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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 4d

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 6d

We expect to hit 55k signatures in support of our open letter this week, perhaps even today. Thank you to everyone who has signed or shared. Let’s keep this going:

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.

notinourname.org.uk

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Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!

Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨

Reader Survey: What Drives Preorders?

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey! As an author, I've heard a lot of “received wisdom” about how preorders work for readers, what motivates someone to preorder, an...

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 17h

I have filled in your survey, and am delighted.

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 29d

WORLD BOOK WEEK OFFER

Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way and check out the alt text below….

Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @slgscotland.bsky.social

WORLD BOOK WEEK OFFER

Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way….

To get to know my new home better, I am waiving my school visit fee for schools in the Scottish islands during World Book Week 2026 (2nd - 6th March).

Organisers must cover transport and accommodation. I am based on the Black Isle, and able to drive to Inverness airport, Ullapool ferry port, Oban, and Aberdeen. I can supply books to sell, if given plenty of notice!

Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 1d

I never do this and don’t even feel obligated to click the link (shares would be nice!) but our first fur baby needs dental surgery and, I won’t lie, I am climbing the walls with anxiety about it.

gofund.me/b8fa10852

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished @poopraven.bsky.social's SWORD OF AVALON and my thoughts are:

Ch.10: Quentin's going to do whatnow? Mm mhm yep, here for that.
Ch.21: Oh my.
Ch.39: *OH I SAY*
Ch.47: Oh you rotten tease.
Epilogue: Shenanigans ahoy, captain!

AK, you and all your works are an unceasing delight.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 2d

Generational Trauma.

(Sorry, I meant Watership Down.)

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d

Name a Film with a Deer, Rabbit, or Raccoon.

me in a pink top long brown hair purple lipstick doing a peace sign

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 3d

EEEEEEEEE!!

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 4d

Shout out for SOME BODY LIKE ME by @ldlapinski.bsky.social - a hopeful sapphic story about identity and love, set at the end of humanity's time on earth. (All their books are great, but this one hit me hard in the feels and I keep going back to it.)

www.ldlapinski.com/somebodylikeme

SOME BODY LIKE ME | L D Lapinski

As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity's final days looking after her husband David. But that's not true, not really. Abigail isn't David's wife. She's n...

www.ldlapinski.com

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 4d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 4d

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 6d

We expect to hit 55k signatures in support of our open letter this week, perhaps even today. Thank you to everyone who has signed or shared. Let’s keep this going:

notinourname.org.uk

Home - Not in our name

As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.

notinourname.org.uk

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 4d

This this thissity this! Also, Yield is getting new content?! [perks up]

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 4d

Look at all the ways you can buy AK's book! (Is good book, you buy.) ((Buy their other books too.))

AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 5d

FUN FACT you can now get Sword of Avalon from:

AMAZON (*hack, spit*)
KOBO
GOOGLE PLAY
BARNES & NOBLE
APPLE BOOKS

as well as ME, OBVIOUSLY.

Get it from me, tho. That way I get paid.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 6d

I'll provide the hands doing crochet, if you'll provide the witty repartee!

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 6d

SOOOOON

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 6d

Everybody I meet on my road trip at the end of the month will get to choose a pumpkin if they want one, so your craving will soon be satisfied.

(Also, I'd be delighted to demonstrate my favourite veggies for you!)

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 6d

Friends and neighbours, if you've somehow missed me enthusing about this book, don't miss out now - do yourself a favour and snaffle up one of the best stories I've ever read.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 7d

Someone You Can Build A Nest In is a UK Kindle Deal! Get my monster for just 99p.

Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night

Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night eBook : Wiswell, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 6d

A 4-post thread that concludes with exquisite savagery.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

Can you guess which buttonhole is handmade? 🧵

A single brown buttonhole on brown fabric.

Two yellow buttonholes on a navy fabric.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 6d

Tiny crocheted vegetables, spooky season edition:

A lineup of five little crocheted pumpkins in a variety of autumnal colours. Three are knobbly and two are smooth, and they all have a little stalk in a contrasting colour. In front of them is a green crocheted leaf with a twisty vine; I haven't yet decided whether to attach it to one of the pumpkins.

A little crocheted pumpkin held in a middle-aged white woman's hand to demonstrate that it's really quite small. It's knobbly and orange (the pumpkin, not the hand) with a brown stem.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely underrated comment, made me snort my tea.

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 8d

Aww yisssss!

Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 8d

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Radiant Star

Radiant Star - Kindle edition by Leckie, Ann. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Radiant Star.

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 9d

Hello Booksky, I have a book for you!

Sword of Avalon is available NOW from me, directly, or in ONE WEEK from every other shop in the world. It's got EVERYTHING, where everything means:

* Arthurian lore
* Messed-up protagonists trying their best
* Horniness 13/10
* A dragon

Links in thread!

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 11d

I'm just re-re-reading WHEEL OF FATE in preparation for diving headfirst into SWORD OF AVALON, and would like once again to advise you, friends and neighbours, that you *need* these disaster gays in your life. (Also there's a sweary raven, so that's all bases covered really.)

AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 11d

It's a lovely morning on the internet, and you are in search of a book.

shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/jac...

Jack of Thorns

What do you do when a Celtic god rings your doorbell? Laurence Riley is a San Diego florist whose ex won't leave him alone.

shop.ravenswordpress.com

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! 💜

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Wendy Reynolds @wendles1967.bsky.social · 14d

And Greg's never going to forget! 😜

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