Porphyry Press
@porphyrypress.bsky.social
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).
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
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 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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
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.
Spokane, WA sidewalk statements of fact.
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Spokane, WA sidewalk statements of fact.
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
Loving these counter display and authors market views today in Fairbanks at Solstice Books! #JohnMessick @rickirobin.bsky.social #KrisFarmen #RosemaryMcGuire
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
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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www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
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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.
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.
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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.
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.
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
Evening walk at the tour of the glacier, with views of Mt. Blackburn and the stairway icefall.
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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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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
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FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
Our latest infrequent newsletter just dropped. Ye non-scriber-yets can view it online: bit.ly/3JKhYq9
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our latest infrequent newsletter just dropped. Ye non-scriber-yets can view it online: bit.ly/3JKhYq9
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
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!