Loyalty Bookstores

Calling all poetry lovers: Come celebrate the release of A HOLY DREAD with author R.A. Villanueva and convo partner Chet’la Sebree at Loyalty Bookstore in Petworth this Saturday, Feb. 28 at 3 PM!
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A Duke by Default is the book for every hot mess express ADHD girl out there. Portia is our queen. Also I spammed @alyssacolelit.bsky.social with videos from @howtoadhd.bsky.social while she was writing it! 🤣

PREORDER THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME BY CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN BY 3/30 TO RECEIVE A SIGNED, PERSONALIZED COPY! The Edge of Space-Time Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie ON SALE 4/7/26 LOYALTY CULTURE uthor of The Disordered Cosmos Prescod-Weinstein EST. 20/8 loyaltybookstores.com/preordersspacetime 10% off! Code: 7YR10 through 2/22!

DISCOUNT SIGNED BOOK ALERT!

Through Sunday @loyaltybooks.bsky.social is celebrating 7 years and giving a 10% discount with the code 7YR10, which means you can preorder a signed and personalized copy of my new book at a discount 🤩

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Photo of co-owner Hannah holding a stack of books including A Duke by Default and An Island Princess Starts a Scandal among others, making a kissy face at the camera

Photo of co-owner Christine and author Venessa Vida Kelley with book When the Tides Held the Moon

Photo of bookseller Shree with book The Namesake

Photo of bookseller susie with book Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni

Our team at Loyalty Bookstore knows books make the best Valentines! What book do you have a date with today? 💝 And if you’re still looking for a gift for your someone(s) special, we’re open until 7 PM!

Photo of Hannah in Loyalty Bookstore holding a copy of Maya Rupert’s book The Real Ones toward the camera

Photo of many copies of Maya Rupert’s book The Real Ones arranged in a diagonal with one copy centered on top

Graphic advertising a release party at Loyalty Bookstore with Maya Rupert for book The Real Ones on February 11 at 7 PM

Tomorrow night, join us to celebrate the release of #TheRealOnes with political strategist and author Maya Rupert! We love this book and can’t wait to put it in the hands of readers!
loyaltybookstores.com/realones

Green background with black writing that reads "stop funding ice! Friday January 30th at 3PM Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro 7th and H ST NW, Washington, DC"

A faded out picture of the Loyalty storefront in Petworth and a blue circle with stars as a border. Inside it reads "Nationwide General Strike. Closed Fri 1/30. Ice Out Everywhere. More info: nationashutdown.org"

Friends! Loyalty is joining the nationwide call for a General Strike Friday along with several of our fellow DC area bookstores! We're taking the day to be loud, in community, and say ICE OUT FOREVER! See you Saturday.

Friends! We are closing at 6PM today and Thursday so our booksellers can get home safely. We'll keep updating socials and our website with any additional hour changes this weekend!

We are SO EXCITED about the next book from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein who has been such community minded litizen and active participant in fighting *the horrors* while being a bad ass writer pushing genre boundaries to imagine a better world for us all. Get in babes, we're preordering!

We're back open today (Tuesday!) with our normal hours! Come say hi and grab a sugar cookie as a reward for venturing outside! We're donating sales from today to @dcmigrantmutualaid.org since we were closed on Sunday!

A blue background with a wintry white frame and snowflakes around the edges, a snowcloud up top and the Loyalty logo in black at the bottom. In the middle it reads "Closed Sun 1/25 due to the weather. Stay safe and warm everyone! Check back in for special Monday hour to continue our MSMA fundraiser!"

We hope y'all have a good book today for all your wintry needs! Loyalty will be closed for the day. If you need a good book our friends @bookshop.org have ebooks now and an audiobook from @libro.fm is great company! For now we're resting up and prepping for some special Monday hours (and shoveling).

An ombre rainbow background with text in blue that reads "DONATE BOOKS FOR WARD 4 MUTUAL AID! BRING IN GENTLY PRE-LOVED kids books, fiction, nonfiction TO LOYALTY IN PETWORTH! YOU CAN ALSO DONATE BOOKS ON THE WEBSITE BY SIMPLY COMMENTING “donate” WHEN CHECKING OUT!" with the Loyalty logo at the bottom.

We are still collecting book donations all winter long for @ward4mutualaid.bsky.social! Drop by the Petworth shop to bring your donations from home or purchase a book to be donated! You can also donate here directly: loyaltybookstores.com/donate. Clean out those shelves and help your neighbor!

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just a reminder that if you’d ever like to buy signed / personalized copies of my books—for yourself, your loved ones, your frenemies, etc.—you can order them from my friends at @loyaltybooks.bsky.social! just put your personalization request in the order comments section when you check out 💙

Photo of a bookseller with a huge stack of books from Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series in Loyalty bookstore

Photo of a small table of Rachel Reid’s Game Changers books and a handwritten sign that says “looking for the gay hockey books?”

Graphic advertising a Loyalty Bookstore presale campaign for Rachel Reid’s Unrivaled offering custom sticker with purchase

Guess what’s back in stock?? Last time we got this many #HeatedRivalry books, they sold out in an hour, so come by the store or place an order online ASAP! And preorder #Unrivaled to get a special Loyalty Bookstore x Heated Rivalry sticker! loyaltybookstores.com/book/9781335...

Drag Story Hour at Loyalty is BACK baby! The wonderful Charlemagne Chateau will be reading from some of our favorite picture books tomorrow, Sunday 1/11, at the DC shop! Join us with your kiddos and let's brighten up this January with some queer joy! loyaltybookstores.com/dshpw3

Oh @loyaltybooks.bsky.social has a list of DC set books you can buy and they will donate a portion of January sales to FreeDC. There are some very excellent titles on this list: loyaltybookstores.com/list/read-dc...

Image of a cart of books about DC (including DC Go-Go and 22 Walks in Washington That You Must Not Miss) in front of Loyalty Bookstore front window with superimposed text "Loyalty is donating 10% of our favorite books about/set in DC to Free DC this January!"

We made a list of 30 of our favorite books about or set in DC, and during January, we're donating 10% of all sales of those titles to @freedcproject.bsky.social. Find the list at loyaltybookstores.com/list/read-dc-freedc or come see us at the store and we'll help you find them on our shelves!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

It’s 2026 which means I have a book coming out this year!!!!!! It’s for everyone who is curious about the cosmos 🙏🏽

Please preorder (from indies!) because it helps authors a lot — some places are having a sale right now like @loyaltybooks.bsky.social (code CHILL10) as well as your physical B&N 🌈 💙📚

LOYALTY MEMBERS!! We appreciate you so much we’re extending your special Small Biz Weekend member discount through the end of Monday 💗💗💗. Check your email for a message from your pals at Loyalty and claim your stacked discount!
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This holiday season, Free DC wants you to "procott" these local businesses While boycotts operate on withholding money, procotts are about spending it.

Rather than simply boycotting e-commerce giants, Free DC is organizing a "procott" in time for holiday shopping.

Their local shopping guide features 50+ spots on board to support D.C.'s autonomy, including @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social, @metrobardc.bsky.social, @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, and more:

Join Loyalty on Small Business Saturday at the Petworth shop for 10% off, gifts w/ purchase, plus members can stack their discount! Shop Black Not Bezos!

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Today's hoodie. For reasons. Get one for yourself & support @loyaltybooks.bsky.social.
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Hannah’s arm in a green jacket holding up a copy of This Gilded Abyss against the backdrop of bookshelves and a green sign that reads Loyalty Books.

Cannot wait for Monday’s event with @rebeccathorne.bsky.social and @susiedoom.bsky.social at Jackie Lee’s! We’re celebrating the Horus, gay, and fantastical THIS GILDED ABYSS with a special cocktail menu and fantastic conversation. Tix here: loyaltybookstores.com/gildedabysss

More info here! loyaltybookstores.com/dshpw

An event flier with the black Loyalty logo above the pink and yellow drag story hour logo that give the event details and the queen’s name Tiffany D Carter below a Polaroid picture of her in a purple wig and blue dress holding up several children’s picture books. Below that is the event information on top of pink and yellow cartoon books.

See you for story time today at 11AM in Petworth with the one and only Miss Tiffany D Carter! 😍📖🪩

We're *ahem* excited!!! about The Washington Spirit 😍Check out our latest "From the Floor" newsletter featuring @susiedoom.bsky.social 's fave books for Spirit fans out there and subscribe to our newsletter for bookseller recs, events, and general Loyalty mayhem! mailchi.mp/loyaltybooks...

Love how @loyaltybooks.bsky.social is so keen on @washingtonspirit.com they spent their entire newsletter this week highlighting the team, books on soccer, and if you provide the name of your favorite Spirit player when you checkout, they will give you a 10% discount. #GoSpirit

We're SO back babyyyyy!! Excited to once again have the wildest weekend of our year with the folks at @awesomecon.bsky.social and the amazing author lineup across all our nerdiest genres. Get ready for the zero chill without books team (AKA Loyalty booksellers) to be all out!

today you can buy & read Bryan Washington’s PALAVER, a National Book Award finalist and one of my favorite books of the year! maybe you’d like to order a copy from @loyaltybooks.bsky.social?

Photo of Rebecca Thorne’s books displayed on a table with plants and the book This Gilded Abyss in the front

Graphic advertising an event with author Rebecca Thorne for book This Gilded Abyss with convo partner Susie Dumond, hosted by Loyalty Bookstore at Jackie Lee’s bar

“A thrilling lesbian fantasy where Arcane meets Titanic”? We are so in! Join us to celebrate the release of #ThisGildedAbyss with author @rebeccathorne.bsky.social and convo partner @susiedoom.bsky.social on Monday 11/17 at Jackie Lee’s! Snag tickets at loyaltybookstores.com/gildedabyss 🎟️