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Small press publisher of award-winning science fiction and fantasy.

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Argyll Productions @argyllbooks.bsky.social · Apr 8
We use 100% organic authors and artists raised in a free-range, cruelty-free environment to create books.

#NoAI
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lupestripe.bsky.social
I’ve always enjoyed stories by @huskyteer.co.uk but there’s such a back catalogue - it’s fantastic that so many will now all be in one place

I’m very much looking forward to this collection being released
argyllbooks.bsky.social Argyll Productions @argyllbooks.bsky.social · 3d
Cover reveal!

Robot cats, four hundred drunk rabbits, a kitsune fighter pilot, and a gerbil who thinks she’s James Bond.

A collection of speculative fiction stories, featuring creatures, from Ursa Major and Cóyotl Award winner @huskyteer.co.uk

Cover art and design by @czgoldedition.bsky.social
A blue-furred anthropomorphic cat with glowing green eyes and a cybernetic right arm stands in a portal with a blue background, the portal is surrounded by a circuit board design in shades of green. The title text reads "The Analog Cat and other animals" with the author name near the bottom reading "Alice Dryden."
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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czgoldedition.bsky.social
Cover illustration contracted by @argyllbooks.bsky.social for @huskyteer.co.uk's upcoming anthology, The Analog Cat 👨‍💻🐈

This was an absolute joy to create, thank you again for the very on-brand commission!! I love robots/cyborgs of all stripes, and an excuse to perpetrate some skeuomorphic design. 💙
Book cover spread featuring the back, spine, and front designed to look like a printed circuit board (PCB). The back has a large rectangular component for the book's description, and the front has a "cut in" banner component where a scrungled anthropomorphic cat with blue fur and darker blue stripes is standing. They have a robotic arm prosthetic illustrated in an almost "airbrushed" style, tatter ears and fur, and glowing green lenses that replace their eyes. Their tail is curling over the border of the banner and popping back up behind it again, giving it the look of a window cut into the cover. Circuit traces line the cover front to back, framing the various elements. Text on the front and spine read: "The Analog Cat and other animals", "Alice Dryden", and the back has the Argyll Productions logo present as well as a placeholder space for an ISBN.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
Cover reveal!

Robot cats, four hundred drunk rabbits, a kitsune fighter pilot, and a gerbil who thinks she’s James Bond.

A collection of speculative fiction stories, featuring creatures, from Ursa Major and Cóyotl Award winner @huskyteer.co.uk

Cover art and design by @czgoldedition.bsky.social
A blue-furred anthropomorphic cat with glowing green eyes and a cybernetic right arm stands in a portal with a blue background, the portal is surrounded by a circuit board design in shades of green. The title text reads "The Analog Cat and other animals" with the author name near the bottom reading "Alice Dryden."
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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saintajax33.bsky.social
and if you want a copy, you can buy it here:

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The Twisted Ones
Winner of the RUSA Award for Best Horror When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the…
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October 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Is this my beautiful house? Is this my beautiful life?
stephenking.bsky.social Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 26d
Two books for spooky season:
COFFIN MOON, Keith Rosson: Best modern vampire story ever (although it's set in the 70s).
THE TWISTED ONES, by T. Kingfisher: It lures you in with chatty good humor (especially about NPR Pledge Week) and a lovely dog...then slams the door and bites you in the dark.
October 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
Follow up piece on the NEA grant debacle and the small press response.
On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos
On Friday, May 2nd, 2025, DOGE and the National Endowment for the Arts terminated $300,000 worth of grants for 51 publishers. The email, a copy and paste job, trickled into inboxes at odd hours. 5:…
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August 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
@printrunpodcast.bsky.social the saga continues
laurafjones.bsky.social Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social · Aug 1
Unsurprising but still hugely disappointing on so many fronts.

"The Bookseller understands that both Boundless and Neem Tree Press will be closing down entirely, with no rescue. It is unknown whether Boundless authors have been informed of the administration."

www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...
Unbound successor Boundless 'goes into administration' after months of financial uncertainty
Boundless – the publishing company formed after its predecessor Unbound went into administration in March this year – along with its imprint Neem Tree Press have entered administration and ceased trad...
www.thebookseller.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
I took advantage of @bookshop.org’s anti-Prime sale. I ordered @tkingfisher.com’s pre-order books and some other books I’d been meaning to pick up. Quite a boon that even pre-order books got free shipping.
Two books I received in the mail. Infinite archive by @mightymur.bsky.social and The City in the Middle of the Night by @charliejane.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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foresteruniverse.com
Busy prepping promo postcards for our next con, @baycon.org! Excited to see how a non-furry crowd connects with @kyellgold.com's Wolftown series. Think 'The Maltese Falcon' meets 'Hellboy'. 🕵️‍♂️🐺🔥

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#FurryLit #Baycon25
A dramatic urban scene showing a werewolf in torn shorts confronting a tense-looking man and woman in a desolate street. Tall buildings surround them, with graffiti, a streetlight, and a sidewalk billboard bearing a poster of the werewolf. Review quotes praise the series as “a remarkable urban fantasy debut” and “the werewolf-teenage ghost-activism novel you didn’t know you needed.” Cover art is credited to Ilya Royz and cover design to Christine Foltzer. A promotional postcard for the Wolftown Series by Tim Susman, featuring the book covers of Unfinished Business and Dead Right. The tagline reads “Queer Urban Fantasy,” with the subhead Action, heart, and just the right amount of bite. A synopsis describes paranormal PI Jae Kim’s adventures in walled-off cities where supernatural “extras” live segregated from humans. The Forester Universe logo, a QR code, and book titles are included.
June 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
Laura is one of our artists we've published and worked with.

You can check out her books here: argyllproductions.com/product-cat/...
wintersrune.com Rune Winters - Formerly Laura Garabedian @wintersrune.com · Jun 10
It's up! Visit ValkarieFineArt.com in Lakewood Colorado for a fantastic lineup of artists in Arcana: Painting the Fates! Opening reception Saturday from 5-8:30! The title wall features art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social @naomivandoren.bsky.social @palaeosinensis.com & @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social
Photo of a gallery wall with Arcana: Painting the Fates above five paintings, from left to right a watercolor painting of 'the Star' by Naomi Van Doren, a knight by Matthew Spencer, a tiger representing the Hermit by Jaime Thompson, the Magician by Sean Andrew Murray, and a Celtic knight by Jody Lee
June 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Today's the day!!!
wintersrune.com Rune Winters - Formerly Laura Garabedian @wintersrune.com · Jun 10
It's up! Visit ValkarieFineArt.com in Lakewood Colorado for a fantastic lineup of artists in Arcana: Painting the Fates! Opening reception Saturday from 5-8:30! The title wall features art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social @naomivandoren.bsky.social @palaeosinensis.com & @seanandrewmurray.bsky.social
Photo of a gallery wall with Arcana: Painting the Fates above five paintings, from left to right a watercolor painting of 'the Star' by Naomi Van Doren, a knight by Matthew Spencer, a tiger representing the Hermit by Jaime Thompson, the Magician by Sean Andrew Murray, and a Celtic knight by Jody Lee
June 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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alasdairstuart.bsky.social
Unbound authors who are selling your personal stock, please leave your details here. We've got a slot in The Full Lid I'd like to run your links in.
June 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
Paladin’s Grace by @tkingfisher.com made Boston.com’s list of 20 best beach reads for summer 2025!www.boston.com/culture/book...5/
20 best beach reads for summer 2025
New England booksellers recommended these 20 must-read summer books with a beach—so you'll know what to read and where to enjoy it.
www.boston.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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kinofist.bsky.social
Since this thread found its way to my timeline (and therefore might be going more public than initially imagined), I hope I can point out that the wonderful Missouri-based “Unbound Book Festival” has zero connection to these folks.
June 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
UNBOUND AUTHORS: I’m speaking to a solicitor about our fine mess. If you have ANY correspondence with the company (beyond the “Dear Author” letters we all got) in 2024 about nonpayment or about the company’s financial stability, could I see it? I’m opening my DMs for this (don’t make me regret that)
June 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
I want to make sure nobody overlooks this last, and most gutting, part of the Boundless/Unbound saga:
alexdecampi.bsky.social Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · May 30
AHAHAHA THEY ARE PIVOTING TO AI look what I found in Sharma’s letter buried on page 47 of the liquidators proposal (sorry for no alt text, can’t do it on phone). Full proposal is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ozaa3...
May 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
@tkingfisher.com I found this anthology on Kickstarter and it seems right up your alley: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
THE DEER IS MESSED UP
An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
www.kickstarter.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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GORGEOUS TREASURE ARRIVES = wo0t @argyllbooks.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com
Arrival of 4 books on table: A WIZARDS GUIDE TO DEFENSIVE BAKING (with angry dagger wielding gingerbread man on cover) ILLUMINATIONS, THE RAVEN AND THE REINDEER and JACKALOPE WIVES by T.Kingfisher Simply gorgeous hardcover edition of SWORDHEART with swoony tapestry-esque cover of green leaves, glowing bue sword, a duo of sparrows and red roofed towers AND turquoise blue edged paper
May 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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rcarterhall.bsky.social
Guess what, Bluesky? I just became a full-time writer!*

*(because I just got laid off from my day job)

We're okay financially for the short term, though this is probably an appropriate time to mention again that I do have this Patreon...

www.patreon.com/reneecarterh...
May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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argyllbooks.bsky.social
We now have the special editions of Swordheart by @tkingfisher.com in stock along with all of Kingfisher's other books which take place in the World of the White Rat!

argyllproductions.com/product/swor...
Swordheart
DELUXE EDITION―a beautiful hardcover edition featuring turquoise sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers. The delightful charm of The Princess Bride meets the delicious body…
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May 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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May 6th Statement From Chair and Program Division Head: As promised last Friday, I am publishing this statement, in conjunction with a statement below from our Program Division Head, to provide a transparent explanation of our panelist selection process, a… seattlein2025.org?p=3918
May 6th Statement From Chair and Program Division Head
As promised last Friday, I am publishing this statement, in conjunction with a statement below from our Program Division Head, to provide a transparent explanation of our panelist selection process, answer...
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May 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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dallasnews.com
Dallas’ iconic independent nonprofit publishing company and bookstore Deep Vellum has lost $20,000 in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dallas publisher Deep Vellum loses $20,000 grant from National Endowment for the Arts
The funding, originally intended to support Deep Vellum's publication of international authors, was abruptly terminated as the NEA shifts focus under new...
www.dallasnews.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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wordette1.bsky.social
Another dictator move in silencing free speech, the arts, and global interaction. Under the Trump agenda the NEA cancelled an approved grant for Deep Vellum, an outstanding literary nonprofit known for translating books into English. NEA is also laying off staff.
www.deepvellum.org/news/nea-ter...
The NEA defunded us. Now what? — Deep Vellum
On Friday, May 2, Deep Vellum was one of hundreds of nonprofit arts organizations who received notice that our National Endowment for the Arts grant had been terminated by the Trump administration. ...
www.deepvellum.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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sevenseasentertainment.com
Seven Seas is hiring! We're currently looking for an EDITOR to join our team.

Info at the link:
sevenseasentertainment.com/about/jobs/
May 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
argyllbooks.bsky.social
We now have the special editions of Swordheart by @tkingfisher.com in stock along with all of Kingfisher's other books which take place in the World of the White Rat!

argyllproductions.com/product/swor...
Swordheart
DELUXE EDITION―a beautiful hardcover edition featuring turquoise sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers. The delightful charm of The Princess Bride meets the delicious body…
argyllproductions.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM