Pete's Press

Logo for the mid summer's art festival in Fort Quappelle. Blue and Orange text with a hand drawn sunflower behind it

It's festival time! We're off on a bookselling mission to the Mid Summer's art festival in Fort Quappelle this Saturday! Hope to see you there! #booksky #saskatchewan 📚💙

a blue cat with yellow eyes is standing next to another cat Alt: Pete the Cat is dancing

Absolutely!

He was The Best (not that Poe, Poette and Doom Kitty, the current incumbents, are any less loved. But Pete was the OG)

His predecessor gave his name to the whole company!

#indieauthors #booksky 📚💙

Poe the tuxedo cat sits in a box of Pete's Press books

We don't have a marketing department, only a cat.
Therefore,
PLEASE BUY OUR BOOKS:
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First delivery of the week today! Who wants in?
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Beautiful cover of Robyn Tocker's In A Cottage We Once Knew. Deep red cover with picturesque wooden cottage and apple motif. Pictured on a red quilt with white roses.

Excited!! @robyndansereau.bsky.social 's 'In A Cottage We Once Knew" comes out early August!
Pre order here: petes-press.square.site/product/pre-...

The little Stone church at Moffat, south east Saskatchewan, and the grid road leading to it

Map to Moffat from highway 48 in Sask. The grid road continues north to Woolsey eventually but there is no other markings on the map besides tiny random ponds and lakes and endless prairie.

In Moffat, SK today for the Celebration of Life of Kay Parley. It has to be the most remote location I've ever sold books at!

We were honoured to publish Parley's One Woman's Century, a collection that spans over 80 years of her remarkable life.

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#booksky 📚💙

Selected Writings Selected Writings: Six Years of Philosophyby Leighton D. PeartPublished by Pete’s PressReview by Toby A. Welch  $21.99 ISBN 9781069345967I love little books like this. They are great to throw in yo…

Another great review from @skbooks.com for Leighton Peart's Selected Writings
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Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.

"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"

Gift link:
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Kitten 1: grey female with oversized ears and a stripey belly. Absolutely no tail.

Kitten 2: all black female with yellow eyes - the only one with a tail!

Kitten 3: male grey tabby, tiger stripes. Still has blue eyes! About an inch of tail.

Kitten 4: male, grey and white tabby. Stump for a tail and always looks worried about something.

Would anyone like to adopt a very literary kitten? (Or four?). Mum is a grey tabby called Poette who we rescued. Turned out she was a Trojan Cat and now we have kittens galore. Dad appears to be a tail-less Manx cat. These goofballs will be ready to leave July 15th! Please msg if interested #yqr

If we can somehow escape from under the cats, a new Pete's Press newsletter will be going out shortly.
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Regina Downtown BID fed me cheese and good cheer tonight. Feels good to meet people who are positive and optimistic about our downtown.
There is Hope, somewhere. Although it might be wearing a hard hat.
#yqr

This sounds even better!!

"bonkers raccoon shifter story" has to be the most appealing phrase I've seen on the internet today.

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Hi! We're an indie press in #YQR, Saskatchewan (Canada). We have an awesome line up of books published now on petes-press.square.site
but most importantly we are fundraising to open a new bookstore! Lovely folks can support us at ko-fi.com/nicheideas

Good morning! Be the Resistance.❤️‍🔥
#BookSky
#WritingCommunity
#Resistance

Another reason why Jeff Bezos must suffer was when he had Amazon Book Sale Day on Independent Book Store Day. Go to the library, author’s website, Barnes, Thriftbooks, a friend, or even a little free library before you get a book from him. #Booksky

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The subscriptions renew tomorrow!
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We have a HUGE project in the works. And it will only come to fruition with YOUR help.

We are trying to open a Pete's Press HQ and bookstore in downtown Regina!

We're fundraising with the help of @nicheideas.bsky.social

Support us (grab some great books too) at ko-fi.com/nicheideas
#booksky #YQR

My eldest kiddo and Timmy Toughknuckles the stuffed monkey. Timmy is wearing mini sunglasses and camo pattern boxer shorts.

Absolutely no idea if this is your thing, but the Build a Bear in WEM is owned and almost entirely staffed by trans folks. We had a blast creating this unhinged monkey thing named Timmy Toughknuckles.

A stack of copies of Selected Writings by Leighton Peart. The cover is black with a sunset over a Toronto skyline at the top.

OUT NOW: Another new essay collection is Leighton Peart's Selected Writings, Six Years of Philosophy. Our mission with Pete's Press is to publish books that make you think, and this one definitely fits the bill.
📚💙 #booksky
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One Woman's Century by Kay Parley. The cover has a black and white photograph of the author's childhood home, taken in 1935.

New nonfiction!

One Woman's Century - The Collected Essays of Kay Parley is releasing on July 16th. This book covers over eight decades of Kay's writing, and is a fascinating insight into Saskatchewan history.
#booksky 📚💙

Coming up soon:
- One Woman's Century by Kay Parley
- The Good Life by Glen Harper
- In A Cottage We Once Knew by @robyndansereau.bsky.social
- The Sorcerer's Gold by Aquila
And last but not least,
- Would You Give Up Arms For Wings? By S. Portico Bowman

PHEW!!! #booksky

- My Monster Mommy by Megan Ryan
- When I Go To Sleep by Debbie Pitzel
For teens, we have -Ironjaws by @coffeenovelist.bsky.social
And our newest publication is
-Selected Writings by Leighton Peart.
(Still continues...🧵). #booksky

>> Her Ex's Secret by @triciasaxby.bsky.social
- Into the Forest Deep by @robyndansereau.bsky.social
- From the Ground Up by various writers
- Books and the City and
- Trouble Brewing by @annabelt.bsky.social

And then for children's books:
-Discovering Dana by Chelsea Manz
(Cont. 🧵) #booksky

A stack of Pete's Press books fanned out on a chalkboard topped table

Four children's books published by Pete's Press, with a 1960s robin-egg blue typewriter in the top left of the frame

Book #16 from Pete's Press is releasing this weekend! Look at our amazing lineup so far...

-Write the Neighbourhood by various writers
-Toothaches by Sheldon Williams high school
-Coma by KD Kulpa
-The Sun Makes A Sound by Andy Whitman
- Remember When? By Joe Ralko
(continued 🧵) #booksky

#booksky event poster: Battle of the Pitches is Thursday May 22nd at 7pm in Shannon's pub in Regina as part of the Cathedral Village Arts Festival. Poster is a cream and pink backdrop with Battle of the Pitches in green text, and a mock-up of the anthology book cover which is titled " Strays" and is a purple painting of a woman holding a cat over their shoulder.

NEXT WEEK!

Have a short story idea? Fancy a shot at publication?

We’re calling all fiction writers to face our panel of judges and pitch your story to us in 3 minutes at our Battle of the Pitches event.

Winners will be published in our next fiction anthology!

May 22nd 7pm at Shannons Pub #yqr 📚💙