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Ballast Book Company
@ballastbookco.bsky.social
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🐉 Rad indie bookstore located in beautiful & complicated Bremerton, WA
📚 Shop indie bookstores and support local
📍 Corner of 4th street and Pacific Ave
www.ballastbookco.com
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aliedh.bsky.social
#PNW Peeps! I'll be @ballastbookco.bsky.social Nov 7 for the First Friday Art Walk, signing copies of my award-winning novel, The Myth Maker! Come by and get copy signed for that book lover on your holiday shopping list!
brown paper background with a few holiday packages on the left with red and gold ribbons. The shop logo for Ballast Book Co is on the top package. At the bottom, over the packages is the cover of the detective thriller, THE MYTH MAKER, and a silver award logo for BookFest Text on the right reads: BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS! MEET LOCAL AUTHOR ALIE DUMAS-HEIDT AT BALLAST BOOK CO AND GRAB A SIGNED COPY OF HER AWARD-WINNING NOVEL, THE MYTH MAKER. NOV 7, 2025 5PM-8PM BALLAST BOOK CO. 409 PACIFIC AVE #202, BREMERTON, WA MORE INFO AT ALIEDH.COM
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
ballastbookco.bsky.social
based on real life events
A photo of an open book on a towel on a sandy beach. White serif text overlaid on top says 'the summer I didn't finish a single book on my TBR' (to be read)
September 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
ballastbookco.bsky.social
OUR NAME NEXT TO SEANAN MCGUIRE'S NAME?! 😭🫡
seananmcguire.bsky.social Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · Aug 18
UK:

Portal Bookshop

USA:

The Lakewood Bookstore,
Porter Square Books,
Grit City Books,
Copper Dog Books,
Murder By The Book,
Booksweet,
Caprichos Books,
Ballast Book Company,
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore,
Borderlands Books,
Bookends & Beginnings,
August 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ballastbookco.bsky.social
Happy Women in Translation Month! A perfect time to celebrate and uplift women who write in languages other than English.
Some of our favorite translated authors are: Agustina Bazterrica, Marlen Haushofer, Olga Ravn, Sayaka Murata, Mariana Enriquez, Han Kang, and Isabel Allende!
A cream background with blue cursive text in centre that says 'Woman in Translation Month'. 6 books circle the text in matching blue/cream: Tender is the Flesh, The Employees, My Name is Emilia Del Valle, A Sunny Place for Shady People, The Wall, and The Vegetarian
August 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
ballastbookco.bsky.social
And, baby, that's bookselling business for you ❤️‍🔥

From being unable to reach books on the highest shelf to climbing over the mountains of boxes delivered everyday, The Life of a Bookseller is beautiful, rapturous, and frightening 😌
August 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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we had a proposal in our bookstore ahhh it's a love story baby just say yes !!
Woman in a white and green renaissance outfit holding a basket and also holding back tears as her boyfriend gets down on one knee A blonde woman in a white and green Renaissance outfit admiring the engagement ring on her finger as her boyfriend kneels down in front of her wearing a green bucket hat and white shirt
July 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ballastbookco.bsky.social
Happy Paperback Book Day! Here's some of our bookseller favorites in paperback form 📕❤️
A stack of 5 books sitting on a stool with a blurred background. The books from top to bottom are All Fours by Miranda July, Service Model by Tchaikovsky, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, and Vicious by VE Schwab
July 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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yeah we really like books by the saint of writing @tkingfisher.com
Oil painting of The Dedication by Edmund Blair Leighton depicting a knight and lady kneeling before an altar, likely dedicating themselves to a noble (AKA me dedicating myself to author T. Kingfisher like the noble she is). White text in a medieval font overlaid on top says "me pledging loyalty to T. Kingfisher"
July 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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5 baby orange kittens all walking in the same direction with a white text overlaid on top that says 'gang on the way to support small businesses' because shopping small and supporting indie businesses is COOL and helping billionaires rent historical cities is NOT
July 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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it's a prime day to shop small and support local!
July 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
ballastbookco.bsky.social
3 photos like a comic a trip. In the first, a young woman with brown hair asks "what was the date?". Second: a young blonde woman says "it was just like going to an indie bookstore and looking at all the cute stickers and getting book recommendations." In the third the brunette says "My dream date. Cute. And he knows that." Because going to an indie bookstore is a much cuter date than shopping on Amazon dot com !
July 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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why help a b*illionaire rent an entire city when you can help a local bookseller buy labubus instead
June 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"I asked chatgpt" okay well I asked the cool bookseller at my local indie bookstore and they said read more gay books so
June 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
I can't tell you how invigorating and inspiring and hopeful it is to be in a crowd of people who also care. Took a group of teens to the last big protest and they were most struck by no longer feeling alone. If you're able to go, I encourage you to try. Get a group of friends & go together.
louisathelast.bsky.social Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · Jun 13
I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest
June 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Need a little good news for your Friday?

We’ve officially raised over $39 million for independent bookstores 🎉
June 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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lesbian cowgirl books 'cause baby I'm a giver 😌😘
Pink and orange gradient background with 'sapphic westerns' written in fun orange font up top. Two book covers are in the middle ("The Ride of Her Life" and "Upright Women Wanted"). Additional text says 'saddle up!' And 'save a horse ride a cowgirl!' Cut outs of Chappell Roan decorate the bottom
June 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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LET ME JUST QUICKLY INCREASE OUR ORDER

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June 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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ohmwu.bsky.social
Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.

Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
Asexual flag made from photos of galaxies Non-binary flag made from photos of galaxies New Pride flag made from photos of galaxies Transgender flag made from photos of galaxies
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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tjalexandernyc.bsky.social
What's up pride month it's me, your friendly & approachable nonbinary author here to tell you about my queer kissing books

Jokes! Painful earnestness! A fun time!

DON'T WE ALL NEED A FUN TIME.

Buy on @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/lists/my-boo...
Text: Happy Pride, Sluts. Here are some trans books. All my book covers are arranged on a rainbow background. Titles are Chef's Kiss, Chef's Choice, Second Chances in New Port Stephen, Triple Sec, and A Gentleman's Gentleman.
June 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Bluesky's character count literally isn't long enough for how astonishing and out-of-pocket this woman was, lol. Like, there wasn't even room to add the bit about her being a master fencer who would humble your ass in duels for misgendering her
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 1
Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible.

We have always been here.
June 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁! 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁!
𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻! 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘁.
𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱: 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄. 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁.
Photo of author Matt Dinniman smiling behind a microphone and sitting in a cushioned chair on stage. The table to his left has a stuffed car with sunglasses on who is supposed to look like Princess Donut from his Dungeon Crawler Carl book series Authors Matt Dinniman and Django Wexler sitting in cushioned chairs on stage while they laugh. A stuffed cat sits on a table between them. The lower half of the frame shows the audience in shadow that they are speaking to
June 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Princess Donut exactly where she belongs—in front of a live audience 👑💖
A photo of a fake stuffed cat from behind as she looks out over a large audience sitting in a theatre
June 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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shannonrampeauthor.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @ballastbookco.bsky.social for organizing an awesome event today with @mattdinniman.bsky.social and @djangowexler.bsky.social! I haven't laughed so hard since the last Dungeon Crawler Carl book I read!
June 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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spring has sprook time to buy a new book!
A hand holding a bouquet of red tulips with green stems, with a blue sky in the background. White text on top of the flower stems says 'indie bookstores' while each bulb has different white text like: a cute tote bag, a brand new book, bookseller recs, and iced coffee, and quirky stickers. All these things make up the bouquet that is an indie bookstore!
May 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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yesssssss www.ballastbookco.com/item/MWp_c1q...
May 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM