Pleased to announce that my book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, is now available online, and will be out in print in a couple weeks!
https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com
That site has more stuff, too -- links to related articles, some notes about how I researched it, and a contact form in case you want to talk about the fediverse with me! (I'd be happy to chat with journalists about it!)
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Butch/Femme fiction books currently in pre-order status on Amazon as of 07/01/25.
#comingsoon #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #readingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
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PRE-ORDER NOW!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FFNBY5T8
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Today's the day. SHADOW OF THE ELDERS is available wide both in ebook and paperback! If you've been waiting until it left Amazon to check it out, now's the time!
https://books2read.com/shadowoftheelders
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My old pinned post is kinda outdated now. Time for an update!
Again, in no specific order, 7 books that influenced me:
The King's Two Bodies
Ernst Kantorowicz
The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
Catholicism
Bishop Robert Barron
Lost in Thought
Zena Hitz
The Invention of Science
David Wootton
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Physical Foundations of General Relativity
Dennis Sciama
#Neuerscheinung
Ostara und die Osterlämmchen
#Fantasy für Eltern
Kinderfragen entlarven unsere Rituale - und fügen neue #Magie hinzu.
Du wirst #Ostern nie wieder mit denselben Augen sehen wie zuvor!
Taschenbuch & E-Book jetzt überall im Buchhandel.
Infoseite: https://www.medienschiff.de/magisch/oster-geschenk-fuer-mutter.php
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finished reading The End and Everything Before It 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Finegan Kruckemeyer.
A tangled weave of lives lived for love, community, place & simple pleasures. Beautifully written. I didn't quite grasp the ending, worth a revisit.
A moving novel told in two timelines as one teen searches for her biological mother and the other copes with giving up her baby. From the acclaimed author of Slay.
@simonkids_uk @simonteen #bookstodon #ya #bookreleaseday @bookstodon @yalit
Over at Netflix's Tundum blog, they announce the complete casting of P+P. Rufus Sewell is Mr. Bennet! And my heart will not protest, nor lie, but I will be throwing Mr. Bennet a bit of my female gaze.
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/pride-and-prejudice-cast-photos-release-date-news
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #Victorian @romancelandia #JaneAusten
I just released to run my Japanese #historicalfiction on Mastodon! I'll update a new toot almost every day.
#bookstodon #horror #fantasy #indieauthors
DAYS IN GREEN
https://sns.dougetsusha.com/@dig_en
and renewed my website
https://pdp.xrea.jp/
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The two-party system collapsed, finally leading to a sixty-year civil war, even though the periodic government change worked well initially to compete to improve the governance system. This isn’t a story about our modern political situation.
On a late spring night in 1353, a ghost woman appeared before ex-Emperor Kōgon, who had been captured by the Southern Court...
Want some interesting historical fiction in translation? About the later years of a deposed dictator? ON THE BACK OF THE TIGER isn't quite what you'd be expecting but that's all the more reason to give it a look.
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2025/07/zulfu-livanelis-on-back-of-tiger-tr.html?m=1
Reading for pleasure in childhood may shape later development in remarkable ways.
A recent large-scale study found associations between early pleasure reading and better cognitive performance, improved mental well-being, and even differences in brain structure in adolescence.
#reading #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #book #readers #readersofmastodon #booksky #bookish #BookTok #bookclub #readit #Bookwyrm #booklovers
📖 **The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184.
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🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**
"_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/.
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finished reading Akarnae 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
by Lynette Noni.
Fairly derivative YA fantasy: teenage girl crosses into a parallel world, where she becomes a fish-out-of-water at a school for talented students, and discovers she's the only one who can prevent the obliteration of humanity. Some ingrained patriarchy - why do female heroes always have to be hot? Totally needless. Nice enough but nothing special.
Spanking is the topic of the day in certain circles so I should let you know that I have narrated a spanking romance!* 🍑
*I have actually narrated two, but one was lost to an Amazon Erotica Purge.
I can't tell you which book without it being a spoiler, so if that's a book you might enjoy, I'll share the details in the next post, under a CW. (It's available in book form as well as audiobook.)💋
1/2 👇
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I mean it does make a certain kind of sense, an evil facist wouldn't consider happy people civilized 🤔
The kind of people who don't let cause strife both for themselves and others in the name of ambition have no use to a Dark Lord 😁
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I mean it does make a certain kind of sense, an evil facist wouldn't consider happy people civilized 🤔
The kind of people who don't cause strife both for themselves and others in the name of ambition have no use to a Dark Lord 😁
@bookstodon @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble @humour
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Yay! #VirtualJaneCon is here! If you don't want to hang out with me for 30 minutes talking about Austen merch, I provided a quick bullet point of my presentation.
Read more here 👉🏻 https://open.substack.com/pub/excessivelydiverting/p/austen-brontes-issue-33-virtual-jane-con?r=1ep55&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOn#virtualjane
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Dear #bookstodon,
I would like to read adult queer romance. And by ”adult” I don’t mean smut but actual ADULT characters, preferably closer to 50 than 30, and to my danmei peeps: no, immortal cultivation masters don’t count.
(This stems from several reels where people rec romantasy/romance books with ”older FML” and the FMC is like 27. *sigh*)
So. Rec me your favorites!
Boosts appreciated.
#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf
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Here is a list of upcoming #JaneAusten and the Brontës virtual events scheduled for the next few months. There is a lot here from book clubs to movie nights and everything in between. Check the event websites for more information, including time, cost, and registration details.
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#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #EmilyBronte #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte @romancelandia
From Virginia Woolf’s diary:
“…what a lot I’ve got to read! The entire works of Mr. James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, so as to compare them with the entire works of Dickens and Mrs. Gaskell; besides that George Elliot; and finally Hardy.”
Who am I to complain about all the books in my TBR river?
finished reading Sleeping Giants 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Sylvain Neuval.
An alien artifact triggers a race to harness its immense power. Told mostly via interview transcripts, which kinda works (I liked how the interviewer gradually becomes more of a protagonist, and more invested in the interviewees) but doesn't do justice to the action sequences. Smoking Man X-Files vibes.
NYC, 1919: Perched on a towering pile of donated books, a librarian calls from a megaphone to request more book donations for American troops stationed in France. The American Library Association’s campaign sent up to 55,000 books each month to military camp libraries.
via Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.40926/
