Shepherd's new bookshelves are live! Woohoo! We've been working on these a long time and excited to show them to you -> build.shepherd.com/p/launch-par...

A couple of Dan’s overlap with my five fav #cricket #history #books: shepherd.com/best-books/c...

A really cool Kickstarter celebrating printing, take a look -> www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

I am still optimisic about this Kickstarter campaign despite having accidentally launched it so its mid-point is into the worst economic crisis point in decades. As an independent writer and creator, the winds blow us like maple seeds where they will. (Yes, book is being printed in Canada🍁.)

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough." Corey Booker, just now.

On this week's show, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about kivy, DuckDB, pyproject.toml, Polars LazyFrames and discuss software books, including fiction. With content from @bwbbwb.bsky.social and others not on the 🦋

I did a fun interview about Shepherd and how we are trying to build something different than Goodreads, check it out here -> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

How many of the #SPFBO champions have you read?

Best president ever.

@scalzi.com woohoo! I just preordered The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War Book 7) and am looking forward to it this September. Beautiful cover :)

We just shipped a big update to help readers find amazing book lists by authors and experts! Check out the improved accuracy under our book lists section here -> shepherd.com/search/shelf... and shepherd.com/search/shelf... and shepherd.com/search/shelf...

Great data breakdown!!

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Good news for folks who want to support local booksellers www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

And a big post for authors for January -> meetreaders.shepherd.com/p/the-big-20...

Big post for January for readers... ilovebooks.shepherd.com/p/my-10-favo...

How is our new referral and partnership system working on the fav 3 reads of the year event? -> build.shepherd.com/p/how-is-the...

When an audiobook publisher that publishes their audibook on both Audible and Apple Books makes $10,000 on Audible: Amazon makes $30,000. If they made $10,000 on Apple Books: Apple would make $4,285. This is Amazon generating 7x (!!) the revenue, compared to publisher/author earnings. Wow.

Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because:

Utter boss move.

My December update for authors talks about what I am trying to do with our new referral program at Shepherd.com -> meetreaders.shepherd.com/p/an-easy-en...

If you love good historical fiction, I recommend Sword Brethren by Jon Byrne! I didn't know anything about this time period and the Northern Crusades, and it was a great read (and educating) -> www.amazon.com/Sword-Brethr...

My book friend @bwbbwb.bsky.social recently launched the Best Books of 2024 on Shepard. It's a nifty idea: ask a bunch of readers what their top 3 books of 2024 were. Readers can create a page of their top, and then the site aggregates the top overall. Here's mine! shepherd.com/bboy/2024/f/...

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

📚🔥 Want to share your 3 favorite reads of 2024 and get a beautiful page like this 👉 shepherd.com/bboy/2024/f/... Share your picks here 👉 shepherd.com/bboy/my-3-fa... Plus, it goes into our Readers' Favorites of 2024 👉https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024