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Books by Drew Wiberg.

Illustrated fiction and poetry, studies of liminal environments and fungi, and a history of books and their makers.

Each book’s available editions link directly to Amazon. Editions still awaiting release are marked below.

Plain Style cover: two men examining a book beside a train, rendered in black splatter with blue, pink and orange accents.
Illustrated novel

Plain Style

By Drew Wiberg

A letter from an absent friend sends Drew back toward the town he would rather forget. Beyond the mirror lies Binah, a world built on magic, where an ancient empress pursues conquest and a traveler named Tophet Aduro moves through a landscape of dangerous alliances and impossible encounters.

The illustrated novel follows two worlds through coffeehouses, night streets, deserts, and the unstable border between reason and belief. This edition includes twenty-nine interior illustrations.

Kindle edition · Available

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US price $12.99 · checked 2026-10-14

Included with Kindle Unlimited · checked 2026-10-14

Paperback edition · In review

Amazon listing pending.

ISBN 9798161743805

Hardcover edition · Available

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US price $24.99 · checked 2026-10-14

ISBN 9798161779156

Release status checked 2026-10-14.

Liminal Environments cover: a tiled doorway opens onto an empty indoor swimming pool.
Illustrated student edition

Liminal Environments

Architecture, Media, and the Rules of Passage

By Drew Wiberg

An illustrated student textbook about the rules behind doors, routes, records, and institutions. Eight chapters connect architecture, media, and classification research with paper laboratories and observation plates.

Handwritten clues and a school return record give the reader a route to follow through the book. A glossary and linked notes accompany the chapters.

Kindle edition · Available

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US price $7.99 · checked 2026-10-14

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Paperback edition · Available

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US price $22.99 · checked 2026-10-14

ISBN 9798161781067

Hardcover edition · Available

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US price $32.99 · checked 2026-10-14

ISBN 9798161785515

Release status checked 2026-10-14.

Myconomicon cover: gold drawings of mushrooms, roots and mycelium frame the title on a dark green field.
Illustrated essays

Myconomicon

A Mushroom Grimoire

By Drew Wiberg

Seventeen essays on fungi, folklore, ecology and magical practice, with Victorian-inspired specimen plates and white-on-black splatter sigils.

Kindle edition · Available

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US price $7.99 · checked 2026-10-14

Included with Kindle Unlimited · checked 2026-10-14

Release status checked 2026-10-14.

The Giant’s Kiss cover: a seated man beside a taller man in a hat, rendered in black splatter with colored accents.
Fiction and poetry

The Giant’s Kiss

Eight Strange Fictions and Three Poems

By Drew Wiberg

A reader searches Milwaukee for a book no shop can find. Elsewhere, an enormous antique bed, a supermarket errand, and a desert construction site bring other lives into view.

Eight strange fictions and three poems form an illustrated collection whose people and objects turn up again from different directions.

Kindle edition · Available

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US price $3.99 · checked 2026-10-13

Release status checked 2026-10-13.

Turning Pages cover: cream lettering on dark green above an illustrated bookmaker working with paper and pigments.
Illustrated history primer

Turning Pages

Exploring the History and Craft of Books in the Americas

By Drew Wiberg

An expanded history primer about books, images, and their makers in Mesoamerica and colonial Mexico.

Twelve chapters connect historical questions with eleven laboratories and investigations in materials, folding, color, printing, and book construction. Classroom procedures distinguish modern adaptations from historical evidence and are intended for prepared, supervised use.

Hardcover edition · Available

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US price $39.99 · checked 2026-10-19

ISBN 9798163462186

Release status checked 2026-10-19.

Books Were Already Here cover: painted folded books, pigment bowls and a brush on an aged cream background.
Illustrated children’s book

Books Were Already Here

By Drew Wiberg

Makers prepare a surface, painters place their marks, and readers open another fold. This illustrated book introduces books and bookmaking among Maya, Mixtec, and Nahua peoples in the region now called Mexico and Central America.

Some books were long strips folded back and forth. The pages introduce folded books, Maya writing, and the ways books could record the sky or follow people’s histories.

Kindle edition · Available

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US price $3.99 · checked 2026-10-19

Paperback edition · Available

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US price $9.99 · checked 2026-10-19

Release status checked 2026-10-19.

A Flock of Robins cover: a man in a hat looks toward flying robins amid black ink splatters and bright red, blue and green accents.
Illustrated fiction

A Flock of Robins

By Drew Wiberg

Joseph Winter carries bookbinding tools and an artist’s book into the Wisconsin winter. After he falls from a night train, the pages in his bag become a matter of survival.

Journal entries, poetry, and a spatial interlude accompany Joseph’s journey. An unruly narrator interrupts a short illustrated work about books, language, and survival.

Kindle edition · Available

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US price $3.99 · checked 2026-10-19

Hardcover edition · Available

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US price $14.99 · checked 2026-10-19

ISBN 9798163422524

Paperback edition · Available

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US price $9.99 · checked 2026-10-21

ISBN 9798163421145

Release status checked 2026-10-21.

Flat black wiberg-hex cover artwork with nested hexagons, the subtitle Solo + Shared Worlds, Drew Wiberg author credit and FIRST EDITION footer.
Hex map journal

wiberg-hex Hex Map Journal

Solo + Shared Worlds

By Drew Wiberg

A system-neutral journal for solo and group RPG play. Link blank hex maps to narrative notes, creature sketches, discoveries and the next session.

Paperback and hardcover are available on Amazon.com. Both editions use the same 160-page, 8.25 × 11-inch monochrome interior. Try the free eight-page printable play pack.

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Paperback edition · Available

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US price $9.99 · checked 2026-10-25

Hardcover edition · Available

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US price $17.99 · checked 2026-10-25

Release status checked 2026-10-25.

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