WOW!
Rakhi Pancholi pulled zero punches in her response to Smith’s address last night!
“Cut the bullshit and call an election!”
(That’s a real quote)
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
New stuff up at @butterfliesandaliens.com - check out the whole thread if you love alphabet books or music biography books 📚 #amreading #books #reading #picturebooks #biography
For music lovers and book lovers #booksky #metalsky
"Schmökern" is a German verb that means to leisurely browse through books, often with a sense of enjoyment or without a specific goal. It reflects the casual and pleasurable act of reading, exploring books without a strict focus, and immersing oneself in the content for the joy of it.
Dealing with a bit of insomnia tonight, so I decided to keep working on purging my photos in iCloud. Found this gem that is lovely 🖤 #books #reading 📚❤️
Picture of frost covered leafless trees and shrubs. The sky is blue
It’s cold in Calgary but it’s also beautiful #yyc #yycweather #snow #hoarfrost
Picture of a crochet potato holding a sign that says Life was all out of lemons so here’s a potato instead
So, how’s your new year going so far?
Processing grief and my main reason for stepping away from agenting, and looking into the new year with hope
www.butterfliesandaliens.com/stacks/new-y...
My goals for the new year are to continue being a lifelong learner, to read and enjoy books that are interesting to me, to find my new place in the book world, and to keep going to live music to feed my soul. Happy New Year and see you all in 2026 🎉
Merry Christmas to all my friends who celebrate! I stopped celebrating Christmas years ago because it simply wasn’t worth the stress for me so I went to bed at 7 last night, enjoyed a solid 11 hours in bed, and look forward to a day of sloth. Hope you all find joy in whatever you are doing ❤️
Thank you, Michelle! And I am so grateful for our long distance friendship - you rock 💗💗💗
Selfie just after having a stroke - face is drooping and eye is swollen beside selfie of myself recently looking pretty good with no drooping face
It is my 9th Strokeversary today and my annual reminder to you all to know the signs of stroke and get help FAST.
I don’t think I am done in the publishing industry as books have been my passion and lifeline all my life, but for now I am welcoming a break and a chance to just read a book for fun. And I welcome the time to rediscover my own creativity and the chance to see where my next success might happen. 4/4
I achieved 90 deals and helped bring some truly wonderful books to market. I wish everyone who has worked with me the greatest success in their bookish endeavours.
3/4
I consider my seven years with The Rights Factory to be a success and I am eternally grateful to @samhiyate for his mentorship, support, and friendship over the years.
happen. 2/4
Post by brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
I am sad to announce that I am stepping away from agenting for personal reasons. It was an intensely difficult decision involving a lot of crying but in my heart I know it is the right decision for myself and my clients. 1/4
I do not work for that company.
Please protect yourselves and do not sign anything like this especially if you are solicited. 3/3
A person claiming to be with Hampton Publishers offered a distribution agreement to an author with my name on the contract as the “duly authorized representative of CIC (“Distributor”), Canada’s largest
retail bookseller and distributor, …”. 2/3
Red background with alarm lights emojis and text that reads SCAM ALERT in all caps
I have just been notified that my name is being used to potentially scam authors and I am raging. 1/3
Excited to work with Keyanna!! 🎉🎉🎉
Yellow elections Canada vote sign
Liberal candidate Corey Hogan Calgary Confederation sign with small Canadian flag
#vote #never51 #CarneyForCanada #notpoilievre
I loved sharing "behind the scenes" research from my book THE LADY AND THE OCTOPUS in this interview for From the Mixed Up Files of Middle Grade Authors:
fromthemixedupfiles.com/stem-tuesday...
@carolhinz.bsky.social @therightsfactory.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social @staceykondla.bsky.social
Nekrogoblikon is awesome! Saw them live last year and the show was a hoot 🖤🤘
Very bookish metal head here. I work in publishing. Love spec fic, horror, mysteries, thrillers, occasionally a delightful romcom, sometimes a literary masterpiece, and sometimes nonfiction - reading, like music choices, are highly mood dependent
Incidentally, since almost all the physical books from major publishers in the US are printed in China, that probably just increased the price by 50%, which massively lowers sales and means publishers will do much smaller print runs.
Very sad to hear Nancy Kilpatrick has passed away. She was a lovely person and Canada has lost a great talent 🖤
A very worthwhile read for those worried about publishing like I am. Thank you @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social for being optimistic and constructive ❤️ 📚
Thank you for this! As a Canadian working in publishing, I’m worried about publishing, worried about more stringent censorship, and worried that certain millionaires that own large publishers will want their companies to lean into right wing beliefs, oligarchy, and autocracy. I’m a huge worry wart🥴
Gen X, finally roused from its ideological torpor, gathers outside the White House. the police are called, the fire hoses are turned on them but they start drinking it and only get stronger
"If it continues like this, democracy [there] will not last another six months."
I worry for my American friends and clients. This is real life horror
www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7486317
You are fabulous @dannastaaf.bsky.social and I am so thrilled to be a part of your publishing journey ❤️😭❤️
