Burn the Algorithm. Buy the Book.
Look, we all know the drill. Big-box sites want you to click, scroll, and line their billionaire pockets. But you’re smarter than that. You want books that bite back, that don’t play by the rules, that shake the dust off the shelf and demand to be read.
That’s where Asterism comes in. When you buy through Asterism, you’re fueling indie lit the way it’s meant to be fueled: supporting our scrappy little press (Unsolicited Press), the distributor bold enough to champion small presses, and the authors who actually put their souls on the page. Every purchase is a vote for art over algorithms.
So, let’s rebel. Let’s buy the books that the big guys don’t want you to see. Here are just a few waiting for you:
✨ Bipolar Lexicon: An Akathisia of Expressed Emotion by Megan Denese Mealor
A lush, lyrical exploration of mania, depression, and the fragile fire of one woman’s heart.
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✨ How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel by Alex Miller
Stories of struggle, grit, and resilience in the aftermath of financial collapse.
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✨ The Land of Ale and Gloom by Phillip Hurst
Travel the Pacific Northwest in search of craft beer and unexpected joy.
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✨ Joy by Francis Daulerio
Poems of resilience, fatherhood, grief, and relentless hope.
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✨ Transit by J.D. Smith
Sharp, witty fiction exploring race, class, identity, and the choices we make.
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✨ The Year of the Monster by Tara Stillions Whitehead
Stories that rip open American media and culture to ask hard questions.
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✨ Water Signs by Liz Kellebrew
Poetry rooted in Puget Sound, climate change, and the strangeness of being alive.
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✨ Scapegoat by T.K. Lee
Poems about love, loss, leaving, and the lessons in between.
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✨ The Ballad of Two Sisters by Darci Schummer
A haunting novel of family, memory, and unbreakable bonds.
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✨ Uncomfortable Ecologies by Elizabeth Joy Levinson
Poetry that entwines the natural world with the human longing for belonging.
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✨ Night Hag by Amy Baskin
Lilith’s story retold—fierce, feminist, and unforgettable.
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✨ Ventric[L]E by Jerrod E. Bohn
Love poems turned elegies—dense, sorrowful, and radiant.
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✨ The Bugs by CJ Friedman
When humanity kills Earth, the bugs hit reset.
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✨ Let Evening Come by Yvonne Osborne
A cross-border love story that confronts prejudice and displacement.
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✨ In Wells’ Time by David Nash
A family reckons with the magical gift—and curse—of holding onto time.
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✨ The Women by Sommer Schafer
Dark, fantastical stories where women face impossible choices.
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✨ Cormorant by Elisa Carlsen
Poems of grief, politics, and ecological heartbreak.
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✨ The Invisible World by Matt Daly
Poems reaching toward ancestors and landscapes, searching for connection.
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✨ The Cabin at the End of the World by Douglas Cole
Award-winning prose poems that shimmer between dream and reality.
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✨ Mouth by Kerry Donoghue
Stories of hunger, desire, and survival in unexpected forms.
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✨ Animal Husbandry by Taylor Garcia
Short stories of men grappling with collapse, change, and strange futures.
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(And there are plenty more where those came from—browse the whole damn catalog here).
To sweeten the deal, we’re offering something extra: buy any Unsolicited Press title from Asterism and we’ll send you a free audiobook from our catalog (we know when you buy from them, so there’s nothing for you to do but wait for that sweet audiobook code to land in your inbox). Think of it as a thank-you for choosing indie all the way down.
Buying through Asterism means you’re part of the resistance. You’re saying no to algorithm-churned bestsellers and yes to voices that actually matter. You’re keeping indie alive, one book at a time.
So go ahead—burn the algorithm. Buy the book.
