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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 21h

Happy #BookshopDay!
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Here’s to all the wonderful booksellers who take their time to share the love and knowledge .
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And thanks to all those bricks and mortar shops who will go that extra mile… especially for small indie publishers and less famous authors!
#lovebooks

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 1d

Some of us prefer to read at 10pm…
#take10toread

Stephanie Bretherton @brethertonwords.bsky.social · 1d

Are you going to #take10toread today? Organised by the National Literacy Trust which is encouraging us all to take 10 minutes at 10 o’clock on the 10th to stop the world for a moment and just pick up a good book. I’m in! #booksky

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 2d

To mark the first #bookbirthday of The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley, the e-book is now at the very special price of 99p (on both Amazon and our own website) for a limited time! Why not help us celebrate and load your #Kindle with what the FT described as “a thoroughly engaging mystery”!

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 9d

Book lovers in and around the Rugby area, do not miss the Rugby Literary Festival this weekend, but especially the spoken word evening hosted by Word Of Mouth this Friday. A range of fantastic performers will be on stage including our own @zenabarrie.bsky.social!

#Books #LiteraryFestival

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 11d

Why not try one of our books and see what we mean? Our webshop is also an ethical way to shop, and we have some fantastic deals and special offers!

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 11d

📚 We don’t produce books just because they look like a commercial sure thing. We are interested in original, high-quality, distinctive work, whether the author has a profile or not, or whether the book slots easily into any genre.

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 11d

🤖 We do not use generative AI - which is usually trained on plagiarised content for which the original creators have not been compensated - for any of the processes of writing, editing or designing our books - and we never will.

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 11d

♻️ Some sneer at print on demand, but we use it when appropriate because it’s more environmentally sound than mainstream publishers doing large print runs because it’s cheaper to pulp books than to reprint them!

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 11d

❤️ We don’t treat authors - or their books - as expendable commodities. Fairness, empowerment, transparency and mutual support are at the heart of everything we do.

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 11d

So who are we, what makes us different and why support an award-winning, #indiepublisher - or more importantly, our authors? 🧵

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 13d

We love seeing our books out in the wild no matter where they are but it’s fantastic to see them in a library, especially one which will send the book to any of the libraries in the Borough if it’s ordered!
#LoveYourLibrary #SupportLibraries #LibraryLife #BookLife #Books

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 17d

Fresh off the back of being recommended by @robinince.bsky.social, today’s #BookQW is taken from the short story anthology Two Similar Looking Men With Umbilical Hernias by @zenabarrie.bsky.social, and is a prime example of her ability to combine the absurd and the existential to masterful effect.

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations to @robinince.bsky.social for his thoroughly deserved award. And thank you ever so much for once again recommending the hilarious Two Similar Looking Men With Umbilical Hernias by @zenabarrie.bsky.social. We would love to see it in more independent bookshops.

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you so much to the Booksellers Association for awarding me Author of the Year for a second time - love you all - what remains of my career is about to go through a drastic change, so this means a lot - here is my acceptance speech @lucia-oc.bsky.social @zenabarrie.bsky.social

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations to @robinince.bsky.social for his thoroughly deserved award. And thank you ever so much for once again recommending the hilarious Two Similar Looking Men With Umbilical Hernias by @zenabarrie.bsky.social.

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 21d

It is great to see The Portrait Girl and Nicole Swengley included in the Success Stories on the Cornerstones website. She is certainly one of ours, with The Portrait Girl described as “a thoroughly engaging mystery” by the FT!
#Mystery #Thriller #HistoricalFiction #HistFic #LiteraryFiction #LitFic

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 25d

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@locusmag.bsky.social
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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · 25d

🎉🎉🎉 Huge congratulations to @brethertonwords.bsky.social for being recognised by the Chanticleer Global Thriller Awards and for winning the Medical Thriller category in the NYC Big Book Awards! Needless to say we are… thrilled! 🥳🍾
#NYCBigBookAward #GabbyBookAwards #AwardWinningPublisher #SmallPress

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you Karen for such a gorgeous write up.

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 12

A massive thank you to @karlou72.bsky.social for this thorough, thoughtful, and absolutely stunning review for The Fire In Their Eyes by @brethertonwords.bsky.social.

Karen Cole @karlou72.bsky.social · Aug 12

#BookReview The Fire in Their Eyes by @brethertonwords.bsky.social 'Provocative, intelligent and heartbreaking, The Fire in Their Eyes is a richly characterised, complex and compelling read.' hairpastafreckle72.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... @breakthroughbook.bsky.social #Booksky 💙📚

The Fire in Their Eyes by Stephanie Bretherton #BookReview

Hair Past A Freckle - For the love of books! Reviews and more....

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Stephanie Bretherton @brethertonwords.bsky.social · Aug 9

Yes, we know we may not be flashy, but we will keep on keeping on because we believe in what we’re doing and that authors deserve to be at the centre of the industry not at the bottom of the pile…

Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 9

Breakthrough Books is the only publisher to arise from the Unbound ashes that’s author-centred and author-led. A “happy ending” growing organically not flashily. Maybe a good news story of trailblazing authors just isn’t headline worthy? @observeruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b...

The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

observer.co.uk

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 9

Breakthrough Books is the only publisher to arise from the Unbound ashes that’s author-centred and author-led. A “happy ending” growing organically not flashily. Maybe a good news story of trailblazing authors just isn’t headline worthy? @observeruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b...

The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

observer.co.uk

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you want to read more, all of our anthologies are available from the usual places, but we now also sell them as a bundle from our own website. See below for more details.

www.breakthroughbookcollective.com/product/the-...

The 3 Anthologies – The Breakthrough Book Collective

www.breakthroughbookcollective.com

Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 8

For today’s #FirstLineFriday we’re going back to the beginning with a quote from our very first short story anthology, #TakingLiberties.

Quote from On The Brushes by @sueclarkauthor.bsky.social.

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 4

But we believe authors need to be the captains of their own destinies rather than always at the mercy of the industry. Even if that doesn’t make headlines. (2/2)

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Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social · Aug 4

As ex-unbounders turned author-publishers we applaud initiatives helping those affected by the fiasco, as we’ve been doing for 2 1/2 years, and are happy for anyone on this new lifeboat.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Aug 4

Will Atkinson, the former head of Atlantic Books, has set up a new publishing company, Wilton Square, to initially "provide a safe and secure home" for authors previously publishing by Unbound 👇

New publisher set up to 'provide a safe and secure home' for Unbound authors

Will Atkinson, the former head of Atlantic Books, has set up a new publishing company, Wilton Square, to initially "provide a safe and secure home" for authors previously publishing by Unbound.

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