You didn’t think I forgot to tell y’all about what I read in September, did you?!

I had an awesome time reading the following 6 books:

• The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick by S. Isabelle

• When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley

• The Princess and the P.I. by Nikki Payne

• You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom by Vincent Tirado

• The Dating Prohibition by Taj McCoy

• You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

This week, I've had a few things on my mind: canning, learning to sew my own clothes, and befriending an old lady.

I've been very interested in potentially learning how to can things, especially with getting fresh produce from the farmer's market. I don't think I will be able to learn this skill quickly enough to truly take advantage of most of what's available this year, but I may try some things with the last of the harvests coming up if I can get myself in gear. I find canning both fascinating and terrifying because you can mess it up if you don't know what you're doing and that's a food safety nightmare, but I'm willing to try. This especially ties into witchcraft, as the colder month's lend themselves so well to kitchen and hearth witchery, and I think canning goes hand in hand with that. In addition to canning, I'd like to get better about making tonics and tinctures, which are canning adjacent in my mind. Pairing foods with intentions and then storing them long term feels so cozy. Especially if you are storing things for the colder months from the warmer months in order to bring the essence of summer into the dark months of winter in the form of a jam or tonic.

We are a couple weeks away from the release of Tempest's Queen!!!!

Remember yesterday when I told you about Bookshop's FREE SHIPPING SALE through tonight, October 8th?

Well, if you like stacking savings and are looking to purchased banned books, Bookshop is ALSO HAVING A SALE ON ALMOST 150 BANNED BOOKS from now until October 19th!

So if you pick up any of the books on my banned books list by tonight, you'll not only get 20% off, but you'll also receive free shipping!

Hey my lovebugs,

Wooo... it has been a long couple of weeks for me, and that is just in my personal life. I got into a car accident, if you didn't know, and it's been stressful picking up the pieces together. I am okay physically, it just has been rough.

I also went to Book Harvest in Chicago this past weekend. I had a blast meeting author friends as well as making some new ones. I was fortunate to be a PA for my friend Rae Douglas! (If you haven't read a book by them and you like soft mafia dark romance, then you absolutely should). I also bought SOOO MANY BOOKS that I plan to do a video about soon!

If you could have any dream bookish related job, what would it be and why? OR If you work that job now, why is it your dream job?

You probably already know this but I work in freelance book publicity for my day job. But my dream job is being a bookish content creator. Making videos is my biggest passion and if I could do it full time, that would be the dream. Of course, I also want to be a publisher, publishing books, which is why I partnered with Bindery.

Hello my darlings! It's time for the big unveiling of the new name, logo, and mission statement for what WAS just called @amanda.the.bookish's Books and is NOW called Inkspoken Books! This is specifically to angle this account toward becoming a Bindery Imprint. ✨

Name: What does Inkspoken Books mean? the name Inkspoken Books came to me as I was brainstorming imprint names over the summer and it just stuck. I like how it's lightly whimsical and calls back to antiquity; 'ink' and 'spoken' as the foundation of all stories, written and verbal alike.