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?
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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
"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.
#DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #booklovers
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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Eyyyy, so I'll be exhibiting at #PLCAF in South San Francisco tomorrow from 10am to 4pm. Come check it out if you're in the area! Or, y'know, come to the area and check it out. Say hi! All that jazz. #SanFrancisco #library #exhibit #smallpress
How's your Good FUR-iday going? I've been busy with the cover of issue #20 of Lloyd and the Bear and although I'm not finished I'm calling it for today - what do you think of what I've done so far? #makingcomics #smallpress #indiecomics #scifi #allagescomics #teddybear #goodfriday
The #hydra in this black and white #StockArt is roaring its fury
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This rooftop #fantasy #assassin by @ericlofgren.bsky.social is ready to add a choking kill from above to her list of victims
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Wearing the Editor's hat today and checking all the pages of my new indie comic book for mistakes or things that can be improved 🧐
#comics #indiecomics ##comicbooks #editing #smallpress #uk
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
Meet Unlikely newcomer Deepa Rajan, who brings us three poems on beauty standards, GIlette jingles, and the colorism of choice feminism at www.unlikelystories.org/content/unho... #poetry #smallpress #litmag
Book cover for The Rayburn Affair by Laurie Petrou (House of Anansi): Forthcoming September 2026. When the iconic Shelby Rayburn and her husband, Oscar, make an appearance at an annual faculty party, Dr Ruth Morgan can’t believe her luck. The trio immediately hit it off, and an intoxicating intimacy develops between them, underwritten by a simmering sexual tension. Everything changes when Shelby makes Ruth an offer she can’t refuse—one that she can’t tell anyone about, including Oscar. As boundaries blur and secret alliances form, the dynamic becomes riddled with distrust and threatens to implode. https://houseofanansi.com/collections/anansi-books/products/the-rayburn-affair
Book cover for The Singles Tax: No-Nonsense Financial Advice for Solo Earners by Renée Sylvestre-Williams (ECW): When it comes to finances, single people can’t seem to get a break: whether that’s taxes, housing, retirement, or something as simple as a hotel room. With The Singles Tax, Renée Sylvestre-Williams uses her expertise as a financial journalist and a single person to explain how things got this way and what we can do to manage that tax, from personal finance strategies to pushing to change the tax code. https://ecwpress.com/collections/spring-2026/products/singles-tax
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Singles Tax (by @reneesw.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social) & The Rayburn Affair (by @lauriepetrou.bsky.social, @houseofanansi.bsky.social). See alt-text.
#DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
A #monster with tendrils coming out of its face is ready to attack in this #StockArt
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Christine Stroud's headshot with the quote; AHP books are grounded in the personal--whether that be a literal personal experience in our nonfiction or well-developed characters in our fiction--but consistently engage with and looking outward at larger issues"
Thanks to Amie Whittemore for interviewing AHP's editor in chief, Christine Stroud, for Women on Writing!
@amiewhittemore.bsky.social
#womenonwriting #indiepress #smallpress #editors
You'd be an even bigger bonehead than the #monster in this #StockArt by #EarlGeier not to pick up this piece
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Wrap around cover-sized #StockArt by #FraserSandercombe of a woman dancing through her cloud-filled sky castle #dream
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Coming soon! I'm hearing May 12th as a release day, as soon as I have more deets you'll hear about it!
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Filler #StockArt of several #magic or #alchemical #potions
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Get 30% off most #StockArt by @ericlofgren.bsky.social through April 2026
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Book cover for Paper Girls Burn: A Borderline Personality Disorder Memoir by Pippa Scott (Caitlin Press): From a young age, Pippa Scott was made to feel damaged for simply being different. A highly sensitive child prone to emotional outbursts, she was sent away to a rigid British boarding school. Instead of taming her, the experience of abandonment and isolation intensified her longing for acceptance and comfort. Set amidst the changing eras from the 1980s to the 21st century, Paper Girls Burn is a courageous, candid, and darkly comic memoir about the search for love, understanding, and identity through a neurodivergent lens. https://caitlinpress.com/Books/P/Paper-Girls-Burn
Book cover for Grace by Chika Unigwe (Canongate): It is Baby’s birthday, but Grace has not seen her first born in twenty-six years. Now a wife, mother to twin daughters and the owner of a successful medical clinic, Grace has carefully constructed a new life. And now, the secret she’s kept for decades is about to resurface – and it could destroy everything. A stirring, impactful novel about motherhood, finding meaning for yourself and fighting for the people that you love. https://canongate.co.uk/books/5178-grace/
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Grace (by @chikaunigwe.bsky.social, @canongate.co.uk) & Paper Girls Burn: A Borderline Personality Disorder Memoir (by Pippa Scott, @caitlinpress.bsky.social). See alt-text.
#DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
An A5 zine printed on fluorescent yellow paper with illustrations of the forest characters and flowers and leaves, alongside a set of stickers with more characters, patterns, flowers and leaves.
Here is the zine opened up showing the flowers and leaves travelling over the back cover as well.
snail mail season is upon us again! :) 🦔
a very spring-like mail set this month, with an A5 zine and a set of stickers full of flowers and leaves 🌼🌷
available throughout April 🐌🐌🐌
#zines
#stickers
#snailmail
#一次創作
#smallpress
#同人誌
#zinemaking
#zinester
An illustrated calendar page for the month of April with spring flowers and leaves wrapping around the days of the month.
April brings spring flowers :)
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#zines
#calendar
#smallpress
#handmade
#flowers
It's a catalogue update! Check out all our wonderful, love-filled work at www.atthisarts.com/cat/ #BookSky #SmallPress
