I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

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Vicky MacKenzie@vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Feeling very strange to discover someone has spent thirty years trying to track down a short story that was written by my great aunt Ruth C Paine! (Paine is my maiden name). She'd have been so happy that her story made an impression! 📚😍

I’m creating a 2025 debut authors starter pack, let me know who I should be adding! Shares appreciated 💙📚 go.bsky.app/RYHeizd

Just booked tickets to see Maggie O’Farrell on 30th March at the Southbank - happy Mother’s Day to me 🤩📕🧡

Absolutely worth checking out any list @tillylovesbooks.bsky.social posts and this one is a belter - one for the historical fiction lovers 👸🏻⏳🏴‍☠️☠️☕️

What are you reading this month? This is my very ambitious stack of hopefuls @rachelblackmore.bsky.social @jodipicoult.bsky.social @eowynivey.bsky.social @lizanorthwriter.bsky.social @livconstantine.bsky.social @josielloydbooks.bsky.social #TBR #BookSky

Bookish people I need your help! My 16 yr old loves Harry Potter & Percy Jackson and is now ENGROSSED by FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yaros - I want to get her a couple of books in the same vein for Christmas - and would love your recommendations 💡 Thank you hugely in advance 🎄🙏🤶🏻

I’m in the midst of planning Christmas and would LOVE to know … what books y’all buying as presents this year? 🎁🎄❤️

Well this is wonderful! @jenniegauthor.bsky.social is a huge supporter of other author’s success - and it’s lovely to see her getting her own well deserved recognition 💙🖤🐦‍⬛ congratulations Jennie!

Bert’s Books@bertsbooks.bsky.social · 2y ago

After a record number of votes, it’s time to reveal the winner of #TheBerties! This year, the book you’ve voted as your favourite is The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey! Congratulations @jenniegauthor.bsky.social !

We heard that starter packs are a thing on BlueSky so here’s our UK Book Festival pack! Please share and let us know who we’ve missed 💙📚 #BookSky go.bsky.app/9a6rt7M

Ok #querying / #editing writers - let’s use this starter pack to stay accountable and to provide support for each other during this brutal process… go.bsky.app/QQDMDjK (As yet) unpublished writers - let me know if you want to join! #WriterSky #AuthorSky

Hi friends, I help to organise a book festival on the West coast of Scotland and we’ve just set up our #BlueSky profile! I’d be so grateful if you could give @hburghbookfest.bsky.social a follow and if you were able to share the post below I’ll be your best friend! ⬇️ #BookSky 💙📚

Helensburgh Book Festival@hburghbookfest.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome to the Helensburgh Book Festival, a literary festival on the West coast of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Please give us a follow to keep up to date with all our news, we’ve got some very exciting panels to tell you about! 28th-30th March 2025 💙📚

Welcome to the Helensburgh Book Festival, a literary festival on the West coast of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Please give us a follow to keep up to date with all our news, we’ve got some very exciting panels to tell you about! 28th-30th March 2025 💙📚

New #cozymystery #author to Bluesky? I've got you covered with a Cozy Mystery Starter Pack. Just click the link below to follow fellow cozy authors! go.bsky.app/4nB6ZNa

This is a fantastic novel, I absolutely loved it! A steal at just over £8 and would make a wonderful Christmas present 🎁 💙⭐️

Vicky MacKenzie@vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 2y ago

The hardback of my novel currently has 45% off at the big bad book place, making it a smudge over £8. It's gold and blue and quite festive looking. I'd say it'd make an excellent Christmas gift for anyone who liked slim experimental novels about medieval mystics... which is everyone, right? 📚🎄✒️

Your writing process will change on a daily basis with every project, because every project is different. Whatever gets you to the final product is the way that that book needed to be written. So I need you to stop scrolling and say this aloud right now. "My writing process is not broken."

Even Storm Bert doesn’t stop rugby; the boys won, tough game in high winds. I wore 5 layers, obvs. 🏉🙌🏼🌪️

I have FINALLY worn Kat down with my constant eulogising about the 8 sequence plot structure 😂 I’m going to make a short video about this method soon and will post here if anyone is curious!

Katharine Rogers - author@katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 2y ago

This pantser is about to try out the sequences trick by Alexandra Sokoloff for plotting and writing (yes, @rachelblackmore.bsky.social, I know - finally!). Hoping it can help me work out just what should happen in the middle of the story 😆

Love these writing tips: specific, example-led and actionable - thank you for sharing @laurasrobinson.bsky.social

Laura Shepherd-Robinson@laurasrobinson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thought I'd do a thread on writing tips that I might add to from time to time... 1) I've cited this one before on the other place... A description of a person or a place should tell you as much about the person doing the describing as the person or place being described. Examples below.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

Are you a social media manager running an account for an organization or high-profile individual? Or do you own a website and want a simpler username? On Bluesky, you can verify your account by setting your website as your username. We just refreshed our how-to guide:

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Just a lil something we’ve revealed over on @dialoguepublishing.bsky.social today… ✨🍾🔍 #TheGatsbyGambit

Like so many bookish types, I’m new here over the weekend and have put together a book publicist and bookish journalist starter pack to help us all find each other over here in the sunlit uplands of Bluesky. go.bsky.app/Ao2gR6R

London c.1994, obviously I’d never heard of toner back then …

Tracey Thorn@traceythorn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Post you from a different era. Paris August 1981.

Hi book lovers, I’ve just created a starter pack for book bloggers and reviewers. Feel free to share and let me know if you want to join go.bsky.app/8NmsDkk

This post and the comments section are some of the most helpful and compassionate writerly tips I’ve seen 😍 - thank you @annamazz.bsky.social for sharing x

Anna Mazzola@annamazz.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've been struggling to write lately due to publishing setbacks and lack of confidence. I've found a few things that help and thought I'd share. Please tell me what works for you. - Setting word targets - Getting outside and exercising - Absorbing all sorts of art - Remembering why I started.

Hello Bluesky! Hoping to find all my Book Twitter pals here. For those I haven’t met yet here I am aboard Betsy my writing office with Bomber my beloved Border Terrier. I am lucky enough to live on a houseboat island in the Thames & my next novel is a love letter to the Thames.

So, I got starter-pack FOMO and decided to make one for writing people who know stuff and pass it on through courses, workshops, newsletters etc. It includes all the savants who teach me stuff. I've probably missed people but these were the ones who sprung to my head. go.bsky.app/K7ftxtv