Hey look it's Friday. Hey look its an adorable container of sake. Hey look we did it again. Hey look its the weekend. Cheers, team.

Hi #ICMS2026, @kzooicms.bsky.social students, postdocs, early careerists, and all the @cornellupress.bsky.social book enthusiasts in between! I have great news! The display books need to find a home in your suitcases and totes. Stop by in the late afternoon tomorrow for a free 📚book📚to help me out!

Team #MedievalSky! @cornellupress.bsky.social is at #ICMS2026 and the booth is ready for @kzooicms.bsky.social authors and book enthusiasts and everyone in between. Choose your own adventure - 40% and free shipping at both physical and virtual exhibits: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/icms-2026-bo...

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I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

READING AS METHOD by Oliver Simons provides a concise and systematic account of how readers engage with texts, exploring the most paradigmatic techniques taught in the past and today and guiding readers on developing their own critical approach to #literature. #Reading https://ow.ly/bClV50Yglwr

Welcome to Bluesky. If you're a writer, don't forget to TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK!

I've been deep-cleaning data for the last few days and only now entering back into reality... Is it Friday? How about a Stiletto Manhattan? Did we get through another week? Is Pluto a planet again? I have so many questions. Cheers, team.

Coming soon from @cornellupress.bsky.social! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Hulme reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in Belfast, showing how queer lives before the gay rights movement were not only possible but also rich, exciting, and fulfilling 🔗 buff.ly/uGma6qL 📍Linen Hall Library, Belfast 🗓️ 13th May 2026 @cornellupress.bsky.social @tomhulme.bsky.social

It's May?

Team #MedievalSky, I'm a @kzooicms.bsky.social first-timer. - I'm excited to meet @cornellupress.bsky.social authors and book enthusiasts and everyone in between. - I'm excited to hear about book projects and shout about our fantastic #Medieval books in the pipeline. - I'm nervous about the dragons.

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Going with an Oakenshield this evening to celebrate not spending another evening stranded at Dulles. Maybe renaming The Dulles Escape. Ok, maybe not. I'm tired, team. But the skewered walnuts. Please applaud. Skewering walnuts is not easy.

Toasting the weekend with a Dusty Cactus in the northern range of the Carolinas with a great friend after a great week of books and walks and publishing chats and most importantly, the best biscuit sandwich in the South. Cheers, team. We did it again.

I adventured into *two* independent bookstores today, team. Two! What a wild Tuesday.

My second book "Policing Blackness: How Threat Shapes Black Politics" is now officially under contract at @cornellupress.bsky.social as a part of the Police/Worlds Series. I'm so thankful to the reviewers and editors who have been an absolute joy to work with on this project thus far.

Coming to (academic) bookstores near you this July. Published with @cornellupress.bsky.social

Great news, team: The incredible cover for Caroline Sturdy Colls forthcoming "Finding Treblinka: Forensic and Archaeological Discoveries" is ready for the world. Even better news? What's inside. Find that & more at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

What makes #IndieBookstoreDay even more spectacular? Spotting your super spectacular colleague's book with a shout-out on the bookshelf! Hurry to your local bookstore before this wonderful day ends and find @jsavrankelly.bsky.social's "Endpapers." Worth the hurry. 💯 You won't regret it. I'll wait. 📚

Friday. After a week of doing so much and feeling like there wasn't much done. A Merry Widow(er) to celebrate that I tried. Cheers, team, to trying again next week.

Great news, team: The incredible cover for Caroline Sturdy Colls forthcoming "Finding Treblinka: Forensic and Archaeological Discoveries" is ready for the world. Even better news? What's inside. Find that & more at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Great news, Team #MilitaryHistory! The fantastic cover has landed for Daniel Jackson's "Flying Brothers," in the Battlegrounds series! Check it out at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page, along with praise and details, and how to pre-order your copy: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The good news is, there's coffee. A lot of coffee. There are also a lot of emails. Not as good of news. Better then to focus on the coffee instead.

Great news, Team #MilitaryHistory! The fantastic cover has landed for Daniel Jackson's "Flying Brothers," in the Battlegrounds series! Check it out at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page, along with praise and details, and how to pre-order your copy: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

"About half of young Americans can’t name a single Holocaust site, repeating a pattern of ignorance seen in postwar Germany" - new from Daniela R.P. Weiner, author of 'Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys' theconversation.com/about-half-o...

Excited to talk with the University of Tennessee community about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book.

Team #SkyStorians! Great praise has arrived for @micahalpaugh.bsky.social's "ambitious history" that is "The People’s Revolution of 1789," noting "his attention to policing in the Revolution’s early years is a noteworthy innovation." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

If you’re based in Northern Ireland, I have a piece about my new @cornellupress.bsky.social book in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk today!

Libraries are pretty great.

Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It's been a year of a week and it's finally Friday and I did the thing at the very bottom of my inbox and then baked two cakes and now definitely deserve a Mezcaletti and we made it to the weekend, team, and I hope you have cake too because you deserve it. Cheers.

Today is going to awesome. Best day ever. Ready for it. Let's publish all the books. Bring on the emails. Bring on the Zooms. A great day to start with double strength coffee.

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

I use too many exclamation marks in emails. Please send help.

Pro: Spring has finally arrived. Con: My eyes are on fire and my head is going to explode.

#SkyStorians! Praise from AHR for Natalie Cornett's award-winning book! "The Politics of Love: Gender and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland" describes "the beginnings of the Polish emancipation movement and starkly shows how different it was from its late nineteenth-century successor." Intrigued?

We're all doing the best that we can. Most of us. There are a few people that could be doing a tiny bit better. But besides them, the rest of us are doing the best that we can.

@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Eileen Sperry about her book This Body of Death: Form and Decay in Early Modern Lyric, which examines how the lyric poetry of Shakespeare and his contemporaries shaped our understanding of what it means to be mortal. #books @cornellupress.bsky.social

Friday itinerary to forget the week: The Scott Couch Snacks Movies Probably an encore Scott. Probably encore snacks. Cheers, team. We did it again. Go us.

Investigates the political project of "Europe" as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disintegration. 📚Browse the full MNGUP BASEES virtual exhibit here: buff.ly/U1cCh0B @basees.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

Reviewer 1 is the real troublemaker.

WOMEN AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANNALS OF TACITUS explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates nonimperial Roman women at the fore. #History Learn more here: https://ow.ly/luYG50Ybpqv

Ok, I printed all the MS I have to read. This is good progress.

Marketing Your First Book, the sixth and final webinar in our First Book Publishing Series, is coming up April 13! 📚 Learn how to build your author platform, leverage online and offline marketing tactics, and create lasting networks. ideasonfire.net/first-book-p... #ScholarlyPublishing

Good morning, friends!

A Most Quiet Murder provides a new view of nineteenth-century France, where the law and public authorities intervened in the lives of the working classes and their children during moments of crisis. Browse more titles⬇️ buff.ly/MNBqYyD @cornellpress.cornell.edu

Team #MedievalSky, I'm a @kzooicms.bsky.social first-timer. - I'm excited to meet @cornellupress.bsky.social authors and book enthusiasts and everyone in between. - I'm excited to hear about book projects and shout about our fantastic #Medieval books in the pipeline. - I'm nervous about the dragons.

FEAR OF THE FALSE uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of #forensicscience. Through scrupulously documented legal cases, Mitra Sharafi reveals that colonial dynamics put special pressure on the relationship between truth and justice. Learn more: https://ow.ly/y9K850YbppO