Cross & Crows Books

Hey y’all, tomorrow night Thursday, October 2nd at 7pm, the wonderful Mabe Kyle and friends are launching the anthology, Queer Country Crossroads by @caitlinpress.bsky.social at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social on Commercial Drive! Support your indie bookstores in whatever ways you can 🏳️‍⚧️❤️🏳️‍🌈

Now in stock at Cross & Crows!

I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated.

I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.

It is always just lovely to see you!

HEYYYY fancy meeting you here! *cheery waves* Curt has been my cheerleader for aaaaaages!

Let's do! www.crossandcrows.com, contact is there, I'm at your service.

If you're able to bop up over the border, there's a queer bookstore in soi-disant Vancouver that would be honoured to welcome you instead.

Yellow graphic with daisies and the cover of Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Text says: "Lessons in Magic and Disaster is a hymn to queer love, joy, and persistence. ... A book for our times-and for all the times before this." --Nicola Griffith, author of Spear Readers in Canada! PREORDER THROUGH CROSS & CROWS BOOKS BY 26 JULY to get your autographed bookplate! See bookstore website for more details. CR SS CPWS BOOKS www.crossandcrows.com

Amazing news! The wonderful folks at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social have extended the deadline to pre-order Lessons in Magic and Disaster and get a personalized/signed bookplate.

Send them your order at www.crossandcrows.com/preorder-sig... by Saturday evening to get in on this action!

The cover to Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders (daisies against a purple cracked background). It's on a yellow background with daisies and what look like roots or dendrites. The text includes a quote from Nicola Griffith: "Lessons in Magic and Disaster is a hymn to queer love, joy, and persistence… A book for our times—and for all the times before this." Plus a thing saying that Canadian readers can pre-order this book via Cross & Crows by July 20 to get an autographed bookplate. See crossandcrows.com for more details. There's the Cross & Crows Books logo with a beautiful crow.

Great news! The wonderful Vancouver bookstore Cross & Crows is offering signed bookplates for Canadian readers who pre-order my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster by 7/20. You can also order any of my other books. They ship all over Canada!

More details: tinyurl.com/4mwvyxsb

We are so over the moon to offer signed bookplates to Canadian fans of @charliejane.bsky.social! Preorder Lessons in Magic and Disaster by 7/20 to get yours: tinyurl.com/4mwvyxsb #queersky #booksky #queerbookstore #fantasy #transrep #readqueerbooks

I feel perfectly represented by this.

Plus if you send your receipt to @charliejane.bsky.social, after the pub date you'll get a PDF with deleted scenes and an alt ending for All the Birds in the Sky — plus the first 10,000 words of the sequel in progress, All the Seeds in the Ground!

We are so over the moon to offer signed bookplates to Canadian fans of @charliejane.bsky.social! Preorder Lessons in Magic and Disaster by 7/20 to get yours: tinyurl.com/4mwvyxsb #queersky #booksky #queerbookstore #fantasy #transrep #readqueerbooks

Happy Pride! 🌈 I spent half my life performing straight, the other half writing myself free.

The Broken Stars is my bi heart cracked open - queer survival in a post-apocalyptic alien hellscape.

✨ Start here → kristygardner.com/books

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#Pride #Sapphicbooks #Queerbooks #sff #booksky

A pie chart styled as a clock face, with a glowing purple quadrant indicating progress toward a goal, the remaining circle red indicating the unmet part of the goal, and a clock hand indicating time left to meet the goal.

The latest in Bookstore Operations Math. tinyurl.com/hzwx88du

For those who have been wondering, here's how it's been going, some down but definitely some up as well: tinyurl.com/bdvkavsf #indiebookstore #queerbookstore #yourbookstore #tinybookstore #growingpains #thirdspace #queerspace #queersky #booksky

“We have to start thinking of ourselves as a justice community,” Dr. Kaila Story on what LGBTQ+ solidarity really requires At a time when anti-trans bills are at an all time high, Black queer scholar and feminist Dr. Kaila Story calls out the racism and sexism within the LGBTQ+ community.

“There isn’t a Black community without queer and trans people. There’s really not an LGBTQ+ community without Latinx, Black and Asian people. We have to start thinking of ourselves as a justice community.” — @doctressstory.bsky.social‬

Cross & Crows Books East Vancouver's independent queer-owned destination bookstore

Did you know that for every #queer book we sell between now and 9/30, we're giving $1 to @queerfilmfestival.ca? Choose from thousands of great #LGBTQ+ titles: crossandcrows.com/lists/Laj5-8...
#queerbookstore #lgbtq2sia #queerbooks #queerauthors #transauthors #queercommunity #queersky #booksky

Gay May means more new #queer books for you! Check out this week's new releases: crossandcrows.com/lists/L7E45M... #booksky #queersky #indiebookstore #queerbookstore #yourbookstore #queerbooks #lgbtq #lgbtq2sia #lgbtqbooks #gaymay #readqueerbooks #buylocal #protectqueerspaces

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This week's queer new arrivals: new paperback releases from Billy-Ray Belcourt, graphic novels, and more! tinyurl.com/3rfbcjbp

White text on black background: WHAT DOES IT TAKE for a young bookstore to grow into an established bookstore? About 30 book-hungry, curious, mostly queer souls per day. www.crossandcrows.com

In the last 8 weeks, we've averaged about 8 people per day. Hm. tinyurl.com/4dn7m2ep #queersky #booksky #indiebookstore #queerbookstore #protectqueerspaces #queer #lgbtq #lgbtq2sia #queerbooks

On a pastel rainbw background, black text: BIG GAY PREORDER ALERT! Cover art from two books, both entitled Be Gay Do Crime. The left-hand book has multicoloured emblems of revolution on a black background, with the title in white gothic type. The right-hand book has a hot pink background with a lighter pink illustration of a crossed rose and knife, with the title in bold white capitals. Small pink bubbles have descriptions. On the left: Short fiction about queer protest & rescue--with authors like Francesca Ekwuyasi and Myriam Gurba On the right: Queer histories of resistance and protest, first in the new Everyday Acts series from PM Press Across the bottom in pale letters: www.crossandcrows.com

Two different books with the same great title - preorder now! Your preorders support this queer space, the small presses that publish these books (@pmpress.bsky.social and Dzanc), the contributors, and @queerfilmfestival.ca! Get 'em here: tinyurl.com/5epc4hhz #queerbookstore #queersky #booksky

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Cover slide, blue text on pale teal background: GAY MAY (NEW RELEASES) with little bubbles of additional text: Recommended by your favourite queer bookstore! Sounds gay, I'm in! and a small clip art of an open book. A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

On a teal background, cover art for six books: THIS BOOK IS A KNIFE by L. E. Fox, THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS by Ocean Vuong, THE VINYL DIARIES by Pete Crighton, ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE by Carvell Wallace, TRANS HISTORY by Alex Combs and Andrew Eakett, ONE OF THE BOYS by Victoria Zeller A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

On a teal background, cover art for six books: AND INTRODUCING DEXTER GAINES by Mark B. Perry, FUEL by Rosie Stockton, WHEN LOVE GIVES YOU LEMONS by Steven Salvatore, BLADES OF FURRY by Emily Erdos & Deya Muniz, THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, LOVE IN EXILE by SHON FAYE A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

Against a light teal background, cover art for six books: THE DUKE STEALS HEARTS & OTHER BODY PARTS by Elias Cold, BIG BUTCH ENERGY SYNERGY by Nina Chanel Abney, MOTHERLOVER by Lindsay Ishihiro, A FIX OF LIGHT by Kel Menton, and EDGE OF THE WORLD edited by Alden Jones A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

This week's crop of new #queer titles for #gaymay tinyurl.com/5epc4hhz

Skateboarding, Sexuality, and Storytelling: When Coming-of-Age & Kickflips Collide Colour headshots of Li Charmaine Anne (youthful-looking Chinese-Canadian enby with tousled black hair in a dark blue flannel collared shirt smiles at viewer), Amy Mattes (mid-thirties white woman with long brown hair rests her chin on her hand and smiles slightly into the distance), and Anthony Nerada (mid-thirties white man with cropped brown hair smiles at viewer and leans in a bit) Book covers: Crash Landing, Late September, Skater Boy each depict a character with a skateboard Saturday, 24 May, 2pm at Cross & Crows Books www.crossandcrows.com

May 24, 2pm: Skateboarding, Sexuality, & Storytelling with Li Charmaine Anne, Amy Mattes, and Anthony Nerada! Three queer BC writers discuss how skate culture is portrayed in their fiction. tinyurl.com/247szkrh #queersky #booksky #queerbookstore #authorevent #queerauthors #lgbtqbooks #indiebookstore

Order your copy from your queer, Canadian, independent bookstore: crossandcrows.com/item/6CvPe_C...

Book list for our grieving kin

In the wake of the tragedy at Lapu Lapu festival last month, Tahanan Studio will host a permanent library of grief and Filipino cultural resources. For every 3 books on their list ordered via us, we will donate 1 for solidarity with Tahanan and our East Van Filipino neighbours. tinyurl.com/ycbj67fc

All Parts Welcome The Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems Workbook

Coming in July, a new book applying the #InternalFamilySystems therapy model to #queer and #trans people's unique needs. Get the details and preorder: crossandcrows.com/item/-K4ellC...
#queersky #booksky #queermentalhealth #queerhealing

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