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Bidding farewell to our beloved #smallpress kitty Shu this week. He’s told me he’s ready to move on so doing a lot of final snuggles. Here he is pictured some months back in happier times with 2 of our bestselling titles and a favorite toy. 😢

Black cat lying on the floor next to 2 books and a sparkle ball.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization by Martha Paynter (Fernwood Publishing) & Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec (Goose Lane Editions). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization by Martha Paynter (Fernwood Publishing): Martha Paynter, nurse and scholar, explains how abortion is governed in Canada without an abortion law and why experts advocate against one. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/lawless

Book cover for Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec (Goose Lane Editions): Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec doesn’t want to be a “Good Indian.” When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec gave them a list. This list then exploded into a book club, then into a podcast about a year of Indigenous reading, and then, ultimately, into this book. Drawing on conversations with readers and authors, Bad Indians Book Club delves into writing about history, science, and gender, and into memoirs and fiction, all by “Bad Indians” and those like them, whose refusal of the dominant narrative of the wemitigoozhiwag (European settlers) opens up new possibilities for identity and existence. Introducing each chapter with flash fiction about a shapeshifting Deer Woman, who is on her own journey to decide who she is, Krawec leads us into a place of wisdom and medicine where stories of and by marginalized writers help us imagine a thousand worlds waiting to be born. https://gooselane.com/products/bad-indians-book-club

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Cures for Hunger by Deni Ellis Béchard (Goose Lane Editions) & On Hammet Shore by Shelagh Meagher (Askance Publishing). See alt-text.

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Book cover for On Hammet Shore by Shelagh Meagher (Askance Publishing): Henry has loved Sybil, one way and another, for nearly as long as he’s loved Little Hammet, the place where they first met, his birthplace, the shore which forever draws him back. The island and the woman are the twin stars which, for better or for worse, have steered his life. But that life now has an end in sight. Not some messy, pain-racked end such as his sister suffered, not something to require his brother to clean up, but a graceful, carefully arranged cessation of life. An end of his own choosing at a time of his own choosing. But before that, there’s a life to be made sense of, arrangements must be made, plans to be be acted upon. https://askancepublishing.wordpress.com/on-hammet-shore/

Book cover for Cures for Hunger by Deni Ellis Béchard (Goose Lane Editions): Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard worships his father, believing that he can do no wrong. Although his charismatic father is prone to racing trains and brawling, Deni has no idea how unusual his family is. But when Deni discovers his father's true identity (and his other life as a bank robber), his imagination is set on fire. Before long, he begins to see himself as a character in one of his father's stories. He can't escape the sense that his father's life holds the key to understanding his own passions, aversions, and motivations. At once an extraordinary family story and an unconventional portrait of the artist as a young man, Cures for Hunger is a singular, deeply affecting memoir by an acclaimed writer. Almost unbelievable. You'll swear it's fiction. https://gooselane.com/products/cures-for-hunger

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Immortal Air by Tracey Rombough (Cape Breton University Press) & Every Leaf on Every Tree by Lauren Soloy (Nimbus Publishing). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Immortal Air by Tracey Rombough (Cape Breton University Press): Bright and promising as a student, George Cameron was sent to live with his sister in Boston while he attended a prestigious Latin school and later the Boston School of Law. It was what his mother wanted for him and his brother, Charley. It was what any well-bred family would want for an intelligent son destined for greater things than his humble New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, upbringing. On his journey to find his voice among the great poets of the 19th century, George had to leave behind his first love, a muse who haunted his thoughts and fuelled his passion for poetry throughout his life. https://nimbus.ca/store/immortal-air.html

Book cover for Every Leaf on Every Tree by Lauren Soloy (Nimbus Publishing): A tender and playful baby board book bursting with declarations of love from the bestselling author/illustrator of The Hidden World of Gnomes. https://nimbus.ca/store/every-leaf-on-every-tree.html

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/

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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 ✨
🦔🦔🦔
#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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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#stickers
#stickerart
#snailmail
#smallpress
#zines
#illustration
#drawing

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.

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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.

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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

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