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Small indie publisher located in the Land of Enchantment. MG/YA imprint: Kinkajou Press SF/F/H imprint: Shadow Dragon Books Currently closed to submissions. www.apbooks.net

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hi, Artemesia Publishing is a small, indepentent publisher of fiction located and select non-fiction in the Land of Enchantment.

We publish...
🕵‍♀️ Mysteries
⏱️ Historical Fiction
🏃‍♂️ Thrillers
🚀 SciFi
🧙‍♂️ Fantasy
📖 Middle Grade
👩‍🏫 YA
⚾️ Baseball

#booksky 💙📚

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Artemesia Publishing, LLC | publishing

Artemesia Publishing, LLC is an independent book publisher from the Land of Enchantment focusing on adult, middle grade, and YA fiction.

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Awesome!

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 2d

"At the crossroads of life and death, a young girl must save her family and herself from a hungry angel of death."

Enter to win a copy of Leah Holbrook Sackett's "Death Is a Hungry Ghost" from Kinkajou Press/ @apbooks.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 4d

At @macashton.bsky.social first book event for the release of his new #scifi novel one of the people attending the event had 3-D printed the Nana's Hog, the ship in the book. This is so freaking cool!

Book fans are amazing! 📚🚀 💙📚

Get your copy of the book here:
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A 3D printed replica of the "Nana's Hog", the spaceship from the novel "One Night at Kedasi" stands next to a copy of the book. The printed ship is about 8 inches (20 cm) tall. It has two triangular "ears" and a green circle for the "snout".

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Cool. Glad you enjoyed it.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 6d

Book bans are loud, but our read-ins are louder!

Join one of 450+ Read-Ins taking place October 5-7 to protest and take action against bans ⏬ Attendees will get a free audiobook.

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Glad the books arrived. Hope ypu enjoy them.

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 7d

The winners and finalists for this year's New Mexico Book Awards just dropped. So many fabulous books. Congrats to everyone!

We have several winners and finalists this year. I'll give more shoutouts later.

#booksky 💙📚 #bookawards #newmexicotrue

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NM Book Awards - New Mexico Writers

NM Book Awards The New Mexico Book Awards, a nearly two-decades-old book competition, was slated to cease this year. Instead, it is under new management by New Mexico Writers, who will continue the mi...

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting news! Ashton's book tour for One Night at Kedasi kicks off this weekend at Village Books.

🎟 Tickets are still available for Village Books (all other events will be unticketed).

👉 Grab your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ashton-mac... #PNWAuthors #VillageBooks #SciFiBooks

Exciting news! Ashton Macaulay's mini book tour kicks off this weekend at Village Books in Fairhaven at 6PM. He’ll be signing copies of One Night at Kedasi, reading a short excerpt, and sharing a bit about what it’s like finding a publisher as a smaller author.

Image: Fall 2025 - Mini Book Tour
9/27 6pm Village Books, Bellingham, WA
10/3 6:30pm Paperboat Booksellers, Seattle, WA
10/25 TBD Book Tree, Kirkland, WA

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 13d

A wonderful review for @wingedlion.bsky.social short story collection The Lost Knight and Other Tales.

W&S_BOOKCLUB @wsbookclub.bsky.social · 15d

Today, I review Tempest Blades: The Lost Knight and Other Tales by Ricardo Victoria. Come see what I thought of this collection of stories from the world of the Tempest Blades series.

@apbooks.bsky.social, @wingedlion.bsky.social, #booksky #bookblogger ##bookreview

Book Review: Tempest Blades: The Lost Knight and Other Tales by Ricardo Victoria

The Tempest Blades universe is full of stories, legends, mysteries, and dreams of the future: What happened during the Pilgrimage of Asherah? When did the brooding Joshua meet Kasumi’s family? What…

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you for the wonderful review of @wingedlion.bsky.social book!

Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Good thread here

Rebecca Weber 🙂🐈‍⬛📰 @rweberwrites.bsky.social · 16d

Time for a frank #publishing convo. While querying, my second novel, Loophole, received way more agent requests than my debut, The Painter's Butterfly. Loophole is a contemporary MG with a neurodiverse lead; TPB is a MG light fantasy. But here's the thing...
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#kidlit #books

Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Sound advice.

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 14d

"Inspired by the big adventure novels and films of old, Macaulay transports readers to intricately crafted worlds full of strange locales, surprising creatures, and compelling characters."

Enter to win a copy of Ashton Macauley's "One Night at Kedasi" from @apbooks.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 18d

Coming in November

The Music of Creation by Paul Knight and Chris Allen

Music is a narcotic for aliens. When an Irish composer creates music that alters space, an inexperienced alien protector must save him from exploitation.

#preorder #booksky 💙📚 🚀📚 #scifi #music

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The Music of Creation | Artemesia Publishing

In a universe where music is a narcotic, an alien must protect a brilliant Irish composer from abduction. Music from Earth has a profound impact upon alien species who use it as a mind-altering drug. ...

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Several of my authors are getting spammed by these latest scams. Luckily they recognize them as the scams they are, but be aware and vigilant.

Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19d

New #WriterBeware blog post: Gen AI-driven Nigerian writing scams have arrived recently & spun up fast. Two new ones: book club impersonations (charge a "spot fee" for appearance) & fake private book review communities (reviewers are "tipped" w/ a minimum buy) writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations th...

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 19d

Bans on books, media, and news are all connected.

Let’s keep fighting censorship of all kinds. Support independent booksellers, media, publishers, and businesses working to share essential stories. And support the authors and journalists telling these essential stories.

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 19d

All genAI should be banned, and no magazine or book publisher of any kind should use it for anything whatsoever. Utter trash fucking up everything.

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 20d

“It’s really, really frustrating, and it’s really setting us back as far as the community’s info literacy.”

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Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI ever since the release of GPT-3.5 in late 2022. But the problem escalated over the summer after fielding patron requests for the same fake book titles from real authors—the consequences of an AI-generated summer reading list circulated in special editions of the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer earlier this year. At the time, the freelancer told 404 Media he used AI to produce the list without fact checking outputs before syndication.

As much as library workers try to shield their institutions from the AI-generated content onslaught, the situation is and has been, in many ways, inevitable. Companies desperate to rush generative AI products to market are pushing flawed products onto the public that are predictably being used to pollute our information ecosystems. The consequences are that AI slop is entering libraries, everyone who uses AI products bears at least a little responsibility for the swarm, and every library worker, regardless of role, is being asked to try and mitigate the effects.

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Finished the revisions for Kathryn Berla's new book, JOHN DOE DOES NOT SUCK. Love this story even more now!

John Doe only wants to finish his novel and deal with his OCD. Hunting a serial killer is right out, until he learns he might not be the last vampire on Earth.

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John Doe Does Not Suck

Check out John Doe Does Not Suck - <p>John Doe thinks he's the last vampire on Earth; he's 317 years old, having been "turned" in an unforgivable way when he was just 17. It's a pretty lonely existenc...

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 27d

My most recent article for SFWA's Planetside! Copyright is a complicated subject about which there are many myths and misconceptions...in this article, I try to untangle some of them.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 27d

This week on Planetside…

Think you know copyright? This guide clears up the myths and shows authors how to protect their work.

Read “Protecting Your Intellectual Property: What You Need to Know About Copyright” by @victoriastrauss.com of WRITER BEWARE®: www.sfwa.org/2025/09/11/p...

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 27d

September #ebook sale! 99 cents

Burning Little Lies by Christine H. Bailey.

Four students. Four perspectives. All four are lying. One of them is guilty of murder.

#booksky💙📚 #YAfiction #YAdrama

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Burning Little Lies | Artemesia Publishing

Four classmates are directly linked by the murder of one of their own. All four are lying, but one's secret is to die for.Who killed sixteen-year-old Ellie Stone? All anyone seems to know is that she ...

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 27d

September #ebook sale! Just 99 cents.

The New Frontier by Wayne L. Wilson.

During the era of President Kennedy’s “New Frontier”, in 1961, the Coles, a Black family seek to reap the golden harvest of jobs and better lifestyle that Los Angeles, California proclaims.

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The New Frontier | Artemesia Publishing

"Powerful novel of racial division in 1960s America, bursting with heart." Publishers Weekly (BookLife) When you are a Black family in 1961 Los Angeles, how do you protect your White neighbors from a ...

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · 28d

Been quiet on here since I've been super busy with getting new books edited and ready for the printer.

Reminder that One Night At Kedasi releases in less than 2 weeks!

#booksky 💙📚 🚀📚 #scifi #humor #bugplanet #amusementpark

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Glad they arrived. Enjoy!

Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

New title added to the website:

Death is a Hungry Angel by Leah Holbrook Sackett.

At the crossroads of life and death, Anna Stevens is thrust on a quest to save her family and herself from a hungry angel.
#booksky 💙📚 #paranormal #horror #thriller

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Death is a Hungry Angel | Artemesia Publishing

At the crossroads of life and death, a young girl must save her family and herself from a hungry angel of death. Wade House served an important role as a Death Hospital at the turn of the last century...

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Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social · Aug 31

New title added to the website:

The Lost Knight and Other Tales by @wingedlion.bsky.social

In a world where magic and science intermingle, anything is possible, including myriad of undiscovered stories waiting for you. 🚀📚 #scifi #fantasy

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The Lost Knight and Other Tales (A Tempest Blades Collection) | Artemesia Publishing

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