We had a GREAT chat with Elizabeth Zaleski. Pre-order THE TROUBLE WITH LOVING POETS AND OTHER ESSAYS ON FAILURE and read the full conversation here --> beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

What's "work"?? I'm making cookies! www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Patrick Wensink is reading from The Great Black Swamp tomorrow at Surface Noise. 7pm! www.facebook.com/surfacenoise...

If I had to add something to my sale cart at Belt right this second, it would be the Rust Belt Arcana tarot deck (with 78 hand-drawn watercolor cards from @downpourdw.bsky.social !) ⌛🔮

There's still time to swing through and stack up some books on sale. Buy 5 Belt books, get 50% off! Ooh LA LA 🍪https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/belt-publishinghttps://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/belt-publishing/products/the-belt-cookie-table-cookbook-9781948742832

But where do I begin?? www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Big Sale Energy is in the air... Are you on Belt's newsletter list? beltpublishing.com/pages/newsle...

Excited to have written about Patrick Wensink's "The Great Black Swamp" (@beltpublishing.bsky.social), a charming look at the unintended consequences reshaping the land, for Great Lakes Review. greatlakesreview.org/the-price-of...

Bundle some award winners in your cart! 50% off any five books. @sonyahuber.bsky.social @zeets.bsky.social www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Look who's on @contingent-mag.bsky.social's history books of the year list! It's Amelia Bloomer by @scatterall.bsky.social 👯‍♀️ contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/02/2...

"Brent Warren puts Columbus on the map" matternews.org/culture/word...

Huge day in map land! Cincinnati in 50 Maps AND Columbus in 50 Maps are out today. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/col... @brentincolumbus.bsky.social @awoodruff.bsky.social @buffalomaps.bsky.social

This should be really fun, I'm looking forward to it - join me tomorrow night at Prologue Bookshop in the Short North for the official release day event for Columbus in 50 Maps! prologuebookshop.com/event/brentw...

ONE HUNDRED MAPS ARE COMING TOMORROW.

#30daymapchallenge | Day 30 Makeover | Madison in 50 Maps! After four years of making maps of our incredible city, I’m very excited to share that I’m writing a book! As part of the @beltpublishing.bsky.social “50 Maps” series, I’ll be the author of the forthcoming Madison edition.

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Where were we? Oh, sales! Snap up any five Belt books for 50% off! www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Columbus in 50 Maps *also* comes out next week! beltpublishing.com/products/col...

Cincy in 50 Maps is out next week! beltpublishing.com/products/cin...

Take up to 50% off books about your city! Buy 1, get 10% off. Buy 2, get 20% off. Buy 3, get 30% off. Buy 4, get 40% off. Buy 5, get..... [drumroll] [🥁]..... 50% off!!

"What is the role of the underground in a city that bears its vices boldly on its surface?" A review of Jon Wynn's novel "The Set UP" (@beltpublishing.bsky.social): lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/fiction-32/

Read an excerpt from The Great Black Swamp 🐸 www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/the-...

Psssst. Major Arcana is calling ☎️ www.nypl.org/blog/2025/10...

If you've never read The History of the Standard Oil Company, Ida Tarbell's exposé of Rockefeller's predatory petro-empire, @beltpublishing.bsky.social has an edition for you, along with a bunch of their other Revivals, all on sale for long-drive/flight season: www.instagram.com/p/DRPnZrPgWT...

Gift guide, you said?

Not able to attend one of my book talks? I just gave a webinar on Amelia Bloomer for the State Historical Society of Iowa, and it's now online! @beltpublishing.bsky.social

That's right, folks! Patrick Wesink on NPR, talking swamp --> www.statenews.org/section/the-...

Listen while you read 🎵 largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/12/p...

Make enough to go around. All Belt cookbooks are on sale for the holidays. 10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...

Discount bundles on allllll published 50 Maps books: 10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. Stock up for the holidays!

So lovely to still see that people are enjoying the book

The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu is in Book Riot today! @zeets.bsky.social bookriot.com/how-to-reach...

The Great Black Swamp comes out tomorrow. Check out our interview with the author in the meantime. beltpublishing.com/pages/conver...

"It was my goal to capture Rockford as it really is: flawed, yes, but full of strengths, too." @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social's interview with @rachellayown.bsky.social on editing the "The Rockford Anthology” (@beltpublishing.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/06/t...

Look at that swamp!

Dr. Patty Heyda is coming to @rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social to talk about her book The Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA by @beltpublishing.bsky.social publishing. If you're a map nerd, sociologist, political scientist, journalist, environmentalist or interested in social justice, don't miss it.

Do you follow us on Instagram? We're pretty fun over there. www.instagram.com/beltpub/

Sara Catterall was on the Arte Channel talking about Amelia Bloomer--check it out! @scatterall.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?si=NIJ...

The Rockford Anthology has launched to great community support. Nab your copy. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/the...

Want to get your copy of Cincinnati in 50 Maps personally inscribed by the editor? Pre-order from Downbound! @downboundbooks.bsky.social www.downboundbooks.com/item/UYsPf24...

Go behind the scenes on Cincinnati in 50 Maps with @awoodruff.bsky.social's neat new landing page. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...

The Great Black Swamp is oozing all over. And it's coming out in two weeks! Get your pre-order in. beltpublishing.com/products/the...

Come out, come out for one of The Rockford Anthology events this week! You have options galore. beltpublishing.com/pages/events

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It's Rockford Anthology day, folks! www.rrstar.com/story/opinio...

We have a winner! @ryan.blacksky.app we will send you a message to get your info. One copy of The Great Black Swamp is coming your way soon. Thanks to all who sent us a wild fact about their town to enter.

Look what arrived over the weekend, the author’s copies of my book! It’s a real thing in the world and it looks amazing, thanks to Vicky and everyone @beltpublishing.bsky.social!

"Editor Rachel León has compiled photographs, essays, and poems that offer a vantage point from which a reader can begin to understand how a place, and more specifically an often overlooked midwestern city, can shape, heal, break, and provide for its residents in surprising and lasting ways."

“What we lost in the destruction of our Mill Creek neighborhood,” says...Vivian Gibson, “was a community we relied on to survive.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

We're going to draw a name next week. Until then: who has more facts for me?