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

Just added @pocketbooksshop.bsky.social to the Indie Bookstore #booksky Starter Pack. Who am I still missing? go.bsky.app/7A7Nyut

177 New Fiction and Nonfiction Reads for Black History Month www.goodreads.com/blog/show/28... via @goodreads @tananarivedue.bsky.social

Flametree Publications call for submissions, Afrofuturism anthology blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

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You won't believe how easy it is to support this indie bookstore! eBooks: bookshop.org/shop/wolfean... Audiobooks: libro.fm/wolfeandkron... Gift Cards: www.wolfeandkronbooks.com/gift-cards-a... Shop In-Store: wolfeandkronbooks.com #BookSky #indieBookstore

The Black Antifascist Book Bundle

I just want to thank you @nnedi.bsky.social. Death of the Author is so wonderfully powerful for me. All the characters touched me in ways that I didn't know they could. They all seemed so real and fleshed out. Then I got to the "Passing". No book has ever made me feel like that, ever. Thank you!

UPDATE: Moving right along and should be getting mold / mildew remediation next week! Cross fingers with me that we can get the backstock room sorted out so we can reopen March 1st!

Did someone say BOOK GIVING DAY?!?

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

ROMANCE STARTER PACK JUST DROPPED Y'ALL!

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

So many awesome Starter Packs of #blackbooksky Authors!!!

ALT TEXT ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY

STARTER PACK by @michaellaborn.bsky.social to DIVERSIFY your Bookishness Go. Follow. Engage. —and omg thank you! this is awesome!—

Ok y'all. Looking to make some enamel pins for the store, but struggling to find a company that's not making 🪢👀 ⚡⚡ 🙋🏻‍♂️ pins for the next customer. Who are all y'all using? @everywhereisqueer.bsky.social @therainbownavy.bsky.social @binderybooks.bsky.social @feministpress.bsky.social

Year long paid residency (£24K) for a mid-career writer to explore themes of shared responsibility for, and within, the climate crisis, producing new writing with support from Fruitmarket. Closing date 17th Feb! Get in now! Please share!

In case y'all are wondering what's happening at the store, here is a photo of bookshelves not yet attached to the walls, and a pile of stuff that didn't fit in the storage unit

For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts. Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

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Apparently we should have made BINGO cards for Project 2025 Maybe then people would be paying more attentioN... #BINGO2025

Go support Black Authors for Black History Month!!!

GO 👏 SUPPORT 👏 DIVERSE 👏 AUTHORS!!!

Thought we were a bookstore. Apparently we're actually in demolition & mold remediation business? ...yes, the store is still closed, and no, we don't have a reopening date. Did we mention we designed some rad t-shirts and have those for sale?

Are y'all ready to ditch Amazon and kick Kindle to the curb? Cause you're already reviewing your books on @thestorygraph.com not on Goodreads, right? Right?

THE SHIRTS ARE DONE!!! —and totes too!— Pick yours up at 3BR Distillery tomorrow during #AsynchronousBookClub ...or if you missed ordering one during our Kickstarter we'll have a limited number for SALE too @asynchronous-books.bsky.social

1. Backup / download your eBooks 2. Be sure you have software that can open them on an agnostic device 3. Disconnect that device from the cloud / internet 4. Buy physical copies of books that are important to you from an Indie Bookstore RINSE & REPEAT AS NECESSARY

This is the age of the Indie Bookstore, of the Small Press. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.

Y'all, we got Homework Assignments incoming ...you ready?