Issues 9 & 10 are out now — bundled for $8.
The complete series is $33. The first three issues are free. Your support means everything. Every copy sold brings the printed editions closer to reality.
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I got this information from Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves, a book about Alaskan salmon canneries. The explanation goes on for another page after this. #WIPsnips #process #writesky #literaryfiction #writingcommunity
We ask religious institutions to hold certainty on our behalf. When they refuse, we call it failure.
But there’s another name for it.
Nothing Further Was Required — a novel about the discipline that refusal actually requires.
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#FrankMatsura wants to make photographs like the ones by Alfred Steiglitz that made him want to become a photographer, but he'll keep falling short of his goal, because he needs to find his own voice. Spoiler: he will. #writingcommunity #writesky #literaryfiction
“That’s nothing,” said Ulysses, waving away my admiration with his hand. “There was this one time when they had me and my friend cornered in that alley behind the bank, but we fooled them by telling them that we had ‘Chinese black magic’ and would curse them. You’ll grow old and hideous and your gau will fall off, I told them. You know what a gau is?” I didn’t, but I could guess. “I started waving my hands around real slow-like and chanted stuff in Chinese real loud trying to sound scary. I said in Chinese, ‘You’re a stupid ass who has horseshit for brains. Go home and make love to your mother.’ Let me tell you, those wharf rats were frozen on the spot. Their eyes were the size of silver dollars. I knew they believed me and they didn’t know what to do. So, I said, ‘the curse will take you in ten seconds when I clap my hands. I’d run if I was you.’ When I raised my hands and began counting back from ten. Ten, nine, eight,” he demonstrated, “Believe me, those ‘tough guys’ made tracks!” laughing at his own ruse. Ulysses, indeed, I thought.
In 1901 Seattle, #FrankMatsura meets a young Chinese-American named Ulysses Wang, named after Ulysses S Grant. He's the hotel cook. Here the younger man describes a time racist thugs had him cornered. He's a fun character. #WIPsnips #writesky #literaryfiction
Ever wondered what life behind the headlines might really feel like? 🕰️ Mrs Trump by Alison Little is a fictional dive into power, image, and isolation at the very top.
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Don't just take my word for it...
The Weight of the Light
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Welcome to Day 3 of our #blogtour for
༻*·The Lost Seigneur·*༺
by David Loux!
Check out our new tour stops, sharing intriguing extracts and fascinating background articles on the author's family history!
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Unsettled Easter Emotions. Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚
Unsettled Easter Emotions. Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚
Easter Blessings. Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚
Easter Blessings. Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚
💋The First Date💋
A thought-provoking look at the female experience in a patriarchal world; Isabelle voices the thoughts and feelings of many in ‘The First Date’, combining dark humour with brutal reality. 📚✒️
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Jersey Devil territory. The Legend Begins this October. #horrorbooks #literaryfiction #jerseydevilthelegendbegins #historicalfiction
Not new to publishing, but new to Substack. What do we mean by "literary?" Give us a read - we'd love to have you!
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Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada, this is the kind of career break he desperately needs. In the depths of the Bodleian Library, Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad, after its protagonist, a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea, but known to all as son of nobody. As sole translator and interpreter of The Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. Under his gaze, the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the two-thousand-year gap between the two, a thread hasn’t frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love, and grief. In this masterpiece of myth, history, and domesticity, Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, and always. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Esquire • Marie Claire • Art+ • The Times • The Guardian • The Observer • The Financial Times • BBC • The Sydney Morning Herald • A Globe and Mail Spring 2026 Read • Featured in The American Booksellers Association's Spring 2026 Preview • Oprah Dail
📚 Son of Nobody by: Yann Martel
Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University, he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing […]
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I did not have luck. Weeks went by and I had not found work. My visits to the newspapers were unfruitful. After waiting over two hours outside the office of Mr. J. Ezekiel Blathern at the Seattle Daily Times, I was told by a supercilious staff member that the newspaper was not equipped to run photographs, and had no need for my services. Two wasted hours. A printer on Cherry St. told me that he’d heard the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was preparing to make the transition from steel engravings to the half-tone process, enabling them to publish photographs. I hurried to my room at the Cooke to get my portfolio and walked the four miles to the newspaper’s offices. When, after another long wait, a hirsute editor of the Post-Intelligencer met with me, the man insulted me by wiping his hand on his vest after shaking mine. I’m sure it was unintentional. I thought, the man would not recall having done so if asked about it two seconds later. “You have wasted your time, little fellow,” the man told me. “We already have a camera, and it should be no great challenge to train someone to use it.” People, I found, regarded me with curiosity at best, but more often with suspicion, like a housekeeper inspecting something that might be mouse droppings. I was an oddity to some, a threat to others. I once heard the phrase, “Japanese dandy,” behind me as I walked out of a store, followed by a burst of women’s laughter. I was complimented by many people on my mastery of English, the way people praise a dog for walking on its hind legs, but was offered no positions.
In 1901 Seattle, #FrankMatsura is unable to find work as a photographer or even a photographer's assistant, despite his qualifications. #WIPsnips #need #writesky #literaryfiction
A friend called me yesterday to say her local library in Meriden, KS ordered my book, The Pattern Shop! 🦋
It's really the small things in life.
Also, librarians are superheroes. 📚
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It‘s humbling (and wonderful!) to have such nice things said about my book.
Thank you @slantbooks.bsky.social and Patrick Flores-Scott!
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Through layered storytelling, Daniyal Mueenuddin reveals a Pakistan shaped by class divides, gender inequality, and enduring feudal power.
By Meezan Zahra Khwaja
Read more: thefridaytimes.com/08-Apr-2026/...
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The institution wants him to stop complicating what has served people well. He asks:
complicating what, exactly?
Nothing Further Was Required. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GMYKH8C8 #LiteraryFiction
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Unsettled Easter Emotions. Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚
Easter Blessings. Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚
The Blessings Bestowed that Easter. Stories about people like you. Stories that feed the poor. Consider a purchase. Available Kobo.com & Amazon.ca. 100% royalties go to charity! #books #booksky #shortstories #canadian #literaryfiction #charity #foodbank #audiobooks #kobo #paperbacks #ebooks 🖋️ 📚💙 🌈📚
Daniyal Mueenuddin’s This Is Where the Serpent Lives exposes feudal Pakistan’s deep inequalities, where class and power define fate.
By Meezan Zahra Khwaja
Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/08-Apr-2026/...
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Immerse yourself in a magical fairy tale world.
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Only ONE #Agent121 space left with Laetitia Rutherford from Watson, Little on 21 April. Laetitia loves upmarket and literary fiction with a strong concept, question or emotional scenario, ideally in contemporary settings. Book: www.iaminprint.co.uk #amwritingfiction #literaryfiction
