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Second and third novels, particularly in series, elevate the sales of first novels as they continue to hook readers. Once a reader decides they love your novel (whichever one they read) they are highly likely to chase down other novels by you. Fans. The real power.

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HAHAHA come on now, we don't wanna seem too keen....

Aw thanks so much!! We try our best at prompt replies because we know publishing is an exercise in extreme patience usually!

Happens to everyone! Also typos breed when you're not looking, haha. You get to a point where you just can't see your own mistakes after a while. Impartial, extra pairs of eyes make all the difference.

Also, don't confuse editing with proofreading!

Manuscript Evaluation Service Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels.com Writing a book is not easy. Everyone at Pete’s Press is an author too and we’ve all been there – we’ve written, rewritten, got stuck, deleted…

Hi there! We're editors :)
You might be interested in this as a good starting point! petespress.ca/manuscript-e...

I’ll be there too! Come in costume, it’s never too late for Halloween fun.

Poster for our Black Cat Book Sale on November 1st at Pause Coffee. On a spooky grey background, a cartoon black cat with yellow eyes peeks over a wooden sign with the event details scrawled on it in a white font.

Our Black Cat Book Sale is back for another year! Stop by Pause Coffee on Nov 1st for some "Halloween-adjacent" fun. We're bringing our full cat-alogue of books, which pair excellently with great coffee! #booksky #yqr

This is now a Pete's tradition!!

From the Fall Fiction Launch this weekend!

Somehow it is October! We have 5 more books coming out before the end of the year:

Miracles at Bella Camila by Lili Zwart

SOKOS by Rhett Stevenson and Eric Reyes

Elaine, a memoir by Cheryl Wilson

I Have Dreams Where I am Drowning by Rob White

And Strays, an anthology by various authors
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Aquila, (in a blue tunic dress and wearing a mask) Robyn Tocker (black spotty dress and brown ankle boots) and Glen Harper (black shirt,.tan pants) stand in the George Bothwell library.

A sheet cake with the cover of Glen Harper's book, The Good Life, bordered with green icing.

A sheet cake with the cover of Aquila's book, Sorcerer's Gold, bordered with green icing.

Another successful book launch! Congratulations to @robyndansereau.bsky.social, Aquila and Glen Harper. Stories were told, books were sold and cake was eaten gleefully!!

Be sure to get your copies of The Good Life, Sorcerer's Gold and In A Cottage We Once Knew on petes-press.square.site

All welcome to our Fall Fiction Launch on Saturday! Featuring.brand new books from Aquila, Glen Harper and @robyndansereau.bsky.social

3.30pm at the George Bothwell library.

There will be an enormous amount of cake.

#booksky 📚💙

Pete's Press pop up book sale in the back of Little Ghosts bookstore. Annabel sits with a red table covered in paperbacks

Annabel waves at R.L. Spine, a 15ft skeleton on the patio behind the bookstore

Short pop up at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social today!! Come find us in front of the huge skeleton!
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Ready to go at Coles in the Northgate Mall! Fall is the perfect time to stock up on new books to curl up with, and my “Ever After Tales Collection” make for cozy reads. I’ll be here until 3pm 💜

#booklover #bookworm

A poster slows a beer tap with books spilling out. It says BOOKS and BREWS September 27th 12-5pm at Left Field Brewery (Leslieville).

We’re at @leftfieldbrewery.bsky.social in Leslieville TODAY for Books & Brews! Selling great reads alongside @dundurnpress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @stelliform.press @augursociety.bsky.social @petespress.bsky.social
Come see us and get great local reads alongside local beers!
🖤👻🍻

Just a warning, some subscription packs will be going out a little late this month due to @petespress.bsky.social 's trip to Toronto.

On the other hand, this means there's still time to sign up for a random, thought provoking nonfic book!

Ko-fi.com/nicheideas

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Your manuscript called! It wants an outing. Pete's Press is open for submissions. Petespress.ca (Illustrated with sketches of an old flip phone, ball point pen, steaming mug of coffee and a black cat attacking a typewriter

What are you waiting for?

Our publishing line up: Kid's books: Discovering Dana by Chelsea Manz, When I Go To Sleep by Debbie Pitzel, My Monster Mommy by Megan Ryan, Ironjaws by Jerry Vanschaik Novels: Into the Forest Deep and In a Cottage We Once Knew by Robyn Tocker, Coma by Keely Kulpa, The Sun Makes a Sound by Andy Whitman, Her Ex's Secret by Tricia Saxby, The Good Life by Glen Harper Nonfiction: Selected Writings by Leighton Peart, Trouble Brewing and Books and the City by Annabel Townsend, One Woman's Century by Kay Parley And anthologies From the Ground Up (fiction) and Write the Neighbourhood (nonfiction)

Look at all the bookish goodies we're bringing to the Books and Brews event in Toronto next week!
(Cat sadly not included)
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Slop. A nonfiction anthology with a very specific theme: the impacts of generative AI. At Pete’s Press we ONLY publish work written by real humans. Our editors, designers and artists are also human…

Thank you for this wonderful Zine! This is just the sort of thing we like at Pete's Press.
If you're interested, we're currently putting together a book about AI and taking submissions right now
petespress.ca/2025/01/04/c...
Do get in touch if you'd like to contribute.

A simple black and white zine from a folded piece of paper, with the title "Why GenAI SUCKS AND YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT" dated June 2025, version 1.1, author Lauren Woolsey. The zine is sitting on a green and gold cloth with a sun motif.

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!

The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Sorcerer's Gold by Aquila Van, a blond young woman with hair in wavy braids looks away from us up a narrow cobbled path towards a cottage in the mist. She wears a floor length gold coloured gown.

New release!! Sorcerer's Gold is the second in Aquila's Grimm Chronicles.

Van is back home, but nothing is as simple as it seems.
Magic has been hiding under her nose, and secrets she didn’t know existed are now being revealed.

Get it here: petespress.ca/petes-press-...
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From my WIP, HopeStreet.

#WIPsnips #sept18th #writesky #booksky

We snuck into Books and Brews!! With many thanks to our pals at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social , we'll be serving up great reads to go with your beer and bringing a bit of the Prairies to the big city.

Left Field brewery, Leslieville, Toronto on Saturday 27th.

See ya there!

Another successful book launch! Congratulations Drs. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson and Teela Robertson, and thanks to UofR for hosting us!

The Good Life by Glen Harper

Happy Labour Day!
It's the perfect day to announce the publication of our latest novel, 'The Good Life, a story of workers and managers' by Glen Harper. The novel explores how workers' efforts to unionize affects the whole company. Thought provoking, authentic and
out now! 📚💙
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Watercolour sketch of my planned Bookmobile on the front of my bakfiets bike

My sketch of a bakfiets bike with a book box on the front, and the Pete's Press logo on the side.

This is what I'm aiming for:

A giant sheet of thick grey vinyl with the plans for my book box marked out in gold and red chalk because I couldn't find any white.

It begins.
Marked out the sections of the box for the front of the #bookmobile. I am nervous to cut them because I am terrible at straight lines and accurate measuring.
#booksky #bikesky

AI. Why is one of them growing out of the cat bed?

Hate the general situation, but "flagshaggers" is an epic description.