Rose Metal Press
Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
- It's the last day of our Annual Subscription and Donation Drive, which supports our 2026 work. We are really close to reaching our goal! Please consider helping us across the finish line today! Thanks so much for your support! icont.ac/51cQq
- We're halfway to our annual subscription/donation goal for 2026--thanks so much to those who have already subscribed/given! Please consider subscribing for 2026 and receiving our books AND helping us publish more innovative hybrid genre work: rosemetalpress.com/support-rose...
- Tonight! Join us!
- A virtual launch for contributor Molly Gaudry's new book from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social
- It's Pub Day for FIT INTO ME: A Novel: A Memoir by Molly Gaudry! It's also the last day for free shipping with coupon code GAUDRYFREESHIP. Check out all the details here and order your copy of this amazingly hybrid memoir: icont.ac/51bcZ
- THIS WEDNESDAY (12/10)! Join us at a Zoom release event for Molly Gaudry's FIT INTO ME: A Novel: A Memoir. We'll both be there, but the main event is Molly in conversation with @jpsolheim.bsky.social about her amazing hybrid memoir-with-a-novel-inside! See you there!
- It's the 1st day of our Annual Subscription & Support Drive and also #GivingTuesday! Check out all the details of our subscription program here & become a Rose Metal Press supporter! 2026 is RMP's 20th year, & your continued support helps us bring more hybrid genre writing to readers! icont.ac/51aTz
- Next Wednesday, 12/10 at 6:30 pm Central! Come to the virtual launch party for Molly Gaudry's FIT INTO ME!
- Congrats to @tmcallister.bsky.social and his amazing memoir-in-essays IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE for being one of @wirobooks.bsky.social's 51 favorite books of the year!
- Preorder Molly Gaudry's amazing hybrid memoir FIT INTO ME: A Novel: A Memoir and get free shipping with code GAUDRYFREESHIP at checkout. The book releases on December 9—reserve your copy now: rosemetalpress.com/books/fit-in...
- Congrats to Naomi Cohn on The Braille Encyclopedia being a finalist in the Last Syllable book awards! And to cofounder @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social as well on her novel making the list!
- FIT INTO ME: A Novel: A Memoir by Molly Gaudry is now available for preordering! The book releases on 12/9. Reserve your copy now with free shipping with the code here: icont.ac/518tw
- Tonight at 6:30 pm ET, RMP publisher & cofounder Abby Beckel will be on Instagram Live with @therumpus.net talking about RMP & small press publishing! Follow The Rumpus on Instagram & watch for the LIVE broadcast on the top ribbon, & join! See you there!
- Sneak peek of the cover of FIT INTO ME by Molly Gaudry, releasing in December; Naomi Cohn's The Braille Encyclopedia wins 3 awards; Sheila O'Connor's Evidence of V chosen for statewide book club & her author event is TONIGHT; Upcoming @tmcallister.bsky.social events! All the RMP news: icont.ac/517z2
- EVIDENCE OF V by Sheila O'Connor is the current One Book | One Minnesota selection, which gives free access to the e-book to all Minnesotans as part of a statewide book club! Sheila is giving an author talk as part of the program and that is open to everyone. Register: thefriends.org/minnesota-ce...
- "Many accomplished writer friends — people with two or more large press books — have found themselves at a similar crossroads in recent years." IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE author @tmcallister.bsky.social muses on major & indie publishers at Metropolitan Review! www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...
- Many thanks to @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social for this fantastic review of THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA by Naomi Cohn! anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/22/r...
- Big thanks to Jaclyn Youhana Garver for this excellent review of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE by @tmcallister.bsky.social for Compulsive Reader: compulsivereader.com/2025/07/18/a...
- DC folks! Come on out tomorrow night (Wed., 6/18) at 7 pm to hear @tmcallister.bsky.social in conversation w/ @ambersparks.bsky.social about Tom's recent RMP book IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE at Kramers in Dupont Circle. It will be a fun event & great convo! See you there! www.kramers.com/events/24869...
- "Another winner from Rose Metal Press!" Thanks to Seana Graham for this excellent review of @tmcallister.bsky.social's IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE for Escape into Life! www.escapeintolife.com/book-reviews...
- Super congrats to Naomi Cohn! Her book, THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA, has won the Gold Medal in the Creative Nonfiction category of the 2025 IPPY Awards! ippyawards.com/blog/2025-me...
- DC! Come see us today at the World Pride Book Fair at MLK Library, 5th Floor from 12 to 4 p.m. Lots of RMP books on sale!
- Thanks to @largeheartedboy.bsky.social for the opportunity to have @tmcallister.bsky.social make this Book Notes Playlist for IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE! largeheartedboy.com/2025/05/28/t...
- Over at @electricliterature.com Naomi Cohn, Darien Gee, and IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE author @tmcallister.bsky.social "discuss methods that have helped them overcome writer’s block"! electricliterature.com/three-author...
- HUGE congratulations to Naomi Cohn, whose memoir-in-flash THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA (published by RMP in 2024) has won the GRAND PRIZE in the 2025 Eric Hoffer Awards! Woot!! If you haven't read it yet, be sure to check it out! www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-...
- "So what exactly is “It” that feels so impossible? Being alive is the short, comprehensive answer." Big thanks to Charles Rammelkamp for this review of @tmcallister.bsky.social's IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE for London Grip! londongrip.co.uk/2025/05/it-a...
- Oh hey, @tmcallister.bsky.social's IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE is on the @washingtonpost.com's list of 15 new paperbacks to read this month! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
- It's pub day for @tmcallister.bsky.social's IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE! You aren't going to want to miss this book! Today's the last day to get free shipping on your order. Details here: icont.ac/512vw
- "McAllister’s heartfelt & darkly funny new book navigates the ups & downs of being raised in Philly, and the adult who came out the other side." Thanks to @phillymag.com for showcasing @tmcallister.bsky.social's about-to-be-released memoir IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE! www.phillymag.com/news/2025/05...
- “It All Felt Impossible captures the beauty and absurdity of a life fully lived—its chaos, its heartbreak, its unexpected joys.” Thanks to Miracle Monocle for this fantastic review of @tmcallister.bsky.social’s forthcoming memoir in essays! louisville.edu/miraclemonoc...
- It's exactly ONE month until the release of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE by @tmcallister.bsky.social. Have you preordered your copy yet? Receive free shipping on all preorders with coupon code 42ESSAYSFREESHIP at checkout. rosemetalpress.com/books/it-all...
- Thanks so much to @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for including Naomi Cohn's THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA in this excellent set of 7 Poetry Collections About the Disability Experience! electricliterature.com/7-poetry-col...
- Thanks to everyone who came to the panel on Creative Constraints on Thursday! If you are at AWP and want to scoop up copies of @tmcallister.bsky.social & Naomi Cohn's books, and the Field Guide to Graphic Literature, which includes Sharon De La Cruz's work, come by table 550 at the Book Fair!
- Only one more day of our AWP online sale! Get free shipping on any available Rose Metal Press books with coupon code AWPFREESHIP! Online sale ends March 30. rosemetalpress.com/rmp/all-books/
- #AWP25, Day 3: Come out and see us at Table 550 in the book fair for lots of sales! We're starting to run low on books, but still have buy-it-before-it-releases copies of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE by @tmcallister.bsky.social and The RMP FIELD GUIDE TO GRAPHIC LIT, edited by @kelceyervick.bsky.social!
- #AWP25: Coming up soon at Table 550: Poet Nicelle Davis signing copies of In the Circus of You from 11 to 11:30! Check out this amazing book and get your copy signed! rosemetalpress.com/books/in-the...
- #AWP25 Happening soon: RMP authors @tmcallister.bsky.social & Naomi Cohn & RMP co-founder @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social speaking on a panel about using constraints in your creative work. 1:45-3:00 pm in RM 411. Tom & Naomi will be signing their RMP books at Table 550 right after, from 3:10-4:00 pm.
- #AWP25: RMP Field Guide to Graphic Literature co-editor @kelceyervick.bsky.social will be moderating a panel on Graphic Lit and Diasporic Histories at 12:10 pm in RM 411. Should be a fascinating conversation! After the panel (1:35 pm), Kelcey will be signing books at Table 550 in the book fair!
- Good morning #AWP25! Please come by and see us at Table 550 at the book fair for terrific sales on all our books and fun swag! We're also having an online sale for everyone at home. Use coupon code AWPFREESHIP at checkout to get free shipping on all our books! rosemetalpress.com/rmp/all-books/
- Heading to AWP LA? Come see us at Table 550 at the book fair, where we will have big discounts on all our books, fun giveaways, and RMP authors signing their books! We're also running an online AWP sale this week! #AWP25 All the details here: icont.ac/50ZVc
- "But a creative writing student using A.I.? In a memoir writing class? I have to wonder what you are saying about your life if even you can’t be bothered to think about it." Check out IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE author @tmcallister.bsky.social's essay in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
- Thrilled to see that Naomi Cohn's THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA is a Finalist in the Autobiography and Memoir category of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year awards! #ForewordINDIES www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...
