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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · Jan 4

As one of my 2025 new year's resolutions, I've launched a new book-loving newsletter over on Substack. Read about all about it and subscribe: spinetingling.substack.com/p/turning-ov...

Turning Over a New Leaf

Welcome to Spinetingling, the home of shameless shelf-promotion. Where I promise to be an open book.

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Longreads @longreads.com · 2d

"They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur."

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Swamp People - Longreads

Finding refuge and resilience in America’s most reviled landscapes.

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 2d

Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

Help Salt Publish Brilliant New Books in 2026 For twenty-… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 2d

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope

Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.

www.versobooks.com

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 2d

#writingtip #writingtips #bravewrite #amwriting #writingcommunity

Quick Tip: What are your characters’ motivations?

One of the major problems with early drafts of stories is that the characters’ motivations haven’t yet been fully worked out. Can you identify you characters’ goals and the reasons they want to att…

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 2d

Rose Dommu on being trans at straight weddings, the possibilities of transition, and the necessity of intimacy and community for queer people.

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A Trans Rom-Com That Navigates the Very Gendered Dynamics of a Wedding - Electric Literature

“Best Wedding” author Rose Dommu on telling the kind of story that can only exist if the main character is trans

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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing because vaccinations save lives. #ScienceIsReal

The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 2d

Measles was something Alberta physician @monicakidd.bsky.social and her colleagues once spoke of in the past tense. Just last week, it took the life of a newborn baby.

Here, Kidd reports on how the return of the once-eliminated disease is straining hospitals: thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-beca...

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 2d

Book*hug Press is proud to be part of the Certified Canadian Publisher program, newly launched by @cdnpublishers.bsky.social. 🍁📖
Look for the seal when you buy books and you'll:

📖Support Canadian jobs
🏆Champion Canadian talent
🏘Strengthen communities
💰Boost our economy
🍁Preserve Canadian stories

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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 3d

Missed the event last night with Michelle Winters, @catebush.bsky.social & Caitlin Galway?

Thanks to @gooselane.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social for the books!

and TYPE Books Junction, Cayley Brightside & @rollwithheather.bsky.social

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Junction Reads with Catherine Bush, Caitlin Galway and Catherine Bush

YouTube video by Junction Reads

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature for the 2025 National Book Awards.

Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Award…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 5d

passive voice far too often actively used by MSM these days...

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · 5d

Since its beginnings, the discoveries of palaeontology have captured and fired the public's imagination, and the public's enthusiasm for it has had an effect upon the field itself. Learn more in "Palaeontology in Public" (@uclpress.bsky.social). #Booksly

www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/10/pala...

Palaeontology in Public

Edited by Dr. Chris Manias, "Palaeontology in Public" features a collection case studies, each published as a chapter, by a remarkable assembly of noteworthy authors in the field. It's as informative ...

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 5d

In late 2023, thousands filed into a packed Toronto theatre to wait for a legend: the one and only Jane Goodall would be taking the stage. Author and biological anthropologist @keriannmcgoogan.bsky.social celebrates her first inspiration in primatology: thewalrus.ca/jane-goodall/

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 6d

On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun: writersleague.org/calendar/wri...

“Writing the Natural World: A 21st Century Reboot” with Christopher Brown

$59 for Members $119 for Non-Members For any writer in any genre, nature is a presence in the narrative, whether as the central focus or ambient background. Writing the natural world presents a tre…

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · Sep 17

My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

Cover of A Natural History of Empty Lots

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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 8d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

Jane Goodall

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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 8d

A bookshop and READERY! In #Truro, #NovaScotia

Quacking fantastic. 🦆

The Happy Duck Bookshop & Readery @thehappyduckbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Getting our ducks in a row! 🦆📚🌻

Opening day to be announced soon!

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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 8d

Remember kids:

censorship is a tool of fascism.

#ReadBannedBooks

PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 8d

WaPo: @stephenking.bsky.social, @jodipicoult.bsky.social among most-banned authors in schools

A new report by PEN America documents more than 6,000 instances of restrictions on books in the 2024-2025 school year.

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Stephen King, Jodi Picoult among most-banned authors in schools

A report by free-expression advocacy group PEN America documented more than 6,000 instances of restrictions on books in the 2024-2025 school year.

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The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com · 8d

Behold!! Our children’s section has been transformed into a true crime section! And Mike!

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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 8d

Well, good morning to YOU, @splitlippress.com.
#Booksky #Nonfiction #CreativeNonfiction

Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 8d

Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!

@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!

OPEN CALL: CREATIVE NONFICTION BOOKS

Reading period October 1 - December 1
Submit at splitlippress.submittable.com
125 page minimum

spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 8d

I ❤️ this thread! #Booksky

Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 8d

gonna start making a list of cool jobs that contemporary romance main characters should have instead:

1. surrogate migratory bird parent/flying biologist www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 4

OKAY FOLKS FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT*
MY THREAD OF LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTHS

*nobody asked but I KNOW WHAT YOU SECRETLY WANT 1/

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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social · 8d

The most recommended book on the podcast (by far!) is The Death of Us by Abigail Dean - have you read it?

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

It's October and that means time for @liverpooluni.bsky.social Literary Festival and @livirishfest.bsky.social (and pumpkins🎃)
We are delighted to be contributing events to both festivals, see 🧵👇 for more details of all our October events or check out www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie...

Events | Institute of Irish Studies | University of Liverpool

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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