{"id":4339,"date":"2025-12-01T16:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:09:53","slug":"the-100-small-press-recommendations-are-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2025\/12\/01\/the-100-small-press-recommendations-are-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Small Press Recommendations Are Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4340\" src=\"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/100-small-press.jpg\" alt=\"A seal labeled 2025 100 Notable Small Press Books\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/100-small-press.jpg 500w, https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/100-small-press-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/100-small-press-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 2025 list of 100 notable small press books is now up at Lit Hub<\/a>. I was thrilled to work on this project along with about 40 other people under the gentle guidance of <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamgershow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miriam Gershow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It probably doesn&#8217;t surprise anyone that I was reading science fiction and fantasy books for this project, which includes books from just about every genre you can think of, including poetry as well as prose. I noticed in going through the list that it includes several horror books as well as literary fiction and a lot of creative nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>Each reviewer was only able to provide capsule reviews of two or three books, which made the task very difficult. I read many other books that I really liked. Small presses are really publishing great things these days.<\/p>\n<p>The books I recommended were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/132\/9781619762688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Making Amends<\/em><\/a>, by Nisi Shawl, from Aqueduct Press.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/132\/9781616964405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Letters From an Imaginary Country<\/em><\/a>, by Theodora Goss, from Tachyon Publications<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/132\/9781958911150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice<\/em><\/a>, by Margaret Killjoy, from Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously you should check those out, but go read the whole list. You might find something from a genre you didn&#8217;t even know you liked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 list of 100 notable small press books is now up at Lit Hub. I was thrilled to work on this project along with about 40 other people under the gentle guidance of Miriam Gershow. It probably doesn&#8217;t surprise anyone that I was reading science fiction and fantasy books for this project, which includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,335,8,6,10,7],"tags":[1157],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-books-2","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-reviews","category-sciencefiction","tag-100-small-press-list-for-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}