IYMI cos I know LOTS of you are queer readers and writers. Last week, I launched Prideopoly 2025 - my reading challenge for Pride Month! Here is the board and my launch video! 💙📚🌈 As always, even if this isn't your thing, a share would go a long way to find my community 🥰 youtu.be/xuyCMesUyQk?...

If you love your library, listen up…

keep forgetting to share my lovely online gym here. based in AUS but can be accessed from anyhere. in April they're hosting some classes for only 50cents!! heres a link for more information alternativeactivewear.com.au/pages/50-cen...

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove 3.5⭐ Mini review below ⬇️ Came for a funny campy scifi, stayed for the characters. #BookSky

4⭐ Another fun murder mystery within the Leviathen seires with a lot to say about corrupt politics Mini Review below ⬇️ #BookSky

I forgot to post about international asexual day yesterday, but Rowling didn't forget 🙃 She just can't fucking help herself. Why is she so obsessed with queer people? 😒

This was me the last week. I'm so ready to say goodbye to summer for the next 6 months after the humidity and warmth of the north. Didn't even read much as I was too busy doing nothing

After a month of complaints, #NetGalley is working on a permanent fix with #Kobo so you can download eARCs again! #booksky

Shitting on an entire genre because you didn't like legends and lattes? 😂😂 If you want pain in cosy fantasy just read something else. Becky Chambers Wayfarers series is right there. There are so many cosy books with pain, just ask ffs.

If you’re posting trans books recommendations and I don’t see a single trans women or trans femme character written by a trans women or trans femme author, side eye 👀 absolute side eye

This year for the trans rights readathon I'm just existing. No tbr from me. Love seeing what everyone else is reading though! I've spotted a few recent favs, one of them being the Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy 🎉

Participating in the Trans Rights Readathon? 10% off around 50 titles by trans and non-binary authors! www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/shop/trans-r...

This landed in my inbox just in time for the trr. Too bad it's a netgalley link so I guess I'll be reading it on my phone ... *Cries in kobo* Highly recommend this series. both book 1 and 2 have cliffhangers but this is the final book so it's the perfect time to pick them up 🌈📚💙📚🪐 #trr #trr2025

I caved

Indie authors get told $2.99 is too much for their ebooks but trad pub just releases Sunrise on the Reaping's ebook for $18.99.

I'm all for paying for what I get. I buy special editions/paperbacks/hardcovers of books I've read for free from the library or as arcs. But this is a CHILDREN'S book. And it's getting this treatment because they know they can get away with it

While I'm at it The paperback has a rrp of $30. Children/Young adult books are generally priced around 20ish rrp. Scholastic themselves sell young adult books for 20 or less rrp... Yet this one gets the high price tag because it can 🗑️🗑️🗑️

This isn't for a fucking hardback, it's for an EBOOK!! A children's book!! You want 37 fucking Australian dollars for an E BOOK (This is why I get all my trad pub books through the library. Wtf is this shit. I'll wait my 6 weeks wait on Libby, thx)

Just another heads up for those adding this to their tbr for the trans rights readathon. I'm not here to judge if you read this but if you like to know what you're in for then 👇

Started The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon last night. Buddy read with my wife. Both enjoying the lush writing and can quickly tell it's going to break my heart Don't let the cover fool you, it's an adult fantasy. It IS NOT a ya romantasy. This one is for the messy sapphics 🌈📚💙📚🪐

It's finally here! Also there are 5 narrators? 👀 #Oathbound #BookSky

My tbr 🥲 #TransRightsReadathon #Ttr25 #BookSky

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

Thought I'd share this list again! #Booksky #Transrightsreadathon #trr24

And if my post offends you in any way. Be more like this person and fuck off. Blocked me within minutes 💅

For this year's trans rights readathon I'd love to see trans women and fem authors put first. If you're making prompts, art, and sharable posts: PUT THEM FIRST and if your reading list leaves out trans women/fem authors: fuck off with your fake allyship #transrightsreadathon #trr25 #booksky

I doubt any of you will be surprised by my opinions on this, but I wanted to take a moment to really lay out my reasons for my position. Fighting for Black and brown indie authors HAS to be our priority if we want an ethical publishing industry in the future.

Wydm release date is March 13th for the ebook and 19th for physical?! I know they're probably published by different publishers but with everything dropping at the same time these days it's bullshit. How are we supposed to avoid spoilers now?! #Legendborn 🪐📚💙

Friends, I’ve launched a Bindery page! It is completely FREE to join, and I’m excited to have a central place where all of my content across platforms can live. Plus, I will write weekly or bi-monthly posts about what I’ve been reading, watching, listening to, etc! jemilabereadin.binderybooks.com

FREE serialized fiction! If you like: 🦇vampire librarians 💔with a devastating past ✨in a noir, urban fantasy setting (think 1930s Chicago) then you'll love Books and Bloodlust. www.patreon.com/c/RyannFletc... #Booksky #Reskeet

If anyone uses Smashwords, both of my books are available for free until March 8th as part of Read an Ebook week! You can check out a sweet, sapphic, cozy fantasy (with a prequel coming next year!), or a whimsical fairy tale, if either of those are up your alley! #booksky #indiebooks #cozyfantasy

Felt like this needed to be shared. Arc readers who withhold reviews aren't doing the reading community any favors. You may think it helps the author but there's something weird about books with only 5 star ratings on release date.

I don’t know if you guys heard but I LAUNCHED A BINDERY PAGE❣️☺️ Last Day Of Black History Month If You Want To Support A Black Creator Follow My Bindery Page ✨🍃R&R Reads randrreads.binderybooks.com

Please help if you can

Something to consider putting together 👇

Finally got my second starter pack up. Unfortunately, #bluesky would not allow my to use lgbt or diverse tags, so I have edited it to a general small biz/biz owner starter pack. If you have a small business on here tag the account in the replies, and I’ll look at adding it. 😁 go.bsky.app/PDgsSxs

Happy #AroWeek, y'all! To celebrate, my queer aro-spec M/M Grumpy Human/Sunshine Vampire STAKE SAUCE (Books 1 and 2, + BITE SIZED STORIES, a collection of Sauce shorts!) are on sale for 50% off! (And also my award-finalist CHAMELEON MOON audiobook, because why not!) Enjoy! :D

What I did for free this week: -Went to a library for 3 hours and used their Internet/heating (it was cold in summer!) -Almost finished The Prey of God's, a library borrow -Spent time working on my Notion book catalogue Eventually I'll make a blank database of my Notion book tracker for sharing

What I made/fixed the last week!! I want to start sharing ways I save money and make my items last longer. Last weekend i repaired my work overalls which were wearing away at the thighs. I had a sewing machine and a vague idea how to fix them. This is the result. 🧵

Netgalley ditching DRM files for LCP means I'll eventually hit 100% feedback ratio. So yay? Kobo, get your shit together and support LCP files ffs

I get a knot in my stomach whenever I try to make myself market my books right now but idk you might like them, Tamsyn Muir did thespinoff.co.nz/books/14-06-...

Exciting news to share with you - I have a new book coming out in late July! You can read the full blurb here: www.harpercollins.com.au/978146076354... And you can preorder from your favourite bookstore right now!

Finished this cutie last night! I enjoyed it for what it was. Author keeps saying she wrote the mc as aro and ace. It's not very obvious in the text, but the main character does prioritise friendships and there's very little romance between side characters. 🧵 🌈📚💙📚🪐

Hugo voters, I’d love it if you’d consider my short spec-fic for the short story category! Content warnings for mild environmental and body horror. 🌱 www.sanspress.com/the-archive-... #HugoAwards

Today’s black book spotlight is Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. It is a devastating & poignant critique on the US prison system and the systemic racism contributing to incarceration through a dystopian fiction lens that your heart and brain will never forget. #booksky

Sorry Libby can't read today. The Sims is live for 25hrs. www.youtube.com/live/N7MgXuW...

We have 4 copies of the OG Sims 1+2 Legacy Collection to give away, thanks to EA Australia 😎🎉 TO ENTER: 💿 follow us ☎️ like and repost AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ONLY | ends Feb 7 Join us on Discord for more ways to win! simsanz.com

PSA if you use your kobo to read NetGalley books!! NetGalley has changed their files from DRM to LCP and can no longer be loaded onto a kobo, (kindle is fine, but honestly fuck the kindle) you're stuck using your phone or a tablet. which defeats the purpose of an ereader currently no workaround

This weekend I survived a summer sickness AND a heatwave (ongoing) by watching: -Paddington 2 -The Wild Robot -Howl's Moving Castle Which means I abandoned my current reads in favor of reading the Wild Robot Escapes and Howl's Moving Castle Does anyone have any similar book/movie recommendations?

It's 7am. How is it already 26?! This weather is the worst 🫠