What've y'all been up to? We made S L U T•C R O W N S with @spiritbored.bsky.social for her sapphic slasher #BodyCount

🌊 MerMay splashes into Asbury Park on Saturday May 30th for a full day Mer-Magnificence! 🪸 Mer-Market: an ocean of local vendors 🐚 Mers & More Book Fair: a sea of books hand picked by Fin 🐟 Plumb the depths of your creativity with Author Activities... mer-may-in-asbury-park-nj.secretparty.io

YES the author whose book you just devoured wants to hear from you how much you loved it, it changed you, your ego drowned upon its pages. #ICYMI

TO THE MOON! 🌒🌕🌘 ...actively ignoring all April 1st intrusive thoughts...

T-5 minutes now! #Artemis

🔥 one week til our PRE-RELEASE MURDER PARTY for These Familiar Walls by @cj-dotson.bsky.social at Porta in Asbury Park, NJ We are DEAD serious, you don't want to miss this TICKET TO MURDER www.exploretock.com/portaasburyp... #Horror #BookSky #HorrorBook #MurderParty

So, when should we host our "Queering your B&N tote" DIY Party?

—eagerly awaiting our invite to the KitKat Club— ...y'all delaminate your KitKats when you eat them, right?

*giggles* Oh pardon me, let me just get some popcorn 🍿 —this is why 'Military Futures' will be the our first exhibit for the Museum of Genre Fiction ...hopefully at Info Age Science Center / Project Diana—

I made a fun bear head sticker for YOTM bookplate reasons and the bear has antlers with hands growing out of it and is not weird at all I'm very excited

just once i want video to pivot to me

Last two days of #transrightsreadathon and you can still donate and support!

We love trans stories. We love reading them, sharing them, and yapping about them. We love getting recs and building aspirational TBRs. #transrightsreadathon (part 1 of 4)

Wednesday April 8th at 6pm JOIN US! ...if you dare... for CJ Dotson's Haunted Murder Masquerade! Nothing is certain, except someone is dead ...and it might be you... www.exploretock.com/portaasburyp... @cj-dotson.bsky.social #murderparty #horrornovel

These both need to be shirts. Who do we need to speak to to have these as a shirt? Like a PROPER BAND t-shirt with the TOUR INFO on the back. Who's in?

Hey all you Indie Authors! Get your eBooks over to @draft2digital.bsky.social so they can be sold on @bookshop.org cause INDIE BOOKSTORES WANT TO PROMOTE YOUR EBOOKS! This removes the "but diverse authors need Amazon Kindle to get discovered" argument once and for all? -Andy Hunter says grrr-

Thank you to @bookshop.org for featuring us today on Instagram! ...and for finally convincing us to say goodbye when we were IMMEDIATELY locked out of our account. The funniest part? Once upon a time Fin almost went to work at Instagram to help them develop better tools to help Small Businesses.

This springtime creeping ick seriously sucks. We're down for the count, will be back Thursday 4/2 *full body sneeze'n'shiver*

Thursday 3/26/26 - Closed cause sick and y'all don't want this. Will update tomorrow if we're feeling better. Sorry y'all. Send some love in the form of buying a book from Fin's BIR Trans Rights Readathon list on @bookshop.org bookshop.org/lists/trans-... #transrightsreadathon #trr26

Now with new dates! Starting March 8, you can bid on these beauties and a whole lot more to support trans people. www.32auctions.com/organization...

I stand by my platform that every year we should reset all chips to Plain, and then see what we end up with by the end of the year if we allow ourselves to dream and believe.

Do you even Indie anymore? libro.fm/playlists/in...

Who wants to read something slimy with us?

In a related inquiry, I'm trying to track down the source on a 90s era website called Women on the Net. There's a lesbian dating site with that name founded a few years ago. But apparently Roberta Angela Dee founded an earlier site that was an early TWOC resource, according to TransGriot.

Not sure where to start with your Trans Rights Readathon this year? Well! Never let it be said we don't have an opinion or three to share. We've got books here at the store AND some excellent lists up on our online shop through @bookshop.org bookshop.org/lists/trans-...

Happy International Women's Day to all you spicy, snarky, sharp, and scary beasts out there. Keep on fighting & biting.

What do y'all say let's just get rid of the whole for-profit university thing and instead have Libraries... ...with associated Dining Halls, Dorms, and Discussion Spaces (and Laboratories, etc, etc). Yes, childcare included, duh.

Sam Altman: I am going to breed flying pigs with their own wings Me: he's not going to do that Some Very Smart Guy: uh Sam Altman could fire a pig into space from an immense railgun, did you consider that? Your doubt is preventing mankind from joining the Citadel

Marimar Martinez is a hero. She was shot 5 times by ICE. The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire. He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”. DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her. Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.

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A quick reminder that there's another futuristic fictional encyclopædia that's a distillation of all knowledge. In it the entry for Earth is two words: Mostly harmless. It seems likely that Mr.👀🪢🍆🚀 has misplaced his towel.

This pairing makes sense, right? Asking for a friend. @bitterkarella.bsky.social @mandykathryn.bsky.social

"They have all the imagination and settle for dragons." - Jason Reynolds —writing into a gap or a void—

“Giving us permission to sacrifice people to maintain the level of comfort we enjoy in society” - Seamus Sullivan

"We make monsters because we need to fight things that have no form." - Anna Kovatcheva

“When I started looking at the history, I found that they [women] actually had more agency than we have been led to believe, and to expect” - Anna Kovatcheva

“If somebody is in a prison they should escape. We should not use escapism as a pejorative.” - Seamus Sullivan

We've been going for 17 months! And I know that because there are 17 essays that you can currently read for free! Time travel & trauma; Star Trek and "diversity" (or not); nationalist myths in Tolkien; Renaissance lady knights; magic as infrastructure... (1/2) www.speculativeinsight.com

Thank YOU @etchfilm.bsky.social for telling stories we need to hear, and y'all were AWESOME making the store look so pretty! —yeah, that's right we're about storytelling across ALL mediums, and far be it from us to say no to being set & setting for THE Cassie Workman to tell her latest tale!

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Indie Bookstore Day is next Saturday April 26th!!! We'll be open 11am-7pm with Door Prizes, new Wolfe & Kron merch, and a Golden Ticket from @libro.fm !!! Reserve a tote NOW and RSVP for FREE to guarantee your Door Prize! www.eventbrite.com/e/independen... #Indiebookstoreday2025

4/04 we open

Some of y'all may have noticed that we did NOT have a reopening party tonight. There's some tea on that topic that's yet to be sipped—never mind spilled. BUT[t]!...

Who do you think will still have all the banned books in stock? Particularly the ones that Publishers decide to shadow-ban, conveniently doing a shorter print run, or never offering a second edition. Good luck to the government purging our un-inventoried backstock!

TONIGHT! Catch us at 3BR Distillery in Keyport, NJ from 6-8pm for a Clothing & Book Swap! Don't have much to bring? Don't worry! Some of us folks are taking advantage of a closet clean out and don't want to bring everything back home... ...just don't be a jerk about it. ALL BODIES WELCOME!

This is not a One-Day Performative Boycott. This is DAY ONE of a series of ECONOMIC BLACKOUTS. —just in case @scalzi.com wasn't the only one who didn't do their research—

Don't feed the fascists #EconomicBlackout

TONIGHT we're at 3BR Distillery in Keyport, NJ for @asynchronousbookclub.org 1) Show up 2) Write down three books you've read 3) Get grouped with folks who've read those books ...or ones you've probably read. 4) TALK ABOUT BOOKS. It's pretty rad. Get a ticket: app.anyroad.com/i/plugin/3br...

Y'all, we got your read picked out for May so get ready to pre-game the summer reads—preorder link SOON. "The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman" by @nikostratis.com ...and daaaam, gonna need to hit the record store after reading this one.

it’s thigh Thursday and I’m doing this for all my smutty bookish babes 🫣 (told yall I was in my smut era) #booksky #gaysky