Not So Well Read

Look, if I’m going into a bookstore, I’m buying a book. Most the time it’s going to be something I’ve never heard of that I’m judging solely based on the vibes it’s giving in that moment. 

✨ There Once Lived a Woman: Dark fairytale retellings
✨ Bloom: Farmer’s market horror
✨ Hazardous Spirits: 1920s spiritualist movement
✨ The Girl in Red: Feminist Red Riding-hood retelling
✨ The Wild Hunt: Celtic Gothic folk-horror
✨ Briefly A Delicious Life: Ghostly love story
✨ Ripe: Dread-fueled critique of Silicon Valley
✨ The Forest Demands: YA dark-academia horror

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Books I Bought Based Purely On ✨ Vibes ✨

Genre-focused indie bookstore owner with the personality of a border collie and the tastes of a victorian ghost.

Courtney Ulrich Smith

During this phase, we're reviewing manuscripts and deciding which book we want to publish. At the end of this phase, we offer an author a book deal.

Consideration

As the manuscript goes through several phases of editorial work, the cover and interior design takes place, while format decisions about paper stocks and printing treatments are made.

Editorial & Design

While the books are on press, the pre-order links go live and the marketing campaign ramps up with waves of review copy mailings to media and influencers.

Pre-order

The finished copies have released on the book's publication date. Go give it some love!

Published

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Courtney

I’m a genre-obsessed reader who has made books my entire life–literally, I own a independent bookstore and founded a non-profit book festival in my hometown. I believe that reading is meant to be fun and so there’s no such thing as a “guilty” pleasure read. I’m here to help folks find their next favorite book sans stigmas, expectations, or required reading.
