Congrats to Torrey House Press on their 2026 American Book Award for Indigenous anthology “Beyond the Glittering World"! (THP also published "Mostly White" by Mumblers author Alison Hart ("The In-Between Sky") #Booksky tinyurl.com/Mostly-White tinyurl.com/Glittering-W... tinyurl.com/In-between-Sky

Mostly White | torrey-house-press

by Alison Hart | Paperback| ISBN 9781937226954 | 182 pages. Spanning four generations of a mixed-race family, Mostly White is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wi...

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Sometimes a single box will even combine multiple color intensities. From the same files! #AlisonHart

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 3d ago

One tricky thing about print on demand is variation. All these copies of escape-from-enslavement saga “The In-between Sky” are from one printer. Different hues, migrating spine. The colors are fine but the shifted spine one’s going back. #Booksky #blackhistory #mixedrace www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3QXP6XT

Two-day sale! Tiny press-6 authors/10 books. All Mumblers Press ebooks for a deep 75% off at Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer Sale. Plus an unrelated book involving "mumblers" that I now must read. #Booksky #novels #lgbtq #ov www.smashwords.com/books/search...

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Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 3w ago

@mumblers.bsky.social is live at #CastroValleyPride. Very friendly crowd. And repeat customers from last year! Some even want sequels… #Boosky

Our next book fair is this one, a favorite. #SanJosePoetryFestival. Saturday, August 23. The oak tree alone is worth the price of admission. More, actually, since admission is free. #Booksky www.pcsj.org/events/festi...

2026 San José Poetry Festival: Small Press Fair & Open Mic — PCSJ

This is Day Four of our four-day festival! Check out the complete list of events that are part of the 2026 San José Poetry Festival! Admission is free to the public. Come tour our headquarters a...

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The Castro Valley book--a dog adventure--was quite popular. www.amazon.com/Squirrels-Fa...

Squirrels Fall From Trees

Four feral puppies lose their mother. Aided by two old dogs, they try to survive in a suburban city, fierce and free like their mother. They hunt mice and evade both coyotes and looker-grabbers, the t...

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Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Come join @mumblers.bsky.social at #CastroValleyPride tomorrow, July 18, 12-5pm. We will be selling LGBTQ books, including one set in Castro Valley! #Booksky #OV www.castrovalleypride.com

It was great to be under the solar panels.

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 3w ago

@mumblers.bsky.social is live at #CastroValleyPride. Very friendly crowd. And repeat customers from last year! Some even want sequels… #Boosky

#Booksky @mumblers.bsky.social was delighted to share a table with these (and other) authors at #BayCon 2026.

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · last mo.

#Booksky At #BayCon introducing our work with #ClaraWard and #RichardHMoon in air-conditioned comfort in Santa Clara.

#Booksky I am rewriting those blurbs in my head. For #RiverOfLight, maybe something like "10-year-old girl takes charge of her life, 'cause no one else is going to." What do you think, @wkschultz25.bsky.social?

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · last mo.

#Booksky Come join @mumblers.bsky.social at #BayCon at the Santa Clara Marriot today through July 6. All our specfic books are here, plus many more.

#Booksky #Mumblerspress author @mikekarpa.bsky.social has a humor piece up on Brevity blog today, complete with (deliberately) embarrassing photo. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/q...

I’ll Be Writing More in a Week or Two: A Query Letter Gone Wrong

By Mike KarpaDear Saoirse, Drunk Author Age 30-ish I hope you’ll remember me. I’m writing you to pitch my new book, which I think would be a great match for your agency. We met at last year’s San F…

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#Booksky The link here is Amazon, but it's also available via bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Smashwords, Overdrive, Hoopla and so many more places online. It can also be ordered via bookstores that use Ingram for distribution.

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Booksky This poor novel has yet to have a launch party. Four feral puppies lose their mom and fend off coyotes in the wilds of a suburban CA city (Hayward), until they must set off down the freeway to find their reputed dad. 🥇Best YA @ SF Book Festival www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZYMGZYJ/

#Bloomsday is almost like the honorary birthday of this book, which delves deep, deeep into Lucia Joyce and her dad, James.

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Booksky Note also the starred review. Only 2% of indie reviews get a star. This is a major work. #Mumblerspress This the Amazon link but it’s available widely. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BM7XWLZT

#Booksky Mumblers author Mike Karpa has a new story in Mouthful of Salt. It's here: mouthfulofsalt.com/wp-content/u... Scroll to p. 47. Or just read your way there...

Those roses smelled sweet. Thanks #MelindaMaxwell-Smith!

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Booksky Had a great time selling @mumblers.bsky.social novels at the #Babf with authors #MelindaMaxwell-Smith #SusieHara #AlisonHart (pictured) and family. Great spot under an oak tree. Huge crowd!

Print more, and soon, because #BayCon is coming up, July 3-6 at the Santa Clara Marriott. Find us with Small Publishing Big Universe. baycon.org

BayCon 42 / Westercon 78

The Answer

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Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Booksky @mumblers.bsky.social sold out of three books at #BABF and nearly a fourth. Which means…time to print more books!!

#Booksky #BABF #bookfair Books boxed for tomorrow's Bay Area Book Festival, signs printed, tent in trunk. Find Mumblers on "Small Press Alley," Allston east of Shattuck in downtown Berkeley CA. 11am-5pm. Four authors will be stopping by.

#BABF #Booksky We're in! Mumblers Press is out of the waitlist and into the streets! Specifically, Booth 112 on Allston Way between Shattuck and Oxford, Berkeley CA. Come find us at the Bay Area Book Festival on May 31, 2026, 11-5.

We came early and enjoyed the poetry reading that preceded the Mumblers reading quite a lot. #booksky

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#booksky Wonderful time reading in Stockton’s litcrawl with @mumblers.bsky.social authors #MelindaMaxwell-Smith and #AlisonHart (on left). I read for #JanStites and #RaudseppaJaan (who couldn’t make it, alas). Pic is the reading before us: poets Charrelle Jackson, Anara Guard and Myntube Tiaterrice

It really was fun hanging out with the Stockton crowd. So many connections, such great energy. #booksky

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#booksky #MumblersPress Had a great time at Stockton’s Miracle Mile Literary Crawl. What a fun, chill crowd. So well organized by #TuleburgPress.

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Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks, #LateNightWrite Here’s my first novel Criminals, which somehow got to 20 reviews on Amazon. 4.6! I should check in more. It’s a very queer thriller. Well, sort of thrillery. www.amazon.com/Criminals-Mi...

Great day for sales! Thank you, readers! Enjoy! #booksky

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Had a wonderful time at the Sacramento Book Fair. The crowd was huge, the event super well run, the venue comfortable.

And it was a Best of 2022, according to Kirkus Reviews.

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks, #LateNightWrite Here’s my first novel Criminals, which somehow got to 20 reviews on Amazon. 4.6! I should check in more. It’s a very queer thriller. Well, sort of thrillery. www.amazon.com/Criminals-Mi...

A record day for getting books into readers' hands! Hope they enjoy every word!

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Had a wonderful time at the Sacramento Book Fair. The crowd was huge, the event super well run, the venue comfortable.

Proud of these Mumblers readers and authors!

Mike Karpa@mikekarpa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#booksky Wonderful time reading in Stockton’s litcrawl with @mumblers.bsky.social authors #MelindaMaxwell-Smith and #AlisonHart (on left). I read for #JanStites and #RaudseppaJaan (who couldn’t make it, alas). Pic is the reading before us: poets Charrelle Jackson, Anara Guard and Myntube Tiaterrice

#booksky #MumblersPress Mumblers readers #AlisonHart, #MelindaMaxwell-Smith, #RaudseppaJaan kept the crowd happy at Stockton Miracle Mile Literary Crawl, with #MikeKarpa standing in for #JanStites. The after-party was so much fun.

#booksky Kirkus snippets about tinyurl.com/3vcpj4vm: Susie Hara's tale of Haight Ashbury events reverberating decades later. "Engrossing ... Each character’s recollection assists in reconstructing an extremely fateful day. A compelling story of young woman finding out new facts about her identity."

#booksky #queerYA #dogs I'm posting this cause it's fun to get a shout out. Get Squirrels Fall From Trees here (and in many non-zon places): www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZYMGZYJ

#Booksky # Blackhistory #Mixedrace Happening Wed Jan 7 at 6pm at the San Francisco Public Library. I've seen Alison and Alix in conversation before, and they are great hosts/readers with a lot to say on an interesting topic. sfpl.org/events/2026/...

#Booksky #JoanOfArc PW review of Lombardi's #JehanneDarc: "Readers of historical fiction that captures not just what happened in the past but how it felt to live it will relish this exploration of the well-known story.” PW's comps: #NicolaGriffith Hild, #HilaryMantel. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVH5GM65

Jehanne Darc, Book One: From Domrémy to Orléans

Amazon.com: Jehanne Darc, Book One: From Domrémy to Orléans eBook : Lombardi, Chris: Kindle Store

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#Booksky #MixedRace #AfricanAmericanHistory Cíara Emmanuel interviews Alison Hart. “It's a way for me to almost build a cosmology.” Starry-eyed and visionary, Alison Hart still keeps both feet on the ground. Read the interview here tinyurl.com/4873zy9v Buy book here www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3QXP6XT

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