5PM EST, our 2nd Westies Wednesday email goes out. Celebrating September book birthdays, highlighting a reading series, and a special event ad.

“Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the WEST” 🐎 🧙‍♂️

Ty to the great country of Australia for the $4.54 in royalties. Can we double that next month?

The Thirty West armada has arrived m’lord

“Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the WEST” 🐎 🧙‍♂️

Indie lit podcasts: my calendar is open. I can offer many stories, anecdotes, trade topics, author experiences, and past events about publishing nearly 10 years with Thirty West Publishing House. I can also be the conduit to connect you with dozens of interesting and talented authors. Lets talk.

Escaped the mundane this Sunday morning at the Wisssahickon

Special delivery! 🛻 📦 THE APOPTOTIC ERA is here! Presales going out next week. Book drops officially on 9/26. Congrats A.G. Valentine! @agvalentine.bsky.social

Special delivery! 🛻 📦 THE APOPTOTIC ERA is here! Presales going out next week. Book drops officially on 9/26. Congrats A.G. Valentine! @agvalentine.bsky.social

Karter Mycroft knocks it out of the park with "Mookie", our latest Dream Story in Afterimages. Please read it now and with haste. Bases are loaded... thirtywest.substack.com/p/mookie

In case anyone else feels like they're screaming into a void about their work these days, please remember there are countless readers who aren't on social media who have probably read + loved your work without ever saying a word. (Another reason why having a website is so important.)

“Before We Eat the Rat” from GUNK by Noah David Roberts

Damn skippy

Hey. We have some TLC copies of GLASS LABYRINTH that the printer messed up and we fixed! No codes, but only available at thirtywestph(dot) com. Too good to pulp; too cheap to miss out. Hailey Spencer will appreciate your readership! thirtywestph.com/shop/glasslabyrinth

Hey. We have some TLC copies of GLASS LABYRINTH that the printer messed up and we fixed! No codes, but only available at thirtywestph(dot) com. Too good to pulp; too cheap to miss out. Hailey Spencer will appreciate your readership! thirtywestph.com/shop/glasslabyrinth

Announcing the Afterimages 2026 Best of the Net nominees #bestofthenet🎉 2 pieces of fiction & nonfiction, and for the first time, 3 poems. Congratulations to all 7 writers! Best of luck in being selected 🗳️ A special thanks to Kinsey, Morgan & Josh for deciding 🧠

The bldg is always open 🏠 🚶 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️

Announcing the Afterimages 2026 Best of the Net nominees #bestofthenet🎉 2 pieces of fiction & nonfiction, and for the first time, 3 poems. Congratulations to all 7 writers! Best of luck in being selected 🗳️ A special thanks to Kinsey, Morgan & Josh for deciding 🧠

Best of the Net nominations drop today

Colloquially termed the ‘Archive Cube’, every TW title is preserved inside a storage cube. This includes each perfect-bound book & limited edition chapbook, broadside, & other printed goods. TW has brought select titles out of the Archival to display at book festivals & readings. We honor our past.

Colloquially termed the ‘Archive Cube’, every TW title is preserved inside a storage cube. This includes each perfect-bound book & limited edition chapbook, broadside, & other printed goods. TW has brought select titles out of the Archival to display at book festivals & readings. We honor our past.

Sooo who wants to send us new stickers to populate our next printer? 🖨️

My return to Fergie’s on Wednesday at 7. Moonstone’s special prose reading with @anotherintro.bsky.social and 2 cool writers I’ve never met before. It’ll be a good time. Open mic after, too? Hope to see you.

Less than 2 weeks

We ride at dawn, midday, dusk, and even at night! 🐎 🏰

We ride at dawn, midday, dusk, and even at night! 🐎 🏰

This and reading a book

Kenna DeValor makes an Afterimages debut with a juicy and mythological flash fiction, “Aphrodite In An Open Casket”. Read it on under candlelight and read it with haste. ⚰️ open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

Not sure how I pulled off running a literary press for a decade while being primarily in the engineering 9-5’s for at least 7 of those years and while in undergrad and grad school. My brain is a college frat tub full of alcohol these days but the memories are worth it.

One hint: November 👀

It’s not illegal to take a pic of a Thirty West book, particularly with the trail packs and stickers we give for free. In fact it’s incentivized.

Maureen Brown from Jelly Squid Magazine enjoys the maze-like structure of THE APOPTOTIC ERA. We think you will too! Preorder still open, but publication date is in 16 days on 9/26. @agvalentine.bsky.social thirtywestph.com/shop/theapoptoticera

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

It’s not illegal to take a pic of a Thirty West book, particularly with the trail packs and stickers we give for free. In fact it’s incentivized.

“Collective Nouns for Humans In the Wild” from Wild Life by Kathy Fish

“Collective Nouns for Humans In the Wild” from Wild Life by Kathy Fish

Slightly diminish a book A Tale of Two Municipalities

Jen Companik tabling her book CHECK ENGINE at Printer’s Row Day 2!

Jen Companik tabling her book CHECK ENGINE at Printer’s Row Day 2!

Celebrate Thirty West’s 10 year anniversary. This is Our Beginning. @joshdale.co ‘s story in the middle.

Celebrate Thirty West’s 10 year anniversary. This is Our Beginning. @joshdale.co ‘s story in the middle.

Another prime book review by Thirty West’s @josephedwinhaeger.bsky.social Take a ride on THE EL: A NOVEL by @tvayyyy.bsky.social out now through your favorite bookseller. open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

Another prime book review by Thirty West’s @josephedwinhaeger.bsky.social Take a ride on THE EL: A NOVEL by @tvayyyy.bsky.social out now through your favorite bookseller. open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

New Shannon !

Jen Companik on assignment at Printer’s Row!

When a chapbook bundle is paired with an a la carte order, you’re bound to have a good reading experience. This particular Westie used code FREESHIP at checkout to save some money. It’s really that simple. Embrace hand made. Escape the mundane.

Same $200 but indie books

When a chapbook bundle is paired with an a la carte order, you’re bound to have a good reading experience. This particular Westie used code FREESHIP at checkout to save some money. It’s really that simple. Embrace hand made. Escape the mundane.

Great essay by @tmcallister.bsky.social at The Metropolitan Review about his experience with large and small presses, with a clear-eyed, experienced idea of the pluses and minuses. Also a nice confirmation that querying agents is awful for nearly everybody. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

New Chelsea!