them - emotional arcs are as gripping as the plot, which is to say VERY 😭😍 - fight fascism with friendship and glitter

someone asked me recently if i could rec some more SFF books with butches beyond mine, which reminded me that i made a list for google books a while back. i’ve included that list plus some others i’ve read in the last few years! *as usual, fictional character identities are up for interpretation &c

Have you grabbed your copy of the Romantasy Rebels anthology yet? It includes 26 fantasy romance novellas starring women fighting back, including my own A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience - and it's raising money for PEN America! Snap it up: geni.us/romantasyreb... #romancelandia

A thing I did not discover until today but somehow makes perfect sense: in the 60s local papers would report their own local record charts, by the same method as the national ones: ring up the shops (sometimes, shop) and ask what's selling well.

Ahhhhhh I am SO excited to hear we're getting this, I adored Dreadnought and Sovereign!

Ooh, I need to get my hands on this book for my "being a nerd about Lady Charlotte Guest" collection!

Whaaaaat, did Iolo Morganwg really get me again?! FFS dude.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is consulting on what topics should be included in the 2031 Census. @transactualuk.bsky.social have produced this really helpful guidance, and are encouraging both organisations & individuals to respond. Deadline 4 Feb 2026. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Oh my gossshhhhh look at them! I love this book so much.

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

Gang, have yall read Cosmoknights? 👀⚔️ Because Hannah Templer is an incredible artist 🔥 and I heard y’all like big ladies and space mecha fights 😙

#AllIsBrightAdvent As alluded to in today’s chapter, Welsh children must scream-sing this song as loudly as possible in order to summon Father Christmas: youtu.be/Y-HN-3ckAls?... And a huge thank you to everyone who’s been reading and following along all month, I appreciate you all so much! 🎄✨💞

#AllIsBrightAdvent Part of what inspired this book was a Pride Month display I saw a couple of years ago on a visit to my teenage mooching spot, the Waterstones (formerly Ottakars) in Llandudno. Teen me could never have imagined seeing queer books front and centre like that.

In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.

The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers. Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.

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For anyone in the US (and maybe Canada as well? Please let me know if so!), Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for $2.99 on Amazon, Kobo, and B&N for 7 days, starting today: www.amazon.com/Wooing-Witch... www.kobo.com/us/en/search... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the... Enjoy! :) #romancelandia

POV: You just read a book on the history of Liverpool.

It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈

#AllIsBrightAdvent Mali’s tattoo was partly inspired by the beautiful ink otters that Jackie Morris paints - like these ones here: www.sevenfables.co.uk/product-page...

The perfect Christmas read! 💜 After unexpectedly inheriting a house in the village where she was born, Bethan just wants to clear it out, sell up, and escape back to London before Christmas...🎄 All Is Bright by @llincathryn.bsky.social is a novella with one chapter for each day from December 1-25.

#AllIsBrightAdvent It took a while to decide what Bethan’s skill set would be and how it would help solve Mali’s problem, but I knew I wanted it to be the type of work that’s often happening behind the scenes, not necessarily super visible but essential for getting good stuff done.

#AllIsBrightAdvent I was searching for a thing Mali could be doing at work in this chapter and got sucked into a deep dive about bioacoustics, which is basically recording the sounds animals make as a way to monitor and study them: www.ibac.info/about Super interesting!

Wearable monarch butterfly wings in child size - a commission. Pattern from @twigandtale.bsky.social #sewing #sewsky

"If you won't support our sisters, we won't run your units"

Recommended! 💜 All is Bright Another beautiful romance novella from @llincathryn.bsky.social. The North Wales setting. Bethan's return to her childhood village. Revisiting her feelings about growing up, differences, acceptance are all treated with care and love. A wonderful Christmas read.

#AllIsBrightAdvent Well I fell off Bluesky for a few days so I won't try to catch up on every day I've missed, but I will say that Day 13 is my favourite day and features one specific image that came to me early on and made me want to write this whole story in the first place.

You still have time to get 50% off any Libreture subscription for 12 months. That's like 6 months of Extra storage FREE! 🎫 Use code: DOWNLOADYOUREBOOKS at the checkout. The code expires at the end of this year. ⌛

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I am having SO much fun with this, the temptation to read ahead is huge but I'm so enjoying having a little bit to read each day!

#AllIsBrightAdvent Early versions of this story were more otter-heavy, hence the joke working title that this book had for quite a while - "An Otterly De-Light-ful Christmas". The otters got scaled back and the book's definitely not silly enough to justify it, but I still liked it! 😂

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge - we've raised a record £46,819 so far! The appeal is open until midday tomorrow - every donation means more people in prison can gain qualifications and build towards a brighter future: https://bit.ly/PET-BigGive-2