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Wow, we certainly did not expect to pick up 200 followers and receive dozens of submissions on day one. Love it! Feeling excited about this new venture.

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January 16, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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We can't wait to see what you've got!

Remember, NFB publishes collaborative efforts (2+ contributors) via the @andyoupress.bsky.social imprint and single-author short and long fiction & nonfiction via the @attic-ebooks.bsky.social imprint.

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January 17, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Indie authors and publishers! Sign up on the waiting list for MK Indie Book Fair 2026 registrations

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January 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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The best books aren’t always bestsellers. Find fiction’s hidden gems: they take risks, amplify diverse voices, and stay with you long after page 300. https://bdabooks.com.au/Blog/2026/beyond-bestseller-lists-discovering-fictions-hidden-gems/
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January 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
carolinavonkampen.com
New blog post: My Most Anticipated 2026 Books

The forthcoming #books on my to-read list include #smallpress picks, #translatedlit, debut novels, and two Survivor-adjacent books by two of my favorite #Survivor players and #RHAP podcasters.

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The 2026 Books I'm Excited to Read This Year
See the 2026 books I've already preordered and want to read this year, including small press picks, translated lit, and reality TV faves!
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January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Look at this fabulous rock. Look at it!
If a rock can dress this well, you can certainly fend off the January greys, and the fighting-fascism-blues, with a pop of color. And hey, why not accessorize with a great book? Just sayin’…

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January 18, 2026 at 5:21 AM
misfitstudios.bsky.social
A many-tentacled #alien stands tall on a tripod of legs in this #StockArt by #DavidEllis

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January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Locals can pick up a copy of Frolic Press's new edition of Fritz Leiber's classic 'Conjure Wife' early and at $2 off the list price at Buy the Book St. Augustine!

#SmallPress #LocalBookStore #IndependentBookstore #WeirdFiction #Fritzleiber #RamseyCampbell
January 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: I Can Fix Her by @raewilde.bsky.social (@clashbooks.bsky.social) & That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas (@lunapress.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas (Luna Press Publishing): Nonfiction. Through historical analysis and dozens of case studies, Payton McCarty-Simas demonstrates how the cinematic witch's evolution across decades reflects major shifts in how feminism is perceived politically and interpreted (counter-)culturally in America. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/that-very-witch-that-very-witch-fear-feminism-and-the-american-witch-movie Book cover for I Can Fix Her by Rae Wilde (Clash Books): Horror featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "As Wilde slyly reveals that Johnny’s love may tilt toward obsession, the couple’s world becomes bizarre and threatening. The book’s unseen narrator offers Johnny an escape from the torturous emotional push-and-pull of this relationship. But Johnny’s response (and the revelation of the narrator’s identity) provokes a compelling quandary: does being in love call off our better angels?"
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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Choker #jewelry #StockArt for a variety of needs, including enchanted items

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January 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Our special new edition of Fritz Leiber's classic 'Conjure Wife' is now available for pre-order from @bookshop.org , @barnesandnoble.com , Thriftbooks, and independent book sellers!

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January 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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A #dragon keeps a watchful eye over a mountainous area in this #StockArt by #DavidEllis

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January 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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This picture is of my treasured 1981 Ace edition. I love it, but it completely misrepresents the novel—especially that tagline—and might cost you quite a bit of money on the used market.

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January 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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#Wizard #wraith #StockArt by @quicoarts.bsky.social to add a touch of the #undead to your upcoming projects

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January 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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9/9 #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @agpasquella.bsky.social @jeffdupuis.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social @agawilmot.bsky.social @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social @khanwong.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social @micherobinson.bsky.social @paulghammond.bsky.social 💙📚
Book cover for After Elias by Eddy Boudel Tan (Dundurn): A modern queer tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459746428-after-elias Book cover for Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong (Angry Robot): Three individuals, intrinsically linked through time and a jade teacup, battle their personal demons alongside enslavement, exploitation and environmental collapse. https://angryrobotbooks.com/books/down-in-the-sea-of-angels/ Book cover for Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food edited by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis (Rare Machines, imprint of Dundurn Press)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬: An anthology of speculative short fiction imagining the possibilities of our food-insecure future. Featuring stories from Sifton Tracey Anipare, Carleigh Baker, Gary Barwin, Chris Benjamin, Eddy Boudel Tan, Catherine Bush, Jowita Bydlowska, Lisa de Nikolits, Dina Del Bucchia, Terri Favro, Elan Mastai, Mark Sampson, Ji Hong Sayo, Jacqueline Valencia, Anuja Varghese, and A.G.A. Wilmot. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754980-devouring-tomorrow Book cover for Lobster's Vacation by Michelle Robinson‬, illustrated by Paul G. Hammond (Nimbus Publishing): From bestselling children’s author Michelle Robinson comes a quirky rhyming story about Lobster, who has escaped from the ocean—and from the cooking pot—to enjoy everything a Nova Scotia summer has to offer. From ice cream cones on the South Shore to kite-flying on Citadel Hill and blueberry-picking and camping in the wilderness, Lobster’s feeling like a true Bluenoser. That is, until he starts to feel homesick… https://nimbus.ca/store/lobsters-vacation.html
January 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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3/9 #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social l @honfordstar.bsky.social @antonhur.com @johnporcellino.bsky.social @leeupton.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booklovers
Book cover for NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW). Poetry that explores our “post-truth” society, NMLCT holds up a mirror not only to nature, but also to its unnatural distortions and facsimiles. Imagine The Matrix retold by the reanimated cyborg bodies of the Brothers Grimm. https://ecwpress.com/products/nmlct Book cover for Forage Like a Bear by Chris Fink, ill. by John Porcellino (Bored Wolves): Chris Fink’s collection of short prose, Forage Like a Bear, contains a whole lot: whistling acorns, scribbling clams, gossipy geese, technicolor ducks, turkeys (including human ones), roving bands of chipmunks, chimneys, fires, chainsaws, lice, thin ice, approximately 30,000 blueberries, cars rolling uphill, the leaves of a mulberry tree drifting down, Peace Trail meanders, and maybe just maybe, a holy grail morel. https://www.boredwolves.com/product/forage-like-a-bear-by-chris-fink-john-porcellino Book cover for Wrongful by Lee Upton (Sagging Meniscus): Mystery featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "In this smart romp, celebrated mystery novelist Mira Wallacz disappears from a conference held in her honor—but when she’s found dead, no one is especially broken up about it." https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/wrongful/ Book cover for Red Sword by formerly Booker-longlisted Bora Chung, translated from Korean by Anton Hur (Honford Star): Amid a literal fog of war on a disputed planet, a woman is thrust into battle, forced to fight in her captors' war. With an empire at her back, ready to kill her at the slightest hesitation, this slave turned reluctant hero must battle through an unknown enemy, scientific abominations, and truly alien terrain to uncover the truth about her identity and that of her enslaved companions. Chung's novel—told in sparse, evocative prose and expertly translated by Anton Hur—draws on the real history of Korean soldiers who fought and died in a war against Russia on behalf of the Qing Dynasty. https://honfordstar.com/products/red-sword
January 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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"As New" Chump Change
Make an offer on the original English-language trade paperback of Dan Fante's debut novel. It's an extremely rare "as new" edition of Chump ...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:45 AM
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8/9 #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @catebush.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social ‬@houseofanansi.bsky.social @nataliericepoetry.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #readingchallenge #booktok
Book cover for poetry chapbook Tulip is an Axe by Gary Barwin (Above/Ground): https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-from-aboveground-press-tulip-is-axe.html Book cover for Crying Dress: Poems by Cassidy McFadzean (House of Anansi): The poems in Crying Dress, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation, rhythm, competing sounds, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme, beat, and alliteration) while deploying puns, idiom, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces, and the early days of sobriety and grief, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence, the conversational and the associative, the architectural and the ecological, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail. https://houseofanansi.com/products/crying-dress Book cover for Skin by Catherine Bush (Goose Lane): Now, for the first time, a blistering book of short fiction from one of Canada’s most loved novelists. In Skin, Catherine Bush plunges into the vortex of all that shapes us. Summoning relationships between the human and more-than-human, she explores a world where touch and intimacy are both desirable and fraught. https://gooselane.com/products/skin Book cover for Nightjar by Natalie Rice (Gaspereau Press): The poems in Nightjar form a triptych vision of the way humans both experience and alter the natural world as we pass through it. Straddling between subalpine vistas and the brooks and bowers of the Acadian forest, Rice engages binaries of landscape and human history, loss and gain, the seen and unseen, and direction and distance, her movement between the sublime and the intimate stirring unexpected forces that pull us toward “the empty space where the mountain has fallen.” https://gaspereaupress.com/books/nightjar/
January 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books Bad Land by Corinna Chong (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, ed. Nuzhat Abbas (@tracepress.bsky.social & contribs @mailbykite.bsky.social @wordsweaver.bsky.social @rahat.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
Book cover for Bad Land by Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press): Longlisted for the Giller Prize. A slow-burning story exploring the generational effects of repression and transgression, set against the raw, eerie landscape of the badlands. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-Land Book cover for River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation edited by Nuzhat Abbas (Trace Press): What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desire, and migration? Contributors include Khairani Barokka, Yasmine Haj, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela Mubayi, Iryn Tushabe, Gopika Jadeja, Rahat Kurd, Geetha Sukumaran, Norah Alkharashi, and Lisa Ndejuru. https://tracepress.org/collections/books/products/river-in-an-ocean-essays-on-translation
January 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books by/from @janicemdeal.bsky.social @newdoorbooks.bsky.social @dances-with-voles.bsky.social: See alt-text.

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Book cover for The Blue Door by Janice Deal (New Door Books): Literary fiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " Fairy tales and other stories Flo has been told are woven through Flo’s anxious search for her Dog, while she waits for her daughter, Teddy, to come back." https://www.newdoorbooks.net/the-blue-door Book cover for The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, trans. by Ruth Martin (Scribe Publications): A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family’s flight from and return to Iran. https://scribepublications.com/books/the-nights-are-quiet-in-tehran
January 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
breadrosespress.bsky.social
Bread & Roses Bookshop Grand Opening! (Inside the ECM Community Center, Lawrence, KS)

Huge thanks to everyone that helped pull this together, and everyone who came out to celebrate with us!

Not in Kansas? Be sure to check out our US and UK website to grab all these great titles! #smallpress
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
unlikely-stories.bsky.social
Craig R. Kirchner is back! Check out his three poems on poems in a box, cries for retribution, and the fall of Social Security at www.unlikelystories.org/content/basi... #poetry #litmag #smallpress
"Basics," "Coming," and "The Abyss"
Basics We sold our place, needed the cash to eat.We were lucky on the street, a familywith a large tent under a remote bridge took us in.They had been doing well with a businessthey had built over yea...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
unlikely-stories.bsky.social
We took winter break off to catch up on some projects, but now we’re back! Please welcome Ma Yongbo, who brings us three poems on Anne Sexton, William Carlos Williams, and unvisited lands at www.unlikelystories.org/content/anne... #poetry #litmag #smallpress
"Anne Sexton, October 4, 1974," "Village Church," and "Hesitation Before the Journey Begins"
Anne Sexton, October 4, 1974 She and Maxine Kumin had a silly, cheerful lunch,  they kept interrupting their conversation to watch chickadees eating at the feeder by the window,they went over the proo...
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January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Post 3/3
Writers: submissions are open.
Readers: trailers, excerpts, and new releases drop often.
Publishers like @decadentpub.bsky.social help keep indie romance vibrant and evolving. Give them a look and support small presses doing the work.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Check out my first published collection of poems! W/Make is a poetry chapbook that centers on art making. If you’re a maker of things, I think it will resonate with you.
Buy it here: bottlecap.press/products/wma...
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W/Make, by Corbett Buchly
Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. A life spent creating suggests a way of being, a way of moving through life, a way of seeing. In W/Make, Corbett Buchly explores where those impuls...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM