Anya Johanna DeNiro just confirmed two more events for her novel OKPsyche: (Postponed) 1/20/24 from 3 -5 p.m. at Avant Garden, 215 E. Main St., Anoka, MN 55303 and 3/25/24 at A Room of One’s Own, 2717 Atwood Ave., Madison, WI. I haven’t been to Room...

On a very snowy, wet, dreich day it is funny to write about a book called Kindling but the spark in Kathleen Jennings’s collection is bright enough to shine even in weather like this. (I realize weather is localized and that it is incredibly hot, but...

We just added a page on the BKMN website for preorders for signed or personalized copies of Kelly’s forthcoming debut novel The Book of Love. If you’d like your book(s) personalized, once it’s in your cart, put the name of the person you’d like it pe...

2023 was the another odd year for the press. Since I did the top 14 (BS = Bookscan, now called Circana) bestsellers last year (for a reason that eludes me now), here are the past year’s top 15 — look at all those short story collections!   The post S...

Kathleen Jennings’s new book, Kindling, her first collection of stories, is being trucked from printer to distributor and from there on its way to shops, cafes, backpacks, bedside tables, ship’s libraries, and a few to alternate worlds. One of those...

Something good to start the new year with: Anya joins Mary Anne Mohanraj and Benjamin Rosenbaum on Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans for a conversation about her novel, OKPsyche. The conversation roves all over: on genre, gender, writing, history, po...

Not to be missed in all of this, in January we’re publishing Kathleen Jenning’s first collection of stories, Kindling. The printer, Maple Press in York, PA, is about to ship the hardcover and trade paperbacks to our distro, Consortium, whose main war...

Thank you, Vanessa Armstrong, for this news story about Small Beer on Tor.com. The article led to a small flood of men emailing manuscript submissions and queries, showing that no matter how clear a headline is (“Small Beer Press Is Halting New Publi...

Here are our top 5 bestsellers so far this year by numbers shipped from our distributor: Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters Kij Johnson, The Privilege of the Happy Ending Anya Johanna DeNiro, OKPsyche Sarah Ree...

Anyone who has read the deep and excellent Elemental Logic series will rejoice with me to see that Laurie J. Marks is writing again. In a post today she writes about it, about the grueling years she and her wife Deb have gone through, the unexpected...