Meg Reid 🦦
@megireid.bsky.social
Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
www.megireid.com
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Canadian in the South 🍁
Happy to be on your podcast, etc!
www.megireid.com
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Meg Reid 🦦
@megireid.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hey new folks! I'm a publisher / writer / designer who runs a publisher grounded in place and community (@hubcitypress.bsky.social) and advocates for small, local, diverse, and authentic in direct response to the consolidation and corporatization of nearly everything in the book industry.
oh man, stan! in rural maine. he advised me to put the car in low gear and "use the hills" instead of accelerating and breaking (good advice that was almost immediate out of date) and always had us drive him through burger king, where he would order a chicken sandwich with two bottom buns.
okay one of my best friends just told me her driver's ed teacher was named
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
wait for it
Mr. Streetman
... and now, because the horrors are horroring, I wish to hear from Bluesky about all your great and bad and terrible and fun driver's ed stories
February 18, 2026 at 3:14 AM
oh man, stan! in rural maine. he advised me to put the car in low gear and "use the hills" instead of accelerating and breaking (good advice that was almost immediate out of date) and always had us drive him through burger king, where he would order a chicken sandwich with two bottom buns.
you can"detain" a goddamn baby.
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
February 18, 2026 at 2:34 AM
you can"detain" a goddamn baby.
also, judging by the sales totals, kind of proof you can't?
A cyber truck is just proof that you can really convince people to purchase anything
February 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM
also, judging by the sales totals, kind of proof you can't?
book publishing is me slacking my team "we need a king cake for mardi gras / nancy lemann post!!!" and like six hours later, we have this brilliance
Getting into the THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU mood and celebrating Mardi Gras with King Cake! ⚜️🎉
February 17, 2026 at 10:20 PM
book publishing is me slacking my team "we need a king cake for mardi gras / nancy lemann post!!!" and like six hours later, we have this brilliance
Since historically changes in production style have had a lot to do with technology, does anybody know why so much (major label) pop music these days is thin and sibilant? Does it have to do with more people listening through headphones than speakers? Everything sounds terrible to me.
February 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Since historically changes in production style have had a lot to do with technology, does anybody know why so much (major label) pop music these days is thin and sibilant? Does it have to do with more people listening through headphones than speakers? Everything sounds terrible to me.
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Get ready for Hub City's first big reissue project: acclaimed novelist Nancy Lemann’s only work of nonfiction, The Ritz of the Bayou. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is publishing Lives of the Saints & The Oyster Diaries, so we're taking a tandem publication approach and all books are coming out April 7!
January 23, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Get ready for Hub City's first big reissue project: acclaimed novelist Nancy Lemann’s only work of nonfiction, The Ritz of the Bayou. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is publishing Lives of the Saints & The Oyster Diaries, so we're taking a tandem publication approach and all books are coming out April 7!
Depressing post but taking a brief survey of my DMs right now from writers, critics, publishers, editors, etc it feels like no one in books is doing okay right now.
February 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Depressing post but taking a brief survey of my DMs right now from writers, critics, publishers, editors, etc it feels like no one in books is doing okay right now.
listening to the game because I'm at work and did the announcer really just say canada has FORTY shots?!
February 16, 2026 at 10:09 PM
listening to the game because I'm at work and did the announcer really just say canada has FORTY shots?!
My community is the center of the measles outbreak and now also fighting an AI data center. It's actually fascinating to watch people fight along a spectrum of what they consider "safe" (ie there are unvaccinated people who say the measles is "just a rash" who are actively fighting the data center).
February 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM
My community is the center of the measles outbreak and now also fighting an AI data center. It's actually fascinating to watch people fight along a spectrum of what they consider "safe" (ie there are unvaccinated people who say the measles is "just a rash" who are actively fighting the data center).
A book person in silicone valley just sent me a long piece about AI disruption--and why the book industry would be foolish to not take it seriously--that was obv written by chatgpt. If you don't believe your own ideas enough to write them with your own brain, I don't think I have to listen to you!
February 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
A book person in silicone valley just sent me a long piece about AI disruption--and why the book industry would be foolish to not take it seriously--that was obv written by chatgpt. If you don't believe your own ideas enough to write them with your own brain, I don't think I have to listen to you!
February 16, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Exactly. Watched total recall last night and I, uhhh, don't think we were supposed to be cheering for the fuckng mining company controlling the air.
February 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Exactly. Watched total recall last night and I, uhhh, don't think we were supposed to be cheering for the fuckng mining company controlling the air.
Another day, minding my own business, and then boom, emotionally bodied by the W.S. Merwin Conservancy posting a Merwin poem of the day.
February 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Another day, minding my own business, and then boom, emotionally bodied by the W.S. Merwin Conservancy posting a Merwin poem of the day.
Justice for the Canadian women curlers! No appeal for on-ice calls that are clearly wrong?
February 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Justice for the Canadian women curlers! No appeal for on-ice calls that are clearly wrong?
Reporting live from a very crowded DMV in Spartanburg, South Carolina (the epicenter of the measles epidemic) to see if they'll give a Canadian born citizen who changed her name at 18 years old a real ID.
February 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Reporting live from a very crowded DMV in Spartanburg, South Carolina (the epicenter of the measles epidemic) to see if they'll give a Canadian born citizen who changed her name at 18 years old a real ID.
I've never heard anything more ironic than the Republicans shutting down the government over their right to wear masks.
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I've never heard anything more ironic than the Republicans shutting down the government over their right to wear masks.
Feeling deep imposter syndrome about being in this killer line-up next month at Duke. The Life of the Novel in a Post-Text World, with the man himself, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social keynoting and Will Evans (Deep Vellum), Kathy Pories (Algonquin), and me (Hub City) on the state of literature in 2026.
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Feeling deep imposter syndrome about being in this killer line-up next month at Duke. The Life of the Novel in a Post-Text World, with the man himself, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social keynoting and Will Evans (Deep Vellum), Kathy Pories (Algonquin), and me (Hub City) on the state of literature in 2026.
my dad died of colon cancer and it's uniquely depressing to have a doctor say, "you really need to be screened. unfortunately insurance won't pay for it for a few more years." okay, sounds good, I'll just uhh, not worry about that.
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
my dad died of colon cancer and it's uniquely depressing to have a doctor say, "you really need to be screened. unfortunately insurance won't pay for it for a few more years." okay, sounds good, I'll just uhh, not worry about that.
Are there any small printers that still print on groundwood (other than lightning source)? I was once on a panel with a PRH fulfillment guy and he said it was getting much harder to find but they had hoarded up a ton. It's such a weight savings that smaller publishers just don't have access to.
February 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Are there any small printers that still print on groundwood (other than lightning source)? I was once on a panel with a PRH fulfillment guy and he said it was getting much harder to find but they had hoarded up a ton. It's such a weight savings that smaller publishers just don't have access to.
imagine being too white supremacist for a senator from utah
GOP Utah Sen. John Curtis has said he's voting against Carl's nomination, effectively sinking it. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
imagine being too white supremacist for a senator from utah
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
inexplicably really into "Ain't Nothing to Me" by Johnny Winter right now
February 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
inexplicably really into "Ain't Nothing to Me" by Johnny Winter right now
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HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks!
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Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18
This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
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February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks!
Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18
This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18
This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
for the one person left covering book design trends, you heard it for here: heavy foil is coming back.
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
for the one person left covering book design trends, you heard it for here: heavy foil is coming back.
I was absolutely a self-resigned math idiot because I was a Book Kid. It's been the irony of my life to find out as an adult that I am very good at, and enjoy, math (though we are talking about book math, not real math).
Those who weren’t resigned to the Math Idiot Garbage Bin as kids may not grasp how much “if you’re bad at math, you’ll die in a ditch and all will be better off for it” sentiment was floating around in the 90s and 2000s, but it sure felt real to me.
(my parents are great! It didn’t come from them!)
(my parents are great! It didn’t come from them!)
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I was absolutely a self-resigned math idiot because I was a Book Kid. It's been the irony of my life to find out as an adult that I am very good at, and enjoy, math (though we are talking about book math, not real math).