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blogmywiki.bsky.social
My imaginary bookpub is called Last Orders. Rejected titles included You’re Bard.
April 26, 2026 at 7:23 PM
cheersm3dears.bsky.social
heyooo I've got the perfect (imo) offering for today...a 5+1 bookpub au (my FIRST modern au, and am definitely realizing right now I didn't use the 5+1 tag on ao3, it's fine, no big deal, fixing that 🤦🏼‍♀️)

let me leave with you
5 times Stede leaves Ed's bookpub alone, and 1 time they leave together🔗⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
annanorth.bsky.social
October 17: Storyhouse Bookpub in Des Moines, joint event with @carsonfaust.bsky.social
The Author Afterparty with Carson Faust & Anna North | Storyhouse Bookpub
storyhousebookpub.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
andypollen.bsky.social
Lovely evening hearing @annanorth.bsky.social & @carsonfaust.bsky.social talk about their new releases. Grateful to Storyhouse Bookpub for offering these opportunities in Des Moines.
#booksky #bookstore #shoplocal
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
cheersm3dears.bsky.social
✨Quote this post with your most kudos’d AO3 fic✨

it's not a lot, but it's my baby: my first foray in AU world bookpub loves, "let me leave with you"

🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/552505...
November 22, 2024 at 3:13 AM
mahendra.bsky.social
Behind every cassock is a Cossack who just wants to have fun.

#penandink #bookpub #illustration #bookillustration
Baby-faced priest with beard and priestly vestments sports a halo. Illo from American Candide, published by Rosarium Publishing.
August 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
"I love a mustache. They are attractive, they're hot, they're sexy," she said.

#penandink #bookpub #bookillustration
A knight wearing all his armour, his burgeoning moustache growing through the breathing holes of his helmet. Done for Poets Ranked By Beard Wight, by Gilbert Alter Gilbert (Skyhorse). A very strange book that could never get into print just 15 years later. So much for progress.
July 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
narrativemag.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to Aria Aber for pubbing her debut novel, “Good Girl”!

www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winte...

#NarrativeMagazine #Narrative #bookpub #pubday #newbook #newauthor #authortowatch
January 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
margeanderson.bsky.social
Book haul from Storyhouse Bookpub - Des Moines. I snatched Maggie Smith’s new book in my beak! Excited to dip into Suleika Jouad’s anthology of creative insight. This book by Alexander Chee has been on my TBR forever. #writing #booksky @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @alexanderchee.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
cheersm3dears.bsky.social
I have: "innkeeper," business owner (bookpub...does that count as bar owner too?), vaguely office worker, non-specific department of environment leadership role, handyman, rockstar, ice cream parlour owner, Olympic archer, and maybe a mango-cart operator (depending on your interpretation of sarcasm)
makingoceansounds.bsky.social Bekah @makingoceansounds.bsky.social · Jan 13
Have you ever wondered what the top non pirate occupations people give Ed on AO3? I have. So I present this to you all in case you share my wonder. #OFMD
"The top ten occupations of Blackbeard | Edward Teach according to the canonical tags of AO3 1. Artist 2. Musician 3. Innkeeper 4. Business Owner 5. Rock Star 6. Tattoo Artist 7. Chef 8. Writer 9. Bar Owner 10. Actor" Black text on a white semi transparent box thing with the background of the sea underneath. Not quite graphic design is my passion vibes but close enough.
January 14, 2026 at 12:51 AM
ldpres.bsky.social
Rare Iowa moment: Drag Queen Story Hour @raygunsite.com / Storyhouse Bookpub for DSM Capital City Pride 🦄 🌈 📕
June 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
desmoineslibrary.bsky.social
Who will be at the book fair:
Annie's Foundation
Beaverdale Books
Bing's
Bookmarks
The Little Book
Lunita Planners
Nos Books
The Rook Room
Storyhouse Bookpub
Wandering Raccoon Books
April 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Opium is the religion of the masses.

#firesigntheatre #penandink #freelanceillustrator #bookpub
#duotone #pubnews #illustrationandconcept #HighGothic
Various medieval weirdos smoking dope while Our Lady of Perpetual Giggles occupies center stage in this charming recreation of a High Gothic donor's altarpiece. Done for the Firesign Theatre's Magic Mushroom Plays, art directed by Taylor Jessen AKA @sidfudd.bsky.social.
November 17, 2024 at 3:13 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Amongst typesetters, "follow the copy out of the window" was once axiomatic.

For illustrators, "follow the concept out of the window" still makes a good Prime Directive.
#bookpub #illustration #conceptualillustration #adventuretime #posterart
Adventure Time parody of Durer's The Knight, Death and the Devil. Original art at 11 inches by 15 inches, on Denril. It enlarged nicely for a poster issue from Cartoon Network's poster division, a cool enterprise that died a premature and unjust death.
October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
desmoineslibrary.bsky.social
Storyhouse Bookpub
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
stephwrites.bsky.social
I am actually leaving my house tonight to go work on my #NaNoWriMo outline at a bookpub. I haven’t been to this place since the beforetimes and I just hope it’s as chill as I remember.
October 25, 2023 at 11:20 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
There once was an artist named Singh,
Who insisted on doing his thing.
He drew that-which-is-not,
For such was his lot,
That impecunious wretch of a Singh.

#bookpub #bookillustration #penandink #steampunk
Tompkin's Bookstore, wherein literary wallahs gather to drink tea and palaver. Semiotic glyphoids adorn the bookshelves and pee atop the books heaped up everywhere. One of many interior illos for "The Gentleman" by Forrest Leo, edited by Ed Park, ADed by Claire Vaccaro, published by PRH. This delightful novel is catnip for lovers of steampunk, Victorian poetry and Satanism.
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
flamelauthor.bsky.social
The Alchemyst (and the rest of the series) is now in 35 countries and 25 translations. Bookpub have it today for $1.99 www.bookbub.com/books/the-al...
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott is only $1.99 - BookBub
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott on BookBub. Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter—but did you know he really lived? And his secrets aren’t safe!Discover the truth in book one of the N...
www.bookbub.com
July 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM
desmoineslibrary.bsky.social
The countdown is on to the Grown-Up Book Fair: Holiday edition! Meet five of our local booksellers who will be participating in the event on Saturday. buff.ly/0MyFhhM

📚 Storyhouse Bookpub
📚 The Little Book
📚 Beaverdale Books
📚 Nos Books
📚 Wandering Raccoon Books
Grown-Up Book Fair Book vendors: Beaverdale Books, Wandering Raccoon Books, Storyhouse Bookpub, The Little Book and Nos Books
December 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
anniesfoundation.bsky.social
Annie's Foundation is humbled to have been mentioned in the Acknowledgements of Ashley Hope Perez's new book, 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟.

You can support Ashley's work and our friends at Storyhouse Bookpub by purchasing your own copy here: buff.ly/uZwXsbo

#ReadBannedBooks
March 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
mahendra.bsky.social
Monteverdi and Modernism, they're keeping the lunacy outside my studio at bay, for today at least.

#WIP #graphicnovel #TheWasteLand #TSEliot #bookpub
Panel from a work in progress, a GN version of Eliot's Waste Land. From left to right, a recently-famine-starved Good Soldier Schweick, the anonymous Narrator, Sammy Beckett, Robert Walser, Langston Hughes, Marie Larisch, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Franz "The Joker" Kafka, and James Joyce. Beckett and Walser are my favourites of this lot. And Gombrowicz, should have put him in but he's too post-war for this panel's intentions.
February 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
kayoticreads.bsky.social
If you have a book coming out this year please link it below!!

#indieauthors #indie #authors #author #books #bookpub
September 15, 2023 at 3:14 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Please share your blue art! 💙🖼

#AdventureTime #penandink #freelanceillustrator #bookpub #kidlit
Hunson Aberdeer approaching the Isle of the Dead. With his over tongs, Hunson will extract the Tablets of Wisdom from the weirdo's skull. Done of Adventure Time Enchiridion, and the blue held well on press, mainly because I kept a careful eye on the numerical values of the CMYK colour build instead of relying on the monitor, as the young 'uns do nowadays. Blue is tricky in print.
November 18, 2024 at 2:24 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
Ripping off my illustration work? That would be a real step up for me.

#illustration #bookpub #penandink #conceptualillustration
The demon Zyk in superhero spandex, very hip beard and quadrocorni, his arm protectively draped over the shoulders of damsel in distress. She has the head of a deranged goose and a badly awry wig. This is an illo for the insanely talented and funny Martin Olson's "Conquest of Heaven" from Feral House, the sequel to "The Encyclopaedia of Hell". Both books are indescribably funny in a non-stupid way that only indy publishers like Feral House bother to do right anymore. The team involved in these books went on to do the Adventure Time Encyclopaedia and Enchiridion for Abrams, a NYT-bestselling bit of bizness that demonstrates once again the value of supporting indy publishers. No Big 5 publisher will take a chance on this sort of material without someone else taking the initial risk. I believe that the guy behind AT, forget his name, sorry, was the one who demanded quality take precedence over everything else. Otherwise, it would have been the same old licensing dreck. That's why Zyk's crotch bulges. He senses $$$, Lord Satan's bread and butter.
October 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
mahendra.bsky.social
GOAT goat illustrator, c'est moi.

#penandink #kidlit #bookpub #bookillustrator
A goat modeled upon Gerome's portrait of a Janissary (I think, so many pictures in my head all jumbled together) consults his Rolex sundial. One of my illos for Áloþk's Adventures in Goatland (Áloþk üjy Gígið Soagénliy): A translation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Róaž Wiðz, back-translated into English with a Glossary by Byron W. Sewell, published by @evertype.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 2:58 PM