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An award-winning literary book publisher in off-grid Alaska working across genres and latitudes. Next up: Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson (Nov 11, 2025) and Raised by Ferns by Maya Jewell Zeller (March 3, 2026).
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"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!
Just in time for the holidays, here are ADN reviewers’ favorite books of 2025
Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir and multiple books that interrogate the changing nature of the North.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I guess it’s almost time for my annual “drive to Anchorage in an ice storm hellscape” trip, and this time I’ll be signing books at Title Wave on Saturday with my @porphyrypress.bsky.social pressmate John Messick. Come see us if you can? Send road reports? 😬
Flier in grid design, featuring my headshot and John Messick’s, and each of our books (Ghosts of Distant Trees and Compass Lines)
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Don't miss @rickirobin.bsky.social, author of GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, tomorrow at the Tri-Valley Library in Healy, Alaska if you're in the area.
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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David James's insightful and positive book review of Erica Watson's GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES appears in both the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Daily News today. It's gratifying to see such a careful and astute take on this book.
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Spokane, WA sidewalk statements of fact.
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Loving these counter display and authors market views today in Fairbanks at Solstice Books! #JohnMessick @rickirobin.bsky.social #KrisFarmen #RosemaryMcGuire
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Got up to pee around 1:30 and caught this out the window.

I guess this is an aurora account now.
Silhouetted spruce trees against a sky dancing with green auroras, a bit over-saturated
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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i couldn't help myself, it was such a beautiful title and description
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Day after tomorrow in Fairbanks!
porphyrypress.bsky.social Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · Nov 5
2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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CLMP (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) included GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES by Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social in their roundup of new November books from small presses!
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November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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While this is getting traction: today is my book’s pub date! The cover matches these photos! Learn more

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porphyrypress.bsky.social Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · Nov 12
Happy pub day, @rickirobin.bsky.social!
To celebrate the launch of our latest title, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, we're offering 20% off online orders of anything in our store now through Saturday night with the code LAUNCHWEEK.
A carton of Ghosts of Distant Trees books adorns the unstacked woodpile on its release date, Nov. 11, 2025.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Aww, this is fun to see!

Strange pairing but I'll take it! 😜
awpwriter.org AWP @awpwriter.org · Nov 11
Happy pub day to GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES by @rickirobin.bsky.social, and ONE NATION UNDER GOD by Amanda C. Bauch! Find more new releases on our AWP Member Bookshelf.
AWP Member Bookshelf
AWP Member Bookshelf
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November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Celebrating the tenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth with Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup’s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.”

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry #indigenous #nativeheritagemonth #athabascan #book

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 10
Our tenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month celebration brings us Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup‘s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.” The unique style gives the reader a really special poetic exp…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Happy pub day, @rickirobin.bsky.social!
To celebrate the launch of our latest title, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, we're offering 20% off online orders of anything in our store now through Saturday night with the code LAUNCHWEEK.
A carton of Ghosts of Distant Trees books adorns the unstacked woodpile on its release date, Nov. 11, 2025.
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Welp, first morning below zero this season.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Evening walk at the tour of the glacier, with views of Mt. Blackburn and the stairway icefall.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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today and worthwhile in a distant yonder city:
redcurrentdistro.com Red Current Distro @redcurrentdistro.com · Nov 5
This Saturday we're joining dozens of zine makers at the Anchorage Zine Fair!

Join us at The Nave from 12-6p for a self publishing smorgasbord!

#alaskasky
A green poster with a red illustration of two monster figures holding books. Text below the illustration reads: ANCHORAGE ZINE FAIR Saturday November 8, 12p.m.-6p.m. The Nave, 3502 Spenard Rd Made possible with the support of Out North Contemporary Art, the Alaska State Council on the Arts, an MOA Mayor's Arts Grant, The Nave, the Alaska Bookmobile, and Bivy ANCHORAGE ZINE FAIR 2025 OFFICIAL VENDORS LIST! Print Wonder • Shoko Takahashi & Michael Conti • Kaia Keep Sake • IndigeNerd_Art • RobblePunk (Adrian Schnyder + Quinn Armstrong) • Christy Strong • Mikhail Siskoff • Katie Basile • Victoria Petersen • Danielle Morgan Art • Year Round Queer • goth • Alexei Batishchev • Whatamilookingatt • J. Maria Maldo • Lizzie Newell • Birkenstock Report • Sam Bair • Anchorage 4 Palestine • Julia Bedell • M. K. Thekkumkattil • Cassie & Bill's Adventures in Accounting • Tara Devlin • Pushing Daisies • Savannah • UAA Printmaking • La Bichita Arte • Stand UP Alaska & Alaskan Take a Stand • ꓤꓤ Press • Find the Gnar • Trey Sanford & Jessica Mendes • Saiki Art • Anchorage Public Library • BeanBeanCreations • Tadd Galusha • David Harper • Studio Warbug • Emily Longbrake • Meneka & Gita • AkScribbleSkrat • Agent Cheshire • Tory Visionz • Jessica Thornton Designs • Stickle and Paw Design • Twine Zine • Julia Ditto Illustration • The Vibrant Cat Eye • MISC INFO • Alaska Mask Bloc • Anchorage Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (AS4P) • Red Current Distro • @ataritacos • North American Place Project • B. HUTTON • Kitschmuffin • The Cordova Kids • Caleb Kinnear • Posh Josh Art • Bivy / School of Nonfunctional Studies • Leah Allis Moss SUPPORT LOCAL ZINES 11/8 @ THE NAVE
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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There's no place like Alaska to write, and few residencies that uplift women writers from anywhere like @storyknife.bsky.social does.
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storyknife.bsky.social Storyknife Writers Retreat @storyknife.bsky.social · Nov 3
There's a woman who is smashed flat between the demands of her job, caretaking, & the crush of domestic labor, making it almost impossible for her to find the time to write. Will you help her devote one month to writing so that she can tell the story that only she can tell?

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November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Our latest infrequent newsletter just dropped. Ye non-scriber-yets can view it online: bit.ly/3JKhYq9
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Epic, actually.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Nov 3
Column: Martha Stewart’s first book, “Entertaining,” is being reissued exactly as it first appeared 43 years ago.

In each copy, a note from Martha will say that nothing has been changed including “some words and phrases that are no longer in use.”
Column | After 101 books, Martha Stewart is re-pitching her first one to Gen Z
Stewart is re-releasing her groundbreaking first book, “Entertaining.” I fell hard for the book in 1982, but I wonder now, does it hold up?
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November 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Caught this launch at the Spokane library before it’s time to return to AK… poet Laura Read read from her latest, THE SERIOUS WORLD (Boa Editions) and former WA State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken read from DRESSING IN THE DARK from Lynx House Press. @auntiesbooks.bsky.social sold lots of books!
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Happy Alaska Native Heritage Month!

I’m starting a new series today highlighting a different Alaska Native-authored book every day.

#alaskanativeheritagemonth #americanindianheritagemonth #indigenous #nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #gwichin

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 1
With all of the books about/taking place in Alaska out there, it can be hard to identify which are actually written not only by Alaskans, but by Alaska Native authors. So this month I’ll be highlig…
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November 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Thrilled to see an essay excerpted from Maya Jewell Zeller's forthcoming RAISED BY FERNS (March 2026, Porphyry Press) published by @cincinnatireview.bsky.social!
cincinnatireview.bsky.social The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · Sep 5
"I’m drawn back to these places, these ruins, because they form the imagistic, psychological core of me, but I also don’t want them to become anyone else’s porn. Take your camera elsewhere, part of me whispers"

Now on our site, a craft essay by Maya Jewell Zeller; link in thread
On the bottom right, a photo of Maya Jewell Zeller, a white woman with brown eyes and gray/dark hair. She is smiling, wearing blue earrings and a necklace, and standing in front of a textured wood. Text on the top and left side of the image says "On Craft," "I’m drawn back to these places, these ruins, because they form the imagistic, psychological core of me, but I also don’t want them to become anyone else’s porn. Take your camera elsewhere, part of me whispers..."
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM