do YOU have an independent bookseller you love, ESPECIALLY one who might need a few extra bucks in their pocket? you can nominate them RIGHT NOW for a james patterson holiday bonus! it's free for you and takes all of three minutes!!! do it, you coward!!! www.bookweb.org/james-patter...

hello, hudson valley! do you love kidlit as much as i do? then join me NEXT WEEK for a conversation with jon klassen!!!

thursday, sept 25 @ 6:30 pm at morton memorial library in rhinecliff, ny: www.oblongbooks.com/event/jon-kl...

ps: hmu if you're an educator! you get a discount!

hudson valley!!! this tuesday, @wiswell.bsky.social is coming to oblong books! 💞 i LOVE john's work and am so excited to have him and would LOVE for you to join us. plus we have FREE AIR CONDITIONING and it's gonna be HOT OUT. 🔥🔥🔥

please come!!! RSVP here: www.oblongbooks.com/event/john-w...

i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing.

if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...

hello! i've started a new series over on instagram called #PublishingPrimers! it can be hard to learn how companies operate and what all that book lingo actually means. today, i answer "what is a publisher" and "who are the big 5": www.instagram.com/p/DEXNckcxM7W/?

doing my civic duty by informing you that oblong books, the independent bookstore i manage and adore dearly, is having a 20% off sale ALL DAY to celebrate the new year... including online! babes, get your pre-orders in AND support an indie!!!put me to work! give me orders to fill! oblongbooks.com

dear bennie:

if a strange half-drowned witch with arcing cheekbones and sharp teeth fell into my life, with her white hair colorfully stained by the dust of the moths she who whisper secrets to her, i would also fall in love. with her? with magic? yes.

xoxo,
nicole

periodic reminder that you can ask me to do bookish things because i love to do bookish things with bookish people. ✨

qualified for lots of stuff somehow but just bookmark nebrinkley.com and hmu whenever you need a hand. 🥰

good morning, bookwyrms! there's a lot going on in the world but if you want personal queer book recs, follow The Nonbinarian Bike on instagram today: i am taking over the account for this friday only to celebrate ace week. 💜🩶🖤

instagram.com/nonbinarianb...

🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨 you have until end-of-day saturday, october 28 to snatch up a Make Bookselling Sustainable t-shirt or tanktop to support @thinkingbinc. 🥰 we are halfway to my goal—i'd love to meet it.

head over now to bonfire.com/make-bookselling-sustainable to get yours.

new essay? new manifesto? here's 24 things publishing should change in 2024: tinyletter.com/misshelved/l...

new novelstalgia episode dropped this week. it's about the two worst kid detectives i have ever met. seriously terrible. i am glad they are fashion designers as adults because if they were private investigators, no crime would ever get solved.

listen now: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nov...

happy book birthday to @ashleyposton.bsky.social's HAWKEYE: BISHOP TAKES KING (my bestie wrote quintessentially YA superhero!), STARLING HOUSE (a delicious appalachian gothic horror romantasy), and MOLE IS NOT ALONE (a super sweet picture book for anxious littles). run, don't walk, for these three.

my favorite fantasy of the year is out today!!! GODKILLER is evocative, unique, and compulsively readable. if you loved THE WITCHER, AMERICAN GODS or GIDEON THE NINTH, this is the book for you.

for a heightened experience, listen to the audiobook, entrancingly narrated by Kit Griffiths.

this may be the best photo of me ever taken. support your local independent booksellers. 📦

tuesday, august 29! 7 pm est! 🌈🚀 join me for a tordotcompub powerhouse doubleheader with s.l. huang and emma mieko candon!

i am so excited about these queer science fiction novels. this event is FREE and ONLINE so there's no reason not to join!

rsvp here: www.oblongbooks.com/event/online...

do you like beautifully illustrated memoirs that tackle ecology and race in rural america? 👀

THIS COUNTRY hits shelves from princeton university press on september 12—pre-order from your favorite indie bookstore today. ✨

if you are looking for a beautiful, queer, strange story about a circus in the early 1900s, THE FIRST BRIGHT THING is for you. but please know you won't be able to put it down. 🎪

more deets over here: http://instagram.com/nebrinkley

hello! i am going to be PLACES this month. find me at...

📚 naiba's new voices, new rooms conference from august 7 - 10!

💕 helping out bestie @ashleyposton.bsky.social at steamylitcon on august 18 & 19!

📖 in (zoom) conversation about queer sff at oblong books on august 29 at 7 pm est! it's free!