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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some of you submitting authors have really whackado imaginations. Good for you!

Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anybody have a spare $1000 in their couch cushions for two anthologies which have received great submissions but have only so much budget to go around? If so, please send the couch crevice money and a SASE to …

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Welcome new followers. Glad to have you in this corner of the book world.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A sunny day for the AaN mobile bookshop at the Swissvale Farm Market 9-12 at the CLASS building. Never too early to start holiday shopping for a book lover #pittsburgh #booksky #fsf #sff Also handmade earrings and original artwork at our annex table.

photo of many book stacks neatly arranged in the trunk of a car

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now with the right poster - Join me, @jessicapixie.bsky.social and @jamielackey.bsky.social on Nov. 7th (2-3:30p) at the Swissvale Library. We'll be reading poetry & there will be promised snacks, & books from all of us for sale. A portion of AaN sales will go to supporting my local library.

Lit Fest poster with photos of the 3 of us and the same info date/time contained in the post.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Signal boost for an innovative SF game that hopefully will reach the first stretch goal. I am the graphic designer on it. Illustration work by Adrien Rives.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reading submission stories tonight. One I just put in the Endings finalist pile. It bothered/triggered me for personal reasons but professionally it is very well written and goes to an unexpected place. Always the best part of this process is to find those unique gems.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Realized there is a typo on the poster the library provided. The correct day is SATURDAY Nov. 7. Will repost once they send a new one.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The current AaN OCs submission period is now ended. 573 total submissions: "Are You Everything Alright" (185), "Endings" (388). The reading/review period officially opens and I'll start notifying authors as soon as I can. Thanks to all those who submitted a story.

Final US and World map of submitting author cities. Plenty of blue and red pins spanning the globe. A little daunting actually.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A round of applause if you please, for Jessica, for now being a published children’s book author and illustrator. Preorder a copy for a kid in your life or if you are a kid at heart #booksky #poetry #books

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To anyone else submitting to the current OCs tonight before the 11:59EST deadline, I'll send receipts for your submissions in the morning.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So what does the organization structure look like for 510+ submissions for two parallel open calls when you are reading all stories by yourself and trying to keep things straight? Like this - (l-r) Stories yet to randomize, stories yet to be read, stories read, current finalist folder.

A set of 8 folders in two rows of 4 stuffed full of submissions.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Join me, @jessicapixie.bsky.social and @jamielackey.bsky.social on Nov. 7th (2-3:30p) at the Swissvale Library for a Lit Fest. We'll all be reading poetry and their will be promised snacks, and books from all of us for sale as well. A portion of AaN sales will go to supporting my local library.

Poster showing photos of the 3 of us, the date and time info and a paragraph asking people to join us to hear us read, Q/A and light snacks and book signings.

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Rodrigo Culagovski @culagovski.net · 30/09/2026

What if the first computer was a river-driven machine that wrote poems? In pre-Columbian South America, an exiled khipu master joins a plot to build it, while her guide wonders if the woman she loves is helping build a cage. Dual POV. #DVpit #A #HF #LF #LGBT #Latine

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With 15 hours to go on the current OC submission deadline, 506 combined submissions and new cities being pinned. Thank you as always to all who submit. I don't take the reading/review process lightly. Special points to all who are submitting somewhere for the very first time.

Current World and US map of submitting author cities with red and blue pins aplenty across our world.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On track to receive 600 combined submissions for the “Endings” (400+\-) and “Are You Everything Alright” (200+\-) by the cutoff tomorrow night - Sept 30 11:59pm EST.

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jessicapixiestudios @jessicapixie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was also really nice to collaborate with Opol, this amazing poetry publication. My work was featured in their summer poetry collection and it was very inspiring. substack.com/@jessicapixi...

Pastel photo of Opol- a poetry publication my work was featured in. Purple flowers surround it, it is on a coral and tan rug- my abstract shell like peach painting is on the front

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jessicapixiestudios @jessicapixie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have this new book of poems ( i painted the cover!) and a few other books available in my tiny bat print shop 🤍🤍 www.jessicapixie.com/about-5

Poetry book I self published- title is Stars on Fire, painting is abstract but there is a deer- greens, blues, purples

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Todd Sanders @lackriver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the months pass and it will soon be time again to reread The Complete Rynosseros by Terry Dowling and to again dream of convincing at least one person I know to read all the stories as well so I will finally have someone to talk to about them. A dream dreamt for decades at this point.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just doing a little 2028 cover dreaming (And yes the cover layouts do wrap and the edges do align)

Three dark, scenic illustration landscape image - book cover layouts, very moody with ddark forests, with the title The Shape and Colour of Things Gone Blind placed in various ways

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yesterday, at the Frostburg Lit Fest, AaN sold out of both "Mmeory" and "Our Dust Earth". Thank you to all who embraced and enjoyed these two books.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Weekly update to the world map of submissions to the "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" open calls (welcome to the first submitter ever from Ghana). 414 submissions combined.

US and world maps showing red and blue pins in submitting aurthor cities.

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jessicapixiestudios @jessicapixie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just a repost for nighttime🤍

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Leo Otherland @leootherland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was honored to participate in the Light A Match - Start A Revolution project from @aanpress.bsky.social, and now I was able to post my micro fiction piece on Patreon. Read If You’re Reading This on Patreon: bit.ly/IfYoureReadi...

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These are great poems. Jessica has a feel for imaginative and impactful language.

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jessicapixiestudios @jessicapixie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hi, I am excited to share my second poetry chapbook of summer poems- Stars on Fire. It is here. A magical set of spells I think. You can grab a copy here🤍 www.jessicapixie.com/product-page...

Sticker that says Tiny Bat Press in the middle of two books- the book on the left is called Stars on Fire and has greens and purples with a fawn, and on the right the book is called The Banquet and Bat Fangs- lots of purples.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Frostburg Lit Fest time. Find us today (9/26)in the book room at City Place in downtown Frostburg. Come find your next TBR favorite

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because I'm heading off for the Frostburg Literary Festival shortly, where I'll appear on the 2:00 p.m. panel The Specific Art and Craft of the Spec-Fic Short Story with @andyduncansf.bsky.social and @lackriver.bsky.social of @aanpress.bsky.social, I did my due diligence to be sure of doing no harm.

A COVID-19 test with a negative result, photographed against a background of the orange, white, and grey box in which it came.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know we are still accepting late pledges for our recent two anthology KS campaign (Ends Sept. 30)? In case you missed things and want to grab both books (or one or the other, we're not picky) - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #ks #booksky #kickstarter #sff #fsf

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Two Intriguing AaN Anthologies: One Campaign

Two Anthologies: "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings"

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New abstract oil pastel artwork is now listed on the web site. Part of my current series of exploration. (aanpress.com/artworks/) #portfolio #art #drawing #artist

Screenshot of 7 new abstract oil pastel drawings on the web site in a grid.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New abstract oil pastel artwork is now listed on the web site. Part of my current series of exploration. (aanpress.com/artworks/) #portfolio #art #drawing #artist

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New to our catalog - "A Second Cup", sequel to "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity". This time all stories take place in our home solar system - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm... #booksky #fsf #sff #sciencefiction

Four copies of the book in a pleasing spiral, vertical display.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Join AaN on Sat. for the Frostburg Indie Lit Fest - dealer room in City Place (14 S. Water St 11a-5p) - www.frostburg.edu/center-for-l... (I'll also be on a panel about Spec-Fic stories at the public library around the corner with @scottedelman.bsky.social and @andyduncansf.bsky.social at 2pm)

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Indie Lit Festival

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I ever was invited to a Halloween party I'd go as The Librarian. I do actually have 2 different satchels to pick from for the outfit.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did you know The Librarian has an arch nemesis (in reality actually an X-Men villain) named The Vanisher? I usually post this comic book panel when talking about him but it is part of a full page comic spread and could be mini Librarian story in of itself.

The Vanisher in an orange scaled jumpsuit and outlandish pink cowl holds a stack of books and proclaims "I am the Vanisher and I take what books I want". A jeans jacket dude looks on in askance

Full 5 panels showing the Vanisher interacting with an African American woman librarian who wants his library card. Another guy in a jeans jacket with patches and a slouchy hat is complaining the Vanisher is taking all the book. Vanisher says his catch phrase "I am the Vanisher and I take what books I want". She says - "Not without a library card!" and in the final panel he disappears with the books in a cloud of poof and she says "Oh, no! First the Bookworm, now this!"

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Part of my day job, not connected to AaN, is to design books for authors, poets, and organizations. After 30+ years I know a few things. If you are looking to have a cover or book designed, I can help. No AI slop ever. 100% human designer. DM or email me.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If nothing else I have ever done in the last 30 years of publishing is worth anything, I am most proud of the Librarian books and the community of linked authors who brought those stories to life. Something important was achieved there by us all.

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Todd Sanders @lackriver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A peek at Alban Viard’s Age of Steam maps for 2026, layouts by me.

six visually colorful hexmaps for the Age of Steam train game.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What do 300+ randomized submissions look like? A bit like this

File folders spilling over with submissions for the current open calls. Using up a lot of paper I have had for years, submissions are randomly colored

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Weekly update of cities of submitting authors for our curent OCs - "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings".

World and US map of red and blue pins showing submitting author cities

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Todd Sanders @lackriver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wow PS Publishing, kinda fell down on the quality control on this one

A badly cut book, off center and crooked

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here at the second annual Book Fair of @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social at Barrows Intense in Industry City, Brooklyn! The event goes till 5 PM today, and so will we! There are panels and agent talks!

Author C. S. E. Cooney with her books at Barrows Intense Ginger Tasting Room!

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had an idea last night to publish a novelty size tiny book - 3”x5” (or close to that since I would want it to be the usual branded AaN proportions, just in miniature)- not sure what the hook/theme/twist might be for it. a micro size novella?

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Back at the Swissvale Farm Market 9-12 today in the CLASS parking lot between Swissvale and Regent Square. Stock up on autumn TBR books from an indie local publisher #pittsburgh #swissvale #booksky

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My game publisher, friend, and collaborator needs a couple more backers to lock in base funding for his innovative arcologies building/management game (I am the graphic designer on the game, illus by Adrien Rives) www.kickstarter.com/projects/194... #kickstarter #ks #boardgame

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Arcologies by Alban Viard, artwork by Adrien Rives

Build a 3D Arcology. Feed the Population. Obey the Ministry. Pass the inspections. Happiness is mandatory—and measured in milligrams!

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