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Book cover for Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin by Sunny Dhillon (Wolsak & Wynn): Memoir. In 2018, Sunny Dhillon resigned as a journalist with the Globe and Mail. His blog post announcing his departure went unexpectedly viral. In this sharply funny memoir, shaped as a series of letters to his daughter, Dhillon shares his journey so that his daughter will not have to struggle through the lessons he took too long to learn, so that she will know who she is and be proud. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/hide-and-sikh

Book cover for The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G by Keya Chatterjee (Green Writers Press): Romance featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " If you longingly look back to the 2010s dystopian craze, you’ll be glad to know it’s back. For those who were teenagers during this time and are looking for something more adult with an emphasis on romance, this is the perfect read. A queer Romeo-and-Juliet tale set in 2042 Upland and Lowland US, where segregation is back, and hurricane Eamon is set to destroy all with the help of the richest."

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: cyborg Brothers Grimm poetry NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch & Red Sword by formerly Booker-longlisted Bora Chung. See alt-text.

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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 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

Two days left on the Pocket Pubs holiday sale ⏳

My zine 10 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A VOID is part of it — small, quiet, and about absence rather than cheer.

Sale details:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSdWqWFgZGh/

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SMILE: SELL YOUR ARCHIVE
issue of the international magazine of multiple origins published by Pete Horobin, Dundee, Scotland, 1987

scanned and online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-sell-your-archive/

This zine from 1987 addresses an urgent issue that has only become more pressing in the meantime: How to preserve personal and non-institutional collections of DIY/small press experimental publications, zines, mail art, and similar materials?

Open letter by Pete Horobin, with replies by Robin Crozier, Simon Anderson, Robin Klassnik, John Furnival, Susan Young, Michael Leigh & Hazel Jones, Mark Pawson, Stewart Home, Stefan Szczelkun, Art Naphro, Keith Bates, Ben Allen, DJ at FOMT, Tony Lowes, David Jarvis, Eric Finlay, Barry Edgar Pilcher, Michael Scott & subsequent replies by Pete Horobin.

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Book cover for Bad Artist: Creating in a Productivity-Obsessed World (Touchwood Editions): The perfect antidote to the toxicity of the current productivity narrative, this collection of essays on creativity features 21 Canadian and international writers, providing warmth, support, camaraderie, and empathy. Edited N. Lampert, Pamela Oakley, Christian Smith, and Gillian Turnbull. https://touchwoodeditions.com/products/bad-artist

Book cover for Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah (Haymarket Books): Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer’s perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-walls

Hey friends and fans! Just a reminder that the nixcomics.com 500 cent sale ends in a couple days!

#Comics #records #smallpress

I’m three weeks behind on my comics :( which I think is the furthest behind I’ve been. But I’m still not feeling too well so have had to pause things until I have more energy.
In the meantime I’ve made a calendar…cutting it fine in terms of time before the new year…
it’s hand-cut and bound and the covers come in a few different colour ways.
Very limited edition 🙃
🦔
#calendar #zines #comics #pattern #smallpress

A calendar hanging from purple and white string on the wall. The cover of the calendar is illustrated with oak leaves.

The cover of an illustrated calendar with red oak leaves.

The January page of the calendar featuring Tso and Fraser holding hands, leaves, and patterns.

Here is the cover of the calendar again but printed on yellow paper.

Looking for last minute small press and self published books in the SFF/H, romance, witchcraft, herbal, folklore, and ghost hunting genres? Go here:

Https://www.thescribblinglion.com

The shop CLOSES IN TWO DAYS. In 2026, I will only be selling my own books, so everything is on an actual, real CLOSEOUT SALE. Don't wait!

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PLEASE SHARE: WoodPig Press is a new Wales-based micro-press specialising in speculative fiction and non-fiction. We open to submissions on 5th January 2026. When we do, we're going to be doing things a bit differently...

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Zine & Pastry Pop-up

Lasso Brewing, Sunday, December 14 at 10:00 AM MST

Rainy on Instagram: "Come join us Sunday Dec 14th on the patio at Lasso Brewing for pastries, zines, coffee, and beer from 10am-3pm (or till we sell out)! Pastries by @wildflourchild Zines and things by @littleprickart Coffee & Brews by @lassobrewing"

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSIDdgOEetg/

https://burque.fun/event/zine-and-pastry-pop-up

Rock-on indie authors! 5 independent / small-press authors on the 2025 MSN/ELLE fantasy/scifi list:

• K.M. Fajardo – Local Heavens (Bindery Books).
• Barbara Truelove – Of Monsters and Mainframes (Bindery / Ezeekat).
• Elaine Ho – Cry, Voidbringer (Bindery / Left Unread).
• Martin Cahill – Audition for the Fox (Tachyon Publications).
• Kamilah Cole – An Arcane Inheritance (Poisoned Pen Press / Sourcebooks).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/reviews/fantasy-and-sci-fi-books-stood-out-in-2025-these-are-the-year-s-best/ar-AA1S0woy

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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel by Andrew Kaufman (Coach House Books): https://chbooks.com/Books/E/Enjoy-Your-Stay-at-the-Shamrock-Motel & The Language of the Stars by Nathan Hellner-Mestelman (Linda Leith Publishing): https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/The_Language_of_the_Stars See alt-text.

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Book cover for Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel by Andrew Kaufman (Coach House Books): Fair warning: no one spends the night, or even an hour at the Shamrock without experiencing some form of transformation. Whether it’s accidentally sleeping with a bear, turning yourself into a river, or getting entirely too intimate with the sun, time spent at the Shamrock will make you wiser, stronger, sexier, and more yourself. Even if that’s the last thing you want. These linked stories explore the intersection of personality and desire, love and lust, the joy and sadness of being alive and in love. Heated pool, cable TV, and a shot at redemption: the Shamrock Motel offers it all. https://chbooks.com/Books/E/Enjoy-Your-Stay-at-the-Shamrock-Motel

Book cover for The Language of the Stars: The Scientific Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages by Nathan Hellner-Mestelman (Linda Leith Publishing): Ever wondered what atoms, cells, people, refrigerators, the universe, and beer have in common? Nathan Hellner-Mestelman takes us right back to the Big Bang, then hurls us through cosmic history as we discover how to swirl up galaxies, solar systems, and eventually life. From molecules to modern society, this book will take you through every reason we're alive in this universe coupled with every cosmic force trying to kill us. In this quirky medley of science and speculation, we'll cover every common thread weaving across our cosmos. https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/The_Language_of_the_Stars

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Immortal Woman by Su Chang (House of Anansi): https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman & The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press): https://assemblypress.ca/shop/road-between-us See alt-text.

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Book cover for The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press): Estela, a lawyer, struggles professionally after a deep childhood loss and an ill-advised undergraduate dalliance. Ash is a diplomat posted to Buenos Aires and Beijing who wants what he can’t have. Ophélie, a nurse, makes a grievous medical error that alters the course of her life. And Roman is an academic whose careless sexual escapades after a painful divorce lead to even more painful consequences. Tense, poetic, and as binge-worthy as a miniseries, The Road Between Us explores why we make the decisions we do, and how those decisions affect the people we love. https://assemblypress.ca/shop/road-between-us

Book cover for The Immortal Woman by Su Chang (House of Anansi): Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an American university on a mission to become a true Westerner. She tirelessly erases her birth identity, abandons her Chinese suitor, and pursues a white lover, all the while haunted by the scars of her upbringing. Following China’s meteoric rise, Lemei is slowly dragged into a nationalistic perspective that stuns Lin. Their final confrontation results in tragic consequences, but ultimately, offers hope for a better future. By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reminds us to hold tight to our humanity at any cost. https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke (Arsenal Pulp): https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Perfect-Little-Angels & Barbara Joan Scott's debut novel, The Taste of Hunger (Freehand Books): https://freehand-books.com/product/the-taste-of-hunger/ See alt-text.

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Book cover for Barbara Joan Scott's debut novel, The Taste of Hunger (Freehand Books): In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena is forced into marriage with Taras, a man twice her age, who wants her even though she has refused him. Stuck in a hardscrabble life with a husband she despises, starved for a life of her own choosing, at every turn Olena rebels agains her husband and her fate. As Olena and Taras drag everyone around them into the maelstrom that is their marriage, they set off a chain of turbulent events whose aftershocks reverberate through generations. https://freehand-books.com/product/the-taste-of-hunger/

Book cover for Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke (Arsenal Pulp), which was a finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada’s 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. In a boarding school, tensions brew between students and vengeful staff. An addict seeks a fresh start in pottery class. A man returns home from university abroad with confessions that unravel his mother's world. Amid winter storms, a ghost delights her grief-stricken partner. And atop a hill surrounded by rot and garbage, two lovers dare to embark on a secret, dangerous romance. Human desires - for connection, salvation, and understanding - imbue these deeply Nigerian stories with universal resonance. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Perfect-Little-Angels

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Count On Me by Ann Cavlovic (Guernica Editions): https://guernicaeditions.com/products/count-on-me & Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer (Wolsak & Wynn): https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/supergiants See alt-text.

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Book cover for the collection Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer (Wolsak & Wynn): For millennia humanity has looked upwards and traced stories in the night sky, projecting our human wants and desires outward. In Supergiants, Kyle Flemmer turns his gaze in the other direction. What does our reach for the stars say about us? Working with the technical language of engineering and astrophysics, Flemmer reorients the reader within our galaxy. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/supergiants

$Book cover for the novel Count On Me by Ann Cavlovic (Guernica Editions): Count on Me exposes how a family can fracture when aging parents grow frail and debts from the past resurface. Tia is raising a baby when her older brother Tristan gradually takes over their ailing parents’ bank account, house, and medical decisions. Through a web of complex family dynamics, Tia uncovers the disaster left by Tristan’s meddling in their parents’ lives. As Tia tries to set things straight, she confronts how money and love were entangled in her family, and whether her own mothering now goes to opposite extremes. Told in an intelligent and hopeful voice, this is a story about sibling rivalry, elder abuse, how life can become transactional, and how we come to feel entitled to someone else’s money. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/count-on-me$

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Twentysomething by Megan Williams. Releasing today! (Bullshit Lit): https://www.bullshitlit.com/shop/p/twentysomething & The Great & the Small by A.T. Balsara (Common Deer Press): https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/the-great-and-the-small See alt-text.

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Book cover for Twentysomething: poems by megan williams. A collection of poems by Megan Williams. Releasing on December 5, 2025. (Bullshit Lit‬): “there is no living poet that does soft, tender sentences as sharply edged with gutting vulnerability as she does.”-Kirsti MacKenzie https://www.bullshitlit.com/shop/p/twentysomething

Book cover for The Great & the Small by A.T. Balsara (Common Deer Press). Ananda is a troubled teen who feels like a misfit at home and at her new school, and her unusual ability to connect with animals makes her feel like even more of an outsider. Fin is a Tunnel rat who lives in the passages beneath the city, in the dark places humans overlook or despise. Orphaned as a pup, he is the nephew of the Tunnel's charismatic leader, the Beloved Chairman, and is willing to do anything to please his uncle, including becoming his lead henchman. The worlds of humans and rats suddenly collide when Ananda protects Fin during a chance encounter. As the Chairman launches a plague war against the humans, both Fin and Ananda wrestle with secrets so terrible that they threaten their very existence. https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/the-great-and-the-small

ICYMI: Both Stelliform books that were in the running for a Small Spec Book Award have come out ahead! R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD is the winner for the horror category and Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK is a fantasy finalist! We're thrilled to be recognized by small press readers!

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Small Spec Book Award Horror Winner announcement. R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD wins the horror category.

Small Spec Book Award Fantasy Finalists announcement. Michael J. DeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK is a finalist in the fantasy category.

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Core of the Sun by the queen of Finnish weird Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Lola Rogers (Grove Atlantic imprint Black Cat): https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-core-of-the-sun/ & Taiwanese speculative novel The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich (Columbia University Press): https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-membranes/9780231195713/ See alt-text.

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Book cover for Taiwanese speculative novel The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich (Columbia University Press): It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-membranes/9780231195713/

Book cover for The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Lola Rogers (Grove Atlantic imprint Black Cat): From the queen of “Finnish weird,” a captivating and witty speculative satire of a Handmaid’s Tale-esque welfare state where women are either breeders or outcasts, addicts chase the elusive high of super-hot chili peppers, and one woman is searching for her missing sister. https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-core-of-the-sun/

Bonus daily(ish) #SmallPress #books post! Because I got this by email today: Buy 1 Assembly title from https://assemblypress.ca/shop and they’ll throw in 1 free Brick title; buy 1 Brick title from https://www.brickbooks.ca and you’ll receive 1 free Assembly title! Images stolen from the email, obvs.

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