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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1h

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 18m

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Buddy Waters @buddywaters.bsky.social · Jun 4

English is way harsher on repetition than Japanese, so part of a light novel translator's job is tweaking the wording so it says the same shit, but without sounding redundant.
I thought I'd do a rundown of a few tricks that help with this.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 2h

there are so many boxes. so. many. boxes.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2h

In the newest Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com talks about the worst time in every book lover's life: moving.

reactormag.com/there-comes-...

There Comes a Time in Every Reader's Life When You Have to Move the Books - Reactor

A lot of books have come in and out of my front door. But now they all have to go out, because I’m moving.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3h

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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404 Media @404media.co · 2h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1h

I'm a literary translator of over 200 books, working between Spanish & English in both directions.

Especially #poetry & #kidlit, although have also translated novels, comics, essays, etc.

Some authors I've translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, Koleka Putuma, Juan Villoro, etc.

#xl8 #booksky

A photo of six books I have translated into Spanish:

BLUETS by Maggie Nelson
DON'T CALL US DEAD by Danez Smith
WHY KEANU REEVES IS LONELY by Simeon Dumdum, Jr.
COLLECTIVE AMNESIA by Koleka Putuma
ÉRASE UN VERSO is an anthology of fairy tale poems by Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gregory Maguire, etc.
MILLIONS OF CATS by Wanda Gág

A photo of 6 books I have translated into English, the top row is fiction:

Illustrated fiction from Mexico:
THE BOOK OF DENIAL by Ricardo Chávez Castañeda & Alejandro Magallanes (Enchanted Lion)
Queer metafiction from Spain:
THE WORST THING OF ALL IS THE LIGHT by José Luis Serrano (Seagull)
Queer coming of age story from Equatorial Guinea:
LA BASTARDA by Trifonia Melibea Obono (Feminist Press)

The bottom row is poetry:
From Mexico:
SOMETIMES I WRITE POEMS AND SOMETIMES I WRITE POEMS by Martín Rangel (Broken Sleep)
From Benin (a trilingual edition Gun-Spanish-English):
VOICE OF THE TWO SHORES by Agnès Agboton (flipped eye)
From Cuba:
MUSIC FOR BAMBOO STRINGS by Carlos Pintado (Sundial House)

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2h

I translate books from Korean into English. I was shortlisted for and later judged the International Booker Prize. I have thirteen (?) books scheduled to be published over the next three years.

Next up is CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon, for which I am touring the UK later this month.

A stack of copies for Capitalists Must Starve at a bookstore

Catch
Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur on their North-South
UK tour!
A TATED ANS PRESE
Capitalists
Must
Starve
A NONEL.
Scolycon
18/10
→ Wimbledon Book
Festival, London

25/10
→ Mount Florida Books,
Glasgow
19/10
→ ESEA Lit Fest at Cheltenham
Literature Festival's
VOICEBOX

26/10
→ Breakfast meet-and-greet at Lighthouse, Edinburgh
→ with In Other Words

21/10 → Launch party
at Roundtable Books, London

27/10
at Tills Bookshop, Edinburgh
→ House of Books
22/10
→ Juno Bookshop, Sheffield

& Friends, Manchester
24/10
→ Topping & Company
Booksellers, Edinburgh

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Bruce Coville @brucecoville.bsky.social · 6d

#Kidlit #picturebook Here is a happy announcement about a Nyxie-inspired picture book that I sold a while ago. The artist has a great sense of humor and I can't wait to see what she does with this!

Notice that it was acquired by the amazing Lawrence Schimel

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 5h

News of Han Kang’s win happened during our jury’s first International Booker Prize meeting, so it would be funny if the same thing just happened to next year’s jury 😆

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 6h

Wonderful news to see Lászlo Krasznahorkai, International Booker Prize 2015 winner, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today.

Find out more about the author and his work: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

László Krasznahorkai | The Booker Prizes

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2015 and shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

thebookerprizes.com

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 5h

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 5h

I felt a lump in my throat when it was announced that László Krasznahorkai had won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. I love his books and have reviewed four of his novels for The Irish Times.
Many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for allowing me to do so.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai: A paean to depth and meaning amid violence and death

The novel’s protagonist, Florian Herscht, writes and rewrites a letter to Angela Merkel about what he believes to be an existential threat to the world

www.irishtimes.com

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats to all his translators, including into English @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social & @georgeszirtes.bsky.social

#booksky #xl8 #literarytranslation

Announcement of this year's Nobel Prize for literature to László Krasznahorkai. With a black and white drawing of the author.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 15h

I wrote “Some Zombie Contingency Plans” on a plane on the way to a workshop. Got off the plane, looked up the nearest Kinko’s & printed it out.

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 15h

We should all tell our stories like this...mine is "the time I totally forgot about an essay and cranked out a paper on Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus in two hours and ended up winning an award for it"

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 15h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 15h

Hard to think of a story where I didn’t begin it when I was in a state of utter panic over a deadline. Only story I ever wrote slowly was “I Can See Right Through You.” One of the worst things about writing a novel is that you can’t begin writing it the night (or week) before it’s due.

A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 15h

I wrote “Some Zombie Contingency Plans” on a plane on the way to a workshop. Got off the plane, looked up the nearest Kinko’s & printed it out.

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 15h

We should all tell our stories like this...mine is "the time I totally forgot about an essay and cranked out a paper on Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus in two hours and ended up winning an award for it"

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 10h

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15h

A lesson I had to learn in the last couple years is that as long as the tech industry has thrown all its money behind something then laws like copyright don’t matter.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 18h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 10h

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#writingcommunity #amwriting

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Was this fact-checked by ChatGPT? Because Michael Emmerich, someone I know personally, wrote a book about the reception of The Tale of Genji, but he is not someone who's translated it.

Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 13d

new translator aspiration just dropped

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Michael Emmerich, a professor of Japanese literature at U.C.L.A. and a translator of the eleventh-century novel “The Tale of Genji,” co-authored the LifeWear messaging for Uniqlo. He admitted that it was deliberately enigmatic, saying that he wanted customers to “stop a moment and engage with language.”

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Mely @coffeeandink.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: Phyllis Gotlieb's Flesh and Gold is on sale for USD$2.99.

This is a deeply humane space opera with many and very splendid aliens. It's the first in a loose trilogy, but works fine as a standalone.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 1d

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 1d

An author I translate wrote about how she cried her eyes out reading @roxanegay.bsky.social’s HUNGER and I happened to be at the Strand where I found a signed copy of Gay’s OPINIONS and sent it to my author and it made her day

Can an AI translator do that?

NO

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Kalaniot Books @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Just in time for National Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month, WITH A NEEDLE AND THREAD: A JEWISH FOLKTALE FROM CUBA is #2 New Release in Central and South American Books. CON HILO Y AGUJA: UN CUENTO JUDíO DE CUBA, the Spanish-language edition translated by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social

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boosprout 🔞👻⚙️💥 @bisprout.writes.fyi · 19d

So, you want to leave Bluesky, but you don't want to lose your community and start all over again.

Great news! You can leave without losing anything. Here's how.

Please share if you find this helpful so people don't lose their shit and go back to twt for no reason 🙏💖

So, You Want to Leave Bluesky...

The most important thing you need to know is:

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 23h

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Fyi #writingcommunity #amwriting

Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 1d

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 23h

#kidlit

Chris Barton @bartography.bsky.social · 14d

Did you see @fuse8.bsky.social's SLJ article and accompanying post about tackling complicated topics in NF for kids? They *can* carry heavy things -- it's up to authors to find the right way to hand those to them. #TLSkyChat afuse8production.slj.com/2025/08/27/t...

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