Tessera

Let's say a phantom journal told you an ex had your kid without telling you. Let's also say the it'd been right about this stuff before. Do you track down the kid? That's where this bad boy starts off. Ghosts! Death! Crippling depression! All the good stuff. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/estuary

ESTUARY — Unsolicited Press

A grief-driven literary novel where loss bends reality, secrets surface, and a child refuses to stay gone. ESTUARY opens in the disorienting aftermath of loss: Megan Mostly nearly collapses wh...

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Happy new Converge/Mariachi el Bronx album day to all who celebrate.

Unsolicited Press@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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Preorder alert: www.powells.com/book/estuary... #powells

Unsolicited Press@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My awesome publisher being awesome

Books do not appear in isolation. They arrive carrying echoes: of earlier risks taken, questions first asked years ago, and truths the press has been circling all along. At Unsolicited Press, new titles often feel less like departures and more like evolution. asterismbooks.com/blog/post/a-...

About 12 years ago I got stoned and went to a psychic. She told me my aura was black and the universe is mad at me. I’m still confused.

My new novel is up for preorder! It follows a man with a diary that writes its own entries. Through this, he learns of an ex that had a son she never told him about. This sets off a series of events that include ghosts, the police, and of course, my dog. www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/estua...

ESTUARY — Unsolicited Press

A grief-driven literary novel where loss bends reality, secrets surface, and a child refuses to stay gone. ESTUARY opens in the disorienting aftermath of loss: Megan Mostly nearly collapses wh...

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A great, simple joy in life is when you remember an artist you love but haven't thought about for a while. Then you can be like "Oh yeah, Jose Gonzalez!" and blast through the entire discography.

Some thoughts on “First Kicking, Then Not” by @writesloud.bsky.social . cc: @stanchion.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

I hate to be one of those "wake up" people, but this is nuts. They're creating an evil straw man to justify an otherwise unjustifiable crackdown. The response to this shooting from the administration has been unfathomably disgusting, but this is something different. This is dangerous.

Leavitt: "The deadly incident that took place yesterday in Minnesota yesterday occurred as a result of a larger, sinister left-wing movement that has spread across our country where our brave men and women of federal law enforcement are under organized attack."

I don't talk about it much on here (I don't talk about much on here, in general), but I had a book come out this year of short stories and a novella that I think is fun. If you're into fun things, maybe you could get into this fun thing: bookshop.org/p/books/chan...

Chance to Fade & Other Stories

Check out Chance to Fade & Other Stories - This collection explores the lives of individuals pushed to the brink of what they think is possible, blending literary and magical realist styles. A man win...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Oh, is this what we're doing?

what’s that? we’re posting perfect 90s albums?

I've read more books in 2025 than I ever have in a single year. The lesson I've learned? Fiction is a much better way to spend your time than checking the news every five minutes and reading comments on comments on social media.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I've ordered 5 small press books in the last two weeks. I will continue to buy many more very soon. 2026 is the year of gobbling up as many small press books as possible. What should I read? Which presses are currently killing it?

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Josh Rank @joshrank.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A coworker referred to the em dash as "the GPT double-hyphen" and it's just such a bummer how a useful punctuation mark has been corrupted by robots.

Josh Rank @joshrank.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I got that signed-a-fresh-publishing-contract skip in my step. Cool week for book stuff.

Josh Rank @joshrank.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It's release day! Chance to Fade & Other Stories is officially out in the world. 14 short stories and a novella covering a range of topics from collecting teeth, drawings that come to life, and finding love. bookshop.org/p/books/chan...

Chance to Fade & Other Stories

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Josh Rank@joshrank.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Once more for the night crowd.

Feels like we're stumbling into something dark. www.joshrank.com/blog/2025/9/...

Feels like we're stumbling into something dark. www.joshrank.com/blog/2025/9/...

Words Aren't Scary — ...

There’s an assault on free speech going on right now. The cancelling of Jimmy Kimmel Live is the reason I started thinking about this today, but it goes beyond that. Earlier this week, the vice pres...

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Pretty tough to write my little book when the internet constantly firehoses a stream of horrors directly into my face.