Melissa Scott
@blueterraplane.bsky.social
I write science fiction and fantasy, with lots of queer themes and characters.
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#Booksky #Minneapolis Today’s adventure! Come join us for a fun book sale and author event!
#Booksky It’s the weekend and we have another book table! Look for us at TC Pride’s Queer Writes Book Fair tomorrow 11/16 11-2 at the Machine Shop in Minneapolis!
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November 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#Booksky #Minneapolis Today’s adventure! Come join us for a fun book sale and author event!
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#Booksky It’s the weekend and we have another book table! Look for us at TC Pride’s Queer Writes Book Fair tomorrow 11/16 11-2 at the Machine Shop in Minneapolis!
tcpride.org/queer-writes...
tcpride.org/queer-writes...
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#Booksky It’s the weekend and we have another book table! Look for us at TC Pride’s Queer Writes Book Fair tomorrow 11/16 11-2 at the Machine Shop in Minneapolis!
tcpride.org/queer-writes...
tcpride.org/queer-writes...
There is an insect on the living room ceiling. The cat is distressed.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
There is an insect on the living room ceiling. The cat is distressed.
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#Booksky #Fridayreads Want to support us and the oldest feminist sf con in the world AND get a deal on great queer books? We’re @wiscon.bsky.social’s Vendor of the Month so this deal ends at the end of November!
#Booksky Hey, we’re WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social’s first Vendor of the Month! Use WisCon26 on our website in November to get a discount on our books and we make a donation to WisCon! How cool is that! queenofswordspress.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#Booksky #Fridayreads Want to support us and the oldest feminist sf con in the world AND get a deal on great queer books? We’re @wiscon.bsky.social’s Vendor of the Month so this deal ends at the end of November!
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I've said it before, I'll say it again, Astreiant is exactly the sort of thing the best series award should recognise. Individually good books, but the sweep of the city, its people, & their lives across the series is an order of magnitude more important.
Expertly crafted living world in miniature.
Expertly crafted living world in miniature.
#Booksky Sporadic reminder that we are the current publisher of the entire Astreiant Series and that it will be eligible for this year’s Hugo for Best Series, just in case you wanted to support a terrific award-winning series of gay fantastical mysteries! queenofswordspress.com/product-tag/...
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I've said it before, I'll say it again, Astreiant is exactly the sort of thing the best series award should recognise. Individually good books, but the sweep of the city, its people, & their lives across the series is an order of magnitude more important.
Expertly crafted living world in miniature.
Expertly crafted living world in miniature.
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Have you not read the Astreiant books? They are SO GOOD
#Booksky Sporadic reminder that we are the current publisher of the entire Astreiant Series and that it will be eligible for this year’s Hugo for Best Series, just in case you wanted to support a terrific award-winning series of gay fantastical mysteries! queenofswordspress.com/product-tag/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Have you not read the Astreiant books? They are SO GOOD
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#Booksky Sporadic reminder that we are the current publisher of the entire Astreiant Series and that it will be eligible for this year’s Hugo for Best Series, just in case you wanted to support a terrific award-winning series of gay fantastical mysteries! queenofswordspress.com/product-tag/...
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#Booksky Sporadic reminder that we are the current publisher of the entire Astreiant Series and that it will be eligible for this year’s Hugo for Best Series, just in case you wanted to support a terrific award-winning series of gay fantastical mysteries! queenofswordspress.com/product-tag/...
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I enjoyed Death by Silver quite a lot! Check it out if you haven't yet.
#Booksky Looking for a terrific gay gaslamp mystery when the protagonists solve crimes with magic? All our books, including DEATH BY SILVER by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold, are available on Kobo and KoboPlus!
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Death by Silver ebook by Melissa Scott - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Death by Silver" by Melissa Scott available from Rakuten Kobo. 2024 Midwest Book Awards Finalist!
Mystery, Murder and Magic…
When an old schoolmate with a well-earned reputation for b...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I enjoyed Death by Silver quite a lot! Check it out if you haven't yet.
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#Bookcovers #Artists Big shoutout to today to Matt at @inkspiral! He did the beautiful covers and interior designs for all of our editions of the Astreiant Series and the Lynes & Mathey books!
Cover portfolio showcase:
Astreiant 2: Point of Knives by Melissa Scott
#bookdesigners #bookdesign #bookcoverdesign #bookcover #graphicdesign #coverdesign #portfolio
Astreiant 2: Point of Knives by Melissa Scott
#bookdesigners #bookdesign #bookcoverdesign #bookcover #graphicdesign #coverdesign #portfolio
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#Bookcovers #Artists Big shoutout to today to Matt at @inkspiral! He did the beautiful covers and interior designs for all of our editions of the Astreiant Series and the Lynes & Mathey books!
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did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
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US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
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Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
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#Booksky Hey, we’re WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social’s first Vendor of the Month! Use WisCon26 on our website in November to get a discount on our books and we make a donation to WisCon! How cool is that! queenofswordspress.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#Booksky Hey, we’re WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social’s first Vendor of the Month! Use WisCon26 on our website in November to get a discount on our books and we make a donation to WisCon! How cool is that! queenofswordspress.com
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I'm angry and I bet you are too! Howzabout a book where somebody fights back for a change
Release day for @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social's BlankAnon! Bob Blank returns in his most desperate adventure yet - unless his spirit guide eats him first. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2025/11/10/r...
Release Day for BlankAnon!
Today marks the release of BlankAnon and the return of Bob Blank, the eponymous hero of Justin Robinson’s fantasy-noir satirical mystery series! First encountered in Mr. Blank and Get Blank, our narra...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm angry and I bet you are too! Howzabout a book where somebody fights back for a change
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Now I'm really going away to write.
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
K.V. Johansen | The Wolf and the Wild King
About The Wolf and the Wild King, book one of The Forest high fantasy duology, by K.V. Johansen
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November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Now I'm really going away to write.
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
Let there be book.
And to be ready for the conclusion of the duology of this high fantasy, you can buy The Wolf and the Wild King at all the usual places, print and ebook, and especially through your favourite indie. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
OMG. I actually have to see this. Somehow.
It took forty years but I have finally seen a production of Chess that ACTUALLY COMPLETELY WORKS
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
OMG. I actually have to see this. Somehow.
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
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We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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#Booksky Terrific review by Keith John Glaeske of "Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant," by Melissa Scott at Out in Print.. outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/p...
Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant – Melissa Scott (Queen of Swords Press)
Buy from: Queen of Swords Press After seven long years, Melissa Scott has returned to Astreiant! Point of Hearts, her sixth foray into Astreiant, the quasi-Renaissance city-state she created with h…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#Booksky Terrific review by Keith John Glaeske of "Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant," by Melissa Scott at Out in Print.. outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/p...
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Yale owns a Dutch utility bond issued in 1648 that still pays interest. “Yale’s bond, written on goatskin, was issued on May 15, 1648 to Mr. Niclaes de Meijer for the “sum of 1,000 Carolus Guilders of 20 Stuivers a piece.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Yale owns a Dutch utility bond issued in 1648 that still pays interest. “Yale’s bond, written on goatskin, was issued on May 15, 1648 to Mr. Niclaes de Meijer for the “sum of 1,000 Carolus Guilders of 20 Stuivers a piece.”
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OMG YES. Thank you, @benmonreal.bsky.social, for the kind words and the thoughtful review!
In honor of Halloween, I just read a horror novel and wanted to write up a quick micro-review thread here. Presenting: @mcmanlypants.bsky.social's Children of Solitude. Thread: 1/ www.skylightbooks.com/book/9798992...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
OMG YES. Thank you, @benmonreal.bsky.social, for the kind words and the thoughtful review!
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Happy Halloween, Cerberus!
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Happy Halloween, Cerberus!
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#Booksky If you’re avoiding shopping at the ‘Zon but need Kindle format for your books, here’s your reminder that you can buy it direct from us! We get paid faster, our authors get paid more and we reinvest in our communities! From queer cosy to spooky: queenofswordspress.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#Booksky If you’re avoiding shopping at the ‘Zon but need Kindle format for your books, here’s your reminder that you can buy it direct from us! We get paid faster, our authors get paid more and we reinvest in our communities! From queer cosy to spooky: queenofswordspress.com
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#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
#Booksky Looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER and A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social are both on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...