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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 17h

It’s definitely more like fancy plastic and value sticks & mud

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 1d

Difference between being too busy and silently distancing

Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 2d

Hell yeah. Chapbooks being hoarded are typically only read twice. I want to share these gems with many people

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 2d

Think for our 10th anniversary, any book order thru our website should include a rare chapbook from the EIC’s personal library. You down for that?

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 2d

Good day. Less than a month until this banger of a reading: Troublemaker Firestarter

Listen to some of the best poets and fiction writers around and yours truly the night before I fly off to a different country for vacation.

November 6th, 7PM eastern. Zoom link in my bio.

luma.com/z6tj5s4k

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 2d

Walkthrough of our largest Thirty West festival table yet. The Tower of chapbooks, prominent new titles, and shelves that split our poetry and fiction regiments. Seasonal decorations to garnish and voila! We escape the mundane and hope you will too.

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 2d

700 words written in the novel tonight

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 3d

I will not be in attendance but go see our table!

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 3d

#eastonbookfestival starts tomorrow! In one week, Thirty West makes our return to the Sigal Museum for the small press exhibit from 12-4PM. We will have a select number of books that are spooky & surreal and ready for your TBR list. See you soon!

The ad for the Easton book festival from October 13th-19th 2025

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 6d

It’s the first of its kind and we’re honored to be here. Going (nearly) back home to West Chester, PA in just over a week for the Fall Festival & Connect sponsored by Natural Lands. See Thirty West books in all our autumnal glory on Saturday 10/18 from 1-5.

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 6d

Yep

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 7d

In the span of a yawn, they pull in tens of thousands. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs like us will fawn over $100. Reject elite, embrace indie.

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 7d

Radical idea: don’t buy books on Amazon when they have deals. Buy from indie bookstores & presses instead!

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 8d

Facts. A lot of this is thankless, too, so insta-gratification fans beware

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 8d

Incomplete lists of indie publisher skills that are overlooked:

Accounting
Author relations
Bookstore relations
Binding (not everyone)
Copywriting
Event planning
Graphics creation
Inventory management
IT support
Reading (for business)
Reading (for pleasure)
Shipping
Travel

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 9d

Same Collingswood,
Different Thirty West

Two Thirty West tables. On the left is meager chapbooks and zines from 2018. On the right is a prominent display of many books.

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 10d

I have a lot of reading to do this fall

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 10d

Big W in Collingswood, NJ

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 10d

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

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 12d

In the apt gym when the landlord is showing prospective tenants around and I get it zoo animals I fuckign get it

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 12d

So hype for this

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 12d

Thirty West’s 2nd 10 Year Anniversary is going live at A Novel Idea on 11/22 from 5-7PM. We have local legends and TW favorites. It is BYOB, prizes, no cover, and local afterparty to follow the event. Celebrate indie press & small business for one memorable night.

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 12d

Idk how hot of a take this is nor do I care:

Backlist books are just as relevant and worthy of purchase as a brand new book

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 13d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 13d

For the “I don’t have plans 11/5 at 8PM” crowd:

Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 13d

Thirty West is so hype for our 10 Year Anniversary.

November 5th at 8PM EST, come in and join our 7 author reading. Readings, memories, & prizes to audience members. @chelseastickle.bsky.social @agvalentine.bsky.social @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social @seanennis.bsky.social @kristintenor.bsky.social

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 14d

We see Westies as our core readers: ambitious, kind, artsy, & know how to escape the mundane.

2025 has been tough.

Our 2025 catalog is nearly complete. If you sign up, you’ll literally get 4 books in one shipment at the end of October & 2 more in Feb.

www.thirtywestph.com/shop/p/twsub...

3 last cards depicting the Westies Book Club

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 14d

Wow a very nice 2nd #bestofthenet nomination through Nobody Thoughts magazine

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 15d

What a nice September for my writing, culminating into my first #bestofthenet nomination. Thank you
@hootreview.bsky.social and best of luck everyone!

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 15d

Before Best of the Net closes

Does anyone admit they have a nomination for me?

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 16d

Mostly sunny skies

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 16d

Thirty West has had many versions of our logos/colophons throughout the years. Here’s a nice 10 year roundup on how our logo(s) have evolved over the years. Maybe there will be more in the future. Which one do you like most?

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