Two days till reviewer deadline for #100smallpress & I can't even tell you how much the reviews are GIVING ME LIFE! We're 90% there & we have: *12 genres *71 small presses *29% queer or BIPOC authors Can't wait for you to read the whole list in November in LitHub. #booksky

Here's this week's newsletter, if you missed it this morning.

THE SUMMER HOUSE by Masashi Matsuie, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (Other Press). Reviewed by Mia Carroll. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

Just finished this lovely and exciting debut novel by @umich.edu @megancummins.bsky.social The story lovingly peels back layers of complicated family dynamics, caregiving, and growing up with grown-ups who love you but fail you, too. Highly recommend!

I'm deeply grateful to Whale Road Review for publishing a conversation about occult fiction between me and the insightful novelist Ellen Birkett Morris. @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social

.@miriamgershow.bsky.social discusses her novel CLOSER (@regalhouse.bsky.social) with @laurahulthenthomas.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/interviews/p...

I thoroughly enjoyed LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO, a thrill trip of a novel helmed by the endlessly scheming clubber/poet Lynda Boyle. Look out for the book in October, and check out my review: smallpresspicks.com/last-night-a.... #bookreview #novels @lisaborders.bsky.social @regalhouse.bsky.social

Laura Hulthen Thomas's debut novel, THE MEANING OF FEAR, will be published by Regal House Publishing in 2026. It's available for pre order now! regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/the-meaning-... @laurahulthenthomas.bsky.social

The Cimarron Review was one of the first journals to publish my short fiction. Super grateful to "the Cim" for the support and this blog post about my forthcoming novel. cimarronreview.com/2025/07/31/n...

@regalhouse.bsky.social hits another design home run with this dynamic and fierce cover for my forthcoming psychological crime novel, due out in March 2026. Pre-orders are available at all the major online retailers and directly from the publisher, too.

Picked up these treaties at Books & Mortar in East Grand Rapids MI. Loved Caitlin Horrocks' novel The Vexations so I've been wanting to check out her latest SSC. And I've been on a female dystopia kick recently, wonder why? So the Harpman should scratch more of that itch.

A year ago on a writing retreat, Robin Martin etched my forthcoming novel's title from @regalhouse.bsky.social in the sands of Lake Erie. Posting this very cool photo now to tease my cover reveal, which I'll be sharing soon. Both this photo and the cover capture the novel's wild, fierce spirit.

Sure was hard to leave @the-vcca.bsky.social this morning. What an inspiring place to write, research, and break bread with some amazingly talented writers and visual artists. Such a treat and privilege to spend time on the mountain.

Highly recommend this SSC in solidarity with the protests in LA and elsewhere. The stories beautifully describe the experience of undocumented families in small Midwestern towns like Niles, Michigan during the raids of the early 2000s #booksky

My forthcoming novel, THE MEANING OF FEAR from @regalhouse.bsky.social, is nestled in this stack of Advance Reader Copies! Off to the trades.

Don't forget to pack your copy of @miriamgershow.bsky.social 's CLOSER!

Happy happy pub day to @miriamgershow.bsky.social, whose novel is beautiful!

Excerpt alert! Excerpt alert! Sneak peek of Closer: thenerddaily.com/closer-by-mi... @regalhouse.bsky.social

@kfor24.bsky.social has a new poetry collection out! Just snagged my copy and started reading. Wise, generous, unflinching songs of the self in a troubled world.

www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n... Come on, folks. Resist the AI takeover. Don't use it to write your stuff ever no matter how hard Tech pushes it on us.

George Saunders calling out the egregious firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

I've blown many a twenty point lead in my day, metaphorically speaking, and had to soldier on to a Game 3, sigh. Maybe the Celtics' leprechaun can be a little more helpful in Madison Square Garden today???

Holy shit and hooray! Support your local indies and get 25% off closer – – bookshop.org/lists/best-n...

As both a mom and a worker bee, for many years I was never able to apply to writing residencies. Now that family duty has eased, I have more freedom to go somewhere gorgeous and write! So grateful to @the-vcca.bsky.social for accepting me for my first-ever residency this summer.

Delighted to spot @marinaharss.bsky.social ruminations on Martha Anne Toll's Duet for One. @marthaannetoll.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/marinaha...

Good news on the stop-tyranny-in-its-tracks front www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

In my forthcoming novel from @regalhouse.bsky.social, THE MEANING OF FEAR, my characters struggle with the ethical implications of culling lab animals during the 2008 recession. Now the tariff economy is forcing the issue for today's researchers: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

Couldn't make it out to any of my local indie bookstores today. But I've spent a lovely year reading these novels from @regalhouse.bsky.social so giving them a shout out to celebrate. I'll be chatting with @miriamgershow.bsky.social about CLOSER at @literatibookstore.bsky.social on July 10th!

@storycircleseattle.bsky.social for The Miniaturist's Assistant: "From meticulously researched settings that form the book’s sturdy underpinnings...to the clear voice of Gamble throughout, Crawford has crafted a rich world readers will be immediately drawn into." www.storycircle.org/book_review/...

Hala Alyan gave such a poetic and inspiring Hopwood lecture @umich.edu last night. One lovely take-away among many was that, in these dangerous times, showing up for others is both resistance and self-care.

And it's off to the printers for the ARC! Grateful to @regalhouse.bsky.social for bringing this novel to readers who want to explore whether the cure for our fears is worse than fear itself.

Everything is hellish, but in the first (almost) 3 mos of #100smallpress, our 61 reviewers have requested &/or read &/or reviewed 206 books across 10 genres. Two! Hundred! And! Six! Stay tuned for our 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025 in Nov. More here: www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress

www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/p... Thank you, Cory!

captimes.com/news/health/... Informative look at one of the consequences of the Dobbs decision by my former student Esther Launstein:

We're delighted to see this marvelous review for Robert Shapard's Bare Ana and Other Stories by Another Chicago Magazine!! @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/02/06/r...

One year from today, March 24th, 2026, is pub day for my novel, THE MEANING OF FEAR, with @#regalhouse.bsky.social The novel tells the story of Lea Johnson, a behavioral researcher whose battle with her past and her failing marriage blur the lines between healing, revenge, and forgiveness.

Coming up at the UM Residential College:

Hope this ruling is respected and enforced.

Shilling cars on the White House lawn yesterday with the man in black looking on was pure Rasputin and I don't mean the beer.

@andybobrow.bsky.social, a writer for Community and Malcolm in the Middle, is giving a lecture this week at the University of Michigan on the art of sitcom writing. Free and open to the public!

Desiree Cooper will be at Book Suey in Hamtramck, MI on March 14th! Even if you can't make the live recording, you can read the stories and tune into the podcast later this month :)

I was deeply taken with Beth Kephart’s TOMORROW WILL BRING SUNDAY’S NEWS, a novel that stands as a profound gesture of love for the author’s grandmother and for World War I-era Philadelphia. smallpresspicks.com/tomorrow-wil... @bethkephart.bsky.social #bookreview #novels

@rapscallison.bsky.social can't wait to read this one! bookshop.org/p/books/impo...

Awesome interview with @rapscallison.bsky.social on @npr.org this weekend www.npr.org/2025/02/22/n...

Looking forward to hosting this year's reading of the Umich Residential College Alumni Journal. Please join us!

Had a terrific conversation with the awesome poet and fiction writer Kelly Fordon about grief, the struggle for resilience, and what happens between women when the men leave the room...

Because @washingtonpost.com was the first mainstreamer to start breaking the news of the illegal takeover of our Federal government, I renewed the subscription I canceled over the paper's failure to run the presidential endorsement.

Looking forward to appearing on this wonderful podcast devoted to the art of the short story.