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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · Jul 12

Do you enjoy my books? Then you'll be right at home over at Fake Folktales, where I publish the stories I couldn't squeeze into my novels, plus the adventures of my Folkloric Arts Research Team (two monks and a dragon) who dig up stories even *I* haven't heard before
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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 18h

OMG rereading Harper Hall as an adult and realizing she's using "psychic link to horny dragons" as an end-run around consent and that I found this ROMANTIC as a kid...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

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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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 1d

You're like Louisville, KY, that way

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you:
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Here's what we mean...

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 2d

Hey friendos: what are some things my 82-yo mother can do to keep herself safe in upcoming Chicago protests? She's a brave old darling, but she'll feel better if she knows what to do in case of tear gas, etc, and can go prepared

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 23d

My 82-yo mother, who has continued regularly protesting these long three months, has concluded all on her own that the reason the US govt. is defunding cancer research is EUGENICS. Except she didn't know the word. "You know, they're hoping only the FITTEST survive." Yes, Ma, I know.

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · Jun 14

Shout-out to my 82-year-old mother, off to the #NoKings rally in Chicago today! Wish I could have extended my visit for a day and gone with her, but a bunch of her elderly friends will be there marching (or wheeling) and shouting together.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 2d

It's Banned Books Week, and if you're a Canadian Author and/or Illustrator, check this out:

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 22d

Canadian authors & illustrators! You know have your own Authors Against Book Bans! Sign up here! linktr.ee/caiabb

CAIABB | Instagram | Linktree

Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 4d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3d

The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy!

We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3d

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4d

Also picked up some recent queer YA books. Gave enthusiastically positive reviews to Costumes for Time Travelers by AR Capetta and Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman. Sky on Fire and Titan of thr Stars by EK Johnston are on my TBR.

The four books spread out on a ight tan background.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 4d

I'm so over breaking news. How about some fixing news.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 4d

Our Team=A Brush With Destiny, because all novice league names must be terrible curling puns, it's the law

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 4d

Not that anybody but me actually cares, but our second match is also a WIN, 6-4 in 7 ends, go Our Team!

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 11d

First novice league curling match of the year is a WIN, 11-3 in 8 ends, huzzah!

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 5d

I can't say there are a LOT of toilets in this world that I particularly aspire to try, but here's one

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 6d

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet debuts at UBC

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet debuts at UBC

Tucked away in a forest in the University of B.C.’s Botanical Garden, a first-of-its-kind toilet is ready to turn human waste into nutrient-rich compost using the power of mushrooms.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 5d

When October is over, maybe "devious-cruising Rachel" should be my everyday name...

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 6d

October spooky name deployed! Thanks, as ever, to @mishellbaker.bsky.social for coming up with the greatest possible Halloween name for me

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 6d

AND, if you have recurring meetings and try to start one, the buttons move under your cursor such that (if you don't know this is going to happen) you will end up clicking on AI Companion by mistake. It's ASS

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6d

And just in case it needs underlining: if you’re not trans you can celebrate victories for trans human rights as human rights. Not out of altruism but solidarity. Every victory for human rights is a victory for all who know everyone is human.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 7d

I just feel the need to say: Aioli is so much tastier when you make it yourself! And I don't know about other folks, but I feel like books are also tastier when I'm the one getting food on them

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 7d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 8d

Ghosts haunt the pages of these engrossing YA novels. On Oct 21, hear from @clarakiyoko.bsky.social (Songs for Ghosts), @rachelhartmanbooks.com (Among Ghosts), and Corey Liu (He’s So Possessed with Me). Moderated by Hudson Lin. Best for grades 8–12.

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Toronto Comic Arts Festival @torontocomics.bsky.social · 10d

Our Executive Director @librarylandia.bsky.social spoke with CBC about the Alberta government's censorship of comic books in schools.

Their attack on diverse voices is a continuation of how governments have historically exploited "moral panics" to threaten human rights. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta has banned graphic books before. In the 1950s, 'salacious' comics were the target | CBC News

In 1954, the province established the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications to investigate "crime comics" that supposedly inspired undesirable behaviour in kids.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 10d

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.

Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 10d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 15d

Had the interesting experience over Rosh HaShana of reading a secondary world YA fantasy novel (@rachelhartmanbooks.com's Among Ghosts, a standalone in the same world as Seraphina and Tess of the Road) and realizing "oh, this is a pandemic novel".

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 17d

Also of note: my latest book, Among Ghosts, contains a HAUNTED APPLE

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 17d

If you're ever able to get ahold of a Topaz, that's my favourite apple

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 11d

I only fell on my ass once!

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 11d

First novice league curling match of the year is a WIN, 11-3 in 8 ends, huzzah!

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