*gently pushes towards the Artemis Fowl series and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES and CITY SPIES and the extended Rick Riordan Presents universe*

*gently pushes towards The Legend of Eli Monpress series*

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

If you yearn for something positive to do, today is also National Black Bookstore Day! The National Association of Black Bookstores has a directory so you can find a Black-owned bookstore near you! Buy a book, help a community, do something good for the world. #booksky #romancelandia

*not a 1:1 but gently pushes towards TEA DRAGON SOCIETY and the upcoming THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS*

hey go buy a book from firestorm 😘

*gently pushes towards THE SKY ON FIRE and GIDEON THE NINTH and PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE and THE JASMINE THRONE and THE BLACK TIDES OF HEAVEN*

*gently pushes towards BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL and LUCY UNDYING*

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

Readers! What is the last book you loved by a trans author? And what is something you loved about it?

the sad reality: your favorite local haunts (that indie bookstore with the queer book club, the game shop that hosts tcg nights, the cafe with local art shows, etc) are always teetering on the edge of closure every single month. just a reminder to show these places love whenever you can.

*stares you directly in the eye and places THE EVERLASTING by @alixeharrow.bsky.social in your hands*

Do not pander. Do not dumb down. Trust your audience to be smarter than you. Trust them to be curious. Don’t erase your own voice for spurious bowing down to factors that bring nothing to the stories you need to tell. #Writing

A reminder that we are still sending whistles to anyone who wants them! linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

anyways my guys, don't forget to nightshade your images in case someone else uploads them into this mess 🤗 (all my stuff is nightshaded and nobody can tell, it's gotten really good)

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

Excellent essay from Emily here, and one I couldn't agree with more. While this is about AI and art, there's a larger examination about HOW to approach art. Please read!

*gently pushes towards LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS and SALTCROP (and anything by Yume Kitasei, really)*

*gently pushes towards LUCKY RED and LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS and THE DUKE, which isn't out until april but that i loved so so so so so much and know you will too*

*gently pushes towards THE EXPERIMENT and THE SEARCH FOR WONDLA and DRAGON PEARL*

ALA is disappointed that the House Committee on Education & Workforce moved forward dangerous federal book banning legislation yesterday. HR 7661 contains vague, confusing, and overly broad language, inviting government censorship. More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/03... (1/2)

*gently pushes towards 18 TINY DEATHS*

Oh noes futurism.com/artificial-i...

*gently pushes towards anything by Margaret Rogerson and LEGENDBORN for teen lit and THE LEGENDS OF ELI MONPRESS and for teen-friendly grown-up fantasy*

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended

move slow and repair things

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

*gently pushes toward upcoming DEVIOUS PREY and practically ancient DINOSAUR PLANET*

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

775 signatures over the past day. Let's make it at least 1000. It's a small thing but it matters. We have to keep pushing for some semblance of accountability. Thanks for the support to those who’ve circulated and signed already

*gently pushes towards JANE STEELE and LUCKY RED*

*gently pushes towards books by Ashley Poston and Heather Fawcett*

*gently pushes towards the Emily Wilde series and THE EVERLASTING and HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE and A DEADLY EDUCATION*

*gently pushes towards the Emily Wilde series and HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE*

*gently pushes toward THE EVERLASTING and AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER and LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS and RIVER MUMMA*

*gently pushes towards ABOLISH RENT and BARONS*

Caine Prize submissions close soon! short fic betw 3K & 10K pub between 27 Feb 2021 & 27 Feb 2026 authored by an African Writer: "An ‘African writer’ is taken to mean someone who is a national of an African country, or who has a parent who is African by birth or nationality." www.caineprize.com

*gently pushes towards books by H.G. Parry and Alix Harrow, especially THE EVERLASTING*

*gently pushes toward GODKILLER and GIDEON THE NINTH and THE EVERLASTING*

turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running

fyi if anybody ever wants to know how to get me interested in a book, "a manipulative woman (positive)" is the way to do it

*gently pushes towards THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS*

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

something we've been working on for a few days! link to the full letter: tinyurl.com/bookconautho...

*gently pushes towards RIVER MUMMA and LEGENDBORN and WHITE IS FOR WITCHING and THE PREY OF GODS and anything by Akwaeke Emezi, all of which are Black SFF*

*gently pushes towards DRAGONFLIGHT, the founding text of this entire subgenre of books; and THE SKY ON FIRE and TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH*

"It is the natural outcome of a race-to-the-bottom low-price churn-and-burn self-publishing environment, to boot — it’s less move fast and break things and more move fast and make broken things, because who cares, dipshits will pay for it." terribleminds.com/ramble/2026/...