Bookstore cat crawled under my hair, guess she wanted to feel bonita.

Three years of college Russian that I have put to absolutely no use until now, watching Heated Rivalry without reading the subtitles.

DNFed a book for saying a character smiled showing all 32 teeth, which is a horrific image.

Having a slightly famous cat: 😁 Miranda had her regular checkup. Me: of course she's indoor only, but she is a store cat and sometimes birds or rodents come into our 120 year old building and are there diseases I should be concerned about-- Staff said "oh yeah, she's the Main St. Books cat, right?"

I'm otherwise enjoying this book but the author is way too fond of the word "screamed." The characters don't just laugh, or snap when they're annoyed, or go "hey!" to get someone's attention. Every. Scene. Someone screams, and it's especially incongruous as an audiobook.

Hey, I'm looking for comics and graphic novels *by* Indigenous writers and/or illustrators, especially in the Americas. Doesn't have to be a recent book. Any genre! Any topic, any themes, does not have to be a memoir or history, though that is welcome too!

I have a weekly "how much we need to make to pay expenses" goal... we have not reached it a single week since August... Anyway if you buy a book through our affiliate @bookshop_org you get a cookie 😉 and we get 30% of each sale! Some of my faves I've read this year: bookshop.org/lists/best-b...

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

When the amount of sales we make in a day is smaller than my age:

Feeling some good old-fashioned Korean spirit.

Bluesky Writers, what's something you've spent money on that you've found helps you with actually writing? An app or program, a workshop, a getaway to focus on writing, a timed safe to lock up your cellphone so you don't get distracted...? 😗

If you're looking for a book to satisfy the KPop Demon Hunters craving, Kylie Lee Baker's I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends is so, so good! Food as love language! Time travel shenanigans! Balancing world-ending dangers with mundane teenage responsibilities! bookshop.org/a/214/978125...

Just Cowboy Things: a Western book with a hat catalog as bookmark

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger

These are the coolest!

If you order Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit from @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social, they'll ship it to you with signed original art inside! www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/good...

I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools. AI is another version of colonial extraction.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not cool. Not here. Not ever. We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I didn't get to many bookstores in Jinbocho but I did make a trip just for Anekawa Nyankodo, a store specializing in books about cats <3 As he rang up my stack, I told the shopkeeper I also have a bookstore, in America, and showed him a picture of our store cat.

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

New Reading Rainbow with @mychal3ts.bsky.social is here, and HEADS UP fellow kidlit authors! It's filmed in a real library FULL of books, not a set, so hundreds of lucky authors now have their books on Reading Rainbow and don't know it! Look carefully at backgrounds to see if your book is there!

We will be having shorter hours September 15th to October 18th: Mon/Tues/Wed/Sat will be 10:30 to 4:30, and Thurs/Fri will be 2pm to 5pm. If you come in say hi to Steph, who will be watching over the store and of course Miranda!

It's been out just over a year, but Vincent Tirado's We Came to Welcome You.

I love providing books for harmless pranks amongst family members <3

I can already tell this Terry Pratchett bio is going to be amazing, from the anecdote of a six year old Terry finding a crucifix in a drawer and exclaiming "Mum! I've found a stick with an acrobat on it." bookshop.org/a/214/978152...

Throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks in terms of making ANY sales online, I've added a few books to Pango. Enjoy $5.00 off your first purchase when you use our code "MAINSTBOOKSMONROE" at checkout. 📚💙 #booksky pangobooks.com/MAINSTBOOKSM...

If you are a "go to the bookstore and fill a basket" kind of person (as you should be!) what is an ideal basket shape? These are ours, and I've never been thrilled: if you insert the books spine up the handle gets awkward.

Happy September, everyone! It's time once again to start soliciting sponsorships for 2026. If you are a publisher, you can see sponsorship information at the link. If you are an author, bookstore, or other interested entity, you can DM or email info AT bookstoreromanceday DOT org for information.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

Will you be at Bloody Scotland next week? If so, do come along to our Fatal Folklore event! Details below including link to tickets — just a few left, I’m told! bloodyscotland.com/booking/6015...

As we showed in Banned Book Club, indie booksellers saved Korea. So for our follow-ups, we encourage you to order from your local bookshop by giving art with your order! @possumpunks.com @escapepodcomics.bsky.social @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social @outsidercomics.com @samizdatbookstore.bsky.social

I GOT THREE @LIBRO.FM ARCS AT MIDNIGHT AND THIS MORNING I HAVE AN IMPOSSIBLE DECISION TO MAKE.

My brain did not compute whose face the lipstick was on for a second and thought, "relatable, I too would kiss Dr. Tenma on the face."

“Outstanding works of prose by highly talented women authors writing in Arabic, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Portuguese, Spanish (with Mapuche and Quechua terms preserved in the translation), and Swedish.”

AVAILABLE NOW: Issue 25 of #SciFanSat has fired up its hyperdrive and is available at scifansat.com! Come visit our worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More! Many thanks to all who contributed. Every #SFF author and reader participating enriches the magazine! #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Thanks to AI, there's a new way to take away women's control over their bodies and identities

I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences

Question, if you preordered a book unsigned but then the bookseller happened to go to a signing by the author and got your copy signed as well... I mean it's risky but I figure most people wouldn't mind a signed copy instead?

Oh man, as a bookstore owner the "passion tax" takes everything...

Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz. www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...

We knew this was coming. We've been preparing for months. Call your reps. Don't give them rest. And you don't need to wait and hold your breath on a bill like this - take sensible precautions NOW. This article offers dozens of places to start.

Many of us have been yelling from the rooftops that this was coming. Some people didn't believe us. Those people will still not believe it, even after we've been erased from the internet. They'll say, "Huh. There used to be a bunch of queer & trans people on Bsky. I wonder where they went?" 😒

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...