The quote below is from the book Let This Radicalize You. #Hoosiersky we recommend it highly. Available from the #Tippecanoe County Library, from @mainbooksin.bsky.social or from @haymarketbooks.org

My local is Joseph-Beth Booksellers and one of my fave booksellers (hi, @panediting.bsky.social!) works at @mainbooksin.bsky.social and they’re fantastic! Highly recommend both stores.

My local indie is Joseph-Beth and my other favorite indie I order from is @mainbooksin.bsky.social because @panediting.bsky.social has the best recommendations! I highly recommend both for your book needs on Saturday #IndieBookstoreDay or any day! :) www.josephbeth.com main-street-books.com

When librarians fight book bans, the are not just fighting for freedom of expression, but also against hatred and discrimination. #libraries #archives 📚 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is Nazi shit

Join us tomorrow evening for a virtual event with @elianeboey.bsky.social and @edashtonwriting.bsky.social (author of Mickey7) to chat about scifi noir novel Club Contango & Ashton's forthcoming book The Fourth Consort. Bookseller Kel will moderate. You can still sign up at tinyurl.com/clubcontango

Next Sunday night!

Whoever decided to release Onyx Storm the day after a holiday when most (if not all) delivery services are closed is, um, not the sharpest. Especially after the disaster release of the last book. 👀

You are not immune to propaganda. #art

It's a great day to support your indie bookshop and rely on your friendly neighborhood bookseller to recommend some awesome gifts (because those special orders probably aren't gonna make it!).

Am I going to stop by @mainbooksin.bsky.social and @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social to spend money I shouldn't? Yep.

We look pretty stinkin' cute in the snow.

Just a heads up that if you want to support your local bookshop as part of your holiday gift buying, you need to get any special orders in like, NOW, if you want to ensure things are here by xmas.

Also a very good bookmail day! A trio from @mainbooksin.bsky.social (after enjoying @cupiscent.bsky.social Book 1 on a mystery box selected by @panediting.bsky.social) and a Kickstarter from @jeannettebedard.bsky.social!

obsessed with this cover! 😍

Over on tiktok we had a viral post about Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees with 1.5 million views that has likely brought in A LOT of sales, but want to guess how many we've sold at OUR indie shop? Just FIVE. In 2 months of it being viral, & with so many commenting about how they just bought it. 😭

A lovely local author posted a video of our shop yesterday and someone commented to take the pride flag down. If you don't like the flag, we're perfectly fine if you don't come in! 👍

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Next time you have an idea that seems too crazy, just remember that John Woo once walked into an office and said "I wanna make a movie where Nick Cage plays John Travolta playing Nick Cage, and John Travolta plays Nick Cage playing John Travolta," and someone wrote him a check for 80 million dollars

One of the things I think people don't understand is that you only need 2% of people to be actively committed anti trans people to wildly outnumber, outpace and out power 1% who are trans if the other 97% are ambivalent. Ambivalence about human rights is a problem.

So I have been promoting this like crazy to friends but by coincidence this weekend I read Banned Book Club by @ryanestrada.com and it gave me some great context around the history of Korean democracy that was helpful in understanding the broader implications of what happened yesterday. 📚👀 #booksky

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Speaking of books with lesbians in them, Private Rites released today! If you want a very queer King Lear retelling that doubles as dystopian eco-fiction, this book is for you!

People tend to romanticize dusty bookshops filled almost entirely with old books, and yes, it's still a room full of books, but every time I go to one like that I am thinking about who is missing in all those pages. All the women and BIPOC folks and queer people. I want to hear those voices.

The Supreme Court case tomorrow is fundamentally not about gender affirming care, it's about whether or not trans people have any protections under the 14th amendment. A loss in this case would greenlight a torrent of explicitly discriminatory legislation without much, if any judicial recourse.

Trump has previously proposed cutting all federal funding for libraries. But we can take action today! Please join us and sign the petition to show your support for fully funding IMLS in the Continuing Budget Resolution. action.everylibrary.org/imls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

hello, is it me you're looking for?

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Psst. A lil birdy told me you can get 10% off any order over $25 in our online shop through midnight tonight! Support our progressive lil bookshop in a red state. You can even order a curated book box or a 12 days of gay book bundle! #booksky #smallbusiness #📚

Picked up books 2 & 3 of The Burnished City series today from @mainbooksin.bsky.social after getting Book 1 in a mystery book bundle awhile back picked by the expert @panediting.bsky.social, as well as my first T. Kingfisher book. Highly recommend them for your indie bookstore needs! :)

we're still mad at Taylor for making her book a Target exclusive the day before Small Business Saturday. 🙄

Way too many people think of community as "me and all of my friends helping each other." You will not always like everyone you are in community with. You will need to support them at times, and at other times you will have to rely on them. You will still not like them. Community isn't about like.

Merry Small Business Saturday Eve. Make a plan to shop the local places you love tomorrow! If you want to shop a lil bookshop selling lots of queer and banned books in a red state, hello! we'd love to be your local (bluesky) bookshop. #booksky 📚

We had extra staff today to help with the influx expected at the local Thanksgiving Farmers Market, but apparently the city messed up the street closure, and it's not happening 😭 Anyway, if you want to support our lil progressive red state bookshop we ship across the US!

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading.

Bi representation tends to be invisible and therefore hard to find, so I made a starter pack for bi authors and creators of bi art to fill your feed. If you'd like to be included, please reply to this post! 📚👀💙📚📢 #author #writingcommunity #queer go.bsky.app/KYM6MYR

As a bookshop with a whole pile of queer books in a red state, gotta say we're a tad bit worried...

Our shop looked awfully cute in the snow today! 🥰

We are all responsible for protecting libraries. www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...

Psst... It's not too late. You have until Sunday to reply to this post with your favorite indie bookstore to be entered to win a box of some of my favorite stuff. (US only, sadly. The budget doesn't run to international shipping.)

You know those Hallmark movies where a bookseller is trying to save their bookstore at Christmas Time? Yeah, that could be your local indie if you don't shop there! Indie bookshops RELY on the holiday season, and I'm hearing reports from a lot of shops that sales are down this year. Keep us here!

Our sales have sucked this month! Like, we did half as much as last year this past weekend. If you'd like a box of books curated to your taste, check out our book bundles! We even have a 12 days of gay bundle. We have used book bundles! & they include shipping! secondflightbooks.com/lists/LdHszy...

When we get special orders for backordered books this time of year I say a little prayer to the book printer gods. 🍀🌠🤞

OK, my BOOKS & DOGS Starter Pack is up and running for any readers and writers who also love dogs. To be added pls share and comment with a pic of your pooch! 🐾 go.bsky.app/Tpw1Zej

Do you have trans people in your life who you worry might be losing hope? Are you, maybe, one such person yourself? Or, are you a fan of great writing by incredible trans people and want to read what they're thinking in this historic moment? Assigned Media's Stay With Us package launches today.

what do you think is the ideal number for a book club? #booksky

Friends to Lovers Bookstore in Alexandria, VA literally just opened and has been displaced by a fire in their building. Please consider making a donation: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-fr...

This is just your reminder that if you want to shop at your indie bookstore for the holiday season (please do, most of us need the holiday season to survive) shop early! Put in special orders as soon as you can to ensure we get them to you! And don't forget to get yourself a little treat. #Booksky