Black and white #StockArt by #RyanSumo of a ruined bridge
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A primitive #hunter follows a #humanoid #monster through rocky terrain in this #StockArt scene by #EarlGeier
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An ancient secret is revealed.
Two companions discover something new.
Two friends making a bet.
Just a few of the speculative fiction stories in this anthology.
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#Fantasy #ScienceFiction #SmallPress
Book cover for The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, translated by Frank Wynne (Charco Press): In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park. Unexpected among the human cargo is an artefact harbouring a sloth with a fascinating yet terrifying secret: the ability to create erotically explosive telepathic connections between people. What ensues is a raucous satire of men’s fear of women’s bodies, of the illusion of logic in the structures of so-called civilisation, and the way class and race obscure identities when the observer is a man with power. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/the-national-telepathy
Book cover for That Gun in Your Hand: The Strange Saga of ‘Hey Joe’ and Popular Music’s History of Violence by Jason Schneider (Anvil Press): This is the story of a song. Yet, it is a song that binds nearly every strand of 20th-century American popular music. https://www.anvilpress.com/books/that-gun-in-your-hand-the-strange-saga-of-hey-joe-and-popular-musics-history-of-violence
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: That Gun in Your Hand (by @jasonschneidermedia.com, @anvilpress.bsky.social) & The National Telepathy (by Roque Larraquy, trans @terribleman.com, @charcopress.com). See alt-text.
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A list of Small Presses recommended to me would you believe?
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James Penha is back after a long absence with “Angel Bestowed,” a short story on quiet consent, fledgling capitalism, and what angels will or will not tolerate at www.unlikelystories.org/content/ange... #fiction #smallpress #litmag
Screen cap says: You may know our award-nominated work, including: Pluralities by Avi Silver, Aurora Awards finalist, 2024; Rosalind's Siblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders, edited by Bogi Takács, Lambda Awards finalist, 2024; Wishing Well, Wishing Well by Jubilee Cho, Nebula Awards finalist, 2026
So Chris, Clara, Matt, and Sam did most of the work on this campaign but I can tell you I felt pretty giddy sneaking in to add this little bit. 🎶 💃
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Deadly #Cthulhu rises out of the sea in this poster-sized #StockArt
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Cover-sized #StockArt of a #dreamscape of floating hands writing on the dreamer
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Made this in an attempt to get more people through that barrier that is creating a #Kickstarter account. Hopefully it works - even if likely not a big immediate effect.
Feel free to share and use it.
#kickstarter #amazon #kdp #selfpublishing #smallpress #selfpublish #indiecomics #indiesky #booksky
We rebuilt the website. Not to look bigger than we are. To make Harriet Bush and Masaka Madeda easier to find. Print and ebook, direct. m2mbooks.com
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Book cover for Precedented Parroting by Barbara Tran (Palimpsest Press): Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. 2024 GG finalist in poetry. https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/precedented-parroting-barbara-tran/
Book cover for Saints Rest by Luke Francis Beirne (Baraka Books): Malory Fleet’s son was killed by bikers and now she’s worried about his missing girlfriend, Amanda. But that case was closed shut by the police a year ago and Frank Cain, the private investigator she’s hired, is reluctant to take it on. On the sometimes seedy streets of uptown Saint John, no one wants to talk, even fewer have anything to say, and the police have cast a blanket of fog over everything. As Frank searches fruitlessly for clues, he learns more about Malory than about Amanda, and begins to grow wary. Throughout, Detective Stuart Boucher is following Frank and making little effort to hide it, leading Cain to conclude that the officer may have more to do with the case than he’s letting on. For Frank Cain, as unmoored as a lost ship in the harbour, in unravelling this case he risks unravelling himself. https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/saints-rest/
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Precedented Parroting (by @staranise99.bsky.social, @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) & Saints Rest (by @lukefrancisbeirne.bsky.social, Baraka Books). See alt-text.
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So I made this: youtu.be/lYzgwY56qfc
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Unlikely peep Jon Wesick is back, with a stylishly murderous tribute to Marc Vincenz: the flash fiction “More Assassin Bugs, Lady Beetles, and Lanternflies than Humans” at www.unlikelystories.org/content/more... #fiction #smallpress #litmag
The cover of an illustrated zine where the toad has eaten way too many cakes and now looks like a bowling ball.
More pages from the zine with the toad having to start a new health regime and detective Tso is running away from a scary thing.
Here, detective Tso is finding it difficult to sleep as there are crows cawing on the roof. The field mice are dancing through the shadows of the dream world.
The back page of the zine with three heroes battling and giant spider. Did you know that spider legs taste like chocolate when it’s Easter? ;)
some pages from last week’s zine… the toad is on a health kick…although not too happy about it! 🙃
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#fantasy #StockArt of a #merwoman who is part #seahorse
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A #slum dwelling for your #fantasy or #historical needs by @ericlofgren.bsky.social
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Get 30% off most #StockArt by @ericlofgren.bsky.social through April 2026
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Let your imagination gallop with these speculative horse stories. From spaceships bearing gifts to a little girl's wish gone awry, enjoy these tales.
📚💙🪐🐴
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#Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Horses #SmallPress
Unlikely Staff Reviewer dan raphael is here with “Much Ado About Everything,” which considers “There Is No Antimemetics Division” (by qntm) in the context of Frijof Capra’s 1975 “The Tao of Physics” at www.unlikelystories.org/content/much... #bookreview #books #taoofphysics #smallpress #litmag
Book cover for The Brittle Age by Donatalle Di Pietrantonio, trans. by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions): Literature in translation https://compulsivereader.com/2025/07/11/a-review-of-the-brittle-age-by-donatella-di-pietrantonio/ reviewed by Catherine Parnell ("marries fact with fiction to create a novel driven by secrets that must be relinquished and failings that must be acknowledged") for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/). https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9798889660873/the-brittle-age
Book cover for Who Would Have Thought It? by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, ill. by Megan Mulholland (Quite Literally Books): Fiction. It’s the eve of the U.S. Civil War, and Dr. Norval has just returned home to New England from his travels out West, bringing two big surprises for his family: Lola, a ten-year-old orphan entrusted to his keeping, and Lola’s immense fortune. In no time, the pious and upstanding Norvals are lusting for Lola’s riches in a most unbiblical way, and their true feelings about her dark skin and parentage reveal that their commitment to their abolitionist beliefs doesn’t run even skin deep. Originally published in 1872, this was the first novel to be written in English by a Mexican living in the United States. https://quiteliterallybooks.com/products/no-5-who-would-have-thought-it?variant=45291546476727
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Brittle Age (by Donatalle Di Pietrantonio, trans Ann Goldstein, @europaeditions.bsky.social) & Who Would Have Thought It? (by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, ill. by Megan Mulholland, @quiteliterallybks.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky
#kickstarter creators: little advice plz.
Do you have any strategies to increase conversion rate from Kickstarter followers?
What about followers of your Facebook page or something like that?
#indiecomics #selfpublishing #smallpress #crowdfunding #marketing #digitalmarketing
Let your imagination gallop with these speculative horse stories. From spaceships bearing gifts to a little girl's wish gone awry, enjoy these tales.
📚💙🪐🐴
books2read.com/horsesaremagic
#Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Horses #SmallPress
"What You Can Never Refuse" by Bill Wolak
For April’s art gallery, Unlikely Stories Six proudly presents nine intricate body collages by Bill Wolak! Thanks to Leona Strassberg Steiner for assembling this exhibit, which can be seen at www.unlikelystories.org/content/nine... #art #visualart #collage #litmag #smallpress
Book cover for The Dead Dad Diaries by Erin Slaughter (Autofocus Books): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "an exploration of a daughter’s grief after her father was murdered by her stepmother… a quick, wild read you can knock out in one or two sittings and feel like you’re just hanging with her voice." https://autofocusbooks.com/store/p/dead-dad-diaries
Book cover for Journey to the Edge of Life by Tezer Özlü, trans. by Maureen Freely (Transit Books): Literature in translation featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "At once a road novel, a meditation on literary influence, and a mash note to off-the-beaten-path Europe, this book—published originally in Turkish in 1982—was among my favorites this year." https://www.transitbooks.org/books/journeytotheedgeoflife
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Dead Dad Diaries (by Erin Slaughter, @autofocusbooks.bsky.social) & Journey to the Edge of Life (by Tezer Özlü, trans. by Maureen Freely, @transitbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text.
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Everyone loves Family and Honour. Even Ricky Gervais 😉
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Everyone loves Family and Honour. Even @mrrickygervais.bsky.social 😉
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Book cover for There Is Only the Sacred and the Desecrated by Mary Buchinger (Lily Poetry Review): Paul Nemser Book Prize, Honorable Mention. “A Book of Hours chronicling moments that mesh the physical with the spiritual. . . She penetrates the growth of a tree in good years and hard years by reading the formation of its rings as readily as she reaches into the life of Francis of Assisi, illuminating his understanding of the sacred, his ailments, and his love for and ministering to animals as well as people.”- Jennifer Barber. Poetry by the author of Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, Honors, 2024 Massachusetts Book Award). https://lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-review-press/there-is-only-the-sacred-and-the-desecrated-by-mary-buchinger/
Book cover for Super Castle Fun Park by Daniel Zomparelli (Arsenal Pulp): The dead want to speak to you. But are you ready to hear their words? Super Castle Fun Park explores a group of people tending wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aimless pessimist staying at a themed hotel who is tasked with the care of his aunt at the end of her life. Jeremy is Dario's anxious boyfriend who is trapped in his home, plagued by disturbing visions. Chelsea is an ornery medium who spends her free time on her phone trolling a group of misfits in an online game. Each of them is at the precipice of change, and the people they are interconnected to, including the dead, will be there when it happens. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Super-Castle-Fun-Park
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: There Is Only the Sacred and the Desecrated by @mebuchinger.bsky.social (Lily Poetry Review) & Super Castle Fun Park by Daniel Zomparelli (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social). See alt-text! #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
Unlikely stalwart henry 7. reneau, jr. is back, with three wild poems on the alchemical machinations of desire, fact and opinion fused in contradiction, and a medulla oblongata rhyming at www.unlikelystories.org/content/temp... #poetry #litmag #smallpress
Cover for issue #23 of Fodongo, which features The Frog being surrounded by salmon.
Issue 23 of #Fodongo is OUT! 📣
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#comics by Pentaro Pentarovsky, @amelieshypilova.bsky.social, @bootlegpotato.bsky.social & @jectoons.itch.io
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