Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Adam and Eve in Paradise, José Maria de Eça de Queirós/trans Margaret Jull Costa & Memoirs of a Polar Bear, Yoko Tawada/trans @translationista.bsky.social (both @ndbooks.bsky.social: www.ndbooks.com). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #booktok #booklovers

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

Thanks to @joannemerriam.bsky.social for this Bluesky-style shout-out for “Green”.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: @paulmoorehead.bsky.social's Green (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social):  breakwaterbooks.com/products/green & Olga Tokarczuk's Mr. Distinctive trans by @antonialloydjones.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.sevenstories.com/books/4664-m... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Jesse Mechanic's The Last Time We Spoke (@streetnoisebooks.bsky.social): www.streetnoisebooks.com/the-last-tim... & Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove): groveatlantic.com/book/vanishi... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish

Very interesting thread: #BookSky

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Glenn Kurtz's Men at Work: www.sevenstories.com/books/4770-m... & Olga Tokarczuk's The Lost Soul, trans Antonia Lloyd-Jones: www.sevenstories.com/books/4275-t... (both @sevenstories.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men (@transitbooks.bsky.social) & Susan Straight's Sacrament (Counterpoint/@catapultbooks.bsky.social) See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Thank you for including Fierce Voice by @suecurrie24.bsky.social

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Alphabet Soup by A. Gregory Frankson (@dundurnpress.bsky.social): www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211... & The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet by Irene Marques (@mawenzihouse.bsky.social): www.mawenzihouse.com/product/the-... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

1/2 I'm not celebrating #Yanksgiving since I'm in Canada now (and while Canada has a #Thanksgiving holiday, it's in October). However, I just observed the #NationalDayOfMourning early by making a small donation locally to the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre.

We are thrilled to have you! 😊 If you haven't, check out our Indie Author Pop-Up! We're setting up a "bookstore" for indie authors only during the con! tricon-halifax.com/vendors/

One month left for Early Bird tickets! The all-weekend pass is just $85, and mystery t-shirt pre-order, $20! Prices on both will go up Dec 21st. 3 days of panels, workshops, lectures, launches, and networking with other writers & creatives in speculative genres? Yes plz! tricon-halifax.com

1/9 - Cleaning up my files and deleting #book covers I’ve already posted in my daily(ish) #SmallPress #BookSky #DSPBposts. Enjoy these beauties again! A thread. (Alt-text for book details.) 🧵 #books 💙📚 #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: An Indian Among los Indígenas by Ursula Pike (@heydaybooks.com): www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/an-i... & Where the Jasmine Blooms by @zslong.bsky.social (@fernpub.bsky.social): fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/where-t... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading

Beautiful cover! So sleeeeek

Hey #WriteSky, have you heard about @tricon-hfx.bsky.social? One month left in the early bird registration period! The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction Kjipuktuk | Halifax May 15-17, 2026 🌍📚💙 #SpecLit #DiverseBooksky #HaliSky 📚🪐⚔️🩸🌈📚

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Everything for Everyone, @genderhorizon.com & @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social (@commonnotions.bsky.social): www.commonnotions.org/everything-f... & The Seaweed Blanket, Nancy Deas (Red Deer Press): www.reddeerpress.com/Detail/08899... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Day 3 of the #LivingRoomMural (day 2, which I'll link below, was 26 days ago - I have been working on the rest of the house). Excited to be able to get back to this though it'll probably be another 3 weeks to a month before I can do more. #muralartist #mural #artistsonbluesky #painting #blueskyart

Hey #bookish folks, starter packs for #SmallPress: * Canadian: go.bsky.app/D4YKenp * US: go.bsky.app/S4HKBuC * Rest of world: go.bsky.app/S5N1WAY * Academic: go.bsky.app/EoXRRgy * plus, #Writers' orgs: go.bsky.app/2uiSCde aaand I post small press #books under #DSPBposts. 📚🌍 🌈📚 #Booksky 📚💙 🪐📚

The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, November 21: Stuart Ross, Liam Burke + Amanda Earl, / @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social ; smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

This is on Saturday! Only five days away. Tell your #Ottawa friends to check out my new novel, Performance Reviews. (I'll still be selling my debut, Hate Story, as well.) #books #booksworthreading #novels #smallpress #smallpressbookfair #authors #novels #novelists #bookfair #satire #humour #humor

As the year ends we've increased the footprint of indie presses from around the country. As times change it's important to support these smaller publishers who are putting out fascinating books. It's not surprising that so many indie pubs are putting out award winners. #smallpress #indiepublishers

Reposting to bookmark to remind myself to do this once Cloudflare is no longer down... also to share because this anthology looks 🔥

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Dwelling by @allisonpoet.bsky.social (@redhenpress.bsky.social): redhen.org/book/dwelling/ & The Great Lunenburglary by Bryn Pottie (@moosehousepress.bsky.social): www.moosehousepress.com/product-page... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #bookish

ICYMI, #WriteSky folks: TriCon: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction Kjipuktuk | Halifax May 15-17, 2026 @tricon-hfx.bsky.social GOHs Amal El-Mohtar, Kurestin Armada & Carl Engle-Laird tricon-halifax.com 🌍📚💙 #WritingLife #SpecLit #DiverseBooksky #Booksky #booktok #AmWriting 📚🪐⚔️🩸🌈📚

Charles R. Saunders, father of "Sword and Soul", was an author & journalist whose work established him as a pioneer of Black specfic. TriCon is proud to present readings from winners of NS's Charles R. Saunders Prize, as well as a lecture on Saunders from his biographer, Jon Tattrie!

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Survival Takes a Wild Imagination, Fariha Róisín (@andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social): publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/surviva... & Time Is the Thing..., T. Fleischmann (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social): coffeehousepress.org/products/tim... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

I see from my Halisky friends that it’s time to don the festive apparel @joannemerriam.bsky.social made me

My sister reminded me that I made this t-shirt of vampire Woody last year. #WoodyTheTalkingChristmasTree #MicMacMall #cryptids #thecreatureawakens #fromitsslumber #WakeUpWoody #why

Really loved this story at @charliefish.bsky.social, and I would have even if the author weren't a friend. #BookSky #readingcommunity #fiction #shortfiction #medieval #amreading

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Brooke Palmieri's Bargain Witch (@semiotexte.bsky.social): dopaminebooks.org/books/bargai... & Enemy of the Sun eds. Naseer Aruri & Edmund Ghareeb (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.sevenstories.com/books/4703-e... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Bloom by @nicolebreit.bsky.social & Claire Sicherman (@caitlinpress.bsky.social): caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Bloom & I Make My Own Fun by Hannah Beer (@houseofanansi.bsky.social): houseofanansi.com/products/i-m... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookish

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two from yesterday's #Metafilter post: www.metafilter.com/211014/Books...: All-Negro Comics (@imagecomics.com) imagecomics.com/comics/relea... & Feasts of Good Fortune (Sasquatch Books): sasquatchbooks.com/books/feasts... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish See alt-text.

Fixed! It was there all along. 👀 tricon-halifax.com/vendors/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Jackal, Jackal by @tobiogundiran.com ‬(@undertow.bsky.social): undertowpublications.com/shop/jackal-... & Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, trans. Jennifer Feeley (@feministpress.bsky.social): feministpress.org/products/978... Alt-text=details. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Miles In Time & Time Fixers (MIT2) by @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social (Wise Wolf Books): wisewolfbooks.com/2025/03/mile... & wisewolfbooks.com/2025/04/time... See alt-text for descriptions. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

What kind of programming will you find at TriCon? All kinds of stuff, like the Blue Pencil Cafe! Sign up for a 1-on-1 session with an editor! Spaces are limited, & sign-ups open December 22nd! Featuring @englelaird.bsky.social, @mythaxis.bsky.social, and @heartlines-spec.com, with more to come!

Late in the day daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two CBC Massey Lectures through @houseofanansi.bsky.social: @astra.bsky.social’s The Age of Insecurity & @alexneve.bsky.social’s Universal: houseofanansi.com/collections/... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

Just received in the post: my poem “Signal Flares” is in this issue. #BlueUnicorn #poetry #poetrycommunity

Thank you for including Fierce Voice by @suecurrie24.bsky.social 👏

This is a bop!

1/6... I've fallen behind on the #DSPBposts books I planned to feature, as I've been moving and spackling and painting and unpacking and such. (Also finishing edits for Aether and Ego!) So here's a bunch of #SmallPress #books to check out. 💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: What’s the Point? by @stevenlaffoley.bsky.social (@pottersfieldpress.bsky.social) nimbus.ca/store/whats-... & Yonderites by @kevingrauke.bsky.social (@bullshitlit.bsky.social) www.bullshitlit.com/shop/p/yonde... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

1/2... A few spooky daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Book Witch... by @lanashupeauthor.bsky.social, ill. @teganthomas.bsky.social (@nimbuspub.bsky.social) & The Last Band on Earth by @elainemwill.bsky.social (@renegadeartsent.bsky.social). #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

Vendor applications are now open for TriCon 2026! We are looking for vendors showcasing anything that writers might love!Applications will be open until February 1st. PLEASE READ our policies before applying. We have separate opportunities for Indie Authors! tricon-halifax.com/vendors/