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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 16h

Already digging up the goods. Likely 1/4 of the haul to come

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 16h

Already digging up the goods. Likely 1/4 of the haul to come

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 16h

That’s the spirit!

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 19h

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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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 20h

I mean…when you see all the NYT Bestsellers that can’t fit in a coat pocket…

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 20h

100 page novellas>500+ page novels

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Josh Dale @joshdale.co · 22h

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 · 23h

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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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 23h

An excerpt from “American Mary” by Alexandra Naughton

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 2d

#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 · 2d

The books arrived damaged

From Beyond Press @frombeyondpress.bsky.social · 2d

The speaker hasn't arrived.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 3d

The second sublime & spooky flash fiction by Sophie Kearing in the month of October. “Psychopomp” is live now on Afterimages 👻

open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

Psychopomp

An offering I must make. By Sophie Kearing

open.substack.com

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 3d

The second sublime & spooky flash fiction by Sophie Kearing in the month of October. “Psychopomp” is live now on Afterimages 👻

open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

Psychopomp

An offering I must make. By Sophie Kearing

open.substack.com

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 4d

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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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 4d

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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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 6d

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

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 6d

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Escape the Mundane. An independent book publisher from Pennsylvania, USA. Est. 2015. Hand-made chapbooks, novels, short story & poetry collections. Favored by debut & emerging authors. Subscribe to Af...

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 6d

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

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 6d

11 sign ups thus far. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 6d

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 · 6d

What non-print quality makes you want to publish with an indie company?

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 6d

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 · 7d

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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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 8d

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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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 8d

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