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Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops

ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky

After finishing Hungerstone (recent Carmilla-inspired novel) by Kat Dunn this morning, I'm at 51! Mostly by queer authors, ~20 by trans and/or nonbinary authors, and a few I learned about through your posts (Dorley book 1, Trans/rad/fem, and Magica Riot)

Love this prompt!

If you enjoyed the sapphic gothicness of The Needfire, check out:

@johannavanveen.bsky.social's My Darling Dreadful Thing
Angie Spoto's The Bone Diver
Kat Dunn's Hungerstone
@cemcgill.bsky.social's Our Hideous Progeny
Emily Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines
Anything by Sarah Waters

Hungerstone by Kate Dunn - Part 1, No Spoilers Podcast Episode · Plot Luck Podcast · 10/09/2025 · 26m

🎤 Unravel the mystery of "Hungerstone" without spoilers.
Plus, Buffy and vampire tales await!
Listen to Episode 3 now!
#BookTalk #Podcast #Hungerstone
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Want a new place for ebooks in the UK? Well here you go!

A banner reading "celebrate bookshop day at your local Waterstones. Double Plus stamps in shops only, Saturday 11th October"

Hey, guess what?

Tomorrow (Sat 11th) is a really good day to go buy that book you were wanting: it's Bookshop Day, which means double Plus stamps in Waterstones!

#Booksky

Join us for a spoiler-free introduction to our discussion of HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn, a sapphic, feminist reimagining of Carmilla, the novel which inspired Dracula. In this episode, we share our expectations, initial thoughts and chat about our favourite vampire media: from Interview with the Vampir HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn 🧛‍♀️ Part 01 [Spoiler Free]

📚 Episode 3 is here!
Uncover the magic of "Hungerstone" with us.
No spoilers, just pure intrigue! Tune in now.
#KatDunn #Podcast #BookLovers
youtu.be/FxvDc54fSjA
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S&S launches audio imprint Simon Maverick in UK

Simon & Schuster is growing its audio team and expanding the audio imprint Simon Maverick in the UK 👇 #BookSky

this is my monthly reminder please read hungerstone

sketch i did inspired by the novel hungerstone; it depicts a portrait of a breasting boobily vampire lady with her hands wrapping around her neck and rising to her mouth

read hungerstone ty
#art

Book: Hungerstone, by Kat Dunn.

Book: Love, Sex and Frankenstein, by Caroline Lea.

First event of the Birmingham Literary Festival* tonight, a good-humoured conversation with the authors of a modern retelling of Carmilla (horny lesbian vampires) and a story of how Mary Shelley came to write Frankenstein (lusting after annoying men).

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Lesbian vampires for Halloween! Yes please KatDunn; Hungerstone
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CLYKS69...

For whomst, indeed?!?!

What's one show/ ship you'll never be over. We'll go first: Villanelle and Eve did not deserve the ending Laura Neil wrote them. In this essay, I will--

#killingeve #villaneve #tvreview #podcast #wlw

Spooky banner with a glowy pumpkin for Twirling Book Princess feature: October Horror Mystery Month Fest: Spooky Favourites From 2024/2025.

BOO! 👻 Time for the newest October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites! Today's book is The Family Experiment by John Marrs. This book was WOW! It made me gasp, left me shocked, loved it!😍

#BookBloggers #Blogging #Horror #Spooktober #BookSky📚💙

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YouTube video by Plot Luck Book Club HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn 🧛‍♀️ Part 01 [Spoiler Free]

🎧 Dive into The Plot Luck Book Club's latest episode! No spoilers yet as we explore Kat Dunn's "Hungerstone," plus chat about Buffy, Carmilla, & IWTV. Listen now!
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#BookClub #Hungerstone #Podcast youtu.be/FxvDc54fSjA

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

#Friday Fun Welcome to Solaris Feasts. *Please note, we're an indie and we can't afford garlic ink.

Time for some #FridayFun!

In honour of #thegarlicbook - aka Jennifer L. Armentrout’s partnership with Hellmanns Garlic Aoli on a garlic ink version of THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE - welcome to... Solaris Feasts!

We can't afford garlic ink, but, we've drawn up a menu for some of our titles...

Fancy joining us for some vampires this month?
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Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops

ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky

HUNGERSTONE BY KAT DUNN COVER. Text in neon green, stonecut style, with a long drive on the first U. The image is a woman with long unbound hair in a white dress, draped on her back on a bed, so her head and one arm dangle over the edge. The white contrasts with the dark red background.

HUNGERSTONE BY KAT DUNN COVER. Text in white and barbie pink, in a messy, handwriting style. The image is a woman sitting beside a table with a silver fruit bowl. The bowl is piled high with berries, grapes, and sliced oranges, and more pears, pomegranates, and a melon half spill across the table in the foreground. The woman is only visible from waist to nose, but she wears a white dress and holds a Cockerell in her lap.

For our October book pick, we're reading HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn: a sapphic Carmilla retelling that pits the British Industrial Revolution against wildness of the Peaks.

Which cover do you prefer?

Book cover for “Hungerstone” by Kat Dunn. At the top of the cover, “Hungerstone” is written in bright green letters and the “paint” of the U drips down until it nearly touches the face of the woman on the cover. At the bottom of the cover “a novel” is written in white cursive font, and below that “Kat Dunn” is written in all caps, once again in the bright green color. The majority of the cover is a depiction of a woman lying on her back draped across some sort of settee or couch. Her head and both arms are hanging over the edge of the settee on the left side of the cover. She is wearing a white short sleeve dress with a gold brooch pinned just above her breasts. Her throat and the top of her chest are bared to the light. Her skin is pale except for a blush on the cheek that is turned to the light and a slight pink color in her lips. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is slightly open. Her blonde hair tumbles to the floor. Her arm in the foreground of the picture hangs down so that her knuckles brush against the ground. The cushion of the settee is white although there is a blanket draped over it in colors of gold and pink and red. The rest of the colors surrounding the woman are all warm dark browns and reds. There is a light shining on the red drapes behind the woman and a curiously shaped shadow can be seen blocking part of the light.

A meme in two panels. The top panel shows princess daisy and princess peach. Princess daisy looks at princess peach with a smile on her face. A text box reads: “Are you tired of being nice?” The bottom panel shows princess daisy now leaning in very close to princess peach, still smiling. A second text box reads: “Don’t you just want to go ape shitt” (Sorry to be a memeing millennial but I couldn’t help thinking of this meme every time Carmilla and Lenore interacted.)

Book 5 of ‘25: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn. It’s bloody. It’s carnal. It’s gothic as hell. It held a mirror up to the parts of myself I dislike, which was uncomfortable!😅 I only wish I could’ve had MORE Carmilla. “Oh, little Lenore. It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”

Carmilla, Hungerstone, The Gilda Stories, Carmilla The First Vampire-graphic novel, A Long Time Dead, House of Hunger, A Dowry of Blood, This Vicious Hunger, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Thirst, Blood on Her Tongue, When I Arrived at the Castle

This list of book recommendations is about women--their relationships, their love and yearning, and desire for each other, and hunger...blood lust...to hunt and devour.

A hardback novel, “Hungerstone - Kat Dunn”. The cover has a woman draped in a white nightgown over the end of a bed in an oil painting style, with a bright neon green title and author

if I’m tired today it’s because I stayed up too late reading about lesbian vampires

Thrilled to see TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS under the absolutely perfect category of Final Girls Just Wanna Carve Pumpkins (Slashers) 🤩😈 thank you so much!!

The Favorites by Layne Fargo. A pair of ice dancers in black outfits pose against a rainbow background.

Margo Robbie as Catherine in Emerald Fennel's Wuthering Heights.

Margo Robbie as ice skater Tonya Harding in the movie I, Tonya.

Who would you cast in THE FAVORITES?

Hear our thoughts in this week's book club episode.

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Booksellers hail 'rolling Super Thursday' as publishers spread out big autumn releases A "rolling Super Thursday" is how booksellers have described the industry’s heaviest publication day, with key autumn titles noticeably "more spread out" than previous years.

A "rolling Super Thursday" is how booksellers have described the industry’s heaviest publication day, with key autumn titles noticeably "more spread out" than previous years 👇

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say. - Truman Capote

You want books? We’ve got ‘em! - Michael

The Week Junior Books Awards 2025 winners revealed

The 2025 winners of The Week Junior Book Awards have been revealed at a celebration at Waterloo’s County Hall in London 👇 #BookSky