I joined Bindery because I believe that diverse voices needed to be leading the charge behind the scenes in publishing so that more diverse stories could be brought into the world.

I started with a mission to have a community dedicated to uplifting Indigenous voices and to create room for Indigenous books on shelves. While we struggled in the beginning to have people understand who Bindery was and what Bindery was and how they fit into the publishing ecosystem and just to build awareness of our imprint in general, we are finally at a place where people know who we are, the work that we do, and the dedication this imprint has to its authors and challenging the status quo. We are seeing more submissions from Indigenous authors all over the globe and I can't wait to see that grow. (there is one I'm super, super excited about and hope to get to read this week! If you pressure me, I might tell you more!)

We have expanded our booklist to include women writing horror and our first two books are in the works! What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne comes out this October! (It's finally on Edelweiss and Netgalley should be coming this month!) and Cracks in an Ocean of Glass by Kristy Park Kulski will be coming out next spring. These are two of the most unique horror books I've read in the last couple of years and I cannot wait for you to read them.

I want to take a minute to talk about the future. My goal with this imprint is to be able to share as many diverse stories and to support as many authors as I can. I want to publish more books. I want to be able to move forward with every manuscript that I love when it is submitted to me and to be frank, I don't think that can happen without your support. Paid subscriptions help to pay for the production of the books that our imprint publishes. If you would like to see more books from this imprint please consider upgrading to the $5 or $12 tier.

$5 subscribers will get e arcs to all of the books from our imprint.

$12 subscribers will get physical arcs.

I will make another post about all of the tier perks later this week (I'm also open to adding things that would make you want to become a paid member, so please drop any suggestions below!)

There are over 2,000 of you here. If every single one of you preordered WHAT FEEDS BELOW today (it's $16.73 on bookshop.org, our preferred purchasing partner, benefiting Indigenous bookstore Black Walnut Books) you could help make a serious impact on this imprint's future.

I am asking for your support because I need it. I would like to get this imprint where I know it could be.

I believe the work that we do together to uplift voices that are often left unheard is crucial and necessary in a world on fire and working against us every day and I'd like to do it long term. Thank you all so much for showing up for book club, for our authors, for the books we champion. Thank you for helping to publish stories that haunt and heal.

In other news:

Did you see me on the Tamron Hall show today talking about May Cobb? Never in a million years did I think I would make it to TV! I am waiting for them to send me a clip so I can share it with you all. NATIONAL TELEVISION! Book EMPRESS.

This year one of my goals is to do more journaling content and more long form video content

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I owe many responses to Get A Rec, those are coming soon!

Thank you all for everything you do. I appreciate you.