Flyer image with book cover and inset photos of Bear and Shaw
Thursday the 11th! @matociquala.bsky.social and @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in South Hadley!
Join here:
www.odysseybks.com/event/elizab...
For those of us who are disabled or prohibited from protesting for any reason, here are ways we can help.
I can’t take a service dog to a protest, it’s unsafe for him but also for others around us.
I can do some of these.
A little quiet here today, and wouldn’t have expected it any other way. Stay safe!
Sharing (again) this Massachusetts KidLit starter pack - including recently added bookstores @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @belmontbooks.bsky.social @odysseybks.bsky.social & @anunlikelystory.bsky.social Follow to keep up with kidlit folks and goings-on in Mass! go.bsky.app/HLF9f5R
Bookseller Laure hosts a group of kids in a bingo game
Cookies & Thai Tea set out for Banned Books & Bites
Folks gather around the refreshments & talk books!
Bookseller Bethany shows off a box of macarons from Sara
We had an awesome Indie Bookstore Day! We focused in on Banned Book awareness with a raffle for @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social with prizes from @sarasbookmacarons.bsky.social, kids’ Banned Book Bingo, and a YA Banned Book Scavenger Hunt!
Thanks Kiao Wan Thai for the tea at our Bites event!
Multicolored/rainbow macarons that say "Read Banned Books" and white macarons with decorations featuring The Bluest Eye, The Kite Runner, The Color Purple, The Handmaid's Tale and Grapes of Wrath.
The Handmaid's Tale Bookish Macarons
The Color Purple Bookish Macarons
The Kite Runner Bookish Macarons
Made banned book themed macarons for a charity raffle @odysseybks.bsky.social is organizing in support of @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social 🙌 I think the books @odysseybookshop picked for this project make excellent bookish macarons, but let me know what banned book is your favorite! #booksky
Planning to be in western Mass. on Thursday, March 6 at 7? Please consider attending my book talk with my amazing fellow writer Suzanne Strempek Shea at the @odysseybks.bsky.social in South Hadley. We'll be discussing my new novel, Louie on the Rocks. RSVP link will be in the comments
In advance of my book event in South Hadley, Mass. at @odysseybks.bsky.social with writer Suzanne Strempek Shea, the newspaper at which we both used work ran a feature on "Louie on the Rocks." www.masslive.com/westernmass/...
Screengrab of Bookshop.org’s new ebook app in App Store
MANIACAL LAUGHTER EMITS FROM BEHIND THE COUNTER:
@bookshop-org.bsky.social you’ve actually done it!
Ebooks =\= Bezos!
Last call! We’re in the store with some snow to keep things festive today, and we’re sending in final orders for books to arrive before we close midafternoon on 12/24. Call it in now if you need something we don’t have in stock!
Flyer for event on December 4 at 7pm at Odyssey Bookshop with Bill Pierce.
For my last What We Tried to Bury Grows Here event this year in New England, I’m excited to be at @odysseybks.bsky.social in South Hadley, MA, with the one and only William Pierce, co-editor of @agnimagazine.bsky.social, on Wednesday, December 4th at 7 pm.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/julian-zab...
Some of my New England favorites (all of them ship!):
Print: A Bookstore www.printbookstore.com
Gibson's Bookstore gibsonsbookstore.com
Odyssey Bookshop www.odysseybks.com
Our in-house staff picks holiday newsletter is ready for you dedicated book gifters in store now! (Online soon.)
Meanwhile, we have some fun events with authors and Staff Picks Live where we’ll be pitching our faves to you directly!
Saturday Indies Next: 2pm storytime with Aaron Becker and tablescape with Jessie-Sierra Ross, 4pm Staff Picks Live!
Closed Thanksgiving Day, open Friday with Hungry Ghost Bread event 4pm!
Did you know that indie bookstores have their own version of Small Business Saturday? Indies First is less of a mouthful for sure!
Check out our Friday & Saturday special events!
The Weirn Books Vol. 1 MG Graphic Novel and The Woods At Midwinter short story stacked with a sticky-note bookmark
Any other booksellers racing to get their hand-selling game together for the holidays? We’re hustling to get our staff picks newsletter together this weekend!
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
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Anyone else’s workflow thrown off by the Canva update slowing life down? 😩
…maybe I need to reset our router
Holly Black smiles in a portrait, text surrounding says “Order personalized books! Signed by Holly Black - deadline 11/30”
Gifting books? Check out signed & personalized books from indies! You fave author probably supports their local (or even a few.)
@hollyblack.bsky.social is one of our faves!
A smiling bookseller selfie with copies of I Never Thought Of It That Way
Battle of the Events tonight so we split the party—solo bookseller Bethany at Mount Holyoke College for Mónica Guzmán while the rest are at the shop with Luis Jaramillo!
TOMORROW!
11/19
@luisjaramillo.bsky.social in conversation with @heatherabel.bsky.social at @odysseybks.bsky.social, 7pm, The Odyssey, South Hadley! www.odysseybks.com/event/luis-j... ...4/6
Good news, our residential Millennial finally started our Bsky!
Hold please while we recalibrate...