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knizer

Saturday - #SideQuest #Books and #Games in #UnionSquare #SomervilleMA hosts #SomerCon @ Aeronaut Brewery - games & vendors, ticketed, but sold out - our delightful @swachter will be vending geeky sewn goods there too.
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sidequestbooks.com#BostonGeek #TTRPG
#BostonWeekend 19/x

InstagramSide Quest Books & Games | Caroline on Instagram: "📣 SOMERCON UPDATES! 📣 1. We’re almost sold out! Aaaahhhhh! There are like 13 entry tickets left, so grab em now! 2. If you HAVE an entry ticket but have not yet signed up for an ADD-ON ticket for a game or a discussion group — get on that now before they’re all gone. Plenty of spots left for D&D, Community Radio, Kids on Brooms, and Moonlight on Roseville Beach! Just head back to the Eventbrite page and you should be able to purchase the add-on separately (just make sure you do also already have your entry ticket secured). 3. We’re working on finalizing the programming outside of the games and discussion groups, too! Everyone will have access to the painting table for painting RPG minis, we’ll have a small lending library of rules-lite TTRPGs for y’all to borrow during the con, and LAST BUT NOT LEAST, @ladylusan will be setting up shop to offer 20-minute character sketches!! You can book a time slot for that on my Calendly — check out the linktr.ee in my bio. We can’t wait to see y’all there in just a few short weeks! • • • @aeronautbrewing @dangerwizard_dm @worlds4all #indiettrpg #ttrpgcon #gamingcon #somervillema #somercon2025"105 likes, 3 comments - sidequestbooks on February 24, 2025: "📣 SOMERCON UPDATES! 📣 1. We’re almost sold out! Aaaahhhhh! There are like 13 entry tickets left, so grab em now! 2. If you HAVE an entry ticket but have not yet signed up for an ADD-ON ticket for a game or a discussion group — get on that now before they’re all gone. Plenty of spots left for D&D, Community Radio, Kids on Brooms, and Moonlight on Roseville Beach! Just head back to the Eventbrite page and you should be able to purchase the add-on separately (just make sure you do also already have your entry ticket secured). 3. We’re working on finalizing the programming outside of the games and discussion groups, too! Everyone will have access to the painting table for painting RPG minis, we’ll have a small lending library of rules-lite TTRPGs for y’all to borrow during the con, and LAST BUT NOT LEAST, @ladylusan will be setting up shop to offer 20-minute character sketches!! You can book a time slot for that on my Calendly — check out the linktr.ee in my bio. We can’t wait to see y’all there in just a few short weeks! • • • @aeronautbrewing @dangerwizard_dm @worlds4all #indiettrpg #ttrpgcon #gamingcon #somervillema #somercon2025".
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Jess Cho

An anthology that I was invited to be in is now available for pre-order!
Silk & Sinew is an anthology of Asian Diaspora folk horror, with stories, poems and essays exploring the relationship between body and land. Amazing authors involved, with gorgeous cover art by Eileen Kai Hing Kwan. It’s been so exciting to watch this project come together, and I’d love if you gave it a look.
#books #horror #bipoc #bookstadon

badhandbooks.com/preorders/sil

The cover of a book that reads: SILK & SINEW A COLLECTION OF FOLK HORROR FROM THE ASIAN DIASPORA EDITED BY KRISTY PARK KULSKI The cover is black with red/bronze text and an illustration of a faceless Asian person wearing a Korean hanbok in the same colours, with roots growing up from the ground and coiling into their skirt and around their arms.
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David Brent 📚

It's officially #baseball season, so I thought it was as good a time as ever to read Two In The Field by Darryl Brock. It's the follow-up to his time travel/baseball novel If I Never Get Back. I read the first book in my adolescence, and then enjoyed it again about a year ago, which is also when I discovered the sequel.

Admit it: "time travel" and "baseball" is not a plot combo you've seen before! Somehow, Brock makes it work.

#FridayReads #Books #Bookstodon #TimeTravel #AmReading @bookstodon

Cover for Two In The Field (A Novel) by Darryl Brock. "Smartly written historical adventure... a worthy addition to Brock's lineup of baseball novels." - The Sacramento Bee Cover image shows a close-up of a single worn baseball in light sepia tone.
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Martin Rundkvist

Here's the outside and inside of The Collection's front cover, a reused parchment sheet from a butchered Medieval manuscript. The end of the Middle Ages, as marked by Reformation, wasn't even a century back when Bureus kept the notebook.

#books#history
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infoDOCKET

Statement: PEN America, ACLU of South Carolina Express Alarm Over More Pending Statewide School Book Bans pen.org/press-release/pen-amer
#bookbans #libraries #books @penamerica

PEN AmericaPEN America, ACLU of South Carolina Express Alarm Over More Pending Statewide School Book Bans - PEN AmericaPEN America and the ACLU of South Carolina raised alarm today over the potential banning of ten more books statewide in S.C. public schools on April 1.The book titles are largely for young adult readers by women and LGBTQ+ authors that focus on diverse groups or difficult real-world topics. In an initial vote earlier this month, a review committee unanimously recommended the titles be banned statewide. A final vote on the recommendations is scheduled for Tuesday at 1PM ET by the state Board of Education.
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Petra van Cronenburg

@leighms The same problem with #crafts and #art. Not long ago someone wrote an article about #scam #fake lacemaker books: 404media.co/bobbin-tatting-lac When it comes to tutorials, #LLM images become a pest destroying beginners' self esteem.
The only good news: it doesn't kill.

And Bezos, Zuckerberg & Co are complicit, because they want to sell their AI. @writers
@Remittancegirl

404 Media · AI-Generated Book Grifters Threaten The Future of Lace-Making“Unfortunately, for newcomers who might be excited to dive into this hobby, they could get burned by the inadequate books—and frankly the thievery—of the work of our cherished lacemakers and designers."
#AI#ChatGPT#bookstodon
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Catherine Babault

One year ago I published my third and best photo book to date. Vancouver Sun gave it a great review and I have sold copies worlwide. If you love nature and wildlife and are curious about Vancouver Island, this book has photos of bears, whales, otters, birds, etc. and landscapes.
You can only order it from me (not avail. on Amazon or other big corporations) so you're not enriching a billionaire but supporting a small business owned by a woman.
Order here catherinebabault.com/book/wild
#books #bookstodon

Cover of the book with a black bear filling up most of the frame. The bear stands on a rocky shoreline and looks at the camera.
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