My new novel, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES, is due out from @ooliganpress.bsky.social in November. Check out this trailer the team put together! youtu.be/vvKyDj1ep8E #booktrailer #neighborhooddames #historicalfiction

Part II of the edited transcript of last month's Word for Word Publishing Panel with @janefriedman.com and @laurastanfill.bsky.social is up for your viewing pleasure! #litmag #publishing penmenreview.com/spotlight/wo...

Happy Thursday! Part I of the (lightly) edited transcript of last month's Word for Word Publishing Panel, featuring @janefriedman.com and @laurastanfill.bsky.social is now available. Enjoy! #litmag #interview #publishing penmenreview.com/spotlight/wo...

Come to this free publishing panel with @janefriedman.com and me! So grateful to the @snhumfa.bsky.social for inviting us to chat about the industry. #publishing #writing #smallpress

I'm super excited for this debut novel by @julieskelleher.bsky.social with an unusual selkie twist coming out from @laurastanfill.bsky.social at Forest Avenue this fall.

ICYMI, @wendyjfox.bsky.social recently had the chance to interview @laurastanfill.bsky.social, founder of @forestavenuepress.bsky.social, on CRAFT! buff.ly/U8YgmPV Imagine a Door by Laura Stanfill: buff.ly/JA8nco3 Preorder The Last Supper by Wendy J. Fox: buff.ly/aAJuDIF @susanschulman.bsky.social

It's so good! Can't wait to share it with you and everyone, Jill!

Cover reveal for The Sea-Glass Shore by @julieskelleher.bsky.social, out this fall from @forestavenuepress.bsky.social! Really enjoyed working on this with Julie and publisher @laurastanfill.bsky.social.

Who wants to read a story from the POV of an immortal cat? @lizprato.bsky.social's fourth book delivers this and more! PURGATOIRE releases in April. bookshop.org/p/books/purg...

For our #democracy and for my self improvement, books I read in 2025. Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social @kamalaharris.com @billmckibben.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social @laurastanfill.bsky.social, etc. for inspiring me!

At the Broadway Books event for my novel, when @shawnlevy.com told me he pictured my character Four the Door as played by the classic film actor Mike Mazurki, it got me thinking about the ways the film Murder, My Sweet had influenced my book. So I put together a post about it....

I'll be a busy bee next week at the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover events, including an AMA at @spokeandwordbooks.bsky.social, a conversation with @pollydugan.bsky.social at Annie Bloom's, and a conversation with @gigilittle.bsky.social at Broadway Books. Stop by and join us at one or all!

In which @laurastanfill.bsky.social writes about our beloved Rose City, which is not on fire, and books, which have the potential to save us. 💙

"...until refuge is secured with justice, it will never truly be refuge at all." This is a heartbreaking post from Ari Honarvar, whose debut novel A GIRL CALLED RUMI was published by Portland's Forest Avenue Press and my friend @laurastanfill.bsky.social in 2021.

Introducing our speaker... @laurastanfill.bsky.social! Laura Stanfill is the author of Imagine a Door, a book for writers, and the publisher of Forest Avenue Press. She has won the Oregon Literary Fellowship for Publishing twice, and she earned a certificate from the Yale Publishing Course.

YES. From @laurastanfill.bsky.social: "... as writers, we linger and agonize over each verb. We replace em dashes with commas and then switch them back to em dashes. We activate our characters and scenes and sacred objects, making artistic decisions alongside the practical ones."

To learn more about #democracy, #freedom, and to be an effective writer, I read these books during the summer of 2025. Thank you @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @laurastanfill.bsky.social and Ta-Nehisi Coates for writing books!

Getting a really nice review from Kirkus is as stunning as a billy club to the back of the head. So happy and thankful. The full review is here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews.... #whokilledonethegun #forestavenuepress #timeloops #noir #oldtimeradio

ICYMI, here's a whimsical interview with Forest Ave's @laurastanfill.bsky.social and the phenomenal @debutiful.bsky.social. #writing #publishing

Want to add free mystery, thriller, and suspense books to your bookshelf? Here are free books, including WHO KILLED ONE THE GUN?, in a special @bookfunnel.bsky.social giveaway! #free #onethegun #smallpress #publishing #suspense #mystery #thriller books.bookfunnel.com/allgenremtsf...

I have been pretty quiet on social media this summer but here's a snapshot of one week of balancing my writing life and my publishing responsibilities. writeordiemag.com/features/-wr...

Excited about the Oregon Country Fair? Video of the 2024 writers' panel just dropped! I moderated a panel with @jorahlafleur.bsky.social, @lainitaylor.bsky.social, @rosieethor.bsky.social, and @reggiewatts.bsky.social. Ninety minutes of good vibes! youtu.be/ZKe3-or2h1k?... #writinglife #ocf

Check out our latest conversation with @forestavenuepress.bsky.social publisher @laurastanfill.bsky.social! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5rFV...

Happy Juneteenth 🌱

holy shit everything about this is maddening but I think fabricating a DUI so they could say he was a criminal was the part where I audibly hissed

New interview just landed, thanks to @alyssagraybeal.bsky.social! IMAGINE A DOOR, a kind and comprehensive guide to publishing, is out wherever books are sold. alyssagraybeal.substack.com/p/an-intervi... laurastanfill.substack.com #publishing #writing

My second novel, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES, has sold to @ooliganpress.bsky.social, one of my favorite independent presses. I'm so thrilled! I'm working on developmental edits now and can't wait to share this project with everyone in fall 2026. #writing

Gobsmacked to be in this company! Portland's Top Reads for the month of May, as reported to Willamette Week. Shout out to my local-est indie bookstore, Annie Bloom's, for hand-selling my new book and making it a best-seller! #publishing #writing www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...

I’ve been refocusing on creativity first in my writing, instead of letting publishing concerns drive the writing. After reading @laurastanfill.bsky.social’s terrific “Imagine A Door,” I am now beginning @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social’s “Dear Writer,” which looks equally wonderful #writing #creativity

FDA is "attempting to force loving families, parents and siblings, throughout this country to be the infectious vector through which you achieve your eugenicist goal of killing our disabled and medically complex children. There is nothing here but evil."

Who's on NetGalley? My book for writers, IMAGINE A DOOR, is live for the next four weeks. www.netgalley.com/widget/86116...

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN! We have 8 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!! Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support! Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

So far today I've received 28 pitches for upcoming books. By 28 different publicists representing 28 different authors. There is so little space to cover any of them. Which is why this AI-created and unedited by humans summer reading list is such a slap in the face.

Extra! Extra! Get your fake books! Maximum dystopia! gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/the-one-bo...

Novelists, poets, screenwriters, playwrights, songwriters, and journalists should stick together.😭

Good news in Libraryland 📚📜

My new book BREAK THE FRAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN FILMMAKERS drops in 10 days. Tour schedule (link below) will take me to SF, Brooklyn, Chicago, Ann Arbor and many more! See you on the road! www.breaktheframebook.com

How COOL is this???? Miriam Gershow's CLOSER is one of Bookshop.org's "50 Preorder Picks: Books We Can't Wait to Read." #happydance @miriamgershow.bsky.social regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/closer/

PSA: Because of readers’ support, this Independent Bookstore Day was not only the largest Bookstore Day ever for so many bookshops, but their biggest day of sales ever. We at Libro.fm also had our biggest day of sales ever, all of which supported indie bookshops across the globe.

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is [email protected].

At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I shared some indie press SFF due out in May and June. reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

Oh, this is SO good, so thorough, so shiny bright! From @cassmannes.bsky.social, interviewing @laurastanfill.bsky.social about her new book IMAGINE A DOOR, "a way to herd all those insights and stories into one accessible place, where anyone can find them." Brava! open.substack.com/pub/pinestat...

This is my love letter to writers and a rallying cry. Your stories matter. Don't let the process of publication erode your belief in your own creativity; there are so many ways we can shift that mindset, and we must, because stories change minds and offer hope. Thank you so much for reading, Dale!

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

@laurastanfill.bsky.social and I had a strategy session about my book-to-come yesterday and it was lovely. The linked post was a tiny moment from it. (One of the things she did was remind me about hashtags.) #forestavenuepress #mystery #sci-fi #whokilledonethegun

Lynne has shown up for so many writers and grieving humans in the Portland community. gofund.me/43a5596b

The First Amendment, the Associated Press and all of us are winners tonight, thanks to a judge who stood up to Trump's assault on our free press. Sam Bellamy provides the details below in an update on Trump's harassment of the AP.