The little calls for submissions from these guys are so good.

Ive been off here for two whole months! What did I miss? Give me your book news!

We are excited to announce the Ilse Schwepcke Prize (@theisprize.bsky.social) for a travel book by a woman writing in English.
Entry is free and open until 31 March. The winning author will receive £5,000.
societyofauthors.org/prizes/other...

This frank memoir of old age is a soulful delight In The Odd Woman and the City, Vivian Gornick writes elegiacally of life in her 60s, her love for New York and the oddballs she meets

A soulful delight! Brilliant review of ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY @telegraphnews.bsky.social

'She sifts through each transaction she witnesses or experiences, and assesses its precise worth.'

www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

We're so proud to publish Gornick! ODD WOMAN is out 16 January 🌆

Buy bestselling books — 404 Ink Buy 404 Ink's books: Nasty Women, Chris McQueer, Helen McClory, Jason Reynolds, Creeper, Elle Nash, Nadine Aisha Jassat and more.

Online shop is open again and we're back. With a ruined sleep schedule and a to do list as long as a Musk-esque ego, please be gentle... www.404ink.com/shop

Line up for 2025.

Jan - The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social
Apr - Ghost Mountain - Pbk - @ronanhession.bsky.social
May - The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
July - Beasts - Lulu Allison
Sept - Celeste - Colette Snowden
Nov - Orca & Bird - Anna Chilvers

Magic!

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Opening up to review copies in the new year! Excited to see what 2025 has to offer 📚 DM me 😊

Got the most beautiful book from @waterstones.bsky.social today 😍 📚💙

Nothing more to say other than I am so so lucky to have so many lovely local authors ❤️ a wonderful Christmas evening was had and I now feel so festive!! 🎄

It's day five and we're accumulating jams at an alarming rate. Very dubious about pineapple and passion fruit...

Galley Beggar Press is hiring!

We need a reliable, book-loving, Norwich-based administrative assistant for six months - starting January, 10 hours a week, and with the possibility of extending:

Closing date: 13 December 2024

Full details: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-34

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Hi Sam!! 👋

Day one of my Bonne Maman jam advent calendar 😍🥰

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

Just a reminder that none of us are tech bros (we also have a no AI stealing clause on our copyright page going into 2025). You want to follow some exceptional indie publishing? Start here 👇

*AI not included

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Manchester in Translation posted my keynote speech for them where I discuss pitching literary translations to English publishers.

My store is doing its first ever poetry night! Let me know if you want to sign up or sign up for tickets to watch! ⬇️
www.waterstones.com/events/open-...

Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.

P.S. We have a 'toolkit' with all sorts of info about putting together a submission package

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/tag/too...

Welcome to Saraband Saraband is an award-winning independent publisher of distinctive fiction, nature and culture. We publish authors with deep knowledge of the culture, local landscapes, wildlife, folk traditions and hi...

Hello Bluesky #booksky

A little about us... we're an award-winning independent publisher of literary #fiction and narrative #non-fiction. Our books inspire, inform, intrigue and entertain

We're a team of three, Sara, Rosie and @beckreads.bsky.social, based in Salford

Read more here:

saraband.net

Indie presses galore! ⬇️
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This actually happened! In my befuddled astonishment on the night I forgot to thank the incredible @imogenrobertson.bsky.social & @francesowen.bsky.social who power the HWA & the judges chaired by Louise Hare. Still completely overwhelmed!

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this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral 🥰🥰

Is this Tillys rec? She always tells me to go there!

HOW THE HELL IS AN OBSCURE BOOK I DISCOVERED IN A BOOKSTORE THAT I ENDED UP TRANSLATING AND FINDING A PUBLISHER FOR WITH NO FUNDING OR HELP FROM LTI KOREA

NOT ONLY NOMINATED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD BUT ALSO NOW BEING READ BY DUA LIPA??????!!!!!!!

The only place to get mince pies in my book!

My map of children's independent bookshops is updated regularly. Most provide an online service and they're all run by people who can make well-informed book recommendations. Make sure you support your local one if you want to keep it. Any missing, please let me know. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

Yeah I've definitely already had one, you're safe 😄

'View of the City from Mount View Road, Crouch End' (2022) by Alan Lancaster
alanlancaster.co.uk

The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride - I think about this book a lot
The Orange by Wendy Cope - all she writes is gold and I can't read other poetry
How to Come Alive Again by Beth McNicoll - helped me out of a dark place
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - music and words never cease to amaze