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Our double-headed frog mascot for FROGSKIN literary journal is sitting in a swamp. One head is saying: “10 days til I can submit my poem to FROGSKIN!” The other head is distracted and thinking: “bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs…”

Ten days before you can submit your weird, wonderful, ridiculous, and radical creations to FROGSKIN literary journal 🐸

Governments supporting book publishers? How novel

#booksy #writingcommunity #writingandbooks #bskybookclub #queerbookworms

Frog-themed poster reading: WANTED - Cool, Ridiculous, Gorgeous Things/Fiction, Essays, Poetry, Artwork (FROGSKIN@allhandspublishing.com

Want to get published in 2026? Mark your calendars for 2/1… 🐸

I just finished mine! You can do it!

A gift box full of red and gold packages nestled in blue crepe paper. In the middle there’s a super secret message in a bottle…

Just finished putting together a gift box for our next Author Development Program initiate! Hand wrapped and one-of-a-kind custom + vintage haul just for our newest writer-in-residence! 💫

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New literary journal open for submissions Feb 1! Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork are all welcome. Make 2026 the year you get published!

Visit www.allhandspublishing.com/frogskin for all the details 🐸

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Three gorgeous walnut shelves full of a collection of favorite vintage reads: Tolkien, Powys, Unsworth, Marti-Ibanez, Goodman, and Ellul, with a little collection of first edition Charles H. Kerr literature from the 1800s.

Instead of buying a $200 piece of plywood on Wayfair, I repurposed an old antique hutch and now have a place to put all my favorite/first edition books!

One step closer to my dream of living in a house where books pile up in unconventional places…

What a gorgeous cover, did a double scroll 😍

I’m actively avoiding buying new tech devices to avoid built in AI. Refurbished stuff from pre-2023 only…

I don’t want to be in your book club because I already have a TBR list that will outlive me but also UGH I HAVE FOMO 😭😭😭

Original paperback cover artwork for Avi’s “True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle”: a young white girl in a blue and white Victorian dress standing on the deck of a ship and staring into the distance.

What is the first book you remember that made you feel like you were missing the action whenever you put it down?

An unmistakable landmark in every bookworm’s journey!

Mine was “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi. Newberry Award classics, man…

Plus you get to make pretty art while you listen!

Busy building our TBP (to be published) list for 2026! #newyearsresolutions

I will pay actual money to see a French person read through one of these translations and give their unvarnished opinion…

Braiding Sweetgrass is incredible! I highly recommend the author-narrated audiobook version. I was literally sobbing at the end…

It’s cruel to be reminded about how much reading time exists in a day… and then need to not use it for reading

The three-panel "no throw, only fetch" meme: Panel 1: "Bestseller" Panel 2: "No readers" Panel 3: "Only bestseller"

Be suspicious of publishing partners who say they will make you a bestseller but ALSO say not to worry about book sales. That’s a big old red flag! 🚩

Bernie meme: "I am once again asking for you to check EFA standard rates"

This one goes out to all the freelancers 🫡

Four-panel "Clown getting ready" meme: Panel 1: "We should help authors market their books" Panel 2: "Book marketing is complicated, let's offer personal branding instead." Panel 3: "Personal branding is so much easier and more lucrative than book publishing." Panel 4: "We're a personal branding agency with a book funnel."

It’s Monday! Time to call out some clown shit. (Hint: If you don’t like the unique complexity of marketing books to actual readers, don’t go into publishing.)

Man labeled as "Professional Publishers" looking at butterfly labeled as "the glorious creative agony of making books" and asking himself: "Is this SaaS (software as a service)?"

Tech bros and V/C firms REALLLY want to believe that you can structure a publishing house like a software company. Reader, you cannot.

Book Vibe - YouTube Some good reading and writing vibes, all human-made!

The heat has finally broken here in Portland, and we’re rolling pleasantly into the rainy season. Follow our AI-free “Book Vibe” playlist on YouTube as we queue up the best drizzly lo-fi to write and read to. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The "Who Killed Hannibal" Eric Andre meme format Frame 1: "Publishers who put out AI slop" points a weapon at "Books worth reading" Frame 2: "Publishers who put out AI slop" says "No one reads anymore"

This is a Spines callout directly...

Tuxedo Bear meme comparing writers with AI bros. Frame A: Writers: "The willing suspension of disbelief" Frame B: AI bros: "Selecting conversational paths that maximize narrative continuity and minimize refusal triggers"

When Big Tech discovers ✨storytelling✨

10 books from BookBub's "Best New Popular Fiction - July 2025" lineup: https://www.bookbub.com/readworthy/popular-fiction/2025/7

BookBub sent us a list of July’s best new popular fiction. It looks like we’re deep in the era of hot pastels and bold fonts. Does this kind of cover draw your eye and make you want to pick it up? We’re curious!

A phone showing the logo of Anthropic's AI program, Claude.

This week a federal judge ruled that using authors' books without permission to train AI is legal because it doesn't create a directly competing work.

Bitch it creates a directly competing AUTHOR, what are you talking about?

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/06/anth...

Wait these covers are gorgeous tho

Love this! Who says rebellion can't be cozy?