Anne Trubek
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
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Mini Non-Fiction Book Proposal Course, March 16-22
In this course, you will learn the basics of non-fiction trade book proposals, receive feedback on your proposals and queries, and become part of a...
thinkingwriter.bigcartel.com
If you'd like to spend a week in March workshopping your nonfiction book idea with me:
One loosely organized review publication —drawing on editors now looking for work, the many newsletters out there, with one centralized subscription plan. A coop of sorts. Something in between a magazine and a newsletter
February 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
One loosely organized review publication —drawing on editors now looking for work, the many newsletters out there, with one centralized subscription plan. A coop of sorts. Something in between a magazine and a newsletter
I just subscribed.
I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done.
After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I just subscribed.
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I know everybody hates ads but the reason the math works out this way is that ads are - always have been always will be - where the money is in publishing. Ads are why we can have editors, illustrators, investigative teams on almost all the publications where they exist. Which is also why...
when i give wired dot com $40 i get access to so many journalists‘ work, when i give my favorite writer $40 i only get that one person’s work AND i can only do that for like one person a year. it sucks!!!!
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I know everybody hates ads but the reason the math works out this way is that ads are - always have been always will be - where the money is in publishing. Ads are why we can have editors, illustrators, investigative teams on almost all the publications where they exist. Which is also why...
Ok fine let‘s gather together the existing remnants of professional book reviewing and figure out how to support what still survives/expand options.
February 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Ok fine let‘s gather together the existing remnants of professional book reviewing and figure out how to support what still survives/expand options.
Foucault praises stealing and circulating copyrighted material
February 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Foucault praises stealing and circulating copyrighted material
trying to stop people from stealing copyrighted work circa 1906
February 4, 2026 at 1:37 PM
trying to stop people from stealing copyrighted work circa 1906
someone just signed up for a newsletter I stopped writing six years ago and this is how they found it
February 4, 2026 at 1:20 AM
someone just signed up for a newsletter I stopped writing six years ago and this is how they found it
Ok this is the one that did me in
To give u an idea of how powerful men protect each other, remember Moira Donegan's "Shitty Men in Media" list? Here are former Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein (who got fired for being named), Michael Wolff, & Epstein discussing backing Stephen Eliott to supress MeToo
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Ok this is the one that did me in
Author photo of the day
February 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Author photo of the day
This must be related to Gemini/AI, right? Wanting ppl to use that instead? Also funny b/c boy were many people pissed about Google Books then in much the same way they are pissed about AI now
I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone.
In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
February 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This must be related to Gemini/AI, right? Wanting ppl to use that instead? Also funny b/c boy were many people pissed about Google Books then in much the same way they are pissed about AI now
I really really really hate writing copy for books.
February 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I really really really hate writing copy for books.
where I find intellectual engagement these days....
Book Collecting In An Age of Internet Virality
I’m teaching a one week book proposal course in March (cheaper!) , and the two week version in July (longer!)
substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
where I find intellectual engagement these days....
cover of the day (50 cents in 1960=$6 today)
February 3, 2026 at 2:17 AM
cover of the day (50 cents in 1960=$6 today)
Pogroms, naturally
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Pogroms, naturally
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Some advance praise for The Trouble with Loving Poets, releasing on the 24th of February!
The first slide features a short preview of an upcoming review in the March/April edition of Foreword Reviews!
The first slide features a short preview of an upcoming review in the March/April edition of Foreword Reviews!
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Some advance praise for The Trouble with Loving Poets, releasing on the 24th of February!
The first slide features a short preview of an upcoming review in the March/April edition of Foreword Reviews!
The first slide features a short preview of an upcoming review in the March/April edition of Foreword Reviews!
as a pedestrian in Pittsburgh I have ethnographic insights. Students waiting for busses stand in the middle of the tiny shoveled part of the sidewalk, for instance. But
new yorkers survive in the city long-term by traveling in a kind of invisible force field bubble that maintains another body's amount of space between you & everyone else whenever possible. the snowbanks are collapsing this & everybody is riding a knife's edge of irritation that is starting to give
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
as a pedestrian in Pittsburgh I have ethnographic insights. Students waiting for busses stand in the middle of the tiny shoveled part of the sidewalk, for instance. But
The irony of not being able to find decent ebooks of canonical texts. Never doesn’t infuriate me! Struck out trying to find a some DH Lawrence on Libby 😡
February 2, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The irony of not being able to find decent ebooks of canonical texts. Never doesn’t infuriate me! Struck out trying to find a some DH Lawrence on Libby 😡
just saw a pretty convincing scam email aimed at authors from this guy--be warned!
February 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
just saw a pretty convincing scam email aimed at authors from this guy--be warned!
Reposted by Anne Trubek
If you'd like to spend a week in March workshopping your nonfiction book idea with me:
Mini Non-Fiction Book Proposal Course, March 16-22
In this course, you will learn the basics of non-fiction trade book proposals, receive feedback on your proposals and queries, and become part of a...
thinkingwriter.bigcartel.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
If you'd like to spend a week in March workshopping your nonfiction book idea with me:
Reposted by Anne Trubek
Very cold weather in Antwerp but the skating is good & we've got a fire going on the bank for the non-skaters. By Lucas van Valckenborch, d. OTD 1597.
February 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Very cold weather in Antwerp but the skating is good & we've got a fire going on the bank for the non-skaters. By Lucas van Valckenborch, d. OTD 1597.
Cover reveals! Coming next fall from @beltpublishing.bsky.social; design by @downpourdw.bsky.social, who does the designs for this series. Thanks to Bluesky for encouraging us to choose The Pit!
February 2, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Cover reveals! Coming next fall from @beltpublishing.bsky.social; design by @downpourdw.bsky.social, who does the designs for this series. Thanks to Bluesky for encouraging us to choose The Pit!
People like to romanticize letterpress printing but the working conditions were *terrible* for those who did it as a job. When ppl play around with it now that should be remembered too
February 2, 2026 at 12:12 AM
People like to romanticize letterpress printing but the working conditions were *terrible* for those who did it as a job. When ppl play around with it now that should be remembered too
Sam Adams was the tireless scribe who reported/created outrage at having soldiers on the streets of Boston. He was busy on Sunday nights
February 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Sam Adams was the tireless scribe who reported/created outrage at having soldiers on the streets of Boston. He was busy on Sunday nights
Modern Library dust jackets go hard
February 1, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Modern Library dust jackets go hard
brilliant historical research happening here 🧵
#Bridgerton S4 is here! I could write a 175-part thread on Georgian masquerades, but to save time here's a portrait of Queen Charlotte and her two eldest sons in costume as a Turk and Telemachus:
February 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM
brilliant historical research happening here 🧵