@TortoiseBooks

Reinventing publishing...one step at a time. (Tweets by @jerry_brennan.) Distributed by @P_G_W. Spring 2024 titles now available on Edelweiss!

 Chicago, IL
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ALSO HERE by Brooke Randel is NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRESALE! An intergenerational memoir that's both heartwarming and harrowing, @PublishersWkly is calling it a "powerful debut." But you DON'T have to take MY word for it. (Or theirs.) tortoisebooks.com/store/also…

Also Here - Brooke Randel — Tortoise Books

An artfully composed intergenerational memoir about a Holocaust survivor and her granddaughter.

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Check it out...Brooke Randel and ALSO HERE made it to @largeheartedboy! largeheartedboy.com/2025/01/…
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Adam Kovac@Boondock60mm27 Dec 2024
If you missed out on the debut of THE SURGE, you can always re-up for this massive second edition from @TortoiseBooks. Coming to a bookstore near you on May 20, 2025. Pre-order details/cover reveal soon. Also, @jerry_brennan is a fantastic editor, send him your best work.
Gerald Brennan 🇺🇦@jerry_brennan27 Dec 2024
Finished edits for the upcoming @TortoiseBooks second edition of @Boondock60mm's amazing novel THE SURGE. (Pending author approval.) Also, I didn't realize just how battered and greasy my old laptop was until I got this new sexy beast!
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Happy Pub Day to ALSO HERE! Thrilled to get this lovely review from @ThirdCoastRvw thirdcoastreview.com/2024/12…

Review: A Testament to Survival and Listening, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the...

In 1944, at the age of 13, Brooke Randel’s grandmother Golda Indig was with her older sister in the German death camp of Auschwitz.

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Folks, once again we are fortunate to be on the @Chicago_Reader ballot for best independent press...so vote! Vote like the wind! (And if you don't want to vote for other categories like best opera company or whatever, YOU CAN TOTALLY SKIP THEM!) chicagoreader.com/best-of-ch…

Best of Chicago 2025 - Chicago Reader

It's time for the Best of Chicago 2025! The ballot will be open for voting December 1 through December 31, 2025.

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HOWS YOUR BOOK GOING?! HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED WRITING SOMETHING PEOPLE READ? Good luck in the trenches out there today
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A Tortoise Books Order Fulfillment Selfie! Various orders from 1023 to 1039, plus trade submissions for DELIRIUM VITAE and PLAY, REWIND.
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If you are an independent publisher you will be mailing a lot of books, and you will experience this many many many times.
michael wave@michael___wave22 Nov 2024
astonishing how whenever you go to the post office the queue in front of you is made up almost entirely of people who appear to have ended up at the post office by accident, have in fact never visited a post office before, and have no idea what they want out of the experience
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Well, at least I’m 100% positive my favorite author, Thomas Pynchon, never did anything weird or gross. Time to move him further up the pedestal.
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"The Old Neighborhood deserves attention." Yes, @ChicagoRevBooks...we agree! chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11…

Vital Memory in "The Old Neighborhood" - Chicago Review of Books

Edgewater Hospital, a focal point in the landscape of Bill Hillmann’s novel The Old Neighborhood, closed in 2001 and sat vacant until its demolition in 2017. The luxury apartment complex Anderson...

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Great news, authors...your work is nor replicable, not even by infinite monkeys. nbcnews.com/science/science-… via @nbcnews

Could a monkey write Shakespeare before the universe dies?

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is "grossly misleading in the real world," one of the Australian mathematicians behind a new study questioning the age-old maxim told NBC News.

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Sad but true...
StripMallGuy
@realEstateTrent28 Oct 2024
The Cheesecake Factory menu is the longest book many people have read since high school
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Works for publishing dreams too, tbh.
Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc@JasonKPargin29 Oct 2024
This meme is a joke but also life-changing advice if taken to heart
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To our competitors: Forgot to mention this the other day, but @jerry_brennan recently got this fortune cookie message, so it's over for you mofos. (Especially you, @simonschuster.)
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dylan
@narrenhut22 Oct 2024
yo my name is ozymandias and I am here to say you should look upon my works in a major way
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Awww, yeah!
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Played hooky from my day job and spent time catching up on @TortoiseBooks financials and editing one of our Fall '25 titles--a book that's like if The Big Lebowski were written by Flannery O'Connor. (Assuming Flannery O'Connor knew about cyberspace.) You are gonna love it.
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alexandra@birdmotives8 Oct 2024
[dropping hints that i really want that new yorker editorial associate job] i coöperate well in a team setting. my skills could shine working with preëminent writers at an élite publication
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