Madame Askew ➡️ Embracing the Crone Within
@madameaskew.bsky.social
Madame is a time traveling tea lover, obsessed with fashion & the proper uses for headgear. A lover of the back catalogue and mid-list. (Not a euphemism) Also, cats. (she/her) https://linktr.ee/MadameAskew
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🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🦃🎮 Creator Day returns this Friday with the start of our Black Friday 2025 Sitewide Sale. For 24 hours we'll waive our free on all transactions. Over 15,000 projects to be on sale from this Friday through December 3rd. More details here itch.io/blog/1124058/creator...
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Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year fundraiser on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Mark your calendars! We are kicking off our End of Year fundraiser on the 2nd, Giving Tuesday!
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
Donate at bwc.io/locus2025 (link in bio) through December and see your gift doubled via a $100,000 match challenge.
The campaign is live now if you just can't wait.
My darlings, I'm mostly here to promote books, engage in cheeky nonsense, and share my shop cats. But I come from a family of artists. My dearest auntie makes the most glorious cards. Perfect for the holidays. She's not on here so I can be extravagant in my praise
www.etsy.com/shop/WoodHor...
www.etsy.com/shop/WoodHor...
www.etsy.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My darlings, I'm mostly here to promote books, engage in cheeky nonsense, and share my shop cats. But I come from a family of artists. My dearest auntie makes the most glorious cards. Perfect for the holidays. She's not on here so I can be extravagant in my praise
www.etsy.com/shop/WoodHor...
www.etsy.com/shop/WoodHor...
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CD Baby won’t fix the fact that my record Mischief isn’t on Tidal despite their own records that it’s been there since 2014, unless I pay more $ for the privilege, so yall feel free to get that download/CD from me on Bandcamp instead, ok? Ok.
(I am so angry rn.)
sjtucker.bandcamp.com/album/mischief
(I am so angry rn.)
sjtucker.bandcamp.com/album/mischief
Mischief, by S. J. Tucker
13 track album
sjtucker.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
CD Baby won’t fix the fact that my record Mischief isn’t on Tidal despite their own records that it’s been there since 2014, unless I pay more $ for the privilege, so yall feel free to get that download/CD from me on Bandcamp instead, ok? Ok.
(I am so angry rn.)
sjtucker.bandcamp.com/album/mischief
(I am so angry rn.)
sjtucker.bandcamp.com/album/mischief
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Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
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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!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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!
Since I've been running a quirky little steampunk and historical fantasy book club for almost 15 years combined, naturally I have opinions and recommendations about books for new readers
Now seems like a perfect time to share.
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Now seems like a perfect time to share.
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7 Book Recommendations for the New Steampunk Reader
Today, during our monthly book chat, I had the pleasure of welcoming some new Steampunk readers to the CommuniTea! What an absolute delight and a perfect reminder to share my favourite book recomme…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Since I've been running a quirky little steampunk and historical fantasy book club for almost 15 years combined, naturally I have opinions and recommendations about books for new readers
Now seems like a perfect time to share.
madameaskew.com/2025/08/25/7...
Now seems like a perfect time to share.
madameaskew.com/2025/08/25/7...
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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Wow... almost a thousand dollars in just the first few hours. Honestly I feel like a character in a corny holiday movie who lost her Christmas spirit so the town comes together to help her get it back. Except the "town" is bluesky. Thank you so much everyone. 🥹
I love Christmas and normally I'd be getting so excited right about now, but this year I'm a little down because it's our first holiday since we lost Fergus. I'm hoping I can spread some cheer and regain a little spirit myself by raising some funds for our local shelter! givebutter.com/n5l31M
Molly's Holiday Fundraiser 2025
Make Winter Merry and Bright in Honor of Fergus
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November 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Wow... almost a thousand dollars in just the first few hours. Honestly I feel like a character in a corny holiday movie who lost her Christmas spirit so the town comes together to help her get it back. Except the "town" is bluesky. Thank you so much everyone. 🥹
This series is my every every winter holiday read now. It's so charming and bursting with found family. Helena writes with verve, humour, humor, compassion for the human experience. Absolutely top notch books!
This is just a reminder that I wrote a trilogy that ends with the icy blond lawyer fiancee, who got dumped for the hot small town tree farmer in the first book, road tripping to the ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend (and there's only one bed).
You can buy all three!
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You can buy all three!
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November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This series is my every every winter holiday read now. It's so charming and bursting with found family. Helena writes with verve, humour, humor, compassion for the human experience. Absolutely top notch books!
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*waves promo flag while sliding to the floor, exhausted*
Sale alert! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC by myself & Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social is on eBook sale across ALL shops!
Also available in lovely hardcover or in audiobook, with both of us narrating!
Examining haunted history & ghost lore through Gothic lit:
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Also available in lovely hardcover or in audiobook, with both of us narrating!
Examining haunted history & ghost lore through Gothic lit:
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
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November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
*waves promo flag while sliding to the floor, exhausted*
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Just went to that new piracy site (not going to link to it & encourage this shit) & yup, almost all my work's there, including every format of THE NIGHTWARD you could want & every anthology I'm in. 🙄
Anyway, if you'd like to help me eat, please buy my book:
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Anyway, if you'd like to help me eat, please buy my book:
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
The Nightward
Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia’s scifantasy debut novel—the first in a duology—in which Caribbean mythology meets The Wit...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Just went to that new piracy site (not going to link to it & encourage this shit) & yup, almost all my work's there, including every format of THE NIGHTWARD you could want & every anthology I'm in. 🙄
Anyway, if you'd like to help me eat, please buy my book:
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Anyway, if you'd like to help me eat, please buy my book:
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
So many lovely treasures!
Friends! It's the big annual Etsy sale!
Select listings up to 25% off at Torch & Arrow!
Goth/Steampunk/Neo-Victorian jewelry, cuff-links, tie bars, hair things & more!
I'm awaiting payment on several book things but bills noted below have made things pretty dire.
Shop: torchandarrow.etsy.com
Select listings up to 25% off at Torch & Arrow!
Goth/Steampunk/Neo-Victorian jewelry, cuff-links, tie bars, hair things & more!
I'm awaiting payment on several book things but bills noted below have made things pretty dire.
Shop: torchandarrow.etsy.com
Adding to this thread: new listings! I know it's been a rough year for everyone, my family included (just hit w/ 2k medical + car bill, so we're scrambling). If Gothy / Neo-Victorian / Vintage / Steampunky things sound cool, check out torchandarrow.etsy.com, your support is so dearly appreciated 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
So many lovely treasures!
My darlings, this is my occasional reminder that I run a quirky little, virtual book club with my dear chums @b1llz1lla.bsky.social. we do our utmost to celebrate the authors and shatter the idea that steampunk is a sepia toned, European monolith.
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Temporal Textual Talks: A Steampunk Book Chat
The 2026 Reading List Originally posted to our PatreonAfter gathering recommendations, hunting through our own lists, and debating, genteelly over cups of tea, Bill Bodden, our Official Buttery Goo…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My darlings, this is my occasional reminder that I run a quirky little, virtual book club with my dear chums @b1llz1lla.bsky.social. we do our utmost to celebrate the authors and shatter the idea that steampunk is a sepia toned, European monolith.
madameaskew.com/2025/11/22/t...
madameaskew.com/2025/11/22/t...
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And honestly with the number of free books available at any point now, there is very little defense I want to hear from people these days.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
And honestly with the number of free books available at any point now, there is very little defense I want to hear from people these days.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.
You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.
Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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There’s never an alien invasion around when you need one! Read “The Necessary Enemy” by Ian Randal Strock in If We Had Known especbooks.square.site/product/if-w...
If We Had Known | eSpec Books
(If you are placing a *digital-only* order, please use discount code NOSHIP to remove the shipping.)Beyond the Cradle of mankind, the universe is vast, unknown, dangerous to the unwary…or those…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
There’s never an alien invasion around when you need one! Read “The Necessary Enemy” by Ian Randal Strock in If We Had Known especbooks.square.site/product/if-w...
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#Booksky We’re doing our first
ebook set! THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT created by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane and Lisa A. Barnett, cover from @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social, is up for preorder now! Releases 12/15 (and it’s eligible for the Best Series Hugo!). queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
ebook set! THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT created by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane and Lisa A. Barnett, cover from @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social, is up for preorder now! Releases 12/15 (and it’s eligible for the Best Series Hugo!). queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
#Booksky We’re doing our first
ebook set! THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT created by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane and Lisa A. Barnett, cover from @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social, is up for preorder now! Releases 12/15 (and it’s eligible for the Best Series Hugo!). queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
ebook set! THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT created by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane and Lisa A. Barnett, cover from @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social, is up for preorder now! Releases 12/15 (and it’s eligible for the Best Series Hugo!). queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
Little biscuits come to life as wee dragons!! How absolutely delightful!
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Little biscuits come to life as wee dragons!! How absolutely delightful!
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If you want a book your library doesn’t have, request it!
Or if you want an ebook that’s not available to libraries, use ereaderiq.com to track price drops on Kindle, or add the book to your wishlist on Kobo and they’ll notify you. I’m very poor and have tons of ebooks I’ve bought for $1 on sale.
Or if you want an ebook that’s not available to libraries, use ereaderiq.com to track price drops on Kindle, or add the book to your wishlist on Kobo and they’ll notify you. I’m very poor and have tons of ebooks I’ve bought for $1 on sale.
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
If you want a book your library doesn’t have, request it!
Or if you want an ebook that’s not available to libraries, use ereaderiq.com to track price drops on Kindle, or add the book to your wishlist on Kobo and they’ll notify you. I’m very poor and have tons of ebooks I’ve bought for $1 on sale.
Or if you want an ebook that’s not available to libraries, use ereaderiq.com to track price drops on Kindle, or add the book to your wishlist on Kobo and they’ll notify you. I’m very poor and have tons of ebooks I’ve bought for $1 on sale.
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Official link to these new Southern Reach editions share.google/wvp4iCVx0q5a...
Evernight Exclusive: Southern Reach set by Jeff Vandermeer
We’re thrilled to announce, in collaboration with Jeff Vandermeer (@jeff_vandermeer123) and 4th Estate Books (@4thestatebooks), our Evernight Exclusive set of the Southern Reach series! Sent as the tw...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Official link to these new Southern Reach editions share.google/wvp4iCVx0q5a...
Listen, this book is so charming! I absolutely loved it and I need everyone to read it so we can gossip about it
The epub of To Want for Nothing: Book One of the Urban Warlocks series is now available on sites like B&N, Kobo, Apple, and even my own shop!
Most places: books2read.com/twfn
Direct from me: author-m-b-kelly-shop.fourthwall.com
Most places: books2read.com/twfn
Direct from me: author-m-b-kelly-shop.fourthwall.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Listen, this book is so charming! I absolutely loved it and I need everyone to read it so we can gossip about it
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The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The old year is dying and the new year struggles to add to your TBR 🍜🛠️THE AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANISING MANUAL🍜🛠️is cosy delicious organising against rapacious space landlords @starsandsabers.bsky.social (Until then get CLUB CONTANGO for the hols!)
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ah...
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Last stop of tour for Brigands & Breadknives is in Vancouver BC, tomorrow at 7PM at the Rio Theatre-
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Last stop of tour for Brigands & Breadknives is in Vancouver BC, tomorrow at 7PM at the Rio Theatre-
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A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
A cosy fantasy murder mystery series set in the world of Fire Heart.
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!
books2read.com/u/b5GdNp - out now
books2read.com/u/3LOxMM - preorder!