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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 2h

Visalia.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sorry for your loss.

Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 11h

Today on Bready or Not: Dulce de Leche Pumpkin Pie. An incredible pumpkin pie--and a surprisingly easy one, thanks to the food processor.

www.bethcato.com/bready-or-no...

Close up of a pumpkin pie with an orange interior and a golden brown drizzle atop.

Overhead view of a pumpkin pie with an orange interior and a golden brown drizzle atop.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 1d

My novels & many anthologies I'm in are available! Support your local indie store--or even mine, Fair Trade Books in Red Wing, MN.

Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 1d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Bookshop.org

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 2d

If you enjoyed A House Between Sea and Sky, it's a great time to grab ebooks of my other recent fantasies from 47North! A Thousand Recipes for Revenge & A Feast for Starving Stone are $2.49 each in US & Canada!

Book 1: amzn.to/3H7sZ0Y
Book 2: amzn.to/3L2uzCU
[promo links]

Image has two book covers at an angle for A THOUSAND RECIPES FOR REVENGE and A FEAST FOR STARVING STONE. Text explains that for one month, both books are $2.49 each, US and Canada only. That means the complete series is under $5.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! Enjoy!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus. This is huge. B&T is, or I guess now was, one of the main library vendors for print books.

Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

From the Libraries community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Libraries community

www.reddit.com

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 2d

If you enjoyed A House Between Sea and Sky, it's a great time to grab ebooks of my other recent fantasies from 47North! A Thousand Recipes for Revenge & A Feast for Starving Stone are $2.49 each in US & Canada!

Book 1: amzn.to/3H7sZ0Y
Book 2: amzn.to/3L2uzCU
[promo links]

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you. I just teared up reading your words!

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 2d

I don't normally tear up over "Big Idea" or other promotional book blog posts. But I teared up over this one.

Beth's book is heart-rending in all the right ways.

Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 7d

Read about the Big Idea behind A House Between Sea and Sky, officially out today!

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/01/t...

The Big Idea: Beth Cato

You can’t judge a house by its paint job. Or by the nefarious things that have gone on inside said house in the past. Author Beth Cato takes us for a tour in the Big Idea for her newest novel…

whatever.scalzi.com

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 3d

YES. I feel the same way., always have.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I've never seen Friends or Love Actually, either. I had to suffer through a few minutes of Friends a few times, hated it. I can relate much more to Star Trek with its aliens than those obnoxious people.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 3d

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 3d

After a little over a month, A House Between Sea and Sky has garnered over 2,000 reviews! 😱

On the paid Kindle chart, I saw a high of 34 last weekend; today it's still clinging to the top 100 chart at 91. 🤯

THANK YOU to everyone who bought a copy! Please, keep spreading the word!

A House Between Sea and Sky: A Novel Kindle Edition
by Beth Cato (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,024) 4.2 on Goodreads 1,415 ratings
#1 New Release
in Paranormal Fantasy Books
See all formats and editions
In 1920s California, two people in need of healing find strange refuge in a house with a mind of its own in an enthralling fantasy by the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge.

Grieving Hollywood writer Fayette Wynne arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1926 to finish her latest project in peace. All alone, save for the preternatural sourdough starter her family has nurtured for years, Fayette is also resentful. The proven healing powers of the bread made with her starter were insufficient to save her beloved mother. For Fayette, it’s time to try and push past the pain and anger and move on.

Then, during a violent storm, Fayette saves rising star Rex Hallstrom during a moment of crisis. Their shelter: a peculiar cliffside house, its door flung open as if beckoning them. Sentient, curious, and lonely, it recognizes in Fayette a unique magic even older than its own.

In the days that follow, as a friendship grows between Fayette and Rex, they discover local legends surrounding the isolated house: It appeared in the span of a single night, its cursed origins said to be Hell itself. But for two souls who need to move forward, it provides unexpected comfort and hope. In fact, Fayette and Rex have never felt more alive. Neither has the house, whose mysteries are unending and whose wicked history may be too powerful to ignore.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 4d

At a convention, I’d be happy to share a cookie! Far more portable than pie and easier to distribute to many.

Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 4d

Finn and Luke on this weirdly hot Minnesota #Caturday.

A sleeping black tabby in foreground largely obscures an orange tabby sleeping against his back.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 4d

There's a Goodreads giveaway for A House Between Sea and Sky in Kindle format! 100 copies in the offering. 👀US only.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social · 4d

What a fantastic opportunity to grab some hidden gems! 🌟📚 I love a good bag sale! Enjoy exploring the SFF selection, and may the books find great new homes! 💖 #BookSale #SFF

Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder! Big used book sale ongoing in Red Wing! It wraps up on Saturday with a $2 bag sale. There's a good SFF selection w/ a lot of recent discards, plus some old hardcover Star Trek.

Please buy books so I don't have to move them on Monday. :D

Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 9d

Come out to Red Wing, Minnesota, this week to buy books from the Friends of the Library book sale! We have a huge selection. The funds raised help us support the library!

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder! Big used book sale ongoing in Red Wing! It wraps up on Saturday with a $2 bag sale. There's a good SFF selection w/ a lot of recent discards, plus some old hardcover Star Trek.

Please buy books so I don't have to move them on Monday. :D

Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 9d

Come out to Red Wing, Minnesota, this week to buy books from the Friends of the Library book sale! We have a huge selection. The funds raised help us support the library!

Member pre-sale Wednesday 1-5pm
Public sale
Thursday 10-5
Friday 10-5
Saturday $2 bag sale 10-2

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to figure out how many ways we can flash the red lights here. This was NEVER EVER ABOUT BOOKS. Books were the tool.

THEY ARE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS.

THEY
ARE
STEALING
YOUR
RIGHTS.

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 5d

Reporters, here’s the assignment:

Next time an elected or appointed official responds with, “it’s not banned because you can still buy it,” the mandatory followup question is, “Do you believe Americans have a First Amendment right to access and share speech in our publicly-funded libraries?”

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 5d

In order for Judge Winsor to get to the conclusion that access elsewhere was an acceptable solution for a school to remove a book based on viewpoint, he had to deny patrons and authors their First Amendment rights in the library.

Let that sink in.

floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/02/s...

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