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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, so our new distributer wastes zero time.

Our new books are already here and I've added them to the shop immediately!

Check the alt text for a list of all books newly available.

hauntedbouncycastle.com/collections/...

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky

A number of books arranged inside of the box they were delivered in.

From top left to bottom right:
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Looking for Group by Alexis Hall (new release)
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar
You Weren't Meant To Be Human by Andrew Joseph White (new release)
A Steeping Of Blood by Hafsah Faizal (new release)
A Tempest Of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 4h

Same! Just from the description (which you can see in the image alt text) it sounds so fun! really looking forward to it.
If you like listening to audio books as well, I would really recommend the series because Baldree narrates them himself and is very good at it.

Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 4h

I'm very pleased that we have the first two books in the Legends & Lattes series by Travis Baldree in stock now and we have preordered Brigands & Breadknives which releases on Nov 13th!

I really like the series, it's so wholesome.✨💜✨

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky #legendsandlattes

The cover of Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree (UK edition)

Description
'Funny, unexpected and touching' - Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of London

Return to the cosy fantasy world of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree, a freshly baked adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern. Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend’s coffee shop.

What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her! If only things were so simple . . .

It turns out that fixing your life isn’t a one-time prospect, nor as easy as a change of scenery and a lick of paint. A drunken and desperate night sees the rattkin waking far from home in the company of a legendary warrior surviving on inertia, an imprisoned chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and an absolutely thumping hangover. As together they fend off a rogue’s gallery of ne’er-do-wells trying to claim the bounty the goblin represents, Fern may finally reconnect with the person she actually is when nothing seems inevitable.

The cover of Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (UK edition)

Description:

A cosy, heartwarming slice-of-life fantasy about found families and fresh starts. Perfect for fans of TJ Klune, Katherine Addison and T. Kingfisher.

High fantasy, low stakes – with a double-shot of coffee.

After decades of adventuring, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now she sets her sights on a new dream – for she plans to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune. Even though no one there knows what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the past behind her, she can’t go it alone. And help might arrive from unexpected quarters. Yet old rivals and new stand in the way of success.

And Thune’s shady underbelly could make it all too easy for Viv to take up the blade once more. But the true reward of the uncharted path is the travellers you meet along the way. Whether bound by ancient magic, delicious pastries or a freshly brewed cup, they may become something deeper than Viv ever could have imagined .

. . ‘The most fun I've ever had in a coffee shop’ – Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of Rivers of London

'This sapphic triumph is an absolute must' - Rebecca Thorne, bestselling author of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

Return to the world of Legends & Lattes with Bookshops & Bonedust, the hilarious and heartwarming prequel.

The cover of Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (UK edition)

Description:

Set in the world of BookTok sensation Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust is a cosy fantasy about the power of good bookshops, great friends and the unexpected choices along the way. First loves. Second-hand books.

Epic adventures. Viv’s career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk – so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it.

What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?Spending her hours at a struggling bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted. Even though it may be exactly what she needs. Still, adventure isn’t far away.

A suspicious traveller in grey, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected. Sometimes, right things happen at the wrong time. Sometimes, what we need isn’t what we seek.

And sometimes, we find ourselves in the stories we experience together . . .

Readers love Bookshops & Bonedust!‘Reading this book feels like being wrapped up in a soft blanket’‘This was really just what I needed’‘It feeds the soul and warms the heart’‘I think I actually might love this more than Legends & Lattes’‘This was all I had hoped for, and more’Perfect for fans of TJ Klune, Katherine Addison and T. Kingfisher. From the Hugo Award-winning author, Travis Baldree.

‘Glorious’ – Ben Aaronovitch, author of the Rivers of London series

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 16h

Aye, it's such a comfy read! I liked the prequel, too. And we've also preordered the sequel that's coming later this month!

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, so our new distributer wastes zero time.

Our new books are already here and I've added them to the shop immediately!

Check the alt text for a list of all books newly available.

hauntedbouncycastle.com/collections/...

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 1d

Yooooo, so we've been approved for a new account with a bigger book supplier which means we will have access to a vastly larger variety of books for the shop!

(and we may have already placed our first order so watch out for new stuff on the shop very soon)

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky

A still image of the frontpage of hauntedbouncycastle.com with the large image carrousell showing the cover image of our book section with the caption box "Shop our selection of Books!"

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Jinx Peregrine 💜🐌🌈 @jinxperegrine.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhhh my shop @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social got approved to work with a bigger book wholesale provider omg! I cannot wait to bring a more diverse collection of books to folks! This is a huge win for us. 💜

Also, I'm excited to design a bunch of autumnal book marks for them 🥰

#booksky

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Jinx Peregrine 💜🐌🌈 @jinxperegrine.bsky.social · 9d

I love this little tea drinking ghost 👻☕💜

#cuteart

a photo of a white and blue mug with a cute design by Jinx Peregrine of a wee ghost floating above a purple tea mug. the words fuck yeah tea are around them in a playful purple font.

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 3d

BTW about half of our shop is in the Halloween Collection 🎃

So if you like our stuff, chances are it's currently 25% off.

Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 9d

Our book sale is over, but all of our Halloween Collection is still 25% off all through October!

Halloween has always been rough for us bc a lot of people buy their stuff with huge corporations.
If you'd rather support a small business, we'd be so grateful!

hauntedbouncycastle.com
#halloween

A white ceramic vase shaped like a ghost with 1960s style sunflower sunglasses

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 4d

Our sale is still going until the end of the month!

Get 25% off our entire Halloween Collection!
(discount is automatically applied)

#halloween #smallbusiness

Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hey y'all,

Halloween Season is coming at us fast (Yay!) and I am putting together a collection of all our scawy products so you can gear up for the most important holiday of the year.

Follow for new products dropping as well!

hauntedbouncycastle.com/collections/...

#Halloween

A ghost shaped mug who is holding a pumpkin lantern

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Spoonie Authors Network @spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 5d

Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), October 6, 2025:

How do you manage feelings of overwhelm, so you can settle down to writing?

(Please quote-post and add
#SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)

Banner image has the same text as the post. There’s also a smaller image of three spoons that are connected at the base.

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hi!

It's Halloween season and I would like y'all to pay attention to my beloved @jinxperegrine.bsky.social and all these adorable autumn critters fae have made.

All of our Halloween Season merch is 25% off on our shop and on Throne!

#halloween #cuteart
hauntedbouncycastle.com/collections/...

A standard white 11oz coffee mug with an orange handle and interiour and a print of a cute little redcap musshroom person on it

a sticker sheet with several cute ghost stickers on it who all have patches on their bedsheets on a deep purple background

a laser cut acrylic keychain with a print of Nessie the Loch Ness monster swimming in an orange teacup with the top of a pumpkin as a hat on. Teh keachain has a rainbow holographic effect and a gold coloured, bat-shaped carabiner hardware.

a die cut sticker of a cute, chubby frog, coloured in orange and brown tones, who has a redcap mushroom growing on its head

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn is prime reading season!

What's next on your TBR pile?

My next up is A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton, a story about long lost friends, games and fantasy (description in alt text).

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky

Four cute bookmarks with illustrations by @jinxperegrine.bsky.social.

A photo of the cover of A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton and a ceramic mug shaped like the head of a unicorn and a little green dragon plush who is reading a plush book.

Book description: It is 1998; Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, and they are making Saga of the Sorceress, a game that will change everything, if only for the three of them. 18 years later, Saga of the Sorceress still exists only on the scattered drives of its creators. Lilith might be the first trans woman to ever work as an Assistant Loan Underwriter at Dollarwise Investments in Brooklyn. Sash is in Brooklyn as well, working as a research assistant and part-time webcam dominatrix. Neither knows that the other is there, or that Abraxa, the third member of Invocation LLC, is just across the Hudson River, sleeping on the floor of a friend's grandparents' Jersey City home. They have never met in person, and have been out of touch for years, but none have forgotten the sorceress, or her quest, still far from finished.

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hey y'all,

Halloween Season is coming at us fast (Yay!) and I am putting together a collection of all our scawy products so you can gear up for the most important holiday of the year.

Follow for new products dropping as well!

hauntedbouncycastle.com/collections/...

#Halloween

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 4d

Our shop's book collection is focused on diverse voices from the queer and disabled communities and we love these three poetry collections from Arsenal Pulp Press.

You can check them out on our site and see the descriptions in the images' alt text.

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky 💙📚

The cover of A Body More Tolerable by Jaye Simpson

An illustration of two wolves biting each other in front of a red background. The title of the book is presented in diagonal font which has a very hand script character

Description:

a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. Divided into three parts, the book examines Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception. Gone is the soft, kind, gentle girl that author jaye simpson once thought she would become. Instead, she unravels the sticky threads of colonialism with poems that exact lyrical acts of self-surgery. In these visceral poems, teeth gleam, graze skin, and sink into flesh, becoming bloodied and exposing the animalistic hunger that lies within. Pulsating with yearning and possibility, a body more tolerable is a book that resists typical notions of physicality and sex to dream of a world more divine. It is a call-out into the canon for a new age, one filled with retribution and recompense.

ISBN-13: 9781551529677

Author(s): jaye simpson

Subjects: DC

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publisher Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date: 22-05-2025

Format: Paperback / softback

the cover of A Fate Worse Than Death by Nisha Patel

The core shadow of two open, upwards raised hands, as though dunked in ink and stamped onto the otherwise completely white cover. above, the name of the author in italisized font and below the title, both in red.

Description:

A Fate Worse than Death is a stunning poetic investigation of the worthiness of disabled life as told through the author's evaluation of her own medical records over the course of a decade. Living with treatment-resistant diabetes, bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and complex chronic pain, Nisha Patel reveals how her multiple disabilities intertwine with her day-to-day life, even when care or treatments on offer are not available. As she works through her bouts of illness, neglect, and care, Patel reveals how poetry provides a way for her to resist the sway of medical hegemony, and instead offer complex accounts of pain, sickness, anger, but also love. Navigating the menial and capitalist systems of health care and paperwork, documentation, and forms, Patel uses clinical texts in visual poems that show how words like patient and client underscore more medical access and denial of coverage than words like person and care. As she asks us to consider if her life is worth living - and saving - the future of Patel's disabled body and her desire for it is a building meditation as the collection progresses, ending with less of a finite ending of cured illness and disease and instead a look at how we can embody hope and joy in a disabled body, as it is the body, like time, that goes on.

The cover of I Cut my Tongue On A Broken Country by Kyo Lee

The cover illustration seems to be a painting. you can see the texture of the brush strokes. Almost everything is in shades of green. The portrait of a young femme person nestled in large leaves lake those of lotus, with pink flowers sprouting across and maybe out of them.

Description:

Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell this coming-of-age story, a set of pulsating poems that move toward a distant memory or a flaming future. Kyo Lee's intimate debut poetry collection is simultaneously a vulnerable confession and a micro study of macro topics including lineage, family, war, and hope. i cut my tongue on a broken country explores the Asian American diaspora, queerness, girlhood, and the relationships between and within them, pushing and pulling on the boundaries of identity and language like a story trying to tell itself. i cut my tongue on a broken country documents a search for love. It's a eulogy for the things we gave up to get here. It's an ode to tenderness. It blossoms and bleeds in your hands.

ISBN-13: 9781551529776

Author(s): Kyo Lee

Subjects: DC

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publisher Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date: 24-07-2025

Format: Paperback / softback

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 4d

Our shop's book collection is focused on diverse voices from the queer and disabled communities and we love these three poetry collections from Arsenal Pulp Press.

You can check them out on our site and see the descriptions in the images' alt text.

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky 💙📚

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 4d

Our sale is still going until the end of the month!

Get 25% off our entire Halloween Collection!
(discount is automatically applied)

#halloween #smallbusiness

Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hey y'all,

Halloween Season is coming at us fast (Yay!) and I am putting together a collection of all our scawy products so you can gear up for the most important holiday of the year.

Follow for new products dropping as well!

hauntedbouncycastle.com/collections/...

#Halloween

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn is prime reading season!

What's next on your TBR pile?

My next up is A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton, a story about long lost friends, games and fantasy (description in alt text).

#booksky 🌈📚 #queerbooksky

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Jinx Peregrine 💜🐌🌈 @jinxperegrine.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for the shop orders this week! I'm so pleased with the new designs. 💜🎃

I made an Airpod case design that I think is adorable 🥰

Also, I snuck some other more rainbow themed art in the shop. Let me know if you find them 👀

jinxperegrine-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/colle...

#vtuber #art

a purple back pack with a cute face of a character called Violet the vampire designed by Jinx Peregrine.

a black hoodie with a cute design by Jinx Peregrine of a wee ghost floating above a purple tea mug. the words fuck yeah tea are around them in a playful purple font.

a small bull air pod case with a cute face on it called Gruff the Ghost.

a sticker sheet with autumnal themed art from Jinx Peregrine. There is a pumpkin frog, a green snail with a pumpkin on it's back, two cute patch work ghosts, a purple mug of tea with ghosts/pumpkins on it, an organge cup of tea with a small Nessie swimming in it and some falling autumn coloured leaves.

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Tanya is seeking work || 🔜 TCNA @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 5d

I hate sharing this one so much, but winter is coming and thanks to medical weight loss, I'm looking at replacing fall & winter gear which ain't cheap. I've got an ongoing goal that I put up post layoff: ko-fi.com/tanya_hbic/g...

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Sylenis Crafts 🪡🐮 🛸 @syleniscrafts.bsky.social · 6d

Quick peek at Flareon anyone?

#plushart #eevee

A flareon plush standing on a white background

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 10d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Jinx Peregrine 💜🐌🌈 @jinxperegrine.bsky.social · 13d

I have an autumnal update coming this October 1st to my shop!

Get cute back packs, hoodies, stickers, button badges and more!

💜 Sub to my Twitch channel for discounts 💜

jinxperegrine-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp

#cuteart #vtuber

a collection of button badges with art from Jinx Peregrine on them. 1. pink button badge with a grumpy ghost wearing a top hat with the word nope over their head. 2. a purple badge with a cute vampire face. 3. a lavender badge with a cute ghost face 4. a turqoise badge with a pumpkin frog with words that say you are cute. 4. a purple badge with a green snail with a jack o'lantern on it's back with the word hi! over it's head.

a purple back pack with art from Jinx Peregrine of a cute green snail with a glowing jack o'lantern on it's back. There are autumn leaves on the bottom of the bag as well.

a purple jumper(sweat shirt) with a cute vampire face.

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 9d

Our book sale is over, but all of our Halloween Collection is still 25% off all through October!

Halloween has always been rough for us bc a lot of people buy their stuff with huge corporations.
If you'd rather support a small business, we'd be so grateful!

hauntedbouncycastle.com
#halloween

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Haunted Bouncy Castle @hauntedbouncy.bsky.social · 9d

Our book sale is over, but all of our Halloween Collection is still 25% off all through October!

Halloween has always been rough for us bc a lot of people buy their stuff with huge corporations.
If you'd rather support a small business, we'd be so grateful!

hauntedbouncycastle.com
#halloween

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