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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: This Big Heart by Lindsay Ruck, ill. by Bria Miller (Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute) & The Perfect Day and Other Stories by Harry Bruce (Pottersfield Press). See alt-text.

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Book cover for This Big Heart by Lindsay Ruck, ill. by Bria Miller (Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute): Dealing with the many emotions that come with grief isn’t always easy. This rhyming picture book reminds us that we feel so much because we love so much. https://dbdli.ca/resource-materials/this-big-heart/

Book cover for The Perfect Day and Other Stories by Harry Bruce (Pottersfield Press): Bruce’s writing has inspired critics to call him no less than “a consummate storyteller”; to marvel over his “magnetic style and marvelous command of the language”; to declare his prose “highly entertaining and gloriously informative”; and to insist that “only the spiritually dead or terminally obtuse could fail to come away from it richer for the experience.” And now, The Perfect Day and Other Stories offers the best of Bruce’s best essays. From the sweet pain of first love and leaving home to the horrors of killer wasps, bloodthirsty flies, and marauding mice, from the relief experienced in every outhouse in the pines to the joy resounding from neighbourhood curling on a Scottish laird’s frozen pond, from the magic mist that sneaks into a ghost village on an abandoned island off Lunenburg to the sheer glory that parades of tall ships grant to great ports around the world, from fogs, bats, cats, and coyotes to the whales, thrones, stags, and steeples that make Atlantic Canada unique…they’re all here, and more, in Harry’s latest collection. https://nimbus.ca/store/the-perfect-day-and-other-stories.html

We are excited to reveal the cover for a dark fantasy novella written by a brand new author, with art by the talented Lisbeth Poirier. Caleb Sierra's The Wetworks Miracle is an esoteric biopunk headtrip that keeps you guessing to the last page. Available for preorder: https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/the-wetworks-miracle-by-caleb-sierra/

#Bookstodon #EcoHorror #WeirdFiction #Ecofiction #ClimateFiction #IndiePress #SmallPress #SFFBooks #BodyHorror #TheWetworksMiracle

The Wetworks Miracle by Caleb Sierra, now available for preorder at www.stelliform.press

March is National Small Press Month!

I created Confluent Press as a focal point for Megan's and my books, acting as publisher for us both. We've released three books each so far, with many more to come, spanning several genres and many formats.

#WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #SmallPress

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: You Are Loved by Tom Urbaniak, ill. by Tammy Krasniqi (Breton Books) & Quiet Crossings by Vivi Partridge (Conundrum Press). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts #NSarts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity

Book cover for You Are Loved by Tom Urbaniak, ill. by Tammy Krasniqi (Breton Books): Destined to become a treasured heirloom for the many families who will cherish its messages, You Are Loved is devoted to the legacy of love and service of Rev. Alison Etter, and to her vital roles as a mother, spouse, friend to many, community leader, and champion of a better world. With remarkable simplicity, Prof. Tom Urbaniak has laid out a prescription for making the world a better place. In simple sentences—freighted with meaning—he conveys the multiple avenues by which his late wife, Alison, conveyed her wealth of love to the world. Told in English, French, Gaelic, and Polish. https://nimbus.ca/store/you-are-loved.html

Book cover for Quiet Crossings by Vivi Partridge ‪(Conundrum Press): After crashing her car in the unfamiliar countryside, Selena agrees to help out at the nearby Inn in exchange for a room. Located on the edge of the world, the Inn attracts extraordinary customers from near and far. The most popular attraction is the complimentary ferry ride to the Great Unknown, a mysterious shore past the edge of the world. But when no one ever travels back, Selena begins to feel uneasy. https://conundrumpress.com/product/quiet-crossings/

realised the zine I put up yesterday was actually this week’s 🙃
but this zine set is truly from today, for the foal moon of March ✨
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#zines
#smallpress
#illustration
#drawing
#一次創作
 #同人誌
 #zinemaking
#zinester

A handmade envelope with stickers on it of a foal, stars, flying birds, and patterns.

A set of four zines or comics covered in patterns, waves, a boat, leaves, and detective Tso.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Adventures in Bubbles and Brine: What I learned from Nova Scotia's masters of fermented foods - craft beer, cider, cheese, sauerkraut and more by Philip Moscovitch (Formac Publishing) & Brain Storms: My Life with a Brain Tumour—A Family Doctor’s Memoir by Sharon McCutcheon (Nimbus Publishing). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Adventures in Bubbles and Brine: What I learned from Nova Scotia's masters of fermented foods - craft beer, cider, cheese, sauerkraut and more by Philip Moscovitch (Formac Publishing): Moscovitch demystifies the process of fermentation as he takes us on a fascinating, and often humorous, culinary adventure across Nova Scotia. https://formac.ca/product/adventures-in-bubbles-and-brine/

Book cover for Brain Storms: My Life with a Brain Tumour—A Family Doctor’s Memoir by Sharon McCutcheon (Nimbus Publishing): A poignant, darkly funny, and hopeful memoir of the psychological impact of illness from a retired New Brunswick doctor. https://nimbus.ca/store/brain-storms-my-life-with-a-brain-tumoura-family-doctors-memoir.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Hopeless by Lesley Choyce (Moose House Publications) & piyyut by Solomon Nagler, drawings by Angela Henderson (Nevermore Press). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts #NSarts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity

Book cover for Hopeless by Lesley Choyce (Moose House Publications): Nicolas is headstrong, wayward teen, flailing through school with no plans for a life. His now-departed father called him 'Hopeless', and the nickname stuck. How can you make it through anything wearing a tag like that? It turns out, having a fearless older brother, Garrett, can help...until Garrett makes an unexpected friend and sort of disappears from the family. Nicholas finds a surprise in that friend of Garrett's, and gets an unexpected assignment from a teacher that may yet save his high-school career. But add in near-death experiences, cross-country journeys and reunions that are far from joyful, and why would anyone hope to be hopeful? https://www.moosehousepress.com/product-page/hopeless

Book cover for piyyut by Solomon Nagler, drawings by Angela Henderson (Nevermore Press): piyyut is a long-form poem assembling fables from the Jewish Diaspora in an attempt to unsettle refugee migration stories while exhuming mystical, prophetic voices in post-Holocaust Europe. Verses are titled and informed by the aleph-bet and examine the entanglements of the diasporic experience through allegorical tales and critical Jewish settler confessionals. Each verse is paired with a drawing by visual artist Angela Henderson exploring the intersections between graphic notation and lyrical, poetic form. Combining and juxtaposing digitally- and hand-rendered elements, the hybridized landscapes both respond to and reflect the complex, speculative and sometimes brutalist journey through past and present. https://www.nevermorepress.ca/books/p/piyyut

zine from last week 🐌
new one should be out tomorrow 🦊
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#zines
#smallpress
#illustration
#drawing
#一次創作
 #同人誌
 #zinemaking
#zinester

Zine cover with illustrations of flowers, a tree, and the beginnings of Tso’s face.

Zine page with owlet Oat hiding a sword in The Cupboard for Everything.

Zine page with the pirate guest trying a pancake and finding it ‘edible’.

The pirate guest then eats 24 pancakes and promptly falls asleep on the floor, snoring.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books from #NovaScotia publishers: The Spirit of Scatarie by Lesley Crewe (Nimbus Publishing) & Winning Prizes by David Adams Richards (Pottersfield Press). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts #NSarts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity

Book cover for The Spirit of Scatarie by Lesley Crewe (Nimbus Publishing): A stunning new work of historical fiction from the bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer, set on Nova Scotia’s remote Scatarie Island, following three friends whose lives are inextricably bound, and the spirit who guides them. https://nimbus.ca/store/the-spirit-of-scatarie.html

Book cover for Winning Prizes: Essays by David Adams Richards (Pottersfield Press): Winning Prizes is a collection of essays dealing with topics ranging from faith, murder, love of place as well as historical and literary individuals. He writes passionately about individuality and the courage it takes to strike out on one’s own and to stand one’s ground against the odds, a critical part of living that sooner or later all of us must deal with in our own way. https://nimbus.ca/store/winning-prizes.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: today, from #NovaScotia publishers: William Roach: Folk Artist by William Roach (Cape Breton University Press) & Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction by Sarah Cox (Goose Lane Editions). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts #NSarts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity

Book cover for William D. Roach: Folk Artist by William Roach (Cape Breton University Press): William Roach’s interest – training, if you like – in carving and shaping wood into representations of the world around him, came naturally. When they weren’t making or repairing practical articles and tools, the older men in his life spent countless hours whittling curiosities that delighted children, neighbours and friends.After years working in Ontario, Roach and his family moved home to his Acadian birthplace, Chéticamp, Cape Breton, striving for the stability of family and community. A new life, turning a new leaf, William began expressing himself through his gift – a diversion at first, his passion for creating objects of beauty and value became an obsession and later a business.From his Sunset Gallery and studio on the outskirts of Chéticamp, Roach works tirelessly at his entertaining creations. https://nimbus.ca/store/william-roach-folk-artist.html

Book cover for Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction by Sarah Cox (Goose Lane Editions): What’s to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada’s wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou, cormorants kill rare trees, and housing developments threaten a tiny frog? Environmental journalist Sarah Cox has witnessed what happens when we drive species to the brink of extinction. In Signs of Life, she tags along with the Canadian military, Indigenous guardians, biologists, conservationists, and ordinary people who are racing to save hundreds of species before it’s too late. Travelling across the country, Cox visits the Toronto Zoo, home of Canada’s only wildlife biobank, where scientists conserve living cells from endangered species in the event of future loss; tours Canada’s military bases, home to some of Canada’s last preserved ecosystems; and travels to Indigenous communities where land stewards are striving to restore the delicate ecological balance that has sustained people for millennia. Through the eyes and work of individuals who are bringing species back from the precipice, Cox delivers both an urgent message and a fresh perspective on how we can protect biodiversity and begin to turn things around. Winner, Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards for BC Authors (Non-Fiction). https://gooselane.com/products/signs-of-life

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Today, from #NovaScotia publishers: Bluenose Adventure by Jacqueline Halsey, ill. by Eric Orchard (Formac Publishing) & The Plot to Kill the Premier by Jeremy Akerman (Moose House Publications). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts #NSarts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity

Book cover for Bluenose Adventure by Jacqueline Halsey, ill. by Eric Orchard (Formac Publishing): Share in the adventure and excitement of a young boy's life aboard a working ship, the Bluenose on the Grand Banks. Here's a true-to-life adventure story. Arty is a 10-year-old boy who gets the chance of a lifetime -- he's hired to go on the maiden voyage of the famous schooner Bluenose in 1921. Young readers will delight in joining along with Arty as he learns his way around the ship amidst the dangers, excitement and intrigue of working on a fishing schooner. When Arty climbs to the top of a mast and spots another ship heading toward Bluenose on a collision course, even the captain is grateful for his help. Once he's back in Bluenose's home port of Lunenburg, Arty has a real adventure to share with his family and friends. In this story, based on the real experiences of young boys who worked on board Bluenose in the 1920s, Jacqueline Halsey has created a book that celebrates the story of the ship and her famous captain Angus Walters. https://formac.ca/product/bluenose-adventure/

Book cover for The Plot to Kill the Premier by Jeremy Akerman (Moose House Publications): Amateur sleuth Marc LeBlanc is pulled into a complex case when his friend, the Premier of Nova Scotia, starts receiving death threats. Marc's challenge is to help locate the source of the threats. Is the danger from within the Premier's closest circle? The third Marc LeBlanc Mystery. https://www.moosehousepress.com/product-page/the-plot-to-kill-the-premier

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: In the Circle of Ancient Trees by Valerie Trouet, ill. by Blaze Cyan (Greystone Books) & The Order of the British Vampire by Simon Kewin (Elsewhen Press). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #bookish #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booksta

Book cover for In the Circle of Ancient Trees by Valerie Trouet, ill. by Blaze Cyan (Greystone Books): Nonfiction. From the Giant Sequoia to the Bald Cypress, this captivating book explores the stories of 10 species of ancient trees, their unique environments, and what they have to tell us about the history of our world. Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute. https://greystonebooks.com/products/in-the-circle-of-ancient-trees

Book cover for The Order of the British Vampire by Simon Kewin (Elsewhen Press): Fantasy. Having revealed and removed the mole in the Office of the Witchfinder General, Danesh is a hero – but also a target. The fourth story of His Majesty’s Office of the Witchfinder General. https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/the-order-of-the-british-vampire/

some snails that went out today :)
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A set of envelopes that are covered with stickers that have illustrations of many leaves in red and green ink.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada, trans. by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions) & Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder (Graywolf). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #bookish #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booksta

Book cover for Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada, trans. by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " Yoko Tawada (a Japanese native who now lives in Germany) explores the experience of living and writing in languages learned later in life… Personal anecdotes are mixed with broader observations on language’s intersections with status, colonization, and migration." https://www.ndbooks.com/book/exophony/

Book cover for Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder (Graywolf): Literary fiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "We meet the protagonist as she begins her first year of OPT, a U.S. employer-sponsored work-experience visa for recent international student grads… an intimate, finely-detailed collage of voices and perspectives on difference, privilege, and belonging in contemporary America." https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/optional-practical-training

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The First Peoples by Maika Harper, ill. by Kaja Kajfež (Inhabit Media) & With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple and Libi Axelrod, trans. by Lawrence Schimel (Kalaniot Books). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #bookish #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booksta

Book cover for The First Peoples by Maika Harper, ill. by Kaja Kajfež (Inhabit Media): Based on an ancient Inuit traditional story, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the appearance of the first humans on earth, and how from them all the peoples of the earth emerged. https://inhabitbooks.com/products/the-first-peoples

Book cover for With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple and Libi Axelrod, trans. by Lawrence Schimel (Kalaniot Books): Children’s literature featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "This book is a loving, sun-drenched visit to the Jewish community of Santiago de Cuba. The story is a version of the folktale “the clever tailor,” in which the hero repeatedly turns a worn-out item of clothing into something else." https://kalaniotbooks.com/with-a-needle-and-thread-a-jewish-folktale-from-cuba/

I wrote up some brief thoughts, from my personal perspective, on today's launch of Lauren C. Teffeau's wonderful eco-thriller Accelerated Growth Environment.

https://joshsutphin.com/blog/accelerated-growth-environment.html

#indiepress #smallpress #publishing

Absolutely thrilled to announce that our first publication, Lauren C. Teffeau's eco-thriller ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT, is out today! You can get it in ebook and paperback at shirakipress.com/age and most book retailers.

#indiepress #smallpress #solarpunk #bookstodon

Cover image for ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT depicting two women and a childlike robot looking out over a massive ecological construction toward an explosion in the distance. The blurb on the cover reads: "A sapphic eco-thriller perfect for fans of Becky Chambers and Martha Wells." The blurb is attributed to Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning series Between Earth and Sky.

For information and ordering options, visit shirakipress.com/age

“A sapphic eco-thriller perfect for fans of Becky Chambers and Martha Wells.” -Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning series Between Earth and Sky

DR. JORNA BENTON is the Principal Scientist for the Climasphere, a massive, sea-going ecological nursery on a mission to restore collapsing ecosystems… but when an explosion rocks the vessel, Jorna becomes the prime suspect. To clear her name, she must confront the secret she’s been running from all these years: a family and a faith that could destroy her.

For information and ordering options, visit shirakipress.com/age

“This adventure for humanity’s future survival will win your heart and your mind!” -Fran Wilde, award winning author of A Philosophy of Thieves

“This gripping eco-mystery is a page turner with a no-nonsense romantic interest.” -Sarena Ulibarri, award-winning author of Another Life

“Let this be the future you imagine and
work toward building.” -Curtis C. Chen, bestselling author of True Blue Kangaroo

For information and ordering options, visit shirakipress.com/age

CLIMATE CRISIS
ECOLOGICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE
SABOTAGE
SAPPHIC RELATIONSHIP
LOVABLE ROBOT SIDEKICK
FAMILY SECRETS

ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT by Lauren C. Teffeau

Available now in ebook and paperback.

For information and ordering options, visit shirakipress.com/age

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Misplaced by Brittni Brinn (Little Ghosts Books) & Five Seasons of Charlie Francis by Danica Roache (Vagrant Press). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #bookish #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booksta

Book covers for:Misplaced by Brittni Brinn (Little Ghosts Books): In an alternate reality where body parts are as easily changed as clothing, what happens when things go missing? Nan chases down a stranger to return a missing mouth and finds themselves in the coat-strewn apartment of a makeshift family: Jessica, a charismatic older woman, her adopted son Adam, and Reena, the icy-eyed enigma Nan does their best to avoid. As rumours of stolen parts and illegal brain tampering hang over the city, Nan and Jessica investigate the origin of the disembodied fingers left at their doorstep. The more they uncover, the more Nan realizes that their body and their memories might not be their own- and Reena's mysterious past may be the key. https://www.littleghostsbooks.com/product/misplaced/2296

Five Seasons of Charlie Francis by Danica Roache (Vagrant Press): Charlie Francis's five-year plan has gone to shit. She was supposed to greet the new millennium by diving head-first into a master's degree, but her thesis has ground to a halt, Y2K was a bust, her rambunctious family and claustrophobic hometown are driving her around the bend, and the maybe-love-of-her-life, Adam, keeps joking about her moving home to marry him and have his babies. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she has to navigate being a (mostly) single mother on top of everything else. Maybe it's time for a new five-year plan. https://nimbus.ca/store/five-seasons-of-charlie-francis.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Dundurn) (yes please) & The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press). See alt-text.

#DSPBposts #bookstodon #bookish #booklovers #BooksWorthReading #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booksta #BookSky

Book cover for Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Dundurn): Nonfiction. A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754836-cancelling-billionaires-before-they-cancel-us

Book cover for The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press): Literature in translation reviewed by Catherine Parnell ("Divided into three sections, each with mini-chapters or narratives, the novel wends its way through Adriana’s life as she struggles with Lady Death and Lady Manipulator—the death, that of her mother and maternal grandmother, and the manipulator? Who’s to say." -- https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september/voices-adriana-elvira-navarro) for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/).

it’s snail mail time again :)
🐌 this month there is an A7 zine (pictured here folded out) with some spring cleaning inside, and a set of stickers in a warm tone palette (experimenting with a limited palette and I think it turned out okay (: )
🦔 these are available throughout the month 🐌✨✨✨
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 #smallpress
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 #zinemaking
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