@joannemerriam
Kjipuktuk|Halifax (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
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The cover of the new book, John Winslow at Grand-Pre, by Jonathan Fowler and Earle Lockerby.
Our newest book is now available!
John Winslow was one of the most significant American military leaders of the generations before George Washington. But instead of creating a country, he destroyed one...
Winslow’s journal provides an eyewitness account of the 1755 Deportation of the Acadians.
"Some of my first poems were written on notepads at the ice cream parlour I worked at in high school. I’d carry them in my apron pockets alongside customers’ orders."
Loch's stunning debut poetry collection is out this month! Pre-order now at gooselane.com/RiverRunning
We are a couple days early posting this, but it deserves to be celebrated multiple days. International Women's Day is this Sunday and we want to recognize some of our female local authors who blaze trails with their stories. Stories that are more important now than ever before.
2/2... the chief reason that Ottawa has emerged as the #fantasy capitol of Canada is...Saunders" - I wonder if there's a direct line from his group of #Ottawa fantasists to James Botte & Farrell McGovern founding Can*Con in '91. Anybody know? (Or maybe this is later in the book! I am only on p.68.)
A picture of the text of the biography To Leave a Warrior Behind by Jon Tattrie, largely blurred, with this in sharp focus: Lincoln had changed him, and he found himself growing distant from his roots. "My family consisted of bourgeois Negroes and I was just like them until I woke up in 1967. From that point on, damn near everything I did appalled them," he later wrote. (from p.45 of the hardcover edition)
A picture of the text of the biography To Leave a Warrior Behind by Jon Tattrie, largely blurred, with this in sharp focus: On the next page come the rabble photos and identities. Charles "Snake" Saunders stands tall and skinny and dapperly dressed in a warm coat and too-short pants that expose his socks. His right hand rests on his hip and his left hand holds a notebook over a trash can in front of the Old Canteen. The caption reads: "Snake Charlie went through so many changes during his four years that it is difficult to find the real him. Intellectually inclined, he could always be depended upon for deep rabble, out of which sometimes came useful ideas. We will always remember his 'metamorphosis.'" (from p.46 of the hardcover edition)
![A picture of the text of the biography To Leave a Warrior Behind by Jon Tattrie: Charles described the name Imaro as one of the "hidden meanings" he embedded in his work. "The name 'Imaro' was derived from the Swahili word for strong." he said.29 He doesn't specify the Swahili word, and a direct translation of English's strong yields Swahili's naguvu. However, the Swahili word imara means solid, stable, steadfast, sturdy, and strengthened. Imara is used as a first name, typically for girls. Charles likely turned the a to an o to get the male name Imaro. "Swahili is a fairly dominant language in the eastern region, and that's where Imaro is born, raised, and has his initial adventures. So I used Swahili there," Charles explained.30 "I've done some stories set on the west coast of Nyumbani, and for that I've used Hausa as my base language, mainly because that's the only West African language I've been able to find a textbook or teach-yourself book for. There's also Yoruba. I've got a book on that, so I kind of mix Hausa and Yoruba in the west. In the middle, I have a book which has some words of Mali, which is a north-central African nation, and when I start writing about South Nyumbani I'm going to have to get hold of some linguistic sources for Zulu [not pictured: the end of that sentence is: and Xosa.] Below are the footnotes for 29: Elliot interview and for 30: Interview in Polar Borealis, late 1980s, republished in 2020. (from p.62 of the hardcover edition)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wtetx7xtjyatfdgoo6qzfjx7/bafkreialn64w6xvv2m6urbxwstwvhdc2kfrb5oy2k2wlycgiysr4ihrtqy@jpeg)
A picture of the text of the biography To Leave a Warrior Behind by Jon Tattrie: Charles described the name Imaro as one of the "hidden meanings" he embedded in his work. "The name 'Imaro' was derived from the Swahili word for strong." he said.29 He doesn't specify the Swahili word, and a direct translation of English's strong yields Swahili's naguvu. However, the Swahili word imara means solid, stable, steadfast, sturdy, and strengthened. Imara is used as a first name, typically for girls. Charles likely turned the a to an o to get the male name Imaro. "Swahili is a fairly dominant language in the eastern region, and that's where Imaro is born, raised, and has his initial adventures. So I used Swahili there," Charles explained.30 "I've done some stories set on the west coast of Nyumbani, and for that I've used Hausa as my base language, mainly because that's the only West African language I've been able to find a textbook or teach-yourself book for. There's also Yoruba. I've got a book on that, so I kind of mix Hausa and Yoruba in the west. In the middle, I have a book which has some words of Mali, which is a north-central African nation, and when I start writing about South Nyumbani I'm going to have to get hold of some linguistic sources for Zulu [not pictured: the end of that sentence is: and Xosa.] Below are the footnotes for 29: Elliot interview and for 30: Interview in Polar Borealis, late 1980s, republished in 2020. (from p.62 of the hardcover edition)
![A picture of the text of the biography To Leave a Warrior Behind by Jon Tattrie, largely blurred, with this in sharp focus: In the spring 1979 edition of Borealis, [John] Bell writes that "probably the chief reason that Ottawa has emerged as the fantasy capital of Canada is the presence in that city of Charles Saunders." (from p.67 of the hardcover edition)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wtetx7xtjyatfdgoo6qzfjx7/bafkreigscfjlsfqqjccvtnaojw6kkvstpff34eyzmclrvzvmxidimams5y@jpeg)
A picture of the text of the biography To Leave a Warrior Behind by Jon Tattrie, largely blurred, with this in sharp focus: In the spring 1979 edition of Borealis, [John] Bell writes that "probably the chief reason that Ottawa has emerged as the fantasy capital of Canada is the presence in that city of Charles Saunders." (from p.67 of the hardcover edition)
I am living for this biography of Saunders right now. So interesting! Highly recommended. And of course we're reading Imaro for @tricon-hfx.bsky.social. And I'm really curious about that quote by Bell that "probably ...1/2
#CharlesSaunders #CharlesRSaunders #SwordAndSoul #SwordAndSorcery #Halifax
That's so great! I think you'll enjoy it. Message me your address and I'll send you a bookplate to put inside the book - if you'd like a signed copy.
I'm not sure if they ship outside Canada, but even if they do, I would recommend (b/c of shipping costs/potential tariffs/other shenanigans) Americans use Bookshop to order domestically and send me your mailing address for a bookplate: bookshop.org/a/96356/9781...
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Bookmark (a treasured independent bookstore in downtown Halifax) will sell signed pre-orders for my #PrideAndPrejudice retelling in space, Aether and Ego! I'm really pretty excited about this. #SmallPress 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #booklovers #Austenesque #Austenauts
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Book cover for Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation by OmiSoore H. Dryden, winner of the 2025 George Borden Writing for Change Award (Fernwood Publishing): Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, this book investigates how racist and homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/got-blood-to-give
Book cover for Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse (Soft Skull): What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure. https://softskull.com/books/liquid-snakes/
Book cover for American Graphic by JoAnne McFarland (Green Linden Press): Poetry. Winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for Poetic Innovation. With candor and insight, American Graphic confronts personal and cultural pasts. Juxtaposing historical documents—recipes from the first cookbook published by a Black woman in the States, reward posters for people fleeing enslavement—with intimate moments from the present, the book's magic is to bend time so we see that the past’s rivers flow through us into the future. https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/american-graphic
Book cover for A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel) by Percival Everett and James R. Kincaid (Akashic Books): This reissue of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Percival Everett and Kincaid’s classic political satire lampoons conservative hysteria for a new generation. Coming out 2/3/2026. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/a-history-of-the-african-american-people-proposed-by-strom-thurmond-as-told-to-percival-everett-james-kincaid-a-novel-2/
8/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @akashicbooks.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @kearse.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Make Your Way Home: Stories by Carrie R. Moore (Tin House): In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. https://tinhouse.com/book/make-your-way-home/
Book cover for Policing Black Lives, Revised and Expanded Edition: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard (Fernwood): A comprehensive account of policing Black life in Canada and a vision for Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives-revised-and-expanded-edition
Book cover for The Humanity of Others by Ali Benmakhlouf (Stanford UP): How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaigne's Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author remains relevant today when the need to recognize the "humanity of others"—from the cry of "Black Lives Matter" to the anonymous deaths of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea—is as urgent as ever. Forthcoming in June 2026. https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/humanity-others
Book cover for Are You Borg Now? (2nd Edition) by Said Shaiye (Noemi Press): This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye’s cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now? blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger self, rejecting the conventions of memoir and what is expected of who writes them, specifically when that writer is an immigrant. Are You Borg Now? cyphers with trauma through a poetics of refusal via hard and beautiful language. Finding vigor in Islam and mirrors in Star Trek: Voyager, Shaiye shifts achingly between memory and improvisation. https://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/are-you-borg-now-2nd-edition/
7/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @stanfordpress.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Delphinium Gospel by Denzel Scott (ELJ Editions): A triptych-structured poetry collection that explores the blessing of creation as a manifesting interplay between horrific grief and desperate longing in the aftermath of murder. https://elj-editions.com/delphinium-gospel/
Book cover for God-Damned Eden by James Daniels (Bull City Press): Selma is a community that, despite its pain, holds a depth of spirit that deserves love and care, a place where redemption is sought through the resilience of its people. God-Damned Eden speaks to the tension within a place that is both deeply flawed and deeply loved. Like the fallen earth in scripture, Selma is marked by human shortcomings and struggles, yet it remains beloved, resilient, and layered with beauty. This Eden-like quality isn’t pristine; it’s a paradise that bears scars—a place both blessed and “damned” by the realities of history and hardship. Yet, within those imperfections lies the work of restoration, an ongoing call to see and honor the beauty that persists. https://bullcitypress.com/product/god-damned-eden-by-james-daniels-inch-65/
Book cover for BOOTless by Trace DePass (Diode Editions): BOOTless: an archaic word also meaning ineffectual, is a black poet’s psychedelic meditation on gentrification, climate change, & post-pandemic grief, pointing its arrow back at its country that has stacked colonization on genocide & monopolized colonization & genocide. The book laughs at an oppressor’s self-elected right to canonize its theft & winning rhetoric under the guise of calling it history. This book may indict Whiteness, if not English itself, as using language built on oppression (a Deleuzian desire-machine sewn together by other languages) in order to create indefinite law on stolen land with indefinite marginalization for the people on it. https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/bootless
Book cover for Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri (Akashic Books): Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/prayer-for-the-living/
6/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @bullcitypress.com @tracedepass.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @denzelscott.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social @akashicbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booklovers
Book cover for American Herstory by celeste doaks (Bull City Press): Ekphrastic poems about the complicated cultural presence of Michelle Obama and the Black female body. https://bullcitypress.com/product/american-herstory-by-celeste-doaks/
Book cover for the City of Kings Trilogy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Catalyst Press): From the 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner. In The Theory of Flight, Ndlovu sketches decades of history in an unnamed Southern African nation through the story of Imogen “Genie” Zula Nyoni, who lies in a coma after battling a long illness. As loved ones struggle to come to terms with their impending loss, Ndlovu recounts the lives of Genie’s forebears from colonial occupation through the freedom struggle. In The History of Man, Ndlovu takes an excursion into the interiority of the colonizer. Emil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is left unmoored by the end of his country’s civil war. His journey from boyhood to manhood, and the changes that befall him through love, loss, and war, will leave a path of bloodshed in his wake. In The Quality of Mercy, Spokes Moloi, the first black chief inspector in the City of Kings, investigates the possible murder of Emil Coetzee, the notorious head of the Organization of Domestic Affairs. In examining Emil’s disappearance, Spokes has one last opportunity to solve the decades-old murder case that determined both the path of his life and destiny of his country. https://www.catalystpress.org/all-content/city-of-kings-trilogy-bundle
Book cover for The Day Madear Voted by Wade Hudson, ill. by Don Tate (Just Us Books): Charlie and Ralph’s mom has waited a long time to vote because countless obstacles have been put in Black people’s way to stop them from having a say in elections—obstacles that it took a lot of hard work to tear down. But now, in 1969, Madear is going to vote for the very first time, and the boys are coming along on this exciting day. https://justusbooks.com/978-0-59361574-4/
Book cover for The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole (Tin House): Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and individual longing tests the bonds of a family during a devastating storm. https://tinhouse.com/book/the-edge-of-water/
5/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @justusbooks.bsky.social @dontate.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com @tinhouse.bsky.social @catalystpress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Keep A'Livin' by Kathya Alexander (Aunt Lute Books): Kathya Alexander’s debut historical fiction novel-in-verse follows the fiercely passionate, dedicated, and cheeky Mandy as she comes of age during the height of the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. https://www.auntlute.com/keep-a-livin
Book cover for Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder (Graywolf): Literary fiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "We meet the protagonist as she begins her first year of OPT, a U.S. employer-sponsored work-experience visa for recent international student grads… an intimate, finely-detailed collage of voices and perspectives on difference, privilege, and belonging in contemporary America." https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/optional-practical-training
Book cover for Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada, trans. by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " Yoko Tawada (a Japanese native who now lives in Germany) explores the experience of living and writing in languages learned later in life… Personal anecdotes are mixed with broader observations on language’s intersections with status, colonization, and migration." https://www.ndbooks.com/book/exophony/
Book cover for No God Like the Mother by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher (Forest Avenue Press): Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the rain-washed suburbs of the Pacific Northwest--this collection of nine stories is a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty. https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/no-god-like-the-mother
4/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @ndbooks.bsky.social @shubhasunder.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @auntlute.bsky.social @forestavenuepress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for for you, this circle: collected poems by Aneb Kgositsile (Third World Press): “Her poems evoke the same Black elegance, fearlessness and clarity as they sweep across the senses rendering the reader helpless to resist the beauty of truth, its teaching pain and healing pleasure.” --Michael Simanga https://thirdworldpressfoundation.org/collections/new-authors/products/for-you-this-circle
Book cover for We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso (Haymarket): A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2519-we-are-each-other-s-liberation
Book cover for Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Haymarket): A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2538-reconsidering-reparations
Book cover for On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia (Harry N. Abrams): When Pacy Mercado and Cecil Holloway spot each other during the first week of freshman year, it’s love at first sight. Well, more like love at first fleeting, injury-riddled glance, since the moment is ruined thanks to clumsiness and a criminal case of IBS. The laugh-out-loud YA romance by two award-winning and bestselling authors, Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/on-again-awkward-again_9781419775635/
3/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @thirdworldpress.bsky.social @erinentrada.bsky.social @kwamembalia.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers
Book cover for Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Dundurn): Nonfiction. A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754836-cancelling-billionaires-before-they-cancel-us
Book cover for The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press): Literature in translation reviewed by Catherine Parnell ("Divided into three sections, each with mini-chapters or narratives, the novel wends its way through Adriana’s life as she struggles with Lady Death and Lady Manipulator—the death, that of her mother and maternal grandmother, and the manipulator? Who’s to say." -- https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september/voices-adriana-elvira-navarro) for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/).
Book cover for With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple and Libi Axelrod, trans. by Lawrence Schimel (Kalaniot Books): Children’s literature featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "This book is a loving, sun-drenched visit to the Jewish community of Santiago de Cuba. The story is a version of the folktale “the clever tailor,” in which the hero repeatedly turns a worn-out item of clothing into something else." https://kalaniotbooks.com/with-a-needle-and-thread-a-jewish-folktale-from-cuba/
Book cover for The First Peoples by Maika Harper, ill. by Kaja Kajfež (Inhabit Media): Based on an ancient Inuit traditional story, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the appearance of the first humans on earth, and how from them all the peoples of the earth emerged. https://inhabitbooks.com/products/the-first-peoples
2/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @elviranavarro.bsky.social @twolinespress.com @lindamcquaig.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social @inhabitmedia.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booklovers
1/8 - Cleaning up my files and deleting #book covers I’ve already posted in my daily(ish) #SmallPress #BookSky #DSPBposts. Enjoy these beauties again! A thread 🧵. (Alt-text for book details.)
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Book cover for Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada, trans. by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " Yoko Tawada (a Japanese native who now lives in Germany) explores the experience of living and writing in languages learned later in life… Personal anecdotes are mixed with broader observations on language’s intersections with status, colonization, and migration." https://www.ndbooks.com/book/exophony/
Book cover for Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder (Graywolf): Literary fiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "We meet the protagonist as she begins her first year of OPT, a U.S. employer-sponsored work-experience visa for recent international student grads… an intimate, finely-detailed collage of voices and perspectives on difference, privilege, and belonging in contemporary America." https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/optional-practical-training
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Exophony (by Yoko Tawada, trans. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, @ndbooks.bsky.social) & Optional Practical Training (by @shubhasunder.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social). See alt-text.
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A cartoonish rat creatures on a stick floating above the crowd. It is holding a sign that says, "we stick around."
A person in a mask covered in neon patterns holding up complicated antlers. I don't know what this eldritch creature was meant to convey but it sure looked cool.
Worried-looking black and white dog on wet pavement, on which is written in pink chalk, "stop the cuts support arts."
Worried-looking black and white dog on wet pavement, on which is written in pink chalk, "stop the cuts support arts."
Final pics - strange creatures and a good boy who was really kind of worried about all of us.
A sign that says "Save Prescott House & 11 other precious museums" with a heart and a photograph of Prescott House.
Me and friend & author Sue MacLeod.
A sign with a detailed drawing of the downtown that says "We're the only thing keeping Halifax hip & happening you need us!"
A crowd shot with a sign in the foreground with a baby with Tim Houston's head, and the words, "fussy baby doesn't want to be held (responsible or accountable)".
More pictures from today's arts rally!
Oh! Thanks!
The author holding a sign that says EVERY $1 SPENT ON ARTS CREATES $29 IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
Sign that says BOOOOO! We’re disappointed!
Crowd shot.
Crowd shot
At NS Leg right now! #nspoli #nspolitics #NSbudget #ArtsRally
one thing they don't tell you about being a professional writer is how much of the writing is fucking emails
Book cover for The First Peoples by Maika Harper, ill. by Kaja Kajfež (Inhabit Media): Based on an ancient Inuit traditional story, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the appearance of the first humans on earth, and how from them all the peoples of the earth emerged. https://inhabitbooks.com/products/the-first-peoples
Book cover for With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple and Libi Axelrod, trans. by Lawrence Schimel (Kalaniot Books): Children’s literature featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "This book is a loving, sun-drenched visit to the Jewish community of Santiago de Cuba. The story is a version of the folktale “the clever tailor,” in which the hero repeatedly turns a worn-out item of clothing into something else." https://kalaniotbooks.com/with-a-needle-and-thread-a-jewish-folktale-from-cuba/
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The First Peoples by Maika Harper (ill. Kaja Kajfež, @inhabitmedia.bsky.social) & With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple & Libi Axelrod (trans. by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social, @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #bookish
Good news: my dragon is now on Netgalley!
It’s a different sort of dragon rider novel: one from the dragon’s POV. He’s just here for the free food, he swears.
If you are an ARC-ish sort, there is a Read Now window open through Friday.
Chalk-painted message saying We are all treaty people!
A crowd in front of the Nova Scotia Legislature.
A crowd in front of the Nova Scotia Legislature.
Shoulder to Shoulder rally at the NS Leg this afternoon. #nspoli
Book covers for: Misplaced by Brittni Brinn (Little Ghosts Books): In an alternate reality where body parts are as easily changed as clothing, what happens when things go missing? Nan chases down a stranger to return a missing mouth and finds themselves in the coat-strewn apartment of a makeshift family: Jessica, a charismatic older woman, her adopted son Adam, and Reena, the icy-eyed enigma Nan does their best to avoid. As rumours of stolen parts and illegal brain tampering hang over the city, Nan and Jessica investigate the origin of the disembodied fingers left at their doorstep. The more they uncover, the more Nan realizes that their body and their memories might not be their own- and Reena's mysterious past may be the key. Will Nan be able to figure out which bits of themselves to trust, or will it all go to pieces? https://www.littleghostsbooks.com/product/misplaced/2296 Five Seasons of Charlie Francis by Danica Roache (Vagrant Press): Charlie Francis's five-year plan has gone to shit. She was supposed to greet the new millennium by diving head-first into a master's degree, but her thesis has ground to a halt, Y2K was a bust, her rambunctious family and claustrophobic hometown are driving her around the bend, and the maybe-love-of-her-life, Adam, keeps joking about her moving home to marry him and have his babies. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she has to navigate being a (mostly) single mother on top of everything else. Charlie finds herself at a crossroads. Maybe it's time for a new five-year plan. https://nimbus.ca/store/five-seasons-of-charlie-francis.html
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Misplaced (by @brittnibrinn.bsky.social, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social) & Five Seasons of Charlie Francis (by Danica Roache, Vagrant Press, imprint of @nimbuspub.bsky.social). See alt-text.
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ICYMI, my sister's SFF adaptation of P&P will be published by Inanna in Sept'26. Living on a generation ship with clockwork machines & greenhouse agriculture alters Regency society and the trajectories of much-beloved characters! No spoilers but a much-beloathed character dies!
Book cover for Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Dundurn): Nonfiction. A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754836-cancelling-billionaires-before-they-cancel-us
Book cover for The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press): Literature in translation reviewed by Catherine Parnell ("Divided into three sections, each with mini-chapters or narratives, the novel wends its way through Adriana’s life as she struggles with Lady Death and Lady Manipulator—the death, that of her mother and maternal grandmother, and the manipulator? Who’s to say." -- https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september/voices-adriana-elvira-navarro) for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/).
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us (by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social & Neil Brooks, @dundurnpress.bsky.social) (yes please) & The Voices of Adriana (@elviranavarro.bsky.social, trans Christina MacSweeney, @twolinespress.com). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky