Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org

PLUS!! If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror, there is a special
@Locusmag festival for the Locus Awards on Friday and Saturday during BABF, so be sure to check that out too! locusmag.com/2026-locus-awards…

#books #scifi #sfba

Hi friends, I’m hoping someone here may be able to help…

I have just one copy of my 2011 book, The Science of Kissing, published in Japanese. I would like to buy another to share with a friend in Japan, and do not know how to find it.

Mastodon has proven a very smart community, and I’d appreciate any guidance to point me in the right direction? Thank you. #books

Last night I finished Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati, and cannot recommend it highly enough!

I just love the way 21st century authors have been exploring the full lives of the women that appear Greek epics, retelling their stories in their own voices.

If you enjoyed Circe by Madeline Miller, this is a must-read! #books

If you're interested in using the Fediverse's reading platform BookWyrm, you can import your existing data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. More info on how to do the import into BookWyrm in this guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/importing-your-data-…

If you want to find out more about BookWyrm, there's a general guide to it here:

➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…

#FediTips #BookWyrm #Books #Reading #Goodreads #LibraryThing #StoryGraph #OpenLibrary #Alternatives #Fediverse

#OTD in 1897. First publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Let's celebrate #DraculaDay!

The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from folklore and history. He probably found the name "Dracula" in Whitby's public library while on holiday, selecting it because he thought it meant 'devil' in Romanian.

Dracula at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

#Books #Literature

Happy National Library Week!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National…

#libraries #NationalLibraryWeek #LibraryWeek #books #reading #bookstodon

Lovely people, if you'd like to read a kickass story with heart set in a geeky steampunk bar that'll leave you feeling great, This is Not a F*cking Romance is out today in ebook. (Print coming in June.)

It's rather good, I promise. 😊🪻

swashbucklerpress.com/tinafr

(I'd totally forgotten it was my book launch day today!😂 This head cold has eaten up a week and I was wondering why I woke up a bit of a nervous potato this morning! I've managed a lot of daft things in my almost 20 year writing career, but almost missing a book launch day is a new one!)

#books #bookstodon

Skies of blue

In the early 1800s, in the city of Suzhou in eastern China, two striking large-format maps were printed in vivid Prussian blue. One map depicted the terrestrial world of the Qing empire, the other, shown below, depicted the heavens. Look closely and you can see the curve of the Milky Way.

via @knowablemag.bsky.social

leventhalmap.org/digital-exhib…

Books about Ancient Astronomy at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1…

#Books #Science #Astronomy

37 Vintage Library Ads That Perfectly Capture The Joys Of Reading

As public libraries began popping up across America in the early 1900s, these posters encouraged people to take advantage of their resources.

allthatsinteresting.com/vintag…

#books #literature #libraries

Recently on Underground Bookshelf:
Book Release: Fates Alight by A.M. Pennyfeather
Resources: Nonfiction about ICE, Deportation... (Parts 2 & 3)
Short Stories: "How Did Yo...Never Mind" (Parts 1 & 2)
Essay: Ten Braille Facts by Alex Chan

#books #reading #shortstories #essay #bookrelease #braille

underground-bookshelf.com/

Disabled Leads Book Sale has been extended. 75% off on Itch.

I'm a disabled writer, and disability representation is important to me. In this bundle, you can get Airphibious, a swashbuckling fantasy, or The Wood, a coming-of-age fable.

#disabled #disability #writing #books #reading #fantasy #fable

itch.io/s/184970/disabled-lead…

This month is the Poetry Open! Submissions are due May 24th.

Winners get their poem featured on Underground Bookshelf.

Details at: underground-bookshelf.com/3139…

#poetry #poem #writing #writingcontest #reading #books

In case you’re the discord type and you like bookish things…here’s the link to the Underground Bookshelf Discord…

#Discord #books #writing #writingcommunity #reading #readingcommunity

discord.gg/SwKY7EevQ

There are too many awful things happening at the hands of the Trump administration to keep up. The next reading list series will focus on Iranian people and culture, but today's list of #fiction #books is a continuation of the series on #ICE and #undocumented immigration.

#iran #immigration #literature #reading #writing

underground-bookshelf.com/3179…