Minerva Grey

Two beeswax candles shaped like pine cones are lit for the second Sunday in Advent.

Happy Second Sunday in Advent!
We light this candle for Peace 🕊️

Books of Wonder is amazing! They have a wonderful selection of books overall plus LOTS of signed\personalized offerings that frequently come with additional beautiful swag.

And some small businesses can't afford to offer black Friday discounts.

all 4 of these are ads for nora.jewelry where the background is a dragonskin aventurine kiln photo this one has a variety of glass wreaths: green bumpy ones with baubles that look like abstracted real wreaths, dichroic wizard wreaths, and thin "mosaic" wreaths made from melting multiple kinds of twisted glass cane together into a ring. they're all either about 3 or about 6 inches

collage collection: a variety of bolo ties, pendants, a heart, a paw and some cufflinks all made from overlapping spiral cane. i get cane that has a twisty pattern and chop it up with more of different colors and combine them and melt them together into a single solid piece, resulting in something that really reminds you that though glass is solid now it was liquid once and remembers what it is like to flow

earring collection: a variety of earrings in mottled colors, swirling colors and one trans pride pair

the cluster collection, which consists of murrine (patterned cane that shows images or designs through the middle when sliced; if you've ever bought cookie dough that you slice a log of and see a picture of a snowman in the middle it's the same basic concept) that i have clustered together in either an abstract blob shape or a circle with a hole for a cord. i don't heat these to high enough temperatures for them to be totally flush, they are bumpy, but rounded

HELLO IT'S BLACK FRIDAY

Instead of a sale this year I'm giving 10% of Black Friday weekend sales to @distributeaid.org for their harm reduction toolkits that provide safe injection supplies to trans people taking hormones.

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#bsnm

Sigh. Of course not. Because doing so would constitute empathy.

We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

Rooted in Tlingit folklore, The Door on the Sea is a really well thought out, particularly designed and beautifully fresh piece of fantasy fiction. Very much worth your time, especially if you’re in the mood for something different.

@solarisbooks.bsky.social
#CaskeyRussell #BookSky

The Finch-go-round has a few riders this morning 🪶 Lesser goldfinches

An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | James Baldwin One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that...

You can read the full essay—that Baldwin wrote after Angela had been arrested and put on trail—here

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

The Mourning Robot - Uncanny Magazine They came with machetes asked if we knew the way to Wonderland.   We were built to love the dead, to open our mouths and sing praise to broken   bones, hands over our eyes, aluminum sheets over our he...

This is also the 1st year for a Nebula Award for Poetry! I had 5 poems out this year, but here are my favorites:

1) The Mourning Robot @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

2) The Church at the Edge of Time @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

50% OFF Untethered Sky From World Fantasy Award–winning author Fonda Lee comes an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs. Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother...

Looking for a quick audiobook listen while you run around doing umpteen holiday errands? Pick up Untethered Sky, my fantasy novella about murderbirds for 50% off from @audiobookscom.bsky.social for the month of November only

Image desciprtion: Against a red star background, white text "NPR's Best Books of 2025." Below, the book covers for THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ by Isabel Canas

We have two - count that, TWO - Solaris books on @NPR's Best Books of 2025 list!

Pinch us, we must be dreaming

🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA, epic fantasy by Caskey Russell https://geni.us/doorsea

🖤 THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ, standalone horroromance by @isabelcanas.bsky.social https://geni.us/palbad

Off to investigate books one and two.

Snagged a signed (!) copy of this book by @itsamia.bsky.social at my indie shop the other day. Excited to read it. #booksky #reading

#reading #booksky

I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it.

"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."

'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'

I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.

"Thanks."

Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

You can read my books for free by requesting it for purchase from a library. The library buys it, I get royalties, and you get it for free. And future readers also get my book for free. Easy! Everyone wins!

If you can read this, WAKE UP!

Time again to hide inside warm books in this weather.

I’ll be in Edith Wharton’s “Summer” if you need me. - Michael

Paper cups of varying sizes in a sandwich shop with the words: 16 ounce: What is Sleep? 12 ounce: Slept 5-7 hours 8 ounce: Slept 8-10 hours

Good morning, my friend!
It’s #Monday of #Thanksgiving week. Remember, almost everyone you meet is on the same journey this week.
May your grocery lines be short.
May your To Do list be…doable.
May your travels be safe.
May your patience not be tested.
And may your #coffee fulfill its promise.
Amen.

Corporate media shilling for corporations. I'll get my tiniest violin.

COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️

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never let them convince you that reading is a waste of time or that reading physical books is replaceable. Physical books, zines, etc -- these are spaces where we cannot be monitored, where we can truly be w/our own thoughts for a gd min & make up our own minds. Of course that frightens them

On Dungeon Crawler Carl I finished the seventh and most recent book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series last night, staying up too late to do it.

Today's bloggery: On Dungeon Crawler Carl

It's unrealistic to keep up with all of the news happening every single day around the world. Give yourself grace and also a break.

7 Places in Boston Where You Can Read & Grab a Drink [01/01/23] Boston is both an educational hub and a hot spot for haute cuisine. Luckily, you can have the best of both worlds at these venues where you can pick up a new book and enjoy it over a glass of wine or ...

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