Asterism Books
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Trade distributor and online bookstore for independent presses of a literary bent. We do things a little differently.
Seattle, WA
Joined February 2023
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Gutted to hear that a lot of presses have been left in the lurch today. Publishers can apply to join Asterism (and read more about our terms) here:
We'll do our best to expedite things if we think you're a fit!
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We'll be announcing some open meetings for small presses next week who want to join and ask questions. In the meantime the skinny:
- We handle bookstore, library, and direct-to-consumer sales (including international!)
- We take 24% of the sale price
- No fees
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Going through the Burning Deck catalog. Burning Deck was founded in 1961 by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, who ran it until 2017. This marvelous catalog will be online soon!
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We're excited to throw open the doors on Asterism (v2)! We aim to be both an online storefront and distribution hub for small presses of a literary bent. For launch, we have titles by
@KERNPUNKTPress
@1111Press
@FumdEstampa
@SpurlEditions
@WhiskeyTitBooks
@_contramundum_
...
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Just look at this (growing, by the hour) roster of small presses!
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Our first print catalog starts mailing today! Booksellers and librarians, do drop us a line if you’d like one!
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Speaking of big new arrivals, none are bigger (physically, anyway), than our new bookshelves! We'll be filling them in short order, so stay tuned!
Booksellers, starting next month (and maybe sooner if you ask nicely), you are welcome to come by and browse the stacks!
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Our intern has been hand drawing these little signs for the bookshelves… you guys…
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Like we said, immediate payouts.
Generally hate emails but these ones are always nice
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The real deal.
We always have and always will cover small press books. We never have and never will bend our editorial calendar to release cycles. We have never been able to afford timeliness but we can always afford to take our time. Books don’t disappear. We are always open for pitches.
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A nice write-up from Publishers Weekly (
@PublishersWkly
) about what we're hoping to accomplish with this latest version of Asterism.
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By the way, we’re planning on having an open house weekend at the warehouse sometime this summer! This will be for both booksellers (who can always stop by) and the reading public! Details to follow.
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- We pay presses IMMEDIATELY upon an order being paid
- Our books are housed in our Seattle warehouse; we have lots of space!
- We print catalogs!
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Friends! We’re throwing open the doors of Asterism HQ next month!
Publishers, librarians, and booksellers are invited to an extended happy hour on Friday, July 26! And both weekend days, from 10am-6pm, we’ll be open to the general public for a book sale! Mark your calendars!
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We’re excited that so many new presses have discovered us this past week. Please be patient as we sift through applications; we are, of course, prioritizing ex-SPD presses at the moment, as time is of the essence.
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Update!
Okay, today we were going to catch up on inventory today, but now we’re on a mission to help this injured juvenile crow! Follow along!
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Announcing lowered international rates for readers to more than 50 countries! We've partnered with Asendia to be able to offer much lower rates on small packages (less than 2kg), so those pesky international rates don't break the bank. Enjoy!
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Okay, today we were going to catch up on inventory today, but now we’re on a mission to help this injured juvenile crow! Follow along!
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And not that any distributor is without its flaws, but it is a huge bummer to lose another small press distributor! We need more, not less.
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Good (and big!) news, friends.
@BOMBmagazine
is now available through Asterism, starting with the Summer 2024 issue, which is out this Friday!
Snag your copy here:
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Guys… Paul Yamazaki is here, we just got in books from Keith Waldrop and Etel Adnan, there are translators and poets floating around, and now there’s a puppy here… excuse us while we collect ourselves.
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Out today! LITERATURE & POLITICS: SELECTED WRITINGS by Robert Musil (tr.
@genese_grill
) is now available from Contra Mundum.
Buy:
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Please welcome Thirty West Publishing House (
@thirtywestph
) to the Asterism party!
Founded in 2015, they specialize in hand-made, limited-edition chapbooks.
Browse their catalogue here:
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We are beyond thrilled to be representing Ugly Duckling Presse for distribution in the US. One of the richest catalogs in the game. Frontlist titles are in stock now, with many more titles to be added in the next few days:
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Not to be lost in the excitement of the last couple of weeks, new Gordon Lish coming later this month from Bard Books!
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Happy independent bookstore day!
We stopped by Arundel Books earlier today to help sell some featured books from our publishers.
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Here's what's selling on the site lately. A lot of love for Vi Khi Nao (
@vikhinao
), and rightfully so!
SUICIDE:
FUNERAL:
PARASITES:
WHORE:
HUNCHBACK:
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We're excited to announce that Calamari Archive, Ink. has joined Asterism! You can now explore their amazing backlist here:
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Translated from the German, via Contra Mundum, Sublunary, and Spurl:
Thomas Bernhard, THE CHEAP EATERS:
ANECDOTES, Heinrich von Kleist:
LETTERS, Otto Dix:
UNIONS, Robert Musil:
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If anyone wants to ditch Submittable, check out for a free beta of a submission platform that we'll soon be incorporating into Asterism! (No limits on users, projects, etc.)
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We're excited to announce that Belle Point Press (
@BellePointPress
) have partnered with Asterism! You can browse their catalog, which celebrates the literary culture of the American Mid-South, right here:
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We'll tell you more tomorrow, but for the intrepid, the doors are now open:
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Friends, please welcome Rose Books (
@RoseBooks_
), a new publisher founded by the writer
@ChelseaHodson
, to Asterism!
Their first publication, Geoff Rickly's debut novel SOMEONE WHO ISN'T ME, is now for sale here, and will ship by August 16:
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🎉🎉🎉
BREAKING NEWS! Our books are now available through
@asterism_books
and we're so happy about it. Urge your local bookstores to support Asterism if they don't already. A huge boost for us and the small press community at large.
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An absolute embarrassment of riches arrived at Asterism HQ today from
@LitmusPress
@wonder_press
@futurepoem
, Kelsey Street Press, and more!
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Psst. We've got it on good authority that A. V. Marraccini's WE THE PARASITES from
@sublunaryeds
is going to a third printing, and, furthermore, that we have the last copies remaining of run two:
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Packing up an order for a bookstore with obviously impeccable taste (Seattle’s own
@openpoetrybooks
)!
With
@incastellated
,
@uglyducklingprs
,
@BrickBooks
, Calamari Archive,
@saggingmeniscus
,
@sublunaryeds
, and more!
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We won’t have a booth at AWP this year, but we will be there! 😎
(Stop by the Sublunary booth at
#1409
to say hi to Josh and Laura!)
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Out today from
@1111Press
, Vi Khi Nao's 'Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche'.
"The laying out of a life along the razor’s edge of its own annihilation. An investigation of the conditions of its possibility." — Far Wall
Order it here:
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Out today from
@sublunaryeds
, a collection of dreamlike essays on poetry by the Romanian avant-garde writer Ilarie Voronca, translated by Christina Tudor-Sideri (
@dreamsofbeing_
)
Snag a copy of THE CENTAUR TREE here:
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A few of the titles people were picking up last week!
Hunchback '88 by Christopher Norris
@incastellated
Final Judgements by Joan Fuster (tr. Marry Ann Newman)
@FumdEstampa
Funeral by Vi Khi Nao & Daisuke Shen
@KERNPUNKTPress
We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini
@sublunaryeds
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It’s true, folks!
Our books are now distributed by
@asterism_books
in the US! We’re very happy to join Asterism’s brilliant and growing list of independent publishers.
US Bookstores and booksellers can now order Prototype titles here:
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Oh, just wheeling the Casket Flares to the shipping department, as one does.
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We are happy to share that we are now distributed by the TERRIFIC
@asterism_books
! They have a far superior model than our last distributor, which folded and took 3 quarters (!) of our sales with them.
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Just in, along with many other goodies, from
@BrickBooks
: SHORT TALKS by Anne Carson, a stunning reissue of Carson’s first book of poetry.
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Heads up! We just made some improvements to our website to make browsing our titles a richer experience. Enjoy the new look, and let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
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New titles out now from
@WhiskeyTitBooks
,
@_contramundum_
, and
@sublunaryeds
/
@EmpyreanSeries
!
THE ASTRONOMER
Brian Biswas
INTERGLACIAL NARROWS
Pierre Joris (
@pjoris
)
FOUR SERMONS
Jeremy Taylor
TENTACULAR CITIES
Émile Verhaeren, tr. Jacob Siefring (
@jsief
)
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A few choice titles from around the office for
#WITMonth
, courtesy of
@uglyducklingprs
,
@BooksVeliz
,
@sublunaryeds
, and
@FumdEstampa
!
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Please welcome Split/Lip Press to the party! Their books will be coming online over the next couple of days, and you can check out what they've got here:
A big announcement for us: we're SO THRILLED to be offering our books for distribution through
@asterism_books
! Booksellers, bookstores + libraries: load up your carts with books from us and so many other amazing small presses! 40% wholesale at last, baby!
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Oh, just staring at all these new releases from Burnside Review Press,
@writebloody
,
@PressPeninsula
,
@1111Press
,
@GreenLinden1
,
@changes_press
, and Black Square Editions....
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And just like that, ordering is now open, books are being sold, etc, etc! (Thanks for all the early interest!)
We'll tell you more tomorrow, but for the intrepid, the doors are now open:
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Just a handful of the newly arrived books at the warehouse in the last few weeks, via
@partisanhotel
,
@InsertPress
,
@WeirdpunkBooks
, and
@SnugglyBooks
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Friends, welcome Hanuman Editions (
@hanumaneds
) to the fold.
Books and box sets galore:
Here it is folks, our first series of Hanuman Editions.
Ahead of our second series with new contributors in Spring ‘24, we are reissuing six titles as a tribute to Hanuman Books, featuring John Ashbery, Dodie Bellamy, Eileen Myles, Max Beckmann, Cookie Mueller, and René Daumal
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Out today, GLORIA PATRI, a novel from Austin Ross (
@MalarkeyBooks
).
"With a dark intensity reminiscent of writers as varied as Tim O’Brien, Jesmyn Ward, and even Faulkner, Austin Ross has brought off a family drama full of arson, intrigue, and mystery." —Daniel Torday
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Pessoa-heads, rejoice! We've now got five titles by that most enigmatic of authors, all in stock, courtesy
@_contramundum_
and
@sublunaryeds
Check 'em out:
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Out today from
@incastellated
! THE NEW QUARANTINE is, as
@JohannesGoranss
calls it, "translation as horror movie".
It's enormous and beautiful and grotesque and you can purchase it here:
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Today's the publication day for Grant Maiherhofer's EBB from
@KERNPUNKTPress
, a novel about being adrift in a familiar place, written, a la Perec, without use of the letter 'a'.
Pick up a copy here:
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We’re a great option if you can’t! We pay presses quickly and fairly. But direct sales are huge for small presses.
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A while lot of Inside the Castle in stock!
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And coming soon:
The Formation of Calcium by M. S. Coe (3/29)
@SpurlEditions
Literature & Politics: Selected Writings by Robert Musil (3/31)
@_contramundum_
Ebb by Grant Maierhofer (4/1)
@KERNPUNKTPress
Genesis (self-authored) (4/1) from Calamari Archive
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In this (ware)house we love bilingual chapbooks of experimental translated literature. Just look at these beauties from
@CardboardHouseP
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All, please welcome Quebec's Metatron Press (
@metatronpress
) to the Asterism family!
Browse their (beautiful) titles here:
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And also anew at Asterism, Autofocus Books (
@autofocuslit
) joins us from Orlando, Florida with a focus on artful autobiographical writing.
Give them a browse here:
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And just like that, Malarkey Books (
@MalarkeyBooks
) have joined the party! You'll see their titles come online over the next few days:
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Books shipping in the next two weeks!
CASKET FLARE by Logan Berry via
@incastellated
CHAOTIC GOOD by Lee Klein via
@saggingmeniscus
MAYBE THIS IS WHAT I DESERVE by Tucker Leighty-Phillips via
@splitlippress
THE STORY OF THE PAPER CROWN by Józef Czechowicz via
@sublunaryeds
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What they said!
our
@asterism_books
order just showed up, yall better come buy these strange little books while we’ve got them
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Some other recent releases from our presses, via
@saggingmeniscus
,
@sublunaryeds
,
@KERNPUNKTPress
and
@MalarkeyBooks
All new/recent releases:
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Just a little look at what's coming up from our presses this fall!
Browse our upcoming titles here:
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Out today from
@MalarkeyBooks
, a book intent on disproving its own title, Leigh Chadwick's (
@LeighChadwick5
) SOPHOMORE SLUM!
Order:
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Recently arrived, two titles from
@bhousepress
’s Recovered Books series.
When it came out in the ’60s, The Scotsman called Jane White’s QUARRY “The most frightening novel of the year.”
Both titles available here:
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Every year,
@incastellated
hosts a "remote residency" called Castle Freak, in which a writer is challenged to produce a 100k-word book over the course of 5 days, using whatever generative means are at their disposal. Three of the four are currently available via Asterism!
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Booksellers, come on by!
A joy to visit the
@asterism_books
warehouses today with the Third Place crew and walk away with several boxes of books. A huge thanks to
@joshuarothes
for narrating as we browsed and being an excellent host despite the mounds of work on his plate.
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Out this week, from
@RoseBooks_
,
@worldpoetrybook
, and
@saggingmeniscus
!
Browse all upcoming titles here:
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A few legends hanging out at Asterism HQ, courtesy of
@knifeforkbook
,
@LithicPress
, and selva obscura.
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This iteration of Asterism has grown out of two years of planning and learning; the website was built by Josh Rothes from
@sublunaryeds
, and the operation is run in partnership with Chatwin Books. We've got an advisory board made of up small presses, and soon one of booksellers!
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An event.
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A few more gems for
#TheSealeyChallenge
today, with titles from
@uglyducklingprs
,
@metatronpress
, and
@BrickBooks
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We launched a new feature this morning (a great idea from a customer!), a wishlist option for keeping track of books you've got an eye on.
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Thrilled to have Peninsula on Team Asterism!
🎙️ US-based readers and booksellers 🎙️
We are delighted to announce that Peninsula books are finally available to order in the United States via
@asterism_books
💫💫💫
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