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Fw:Books is an independent publisher with a focus on photography and related topics.

We are working with Farren van Wyk on her first bo

We are working with Farren van Wyk on her first book ‘Mixedness is my Mythology’. She created a campaign to support the book, check out the link in bio to pre-order the book, and/or prints! 💫💫

Farren: “’Mixedness is my Mythology’ is a research-based project that brings together different themes within a search for identity and a sense of belonging within the African diaspora. My family is South African and Dutch, and the history of our two homes is built on colonialism, slavery and apartheid. This body of work is built on love, versatility and resilience.
On our family farm in the small town of Putten, in the Netherlands, ‘Mixedness is my Mythology’ was born out of portraying my brothers during the pandemic lockdowns using the agricultural barns, orchards and land as backdrops. Deep within myself, the question lingered: We wear Dutch clogs and overalls, yet we have African curls, so where do we belong? The answer came through creating this body of work: we belong to ourselves.”

@farrenvwyk @voordekunst @deadbeatclub

✨✨ Very happy to see ‘Ripples in the Pond’

✨✨ Very happy to see ‘Ripples in the Pond’ by Bharat Sikka and ‘Calamita/á: An Investigation into the Vajont Catastrophe’, edited by Marina Caneve and Gianpaolo Arena on the shortlist for the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. 🥂🥂 Bharat is nominated for Photobook of the Year, and Calamit/á for Photography Catalog of the Year. Congrats to all involved! ✌️

👉 We will have both books (and many other titles) available during Paris Photo at @offprint_projects
👉 All shortlisted books will be exhibited during Paris Photo.
👉 Bharat will give a talk at @fondationhcb Thursday 13 November at 7pm 📢

@aperturefnd
@parisphotofair
@bharatsikkastudio
@calamitaproject
@gianpaolo_arena
@marinacaneve
@celineclanet
@petrastavast
@janstradtmann
@francoisdeladerriere
@hans.gremmen

Now available: Bharat Sikka — Ripples in the Pon

Now available: Bharat Sikka — Ripples in the Pond
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26 x 32,5 cm / 152 pages / softcover / cahier / 978-90-835197-6-0
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In Ripples in the Pond, Bharat Sikka artist undertakes a nuanced exploration of Makharda, a peripheral township on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal. Situated within a landscape marked by over twenty tranquil ponds, Makharda emerges not merely as a geographic locale but as a site of complex temporal and socio-cultural convergence. Through a process-based photographic inquiry, Sikka renders visible the entanglements between memory, modernity, and the slow violence of infrastructural encroachment.

@bharatsikkastudio
@ideabooksnl

Kim Boske — Kamiyama @buy_my_darlings ✨On th

Kim Boske — Kamiyama @buy_my_darlings

✨On the occasion of her new book ‘Kamiyama’, Kim Boske will be present at the fair on Saturday (11am–5pm) and Sunday (1–5pm)

📍NDSM Fuse, NDSM-Plein 29

Come say hi and get your signed copy!🖋️

Kamiyama | 306 pages | 22,3 x 28 cm | hardcover | Texts by Erik A. de Jong, Ryoko Yoshida, Taco Hidde Bakker, Menno Liauw | English + Japanese | Design Hans Gremmen

A central figure in Boske’s work in Kamiyama is the Akui Gawa (river), which flows like a lifeline through the valley, connecting the surrounding communities. Historically, the river would often overflow, enriching the soil and making it ideal for cultivating Japanese indigo (Persicaria Tinctoria). This plant, essential to local craftsmanship for centuries, forms a near-symbiotic connection with its environment in my work. For the residents, the river reflects the ecological and economic health of the area: the water level and the vitality of flora and fauna are seen as indicators of the balance between humans and nature. This deep, layered relationship between landscape and life forms the foundation of the project.

@kimboske

Day 3 at NYABF ➰➰➰ @printedmatter_artbookfa

Day 3 at NYABF
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@printedmatter_artbookfairs
@momaps1

See you Sunday 12–6 pm
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See you tomorrow ✌️ @printedmatter_artbookfai

See you tomorrow ✌️

@printedmatter_artbookfairs
@momaps1

👻

Getting ready at NYABF at @momaps1 @printedmatter

Getting ready at NYABF at @momaps1
@printedmatter_artbookfairs
🥂 Opening tonight 7pm

Come say hi!
✌️

📸 @roma.publications
Thanks @mondriaanfonds

Now available: Verena Blok — Love Shit ✨✨ 22

Now available: Verena Blok — Love Shit ✨✨
22 x 30 cm / 80 p / softcover / English / Design Sandra Kassenaar / isbn 349789083519777
👉 Verena will join us next week at the NYABF at MoMA PS1 at our table (F8) on Friday at 2pm
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‘Love Shit’ is about self-determination. Through both documentary photography and text, artist Verena Blok constructs a series of intimate portraits of pregnant individuals. Photographed over a period of two years, these portraits are combined with stories gathered during her work at an abortion clinic in the Netherlands. The book explores the dilemmas surrounding procreation – (un)wanted pregnancy, motherhood, childhood – and ultimately strives to reveal the complexities of womanhood through an honest and unfiltered lens.

@verena_blok
@sandrakassenaar
@npnprinting
@ideabooksnl
@printedmatter_artbookfairs
@momaps1

Now available: Kim Boske — Kamiyama ✨✨ 223 x

Now available: Kim Boske — Kamiyama ✨✨
223 x 280 mm | hardcover | 306 pages | Texts by: Erik A. de Jong, Ryoko Yoshida, Taco Hidde Bakker, and Menno Liauw | English + Japanese | isbn 978-90- 835197-5-3

@kimboske
@wilco_artbooks
@ideabooksnl

We are preparing for our summer break ☀️☀️

We are preparing for our summer break ☀️☀️ Looking back to the 9 new titles we produced so far in 2025:

In random order:
— Dafna Talmor / Constructed Landscapes: Addendum
— Jaap Scheeren / Toos & Tiny / My Mother’s Mother and My Father’s Father
— Olga Sokal / Black Stone Burns
— Eddy van Wessel / Ukraine
— Lora Webb Nichols / Heap-O-Livin’
— Stephan Keppel / Soft Copy Hard Copy, softcover edition
— Atelier Anonim / vul-ne-ra-bil
— Piero Martinello and Piero Casentini / The Weight of the Word
— Rick van der Klooster / Between the Mountain and the River

And currently on press:
— Kim Boske / Kamiyama
— Verena Blok / Love Shit
— Bharat Sikka / Ripples in the Pond

All books are available in your local bookstore📚📚
Buy Books, Buy Local

🌎🌍🌏
Enjoy the summer!
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We are very pleased to announce, that Heap-O-Livin

We are very pleased to announce, that Heap-O-Livin’, the new book with work of Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) is available. Edited by Nicole Jean Hill.
🌱🌱
👉 Nicole Jean Hill will be at @rencontresarles next week, the book will be on the table from our friends from @leporello.books at Arles Books Fair at ENSP
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Heap-O-Livin’ features a selection of images by Wyoming photographer and diarist Lora Webb Nichols. Nichols created and collected approximately 24,000 negatives and 65 years of diaries throughout her lifetime in the town of Encampment.
In addition to the industrial and economic aspects of this sparsely populated ranching and copper mining town, Lora’s images and diaries documented the lives of the girls and women within private households.
Despite the inherent isolation created by geography, the long brutal winters, and the patriarchal ideology that undervalued the role of women in Encampment in the late 19th and early 20th century, a robust female-led community emerged that provided a network of spiritual and emotional support. This was cultivated through the habitual visitations of immediate and extended family and friends into each other’s homes during their transition from children to wives and mothers. In Nichols’ sphere, these visitations often involved the act of picture-making.
Lora photographed their duties as mothers and homemakers but also made photographs that reveal the pleasure they experienced in simply being in each other’s company.

Heap-O-Livin’ is following the sold out book ‘Encampment, Wyoming’

@lorawebbnichols
@nicolejeanhill
@wilco_artbooks
@hans.gremmen
@rencontresarles

Now available: Dafna Talmor — Constructed Landsc

Now available: Dafna Talmor — Constructed Landscapes: Addendum ✨✨
24 x 28 cm / 40 pages / signed and numbered / cahier bound / including one risograph print (15 x 21 cm) / There are 4 different colours of prints, these are randomly distrubuted in the edition
🫐🍎🍋⚫️

@dafnatalmor
@wilco_artbooks
@sidmotiongallery

Now available: ’Eddy van Wessel — Ukraine’.

Now available: ’Eddy van Wessel — Ukraine’.
24×28 cm / 240 pages / softcover / texts: Mustafa Can + Eddy van Wessel / isbn 978-90-835197-3-9
🇺🇦
Order your copy at your local bookstore
Distributed by @ideabooksnl 📦
📚📚
@eddyvanwessel
@mustafacanwriter
@robstolk.amsterdam
@patist_boekbinderij
@hans.gremmen

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‘I on the Road’ by @tatug + ‘Atelier Anonim’ by @vul.ne.ra.bil + ‘And Then’ by @bharatsikkastudio are shortlisted for the Arles Book Awards 2025.
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The books will be on display throughout the @rencontresarles festival, in a venue dedicated to the various Rencontres publishing awards, at La Mécanique Générale.
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Now available: ’Stephan Keppel — Soft Copy Har

Now available: ’Stephan Keppel — Soft Copy Hard Copy, the softcover edition’. ➰ This book is a softcover edition of the sold out book ‘Soft Copy Hard Copy’ (2021), made in a limited edition of 100 copies. @stephan_keppel
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Book Launch Saturday 14 June at the bookmarket of @fotofestivalnaarden
11-17:00 at Podium de Mess in Naarden-Vesting
(Adriaan Dortsmanplein 1-b)
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Hope to see you!

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Happy to see ‘I am the only woman there’ by @b

Happy to see ‘I am the only woman there’ by @bertienvanmanen and ‘Atelier Anonim’ by @vul.ne.ra.bil shortlisted for the @photoespana_ Best Photo Book of the Year.
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The selected books will be exhibited during the festival from June 4 to July 13 at the Fernán Gómez Cultural Center of the City of Madrid.
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Now available: The Weight of the Word by Piero Mar

Now available: The Weight of the Word by Piero Martinello, with texts by Piero Casentini
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Medical eponyms are denominations of syndromes, diseases and discoveries that carry the name of the scientist who first isolated and described them. To this day, numerous eponyms controversially perpetuate the memory of doctors who worked under and were part of the Nazi regime. ‘The Weight of the Word’ is an extended visual essay combining archival images and texts to explore the biographies and work of nine Nazi doctors. It examines their scientific research and the subsequent damnatio memoriae following the condemnation of their actions, and offers a holistic view that intertwines their achievements, crimes, and the complex legacies they left behind.
Specifications: 272 p / 21 x 29,7 cm / curator: Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza / design: Giorgia Caboni / isbn 978-90-835197-2-2
@pieromartinello @__gio.ca @massimilianotommasorezza

Distributed by @ideabooksnl 📦📦

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Yesterday’s signings with @olgasokal @dafnatalmo

Yesterday’s signings with @olgasokal @dafnatalmor @jaapscheeren @rickvanderklooster 📚📚✍️

Join us today at @offprint_projects @tate
Open: 10-18:00
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📚✍️ Day at @offprint_projects at Tate Wit

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Day at @offprint_projects at Tate

With signings by

🕒 15:00 – Dafna Talmor | Addendum
🕒 15:00 – Olga Sokal | Black Stone Burns

🕓 16:00 – Jaap Scheeren | Toos & Tiny
🕓 16:00 – Rick van der Klooster | Between the Mountain and the River

@dafnatalmor
@olgasokal
@jaapscheeren
@rickvanderklooster

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Getting ready for @offprint_projects at Turbine Ha

Getting ready for @offprint_projects at Turbine Hall in @tate 📓📔📒📕📗📘📙 Come say hi!

Open:
Friday: 14 – 19:00
Saturday + Sunday: 10 – 18:00
Free entrance ✨

@jaapscheeren @olgasokal @workroom_general @bharatsikkastudio @dafnatalmor @marinacaneve @bertienvanmanen @vul.ne.ra.bil @triggerfomu @andresvgonzalez @galeri.image @iris.sikking @arastenberger @simone__engelen @calamitaproject @edpanar @martine.stig @rickvanderklooster @tatug @thomthomk
📦📦

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Preparing for Offprint London. Hope to see you in

Preparing for Offprint London.
Hope to see you in a few days!

16-18 May at Tate Modern
Free entrance

Signings
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Saturday
🕒 15:00 – Olga Sokal | Black Stone Burns
🕒 15:00 – Dafna Talmor | Constructed Landscapes Addendum

🕓 16:00 – Jaap Scheeren | Toos & Tiny / Tiny & Toos
🕓 16:00 – Rick van der Klooster | Between the Mountain and the River

Open:
Friday: 14 – 19:00
Saturday + Sunday: 10 – 18:00

@offprint_projects
@jaapscheeren
@rickvanderklooster
@dafnatalmor
@olgasokal
@tate

Checking an unbound copy of Ukraine by Eddy van We

Checking an unbound copy of Ukraine by Eddy van Wessel. The book is available for pre-orders on our website

Book: 24×28 cm / 240 pages / softcover / engels / texts: Eddy van Wessel and Mustafa Can / isbn 978-90-835197-3-9

@eddyvanwessel
@robstolk.amsterdam

In UKRAINE, photojournalist Eddy van Wessel documents a raw account of three years of war in Ukraine through (analogue) photography and firsthand testimonies. With decades of experience covering conflict zones, he focuses on what war means for those living through it – the soldiers on the front lines, civilians sheltering in devastated towns and cities, and those forced to flee. His images capture the visible destruction and the psychological and emotional toll of prolonged violence, making this book a visual and narrative testimony with a complex and layered depiction that is reflecting on the human cost of the largest war in Europe since World War II. It explores displacement, survival, and the boundaries of humanity in times of crisis. Where does humanity end and inhumanity begin? How do individuals maintain dignity and resilience under constant threat? What does survival look like when basic needs – and life itself – are no longer guaranteed?

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On press with Eddy van Wessel to print his book ‘Ukraine’. The book is available for pre-orders on our website. We expect to be shipping the books within 4 weeks. 👉 First 150 pre-orders will receive a print with the book.

In the book Ukraine, photojournalist Eddy van Wessel documents a raw account of three years of war in Ukraine through (analogue) photography and firsthand testimonies. With decades of experience covering conflict zones, he focuses on what war means for those living through it - the soldiers on the front lines, civilians sheltering in devastated towns and cities, and those forced to flee. His images capture the visible destruction and the psychological and emotional toll of prolonged violence, making this book a visual and narrative testimony with a complex and layered depiction that is reflecting on the human cost of the largest war in Europe since World War II. It explores displacement, survival, and the boundaries of humanity in times of crisis. Where does humanity end and inhumanity begin? How do individuals maintain dignity and resilience under constant threat? What does survival look like when basic needs - and life itself - are no longer guaranteed?

@eddyvanwessel @robstolk.amsterdam
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Now available: ‘Olga Sokal — Black Stone Burns

Now available:
‘Olga Sokal — Black Stone Burns’
22×28 cm / 168 pages / isbn 978-90-834510-8-4
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Olga will be singing at Offprint London
Saturday 17.05, 3pm
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
🌱
Hope to see you!

@olgasokal
@offprint_projects
@hans.gremmen

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Now available: ‘Rick van der Klooster —Between

Now available: ‘Rick van der Klooster —Between the Mountain and the River’.
📚🥂📚
Book Launch Today
(Saturday April 5)
4-7PM at @ballon.rouge.gallery
Zaagmolendrift 24, Rotterdam
🌱
Hope to see you!

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✨ Very excited to check an unbound copy of ‘He

✨ Very excited to check an unbound copy of ‘Heap-O-Livin’ by @lorawebbnichols edited by @nicolejeanhill 🌱🌱

Heap-o-Livin’ is following the sold out book ‘Encampment, Wyoming’, and will be available for pre orders next week.
📚📚
Heap-O-Livin’ features a selection of images by Wyoming photographer and diarist Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962). Nichols created and collected approximately 24,000 negatives and 65 years of diaries throughout her lifetime in the town of Encampmentm Wyoming (US). In addition to the industrial and economic aspects of this sparsely populated ranching and copper mining town, Lora’s images and diaries documented the lives of the girls and women within private households.
Lora photographed their duties as mothers and homemakers but also made photographs that reveal the pleasure they experienced in simply being in each other’s company.
💫
@lorawebbnichols @nicolejeanhill @ideabooksnl

🎈🎈 Now available: ‘Jaap Scheeren — Toos

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Now available: ‘Jaap Scheeren — Toos & Tiny / My Mother’s Mother and My Father’s Father’.
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Booklaunch, opening of his exhibition and drinks:
Saturday March 22, from 5PM at @galeriedeschans 👉 Warmoesstraat 67, @bonnesuits
👴🏻👵🏻
Hope to see you!
✌️

🎈🎈FwBooks = 20 YEARS 🎈🎈 Today we cel

🎈🎈FwBooks = 20 YEARS 🎈🎈

Today we celebrate that 20 years ago we launched our first Fw:Magazine 💥💥

It turned out to be the start of:
✨ 151 Books
✨ 10 Magazines
✨ 34 Special Editions
✨ 23.734 Pages
✨ 83 Book Fairs
✨ 68 Exhibitions
✨ 73 Talks

and collaborations with:
💫 543 Artists and Writers
💫 16 Designers
💫 14 Printers

Many thanks to all involved!

Your support, energy, work, knowledge, and friendship keeps us going. 🙏💫🙏💫
We look forward to the next 20+ years with you!

📚🥂📚🥂📚🥂📚🥂📚🥂

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Best Dutch Book Designs 2024 💥🥂💥🥂💥

Best Dutch Book Designs 2024
💥🥂💥🥂💥
’27 Drafts’ by Simone Engelen, ’Fear Guards the Lemon Grove’ by Klaus Pichler and ‘On the ground among the animals’ by Marina Caneve are selected for Best Dutch Book Design 💫💫 ‘Fear Guards the Lemon Grove’ and ‘On the ground among the animals’ are also selected by the student jury, alongside ’Talking about Photobooks’ and ‘Calamita/a, An investigation into the Vajont catastrophe’.
Congratulations, and many thanks to all involved 🙏
@simone__engelen @thepichlerklaus @marinacaneve @galleriimage @k.chen._ @calamitaproject @hans.gremmen @celineclanet @petrastavast @francoisdeladerriere @gianpaolo_arena @janstradtmann @robstolk.amsterdam @wilco_artbooks @mariskabijl @the.best.dutch.book.designs ✌️

Printing and Testing ✨✨ 📓 Black Stone Burns

Printing and Testing ✨✨
📓 Black Stone Burns by @olgasokal
📔 Heap-O-Livin’ by @lorawebbnichols edited by @nicolejeanhill
📕 Toos & Tiny by @jaapscheeren
📘 Between the Mountain and the River by @rickvanderklooster
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Coming Soon!
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Printing by @wilco_artbooks @drukkerijraddraaierssp @robstolk.amsterdam ✌️

✨✨ Now available: Atelier Anonim by @vul.ne.ra

✨✨ Now available: Atelier Anonim by @vul.ne.ra.bil
🪑🪑🪑🪑
96 pages / 20 x 28 cm / Text by Costin Popescu / Photographs by Alin Cincā
📚📚
In an abandoned factory in a small town in Romania, over 100 selfmade chairs where left behind when the was factory closed in 2019. In all of that industrialised and liniar atmosphere, these objects brutal beauty stood out. A reinvented shape from one workstation to another, a personalised way of support and rest. Photographed the way they were found in their original setting, which no longer exists, the work chairs represent tailored, unique shapes. Made from raw materials, they’re a mix of aesthetic intervention and functional improvisation. They took shape from the specificities of each job or the passing of time, when the work process deformed them to what they are. Were.

@booksforfriends_bff
@re.colector
@ideabooksnl
@hans.gremmen

📚📚 Getting ready for a nice 2 hour bookfair

📚📚 Getting ready for a nice 2 hour bookfair of @theicelandicphotofestival at the National Gallery of Iceland. ✨✨ When around: do drop by! ✌️
5-7 pm
With books by @andresvgonzalez @barbaradiener @edpanar @bertienvanmanen @jonhorvath @awoiska_vandermolen @bharatsikkastudio @stanleygreenberg @simone__engelen @wytskevankeulen @tarrahkrajnak_studio @iris.sikking @arastenberger @mlangenisabelo @galleriimage @petrastavast 📚📚

🌱🌱 Coming soon: Heap-O-Livin’ by Lora Webb

🌱🌱 Coming soon: Heap-O-Livin’ by Lora Webb Nichols, edited by Nicole Jean Hill.
✨📚✨
Heap-O-Livin’ features a selection of images by Wyoming photographer and diarist Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962). Nichols created and collected approximately 24,000 negatives and 65 years of diaries throughout her lifetime in the town of Encampment.
In addition to the industrial and economic aspects of this sparsely populated ranching and copper mining town, Lora’s images and diaries documented the lives of the girls and women within private households.
Despite the inherent isolation created by geography, the long brutal winters, and the patriarchal ideology that undervalued the role of women in Encampment in the late 19th and early 20th century, a robust female-led community emerged that provided a network of spiritual and emotional support. This was cultivated through the habitual visitations of immediate and extended family and friends into each other’s homes during their transition from children to wives and mothers. In Nichols’ sphere, these visitations often involved the act of picture-making.
Lora photographed their duties and mothers and homemakers but also made photographs that reveal the pleasure they experienced in simply being in each other’s company.

👉 Heap-o-Livin’ is following the sold out book ‘Encampment, Wyoming’, and is scheduled to be released Spring 2025 👈

@lorawebbnichols @nicolejeanhill @ideabooksnl

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