Pete's Press and Bookshop

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Hybrid publisher at petespress.ca Bookshop at 2926 13th Ave Regina, SK Publishing books that make you think. (Often there is a cat on the keyboard, so posts here may be a little incoherent). #booksky 📚💙🇨🇦

Green poster with the book cover of On The Edge by Jim Morgan, that says Book Signing in gold script at the top. 28th July at 1pm in Pete's Bookshop, Regina

A proof copy of Rhymetime Rover by Jessica Lipinksi, sits on a white counter next to a stuff grey cat toy

My bookshop windows hand painted with shelves of books on the right, crazy plants and Pete the tuxedo cat poking out on the right window

Full white bookshelf with OPENING MAY 21ST In green text on a pale green background emblazoned across the middle

Banner for Pete's Press community book shop, featuring cartoon cats, books and plants on a peachy backdrop

Glen Harper's new nonfiction book titled The Homeless, a personal journey of discovery

Mock up of the Makers storefront in the Cornwall mall, Regina. Pink banner across the top saying "storefront". The unit is under the big stone pillars of the original bank building inside the mall.

Cover of Firstborn Daughter by Kat Gilks. Dark green forest with the shape of a face depicted in four-colour DNA code superimposed over the trees

Our books stall, on a green table cloth with the green and gold Pete's Press banner

Poster for Femme Fest in Regina, 2pm at the Exchange, 2431 8th ave.
Poster is a retro neon pink circle on a dark.purple background. Sponsor logos are along the bottom.

An open A4 notebook with a drafted essay handwritten in black biro. The biro pen lays on the right page. There are many words crossed out. Bubble font text reads "call for submissions"

Bel Terrill reads from HopeStreet

Glen, a middle aged white man in a black sweater, sits with copies of his book, The Good Life at a table with a blue cloth at McNally robinson bookstore in Saskatoon

Glen Harper's author pic with the cover of his book, The Good Life

A happy new year graphic with photos of Annabel, Robyn, Leighton and some Anthology authors posing with books and looking festive. Poe the bookish cat is bottom left corner and a pile of this year's book releases is bottom right.

Cover of Miracles on Bella Camila, an old, open book has moss growing from one page, and a vine bearing purple grapes borders the left edge. Title and author's name are in a curly brown font in the centre

Graphic featuring the book covers of HopeStreet, Strays and Miracles on Bella Camila aligned vertically on the right. Left has.a.green circle with the word NEW! in.white text and the book details underneath.

A copy of HopeStreet by Bel Terrill (paperback with a cover featuring four skyscrapers tapering up into a cloudy dark sky) sits under a small Christmas tree with red berries in it. A pile of other Pete's Press books is also visible, along with Poette the grey tabby cat who looks on approvingly

Christmas tree graphic featuring the Wanderings Series ('People, Places and Ideas")
Write The Neighbourhood by various authors
Selected Writings, 6 years of Philosophy by Leighton Peart
Books and the City by Annabel Townsend
Mapping an Understanding by Dr. Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson

Christmas tree graphic with memoir book covers:
Remember When? By Joe Ralko
Trouble Brewing by Annabel Townsend
One Woman's Century by Kay Parley

Christmas tree graphic with book covers of:
HopeStreet by Bel Terrill
The Good Life by Glen Harper
Into the Forest Deep and In A Cottage We Once Knew by Robyn Tocker
Coma by KD Kulpa
The Sun Makes A Sound by Andy Whitman
Her Ex's Secret by Tricia Saxby

Christmas tree graphic adorned with the covers of
Toothaches by students at Sheldon Williams Collegiate
Sorcerer's Gold by Aquila
Miracles on Bella Camila by Lili Zwart

Christmas tree graphic with book covers for Discovering Dana by Chelsea Manz
My Monster Mommy by Megan Ryan
When I Go To Sleep by Debbie Pitzel

and for older kids, Ironjaws by Jerry Vanschaik

Poe the tuxedo cat sits in a box of Pete's Press books.

Front cover of Strays, an anthology. White cover with a washed out oil painting of a person with dark hair cuddling a tabby cat over their shoulder, in purple and orange tones. The bottom is the title, a list of the authors and "edited by Annabel Townsend" in a black serif font.

Holy Rosary Cathedral in Regina, tinted pink as the sun goes down, against a clear blue sky

Turquoise poster for the Cathedral Holiday Craft Market Saturday November 15th 10-4pm the details are in red block capitals and on a white circle decorated like a Christmas bauble

A customer wearing jeans and a black hoodie browses our Pete's Press book sale table at Pause Coffee shop. We have 20+ titles laid out on the table under our green Pete's Press banner.

The cover of Strays, a fiction anthology. Centred on the cover is a purple and orange toned oil painting of a person with short dark hair, cuddling a tortoiseshell cat over their shoulder. The title is in black text on a white background and the list of authors is underneath.

A huge pile of all the books published by Pete's Press (21 titles of which 20 are visible) spread out all over the office floor. A large strip of brown packing paper is underneath the books, covering a dark pinkish carpet

Doom the all-black kitten poses with a homegrown pumpkin as tall as she is.

Poster for our Black Cat Book Sale on November 1st at Pause Coffee. On a spooky grey background, a cartoon black cat with yellow eyes peeks over a wooden sign with the event details scrawled on it in a white font.

Aquila, (in a blue tunic dress and wearing a mask) Robyn Tocker (black spotty dress and brown ankle boots) and Glen Harper (black shirt,.tan pants) stand in the George Bothwell library.

Pete's Press pop up book sale in the back of Little Ghosts bookstore. Annabel sits with a red table covered in paperbacks

Your manuscript called! It wants an outing.

Pete's Press is open for submissions.
Petespress.ca

(Illustrated with sketches of an old flip phone, ball point pen, steaming mug of coffee and a black cat attacking a typewriter

Our publishing line up:
Kid's books: Discovering Dana by Chelsea Manz, When I Go To Sleep by Debbie Pitzel, My Monster Mommy by Megan Ryan, Ironjaws by Jerry Vanschaik
Novels: Into the Forest Deep and In a Cottage We Once Knew by Robyn Tocker, Coma by Keely Kulpa, The Sun Makes a Sound by Andy Whitman, Her Ex's Secret by Tricia Saxby, The Good Life by Glen Harper
Nonfiction: Selected Writings by Leighton Peart, Trouble Brewing and Books and the City by Annabel Townsend, One Woman's Century by Kay Parley
And anthologies From the Ground Up (fiction) and Write the Neighbourhood (nonfiction)

Sorcerer's Gold by Aquila
Van, a blond young woman with hair in wavy braids looks away from us up a narrow cobbled path towards a cottage in the mist. She wears a floor length gold coloured gown.

The Good Life by Glen Harper

Watercolour sketch of my planned Bookmobile on the front of my bakfiets bike

A giant sheet of thick grey vinyl with the plans for my book box marked out in gold and red chalk because I couldn't find any white.

In a Cottage We Once Knew by Robyn Tocker pictures with an apple ornament

What is currently a gigantic office with a wooden exec desk

Author Leighton Peart with his book, Selected Writings

Poster for Leighton Peart's book launch of 'Selected Writings' at A Different Booklist on weds 13th. Poster features the black book cover, and a sunset over Leslieville

Poe the tuxedo cat sits in a box of Pete's Press books

Beautiful cover of Robyn Tocker's In A Cottage We Once Knew. Deep red cover with picturesque wooden cottage and apple motif. Pictured on a red quilt with white roses.

The little Stone church at Moffat, south east Saskatchewan, and the grid road leading to it

Kitten 1: grey female with oversized ears and a stripey belly. Absolutely no tail.

My eldest kiddo and Timmy Toughknuckles the stuffed monkey. Timmy is wearing mini sunglasses and camo pattern boxer shorts.