American Soul: The Black #History of Food in the United States - Including 40 Recipes

Illuminating narrative from ANELA MALIK tracks development of American #cuisine from days of trans-Atlantic #slave trade to modern history. 📚💙 ✏️🖤 #book #food

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RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

#KPOPDEMONHUNTERS

Currently reading Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett and while I have some structural and presentational issues, I can't deny reading the main character talk about musicals is a mood, and also this book is probably better sex education than 70% of American teens had access to.

Free delivery is GO on ALL books site-wide this weekend 🎉

We hope you can get down to a real life bookshop, but if not - you can support them right here. Bag a book from Bookshop.org and keep indie bookshops thriving! uk.bookshop.org/lists/indepe...

If you’re thinking of diving into graphic novels, I’ve been sharing these two resources a lot lately:

@victoriaying.com on scripting: www.victoriaying.com/blog/2019/11...

@hellocookie.bsky.social on pitching and outlines: stephaniecooke.ca/resources/

Then buy their books to say thank you!

Y’all, Melissa Blue has such good thoughts about writing and story structure. I HIGHLY recommend anything she has to say on this topic.

Artwork of Cass, the lead guitar playing magical girl from the novel Magica Riot. She is a young Black woman in a dark yellow jacket, black skirt, yellow bow, and black gloves with yellow fingers. She has black twist out hair with yellow highlights and sparkles, and golden yellow eyes.

Check out this stunning art of Magica Riot's badass lead guitar player and second-in-command, Cass! Done by @ocarinia.bsky.social! I love how she turned out! 😍 #MagicaRiotArt

You’ve got a voice no one else has, and someone out there needs your story. When you quit, they never get the chance to hear it.
#indieauthor

Artwork of Nova, a trans magical girl, from the novel “Magica Riot.” She has pale blue hair in fluffy twintails and blue eyes, and is wearing jeans and a black shirt with the trans pride flag on it along with writing that says “If this flag offends you, I’ll help you pack.” She is posing with her hand up by her eye in a sideways peace sign while winking

Happy Pride from Magica Riot's own trans magical girl drummer, Nova!

Art by @gelidspace.bsky.social 🥰

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Ended up tearing up a little at the end.
Engaging story, thrilling, a little twist thrown in. It was great.
📚⚡️💙

#thatsnotmyname #meganlally #booksky #bookworm #54booksreadin2025

The cover of my queer young adult coming-of-age novel, Victory Lap, co-written with my pal Riley Alexis Wood. The cover is illustrated by my other pal Ursula Gray. The main characters, Josh, Kiki, and Mel, lie on the grass. The grass and general colour palette is yellow. Josh is a white guy who looks kinda sad, with short rust-colour hair and a blue hoodie with a horizontal pink stripe. Kiki is a white girl who has long pink hair, a little grin, and a blue blouse. Mel is Vietnamese and has a darker skin tone, smirking confidently, and has dark greenish hair and matching lipstick, has a choker around her neck, and wears a pink jacket.

The cover of my young adult romance novella, Losing Hit Points. Illustrated by Kate Phillips. The hands of the main characters, Journey and Rumour, cup an assortment of dice together. They hold their hands above a dungeon grid and mini-figures.

The cover of my middle grade epic fantasy, Goblin Girl. Illustrated by @underpalewater. The four main characters stand on a grassy field in front of a cloud-obscured castle, around which airships sail. Gertrude is a 12yo goblin holding a sword. Beatrix is a 12yo Black human wearing a tiara, who has magic purple sparkles around her hand. Edwin is a 17yo salamander knight in a sword of armour, holding a two-handed sword. Leaf is a tree and also a 10yo boy, a tree boy if you will.

The cover of my book, Lonely in Happy Town. Designed by Tyler Cleroux. The font is reminiscent of Animal Crossing and there are two gaming controllers with hearts on them, on a pink backdrop. E.M. Anderson, author of The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher and The Keeper of Lonely Spirits says it’s “[A] cozy but cathartic read about love, anxiety, and rebuilding community.”

hey, I’m Kris and I write about queer teens falling in love and learning from their mistakes, and also goblins

now that I have 4 books out, here’s a new pinned post to find them all in one spot:

linktr.ee/KAMielke

my self-pubbed books are available digitally on itch for free or pwyc

#BookSky

So excited to share the cover of @emilysoderberg.bsky.social upcoming book at @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Plus, and this might be even more Not The Point, but it's just fun to write stuff and share it with other people and read their stuff? Sounds lonely

A collage of twenty-one young adult books being published in 2025. Books featured include With You Were Her, All Paths Lead To Paris, Never Thought I'd End Up Here, Get Real, Chloe Torres, Amelia, If Only, Summer Girls, How To Survive A Slasher, Audre & Bash Are Just Friends, Run Away With Me, Wandering Wild, Love At Full Tilt, The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick, Take A Chance On Me, Donut Summer, Nothing Bad Happens Here, Nav's Foolproof Guide To Falling In Love, Wish Upon A K-Star, All-Nighter, If We Were A Movie, I Love You S'more and Salvación.

🏖️ 70 2025 Young Adult Books For Your Summer Beach Bag 🏖️
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I loved it so much I got it for my sister for Christmas, highly recommend!

PAN-IC Pansexual Pride Dice on Black TShirt

This Is How I Roll with Includive Pride Dice on Black tshirt

Aced It! Ace pride dice on black Tshirt.

Preview of the other Pride dic options available including mlm, lesbian, bi, enby, intersex, aro, poly, and panromantic.

I don’t have the spoons for a formal post today between this damn respiratory infection and the wildfire smoke I’m down for the count buuuut …

Who wants T-Shirts!!!

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#pride #booksky #gaming #lgbtq

My ACED IT shirt arrived!!! Eee it looks so good. I did mine on dark grey for this one. The defaults are black but you can change them to any vivid printing option!

#Gaming #Pride #Booksky #Queersky 🌈💜🌈📚

Always a shock when you revisit something you read in high school and it turns out to be way better than you remember.

I always struggled with poetry but Wilfred Owen really is a fantastic writer.

I love the craft of a good story, whether it's a book or movie or video game, especially one h tbh at takes advantage of it's medium to surprise the readers!

Restore my faith in humanity’s love of the arts, please. Comment or quote with anything you love about art or books or music or narrators or video games (or share yours 🤍). Tell me that you’ll never ever ever ever knowingly pay for gen AI’s soulless slop. I need hope.

Please 🥺👉👈

Only two weeks until This Princess Kills Monsters comes out!

Hello #booksky longtime reader, first time poster! Does anyone have any author/published podcasts they recommend? I'm trying to broaden my horizons as much as possible.

Thank you!

Cover art for A Deal Inked in Blood

Description of A Deal Inked in Blood

Happy Release Day to me!

#BlackBooksky
#Booksky 💙📚
#SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic

My latest concoction, A Deal Inked in Blood, is now out in the wild!

I can't WAIT for you to meet, Trey, Ashley, and the rest of the crew!

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The nerves never get old!

Audiobook Month and Pride both take place in June 💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (Although, let’s be real, these months last all year long over here at Libro!)

What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?

Tyler the Creator, Give it up for black people! But the word 'gay' is poorly edited before black lol

It's June 1st 🎉🎉🎉

Artwork of the five main characters of "Magica Riot" - Sara, Claire, Nova, Cass, and Hana - above a progress pride flag and text that reads "Queer Magical Girls for Pride." More text then reads "EVERY magical girl in the Maidensong Magica series is canonically queer! And the stories focus on trans protagonists!" Below this is the cover art for the novel "Magica Riot" and the short novelette "Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius," along with text identifying them as a novel and a short. More text then reads: "A magical girl universe built around queerness and music! Written by a trans author - multiple formats - MAGICARIOT.COM"

If you're looking for fun, emotional queer action/adventure stories full of trans joy and magical girls for Pride, here they are! 🌈📚

I create magical girl stories that are *entirely* queer! With trans protagonists + queer characters of all sorts! You might love them 🥹 #booksky

magicariot.com/buy

ICYMI our friends over Reactor Magazine revealed the stunning cover for THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell, the first book in a new epic fantasy series, inspired by the folklore of the author's Tlingit culture!

Full reveal bit.ly/44VAnIT
October '25, preorder geni.us/doorsea

To the writer wondering if their story is “too weird”:
Weird is marketable.
Weird is memorable.
Just make sure weird also has structure.
Otherwise, it’s chaos in a trench coat.
#AmWriting #QueryTips