Die Booth
@diebooth.bsky.social
🦇Goth 📖DIY author of the beautiful macabre 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQIA+ he/him 🎶DJ #LastRitesChester 🖤 BE NICE TO EACH OTHER 🖤 #endgenocide #antigenerativeAI
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Quiet queer horror books full of pretty prose seek loving homes!
You can buy any of my indie titles via bio.site/diebooth with prices starting from just £2.99 🖤
See thread for full list of titles + info!
#booksky #writersky #indiebooks #horror #horrorbooks #indieauthors #bsnm #lgbtqia #queerbooks
You can buy any of my indie titles via bio.site/diebooth with prices starting from just £2.99 🖤
See thread for full list of titles + info!
#booksky #writersky #indiebooks #horror #horrorbooks #indieauthors #bsnm #lgbtqia #queerbooks
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Most writers I know aren't tortured artists. They're exhausted administrators who occasionally remember they like sentences. Emails, forms, and spreadsheets are the real villains in this story.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Most writers I know aren't tortured artists. They're exhausted administrators who occasionally remember they like sentences. Emails, forms, and spreadsheets are the real villains in this story.
So, my friend is currently on a big crochet kick and she just unveiled these two little guys, she has not seen OFMD and has no context for why I found them so entertaining! (She did give permission for me to share the pics though, and to shout out Complicated Knots on Youtube for the pattern)
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
So, my friend is currently on a big crochet kick and she just unveiled these two little guys, she has not seen OFMD and has no context for why I found them so entertaining! (She did give permission for me to share the pics though, and to shout out Complicated Knots on Youtube for the pattern)
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remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
If you wanna support an indie creator or get gift ideas, please check out my shop (in the quote post) for occult & vintage jewellery, handmade plushies, zines, badges, stickers, signed books and my regular books are here (30% off tomorrow!) www.lulu.com/spotlight/di...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you wanna support an indie creator or get gift ideas, please check out my shop (in the quote post) for occult & vintage jewellery, handmade plushies, zines, badges, stickers, signed books and my regular books are here (30% off tomorrow!) www.lulu.com/spotlight/di...
#bsnm #shopindie #indieartist
#bsnm #shopindie #indieartist
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Tell the UK Government they must do better for nature!
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Might try and write to my useless Tory MP again about this - she doesn't care about Palestine, immigrants, trans people or disabled people, but perhaps she'll care about nature given she's obsessed with farms.
Last night the Government steamrollered its Planning Bill through, slamming the door on vital protections for nature.
They said it would be a ‘win-win’ for the economy and nature.
But in reality, they’ve pushed nature into last place.
They said it would be a ‘win-win’ for the economy and nature.
But in reality, they’ve pushed nature into last place.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Might try and write to my useless Tory MP again about this - she doesn't care about Palestine, immigrants, trans people or disabled people, but perhaps she'll care about nature given she's obsessed with farms.
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They treat nature like it has no voice.
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
Tell the UK Government they must do better for nature!
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
https://action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/action/1?ea.tracking.id=rspb_uk_bluesky👈
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
They treat nature like it has no voice.
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
But it does. Yours, ours, and millions more.
If you believe nature deserves better than this, make sure your MP hears it loud and clear:
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 👈
This is such an excellent pledge - if you're looking to buy seasonal gifts, please consider getting a book (or two!) from Ruadán and help a good cause in the process. My story 'Chester' will feature in 'Spring in the City' available now for preorder and out Dec 2nd!
#booksky #horrorsky #indieauthor
#booksky #horrorsky #indieauthor
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Ruadán Books is donating 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23/2025 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well!
Get our books direct:
🔗 ruadanbooks.com
📚 or wherever books are sold!
#BookSky #charity
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is such an excellent pledge - if you're looking to buy seasonal gifts, please consider getting a book (or two!) from Ruadán and help a good cause in the process. My story 'Chester' will feature in 'Spring in the City' available now for preorder and out Dec 2nd!
#booksky #horrorsky #indieauthor
#booksky #horrorsky #indieauthor
"She explained that the prosecution used female pronouns to refer to the complainant during the trial, while Linehan's defence used male pronouns. The judge said she had chosen to refer to Brooks using "gender neutral pronouns and as 'the complainant'" in her ruling." Everyone gets to choose this 1/
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"She explained that the prosecution used female pronouns to refer to the complainant during the trial, while Linehan's defence used male pronouns. The judge said she had chosen to refer to Brooks using "gender neutral pronouns and as 'the complainant'" in her ruling." Everyone gets to choose this 1/
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UK folk, cancel your TV license.
In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
UK folk, cancel your TV license.
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In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
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Obviously there are historical analogies - in the UK, penny dreadful, Victorian/Edwardian serialised fiction, etc
But the sheer VOLUME of (sometimes) bloated texts - the very long novel, the 30-book series - is definitely pegged to conditions created by our current digital-capitalist ecosystem
But the sheer VOLUME of (sometimes) bloated texts - the very long novel, the 30-book series - is definitely pegged to conditions created by our current digital-capitalist ecosystem
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Obviously there are historical analogies - in the UK, penny dreadful, Victorian/Edwardian serialised fiction, etc
But the sheer VOLUME of (sometimes) bloated texts - the very long novel, the 30-book series - is definitely pegged to conditions created by our current digital-capitalist ecosystem
But the sheer VOLUME of (sometimes) bloated texts - the very long novel, the 30-book series - is definitely pegged to conditions created by our current digital-capitalist ecosystem
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Absolutely this
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Absolutely this
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
Likewise, the Amazon-prompted explosion of VERY multi-instalment novel series can be read as a response to the material conditions in which a lot of writers/small presses are trying to scratch a living (via KU page reads as well as sales, achieved via 4-books/year churn)
(cont.)
I have just seen a take from a marginalised author with a mainstream publisher that pirate sites will act as archives if marginalised books are banned and I just WOW - I see what you mean, but also tell me you have a major publishing deal and are actually getting paid without telling me etc etc 🙃
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I have just seen a take from a marginalised author with a mainstream publisher that pirate sites will act as archives if marginalised books are banned and I just WOW - I see what you mean, but also tell me you have a major publishing deal and are actually getting paid without telling me etc etc 🙃
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I also read indie because there you can get trans books without it being about how hard it is to be trans and how much we suffer for being trans and how horrible the trans experience is because that's all the cis acquisition editors want: Cis-approved versions of trans suffering.
I am a sucker for books with transfem leads.
That’s why I read mostly indie.
Not every transfem indie book turns out to be outstanding, but at least I get to do the gatekeeping, not a cis acquisitions editor in New York.
That’s why I read mostly indie.
Not every transfem indie book turns out to be outstanding, but at least I get to do the gatekeeping, not a cis acquisitions editor in New York.
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I also read indie because there you can get trans books without it being about how hard it is to be trans and how much we suffer for being trans and how horrible the trans experience is because that's all the cis acquisition editors want: Cis-approved versions of trans suffering.
Love to see it.
#WeAintBuyingIt — this isn’t just a boycott. It’s a declaration. We’re not consumers. We’re constituents. We’re neighbors. We’re fighters. And when we act together, even giants like Target, Amazon, and Home Depot feel the ground shake. social.demcast.com/s/2n4MSwX2
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Love to see it.
"The UK government lists management consultants, psychologists and legal professionals among the occupations “most exposed to AI”" what could possibly go wrong 🙄
The need for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) has never been greater.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs in the UK by 2035, research finds
Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"The UK government lists management consultants, psychologists and legal professionals among the occupations “most exposed to AI”" what could possibly go wrong 🙄
It's sunny today and I have a ton of work to do but there might not be any more sunshine for a while so I'm allowing myself a big walk in the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It's sunny today and I have a ton of work to do but there might not be any more sunshine for a while so I'm allowing myself a big walk in the woods.
Not on Threads so no idea what's being said about the whole Graveside Press thing, and realise having a reprint story in an anthology is low stakes compared to other authors, but I am still beyond tired of situations like this. Just, don't bite off more than you can chew. Pay people what you owe em.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Not on Threads so no idea what's being said about the whole Graveside Press thing, and realise having a reprint story in an anthology is low stakes compared to other authors, but I am still beyond tired of situations like this. Just, don't bite off more than you can chew. Pay people what you owe em.
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If you're in the US, the libby app is also fabulous. Get the book from a library and support both your libraries AND authors. You can sign up with your own local library or there are ones that accept you anywhere in the US as well
Read this thread, especially if you've ever downloaded a book from a pirate site. Pirating indie books is NOT the same as 'acquiring' big budget Amazon shows. It's the difference between shoplifting from Walmart or stealing from a little craft stall.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you're in the US, the libby app is also fabulous. Get the book from a library and support both your libraries AND authors. You can sign up with your own local library or there are ones that accept you anywhere in the US as well
I love writing so much, but publishing is just the absolute pits on so many levels.
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I love writing so much, but publishing is just the absolute pits on so many levels.
Donal Logue is doing a free book talk thing tomorrow night in Boston and I really wish I could teleport.
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Donal Logue is doing a free book talk thing tomorrow night in Boston and I really wish I could teleport.
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department of homeland security is based out of Israel?
X user recorded location before X removed the feature on gov accounts
X user recorded location before X removed the feature on gov accounts
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
department of homeland security is based out of Israel?
X user recorded location before X removed the feature on gov accounts
X user recorded location before X removed the feature on gov accounts
My shop: ebooks, signed print books, handmade magic talisman jewellery (and ordinary jewellery!) handmade plushies (can do custom) always up for a direct sale to avoid fees 🤟
ko-fi.com/diebooth/shop
#MarketMonday #BSNM #ShopOFMD
ko-fi.com/diebooth/shop
#MarketMonday #BSNM #ShopOFMD
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My shop: ebooks, signed print books, handmade magic talisman jewellery (and ordinary jewellery!) handmade plushies (can do custom) always up for a direct sale to avoid fees 🤟
ko-fi.com/diebooth/shop
#MarketMonday #BSNM #ShopOFMD
ko-fi.com/diebooth/shop
#MarketMonday #BSNM #ShopOFMD
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I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people