Sweet Flag Books
My Imaginary Bookshop, Goodreads Giveaway & Other News
Troy Ford’s Upcoming Appearances
LIVE on The Daily Whatever podcast with
’s and on Friday, May 30th at 10am EasternLIVE with Serial King
on Sunday, June 1st at 2pm EasternLIVE with
and on Tuesday, June 3rd at 1pm EasternLIVE with
’s on Wednesday, June 4th at 11am EasternLost Spaces Podcast with Host K Anderson - Date to be announced
Booktuber Shawn Breathes Books - Date to be announced
Wrote Podcast with Hosts Vance Bastian and Baz Collins - Date to be announced
Goodreads Giveaway - Get it while it’s hot!
I’m giving away 50 copies of the Kindle ebook of Lamb: A novel in snapshots - Click to Enter!
Also, Follow/Friend me over there so I can keep up with what you’re all reading.
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Handsome devil, Bookstagrammer, and author of the Lambda Literary Award Finalist & NY Times Editors Choice novel Brother and Sister Enter the Forest,
, did an Instagram peek at Lamb! Thank you so much!I was invited to participate in the Authorstack Summer Reading List—it’s a look-book for Bookstackers to find Substack writers with books coming out in time for summer beach reading, including
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and me!Anyone should feel free to peruse our catalog—Buy and Read to your heart’s delight—or contact any of us to do Lives, interviews, reviews, blurbs, mentions, Notes, guest posts, book clubs, garden and/or tea party appearances, etc. We would be thrilled to talk about our books with you—as if you could shut us up.
Announcing my Imaginary Bookshop & Imprint
You all know the deal with Bookshop.org, right?
Their mission is simple: “To help local, independent bookstores thrive in the age of ecommerce.”
It’s super easy: You pick an independent bookstore, shop for your books on Bookshop.org, and a portion of every purchase is donated directly to that store. So far they’ve donated over $38 Million to independent bookstores!
Turns out they have an Affiliate program that also helps independent authors (like me!) who are already talking about books on their platforms.
So now, when you click/buy any of the books that I mention, or shop for any books on the website, not only will your favorite indie bookstore get a donation, so will your favorite indie author too. (Me again. 😘)
Some of you may remember awhile back how I wanted to open an imaginary reading room, and was also goofing around with an imaginary small press, etc.
When I was getting ready to publish Lamb independently, I thought it would be nice to pick a name for my “publisher” which wasn’t just “Self” and thought back to the godfather of queer writers, Walt Whitman.
His Calamus series of poems from Leaves of Grass is an early celebration of same-sex love—Calamus being a marsh-growing plant with rather phallic flower clusters whose common name is “Sweet Flag.” Voilà.
Sweet Flag Books is now my imaginary bookshop and personal publishing imprint1 with a buffet of favorites and other books mentioned on both FORD KNOWS and Qstack.
Bookmark Mr. Troy Ford’s Sweet Flag Books, and whenever you shop, you’ll be helping out this writer’s journey, independent bookstores, AND other Substack writers because—
20% of all my Affiliate earnings will be used to sponsor other Substack writers with paid subscriptions.
I don’t expect this to be a large sum, but every little bit helps.
Does this mean I’m a #bookstacker now?
A prelude to a small press publishing other writers? Stranger things.
Love that you have a bookshop.org page now, too! So many events, so exciting, Troy 💜💜💜
Looks like you’ve got a lot coming up Troy!
It’s great to see there will be lots of promotion for Lamb. The world needs to know about it! Happy for you brother! :)