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101d

Live Free or Pride Hard has 38 queer books for $40! Including mine, Off The Beaten Path.

https://itch.io/b/3677/pride-book-fair-bundle-3-live-free-or-pride-hard

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Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #3: Live Free or Pride Hard; a black graphic with over thirty-five covers of various LGBTQIA+ fiction books available on itch.io.

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78d

Just finished reading John of John, by Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo) and the author's signature style is strong. In addition to "sturm und drang" angst, and gradually unfolding scandalous secrets, we even get a little Gaelic. Effectively told saga of dysfunctional family dynamics within an insular community. It does require your patience and time.

Next up, we leave the islands off the coast of Scotland to visit the Emerald Isle, in Land, by Maggie O'Farrell (Hamnet). The setting is 19th century Ireland, so you know what that means.

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Colorful book cover of LAND, a new novel. The image is an almost 3D view of the depth of a place, represented by differently hued thin papers, moving from the largest outside irregularly bordered oblong shape, towards progressively smaller shapes roughly in the center, also with rugged edges. The effect is one of excavation, as if you started with the outside color and dug into the different layers.

Cover is dominated by the title John of John. The background is of a hard rock island with no place to land (or leave) from this view from the water. The sky has the faint color of sunset.

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99d

There are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones.
Orson Scott Card

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138d

For independent bookstore day, I wrote a guide to #Draft2Digital alternatives.

https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-alternatives-erotica-authors-writers-2026/

Feedback welcome since I don't know all of those platforms myself.

Stay strong, everyone 💖

#IndieBookstoreDay #IndependentBookStoreDay #writingcommunity #bookstodon #erotica #smutstodon #Amazon #Kobo #IngramSpark #itchio

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99d

https://storybundle.com/pride

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99d

Very sad news today: we lost Marjane Satrapi, author, artist & film-maker, and far too damned early. I've recommended her honest, emotional autobiographical Persepolis so many times to readers, for some it's their first graphic novel experience.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2026/06/04/marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56_6754122_15.html#

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81d

I'm not generally a fan of short stories but this I like 😂

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Post by Molly Hodgdon

His kiss was slow, but firm and unyielding like an old man backing his Lincoln Town Car over a handicapped parking sign.

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86d

Opening quote from the second chapter of The Last Philosopher: Part Two 😊

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Ebook of Part One available here: https://books2read.com/b/m0pJYA

Crossing the Khmur

“There is no idea so good that it can’t become horrible by applying it to everything.”
-Said, not written, the Socks

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33d

My bestie got me this bookmark of my dog for my birthday and I love it! I don't have the name of the artist but one of her friends drew it and I will always treasure things made by human hands 🧡💙

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A picture of my dog laying on a burnt orange blanket with a turquoise crochet blanket on top of him. He's a caramel coloured Chihuahua mix and he's looking sideways at me. Beside his face i'm holding an orange bookmark with an illustration that's a very good likeness of him and it says "You Pawsed Here" in cursive.

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98d

a sampling of remastered pages from the Kings of Sorts omnibus! (static pics under the cut, you can see how legible the pages are now!!)

if you think this is cool, go back my kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crabbng/kings-of-sorts-episodes-1-4-omnibus/ ! for the book!!
we're at 76% and i would loooove the cross the 80% threshold this weekend!

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compilation of original Kings of Sorts pages from Eps 1-4.

compilation of remastered Kings of Sorts pages from Eps 1-4.

compilation of more original Kings of Sorts pages from Eps 1-4.

compilation of more remastered Kings of Sorts pages from Eps 1-4.

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99d

Review: And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer
@DrEddieClark has our review at the NOAF blog today:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/review-and-side-by-side-they-wander-by.html

#books #review #sciencefiction #sf #bookstodon @bookstodon

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75d

Hoping to finish this cringy, but good read by Miranda July, then start on Disgrace by Coetzee.

Reading anything good?
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A physical book and my kindle, some fudge on a black and white napkin, and a bottle of red wine on its side.

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76d

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I found a second-hand copy of Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent, written by Marie Brennan (@swan_tower) and published by Tor Books. This is book 3 in a #Fantasy series I have been eyeing up for some time now. I will not lie that the striking covers grabbed my attention.
- Taschen had a sale some time ago, allowing me to finally buy a volume I have long coveted: the collected works of #HRGiger. When it comes to their art collections, I always end up choosing their XXL versions. Expensive? Yes. But it's a "go big or go home" choice for me.
- A lovely birthday gift from a family member: the latest book by the incomparable Dutch biologist Midas Dekkers, Het Menselijk Tekort, published by Atlas Contact.

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A photo of three books standing upright on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent, showing a white hardback with a colour illustration of a marine dragon swimming in the sea, offering a view of both its neck and head above water, and its body below the waterline. Several other marine critters swim around it for size comparison, including a shark, a humpback whale, and a giant squid.

In the middle, a very large black hardback showing some of HR Giger's disturbing artwork. This is Dark Star, showing a decapitated female head, merging into a stack of skulls, insectoid limbs, and other mechanical and biological parts, all jacked up to a frame via hoses and wires. She is flanked by two figures that consist of columns of unholy amalgamations of skulls, limbs, ribcages, and other unrecognisable body parts. The whole is executed in his signature colour scheme of pallid flesh and dark grey.

On the right, Het Menselijk Tekort, showing a paperback with a colour painting of two mostly naked humans standing on either side of a tree with a snake-human hybrid reaching down with a small branch in his hand. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, eyeing up the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This is the 1592 oil painting De Zondeval, by Dutch Golden Age painter Cornelis Cornelisz.

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98d

I've finished: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky

What an incredible ride.

Building on the foundation set by the first three novels in the Children of Time series, Children of Strife can concentrate on the pivotal moments of Tchaikovsky's uplift universe.

The story follows a terraforming project from Avrana Kern's generation, a desperate colony ship from the ruins of old earth and a rescue mission from the Panspecific society set up by the sentient beings we know and love.

Children of Strife highlights the difference between earth's colonization project from the beginning of Children of Time, led by egomaniacal psychopaths with the egalitarian alternative established by the end of Children of Ruin / Memory.

It is a clear indictment of today's tech billionaire class and their aspirations to become humanities gods and saviors.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/02e4e6a8-1005-4fc0-bc4e-4c263d823b82

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71d

Holy shit! Researchers at U. of Minnesota just made an artificial cell from purified components that will feed, grow, replicate DNA, divide, and even evolve by natural selection. I just downloaded it; I'm about to start reading it.

If you are trying to write science fiction, and there's one science research paper you should read this year, this should probably be it.

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https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/

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80d

I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁

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Post by trish

fuck ur zodiac sign, what book series did u hyperfixate on when u were growing up because u projected an escape fantasy into that world as an alternative to ur suburban life

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75d

I've finished: The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

I was really interested to see what Chabon would do with an alt-history where Israel did not gain independence in 1948.

I was glad to see that the focus was on the refugees in the Jewish reservation, on their reaction to the traumatic events of the 20th century, their long history in the diaspora and their distress as their legal status in the US is about to expire.

I was actually disappointed when external politics entered the picture.

I enjoyed the description of the many traumatized and flawed characters within the pressure cooker of this ghetto.

We don't get to see much of the external world, but this doesn't feel like a novel set in 2007. The noir tone is a large part of that but it feels like a US that didn't go through the 1960 civil rights era. This may be part of the alt-history, but the novel feels like it is set in the 1950's. The more modern technologies feel tacked on and superfluous.

I can understand why Chabon extended the timeline, it gives him an aging founder generation to work with and gives the revolutionary further of the first half of the 20th century time to simmer down.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/412192bc-6de1-4a8a-93b4-b1e1d996cf8d

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60d

I've finished: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Black Sun was a fun read, I turned to it at every listening opportunity.

The world, the magic, the amazing animals.

The only thing that troubled me was the naivete of the characters. They feel like a bunch of teens with no notion of the dangerous world they live in. I loved spending time with them, but there was almost always a dissonance between the way they talked and thought and the reality they grew up in.

The only exception was Serapio, who is both competent and aware of the world he inhabits.

He is also one of the best portrayals of a blind character I've ever read. Despite his magical powers that let him see sometimes and perform outlandish feats. He mostly uses his regular senses skillfully, without invoking super human abilities.

AND HE NEVER, EVER, ASKS TO TOUCH SOMEBODY'S FACE!

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/69cb6683-07e7-459e-9e17-413cabe333fa

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97d

While my editor works on my next novel, I'm working on a short story. I'm trying to figure out what genre it is. The best I can come up with is rom-traum.

Two traumatised people falling in love. With funny bits.

Is rom-traum a genre? And if not, can it be?

#bookstodon #AmWriting

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99d

As far as I can tell whoever I choose I will be rescued, so the real question is who do I most want to hang out with 🤔😁 And that is a toss up between Vimes, Susan, and Esme...

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Nine characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld with the caption, "You've been kidnapped. You can only call one person here to rescue you."

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75d

I've finished: And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

On one hand this is a very straight forward story, murdered prostitute takes revenge on the privileged assholes that exploited and killed her.

But this is not her story, it is Jewel's story and she hasn't been freed by death and is still caught in the system, making hard choices, dealing with consequences.

I think I like Premee Mohamed's sci-fi better then her fantasy, and here she plays with a cyberpunk world, placing an exploited women at it's center.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6bcb2553-323d-4d79-8771-8a2dc136f442

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97d

Today is Thomas Mann’s #birthday.

His novel Doctor Faustus feels strikingly modern: it is not just a novel about the past. It is a warning.

Mann shows how a gifted person — and even an entire country — can be seduced by evil and lose their soul.

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Thomas Mann

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97d

In 19th-century Dublin, a chance encounter between a woman society has rejected and a doctor searching for purpose begins a story of love, loyalty, and choices that will shape their lives.

Start The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series with A Scarlet Woman — available free in Kindle Unlimited. Also available in paperback.

Amazon - https://mybook.to/ascarletwoman

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98d

I would think that once I've collected enough books I'd qualify as an honorary libraian wether I've read them or not? 🤔

The only quesiton is how many books does it take? 😂

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Post by Tara Wine-Queen

It's not that I *can't* read all of the books I already have, it's that once a reader finishes all the books in their possession, they transcend into their final form and I'm just not ready to become a librarian yet.

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75d

Love getting lost in a historical fiction series?

Set in 19th-century Ireland, The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series follows one family through hardship, secrets, and the choices that echo across generations.

📚️ Books 1–9 available as box sets
📖 Read free in Kindle Unlimited

Amazon - https://mybook.to/FitzgeraldsBoxSets

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Promotional image for "The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series" - an Irish historical fiction series by Lorna Peel, featuring three box sets: Books 1–3, Books 4–6, and Books 7–9. The text reads: "Love, trust, family ties and secrets... The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series. Books 1–3 Box Set, Books 4–6 Box Set, Books 7–9 Box Set. Out now on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited." Each box set is shown with individual book covers showing characters from the series and photographs of 19th-century Dublin, Ireland.

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