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Starred Review, Foreword Reviews, RAISED BY FERNS by Maya Jewell Zeller (Porphyry Press 2026). Screenshot

Thrilled about this starred review from Foreword Reviews! "Raised by Ferns is an ingenious memoir-in-essays that recalls a lifetime of determination." Pub date is just days away... March 3rd! Congrats to author Maya Jewell Zeller! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rais...

See you in Baltimore for #AWP26? Incoming with @rickirobin.bsky.social/Ghosts of Distant Trees and Maya Jewell Zeller, whose Raised by Ferns launches March 3! Find us at Booth 1254.

What's not to love? One week from today will be Valentine's Day, when author @rickirobin.bsky.social will sign GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES at Fireside Books Alaska in Palmer from 1 to 4. Go say hi! Maybe if you're lucky she'll dot the letter i in her name with a little ♥.

Looking forward to reading during @awpwriter.org with my pressmates Reuben Gelley Neuman and Mai-Linh Hong and authors from EastOver and @porphyrypress.bsky.social. #debut2026 #AWP #memoir

Love this profile of my publisher, @porphyrypress.bsky.social!

"...piecing it together, getting by in the woods"

Just in time for the holidays, here are ADN reviewers’ favorite books of 2025 Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir and multiple books that interrogate the changing nature of the North.

"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!

Flier in grid design, featuring my headshot and John Messick’s, and each of our books (Ghosts of Distant Trees and Compass Lines)

I guess it’s almost time for my annual “drive to Anchorage in an ice storm hellscape” trip, and this time I’ll be signing books at Title Wave on Saturday with my @porphyrypress.bsky.social pressmate John Messick. Come see us if you can? Send road reports? 😬

Don't miss @rickirobin.bsky.social, author of GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, tomorrow at the Tri-Valley Library in Healy, Alaska if you're in the area.

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Rocks, roads and wilderness maintenance: 'Ghosts of Distant Trees' shifts the framing of mythical Alaska ‘I’ve tried and failed to be a cheerleader for the pure abstraction of wilderness,” Erica Watson writes in “Ghosts of Distant Trees,” her debut essay collection, “but I always find

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Book review: With mixture of love and cynicism, ‘Ghosts of Distant Trees’ examines humans’ relationship to nature Author Erica Watson’s collection of essays includes impressions from her time working at Denali and her travels around the world.

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David James's insightful and positive book review of Erica Watson's GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES appears in both the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Daily News today. It's gratifying to see such a careful and astute take on this book.

Spokane, WA sidewalk statements of fact.

Loving these counter display and authors market views today in Fairbanks at Solstice Books! #JohnMessick @rickirobin.bsky.social #KrisFarmen #RosemaryMcGuire

Silhouetted spruce trees against a sky dancing with green auroras, a bit over-saturated

Got up to pee around 1:30 and caught this out the window.

I guess this is an aurora account now.

We're hearing from readers everywhere just devouring the book!

i couldn't help myself, it was such a beautiful title and description

Day after tomorrow in Fairbanks!

CLMP (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) included GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES by Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social in their roundup of new November books from small presses!
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While this is getting traction: today is my book’s pub date! The cover matches these photos! Learn more

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Aww, this is fun to see!

Strange pairing but I'll take it! 😜

Hahahaha that's hilarious. 🪵🪓

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 10 Our tenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month celebration brings us Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup‘s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.” The unique style gives the reader a really special poetic exp…

Celebrating the tenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth with Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup’s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.”

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A carton of Ghosts of Distant Trees books adorns the unstacked woodpile on its release date, Nov. 11, 2025.

Happy pub day, @rickirobin.bsky.social!
To celebrate the launch of our latest title, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, we're offering 20% off online orders of anything in our store now through Saturday night with the code LAUNCHWEEK.

Welp, first morning below zero this season.

Uh... that is "toe of..."

Evening walk at the tour of the glacier, with views of Mt. Blackburn and the stairway icefall.
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today and worthwhile in a distant yonder city:

2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave.
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