ICYMI, tomorrow 9/28 we'll be at the Durham Geek & Grum Market (Book Nerd Edition) from 12-5 PM at the Durham Armory. There will be lots of books and book-related things! www.geekandgrubmarket.com/event-detail...

#Booksky We have a sale running during #FlightsofFoundry! Get a great deal on some queer spec fic! Use coupon code FoF25 to get 10% off your ebook purchases from our webstore (doesn’t include the preorder or print). Sale ends Monday! queenofswordspress.com

#Games #CharityBundles Catherine Lundoff’s #menopausalwerewolf novel, SILVER MOON, is bonus fiction content in this bundle from @drivethrurpg.com! She’s got some published work in the WoD universe so if you like it, maybe she can write for Werewolf some day! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

This morning, as I left the house, I saw something... large... under the eaves of the porch. Me: That's too big to be a spider. *walks around corner* Me: ...apparently not.

The Sidewise Award is looking to add judges. If you are interested in joining the jury, please see instructions and submit your application via this article at Locus. locusmag.com/2025/08/side...

#Booksky It’s spooky season & Sapphic September and we have books! Murder horsies and found family? Try Dee Holloway’s LITTLE NOTHING. Ghostly streetcars and Welsh mythology? Michael Merriam’s LAST CAR TO ANNWN STATION. Ghost stories? UNFINISHED BUSINESS by Catherine Lundoff. queenofswordspress.com

The autumn equinox is here in the northern hemisphere, meaning that the new season has officially begun. This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully. 🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Utagawa Hiroshige 1 (1797 - 1858) , 1857. EAX.4362

#Booksky New interview with publisher Catherine Lundoff at VoyageMinnesota! voyageminnesota.com/interview/li...

#Booksky If you like the Astreiant Series by Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett, you might like the Lynes & Mathey books by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold too! Gay romantic mysteries that blend fantasy and brilliant award-winning writing! Available everywhere! books2read.com/ap/81ezPv/Me...

Alright, commencing a week of intense work, so I should really stay off this site. Try not to burn the world down while I'm gone, and maybe buy some books. Might I suggest the first of a dark high fantasy duology (book ii about 2/3 written now) The Wolf and the Wild King www.kvj.ca/wolf.html ...

Tomorrow! Come see us if you‘re in or around #StCloudMN!

It's already a multi-hairball morning.

A #Roman ribbed glass bowl, in a pale shade of bluey-green. It is in beautiful condition despite being about 2000 years old; this type of glass vessel was very popular in the early Imperial period. AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

Thread, but especially this, which I needed to hear this morning.

I got to read this in its larval form and I really do recommend it

#Booksky Sapphic September is on and you can find some of our titles at Bella Books @bellabooks.bsky.social! Get some cool reads by Heather Rose Jones, Dee Holloway, Catherine Lundoff and Emily L. Byrne from an online store that celebrates sapphic fiction! www.bellabooks.com/category/pub...

Quick reminder that our publisher is “between jobs” right now and that her Patreon supporters get first dibs on cover reveals, excerpts, news and more! www.patreon.com/CLundoff

#Booksky Next book table! Look for us at St. Cloud Pride in the Park in St. Cloud, MN this Saturday 9/20 from 11-4! We’ll be there with books and great deals and glad to be back at one of favorite Prides! stcpride.org/stcloud-prid...

Love GURPS Space for all of these reasons. It was (is) such a fun set of tools for brainstorming worlds.

#Booksky Catherine Lundoff has a new story out today in her sapphic pirate and spy in the 17th century Caribbean series on @heatherrosejones.bsky.social’s LHM Podcast! See next post for link to “Letter of Marque,” the first story which appeared elsewhere.

Just about my favorite line in all of Redford's films.

#Booksky We have a Lynes & Mathey book package in the Carver County Pride online auction! We can‘t be there in person this year because we’ll be at St. Cloud Pride instead, but show this fun rural pride some love! Last year was a lot of fun! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ carvercountypride.betterworld.org/auctions/car...

#Booksky Found this lovely review of POINT OF HEARTS (Astreiant #6) by Melissa Scott while searching for something else yesterday! Please let us know if you loved one of our books and gave it a review we might not have seen yet! www.windowsonemotions.com/book-review-...

Bunch of good books here, plus a nice shout-out to Jo Graham's and my Order of the Air series!

Oh hey, my sapphic pirate stories will be published by @qospress.bsky.social ! 🌈⛵🏳️‍🌈

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

In AD 122 a spur of woodland was cleared at the Hadrian's Wall and the Birdoswald fort was built. An infantry cohort of 800 men was garrisoned there. It was occupied all Roman period, reoccupied in the Middle Ages and hit by border reivers in the 16th century. #RomanFortThursday

Reposting from yesterday

Yeah, yeah, staying off in order to write, but in my 'posts for new followers about what I write' I forgot the big announcement of the new book, Breath and Bone, a sword and sorcery coming next spring from Candlemark & Gleam. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2025/08/25/a... #sword&sorcery #fantasy

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! My award-winning, out-of-print book Tales from Rugosa Coven has a new publisher! We're bringing it back in August 2026 in a new author's preferred edition. #sff #fiction #fantasy #witch #pagan www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2025/09/10/a...

Excited to announce that we've acquired Sarah Avery's 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner Tales from Rugosa Coven, in a new and revised edition! Looking forward to bringing these lovely novellas to a new group of readers! www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2025/09/10/a...

🌈📚Pre-Order Party! 🦄 📖 The Beauty's Blade: Mei Ren Jian by Feng Ren Zuo Shu Available in English for the first time! Two powerful swordswomen face off in this enemies-to-lovers historical tale. Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/979... #booksky #queerbooks #fantasy #romance

Slightly diminish a book: One-Sixth of Heaven

Whee!

Repost for new followers! I write literary epic fantasy (and a bunch of other things too). You're most likely here for THE WOLF AND THE WILD KING, book I of a new darkish high fantasy duology. A troubled assassin, an outlaw, human sacrifice and dragons in a winter forest. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html 1/?

#Booksky Great book table at Pagan Pride yesterday, despite the on and off again rain! Big thank you shoutout to Michael and Kevin for all their help! And thank you to everyone who stopped by! Yesterday’s bestsellers:

A message for those in the US: I am still shipping to the States, all duties are prepaid by me (meaning no nasty surprises for you) and books are currently exempt from tariffs. So if you fancy a few of my books you can buy now with confidence. Thank you. dragonsofwales.etsy.com

It’s almost like some kind of message. 😏

Has anyone got the link that was circulating a while back to check if your books were part of the library used in the Anthropic case? (Most of mine were, but now I have to cross-reference which ones were properly registered.)

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And the Dervish! This is the book I've been waiting for ever since I read Swordheart! *bought*

We are living in a Carolingian world And I'm a Carolingian girl

Our #objectoftheweek is this painted silk banner in our collection, a rare survival from Cromwell's state funeral - he died #OnThisDay 3 September 1658. This is one of only 4 such banners that survive of the more than a thousand that were made. #17thCentury

#Booksky Stopped off at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis yesterday to put some Midwest Book Award winner stickers on POINT OF HOPES by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett. 💖 Indie bookstores selling this title - let us know if you’d like a couple too! dreamhavenbooks.com/product/poin...

OMG, only TEN DAYS until Albacon, where I'm the Guest of Honor! If you're in the Albany area, come join me and so many others for a weekend of fun! albacon.org/2025/ #convention #albacon #readingfantasy #booksky #fantasy #epicfantasy #urbanfantasy #sff #scifi #sciencefiction #writingfantasy

The Great Fire of London started OTD 1666, destroying large parts of the city. Two images, the first from a 1669 survey of the fire by John Leake and others, the second from a beautiful 'Balloon view of London' from 1859, of the monument to mark the fire, completed in 1677 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Lovely history of the Nemi ships that Jo Graham and I used in our novel Lost Things.

Look, it's my book! Happy and honored to be a semi-finalist in the Horror category.

Sigh. Regarding the whole copyright registration thing... My big house contracts said they would register copyright in my name. My small press contracts explicitly said I would have to register copyright for myself, and like a lot of folks I decided not to because up to now that wasn't a real issue.

Occasional reminder that our publisher is “between jobs,” as they say, and the Scrooge McDuck levels of filthy lucre that she makes as a writer and small press publisher are what keeps us all afloat! Also her Patreon helps a lot. New post up - All About Emily L. Byrne. www.patreon.com/CLundoff