🎤*”Gonna buy some classics - gonna read them in my attic…” Over 450 Penguin classics for wistful, whimsical, romantic you to peruse, possibly purchase and share with other book lovers. #booksky #resistamazon #shopindie belfastbooks.co.uk/collections/... *inspired by Adrian Gurvitz’s ‘Classic’.

How's BlueSky working out for you all? If you want to be honest then...

This sought after book is currently Publisher Out of Stock (POS) in the UK, but the skanks at Amazon are still pretending they've stock of it, hoping to trick people into paying for a book they have ZERO prospect of getting. Little wonder Bezos can afford a $500m yacht and a rumoured $600m wedding🙄

Congratulations @belfastbooks.bsky.social you're the 100th lovely indie bookstore in my #StarterPack! go.bsky.app/AHQhv2z

Can some please stop Mr Books from considering using fridges instead of bookshelves to shelve books?

Plenty of movement in what's selling well in our #ItWasOnlyAWinterSale 30% off promo. Books by Sharon Davis and Leigh Francis up near the top. Code you need at checkout is THEONLYWAYISESSEX www.belfastbooks.co.uk/collections/...

20% off veggie and vegan books in our 'Veganuary' promotion using code 'SPROUTS'. www.belfastbooks.co.uk/collections/...

The last posting day before Christmas in the U.K. is THE worst day of the year for Mr Books, as it's the day he takes all the panicked calls from people let down by Amazon🥺

If you support Amazon rather than indie bookshops can I suggest you look away now... #booksky 📚 www.belfastbooks.co.uk

Every year Mrs Books and I have a competition to see who sells the most books on #BookshopDotOrg This year she's gone with cat themed books and calendars, despite me telling her no one is going to buy a 'Cat Shaming Calendar'🚫 uk.bookshop.org/lists/purr-f...

Our mailing list has had this since yesterday, now we're opening this 25% off offer on over 400 books to everyone. Code at checkout is 'ULSTERFRY' and ends 2359 tomorrow (Fri). 📣But there's more... FREE UK delivery when you spend £25 or more. www.belfastbooks.co.uk/collections/...

Indie presses: what are they? They may also be called small presses or small publishers, but bear in mind the term also means those not part of a conglomerate, ergo also Faber and Faber and Bloomsbury. Here's the book you start with. For your book, but also magazines, journals, for poetry - ta da

Why Every Author Should Build Strong Bonds With Their Local Bookshops troubador.co.uk/blog/importa...

Any guesses what would get more reposts and likes on here? 1. A post supporting indie authors and a link to a website containing almost 200 of their books OR 2. A picture of a cat wearing glasses that say 'F@#K TRUMP' Answer 1 or 2 in any reply or repost...

Mushrooms you say? Northern Ireland's world famous breakfast - the #UlsterFry says "NEVER, NEVER...NEVER!!!"

Right, time to draw a line. ------------------------------ If I don't recognise your name, you have no profile picture & your page is blank, I Won't Follow You Back. ------------------------------

One last Blake's 7 picture of mine before Doctor Who Day starts tomorrow. Here's Avon (with Zen and Orac) and yes, he never had both those guns at the same time - but probably wishes he did. #Blakes7

This is my bookstore, Phoenix Books in Montreal. Show her some love. 🖤

very quiet day today three customers buying a teen popping in for a nose oh well but we did do our first sale via blusky woo-hoo!

There isn't a bookshop in the UK more 'indie' than us. No one is as small, poor or bootstrappy as us, and we're amplifying indie authors by opening an #IndieWindae on our website to showcase high quality self published books. First up...Troubador Publishing www.belfastbooks.co.uk/collections/...

We're at that point with following back that we're considering petitioning Parliament to add an extra day onto the week.

Ah...those halcyon days when chain bookshops weren't owned by greedy grabby hedge funds...

Who wants to share my love potato?

I'm doing some work with my online children's literature students this morning and it's a delight to see them grow and develop their work. If you'd like to come on board, I've a new intake starting in Jan for British Children's Literature in the 20th Century: www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/briti...

Hello, we're new here👋 We are The Bookseller, at the heart of the book trade since 1858📚 Follow for the latest updates from the book trade!

Word of the Day is ‘gwenders’, from old Cornish dialect: a disagreeable tingling in the extremities (or no sensation at all) due to extreme cold.

Exactly 22 months ago, I turned round to my girlfriend and said, “Maybe I could make a podcast about The Who?” 22 months later, I’m happy to announce that the first episode has finally been released, and it’s available on all good podcast apps and at the below link: shows.acast.com/651ed092130f...

People on here seem frightfully vexed about one particular squillionaire, yet are largely silent about one who has an equally atrocious record on union recognition, workers rights and much more.

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty BLAKE: He must. TYCE: He was broken, can't you see that? If you'd known him before, you'd understand. He was a very special man, brilliant and proud. Failure never occurred to him. https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/223

Read Phil’s books they’re great

Making a starter pack for authors who do school visits, so schools can easily find us. This starts off one for primary schools go.bsky.app/5u2ArqX but I'll also do one for secondary. Let me know if you do school visits and you want to go on the list - and whether you do primary or secondary. Thanks.

Wherever you are in the world remember what can happen when you don't #ShopLocal

#TerrierTuesday😀 We are Woozle (Westie) & Taffy (Welsh Terrier). I Woozle am 14, and Taffy will be 10 this Friday🥳 We live in the Netherlands. We are both rescues. Our hobbies include digging, swimming, rolling in mud, & singing the song of our people.

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Anyone got a starter pack of working class people working within the UK publishing industry? I mean genuinely working class, not middle class pretending to be working class.

We are possibly the only haunted bookshop on Belfast's York Road, if not the whole of North Belfast... youtu.be/KhOCAlU4OWM?...

This is one list the people of Northern Ireland DON'T want to be on... #Voasters bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is a Very Important Starter Pack of Biscuit Connoisseurs. For now, I’ve included people I personally know to have acceptable taste in biscuits. But if you’d like to be added to the list, just reply to this with your top three biscuits, in order, and I shall carefully consider your application

I notice what this article doesn't tell you is Barnes & Noble are now owned by Elliott Investment Management, the New York hedge fund, just like their mini me Waterstones in the UK. Elliott's shareholders come first, not readers, authors or publishers.

If you ask nicely I will tell you little secrets about being a librarian. Or how to become a librarian.

Hello *checks notes* to our 1 follower... We're an online bookstore that keeps real bricks and mortar independent bookshops thriving with every sale. Follow us to talk about books, authors and reading culture and support the indie bookshops we all LOVE 📚 Bookshop.org 📷 @lighthousebks.bsky.social

And UK & Irish indie publisher starter pack by @burleyfisher.bsky.social go.bsky.app/L4z7dcD

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad AVON: I can't. The teleport control is burnt out. [Vila enters Liberator teleport area] https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/133

UK & Irish indie bookshops list, including @belfastbooks.bsky.social go.bsky.app/K7P6mVw & UK & Irish indie publishers by @burleyfisher.bsky.social go.bsky.app/L4z7dcD

Here's the thread where I asked the same question! There's a lot there because most of my threads followers are indie authors! www.threads.net/@goldenleafb...

You can get Parable of the Sower free on Libro rn! It's been described as the Black scifi version of the Handmaid's Tale and it's coming highly recommended by so many people! I'm stoked to download it and start listening. #FreeBooks #BlackBooks #Audiobooks #BookRecs #ShopSmall

Good morning to everyone apart from Amazon, hedge fund owned bookshops, whoever sets business rates, supermarkets that sell books, chain store 'exclusive' books, 'celebrity' book clubs, influencers and 'listicle' culture. #shopindie

Looking at all the books in my room and realizing it might have just been cheaper to buy a library. 😬

starter pack for writers who plan to spend their one wild and precious life posting about writing instead of writing