#Booksky #Minneapolis Today’s adventure! Come join us for a fun book sale and author event!

#Booksky It’s the weekend and we have another book table! Look for us at TC Pride’s Queer Writes Book Fair tomorrow 11/16 11-2 at the Machine Shop in Minneapolis! tcpride.org/queer-writes...

There is an insect on the living room ceiling. The cat is distressed.

#Booksky #Fridayreads Want to support us and the oldest feminist sf con in the world AND get a deal on great queer books? We’re @wiscon.bsky.social’s Vendor of the Month so this deal ends at the end of November!

I've said it before, I'll say it again, Astreiant is exactly the sort of thing the best series award should recognise. Individually good books, but the sweep of the city, its people, & their lives across the series is an order of magnitude more important. Expertly crafted living world in miniature.

Have you not read the Astreiant books? They are SO GOOD

#Booksky Sporadic reminder that we are the current publisher of the entire Astreiant Series and that it will be eligible for this year’s Hugo for Best Series, just in case you wanted to support a terrific award-winning series of gay fantastical mysteries! queenofswordspress.com/product-tag/...

I enjoyed Death by Silver quite a lot! Check it out if you haven't yet.

#Bookcovers #Artists Big shoutout to today to Matt at @inkspiral! He did the beautiful covers and interior designs for all of our editions of the Astreiant Series and the Lynes & Mathey books!

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra! It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏 (Shop link in pinned post).

Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.

#Booksky Hey, we’re WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social’s first Vendor of the Month! Use WisCon26 on our website in November to get a discount on our books and we make a donation to WisCon! How cool is that! queenofswordspress.com

I'm angry and I bet you are too! Howzabout a book where somebody fights back for a change

It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse! A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely #weekend! 📷 me 🏺

Now I'm really going away to write. Let there be book. And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html

OMG. I actually have to see this. Somehow.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

#Booksky Terrific review by Keith John Glaeske of "Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant," by Melissa Scott at Out in Print.. outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/p...

Yale owns a Dutch utility bond issued in 1648 that still pays interest. “Yale’s bond, written on goatskin, was issued on May 15, 1648 to Mr. Niclaes de Meijer for the “sum of 1,000 Carolus Guilders of 20 Stuivers a piece.”

OMG YES. Thank you, @benmonreal.bsky.social, for the kind words and the thoughtful review!

Happy Halloween, Cerberus!

#Booksky If you’re avoiding shopping at the ‘Zon but need Kindle format for your books, here’s your reminder that you can buy it direct from us! We get paid faster, our authors get paid more and we reinvest in our communities! From queer cosy to spooky: queenofswordspress.com

#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

OKAY, FINE, LET'S DO A REC THREAD of some of my Queen of Swords faves! Death By Silver by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold Edwardian historical fantasy mystery with pining (while fucking), boarding school trauma, second chance romance, and bad bad men. queenofswordspress.com/product/deat...

#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

#Booksky MURDER ON THE TITANIA by Alex Acks @katsudon.bsky.social is the Deal of the Day at DriveThruFiction today! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/2...

Okay but if you think about it, you could probably sit down right now yourself and make a pretty accurate list of all the people in the world who would believably say “bring me the French Crown Jewels” and mean it, so like I guess let’s start there 🤷‍♂️

Do you want to read BlankAnon, #booksky? Of course you do. No other book features a heist, a god, a chupacabra, a Santa Suit, a Die Hard, a pizza order And you'll find out why the internet has all that porn

Oh, wow, that makes so much sense.

For Death By Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club, whisky, tea, old books, and ozone.

#Booksky We generally don’t plug our books on Amazon but the last two months of book sales have not been great anywhere so needs must. There’s a A+ page up for the Astreiant Series now! Dig into some great gay fantastical mysteries for October! www.amazon.com/Astreiant-6-...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

For Master of Samar, salt and tidal mud and wind. (I do miss living on the coast.)

#Booksky Also on sale via Ingram’s new direct sale option in the U.S. and U.K. - A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social! Gay gaslamp mysteries with magic-using detectives, for the win! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

#Booksky A brief thread of current book sales! Trying out this new direct sale Ingram thing in the U.S. and U.K. - looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social is on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

#Booksky Thrilled that Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social’s LAST CAR TO ANNWN STATION has just been acquired by the Minnesota Historical Society for their library! It‘s an urban fantasy set in Minneapolis circa 2007 and features streetcar ghosts, Welsh mythology and a sweet sapphic romance!

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

We're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. One of the books we have in stock is Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff from @qospress.bsky.social. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/products/sil...

I have over 12,000 followers here. If each one of you pledged just £1 each to the Kickstarter we’d be deep into stretch goals by now. Just a thought: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

Check out my new book, available for preorder now! #booksky

Preorders are up now for @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social's BlankAnon! (Link is to Amazon, but it's available on all the usual suspects.) www.amazon.com/BlankAnon-Fi...

So I understand it's World Octopus Day. (From the Heraklion Archeological Museum. One of what seemed like dozens.)

Now available on DriveThruFiction, DriveThruCards, and @drivethrurpg.com! Tarot for Storytellers is a how-to book that teaches writers and game masters all about tarot! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/5...

Publisher's Weekly review of @gregfgifune.bsky.social's upcoming nov el PACK ANIMALS - available for pre-order now at all eBook retailers, pre-order the trade paperback on Amazon.

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