Oh btw, I popped the preorder up for the next Toby Daye from Seanan McGuire. No idea if/what preorder gifts are in store this year, but whatever there may be I stand ready to go feral and nab everything for you all ❤️
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Oh btw, I popped the preorder up for the next Toby Daye from Seanan McGuire. No idea if/what preorder gifts are in store this year, but whatever there may be I stand ready to go feral and nab everything for you all ❤️
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I'm not saying that sometimes the adhd keeps me in the shop doing small tasks well beyond when I should have come home but at least sometimes that comes in handy...
But I'm not NOT saying that, you know?
😅❤️
Also just... we're trying to do better things for the community this year, and stuff like this keeps happening. It's really not easy atm, sigh.
Oh, and the final Heartstopper volume has a cover and a release date at last
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Got some preorders up!
Butterfly Effect, Incryptid 15 from @seananmcguire.bsky.social!
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It's my birthday, hurrah! For my birthday I'd really love as many shares on this post as we can make happen!
Hi, I'm AK, and I write exceedingly queer books! Feel free to ask me about them!
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That is cool as hell 👀
"QUITGPT Breaking: ChatGPT is Trump's biggest donor, and they're not stopping. OpenAI's president gave Trump $25 million in 2025, and OpenAI is collaborating with ICE. Join now at QuitGPT.org"
Hey, I've noticed a few of your gifs and videos are AI, it would be great if you managed to avoid those in future. I'm sure you know about the environmental and copyright reasons to avoid it, but a bunch of the big companies also directly fund Trump, which is particularly ironic on this post.
Passage to Tokyo, by Poppy Kuroki, an evocative white cover with silhouettes of two women back to back, in front of a red sun mimicking the Japanese flag, and branches of cherry blossom reaching in from the sides. A blurb from Pim Wangtechawat reads "Serious Outlander vibes with a fresh new twist"
Fly by author visit today! Poppy Kuroki is dropping in from 12:30, so swing by or let me know if you want to grab a personalised copy of her sapphic time travel novel!
We'll have signed stock afterwards from what's left :)
Oh no, that's news, thank you
Their commitment to ethics can be found here:
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And their contact form is at the bottom of the about page here:
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Hey, you know how preorders are the best thing for authors and bookshops...?
And how we love Murderbot and Martha Wells...?
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My hero! 😮❤️
This is very exciting! 🥳 There are so many awesome indie authors we love to support and I was complaining only the other day how difficult and complex it is to do so. This is much easier!
Whenever my delivery arrives! They're in the next boxes 🥳
Thank you. I'll see if I can fix settings. Trying other sites; Vessel Finder brings up info but not location. Might be hyperfocusing a little now, whoops. But I appreciate the help
That first screenshot is what I get when I click that link, that's really weird. Is it showing on a different site to marine traffic? I promise I'm not trying to be a dick, I am just confused and I have friends spreading the initial thing so I want to be able to verify and stop misinformation
Marinetraffic.com, showing hundreds of sailing vessels, not singling out a specific one
A search on marinetraffic.com, failing to bring up any results for the specific identifying number required
(Genuine) What am I missing? I would like to be accurate, it's the tism
While I certainly applaud caution, there are multiple vessels with the same name, and that specific one in question (using the specific identifying numbers from its Wikipedia article, rather than the name) doesn't seem to be showing up. Just FYI, as I was also curious and double checked
If someone makes a post on here and everyone dogpiles it, is that a skeet shoot...?
30%, usually! Well worthwhile! ❤️❤️
A box full of books, with Heated Rivalry and other books in the Game Changers series by Rachel Reid prominently on top
I love deliveries! 🥲
Reminder we have same day pickup as an option on the website now! Nab your copy and make me do laps of the shelves grabbing and stashing them! (It's good for me, still gotta rebuild my stamina after last year's fun and games)
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The front of Portal Bookshop, with a nice new tarmac patch on the road outside, just in front of the narrow footpath
They fixed it! We're BACK, baby! Wheelchair users, come to me without fear! (Though probably three at a time at absolute maximum on the inside 😅 I'll keep the turning circle clear)
Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
Yeah, I updated the pickup settings to reflect that the website stock is now reflective of what we have on the shelves, but preorders remain their own creature ❤️ Due out on Feb 3rd so not far off though!
If you reply to this with the title of one of the queer books you're most looking forward to in 2026, I'll enter you into a draw to win one of two £20 gift cards for @portalbookshop.bsky.social!
No repost required. I'll need your email address in order to send the prize. Draw on Thursday evening.
Best of luck with it all, you'll get through it ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I should probably say, I've read an ARC of this one and it was good fun, absolutely madcap fantasy and indeed, contains many dangerous and homosexual events
