Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

📣Booksellers: Next week we'll be at Winter Institute (along with US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze!) Find us to chat books, grab galleys, and learn about new titles from our publishers @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, @littlepuss.net, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org, and others!

📣Booksellers: Next week we'll be at Winter Institute (along with US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze!) Find us to chat books, grab galleys, and learn about new titles from our publishers @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, @littlepuss.net, @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, @haymarketbooks.org, and others!

Text reads: Winter Institute 2026 with U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Evening Author Reception and Galley Signing February 25 | 5:30 – 7:00 pm ET Exhibit Hall B, Floor 2, DLCC Meet U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze and receive a signed galley of his forthcoming Laureate project, Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry (out April 14, 2026).

Attention booksellers! We’re thrilled to share that U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE will be at this year’s Winter Institute Conference to give you a preview of his Laureate project, TRANSIENT WORLDS: ON TRANSLATING POETRY—your passport into 1,500 years of global poetry.

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with these incredible books and more @ coffeehousepress.org/collections/...

Let This Trans Horror Novel Ruin Your Day as Soon as Possible Persona is a cult classic of literary horror in the making.

"Let This Trans Horror Novel Ruin Your Day as Soon as Possible"

take a bow @ravineangel.bsky.social (thank you @autostraddle.bsky.social and @nicanstett.bsky.social !)

Stop it all now. Buy PERSONA today ➡️ www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/perso...

We're beyond delighted that the wonderful My Name is Samim is included in this year's Read for Empathy Collection!
Buy throughout February with #ReaditForward on uk.bookshop.org/shop/empathy... and 10% of sales goes to Empathy Lab / @booktrust.org.uk / @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social!

My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova Djabbarova debuts with a potent portrait of illness and gender oppression in contemporary Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia. Growi...

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is "a potent portrait of illness and gender oppression," says @publisherswkly.bsky.social. "This passionate and lyrical work packs a stinging punch." Translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden.

www.publishersweekly.com/9781954404410

Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter by Beth Howard Political organizer Howard connects her Appalachian upbringing to her career in social justice, in this deeply felt debut. Born ...

“Political organizer @jbethiejean.bsky.social connects her Appalachian upbringing to her career in social justice, in this deeply felt debut... A refreshing, clear-eyed chronicle of a political awakening.”

SONGS FOR A HARD-HIT PEOPLE coming in April

A photo of the book cover of Into the Hush against a magenta background. Text reads: "2026 PEN / Jean Stein Book Award Finalist | Into the Hush by U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze"

Congratulations to U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE, whose collection INTO THE HUSH was named a finalist for the PEN / Jean Stein Book Award!

This prestigious award from honors a groundbreaking work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact. A winner will be announced on March 31st!

Hurray! Rio Muerto is on the list! Congratulations @furiousleeper.bsky.social and Ricardo Silva Romero! 🥂🥂🥂

Infographic with Terminal Maladies book cover

Big congratulations to Okwudili Nebeolisa! His debut collection, TERMINAL MALADIES, is a finalist for the 2026 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.

Thank you to the committee, and congrats to the other finalists.

@okwudilin.bsky.social

#poetry #mnbookawards #award #debut

THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, by Anjet Daanje in David McKay's translation, is a finalist for the 2026 @penamerica.bsky.social Translation Prize. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on March 31.
pen.org/2026-pen-ame...

🎉The reviews are IN and the book is OUT🎉

Today marks the official pub date of @ravineangel.bsky.social's debut horror novel Persona!

You can buy the book right NOW on our website or at your local indie bookstore!

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

Comedian, actor, and producer John Mulaney @mulaney.bsky.social recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje for his book club Mulaney Reads, calling the novel "brilliant . . . It's a knockout."
newvesselpress.com/books/the-re...

Outstanding International Book List Award Winners! The 2026 USBBY Outstanding International Books (OIB) page showcases the annual curated list of exceptional international children’s and young adult books selected by the United States Board on Books f...

We are delighted to share that SOLO by @grainneobrien.bsky.social and GIANT by @judithmcquoid.bsky.social are on the 2026 @usbby.bsky.social Oustanding International Books list!

Outstanding! There are just 41 books on this list so this is a terrific achievement.

www.usbby.org/2026oib.html

Dua Lipa's Service95 has Gustavo Rodríguez's, ONE HUNDRED GUINEA PIGS on their list of this year's 21 Must-Read books!
service95.com/best-books-2...

Out in July and can be pre-ordered in our 2026 bundle: charcopress.com/bookstore/20...

"Ah, a muse. You don’t get to pick what/who it is, how, or why. It’s just: Here we go. Start writing."

Great interview with Sherrie Flick about her newest short story collection!

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…

"I pre-ordered [Persona] a few months ago after stumbling on LittlePuss’s excellent social media campaign. What’s the deal with this weird company? How does it tie into the travails of a trans woman who discovers porn of herself that she doesn’t remember making?" 😈 Ty @literaryhub.bsky.social !

Now published for the first time outside of Australia, Gerald Murnane’s LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE arrives in bookshops across the UK, Europe and North America today.

‘…a major work by any measure.’
Times Literary Supplement

www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...

In memoriam, Renée Nicole Macklin

Read her poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” which won a 2020 Academy of American Poets College Prize.

poets.org/2020-on-lear...

History of the Child by Penelope Shuttle The capacious and playful latest from Shuttle (Lyonesse) offers twin poles of memory and imagination, taking place in part among...

'Quietly witty and slyly allusive, this dispenses poignant reflections on the poet’s personal history.’ - @publisherswkly.bsky.social, on Penelope Shuttle's new collection History of the Child, out from Bloodaxe 26 Feb & @consortiumbooks.bsky.social 14 April.
www.publishersweekly.com/9781780377858

Solo cover and text about winning at the IBAs

Gráinne’s debut novel, SOLO, was published in 2025 to lots of acclaim

💶 Instant Irish Times bestseller
🗞️ Superb reviews
📸 Cecilia Ahern praised it on IG: “A work of art. Love love love it.”
🥇Nominated for Carnegie Medal
🏆 Winner at Irish Book Awards
📺 Author on RTE’s Irish Book of the Year show

Moto Hagio’s THEY WERE 11! has been selected as the Best New Mango for 2025 by ANN

Congrats to Moto Hagio as our release if THEY WERE 11! was selected the Best New Manga for 2025!!

Our final Consortium Corner features John Baynes, our longest-serving staffer and all-around legend. Read the interview, which includes John’s perspective on 35 years in book distribution and memories with formative colleagues (including filmmaker Charlie Kaufman!): www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/12...

MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is among the @wwborders.bsky.social Most Anticipated Books of 2026. Translated from the Russian by @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. newvesselpress.com/books/my-dre...

Iron Circus Comics Hi there, everybody! We're Iron Circus Comics! We were born in 2007, and we're the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest—a small-mid house b...

New year, NEW US!

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Well, no. Same old us. 😅 But we're still here!

And we've got a LOT planned. Are YOU following us on Kickstarter? I think you shooould!~♪

www.kickstarter.com/profile/iron...

"Raw and vulnerable...this complex portrait of all-consuming desire is tough to shake" - Publishers Weekly - over cover of APPARITIONS which is light pink with dark watercolour lines drawn to suggest the naked torso of a woman.

Two nuns, and one obsessed mother, doing everything in their power to achieve communion with the one they love.

APPARITIONS, by Margo Glantz and translated by Ellen Jones, is out later this month: charcopress.com/bookstore/ap...

📚🔥 Feature Spotlight: @nisishawl.bsky.social

Shoutout to Rock and the Beat Generation for continuing to document the literary underground—and for highlighting Nisi Shawl in their ever-expanding review archive.

Tap in, read deep, and respect the architects.

#SistahScifi #NisiShawl

Our final Consortium Corner features John Baynes, our longest-serving staffer and all-around legend. Read the interview, which includes John’s perspective on 35 years in book distribution and memories with formative colleagues (including filmmaker Charlie Kaufman!): www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/12...