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BookshireCat
@bookshirecat.bsky.social
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Books, cats, drawing, random obsessions. She/they.
IG: @bookshirecat.draws and @bookshirecat.reads
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lrlam.bsky.social
Happy Intersex Awareness Week!

The Micah Grey trilogy, following the wonderful intersex main character Micah, is a series about learning to live and love fully, without shame💛 💜

PANTOMIME is out now!
Preorder the sequels SHADOWPLAY and MASQUERADE now!
October 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
i will always side with sex workers and smut creators and you should too. kill the puritanical pearl-clutching brainworm raising a stink about respectability and optics. it is a backdoor fascists will use to sneak their way into your sympathies. porn is good, sex is normal, kink is human. grow up.
July 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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leewelchwriter.bsky.social
What if one of the most odious men in English literature was actually a m/m romance hero? Get my Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE now. Big thanks to @bookshirecat.bsky.social for the lovely quote ❤️☺️
Buy links:
books2read.com/u/mgByoD
Graphic shows book cover for Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch. Blurb quote reads "Very few romance writers can pull this off - to take a character so universally despised and ridiculed and wra novella in which you felling love with him. Wow, just wow."
August 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.
July 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
Me: patiently waiting for my Libby holds to come through because respecting people have lives and too little time to read
Also me: jfc what are you doing with that book for 14 days, it's a NOVELLA FINISH IT ALREADY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR AGES #libby #booksky
July 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
honestly most of my convalescent activity has been reading @kjcharleswriter.com's 35 books twice and some of them three times, good god that woman can write
July 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
The hands-down wisest investment for $50 is an annual non-resident ecard at Queens Public Library. I read/listen to SO. MANY. BOOKS. through them they are practically free. #booksky
July 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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kjcharleswriter.com
Re my previous skeet, Boundless (publisher previously known as Unbound) are today soliciting for pledges via email, so if you're on their mailing list, read this before giving them your money.
matpringle.bsky.social Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · Apr 28
A statement regarding Unbound/Boundless.
Last week Unbound was scheduled to refund 8k of pledge money to people that had supported my book 'Singing Up the Sun'. Last week Unbound went into administration. Today I discovered the money won't be refunded. I'm mortified about the situation. I recommend you attempt to get refunds directly through your banks, credit card providers and Paypal etc. People are having some success with this approach. In the process of administration Unbound are rebranding as Boundless and sidestepping their debts to carry on business as usual. There are hundreds of authors who haven't been paid in over a year and now thousands of backers of book projects who won't be refunded. The whole thing is grotesque. I had hoped to take the project elsewhere but I'm starting with an 8k deficit of support and feeling reasonably broken about the entire shit show. For what it's worth I'm massively grateful for all the support and kind words I've received along the way. Thank you. x
April 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
“She’s still there, isn’t she.”
March 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
A sign saying “I am open, I just need a very firm PUSH. Thank you! Camden Coffee Team” to which I added Me too, door, me too…
February 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
The comments! 😂
oliviawrites.bsky.social Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · Feb 11
I came across the most hilariously cursèd ring I've ever seen, and if my eyeballs have to register its misbegotten existence, yours do too
A theoretical ring made from a swampy, chunky green material twisted halfheartedly into an almost pretzel shape, with two rectangular diamonds or diamond-like crystals placed incongruously on top of the cursed object. The green materials has dark splotches in parts.
February 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
Ways books get to my TBR:
- recommended by a handful of people I trust
- blurb sounded interesting, reviews indicate I’d enjoy the book
- author made a funny post on social media
February 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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kjcharleswriter.com
A reminder: I moved KJC Chat from Facebook to Discord and it's shaping up really nicely and becoming quite comprehensible! Join us for book talk, news, freebies, and planned events and meetups!

discord.gg/DPzAZut4
Join the KJ Charles Chat Discord Server!
Check out the KJ Charles Chat community on Discord - hang out with 1807 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
discord.gg
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
This Goodreads error made me laugh so hard. Sure feels like it sometimes ngl
A screenshot of Goodreads app that says: Want to Read 18 446 744 073 709 551 614 books Read 1 book
February 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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sachacoward.bsky.social
Super excited to talk at London's Carnegie Library on 11th of Feb at 7PM!

More queer folklore than you can shake a... euphemistically shaped trident at!

A great pre Valentine's treat... Lots of mysterious oozing and predatory mermaids. Romantic!
friendsofcarnegielibrary.org.uk/2025/01/quee...
February 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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eliotdrawings.bsky.social
★Eliot (they/elle)
★ nb bi illustrator from argentina / SPA/ENG OK
★ NO REUPLOADS
★ adults only
★ for commissions contact: [email protected] | disc: eliot_83
★ ko-fi.com/eliotdrawings
★ eliotstore.bigcartel.com
October 11, 2024 at 12:11 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
Does folk horror and a group of misfits on a quest sound interesting to you? Red Rabbit might be worth a try!
Review ⏩️ www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
A cover of Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian with labels: motley crew of misfits, American folk horror, ghosts everywhere, cool witches, narrated by John Pirhalla
January 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
I absolutely love Din and Ana! My ARC review for A Drop of Corruption is here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
January 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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unclerobin.bsky.social
In my first Margery Sharp book, she hooked me with sentence one. In my second, Stone of Chastity, it took until the top of page two. And got better after that. Staggering to think this book has been unpublished for 3/4 of a century until rescued/resurrected by @deanstpress.bsky.social
paragraph of text on a Kobo Sage ereader, as follows: She had appeared at lunch wearing a very nice necklace of scarabs and enamel, and the Professor, cocking an interested eye, had remarked that it was just such trifles—the sight of an English gentlewoman ornamented with seven phallic symbols—that made life so perennially interesting to the folklorist. Mrs. Pounce did not know what a phallic symbol was, and instinct (or possibly a look in her son’s eye) prevented her asking; but after coffee she quietly sought out a dictionary and took it upstairs. At the moment she was feeling she could never come down again.
January 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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trance.bsky.social
YOU came to the art in good faith and what YOU experienced of it, is your experience from your good faith perspective.

And no one can take that from you, what that meant.

But now you have new and terrible information and yes of course it changes it NOW. But you do not need to lose what it was.
January 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
Yeah, I learned this a hard way 🥲 two from three authors I have tattoos related to became monsters.
oldenoughtosay.com ❄️mari-lwyd odent❄️ @oldenoughtosay.com · Jan 14
there’s something to be said for only getting literary tattoos after the author is dead
January 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
bookshirecat.bsky.social
I thought - naively- that I bought the ultimate bookworm armchair (aka yellow ikea strandmon) for myself.
Esther:
A photo of a tabby cat lying on said armchair, head raised. A photo of a tabby cat lying on said armchair, going to sleep.
January 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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kjcharleswriter.com
Sale news! Slippery Creatures ebook is on cheap at Kobo, Amazon and I think everywhere. Fill your boots with 1920s pulp adventure romance, featuring Will Darling (owner of an emotional support murder weapon) and Kim Secretan (a one-man game of Fuck Marry Kill).

books2read.com/u/38ZqeV
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
books2read.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM