Hey booksellers! Want to show your support for HarperCollins Union in the hopes we might see some actual progress regarding pay in the industry? Tell your reps that you aren't reading HarperCollins books due to their poor treatment of their staff. Encourage them to pass it up the chain.

Good Morning everyone we have some announcements to make 📢

when the gays ask not to be fetishized in media we mean fetish as in 'irrational overattachment devoid of understanding' we don't mean sanitize and desexualize us. you are allowed to have your gay characters bone in weird ways, it is permitted, nay encouraged (as is tradition)

I am so deeply passionate about pay transparency, especially in bookselling, and have never had the spoons to actually do something but thankfully someone else did 👇

24 days ago I learned my daughter was dying in utero, and if untreated I risked preeclampsia and stroke. Termination is illegal in NC after 21 weeks, which I was, even when she had no hope of surviving and I was in danger. Because I had the means to leave, I’m ok and recovering.

Endless thanks to the HarperCollins Union members who trusted their value and dedicated their resources to holding out for nearly 100 days in order to get this new contract! I hope this is a reminder to all that corporations are nothing without the employees who keep them running.

I need everyone to know that SPACEMANATEE! (9781433840371) is the best book ever. Keith Arsenault you need to tell everyone to read this.

Hey friends! I have a request for y'all this week: recommend a book with a joyful queer black character to someone in your life Bonus Ask: engage with any form of media that has a joyful queer black character Thank you ♥️

(1/13) Today our members return to work after a strike that won us the strongest contract in book publishing (for now) ✊🏼🔥 Here are some highlights: 🧵⤵️

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PRH needs to put a content warning on PEPITA MEETS BEBITA: May cause pregnancy. edelweiss.plus/#keywordSearch… For clarification: I am not pregnant, but gosh did this book make me want to watch Pepper interact with a new baby.

Do you think the Nintendo execs know the disembodied NPC sounds in all LoZ games sounds like bad porn? Or is that a secret held by the people who actually work on the game?

Jess is an *excellent * writer, editor, game-runner, spooky horror generator, assistant manager, proofreader, and artist. Like. Seriously. Please share.

I don't know yet if they're planning anything (I think they've had no TIME to) but in the meantime - If anyone has leads on jobs in the CT/RI border area, or remote, in books, art, writing, marketing, anything - please let me know.

My brain has only two modes when I know I have to do something later that day. Hours away: I cannot do anything because I have a Thing later and what if I forget about it Less than an hour away: Now is the perfect time to figure out how to register my small business!