Alright, it's Pride and I'm pushing this thing. Trans voices are becoming increasingly curtailed, but you can still go directly to the source. go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Cactus Flowers: Selected Poems by Judith Teixeira, translated by Samantha Pious, Headmistress Press & Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization by Iain Morland, @columbiaup.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram

Fiction on the Web just accepted a short story set at Vanderbilt in Nashville, where I worked for so many years, about grief and caregiving and aliens being inconvenient. It'll come out on 3 July! #fiction #amwriting @charliefish.bsky.social

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: It Was Never Supposed To Be by @benkline.bsky.social, @variantlit.bsky.social & Queer Enlightenments by Anthony Delaney, @groveatlantic.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

I keep trying to find words to describe how terrible this is. I’m honestly starting to think Tim Houston actively hates Nova Scotia and Nova Scotians.

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone by Alex Norris, Walker Books & Sympathy for Wild Girls by Demree McGhee, @feministpress.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare, @dukepress.bsky.social & Waiting for Something Else by @1martincloutier.bsky.social, Heliotrope Books. See alt-text! #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Pretty in pink 🌸💖🌺🌷

30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is manywor(l)ds. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: pleasureis amiracle by Bianca Rae Messinger, Nightboat Books & Terry Dactyl by @mbsycamore.bsky.social, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. See alt-text! #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Moon as Salted Lemon by @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @driftwoodpress.bsky.social & Non-Prophet by @quratdar.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social/icehouse poetry. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

1/4 Hugh Thomson (1860–1920) was a Victorian-era Irish artist who was best known for his pen-and-ink line drawings in re-issues of classic novels. 💙📚 #BookSky #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #ButInSpace #bookish

1/13 - 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 💙📚 #bookish #booktok #booklovers

Walk at Point Pleasant Park today! It was a little rainy but not too bad and we got to see some pretty flowers and catch up with a friend #PointPleasantPark #Halifax #HaliSky

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: call the necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson @rakishheir.bsky.social, @actionbooks.bsky.social & Smash & Grab by Mark Anthony Jarman, @biblioasis.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Our 26th Anniversary #OpenHouse and #BookSale starts two months from today in West #SaintJohn! If you have time on your #NewBrunswickDay long weekend, we'd love to see you! www.facebook.com/share/14ci4h... #Booksky #oldbooks #prettybooks #NewBrunswick #LocalHistory #sale

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick, @erewhonbooks.bsky.social & Reprise: Poems and Photographs by Golden, @haymarketbooks.org. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation by @eileenflanagan.bsky.social, @sevenstories.bsky.social & Nightshade by @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social, @pressassembly.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky

30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Citywide Lunch (yes, again – they accepted and published the piece I sent in April so I’m trying them again). #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Alina in Her Roots by Shenaaz G Nanji, ill. by @beenathemistry.bsky.social, @secondstory.bsky.social & Medea Sang Me a Corrido by Dahlia de la Cerda & trans. by Heather Cleary & Julia Sanches, Feminist Press. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booksta

(also please enjoy these glamour shots from the last series)

30-day challenge to send more submissions! Today’s market (for me, if you join me pick markets appropriate to your work) is Split Lip Magazine. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

Alberta friends:

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Colonized Classrooms by Sheila Cote-Meek and Jacqueline Ottmann, @fernpub.bsky.social & The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza, @catapultbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Did you remember that I was doing this 30-day challenge? Yeah, me neither. Anyway I am back to it, hoping to finish this out in the next week, though I may get disrupted a bit since I am starting a new temp job next week (yay!). Today’s market is Three Line Poetry. #30daychallenge ✍️ #amwriting

#Halisky friends! Please mark your calendars for the events and readings scheduled for @joannemerriam.bsky.social's debut novel:

Proofreading the advance reading copy of Aether. I had forgotten I did this persistent thing of having Elizabeth see Darcy in warped reflections as a way to say she doesn’t see his character clearly. #IForgetWhatIWrote #bookish #booksky

#YEGArts friends! Please mark your calendars for my sister's book launch at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Library Cosmic by Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca, @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social & Sharing the Light by Monique Gray Smith, @houseofanansi.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

1/3 - I'm still in the process of setting up my autumn book events, but people have been asking, so here's what's finalized so far! List & RSVP links are at joannemerriam.com/events/ 💙📚 #BookSky #PrideAndPrejudice #bookish 🪐📚 @tridenthalifax.bsky.social @julianmortsmith.bsky.social

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Moon’s Shadow by @shannonblair.bsky.social, @ninestarpress.bsky.social & Woodworking by @emilystjams.bsky.social, Zando / Crooked Media Reads. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: A Year of Pride and Joy by @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social, ill. by Ruth Burrows, @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social & Métis Methodologies edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides, @fernpub.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstagram

My new novel, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES, is due out from @ooliganpress.bsky.social in November. Check out this trailer the team put together! youtu.be/vvKyDj1ep8E #booktrailer #neighborhooddames #historicalfiction

Honestly, A. D. Sui's book should enjoy a wide and discerning audience for no other reason than a starship called The Counsel of Nicea. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/05/19/a...

while the rest of us participate in a Battle Royale of sorts for shelf space, AI slop gets to just cruise on through. nice. your local indie would never.

I am still reeling from the surprise and joy. So, this happened. Wolf's Path is an award finalist for Best Collection in the 2026 British Fantasy Awards. Many grateful thanks to @atthisarts.com and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social ❤️

Swag from @editorscanada.bsky.social conference Editing in the Age of Misinformation, which I attended to assist @tridenthalifax.bsky.social & @tricon-hfx.bsky.social in the vendor room! #BookSky

On the bus just now: a woman with a reddened area on her cheek covered with a gold star sticker, like the kind teachers put on homework. Maybe the sticker was irritating her skin or maybe she was covering a zit in the most amazing way. Everyone I am in love with this total stranger either way.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Becalming by Aga Maksimowska, Rare Machines / @dundurnpress.bsky.social & An Inventory of Almost Everything by Elizabeth Marie Young, @subpresspoetry.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

So excited to read this advance reader copy from @fernpub.bsky.social! #BookSky

If you'll be on Fetlar June 9 pls come to an evening of art & music w paintings about Jan Tait & the Bear by Meilo So & a concert by @amsouth.bsky.social of music abt bears, whales & gannets. Free & drop-in but if you book here we can bring enough snacks! Pls RT! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

I hope these accurately convey my SHEER DELIGHT. Endless thanks to @tricon-hfx.bsky.social for hosting, for @daviddemchuk.com for being a charming interrogator, @tridenthalifax.bsky.social for getting early copies to sell, and @amalelmohtar.com for live-skeeting my exuberance. 🖤

Thoughtful thread:

Had fun this weekend at TriCon. Photo by @melhadtea.bsky.social

Trident Halifax is at @editorscanada.bsky.social! If you are in town for the conference, come on up yo the Dal Student Union building. We have merch, coffee, local authors, and info about future @tricon-hfx.bsky.social!

Thank you to the TriCon organizers & volunteers for making TriCon so fabulous! It was great to meet online folks in person and connect with new authors & artists. And thanks to Tiffany Morris for taking me on Rita's Green Fuse Burning pond walk, which was truly stunning (and in wonderful company).