Thu 29 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., LCRW, To Read Pile | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Sarah Monette, who has had a few stories in LCRW, has a second novel out right now, The Virtu. This one stands by itself in the way her debut didn’t (the books are in a series, although they don’t tell you that). The Virtu races along and Monette gives her characters some great dialogue. It’s a book mostly about boys but there is a great governess (who isn’t, of course) who is so much fun that she is missed when she disappears off screen. A great book to get stuck into late on a summer’s eve.
Thu 29 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., LCRW, To Read Pile | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Sarah Monette, who has had a few stories in LCRW, has a second novel out right now, The Virtu. This one stands by itself in the way her debut didn’t (the books are in a series, although they don’t tell you that). The Virtu races along and Monette gives her characters some great dialogue. It’s a book mostly about boys but there is a great governess (who isn’t, of course) who is so much fun that she is missed when she disappears off screen. A great book to get stuck into late on a summer’s eve.
Flying visit
Thu 29 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Sean Stewart | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Last minute notice: Sean Stewart will be here on July 1st (yay!) and besides quizzing him about secret projects he can’t tell us about anyway, we’ve asked him to sign copies of Mockingbird and Perfect Circle. So if you would like Sean to sign either or both to you or someone else, order now. Special offer below (shipping frrree within the US + Canada):
LCRW 18
Sat 24 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., LCRW | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
A couple of people wondered where the car fuel economy figures quoted in LCRW 18 came from. Some came from research done by Erik, one of der interns. Otherwise, the best resource was the Vehicle Certification Agency site. None of the cars seem to get over 70 mpg, but check the 61-70 range and you’ll see a ton of cars by Toyota, Nissan, Smart (which start selling here in ‘07 — send us a demo and we’ll blog it!), Citroen, Renault, etc. etc. Lovely, comfy cars of the future.
Also from LCRW 18:
1. LCRW comes out twice a year. Should you wish a third issue, please send us a check for $500. That issue will be the Your-Name-Here Issue. It will also be numbered for our simpler editors.
2. A new literary award. We believe everyone is special (even those people who don’t read — or write for — LCRW, but this award is not for them). Here is the press release:
June 2006, Northampton, MA. LCRW and Small Beer announces The Eponymous Award, given to all writers on publication in LCRW of their writing. So, Bob Smith has been awarded the Bob Smith Award for Fiction Writing. Jane Smith has been awarded the Nonfiction Award. D.K. Smith has been awarded the Poetry Award. You get the idea.
Thu 22 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Howard Waldrop, To Read Pile | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Books. That thing above is the real and actual Howard Who? cover. More stuff was added to the page. A crap condition hardcover of this can be got for almost the same price as our upcoming pb, but you wouldn’t get Kevin Huizenga’s Ugly Chicken drawing! On Bookfinder, ABE, etc., it runs about $40 for a nice non-library copy, and Elliott Bay, B. Brown, and more have it up around $125 for a fine/fine signed HC. Howard will be at World Fantasy Con in Austin, TX, in November, and you can get him to sign your copy there.
This book should shoot out once word gets around. It’s 20 years old but this is alt. hist. fic. so the stories aren’t dated, if anything they’re just more heartbreaking, more harsh. Was “Horror, We Got” really published? Damn. Should send it out to blowhards and talking heads and step back and watch them get all head-explodey.
- In picture books, you gots to read MOME. The Spring/Summer ish is “Designed by acclaimed designer and cartoonist Jordan Crane” and “spotlight[s] a regular cast of a dozen of today’s most exciting cartoonist.” ‘Tis true. Wacky, deep, odd, not your average kitchen sink-is-clogged-what-should-I-do lit comics antho.
Thu 22 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Howard Waldrop, To Read Pile | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Books. That thing above is the real and actual Howard Who? cover. More stuff was added to the page. A crap condition hardcover of this can be got for almost the same price as our upcoming pb, but you wouldn’t get Kevin Huizenga’s Ugly Chicken drawing! On Bookfinder, ABE, etc., it runs about $40 for a nice non-library copy, and Elliott Bay, B. Brown, and more have it up around $125 for a fine/fine signed HC. Howard will be at World Fantasy Con in Austin, TX, in November, and you can get him to sign your copy there.
This book should shoot out once word gets around. It’s 20 years old but this is alt. hist. fic. so the stories aren’t dated, if anything they’re just more heartbreaking, more harsh. Was “Horror, We Got” really published? Damn. Should send it out to blowhards and talking heads and step back and watch them get all head-explodey.
- In picture books, you gots to read MOME. The Spring/Summer ish is “Designed by acclaimed designer and cartoonist Jordan Crane” and “spotlight[s] a regular cast of a dozen of today’s most exciting cartoonist.” ‘Tis true. Wacky, deep, odd, not your average kitchen sink-is-clogged-what-should-I-do lit comics antho.
Locus Awards
Sun 18 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Books, Kate Wilhelm, Kelly Link, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Locus Awards Winners announced Saturday night at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle. Congratulations to all the winners which included the following:
Best Novella: “Magic for Beginners“, Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners, F&SF 9/05)
Best Anthology: The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s)
Best Collection: Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
Best Non-Fiction: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Kate Wilhelm (Small Beer Press)
Mothers & Other Monsters a Plain Dealer Summer Reading Pick, etc.
Sat 17 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Alan DeNiro, Books, Kelly Link, Maureen F. McHugh | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Maureen F. McHugh’s Mothers & Other Monsters is a Cleveland Plain Dealer Recommended Summer Reading pick: “Unpredictable and poetic work.”
- Updated Alan’s readings — that man is going to get around! Bring it on, we think he says.
- Don’t remember if foreign rights were updated recently (we are horribly behind on contracts — fortunately these ones are done by more competent people than us!). As was mentioned in this story, Magic for Beginners, has sold to the United Kingdom — which is incredibly exciting. It has also sold to Hayakawa, Japan, Donzelli Editore, Italy, Gayatari Publishing, Russia, Harcourt/Harvest, USA pb, Argo, Czech Republic, and Grup Editorial Tritonic, Romania, and Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Germany. This stuff gets updated here.
More rights news to come, yay for readers all over this world.
LCRW 18
Sun 11 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., LCRW | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
LCRW 18 slowly trickles out into the world:
June 2006 · $5 · 60 pages · Black & white with handtinted woodblock cuts by famous and unknown artists. Printed on a 12th century Chinese letterpress on sheets of kelp-paper handmade by centaurs and sprites. Unattractively bound in the skins of dead animals. Alternately: attractively bound in more handmade paper, these sheets fairly traded from The Mysterions: Those Who Live at the Center of the Earth.
Not in stores yet and not out to all reviewers or subscribers but getting there. Slowed this week by more travel but some people will be working on it. Yay for them! In the meantime, here’s what it is:
Table of Contents
David J. Schwartz — Play
John Schoffstall — Errant Souls
Becca De La Rosa — This Is The Train The Queen Rides On
Scot Peacock — Diabolique d’amour
Stephanie Parent — In Ophelia’s Garden
Will McIntosh — Followed
E. Catherine Tobler — Threads
Matthew Lee Bain — A Half-Lizard Boy
Peter Bebergal — A Static of Names
Sarah Micklem The Fabricant of Marvels
Angela Slatter — The Juniper Tree
Jeannette Westwood — Crimson-lady at the Auction, Buying
Fred Coppersmith — At Uncle Ogden’s House
Michael Emmons — A Message from the Welcomer
Veronica Schanoes — Swimming
poetry
Jenny Benjamin-Smith — Two Poems
Sunshine Ison — Two Poems
Tsultrim Dorjee — Son of a Bitch
nonfiction
Erik Gallant — Music Reviews
Gwenda Bond — Dear Aunt Gwenda
[Name Withheld] — Article Withdrawal
William Smith — The Film Column
Zine Reviews
cover art
Emily Wilson
Famke
Wed 7 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Kelly Link | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Congratulations to Uzodinma Iweala whose Beasts of No Nation won the 6th Annual Young Lions Award (and was a Time book of the year and won the L.A. Times Book Award) . The three nights were a total blast and thanks and congrats go out to the Young Lions organization for putting it all together.
On the awards night Famke Janssen (…!) read an excerpt from Kelly’s story “The Hortlak” — which, with the line about the city still burning in her eyes, made a lot of sense. Great reading. Terrance Howard and Ethan Hawke (a cofounder of the award) did lively readings of excerpts from the other 4 finalists (list below). Wow. The next night was the Young Lions Fundraising gala. A drinkie was had beforehand which was smart as reinforcement was necessary to survive the night. Tres fancy. The set were all out in Roaring 20s splendour (or, 20s Splenda: just as sweet, a fraction of the calories, and not quite natural) and lovely it was to see. After a relaxed dinner (veggie options, yay!) all the finalists danced until the place got closed down — excellent stuff, although odd how as the night went on the music got older. Hmm. Perhaps playing to the crowd? Dance, dance, revolution, but without the revolution thing. A surreal week that other awards could emulate!
Sat 3 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Uncategorized, YouTube | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Bear discovers flickr. YouTube.
Sat 3 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Uncategorized, YouTube | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Bear discovers flickr. YouTube.
reviews, signed books
Fri 2 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Alan DeNiro, Carol Emshwiller, Kate Wilhelm | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Alan DeNiro news: Small Spiral Notebook review, Ideomancer interview and review of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead.
New review of Storyteller — of which we now have signed copies in stock:
“Satisfying in its own right, presenting an informative, and entertaining, blend of history, memoirs, and writing lessons.”
– Steven Silver
We also have a few signed copies of our Carol Emshwiller books. (Good news there: she handed in a new novel to Jacob Weissman at Tachyon Books.)
Young Lions
Thu 1 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Kelly Link | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Magic for Beginners is a finalist for the Young Lions Award. This year’s finalists are:
Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing
Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
Ander Monson, Other Electricites
Eric Puchner, Music Through the Floor
There are 3(!) nights of events:
- Tues, June 6: Pre-party for readers, judges, founders of YL, finalists and guests.
- Wed, June 7, 7-9 PM: Sixth Annual Young Lions Fiction Award Ceremony at the Humanities & Social Sciences Library in the Celeste Bartos Forum, Fifth Ave. & 42nd St. (please use the entrance at 42nd St.) In this cabaret-like setting, we will be presenting the Sixth Annual Young Lions Fiction Award, honoring the works of today’s Young Fiction Writers. Selections from the finalists’ books will be read by Ethan Hawke and other distinguished guests.
- Thurs, June 8, 7-9 PM : Young Lions Fiction Award Benefit Dinner
– 9:00p – 1:00a Dance. @ the Humanities & Social Sciences Library, Fifth Ave. & 42nd St. (please use the entrance at Fifth Ave.)
Good news for Elaine
Thu 1 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Sean Stewart | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Elaine Chen, who painted the mockingbird and hand piece for the cover of Sean Stewart’s Mockingbird, has been nominated for a 2006 Prix Aurora Award (Artistic Achievement). The nomination is for the body of work Ms. Chen produced in 2005. The Prix Aurora Awards awards celebrate excellence in Canadian science fiction and fantasy. TT20 is proud to host the awards ceremony and related events at our convention in Toronto, July 7-9, 2006.
Mothers & Other Monsters
Thu 1 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Maureen F. McHugh | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Publication day for the trade paperback edition of Mothers & Other Monsters. It’s in stores now, as they say, or order early for Father’s Day.
This edition has added material (no extra stories, so no worries there, completists) for book clubs and reading groups (PDF Download). There’ll be an interview with the author, questions, and a reprint of Maureen’s fabulous essay, “The Evil Stepmother.”
You can pre-order this one on Book Sense, Powells, Amazon, etc. or from here. Do not miss!
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