Sarah Bates

she/they 🏳️‍🌈 | My favorite books are sapphic and speculative. Being a B&N bookseller is 80% of my personality (but any hot takes are 100% my own!)

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

doing very important research for work

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

here’s lavender btw 💜

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

my peridot seems a lil depressed?
(same)

[NOOK: eBook Extraordinaires @nookBN]

Me, perfectly understanding Moby Dick:

what a great read. I wish a whale would kill me.

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

customer wanted a nick & charlie pin but had already bought the novella (and all the HS books) elsewhere

i gave him the pin anyway AND hand-sold him the magic fish 🥰

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

B&N i’m begging u to run these things past a graphic designer before posting https://t.co/fROF6czdny

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

everyone always talks about work meetings that could have been an email, but not enough about roommate conversations that could have been a text

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

a month and a half later, 3 of the 4 have been fixed. vindication!!

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

I’m calling it now, these four lit fic hardcovers that scan as “romance” will be on the due out list soon…

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

me introducing myself to new hires: my hobbies include white-out-ing people’s deadnames off the printed schedule and supplying pronoun stickers for nametags

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

screaming crying throwing up etc, I just want LSLs back!!

[Amanda DeWitt @AmandaMDeWitt]

After 7 years, 5 manuscripts, and 2 agents…it’s today! ACES WILD is out into the world like a beautiful baby bird ♠️✨

All the thanks in the world to @AshleyHearn and everyone at @peachtreeteen and to @CateHart for getting it in their hands

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

plenty of other recent hardcover fiction with queer rep (including debuts & small pubs) ARE correctly labeled as fiction, so it's not happening every time - but still sucks that these are marginalized books being set up to flop simply bc BN can't categorize them correctly

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

I’m calling it now, these four lit fic hardcovers that scan as “romance” will be on the due out list soon…

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

the “if only i could submit a title correction for this” to due out pipeline

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

it's maybe kinda sus that ALL FOUR of these have queer rep 👀(as did previous books in this miscategorized situation like Let's Get Back to the Party or Boys of Alabama)

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

us right now, running around like chickens with our heads cut off

[Hillsboro B&N Booksellers @BNHillsboroOR]

I'm curious... do you like your blind books to be:

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

@amythyst_art we are!! 💪🏻 💙

[Sarah Bates @saabees]

bro, somebody already called our new store "By far one of the coolest bookstores I’ve been to" 🥰🥹

[Alexandria Bellefleur 🩷💜💙 @ambellefleur]

idgaf if these are "cringe". watch me keep making them 😊