nicole brinkley | bookseller

*gently pushes toward upcoming DEVIOUS PREY and practically ancient DINOSAUR PLANET*

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

775 signatures over the past day. Let's make it at least 1000. It's a small thing but it matters. We have to keep pushing for some semblance of accountability. Thanks for the support to those who’ve circulated and signed already

*gently pushes towards JANE STEELE and LUCKY RED*

*gently pushes towards books by Ashley Poston and Heather Fawcett*

if you love HOWL you should definitely look at both of Heather Fawcett's adult books: EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES and AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER. v good similar energy.

i tell them nah! i am aware i might be in the minority but "love y'all but this one didn't end up being for me; keep me in the loop for future blurbs though!" goes a long way.

*gently pushes towards the Emily Wilde series and THE EVERLASTING and HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE and A DEADLY EDUCATION*

say hi to fred and ian, who are representing oblong!

preeti i own this cardigan (and also the sweater) and 100/10 highly recommend it's SO soft and i love it so much that i wear it 2-3 times a week

AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER just came out and is a cozy historical fantasy with a mystery element! delightful, had a great time. jesse sutana's VERA WONG series is perfect if you want a cozy funny contemporary mystery! THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS series is an older fantasy series but SO fun.

*gently pushes towards the Emily Wilde series and HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE*

what kind of book are you interested in?

*gently pushes toward THE EVERLASTING and AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER and LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS and RIVER MUMMA*

*gently pushes towards ABOLISH RENT and BARONS*

The Caine Prize for African Writing The Caine Prize for African Writing is a registered charity whose aim is to bring African writing to a wider audience using our annual literary award. In addition to administering the Prize, we work t...

Caine Prize submissions close soon!

short fic betw 3K & 10K

pub between 27 Feb 2021 & 27 Feb 2026

authored by an African Writer: "An ‘African writer’ is taken to mean someone who is a national of an African country, or who has a parent who is African by birth or nationality."

www.caineprize.com

*gently pushes towards books by H.G. Parry and Alix Harrow, especially THE EVERLASTING*

*gently pushes toward GODKILLER and GIDEON THE NINTH and THE EVERLASTING*

turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company

we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running

fyi if anybody ever wants to know how to get me interested in a book, "a manipulative woman (positive)" is the way to do it

*gently pushes towards THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS*

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

setting that as my laptop background

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

something we've been working on for a few days! link to the full letter: tinyurl.com/bookconautho...

every day i think about the person who literally ate the ai-generated art exhibit at their school and i decide to be more like them

*gently pushes towards RIVER MUMMA and LEGENDBORN and WHITE IS FOR WITCHING and THE PREY OF GODS and anything by Akwaeke Emezi, all of which are Black SFF*

*gently pushes towards DRAGONFLIGHT, the founding text of this entire subgenre of books; and THE SKY ON FIRE and TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH*

Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …

"It is the natural outcome of a race-to-the-bottom low-price churn-and-burn self-publishing environment, to boot — it’s less move fast and break things and more move fast and make broken things, because who cares, dipshits will pay for it." terribleminds.com/ramble/2026/...

Fuck AI, fuck ICE, and long live a free Puerto Rico.