Tonja Reynolds

Tacoma, by Aaron Burch

Fuck yeah book mail! Really looking forward to this one by @aaronburch.bsky.social from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

Things That Don’t Matter ~ by Emily Rinkema It’s our neighbor Manny’s 50th birthday and we are hosting his party even though he has a wife, who is sitting on our couch in her linen overalls laughing at something my husband Leif just said. Sh…

New flash in Milk Candy Review today! Check it out if you have a minute: milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/02/05/t...

Friends, one week left before our submissions close. It has been a balm to read all the words set before us, and an honor, every one. These words matter. It matters. Keep creating in the eye of this great storm. Lay not your hope at the feet of despair.
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Jeez. I'm proud of my friends. One was out protesting in Minneapolis today. Two more heading up an LGBTQ+ book & arts festival in FL.

Good folks outnumber the rest, and not by a little.

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Sharing this monster full of violence, friendship, magic, monsters, ghosts, and revenge again because it’s on sale and…storms!

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Thanks for a fun mash-up at #WriteStuff
@writestuff.bsky.social and @kww.bsky.social!

TORN Witness the wet dead snake, its long hexagonal pattern weaved around its body like a code for creation, curled up cold on the newly tarred road. Let us begin with the snake: the fact of death, the poverty of place, of skin and surface. See how the snake is cut in two—its body divided from its brain. Imagine now, how it moves still, both sides, the tail dancing, the head dancing. Believe it is the mother and the father. Believe it is the mouth and the words. Believe it is the sin and the sinner-the tempting, the taking, the apple, the fall, every one of us guilty, the story of us all. But then return to the snake, pitiful dead thing, forcefully denying the split of its being, longing for life back as a whole, wanting you to see it for what it is: something that loves itself so much it moves across the boundaries of death to touch itself once more, to praise both divided sides equally, as if it was easy.

Ada Limón

That’s a good one! Haven’t seen it since I was a teen.

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.

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Spotify screenshot with Ozzy Osborne (RIP) as my top artist.

This totally tracks. Mr. Crowley was my most listened to song. RIP Ozzy. 😢

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...

I just nominated some books and did mini-reviews. Fun though. I read a lot of great small press books.

Also, congrats on the blurb. That is amazing. I was recently in an online class with very smart people — one quoted a line in one of your books as being the best sentence they’ve ever read. I don’t recall if I mentioned that to you. Probably not wrong to say it twice. Well deserved. ♥️

Oh, come on.

This December let’s give ourselves permission to sit & read a good book for a half hour when the mood strikes. Even though we have so much to do. Even though work is a lot. Just set down the phone, put aside the to do list, & give yourself this gift. 2025 has been hard. We deserve a treat. ☕️ 📚

Screen shot of Lit Hub with book covers in bubbles and article title: 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025.

I have two reviews in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. Up today at LitHub. Congrats to all these amazing writers and small presses!

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House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.

Cute light beige dog dressed as a Halloween ghost.

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

That is a bit of a wait…

Nice! I thought I preordered it, but I guess I didn’t. Will add to my next Bookshop order. Congrats!!

The Best Southern Books of October 2025 A roundup of some of October 2025’s best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

who am i to argue with The Southern Review of Books' placing The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife as a Best Southern Book for October 2025? 😊

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Little graphic that says the books selected for 100 Small Press Books for 2025 will be announced in LitHub on December 1.

This past year, I have been reading gobs of novels and short story collections published by small presses. I nominated three for inclusion in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. If you shared your novel with me, thanks! I enjoyed reading all of them.

#100SmallPress

A small white Bichon Frise is laying down tummy up in a blanket while wearing a frog hoodie.

Gus has joined the resistance.

Georgie a cream Shiba Inu wears a hand knit balaclava with pointy ears. The knit is shades of green and blue. She looks perfect.

thinking about knitting her some leg warmers next

Cover of the novel A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. Background is red, and the cover features the silhouette of a woman's profile.

Today is the day! My Gothic & sapphic historical fantasy novel is available everywhere ebooks are sold! #Fantasy #Booksky

The old typewriter must be here somewhere…

If anyone is interested in typewriter history, I will share more later.

I wrote a little scene today. It includes a typewriter, so I researched which ones were popular in the US in 1900 and how they worked. Then I remembered I have my great grandmother’s typewriter. Solid possibility it is similar. Will dig it out tomorrow!

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