HOLIDAY30

Fri 25 Nov 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

This is an automated post I wrote last Friday about a 30% off sale on all our available titles on Indiepubs, an ebookstore run by our distributor — so you can also add books from Secret Acres, PM Press, Haymarket, Spiegel and Grau, World Editions, and more.

Add as many books as you can want to the cart and then put the discount code (HOLIDAY30) in. The code applies to all our available books. Some publishers may not participate, so be careful of that, but if you’ve been thinking about stocking up or doing the most excellent thing of gifting SBP titles, now’s your chance to save some $$$!

HOLIDAY30


Devoured and Adored

Wed 16 Nov 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Ayize Jama-Everett’s forthcoming final Liminal novel Heroes of an Unknown World is scheduled to receive a great review in the December 1&15 2022 double issue of Booklist and while I can’t quote the whole thing here, I’m happy to drop just these lines:

“A prescient examination of issues pressing hard upon our actual reality, Heroes of an Unknown World is a necessary addition to the genre and will be devoured and adored by the most hardcore of readers.” — Sal A. Joyce, Booklist

We’ve also begun setting up events, first will be at a favorite west coast spot, City Lights Books on Feb. 16th, with more to come.

2023 is going to be Ayize’s year! His next graphic novel, The Last Count of Monte Cristo, illustrated by Tristan Roach, is coming out from Abrams/Megascope in April — can’t wait to read that — and he’s also working on A Table of Our Own: A Conference and Documentary for Black professionals working in the Sacred plant medicine space.


Plus ça change

Wed 16 Nov 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

Meh.


Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 46

Mon 7 Nov 2022 - Filed under: LCRW| Posted by: Gavin

Last days of 2022. 61 pages. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732101
Going out now, but very slowly.

A review on SFRevu.

What is on the inside?

Short stories, four poems from Marge Piercy, and a cooking column because once I read a zine with a cooking column and loved it. I thought it would be fun and interesting to ask Nicole Kimberling to write one and I’ve been delighted to read her columns ever since.

fiction

Mark Rigney, True Songs of the Pennyrile
Gillian Daniels, You’ll Never Get Away With This
Jennifer Skogen, A Fear and a Wish
Catherine Rockwood, Kleine Boot
Rachel Ayers, Snow’s Kingdom
A.B. Young, Terracotta Urn
Chris Kammerud, Goodnight, My Love. Tonight’s the Night.
Ellen Saunders, Baking a Traditional Funeral
S.E. Clark, The Fisherman’s Braid

poetry

Marge Piercy, Four Poems

nonfiction

Nicole Kimberling, How to Provide Shelter From the World

cover

Christine Larsen, October

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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 46. December 2022. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732101. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November [missing from these pages is something about the delay but it is so uninteresting: Gavin, writing this, is chronically ill, slow at everything, and looking at 2023 and hoping there’ll be an improvement] by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw ·  twitter · Mastodon
Printed at Paradise Copies · 413-585-0414.
Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see here or the print issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.
LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through WeightlessBooks.com, &c.
Contents © 2022 the authors. All rights reserved.
Cover illustration © by Christine Larsen (christinelarsenillustration.com).

About These Authors

Rachel Ayers lives in Alaska, where she writes and hosts shows for Sweet Cheeks Cabaret, daydreams, and stares at mountains. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science which comes in handy at odd hours. Her fiction has recently appeared in Metaphorosis and Radon Journal, and she is a regular contributor at Tor.com. She shares speculative poetry and flash fiction (and cat pictures) at patreon.com/richlayers.

S.E. Clark is a writer and an artist living in a town outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Her work is often inspired by the places and people around the North Shore and examines the relationship between the fantastical and the mundane. She runs Aprilarium.com, a home for haunted and honeyed work, and has been published in several magazines including Weird Horror, The South Shore Review and The Drum Literary Magazine. This is her second time appearing in LCRW.

Gillian Daniels’ poetry and short fiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among more than thirty other publications. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, grew up in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, and she now writes, works, and haunts the streets in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. She also makes comics and zines, searches out little-known horror and indie movies, and definitely wants to see pictures of your cat.

Chris Kammerud is a writer, teacher, and performer. Their work has been short-listed for the Calvino Prize and has appeared in, among other places, Strange Horizons, Phantom Drift, and Bourbon Penn. They are a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. They live in Brooklyn.

Nicole Kimberling has only just now started cooking dinner for guests again after almost two years without offering anyone except her wife a plate of food. She’s barely able to contain her excitement about it long enough to function in her day job as editor of Blind Eye Books. She also written several novels and even an audio drama podcast, Lauren Proves Magic is Real!, which, like her column in this zine, is also about food and cooking—just on the supernatural level.

Christine Larson is a Harvey Award nominated cartoonist and illustrator. She has created art for comics, book covers, stories, posters and websites; working with clients such as Dark Horse, Image, IDW, BOOM! Studios, Simon & Scheuster and Cartoon Network. An adjunct instructor at the University of the Arts, she teaches courses in sequential art and comics.

Marge Piercy has published 20 poetry collections, most recently, On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light (Knopf, 2020); seventeen novels including Sex Wars. PM Press reissued Vida, Dance the Eagle to Sleep; they brought out short stories The Cost of Lunch, Etc and My Body, My Life. She has read at over 500 venues here and abroad.

Mark Rigney is the author of Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical (Gallaudet), and his stage plays have been produced in twenty-three U.S. states (including off-Broadway) plus Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Nepal, and Canada. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a past winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award, the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize, and the Panowski Playwriting Award (twice). His short stories have found print, in venues ranging from literary (Witness, The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review) to fantasy and horror (Lightspeed, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, Cemetery Dance, Wyldblood, Black Gate). When not adding to his extensive collection of antique brewery items, he maintains lively outposts at his website and at the New Play Exchange.

Catherine Rockwood reads and edits for Reckoning Magazine, and reviews books for Strange Horizons. Her poetry chapbook, Endeavors to Obtain Perpetual Motion, is available from the Ethel Zine Press. Another mini-chapbook, And We Are Far from Shore: Poems for Our Flag Means Death, is forthcoming from Ethel in 2023.

Ellen Saunders misses baking. She writes speculative fiction in the drippy part of the Pacific Northwest, sings in a women’s choir, serves as staff two three cats, and occasionally attempts to garden. She has been a member of Wordos in Eugene for more than a decade and has driven both of the more talented members of her older critique group into graduate school. Her work has been published in Daily Science Fiction and a ROAR anthology. You can find her avoiding revision by addictively tweeting at @MulletBraid, a handle that should explain her lack of fashion sense.

Jennifer Skogen is a writer from Washington state who is lucky enough to look at books all day as Managing Director of Book Buddy Media. She is the author of the young adult series, The Haunting of Grey Hills, with the first volume currently featured on Realm.fm. Her hobbies include tripping over her two cats (who totally trip her on purpose for sympathy treats, she has been gathering evidence), and going on long hikes with her husband.

A.B. Young writes uncanny fiction for sad queers, a demogaphic they also often teach in their capacity as a high school Media teacher. Their very first story was published in LCRW and went on to receive a 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Since then, they have also been published in Baffling Magazine and Heroines Anthology.


And Go Like This

Tue 1 Nov 2022 - Filed under: Books| Posted by: Gavin

November 5, 2019 · trade cloth · 336 pages · $25 · 9781618731630 | ebook · 9781618731647
November 1, 2022 · trade paper · 336 pages · $18 · 9781618732040

Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award finalist
Chicago Tribune Notable Book
“Anosognosia” reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020, Rich Horton, ed.

Thirteen stories from a master of all trades.

Reading John Crowley’s stories is to see almost-familiar lives running parallel to our own, secret histories that never quite happened, memories that might be real or might be invented. In the thirteen stories collected here, Crowley sets his imagination free to roam from a 20th century Shakespeare festival to spring break at a future Yale in his Edgar Award winning story “Spring Break”. And in the previously unpublished “Anosognosia” the world brought about by one John C.’s high-school accident may or may not exist.

Michael Saler, Times Literary Supplement:
“And Go Like This is an eclectic sampler of his characteristic preoccupations cast in realist and fantasy modes. While many of the tales express a faith in existential possibilities being actualized by pragmatic decisions, a few are darker, dramatizing how ageing, disease and other impediments narrow options and constrain potential.”

Table of Contents

To the Prospective Reader
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines
In the Tom Mix Museum
And Go Like This
Spring Break
The Million Monkeys of M. Borel
This Is Our Town
Mount Auburn Street:
1. Little Yeses, Little Nos
2. Glow Little Glow-Worm
3. Mount Auburn Street
Conversation Hearts
Flint and Mirror
Anosognosia

Reviews

“There’s also ‘Anosognosia,’ the only story not previously published. It’s a terrific fantasia on a familiar Crowley theme — ‘There is more than one history of the world,’ as he put it in the tetralogy ‘Ægypt.'”
— Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune Notable Book

“Not quite like anything you have ever read, a sentiment that applies to so much of Crowley’s work. ‘And Go Like This’ is a distinguished, eclectic collection that deserves a large, appreciative audience. I hope it finds one.”
— William Sheehan, Washington Post

“The stories in And Go Like This are wise, compassionate, and deftly crafted. Rather than straining to hold an operatic note, they tend to hum. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself humming along.”
— Vince Czyz, Arts Fuse

“Accomplished, moving, and wise.” — Tor.com

“Haunting and gorgeously written.” — Locus

“The sort of book that’s perfect for the gathering darkness of November evenings by the fire.” — Amazing Stories

“A compassionate, ruminative eye frames the sepia-tinted worlds of the fifth collection from erudite fantasist Crowley (Ka). The stories are drawn from the last 20 years of Crowley’s long career and span the breadth of speculative and literary short fiction. . . . This collection’s recurring refrains—’pay attention,’ Shakespeare, injuries and aging, the agony of making choices—coalesce into a reading experience like a long afternoon spent with an intimate, excellent raconteur.”
— Publishers Weekly

Daily Hampshire Gazette

Praise for John Crowley’s fiction:

“Ka, is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece. Elegiacal and exhilarating, Ka is both consoling and unflinching in its examination of what it means to be human, in life and death. If, as Robert Graves wrote, “There is one story and one story only,” we are very lucky that John Crowley is here to tell it to us.” — Los Angeles Times

“John Crowley is one of the finest writers of our time.” — Michael Dirda, Washington Post

“One of the finest fantasy novels of the year, gains the power of a true epic.” — Chicago Tribune

“. . . a read that is simultaneously dry and bizarre, but it’s anything but tiresome. Its original uncanniness is only heightened by Crowley’s new edition, and the specificity of its historical moment made more familiar.” — Emily Nordling, tor.com

“Crowley and his collaborators have successfully mixed together disparate elements to create a strange literary concoction that fizzes with creative energy.” — Michael Berry, Portland Press Herald

“The Chemical Wedding is full of outlandish set pieces—candles that walk on their own; a queen’s gown so beautiful it can’t be gazed upon—that might suggest an allegorical reading. But their imagery, as Crowley points out in his footnotes, is inconsistent: any allegory is defeated by the book’s sheer incongruity.” — Peter Bebergal, The New Yorker

“Crowley is generous, obsessed, fascinating, gripping. Really, I think Crowley is so good that he has left everybody else in the dust.” —Peter Straub

“A master of language, plot and characterization, Crowley triumphs in this occult and Hermetic tale, at once naturalistically persuasive and uncannily visionary.” —Harold Bloom

“Like a magus, John Crowley shares his secrets generously, allowing us to believe that his book is revealing the true and glorious nature of the world and the reader’s own place within it.” —Village Voice

“[Crowley] transforms the lead of daily life into seriously dazzling artistic gold.” —Newsday

“So rich and so evocative and so authentic.” —Tom Brokaw

“[An] intricate and stylish romp … both a Gothic extravaganza and a picaresque adventure.” —New York Times Book Review

“An eerily authentic simulation of Romantic literature … beautiful.” — Boston Globe

“Though it’s an impertinent undertaking, it’s also a beautiful success.” —Seattle Time

“A complex, nested novel of literary and biographical reconstruction. . . . A stunning, rewarding work.” —Vancouver Sun

John Crowley (johncrowleyauthor.com) was born in Presque Isle, Maine, and grew up in Vermont, Kentucky, and Ohio. He went to Indiana University and moved to New York City after college to make movies, and did find work in documentary films, an occupation he still pursues. His novels include the Little, Big, the Ægypt series, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, and a new edition of The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosenkreutz. He recently retired after teaching creative writing at Yale for twenty-five years. He has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, Mythopoeic, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. He lives in Conway, MA.

Limited edition:

The sold out third state of And Go Like This: Stories was limited to 26 lettered copies hand bound by Henry Wessells in patterned paper over boards, with printed paper labels, signed on the limitation leaf by the author John Crowley, and including a second tipped-in sheet of a handwritten passage from the book selected by Crowley.