Josh Weil will visit our store on July 30 at 7 PM to discuss his new novel, What Came West, a fierce, heart-driven portrait of one man, Silas Hall, crosses into the Sierra Nevadas just before the Gold Rush. He will be joined in conversation by Mira Bartók.

Thank you Catherine Cliff and Anna Hogeland for last night’s great discussion of Catherine’s debut novel, Miss Bates: Emma Revisited! We have signed copies of her book available both in store and online.

A big thank you to Louangie Bou-Montes and Gabe Cole Novoa for such a wonderful launch of Louangie’s new YA paranormal thriller, Take it To Your Grave! Signed copies of both author’s works are available in store.

Tomorrow at 7 PM, Catherine Cliff will share her debut novel, Miss Bates: Emma Revisited. The book is a daring feminist retelling of a Jane Austen classic through the perspective of the misunderstood Henrietta Bates. Catherine Cliff will be joined in conversation by Anna Hogeland.

A huge thank you to Daniel Mason and Joe Donahue from WAMC for such a fantastic discussion about Daniel Mason’s new novel, Country People! Signed copies of Country People, as well as Mason’s earlier works, are available online and in-store, while supplies last.

Stop in to buy the new Heartstopper book (volume 6) and pick up a free button, patch, or sticker sheet. Books also include a bookplate sticker signed by Alice Oseman.

Thursday the 11th! @matociquala.bsky.social and @ceruleancynic.bsky.social in South Hadley! Join here: www.odysseybks.com/event/elizab...

For those of us who are disabled or prohibited from protesting for any reason, here are ways we can help. I can’t take a service dog to a protest, it’s unsafe for him but also for others around us. I can do some of these.

Teen Vogue@teenvogue.com · last yr.

Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.

A little quiet here today, and wouldn’t have expected it any other way. Stay safe!

Sharing (again) this Massachusetts KidLit starter pack - including recently added bookstores @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @belmontbooks.bsky.social @odysseybks.bsky.social & @anunlikelystory.bsky.social Follow to keep up with kidlit folks and goings-on in Mass! go.bsky.app/HLF9f5R

We had an awesome Indie Bookstore Day! We focused in on Banned Book awareness with a raffle for @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social with prizes from @sarasbookmacarons.bsky.social, kids’ Banned Book Bingo, and a YA Banned Book Scavenger Hunt! Thanks Kiao Wan Thai for the tea at our Bites event!

Made banned book themed macarons for a charity raffle @odysseybks.bsky.social is organizing in support of @abfefreeexpression.bsky.social 🙌 I think the books @odysseybookshop picked for this project make excellent bookish macarons, but let me know what banned book is your favorite! #booksky

Planning to be in western Mass. on Thursday, March 6 at 7? Please consider attending my book talk with my amazing fellow writer Suzanne Strempek Shea at the @odysseybks.bsky.social in South Hadley. We'll be discussing my new novel, Louie on the Rocks. RSVP link will be in the comments

In advance of my book event in South Hadley, Mass. at @odysseybks.bsky.social with writer Suzanne Strempek Shea, the newspaper at which we both used work ran a feature on "Louie on the Rocks." www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

Meredith O’Brien’s new novel “Louie on the Rocks” mirrors America’s political divide

Former journalist's fifth book is set against the backdrop of the Trump-Harris election.

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MANIACAL LAUGHTER EMITS FROM BEHIND THE COUNTER: @bookshop-org.bsky.social you’ve actually done it! Ebooks =\= Bezos!

Last call! We’re in the store with some snow to keep things festive today, and we’re sending in final orders for books to arrive before we close midafternoon on 12/24. Call it in now if you need something we don’t have in stock!

For my last What We Tried to Bury Grows Here event this year in New England, I’m excited to be at @odysseybks.bsky.social in South Hadley, MA, with the one and only William Pierce, co-editor of @agnimagazine.bsky.social, on Wednesday, December 4th at 7 pm. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/julian-zab...

Some of my New England favorites (all of them ship!): Print: A Bookstore www.printbookstore.com Gibson's Bookstore gibsonsbookstore.com Odyssey Bookshop www.odysseybks.com

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2y ago

Out there, right now, is an indie bookstore and it is FULL OF BOOKS, and full of bibliomancers who know all the old book rites to ensure you get excellent books for you and your loved ones. Seek the indie bookstore! Give them coin in exchange for stories and ideas and art and romance and horror and

Our in-house staff picks holiday newsletter is ready for you dedicated book gifters in store now! (Online soon.) Meanwhile, we have some fun events with authors and Staff Picks Live where we’ll be pitching our faves to you directly!

Did you know that indie bookstores have their own version of Small Business Saturday? Indies First is less of a mouthful for sure! Check out our Friday & Saturday special events!

Any other booksellers racing to get their hand-selling game together for the holidays? We’re hustling to get our staff picks newsletter together this weekend!

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

Anyone else’s workflow thrown off by the Canva update slowing life down? 😩 …maybe I need to reset our router

Gifting books? Check out signed & personalized books from indies! You fave author probably supports their local (or even a few.) @hollyblack.bsky.social is one of our faves!

Battle of the Events tonight so we split the party—solo bookseller Bethany at Mount Holyoke College for Mónica Guzmán while the rest are at the shop with Luis Jaramillo!

TOMORROW! 11/19 @luisjaramillo.bsky.social in conversation with @heatherabel.bsky.social at @odysseybks.bsky.social, 7pm, The Odyssey, South Hadley! www.odysseybks.com/event/luis-j... ...4/6

Good news, our residential Millennial finally started our Bsky! Hold please while we recalibrate...