#PNW Peeps! I'll be @ballastbookco.bsky.social Nov 7 for the First Friday Art Walk, signing copies of my award-winning novel, The Myth Maker! Come by and get copy signed for that book lover on your holiday shopping list!

based on real life events

OUR NAME NEXT TO SEANAN MCGUIRE'S NAME?! 😭🫡

Happy Women in Translation Month! A perfect time to celebrate and uplift women who write in languages other than English. Some of our favorite translated authors are: Agustina Bazterrica, Marlen Haushofer, Olga Ravn, Sayaka Murata, Mariana Enriquez, Han Kang, and Isabel Allende!

And, baby, that's bookselling business for you ❤️‍🔥 From being unable to reach books on the highest shelf to climbing over the mountains of boxes delivered everyday, The Life of a Bookseller is beautiful, rapturous, and frightening 😌

we had a proposal in our bookstore ahhh it's a love story baby just say yes !!

Happy Paperback Book Day! Here's some of our bookseller favorites in paperback form 📕❤️

yeah we really like books by the saint of writing @tkingfisher.com

it's a prime day to shop small and support local!

why help a b*illionaire rent an entire city when you can help a local bookseller buy labubus instead

"I asked chatgpt" okay well I asked the cool bookseller at my local indie bookstore and they said read more gay books so

I can't tell you how invigorating and inspiring and hopeful it is to be in a crowd of people who also care. Took a group of teens to the last big protest and they were most struck by no longer feeling alone. If you're able to go, I encourage you to try. Get a group of friends & go together.

Need a little good news for your Friday? We’ve officially raised over $39 million for independent bookstores 🎉

lesbian cowgirl books 'cause baby I'm a giver 😌😘

LET ME JUST QUICKLY INCREASE OUR ORDER www.ballastbookco.com/item/p5lAnqx... Zomromcom by Olivia Dade | Ballast Book Company

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

What's up pride month it's me, your friendly & approachable nonbinary author here to tell you about my queer kissing books Jokes! Painful earnestness! A fun time! DON'T WE ALL NEED A FUN TIME. Buy on @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/lists/my-boo...

Bluesky's character count literally isn't long enough for how astonishing and out-of-pocket this woman was, lol. Like, there wasn't even room to add the bit about her being a master fencer who would humble your ass in duels for misgendering her

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁! 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁! 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻! 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘁. 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱: 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄. 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁.

Princess Donut exactly where she belongs—in front of a live audience 👑💖

Huge thanks to @ballastbookco.bsky.social for organizing an awesome event today with @mattdinniman.bsky.social and @djangowexler.bsky.social! I haven't laughed so hard since the last Dungeon Crawler Carl book I read!

spring has sprook time to buy a new book!

yesssssss www.ballastbookco.com/item/MWp_c1q...

no thoughts just queer gnomes

Oooh such good choices! I wanna read Mimosa. The south sound book crawl is still going on through the weekend! Stop in to get a passport and check it out (or at least have a list of bookstores in the area)

What an amazing Indie Bookstore Day! Thank you to everyone who visited us, supported us online, and cleARED OUT ALL OUR BOOKS! Sorry not sorry if your TBR list has grown.

Some images from the day

✨bookstores not billionaires is right✨ thank you and thank you @bookshop.org for the stickers. We had people asking for them all day after we ran out

YOU ARE TOO GOOD AT HIDE AND SEEK

Happy Independent Bookstore Day 📚 Not everyone can always get to their library. It’s important for kids, for people to build their home libraries. To discover books they love so much they reread them over and over and over again. Enter one of the library’s greatest friends… the indie bookstore 💛

heard it is lesbian visibility week. made this shield maiden bearing a rune of warding, inspired by a lovely friend of mine, in 2023. prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo... tees: mxmorgan.threadless.com/designs/sist...

Request doodles in your book please we love to creep on them as we wrap your book tenderly before entrusting it to Jesse the mailman™️

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

If you can wait til 4/26 to buy your books, please do! That’s Indie Bookstore Day. Put it in your calendars. And ignore any conglomerate book sale you might see tomorrow, if you can. Support your indies!

been a minute, time to bump the pack again go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

we love @ballastbookco.bsky.social!!! go visit they are so cool!!! one of the pnw’s finest shops www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

greetings I made this fantasy map of part of the puget sound with all the stores for the south sound book crawl which starts on indie bookstore day pls appreciate it

And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot

me telling everyone to support indie bookstores

April 26th is Indie Bookstore Day, a national celebration of indie bookstores throughout the country! It's a great time to support your favorite bookstores, discover new ones, and to add to your TBR pile.

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

Hope to see a great turnout in Bremerton!

It's the Transgender Day of Visibility and the last day of the Trans Rights Readathon. Of course, you should read books by/about gender non-conforming today, tomorrow, and always! Check out some recommendations we put together 🧵

Publishing looks glossy from the outside. Inside? It’s built on unpaid labour. My first book is out this year. Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice. kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-do... #Publishing #Books #Author #Writer

Reminder

I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.

Next step: The Mountain in the sea by Ray Nayor www.ballastbookco.com/item/3Czr8Ta... @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Snagged a copy from the 90K-100K signatures. Let’s fight to save global health. Let’s end TB. #everythingistb #globalhealth 💙📚 @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @ballastbookco.bsky.social