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New literary journal open for submissions Feb 1! Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork are all welcome. Make 2026 the year you get published!
Visit www.allhandspublishing.com/frogskin for all the details 🐸
#booksky
Visit www.allhandspublishing.com/frogskin for all the details 🐸
#booksky
Want to get published in 2026? Mark your calendars for 2/1… 🐸
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Want to get published in 2026? Mark your calendars for 2/1… 🐸
Just finished putting together a gift box for our next Author Development Program initiate! Hand wrapped and one-of-a-kind custom + vintage haul just for our newest writer-in-residence! 💫
#booksky #author #writingcommunity
#booksky #author #writingcommunity
January 13, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Just finished putting together a gift box for our next Author Development Program initiate! Hand wrapped and one-of-a-kind custom + vintage haul just for our newest writer-in-residence! 💫
#booksky #author #writingcommunity
#booksky #author #writingcommunity
New literary journal open for submissions Feb 1! Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork are all welcome. Make 2026 the year you get published!
Visit www.allhandspublishing.com/frogskin for all the details 🐸
#booksky
Visit www.allhandspublishing.com/frogskin for all the details 🐸
#booksky
January 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
New literary journal open for submissions Feb 1! Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork are all welcome. Make 2026 the year you get published!
Visit www.allhandspublishing.com/frogskin for all the details 🐸
#booksky
Visit www.allhandspublishing.com/frogskin for all the details 🐸
#booksky
Instead of buying a $200 piece of plywood on Wayfair, I repurposed an old antique hutch and now have a place to put all my favorite/first edition books!
One step closer to my dream of living in a house where books pile up in unconventional places…
One step closer to my dream of living in a house where books pile up in unconventional places…
January 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Instead of buying a $200 piece of plywood on Wayfair, I repurposed an old antique hutch and now have a place to put all my favorite/first edition books!
One step closer to my dream of living in a house where books pile up in unconventional places…
One step closer to my dream of living in a house where books pile up in unconventional places…
I don’t want to be in your book club because I already have a TBR list that will outlive me but also UGH I HAVE FOMO 😭😭😭
January 7, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I don’t want to be in your book club because I already have a TBR list that will outlive me but also UGH I HAVE FOMO 😭😭😭
What is the first book you remember that made you feel like you were missing the action whenever you put it down?
An unmistakable landmark in every bookworm’s journey!
Mine was “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi. Newberry Award classics, man…
An unmistakable landmark in every bookworm’s journey!
Mine was “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi. Newberry Award classics, man…
January 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
What is the first book you remember that made you feel like you were missing the action whenever you put it down?
An unmistakable landmark in every bookworm’s journey!
Mine was “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi. Newberry Award classics, man…
An unmistakable landmark in every bookworm’s journey!
Mine was “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi. Newberry Award classics, man…
Busy building our TBP (to be published) list for 2026! #newyearsresolutions
January 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Busy building our TBP (to be published) list for 2026! #newyearsresolutions
I will pay actual money to see a French person read through one of these translations and give their unvarnished opinion…
Harlequin’s French division is reportedly transitioning to AI-generated translation, according to a letter published by The French Literary Translators Association and the collective En Chair et en Os (In Flesh and Bone: For Human Translation) 👇 #BookSky
Harlequin France ‘outsources translation to AI’
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January 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I will pay actual money to see a French person read through one of these translations and give their unvarnished opinion…
Be suspicious of publishing partners who say they will make you a bestseller but ALSO say not to worry about book sales. That’s a big old red flag! 🚩
August 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Be suspicious of publishing partners who say they will make you a bestseller but ALSO say not to worry about book sales. That’s a big old red flag! 🚩
This one goes out to all the freelancers 🫡
August 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This one goes out to all the freelancers 🫡
It’s Monday! Time to call out some clown shit. (Hint: If you don’t like the unique complexity of marketing books to actual readers, don’t go into publishing.)
August 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It’s Monday! Time to call out some clown shit. (Hint: If you don’t like the unique complexity of marketing books to actual readers, don’t go into publishing.)
Tech bros and V/C firms REALLLY want to believe that you can structure a publishing house like a software company. Reader, you cannot.
August 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tech bros and V/C firms REALLLY want to believe that you can structure a publishing house like a software company. Reader, you cannot.
The heat has finally broken here in Portland, and we’re rolling pleasantly into the rainy season. Follow our AI-free “Book Vibe” playlist on YouTube as we queue up the best drizzly lo-fi to write and read to. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Book Vibe - YouTube
Some good reading and writing vibes, all human-made!
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August 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The heat has finally broken here in Portland, and we’re rolling pleasantly into the rainy season. Follow our AI-free “Book Vibe” playlist on YouTube as we queue up the best drizzly lo-fi to write and read to. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This is a Spines callout directly...
August 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a Spines callout directly...
When Big Tech discovers ✨storytelling✨
August 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When Big Tech discovers ✨storytelling✨
BookBub sent us a list of July’s best new popular fiction. It looks like we’re deep in the era of hot pastels and bold fonts. Does this kind of cover draw your eye and make you want to pick it up? We’re curious!
July 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
BookBub sent us a list of July’s best new popular fiction. It looks like we’re deep in the era of hot pastels and bold fonts. Does this kind of cover draw your eye and make you want to pick it up? We’re curious!
This week a federal judge ruled that using authors' books without permission to train AI is legal because it doesn't create a directly competing work.
Bitch it creates a directly competing AUTHOR, what are you talking about?
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/06/anth...
Bitch it creates a directly competing AUTHOR, what are you talking about?
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/06/anth...
June 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This week a federal judge ruled that using authors' books without permission to train AI is legal because it doesn't create a directly competing work.
Bitch it creates a directly competing AUTHOR, what are you talking about?
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/06/anth...
Bitch it creates a directly competing AUTHOR, what are you talking about?
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/06/anth...
📚 Weekly title trend observation:
Lots of books about #forests!
NetGalley recommends "Forest Euphoria" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, and BookBub is promoting "The Forest" by Edward Rutherfurd.
Lots of books about #forests!
NetGalley recommends "Forest Euphoria" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, and BookBub is promoting "The Forest" by Edward Rutherfurd.
a painting of a forest with trees and flowers
ALT: a painting of a forest with trees and flowers
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June 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
📚 Weekly title trend observation:
Lots of books about #forests!
NetGalley recommends "Forest Euphoria" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, and BookBub is promoting "The Forest" by Edward Rutherfurd.
Lots of books about #forests!
NetGalley recommends "Forest Euphoria" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, and BookBub is promoting "The Forest" by Edward Rutherfurd.
Questions to ask your publishing partner when they promise to make your book an Amazon bestseller:
June 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Questions to ask your publishing partner when they promise to make your book an Amazon bestseller:
We are on our way... Check out our new website at allhandspublishing.com!
May 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We are on our way... Check out our new website at allhandspublishing.com!