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Rycaut

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Entrepreneur & Product Manager - currently looking for new opportunities. Likely starting a Fediverse related business to host, manage and extend instances for businesses and organizations. Writer and GM

https://calendly.com/rycaut to schedule meetings with me

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kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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@bookstodon and other avid readers, either I'm terrible at searching, or what I am looking for doesn't exist (in the U.S.)

I am interested in a print-only (no digital) adult graphic novel subscription service, not comics, and not the superhero stuff. Do I need to search by bookstores? Cratejoy is for the U.K. only, and I thought Panels would be perfect: quarterly, indie pubs, but I can only find their digital app. I would like physical copies, in a monthly or quarterly box subscription.

Does anyone know anything like this?

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon not precisely this but many independent comic shops will let you create a “pull list” and will then offer to bundle up the issues you have asked for (which can all be graphic novels) and ship them to you. It probably won’t be for a standard monthly cost but instead the actual costs of the books (often with a small discount)

Illusive comics and games (https://www.illusivecomics.com) which is where I have my pull list (and is a queer woman owned business) does this

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon and the nice thing about a local comic shop is once they get to know your preferences they often will tell you about forthcoming works by creators you have read in the past or similar works by newer creators. A lot of the individual issues/ graphic novels I am reading currently were via such recommendations. I pick them up in person but the store is just 15 mins away.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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I need to reorganize my fiction bookshelves. What system has worked best for you? I'm leaning towards going by author, though that leaves the question of how to treat anthologies. Maybe anthologies could be first, or shelved by the editor's name. Alphabetical by title (preceded by numbers) might work just as well as by author.

I had been doing them by height size, except for the graphic novels, which tend not to match any standard size.

These particular bookshelves are all fiction (except for graphic nonfiction) so organizing by subject seems unwieldy.

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon for anthologies I would tend to sort them by the title of the anthology so that if you have multiple related anthologies even if their editors differed year over year your copies are shelved together. I also shelf shared world books together

(Ie stuff like “Years best …” where the editor might vary)

My challenge is both running out of shelf space and I usually keep my unread books shelved separately from those I have read. But need to do another round of reorganizing

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Dear @bookstodon

I would like recommendations for books where the main character is a mild villain dealing with much worse villains and is telling the story as they go. Fantasy and Scifi are always comforting genres but I venture out for the right books.

I would also like books where men and women are doing things and are friends without a romance being shoe-horned in. But I concede I might as well be asking for a pony at this point.

Thanks for any help and or boosts!

Rycaut ,
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@Homebrewandhacking @bookstodon the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss might fit (I haven’t finished them - but eh neither has he but very good and the main character isn’t exactly a good guy)

Lynn Flewelling has a bunch of series that I’m a huge fan of with fairly conflicted heroes though she has some romance (in complex and LGBTQ forms including some characters in some of her series who change gender - unclear however if they are trans in a modern sense)

Elric series by Moorcock also

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@Homebrewandhacking @bookstodon also the Locked Tomb sequence by Tamsyn Muir has mild villains (I’m currently reading the first of the series - I’ve heard the rest have a slightly different tone than the first book) lots of implied romance but not much actual yet. Very funny in many places which for a series about a necromancer (as a main character though not the viewpoint character in the first book) is quite an accomplishment.

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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Iain M. Banks
Anton Chekhov
C. J. Cherryh
Samuel R. Delany
Ursula Le Guin
Vladimir Nabokov
Thomas Pynchon
Gene Wolfe


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@hoare_spitall @pocoforte @austern @bookstodon Iain Banks wrote mainstream fiction under his name without a middle initial. And he wrote science fiction under the name Iain M Banks (most famously his Culture series of novels)

He’s a rare author who had acclaim as both a genre and a mainstream fiction author while drawing a deliberate distinction between his books in each genre. (Unlike arguably sf/fantasy works sold not as genre works by so many acclaimed literary authors over the years)

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