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Casey Plett

@caseyplett.com

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I wrote On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, and co-edited Meanwhile, Elsewhere. I'm the Publisher at LittlePuss Press and teach at Ohio University. https://linktr.ee/caseyplett Athens, OH / Windsor, ON

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · Aug 14

I almost discoursed, then I checked myself before I wrecked myself. (Evergreen, pinning this)

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 14h

ChatGPT

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ChatGPT

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 14h

Ok geez maybe I will do this. TO POLL, THEN: If you read books, and you're not part of the book industry, what's a thing about the book industry you'd like to know?

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 17h

One of these days I should write a compact list of like Book Industry Stuff That Readers Should Actually Know That Isn't Arcane And Boring I Promise. One of those things might be: Amazon is just as awful as you think, and perhaps worse, to which, TODAY IS FREE SHIPPING @bookshop.org and this is COOL

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 18h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 15h

The air in your room never moves

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 15h

Meanwhile, Elsewhere TWICE by now kill me) but if you're just running off more copies because you're out and need to do another print run, you just change those numbers to reflect whether it's the 2nd/3rd/etc printing and run more off. Real heavy collectors only fuck with 1st printings usually

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 15h

When you change anything substantive about a book beyond correcting typos/promo stuff on cover, i.e. adding a forward/afterword, changing cover art, etc, then it becomes a subsequent *edition* and it needs a new ISBN and basically gets treated like a whole separate book (we've done this for

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 15h

haha ok wow maybe I will!

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 15h

like the series of numbers at the bottom of that page? that signifies whether it's 1st/2nd/3rd printing (printings are different than edition, it's funny I know) and there is some rule to them I always forget! paging @catfitzpatrick.net

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 17h

One of these days I should write a compact list of like Book Industry Stuff That Readers Should Actually Know That Isn't Arcane And Boring I Promise. One of those things might be: Amazon is just as awful as you think, and perhaps worse, to which, TODAY IS FREE SHIPPING @bookshop.org and this is COOL

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 18h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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beautiful women updates @aoife.bsky.social · 1d

that's right

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 2d

This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:

The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.

Why does this matter?

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 2d

OHIO: Still subleasing my house in Athens, 3 br for $1500/month. Move-in flexi. DM me if you're interested?

Lease goes through next July.

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 2d

Somewhere on campus, I can hear a big speaker blasting Misery Business.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

it is important to avoid this "as a X" thing in part not to tokenize oneself but also bc it's at base totally meaningless. u can find anyone of any background who thinks anything.

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 4d

Welcome to a new kind of tension

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 5d

Mahkno and Memory

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 5d

Not brushing my teeth the day I get a root canal as a nice way of reminding God who's boss.

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 6d

Good night, sweet prince

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56 best Eric Adams quotes of all time

There may never be another mayor like the bard of the Big Apple.

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 6d

"I will never forgive..." They don't care.

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 7d

It was SO good, one of the last things I did this summer was watch it with Syb and it was just as wild and beautiful as you'd hope

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 7d

ok anyone else watch Riddle of Fire because it was amazing

Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 8d

Googly Eyes, Joy Oladokun & Allison Ponthier | Jesus and John Wayne (Official Audio)

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 9d

Gracie Mae will sleep but after finishing this book from @littlepuss.net I won’t! 🙀

Persona by Aoife Josie Clements, resting against a blue Merle Aussie-Doxy.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 9d

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