Teresa Tumminello Brader

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Home Belle Point Press is a regional small press celebrating the literary culture and community of the American Mid-South.

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Copy of my book from BELLE POINT PRESS with two empty blue nail polish bottles above it. They're from FAMILIAR POLISH. Yay for indies!

Apologies to my first book, LETTING IN AIR AND LIGHT, for forgetting its 2nd birthday -- two days ago.
(In my defense, I have a lot going on.)

Last night in a dream I explained to someone about the nail polish my daughter's friend custom-made for my book's birth, this prompting my memory...

From 1867 to 1974, various cities across America enacted ordinances that outlawed the public appearance of people who were unsightly, diseased, mutilated, or deformed. Coined Ugly Laws...

From Firstborn Girls by Bernice L. McFadden

The 2025 Book Fest is Saturday, November 2. 10 a.m. I moderate Memoirs at the Crossroads of Violence and Voice with Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, Bernice L. McFadden and Lauren Rhoades. 2:15 I'm on a panel called Short Stories of the Modern Soul with Daren Dean and Jennifer Anne Moses. A.E. Rooks moderating

The schedule for the Louisiana Book Fest is up! louisianabookfestival.org/featured-aut... I'm excited to be on a short story panel for SECRET KEEPERS, but even more excited to be moderating a panel on memoir -- look at these amazing books and their writers! ⬇️👀

A Iicture taken from the centre of the panopticon. About five floors of books surround you on all sides. You are encased in glass. A display of rare books are open for you to view at your level. Above a long light, looking like a huge insect strip hangs above the centre of the room.

A first edition of Finnegan’s Wake. It has been annotated. It was once owned by Marshall McLuhan.

A cut-up and knitted edition of Finnegan’s Wake.The book lies open. Its red cover frames the black and white pages of the book.

Descriptions of both items: #43 James Joyce’s 1939 first edition #44Ximena Perez Grobet’s 2013 “Reading Finnegan’s Wake”

PD day at the Fisher Rare Books Library
They always have an interesting display of some of their books for the public.

Here we have Finnegan’s Wake and a description of why this copy is considered “rare”; It is accompanied by an artist’s interpretation of the same text.

#Books

Amazing!

Or we could just cross our fingers🤞

I just finished Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
Spectacular ending!

like there's discussion to be had about adults reading YA, who the age level is marketed to, and about adult publishing leaning into more commercial genre fiction, but just being like "everything that is shallow or commercial we are going to call YA" is ill-informed and lazy

I haven't either

Most recently... @dryan.bsky.social accepted a story of mine because of social media. bsky.app/profile/drya...

Advent calendar from Adagio Teas features a Nutcracker whose tall black hat reads 24 Days of Tea. He holds a black teacup in his hands in front of his red uniform.

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social

I just checked my email and mine has arrived too! Picture later 🫖

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does anyone know a song about noodles

Alison Lubar (left) displaying peace signs while sitting in front of the Thirty West booth at Collingswood Book Festival

Alison Lubar signing copies of their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love

The Tower of Chapbooks with an autumn leaf collar standing at the Thirty West booth

Josh Dale standing and smiling behind the Thirty West booth with many books on display

Y’all come through next month at the NOLA Words and Music Festival, and watch me, Bryan Camp, Desiree S. Evans, and Marguerite Sheffer discuss magical realism and speculative fiction!

The panel will take place on 11/21/25 @ 2 PM!

We hope to see you there :)

Ba dum dum

I think they'll love it -- I love it!

I liked David's the time I had it, esp. having enough tea for a potful every day. I can't remember if I've had the Adagio's before, but I will now 😃

And it's loose tea! I may go with that one. Thanks for doing my research, Barbara! 😃🩷

Thank you to the most thoughtful and kindest of chefs, @dryan.bsky.social , for choosing and editing my "Kitchen at the Top of the Stairs," a savory on @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 's Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025.

I hope you find it tasty!

Me too 😀

Yum! 😋

Don't I wish!

Thank you to the most thoughtful and kindest of chefs, @dryan.bsky.social , for choosing and editing my "Kitchen at the Top of the Stairs," a savory on @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 's Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025.

I hope you find it tasty!

Fall Menu 2025 — Malarkey

It’s not a true kitchen without a few unexpected hiccups but @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025 is finally live, featuring tasty treats by @ttbrader.bsky.social, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, and William Weissinger!

High Heat - Teresa Tumminello Brader — Bulb Culture Collective Evilly, the sun found any spot sunscreen missed. 

Another way to read the BLAZING hot stories at @bulbculture.bsky.social

Again many thanks to them for giving my "High Heat" a new home. www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/high-he...

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