Limited Edition Now Available

Fri 29 Nov 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Going to have to make a better post about this but The Book of Love limited edition is now available in Character, Lettered, and Numbered editions.

4-volume limited edition in black case


Book of Love, LCRW 49

Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

If all goes well, we’re going to be picking up LCRW 49 from the printer next week and start shipping it out. Ever so slowly, as ever. I could not resist and spent a bit more for the color cover. There are many issues I’ve been very tempted to print in color but I am usually too stingy/aware of the economics of the zine for this but I see it as a little treat (my home culture!) for everyone concerned.

And, at last, the numbered edition of Kelly’s The Book of Love is now available on Book Moon’s site. Can’t wait for this to go out to people, too.


Breathtakingly Slow Movement

Mon 18 Nov 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

I’ve just added the somewhat breathtaking pricing on our forthcoming 4-volume limited edition of Kelly’s The Book of Love. At the end of the page I’ve pasted in how to get notified.

The Book of Love was just included in Time’s 100 Books of the Year and Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 of 2024. I’d planned on getting the book out earlier but it should be out soon. Everything Small Beer (or if it’s for me to do, then Book Moon, too) is slow now as I just run out of energy all the time. Publishing this book has been both fun and challenging. I doubt we’d have published it if I were well as we’d be too busy with other title. But this way at least we published two books this year and for this, unlike a regular trade edition, my molassesesque movements mattered less.

(We also have a few unsigned/numbered copies of the limited edition of Magic for Beginners. These are not part of the original edition and will not be signed on shipping.)

The books will be priced at $1,000 (Character), $600 (Lettered), and $225 (Numbered). The prices will rise to $1,200 (Character), $700 (Lettered), and $250 (Numbered) on January 1, 2025.

The art can be seen at the following links: Kelly’s Bluesky photos; Book Moon page.

We ship within the USA. Canadian friends recommend Shippsy.

We will open up orders in two steps. First: the Character and Limited Editions to a password protected page on this website. Second: the Numbered Edition on the Book Moon website.

The order of sending out information/access will be:

  1. Book of Love Ltd Ed Expression of Interest List
  3. Small Beer newsletter
  4. This and BKMN websites
1) The Character & Lettered Editions will be sold through smallbeerpress.com.
— This page will open up on Friday 11/22/24 at 10 a.m. ET. (See preamble if it does not.)
— The password protected page will be open for one week.
— Characters will be given to those who order them first.
— We will refund orders (not including PayPal fee) from any emails not on our email lists.
2) The Numbered Edition will be sold through bookmoonbooks.com.
— This page will open up on 11/22/24 at 10 a.m. ET.

Newsletter and a request

Mon 4 Nov 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal.| Posted by: Gavin

Sent out one of our infrequent newsletters with a few Small Beer updates but also this pre-US election request:

If you are eligible to vote in the USA, I hope you have already voted for Harris/Walz or have a plan to do so tomorrow.

If you are voting, please vote the whole ballot.

Sister District reported that Republican voters are more likely to vote the whole ballot than voters choosing the Democratic candidate.

If all the voters who chose Biden in 2020 had voted the whole ballot, the House and the Senate results would have been different(!).

Vote like your life and your friends’ lives and family’s lives and complete strangers lives depend on it.