There are people who have a rosier opinion than I do of what Twitter was pre-Musk acquisition. Speaking as a broad and maybe unfair generalisation, I think that crowd – call them the nostalgics – has been drawn towards Bluesky as the most one-to-one replacement for what they once had and now miss.(In the past handful of days we've gone from almost no Bluesky followers to 4,000: https://bsky.app/profile/canongate.co.uk )Call me a dead-hearted cynic, but the (hyper-capitalist) pressures on Bluesky seem to me to be the same pressures that did for Twitter in the end – and I'm not desperate to relive that cycle – but maybe if that's where a lot of our community goes then we'll end up being active there and enjoying it while it lasts.

@canongatebooks A big advantage that Mastodon has over Twitter is that it's not just Mastodon - you can also interact with other types of server, e.g. Pixelfed which is more Instagram-like, or PeerTube as a YouTube replacement.As a publishing house, you should definitely look into Bookwyrm https://joinbookwyrm.com/

Happy UK publication day to EAT THE WORLD! An essential debut poetry collection from platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina Diamandis, which shares her singular observations of the human heart through poetry which explores trauma, youth, and the highs and lows of relationships⁠⁠Get your copy now! Available in all good bookshops and online: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/eat-the-world-marina-diamandis/7687010?ean=9781837262182⁠‘The persona-driven approach that has informed many of [Marina's] lyrics is used here, the character an unmoored rock star. There’s brilliant phrasemaking and sharp observations throughout’⁠Guardian ⁠⁠‘Like the music, [Marina's] poetry is by turns surreal and straight, packed with lines that start out sweet and quickly sour. Eat the World explores love, bad boyfriends, youth and loneliness; the poems have gut-punch titles’⁠Sunday Times⁠

If you know you want to pre-order, we'd recommend doing so via Edinburgh's radical bookshop, Lighthouse Bookshttps://lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781837264186