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NEW

3.5x5 inch journals

FIVE DOLLARS SHIPPING INCLUDED

Please support small business. Thank you

www.moranpress.com/product/new-...
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NEW

5x8 inch hand sewn blank journal

Art Supplies hand made lotka paper cover

80 page white linen interior

Now available. Link in bio
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. I have no idea how long this sale will last.

www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...
This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Réka Nyitrai’s <> is now available for pre-order! www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-sto...
I asked the Night to breath into my mouth Last night I dreamt that a swan was sucking jade-dew from my fingers. With eyes wide open I saw thousands of little deaths, pooling, For a moment I thought that the warm breeze made by the swan's wings would dry out the meadow's loneliness. Yet, once again I was proved wrong When I woke the candles of will were no longer burning and the blessing bowls lay shattered on the floor. 5 Walls I meet a woman who tells me that she can hear through walls. To prove her skill, I invite her to my place. As soon as we enter the apartment, I ask her to tell me what my neighbors are talking about. Instead of putting her ear to the living room wall, she places her car to my abdomen. Bebind your navel is a Wall of Snow - says the woman. Curious, I ask her what she hears through wall. I bear the sound of sleet falling on the roof, a mother' sighing and a baby grinding its teth... I want to ask her who built the wall, but there is no one in the room, save my mother in her coffin. 26
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Some great books just out and upcoming! Support a micro press today!! www.ethelzine.com/shop
December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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New poem in The Louisville Review from the new manuscript. I am grateful to the editors, especially Flora K. Schildknecht, for including this one: another poem for the brother. 💙
Susan L. Leary Mouth Because you are physically worn down, I build a mouth for you from insufficient materials. I sew letters onto the wrong tongue & collect stray teeth like dice, string them awkwardly from a too-lit ceiling. Later, you spit into a paper bag, then bite down into a metal tray so someone can thieve an impression of your mouth in defense mode. There is a specific type of silence, you'd said. To survive this place you must be repressed. You must sink yourself into the hole of your own damage, strip the mind of sensory overload-drown out the noise so the noise is just noise: eat cake. Funny, your whole life everyone was yelling into that hole, offering you more mouths than limbs, offering you more "you's" than could ever be relevant. The construction of anything is complaint, is highway robbery, is unadulterated system. Without saying much, you say we are insufficient. With the page, you build yourself a replica & lie down in its body while it revs, inaudibly, for truth. You create your own mouth, a second mouth. You speak as it fills with water.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Sewing a journal
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Watch me make books by hand

Gluing the cover on the NEW Art Materials hand made lotka paper pattern journal
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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INSTA #SALE

The next 3 for $25 Large Journal purchase gets this beautiful Orange journal added as a bonus FREE.

4 for $25!!!

Only one sale pack available

Get it!

www.moranpress.com/product/larg...
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Please support small business this #CyberMonday

1 pocket sized journal for $5 shipped

Or

15 for $35

Or

3 LARGE journals for $25 shipped

RTs super appreciated

Link

www.moranpress.com/products
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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NEW

5x8 inch hand sewn journal

Pink lotka cover

80 page Blue Parchment interior

Now available

Link in bio
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
handsewnbooks.bsky.social
Good morning. It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday the perfect day to get the best hand made gifts for loved ones this holiday season.

Thank you for supporting the art of bookbinding

www.moranpress.com/products
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Dig these fab handmade books from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press. www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-mi...

Wild Apples by Joanna Penn Cooper,
The Memory Dictionay by Madeleine Barnes,
Small Book for John by Alex Gildzen,
Probably, Ohio by Cameron Mays,
My Umbilical Star by Yaxkin Melchy (trans. by Ryan Greene).
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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rhysaurus.bsky.social
Starting tomorrow and lasting for five days, the ebook edition of my collection TINY ARROWS will be free from any Amazon outlet. Illustrated by @dlbowman76.com it was first published a few years ago ☺️ #booksky #freebook #fantasy
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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NEW!!!

Pink Blossom with BLUE PARCHMENT interior

Link in bio
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Hey, @npr.org’s Books We Love is here! This year, I wrote about books by Michael Farris Smith, William Boyle, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Sarah Gailey, Alafair Burke, Ling Ling Huang, Christopher Golden, and Tim Lebbon.
apps.npr.org/best-books/?...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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There’s now 8 to choose from.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Get some @triohousepress.org poetry books for yourself and those on your gift list — free shipping AND BOGO 11/24-28 only!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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NEW

3.5x5 inch journals

FIVE DOLLARS SHIPPING INCLUDED

Please support small business. Thank you

www.moranpress.com/product/new-...
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Making books by hand
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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read my poem from the first issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I can't believe it's already time! #HorrorMoviesForTheHolidays starts this upcoming Monday! Join us for merriment and fun!

#HorrorSky #FilmSky

Guidelines: sarahstubbssays.com/horror-movie...

Discord Server: discord.gg/F774EvagRj
Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge: The Guidelines
The Horror Movies for the Holidays Challenge encourages participants to celebrate the season by watching their favorite holiday horror movies!
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
handsewnbooks.bsky.social
Good morning. Coffee cheers from Moran Press

It’s time to make books by hand

Glued the covers on the orange and the skulls. I trimmed the edges on the Happy Cat journal
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I have ONE special pack to offer today.

You can purchase EITHER a 3 for $25 pack of 5x8 inch journals

OR

The 15 for $35 pack of pocket size

You get this ART JOURNAL free

Link to my website

www.moranpress.com/products
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Good morning. It’s time to make books by hand
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM