Wed 30 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Cons | 2 Comments| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Back! Unspeakably awesome. Booked next year. 19 hour drive home. Unspeakably awesome. Next year you should drive back with us.
Busy! BEA tomorrow. (Liz Hand reading and signing, we’re at booth 2431 in the Consortium aisle.)
Next: Monday is the pub date for Water Logic.
Ack!
Wed 30 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Cons | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Back! Unspeakably awesome. Booked next year. 19 hour drive home. Unspeakably awesome. Next year you should drive back with us.
Busy! BEA tomorrow. (Liz Hand reading and signing, we’re at booth 2431 in the Consortium aisle.)
Next: Monday is the pub date for Water Logic.
Ack!
Water Logic
Fri 25 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Laurie J. Marks | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Almost in time for WisCon (and in fact from there), we’ve got a page up for Laurie J. Marks, whose third Elemental Logic novel, Water Logic, comes out in one week.
You can read an excerpt of the book on Laurie’s site — which has just had an amazing update so there are now interviews, pages on the series, a map, and there will even be a song!
Last night at the author reception (at one of our favorite indie bookstores A Room of One’s Own) Laurie read one of the folk tales from Earth Logic (the second book, afer Fire Logic).
Later in the convention Laurie will be doing another reading, that song mentioned above will be performed (by Rosemary Kirstein), Laurie and fellow Guest of Honor Kelly Link will interview one another, there will be desserts, some speechifying, more possibly-fascinating panels than you and your clone army can attend, and a Water Logic book release party held in the local acquarium.
In the meantime PW reviewed the book:
“Marks plays the fantasy of her unfolding epic more subtly here than in previous volumes, and the resulting depiction of intransigent cultures in conflict, rich with insight into human nature and motives, will resonate for modern readers.”
—Publishers Weekly
After WisCon, we’ll be off to BookExpo, where there will be copies of this book (and some of our others) available, then a couple of weeks later we’ll be at ALA for the first time (hello…!)—but more on that later.
And somewhere in between there we should do a giveaway of this awesome book (or maybe a package of all 3 in the series) but we will need to come up with ideas of how and why to give the books away.
Off to load books into a book room and see if the Tiptree Bake Sale is open today or if we have to wait until tomorrow.
lcrw 20
Tue 22 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., LCRW | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
We are going on the road to play a couple of shows (Hello Poland! The Czech Republic! However, we are not going there. We are going to Chicago (Hello BookSlut readers!) and Madison (Helloo WisConites!)) so will be slow to answer email, a little slow on shipping, and really not taking many manuscripts with us for perusal.
Here is an inaccurate picture of the cover of the next LCRW, No.20, and an accurate representation of the T.o.C.!
Order! Subscribe! Writhe! Jump! This High! Phew. Tired now.
fiction
Marly Youmans — Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix
Anil Menon — Invisible Hand
Edward McEneely — Consider the Snorklepine
Steven Bratman — Under the Skin
Michael Hartford — The Oologist’s Cabinet
M. Brock Moorer — The Third Kind of Darkness
Laura Evans — Workshop
Amelia Beamer — Krishnaware
Meghan McCarron — I’ll Give In
Jon Hansen — In the Lobby of the Mission Palms
Karen Joy Fowler — The Last Worders
poetry
Neile Graham — The Tattoos I Don’t Have
Neile Graham — Westness Walk
Rose Black — The Secretary
David Blair — Five Poems
nonfiction
Gwenda Bond — Dear Aunt Gwenda
William Smith — Eleven Things
cover art
Nathaniel Meyer
Hangfire Books
Mon 21 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Uncategorized | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
This is my favorite new blog at the moment, and Will is, in the parlance of the last century, blogging up a storm on books, book finds, zombies, bookselling tools (ok, ok, we ordered a desktop tape dispenser—who knew it was so indispensable?), and, yes, more. RSS feeds available, you know what to do.
Also:
Jennifer Stevenson hops on the blogoplane.
Vice Magazine shouldn’t be good but after the Appalachian issue a while ago I’m converted. (Although they’re stopping with the theme issues, ah well.)
Latest ish has a tiny report from someone who went to check out Sudan. Sudan in a pop culture mag? (Or you can download the Iraq issue.) Ok, it’s not Playboy interviews or Rolling Stone looking at voting irregularities but there is something of unexpected weight in every ish.
William Gibson’s Spook Country — a caper novel! More on that later this summer. Summer? Eek!
We are planning for WisCon (here’s everyones’ schedule!) and Book Expo. We are planning on 2008. We are planning on dinner. Don’t suppose you’re cooking?
Artifacts
Sun 20 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Books, Podcastery | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Last Thursday we threw an tiny local shindig (ouch?) at Artifacts gallery in the Florencian part of Northampton. We had lined up the readers, gotten in the chairs, talked to the weather god and cursed* the Sox for playing that night … all the usual set up thingies. (Need flyers put up fast: call Flyer Girl!)
Liz Hand drove down from Maine, showed us her new tattoo (a work in progress), signed books like she may have done it before, and still managed to finish a book review by her deadline. Paul Park arrived and eventually we headed over to the space: which is huge, beautiful and fills us with longing. (We could do such things in such a space! We could put the letterpress here, the silkscreening could be done over there, the tandoori over over there.)
The Artifacts people, Ann, Julia, and Bob, had done tons of set up and the place was organized. We just needed peeps. And peeps, they arrived. They parked their jetpacks carefully (only one small brush fire) flocked to the refreshments, and admired Susie Horgan’s Punk Love photos—Liz knew some of the people and places!
Happily for us, Erik wrote the evening up for the MassLive Sound Check blog with links to all the readings:
Click here to listen to Elizabeth Hand reading from Generation Loss.
Click here to listen to John Crowley reading from Endless Things.
Click here to listen to Michael DeLuca’s reading of “The Utter Proximity of God” from Interfictions.
Click here to listen to Diana Gordon reading “Sliding” from LCRW 19.
There’s no recording of the hilarious Paul Park story (”A Short History of Science Fiction”) as he is still working on it.
After all the readings Philip Price and Flora Reed of the Winterpills played a short set. It was mind-blowingly gorgeous music and a great cap for the evening. Then there was still a chance to buy books and CDs (and beautiful silk-screened Winterpills tour posters, ahem), and much swapping of “When I first read John Crowley…” tales.
We videod parts of each of the readings but if those go up here it will be in a while. Here’s Diane on the night and Friday’s (weekly) parasite.
* Just kidding. Who is brave or stupid enough to curse the Sox? Not us!
Liz Hand interview
Fri 18 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Elizabeth Hand, YouTube | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Yesterday Liz Hand was in town for a reading (more about that later) and she went down into the root cellar to be interviewed by Jedediah Berry about art, photography, music, and more.
She was very composed for someone who was trapped down there revising Generation Loss for 3 weeks late last year.
Alan DeNiro in a pod
Thu 17 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Alan DeNiro, Podcastery | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Don’t miss the Bat Segundo / Pinky’s Paperhaus interview with Lit Blog Coop spring Read This! pick Mr. Alan “Space Poetry” DeNiro.
LBC Podcast #3: Alan DeNiro
Nominator: Carolyn Kellogg
Nominee: Alan DeNiro
(A co-production of the LBC, Pinky’s Paperhaus and The Bat Segundo Show.)
2 x John Crowley
Wed 16 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., John Crowley | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Tonight: KGB Bar in New York City.
Tomorrow: Artifacts, Florence (Northampton), Mass.—with Liz Hand, Paul Park, 2/4 of the Winterpills, & Others.
In other Crowley news (from John’s blog) he reports that the 25th Anniversary edition of 
is moving along and may be out by September.
Mon 14 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Elizabeth Hand, LCRW, Uncategorized | 1 Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Birnbaum on Generation Loss (where he notes our antecedents and gets a plug in for AVH Books). GL was also mentioned in Sarah Weinman’s Dark Passages column on the LA Times:
Cass is a marvel, someone with whom we take the difficult journey toward delayed adulthood, wishing her encouragement despite grave odds.
Very much enjoying the friction in the reviews that comes from the book being a page turner about a superficially unlikable character. Must gather the quotes on Cass at some point.
We have good news about an ’08* title which we will spill (the news, not the title) at some point soon. (In other words: we have a new book coming, yay! 1 of 3 we’re planning so far. Hello future.)
Mr. William Smith, writer of an occasional film column for our august journal, has a bookity bloggity thing here where much pro-zombie writing will no doubt be posted.
LCRW, that journal, that zine, is in progress: we have a cover and it can be ordered (although there is no page for the zine yet). The final contents will not be known until WisCon or so. We are far behind in our LCRW reading, sorry writers. 3 months reply? Nope. Not any more. Not for a while.
* Updated to say: stupid WordPress. Putting an apostrophe before 08 (as: ‘08) gives the wrong apostrophe. A quick look at a fave reference (Thanks Webmonkey!) gives the correct character (’) for it. Pah. We defeats the internet.
Mon 14 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Elizabeth Hand, LCRW, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Birnbaum on Generation Loss (where he notes our antecedents and gets a plug in for AVH Books). GL was also mentioned in Sarah Weinman’s Dark Passages column on the LA Times:
Cass is a marvel, someone with whom we take the difficult journey toward delayed adulthood, wishing her encouragement despite grave odds.
Very much enjoying the friction in the reviews that comes from the book being a page turner about a superficially unlikable character. Must gather the quotes on Cass at some point.
We have good news about an ’08* title which we will spill (the news, not the title) at some point soon. (In other words: we have a new book coming, yay! 1 of 3 we’re planning so far. Hello future.)
Mr. William Smith, writer of an occasional film column for our august journal, has a bookity bloggity thing here where much pro-zombie writing will no doubt be posted.
LCRW, that journal, that zine, is in progress: we have a cover and it can be ordered (although there is no page for the zine yet). The final contents will not be known until WisCon or so. We are far behind in our LCRW reading, sorry writers. 3 months reply? Nope. Not any more. Not for a while.
* Updated to say: stupid WordPress. Putting an apostrophe before 08 (as: ‘08) gives the wrong apostrophe. A quick look at a fave reference (Thanks Webmonkey!) gives the correct character (’) for it. Pah. We defeats the internet.
LCRW newsletter
Thu 10 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Uncategorized | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
1. Oh, Happy Day: Awards News
2. Exquisite Memoir: And Now We Are Going to Have a Party by Nicola Griffith
3. More New Releases: A t-shirt and two prints
3. Meet Us: P&S at Wiscon 31
4. Last Copies: Mecca|Mettle by Thomas M. Disch and BlöödHag; “Postcards of Doom” by 30 illustrators
5. Upcoming Projects: Matthew Hughes and Thomas M. Disch
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Yes, that Table of Contents is actually from the Payseur & Schmidt newsletter, which you can subscribe to here and is full of interesting books that you should snap up because they are 1) beautiful 2) wow 3) unique 4) not usually reprinted 5) must be encouraged so that they keep this crazy stuff up long enough for us to finish our Epic poem on the Post Industrial Age titled Wooden Wheel Types, A Spoken History.
This week is a biggie for Small Beer, too. It’s Alan DeNiro week at the Lit Blog Coop, Monday was the publication day for Endless Things, yellow tulips came up then were eaten by bunnies in the backyard, and Generation Loss received a stunner of a review in the Washington Post (and a starred review in Booklist: buy, librarians, buy!). And we are trying to remember the recipe for LCRW. More on this stuff (and more) below. More. Losing the meaning now. More.
Hot! We are planting fruit trees. How about you?
Another TOC
Liz Hand
John Crowley
LCRW
Interfictions
Laurie J. Marks
Kelly Link
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Generation Loss is the first book we’ve published by Elizabeth Hand. Yay! It is dark, unremitting, looks at art and says What the Hell? and pops a few pills on the way. Is Maine weird? Sometimes.
Liz is about to go out on tour. Hear her here. Read.
Interview on Bookslut.
Washington Post
Largehearted Boy
EW
Tonight: Thursday May 10 7 PM
Olsson’s, 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20004, 202.638.7610
Thursday May 17 7 PM
Artifacts, 28 North Maple Street, Florence, MA 01062, 413-320-9480
—reading with John Crowley, Paul Park,& others, & music from Flora Reed & Philip Price (of the Winterpills).
Friday May 18 Time TBA
Hiram Halle Memorial Library, 271 Westchester Avenue, Pound Ridge, NY 10576, (914) 764-5085
Saturday May 19 2 PM
Borders, 162 E Main St., Mt Kisco, NY 10549, (914) 241-8387
Wednesday May 23 7 PM
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, (800) 542-READ
Megan Sullivan of Harvard Book Store recommends Generation Loss in the Boston Globe:
“This smart, dark, literary thriller will keep you up at night. A photographer who has been drinking, doing drugs, and alienating everyone around her since the ’70s goes to Maine to interview a legendary photographer and gets caught up in the case of a missing girl.”
Sunday May 27 7 PM
Sherman’s Books, 8 Bay View Street, Camden, ME 04843, 1-207-236-2223
BookExpo America
Jacob Javits Center, New York City
Signing: Sat. June 2, 12-12.30 PM
Reading: Sun. June 3 10.30 AM (Foreword Second Stage)
June 23+24
Maine Festival of the Book, Portland, ME (Reading and panel participant)
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John Crowley’s 4-part novel Aegypt is completed in Endless Things, a beautiful book that manages to end many strands of story without being elegiac or closing down the narratives — a feat few authors could handle and few readers of the series might have believed. It is a deep, sometimes hilarious, and hopeful novel that readers will be able to dig into and enjoy for long stretches of the summer.
The cover is an irresistibly attractive photograph by Rosamond Purcell from Bookworms.
John reads (with Sarah Langan) at KGB Bar in New York City on May 16 and on the 17th at Artifacts in Florence (Northampton), MA.
The first three books in the Aegpyt series are being reprinted in trade paperback by the Overlook Press beginning in autumn.
Reviews of Endless Things:
Book Forum
Green Man Review
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Want to see some neat art coming out of the Vermont Center for Cartoon Studies? Here’s a neat site from Colleen Frakes and Jon-Mikel Gates: Cowboy Orange.
We went up for a visit (in a snow storm, hard to believe now) and were blown away by the concentration of good art and artists. We’ll post more links as time goes by.
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Alan DeNiro’s collection Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead is the Spring Read This! Pick (thanks, Pinky!) this week at the Lit Blog Coop.
If you loved the book or hated it, go tell them, link to it, post about it and then post about your post and call your local radio and tell them. These Lit Bloggers are the book reviewers of today and tomorrow and they are looking to talk to the whole interewebs — and get the internet talking. Their combined voices (and individually on their blogs) are an interesting strand in the cross-all-genres conversation of the moment.
One part of our contribution is an interview with Alan recorded while he was in town for the UMass Amherst Juniper Festival (he’s a good reader and a great panelist, please consider adding him to you festival!). We waited until Alan was hungry, tired, and looked like a greyhound, then got out the difficult questions. (Alan’s signature drink it…?)
Here.
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LCRW links
The new one is in the pot and getting ready to boil. Or something. The latest store to add LCRW to its backroom stores:
Magers and Quinn Booksellers
3038 Hennepin Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Which is a great and groovy store.
The Best of LCRW is on track for a September release from Del Rey. Wacky, no? It should be called The Best of LCRW (So Far), but that didn’t fit on the jacket. So please write that on the cover (or title page) when you get your copy.
It is an excellent book, or at least the parts not written by us are brilliant. Will the world be shaken when it comes out? It will shake with joy at Dan Chaon’s introduction. Then it will be assigned to classes and become part of the Harold Bloom-approved Western Canon. Then kids will start writing haiku as protest and we will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes. We will escape on our jetpacks. We don’t know what future you’re living in, but in ours: we have jetpacks.
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A Speculatively Spectacular Evening with:
Elizabeth Hand (Generation Loss)
John Crowley (Endless Things)
Paul Park (The White Tyger)
Flora Reed & Philip Price (of the Winterpills)
& a selection of interstitial material (i.e. in the breaks) from Michael DeLuca, Jedediah Berry, Diana Gordon, &c.
Celebrate spring with Small Beer Press’s Speculatively Spectacular evening of art, readings, music, and perhaps a little more. Beginning at 7 p.m. on May 17, the event will be held at Artifacts, a new gallery at 28 North Maple Street in Florence, MA. Artifacts is housed in a converted warehouse, where guests will be able to meet the authors, listen, dance if they are so inclined, and mingle as three bestselling authors showcase their latest offerings.
John Crowley, Elizabeth Hand, and Paul Park will headline the event. Crowley, who lives in Conway and teaches at Yale, and Hand, who lives on the Maine coast, will be reading from their recently published novels. Park, who teaches at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will read from his latest novel, The White Tyger.
A variety of other local authors will read their work, including a number of contributors to Small Beer Press’s tiny lit zine, LCRW.
The evening will be topped off by Flora Reed and Philip Price (of the critically-acclaimed Winterpills), who will provide musical entertainment.
Guests will be expected to peruse the art, be polite to the authors, provide good conversation, and, on leaving, remember where they parked their jetpacks.
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When: Thursday, May 17, 7 PM
Where: Artifacts
28 North Maple Street
Florence, MA 01062
413-320-9480
Art: Appropriately for Maine author Elizabeth Hand’s post-punk lit thriller Generation Loss, Artifacts will hold over the photographs from Susie J. Horgan’s Punk Love.
Music: Flora Reed & Philip Price (of the critically-acclaimed Winterpills).
Refreshments: Will be provided. As will seats, walls, windows, and doors.
Tickets: This is not a ticketed event and entrance is free.
Books: The authors’ books will be available on the night at a table manned by stalwart booksellers from Amherst Books.
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Interfictions
Ther first Interstitial Arts Foundation anthology, Interfictions, is out online and in the real world. 19 new stories at a buck a piece plus a freebie—you read it and tell us here which story is the the bonus one! The authors include newer writers as well as a few who are more well known. Adding to the depth of the book are three translations — one each from Spanish, French, and Hungarian — which goes a tiny way to filling the translation gap.
The authors involved are: Anna Tambour, Catherynne M. Valente, Christopher Barzak, Colin Greenland, Csilla Kleinheincz, Holly Phillips, Jon Singer, Joy Marchand, K. Tempest Bradford, Lea Silhol, Leslie What, Matthew Cheney, Michael J. DeLuca, Mikal Trimm, Rachel Pollack, Vandana Singh, and Veronica Schanoes.
We recently did a giveaway for copies of Interfictions. Copies went to the following readers who will paint or sing their reviews on subways near you:
Hannah Wolf Bowen
Bob Scheffel
Hyowon Kim
Nin Harris
Steph Burgis
Look out for (or instigate) interstitial events in the summer months.
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It’s Mother’s Day in the USA on May 13th. Isn’t that nice? Aren’t you going to send her chocolates? Or books? Especially as the US postal rates rise the next day. Seems like a great opportunity. Here’s one idea:
The mother of all Mother’s Day gifts–Mothers & Other Monsters.
Anyone can send Mother’s Day flowers. Mother has always said you aren’t just anyone.
A book for everyone who has ever had a mother.
Celebrate the little monster in every mom.
Mother’s Day flowers wither and candy melts. But with proper storage, Mothers & Other Monsters will last forever.
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Laurie J. Mark’s third Elemental Logic novel, Water Logic, is the first novel we’ve published in a fantasy series. So, they must be good, right? Yes. They’re right up your street. They’re smart, sexy, and political. These books use some of the familiar tropes of pastoral fantasies, but they don’t rely on them. It’s not a standard military fantasy series, it’s subversive and electric. Good things happen. Bad things happen, too. The costs of magic are high.
If you haven’t been reading and want to dive in, start with Fire Logic then Earth Logic. Water Logic, coming in June, is a knockout.
Laurie J. Marks is a Guest of Honor (with Kelly) at WisCon 31. We will have a launch party with special Things to go to those who buy the book — pre-orders will receive the one that is easier to mail. (More on these secret things later.)
Laurie has recorded a podcast (ahem) of the first chapter: Part 1, 2 — or read it here.
Laurie is reading in Albany, June 16, 2007, at Flights of Fantasy Bookstore, 488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY 1221.
If you work at a bookshop and are interested in a reading copy of this, send us an email!
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Are you playing this game?
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Secret giveaway for the readers who go this far. How about you tell us which book you want? We will say no and come back to you with an offer of a Peapod Threesome for a review of at least one? A couple of these sets (tied up in a pretty ribbon) are available. Love to hear from you sweetie.
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Live in Australia? Or somewhere else? Or, nowhere, you ghost, you? How about this:
Independent Publishers – The Brave New World
Join Gavin Grant (Publisher of the US-based Small Beer Press) at 12 noon AEST on Tuesday 15 May to discuss the dynamics of US, international, and independent publishing.
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Ah, respite.
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Link links
Missed Kelly on her tour last September? Catch up with her now-not-so-super secret Authors@Google visit with Karen Joy Fowler.
This week Nancy Pearl included Magic for Beginners in one of her NPR lists (online, not on the radio): Under the Radar: Books Not to Miss, saying, “It’s intricate, wildly imaginative and totally wonderful.”
Kelly sold a young adult collection to Sharyn November at Viking. It will contain many of the stories she has been publishing in young adult anthologies as well as one new story and, since this is her first young adult collection, a couple of stories from her other books. (This last because her previous collections contain stories like Catskin which make it hard for some adults to give to young adults.) Should come out next year and will be followed by a tour (with support from the reformed Guns’n'Roses (shhh, it’s a secret) and the usual Today Show for Kids, Young Letterman!, and other age-appropriate media.
Kelly is a Guest of Honor (with Laurie J. Marks) at WisCon 31. (Hope to see you there!)
Kelly will also be at BookExpo America, Readercon, Worldcon in Japan, a Best of LCRW reading at KGB, World Fantasy in Saratogo Springs in November. Und so weiter.
This is the best way to keep up.
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We alphabetized our Shopping page which might make it easier to use. Do tell if and when you are unhappy with our website.
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Exeunt.
Laurie Marks
Thu 10 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Laurie J. Marks, Podcastery | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Podcast Thusday. Which we will keep to when we have stuff. Mostly.
This week: not Alan DeNiro! (Although he will have an interview posted on the LBC sometime this week.)
Laurie J. Marks has recorded the first chapter of her fabby new novel Water Logic. You can go ahead and read it or listen to it in 2 parts: one, two.
We love this book. It’s the first fantasy series we’ve ever been a part of publishing and we’re very happy to say that the first and second books are available as mass market paperbacks. Haven’t read them? Read or listen to the start of each:
- Fire Logic: read · listen one, two.
- Earth Logic: read · listen.
Paisley & McGuinness
Wed 9 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Uncategorized | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Ian Paisley laughing—did you ever think you’d see the day? The ongoing peace process is an amazing piece of work and everyone who has ever worked on it deserves a pint. On us, if we ever see you. Gives us hope for many other messed up places.
Northern Ireland’s first minister, Ian Paisley, and the deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, smile after being sworn in at Stormont. Photograph: Paul Faith/AP
Ian Paisley, the Democratic Unionist party leader who spent decades denouncing republicans, and Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander, joined together yesterday to assume office as first and deputy first ministers at the head of a new power-sharing government.
Interview with Alan
Tue 8 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Alan DeNiro, YouTube | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
ALAN
Tue 8 May 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., Alan DeNiro | Leave a Comment| Posted by: Small Beer Press
Alan DeNiro paid us a lot of money to publish his book. Unknown to us his family was one of the earliest to make millions from salting maps. When his people flew us to Arctangent City we weren’t quite sure what to make of it.
This wasn’t our experience in publishing (which was more along the lines of breaking into adjunct English teacher lounges and leaving copies of our books around in the hope that they would be adopted and taught).
But Alan’s people were, as Locus said of his stories, “deeply weird.” But also persuasive. So we went for it, took his money (a lie), printed 100,000 hardcovers (also a lie), sold foreign rights to Rabitton, Utopia, and so on, and tried to get Alan to stop going on Oprah (all lies) so that we could work on other books rather than reprinting his.
It’s been a wild ride. Something akin to reading his collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead.
- Read a couple of the stories in a funsize PDF edition.
- Get Alan’s unique reading guide/drinking game guide for the book: here.
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