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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 7h

Setting up the eBook ARCs... They will be sent out tomorrow morning. ✌️

Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 12h

It's your last chance to get ARCs for my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS! eBook and audio versions are available.

Special thanks to Molly Macabre and @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social for their amazing early reviews.

🔗 www.adamcbassett.com/copper-ash 💙📚🪐

A graphic that features some early praise for COPPER SKIN OAKEN LUNGS from Molly Macabre and J. Patricia Anderson. They praise the book's "strong female leads," and various aspects of the worldbuilding.

A graphic showcasing the early pre-orders of the paperback with sprayed edges currently only available at The Craft Bookstore (other distributors and formats available soon).

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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com · 12h

It's your last chance to get ARCs for my upcoming post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS! eBook and audio versions are available.

Special thanks to Molly Macabre and @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social for their amazing early reviews.

🔗 www.adamcbassett.com/copper-ash 💙📚🪐

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 3d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Heat record today too 🙃.

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

We beat a record temp today with this. 15 degrees above the average high for Oct 5.

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 5d

And here we have a 25-30 degree weekend in October ☀️😎🫠😳😬

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

(I also do not like grapefruit)

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Mine is a small grapefruit 😁😬🫠.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

We beat a record temp today with this. 15 degrees above the average high for Oct 5.

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 5d

And here we have a 25-30 degree weekend in October ☀️😎🫠😳😬

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't even notice 🤣. There are two. One looks like just kids books and this one. So cool!

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 4d

It's a book vending machine 👀

An Ottawa Public Library vending machine at a community centre that has books in it.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 5d

We had serious drought this summer too 😬. No chance of anything rotting from damp here 🙈. I'd switch with you to right things if you're supposed to have warmer weather! We're supposed to be quite chilly by now 🫠.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 5d

And here we have a 25-30 degree weekend in October ☀️😎🫠😳😬

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 6d

It is almost impossible to write a book a year while working as a family breadwinner and being a present parent. If this is your situation, you are not failing. The world wants you to think you are so you buy things. Just keep swimming.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 7d

A great book!

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 10d

Litla Ljón (the Lionhead rabbit) is 10 years old today 🥳

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

I've found two pictures of the spotted tussock moth caterpillar where it was white rather than the yellow in the other hundreds of pictures. Fancy colour variant? I can't find anyone talking about this though so maybe it's just fake 😅.

An image of a spotted tussock moth that is white in the middle when they're usually yellow.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

Grandma report: "They are watching some singing demon movie."

🤣

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 11d

Mine always got eaten by cabbage worms 🙃. I gave up on them years ago but wow, that is beautiful!

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you! I do also love the modern Corvettes so this makes sense to me! I can basically only identify Corvettes, Camaros, and a couple other muscle cars 🤣. But only the modern ones 😅.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 12d

No wonder it was so sexy 🤣. Thank you!!

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 12d

I feel like this car must be so recognisable to someone who knows about old cars 🤣 heelllpp. It was so nice

J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 12d

Car identification help! I saw a cool old car driving around and unfortunately I know literally nothing about cars 🫠. Did a lot of searching and this is the closest image I found, from a random Etsy print (www.etsy.com/ca/listing/8...). Anyone know what it might be?

A cool old car image from Etsy where the print does not identify what car it is. The car is green-blue and very sexy.

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 12d

Car identification help! I saw a cool old car driving around and unfortunately I know literally nothing about cars 🫠. Did a lot of searching and this is the closest image I found, from a random Etsy print (www.etsy.com/ca/listing/8...). Anyone know what it might be?

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 13d

I keep thinking about buyers and how—over the space of a decade or two—I watched how the chain bookstore I worked at went from "let us tell find the right book for you" to "these books go here on these displays, exactly like this, no exceptions."

It… sucked.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 13d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 14d

#booksky

Are you reading the books on your tbr? Yes. Yesterday I bought more books

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Canadian Snark Lady and Potato Lover @kristadb1.bsky.social · 13d

The purpose of this KS was to post a game made for his kids, and maybe raise enough money to buy burgers and fries, as a fun cap to it all ($50 usd goal)

Well.

I've pointed out they probably need dessert options now ;)

19 hours to go for this solo game.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sti...

We Don't Live on the Surface Anymore - A Solo-Journaling RPG

A solo-journaling TTRPG for after the end of the world.

www.kickstarter.com

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J. Patricia Anderson @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Love Húsafell, and love the grey in the basalt near glacial rivers 🥰.

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