Anne Trubek
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Why Is My Family All Nuts When I Am Kinda Awesome
On the other hand I think it would be very funny to retitle literary fiction light novel style. “Oh No! This Author Stand-In is Unhappily Married”
This attitude is how you end up with light novel titles.
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Why Is My Family All Nuts When I Am Kinda Awesome
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Hot Young Women Want to Sleep With This Middle Aged English Professor!
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Hot Young Women Want to Sleep With This Middle Aged English Professor!
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On the other hand I think it would be very funny to retitle literary fiction light novel style. “Oh No! This Author Stand-In is Unhappily Married”
This attitude is how you end up with light novel titles.
November 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
On the other hand I think it would be very funny to retitle literary fiction light novel style. “Oh No! This Author Stand-In is Unhappily Married”
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My little book The Bees (a new translation of Book IV of Vergil’s Georgics) is still generating buzz.
A few copies left with the publisher at the link below, and I have a few myself. Query me if interested.
www.vergebooks.com#/joel-calaha...
A few copies left with the publisher at the link below, and I have a few myself. Query me if interested.
www.vergebooks.com#/joel-calaha...
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My little book The Bees (a new translation of Book IV of Vergil’s Georgics) is still generating buzz.
A few copies left with the publisher at the link below, and I have a few myself. Query me if interested.
www.vergebooks.com#/joel-calaha...
A few copies left with the publisher at the link below, and I have a few myself. Query me if interested.
www.vergebooks.com#/joel-calaha...
wait what are the allegations in Lizza’s latest?
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
wait what are the allegations in Lizza’s latest?
which long ass novel for my upcoming long ass flight?
-Parades End
-Wayfinder, Johnson
-Parades End
-Wayfinder, Johnson
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
which long ass novel for my upcoming long ass flight?
-Parades End
-Wayfinder, Johnson
-Parades End
-Wayfinder, Johnson
50% off sale at @beltpublishing.bsky.social! Start here and ignore the banner: for Belt books, you'll get 50% if you order 5 or more
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
50% off sale at @beltpublishing.bsky.social! Start here and ignore the banner: for Belt books, you'll get 50% if you order 5 or more
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And the one, the only.... Cleveland!
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
And the one, the only.... Cleveland!
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I'm seriously loving this book. I live smack dab in the middle of the Great Black Swamp and it's great to read about something we don't talk enough about.
It honestly reads more like a memoir than anything else.
#BookSky
It honestly reads more like a memoir than anything else.
#BookSky
Happy pub day to Patrick Wensink‘s hilarious GREAT BLACK SWAMP!
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm seriously loving this book. I live smack dab in the middle of the Great Black Swamp and it's great to read about something we don't talk enough about.
It honestly reads more like a memoir than anything else.
#BookSky
It honestly reads more like a memoir than anything else.
#BookSky
All these years later I still don’t understand when someone posts something like “my father died” or “I just got laid off” the response of many is to “like” the statement.
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
All these years later I still don’t understand when someone posts something like “my father died” or “I just got laid off” the response of many is to “like” the statement.
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And Rav Charlie said this fun run is foreign worship and a danger. But the official from the health authority ran anyways, having eaten only a little food. And he came to a bridge that had iced over and he tripped and he died.
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And Rav Charlie said this fun run is foreign worship and a danger. But the official from the health authority ran anyways, having eaten only a little food. And he came to a bridge that had iced over and he tripped and he died.
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What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.
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A second set of names (e.g., Kimber, Remington, Archer, Barrett, and Colt) feel connected to rural/frontier symbolism, cowboy aesthetics, and hunting culture (“frontier chic” as I'm calling it). inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
Weapon Baby Names, Political Polarization, and American Masculinities
A BuzzFeed article recently came out claiming that “weapon baby names” are trending. The piece frames the pattern as quirky and slightly absurd—kids named Cannon, Gatlin, Arrow, Gunner, or Trigger,…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A second set of names (e.g., Kimber, Remington, Archer, Barrett, and Colt) feel connected to rural/frontier symbolism, cowboy aesthetics, and hunting culture (“frontier chic” as I'm calling it). inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w...
oh now we are talking about writing salaries? My contribution: No one* has ever made money from it. Don't romanticize the past. There are zillions of examples of destitution in the archives of your faves!
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
oh now we are talking about writing salaries? My contribution: No one* has ever made money from it. Don't romanticize the past. There are zillions of examples of destitution in the archives of your faves!
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
*except a couple, here and there, randomly
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Who's from Buffalo? Raise your hand.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Who's from Buffalo? Raise your hand.
I’m going to piggy back on this to let you know that I will be hanging around AHA if any of you toy with the idea of a trade book from @beltpublishing.bsky.social. We could huddle in a hallway!
Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’m going to piggy back on this to let you know that I will be hanging around AHA if any of you toy with the idea of a trade book from @beltpublishing.bsky.social. We could huddle in a hallway!
It’s clearly evident the main use of AI will be to alter the web, hurting anyone who relies on google traffic. We will forget, in a year or two, how it used to be. New forms of searching and discovering will arise and we will use those.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It’s clearly evident the main use of AI will be to alter the web, hurting anyone who relies on google traffic. We will forget, in a year or two, how it used to be. New forms of searching and discovering will arise and we will use those.
50% anything @beltpublishing.bsky.social has ever published? Think of how many gifts you could strike off your list ✅
Where were we? Oh, sales! Snap up any five Belt books for 50% off! www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
Belt Publishing
Founded in 2013, Belt promotes voices from the Rust Belt, smart narrative and serious nonfiction on any topic, as well as commercial fiction with a regional foothold.
www.arcadiapublishing.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
50% anything @beltpublishing.bsky.social has ever published? Think of how many gifts you could strike off your list ✅
Find out what @beltpublishing.bsky.social is bringing you next year---
The 2026 Belt Pubishing Catalog
My Book Proposal Course Starts January 5: Six of the 12 spots have been claimed; want one of the remaining ones? Some news from former-participants: a NYT bestseller, a contract with Princeton, gettin...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Find out what @beltpublishing.bsky.social is bringing you next year---
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Columbus in 50 Maps *also* comes out next week! beltpublishing.com/products/col...
Columbus in 50 Maps
Edited by Brent Warren with cartography by Vicky Johnson-DahlDecember 2, 2025 This full-color book of maps, one of Belt Publishing's 50 Maps Series, presents the capital and biggest city in Ohio like ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Columbus in 50 Maps *also* comes out next week! beltpublishing.com/products/col...
You can watch old Stephen Fry seasons of Q1 on Tubi if you want to know how my November nights are going
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You can watch old Stephen Fry seasons of Q1 on Tubi if you want to know how my November nights are going
I did not end up liking Electric Spark. Just thought I should update you all (esp @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I did not end up liking Electric Spark. Just thought I should update you all (esp @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social)
the internet did not invent the genre of quick, angry posting
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the internet did not invent the genre of quick, angry posting
forthcoming as a 2026 Belt Revival *plus* the first edition earns a coveted Cover of the Day 🏆 slot
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
forthcoming as a 2026 Belt Revival *plus* the first edition earns a coveted Cover of the Day 🏆 slot
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Cincy in 50 Maps is out next week! beltpublishing.com/products/cin...
Cincinnati in 50 Maps
Edited by Nick Swartsell with cartography by Andy Woodruff Publication date: December 2, 2025 There are as many versions of Greater Cincinnati as there are residents of the region. That’s roughly tw...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Cincy in 50 Maps is out next week! beltpublishing.com/products/cin...