Today's great news: Amplitudes was selected for the @otherwiseaward.org longlist!! Extending my deepest gratitude to the committee and all the contributors who made the book possible 🖤

Digital mockup of the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background. The cover features character artwork and a moody atmosphere, with an illustration of a gothic-esque school on the back cover. Text reads "Dust Jacket & Sprayed Edges. LitPins&Co special edition. Cover & Edge artwork: Isabel Burke, Art Direction: Jamie-Lee Turner"

Digital mockup of the printed hardcover of the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background. The printed hardcover is a purple-toned burgundy, with a golden yellow illustration of a wilted rose, and is intended to mimic a poetry book. Text reads "Printed Hardcover. LitPins&Co special edition. Hardcover Artwork: Buttercup Grove"

Endpaper illustrations featured in the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background. The first illustration shows two girls running through a courtyard, and the second shows the same girls kissing under the moon in a lake. Text reads "Endpaper Artwork. LitPins&Co special edition. Endpaper Artwork: Kieran Mikolajova"

Overlay illustration for the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education in Malice, pictured on a blue and red background. Illustration is largely black and white and pictures a woman slitting a girl's through, with red highlights used for the blood and the woman's eyes. Text reads "Overlay artwork. LitPins&Co special edition. Overlay artwork: Therese (@warickaart)"

It's time for a rundown of all the artwork for our edition of An Education In Malice! 🖤🥀

Dust Jacket - Isabel Burke
Printed Hardcovers - Buttercup Grove
Sprayed Edges - Isabel Burke
Endpapers - Kieran Mikolajova
Overlays - Therese

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You can get your own copy here as well (including a MMPB paperback!)

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If you want to know what hypomania feels like, it’s just how a non-bipolar person feels on the first summer-warm day of the year.

gonna start telling manhattan men in powder blue button downs and quarter zips I like their "cute businessmen costumes", will report back

[Image desc: a stack of books on a fence post amid fog and mist (bottom to top): THE NAMING SONG by Jedediah Berry, THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, THE BELL IN THE FOG by Lev A.C. Rosen, SAVAGE BLOOMS by S.T. Gibson, LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR by Mizuki Tsujimura, THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark, THE DREAMING OF MAN CRYPT OF THE MOON SPIDER by Nathan Ballingrud, YELLOW JESSAMINE by Caitlin Starling, THESE PRISONING HILLS by Christopher Rowe, LUD-IN-THE-MIST by Hope Mirrlees]

It's a marvelously misty morning in my neck of the woods, so I *had* to pull together a stack of books that just feel foggy to me. Have you read any of these yet??

please i'm on my knees begging for Bad Mommy Tigress Warcrimes. I would follow the Peacock Wizard to the ends of the earth but I think of Her so much

Oh noooooo, I drank the gin that makes you crave attention 🤪

You simply cannot resist a Bee’s Knees when it is 73 degrees in March. You simply cannot resist.

they’re telling me I’ve gotta stop calling holy prayer cards of the saints and Our Lady my “trading cards”

My mental health would be a lot better if I could just stop seeing parallels and understanding cycles

"The Peacock Wizard and the Cave of the Serpent Queen" -Elias Eells (SHATTER THE SUN, @neonhemlock.bsky.social, 2026)

I am eternally grateful to @stgibson.bsky.social and @kierstenwhite.bsky.social for reigniting my current hyperfixation.
But y’all also my scapegoats when my partner sees yet another package arrive. I can’t be held responsible 👉😎👉
#ButFirstLemmeTakeAShelfie
#Booksky

what a gorgeous vampire hoard!

It feels almost unfair to say I have the sequel to @stgibson.bsky.social ‘s SAVAGE BLOOMS in my hot little hands and I am absolutely delighted with it so far.

😈😈😈😈😈💖💜💙

Meteorological (mists, clouds, wind, rain, storm, tempest, smoke, darkness, shadows, gloom). Topographical (impenetrable forests, inaccessible mountains, chasms, gorges, deserts, blasted heaths, icefields, the boundless ocean). Architectural (towers, prisons, castles covered in gargoyles and crenellations, abbeys and priories, tombs, crypts, dungeons, ruins, graveyards, mazes, secret passages, locked doors). Material (masks, veils, disguises, billowing curtains, suits of armour, tapestries). Textual (riddles, rumours, folklore, unreadable manuscripts and inscriptions, ellipses, broken texts, fragments, clotted language, polysyllabism, obscure dialect, inserted narratives, stories-within-stories). Spiritual (religious mystery, allegory and symbolism, Roman Catholic ritual, mysticism, freemasonry, magic and the occult, Satanism, witchcraft, summonings, damnation). Psychological (dreams, visions, hallucinations, drugs, sleep-walking, madness, split personalities, mistaken identities, doubles, derangement, ghostly presences, forgetfulness, death, hauntings).

thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao

Digital mockup of the printed hardcover of the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education In Malice, featuring a floral design.

It's time for another art reveal for our special edition of An Education in Malice! 🩸🖤🥀

Underneath the dust jacket, you'll find this gorgeous printed cover by @buttercupgrove.bsky.social! We're so obsessed with it, and think it complements the sprayed edges perfectly 🥰

#LitPins #LitPinsAndCo

Hugo History Join us in discussing all of the Hugo Award winners beginning in 1953. Updated monthly. SciFi/Fantasy.

Come for the water brothers and grokking and stay for the comphet and bizarre gender politics. We discuss a wide range of topics in the book, even if you have not read it, I think you'll get a kick out of the episode! Available wherever you get your podcasts!

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Digital mockup of the LitPins&Co special edition of An Education In Malice, featuring artwork by Isabel Burke

It's finally time to reveal the sprayed edges for our special edition of An Education In Malice! 🖤🥀

These edges are by the wonderful Isabel Burke, who also designed the dust jacket art! We're so obsessed with how this edition is looking 😍

#LitPinsAndCo #AnEducationInMalice @stgibson.bsky.social

We will see an Oops! All Management publishing house in our lifetime.

Endpaper artwork from the LitPins&Co edition of An Education in Malice, One piece shows the two main characters running through a courtyard and the other depicts them kissing in water. The artwork is displayed on a teal and burgundy background, with text reading "An Education in Malice endpaper artwork reveal. LitPins&Co special edition, artwork: Kieran Mikolajova, art direction: Jamie-Lee Turner"

We are so excited to reveal the endpaper artwork for our special edition of An Education in Malice by @stgibson.bsky.social!🩸🖤🥀

This STUNNING artwork is by the wonderful Kieran Mikolajova and we truly cannot get enough of it!

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anyway whenever I get complimented on writing men with deep interiority (I'm far from perfect at this but it is something I care about a lot) and asked how i do it I'm like my sister in Christ....he is in the room with us.

I'm not sure Carl Jung KNEW he was talking about dark romance novels when he talked about women integrating their masculine shadow Animus in order to more deeply embody themselves, but that's what I'm here for. My web connects us all, etcetera

yes I'm including genderqueer and transmasc folks who discover themselves more deeply through art, but some of you girls are baby femdoms with no outlet! or you have an incredible will to power or anger or ambition that is simply easier to sublimate through the prism of the masculine

sometimes love interests reflect what we desire in others and sometimes they reflect what we desire to embody but feel prohibited from doing so....there's a percentage of romance girlies who want to BE the powerful toppy shadow daddy in their relationships but externalizing the archetype feels safer

Red and blue graphic featuring a blue ribbon, a moon, and flowers and plants, creating a whimsical yet gothic vibe. Text in the centre of the graphic is gold and white and reads "An Education in Malice, LitPins&Co Special Edition created in collaboration with S.T. Gibson and Orbit Books."

Red and blue graphic featuring flowers and plants, creating a whimsical yet gothic vibe. Text in the centre of the graphic is gold and white and reads "Important information. This is a pre-order, and only 1,250 copies are available. This edition is priced at £35 plus shipping. Estimated shipping: July 2026. 10% of profits will be donated to a charity of S.T. Gibson's choice. For every order a tree will be planted through Ecologi!"

Red and blue graphic featuring flowers and plants, creating a whimsical yet gothic vibe. Text in the centre of the graphic is gold and white and reads "Full Specifications - UK B-Format Hardback with a newly designed dust jacket cover by Isabel Burke - Exclusive printed/foiled cover designed by LitPins' founder, Jamie-Lee - Exclusive sprayed edge design by Isabel Burke - Two unique endpages designed by Kieran Mikolajova - Custom Tip-in page by LitPins, hand signed by S.T. Gibson - Bound-in ribbon bookmark - Seven vellum page overlays by Therese This edition is numbered and will come with a bound-in letter from the author, S.T. Gibson."

Red and blue graphic featuring a blue ribbon, a moon, and flowers and plants, creating a whimsical yet gothic vibe. Text in the centre of the graphic is gold and reads "Pre-order now!"

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A PREORDER! 🩸🖤🥀

In collaboration with S.T. Gibson (@stgibson.bsky.social) and Orbit Books (@orbitbooks.bsky.social), we are so excited to announce our LitPins&Co Special Edition of An Education In Malice!

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The news is out!!

The new editions of the FULL TRILOGY by @aliettedebodard.com are available for preorder now in ebook and paperback, wherever books are sold.

Check out book 1 here:

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Cocktails and Consoles by @eliaseells.bsky.social mocktails and cocktails and small bites oriented towards entertaining and creating community atmosphere PLUS they’re all inspired by video games!