North American Lake Monsters hc sale

Mon 9 Dec 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on North American Lake Monsters hc sale | Posted by: Gavin

This month we’re celebrating the news of Nathan’s novel The Strange being picked up for film adaptation by taking 25% off the first hardcover edition of North American Lake Monsters — was $100, now $75.


Limited Edition Now Available

Fri 29 Nov 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Limited Edition Now Available | 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., , | Comments Off on Book of Love, LCRW 49 | 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., , | Comments Off on Breathtakingly Slow Movement | 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. | Comments Off on Newsletter and a request | 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.


New LCRW on the Horizon

Mon 28 Oct 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on New LCRW on the Horizon | Posted by: Gavin

LCRW 49 is nearing completion, although Kelly’s in Seattle today, so, no, it won’t be quite ready for a bit yet.

In the meantime, I’m emailing 10.1 million subscribers to see if they’ll renew — with a note that, hey, we appreciated that past subscription! Also of interest, we send a backlist title out with new or re-subscriptions.

Must admit it is kind of weird not to have any new books — not counting the limited edition of The Book of Love — since Kathleen’s collection, Kindling. What am I going to do next year? Monthly issues of the zine? (Ha. No.)


1 Year of New Kij

Thu 24 Oct 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on 1 Year of New Kij | Posted by: Gavin

The Privilege of the Happy Ending cover - click to view full sizeIt’s a dozen years since we published our first Kij Johnson collection, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, and I’m delighted to say that last month we received copies of the sixth printing.

Today is the one-year anniversary of Kij’s wide-ranging second collection, The Privilege of the Happy Ending. At the start of this month, she was at the Kansas Book Festival at Washburn University in Topeka where she was quoted as saying, “Sometimes you’re reading for story and sometimes you’re reading for art,” which is an especially good thought to hold while reading the new book.

Also, Phoebe Cramer, Publishers Weekly’s SFF, horror, and romance reviews editor chose it for PW Picks, a newsletter whose “best feature is its most personal: each week, our reviews editors single out the titles they’re most passionate about and excited for you to read.”

The Privilege of the Happy Ending
Kij Johnson. Small Beer, $18 trade paper (302p) ISBN 978-1-61873-211-8
Formal experimentation and fairy tale elements are like catnip to me, so Johnson’s latest collection was hard to resist. Featuring squirrel ghosts, squid girls, and sphinxes, these wild speculative shorts take the form of classic fables, modern bestiaries, and riddles told by crows.

Besides Kij’s Patreon, if you’d like to keep up you can now subscribe to her newsletter.


Scary Books

Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Scary Books | Posted by: Gavin

Every October I think, Darn it, should have posted about our scary books so instead of occasionally thinking that for the next two weeks here’s a skeleton’s handful of scary books all pretty much guaranteed to be a mistake to start reading after 10 p.m. (Although maybe I should have included Claire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius which is terrifying in a completely different way.)


LCRW 48 is out

Thu 5 Sep 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on LCRW 48 is out | Posted by: Gavin

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 48 cover LCRW 48 has gone out into the world to subscribers, contributors, reviewers, readers, surprised people, & so on. I’ll put the table of contents below. I am almost sure it is final. Nicole Kimberling’s column is an especially good one and in keeping with my sometime habit I have posted one of of her previous columns — more Southern Hemisphere appropriate at the moment, but with luck spring will come again here, too — Sleek Fat Albinos in Spring, originally published in LCRW 32.

I have most of the next issue but already the usual November publication date is looking a bit iffy. Perhaps it’s time to retreat to the original tagline, An Occasional Outburst. In the meantime, hope you enjoy this latest issue.

Fiction

Lyndsie Manusos, Mnemonic
W. J. Tattersdill, The Skildraffen Stitch
Summer Olsson, Divergence at the Village Thrift
Zebulon House, Pianoskin Boots
Victor Ladis Schultz, Tributary
Bess Lovejoy, Internal Theft
Jennifer Hudak, The Witch Trap

Poetry

Rachel Ayers, The Soldier and Death
Daniel Rabuzzi, Along the River’s Edge

Nonfiction

Gavin J. Grant, Zining
Nicole Kimberling, The Food of Sadness
Dave Myers, Howard Waldrop Fishing: The Oso Letters 1995-2002
About These Authors

Art

Deborah Mills, b&w art
Gessica Maio, cover art: “Castle Panther”


Joan Aiken’s 100th Birthday

Wed 4 Sep 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Joan Aiken’s 100th Birthday | Posted by: Gavin

Joan Aiken’s daughter, Lizza, posted on Bluesky that today, September 4th, is Joan Aiken’s Centenary. Lizza keeps her excellent Wonderful World of Joan Aiken site going as well as ensuring new editions of Joan’s work keep coming out. I’m delighted to take any opportunity to celebrate Joan’s work — although I am taking liberties here as we were never on first name terms. I think I only met her once when she was a guest at the IAFA Conference in Florida and it was a treat. She was an absolute fount of good stories from her childhood with her writer parents who split up to bringing up her own kids in a bus to publishing her first book of short stories (All You’ve Ever Wanted) to working at and writing — sometimes under a pseudonym — for Argosy magazine and others.

20+ years ago I interviewed Joan — by mail, I still have the answers somewhere in a file cabinet — for BookSense.com, the early website of the American Booksellers Association and happily for me Strange Horizons agreed to reprint it as part of a Focus Issue in 2001 where you can a story, poems, and reviews by Beth Kelleher and Jed Hartman.

I was looking for that interview and I read part of an interview Kelly did with Strange Horizons in 2005 where she said we were hoping to reprint Joan’s stories in a multi-volume set. We’d just started dipping our toe in the reprint world with Carol Emshwiller’s Carmen Dog and we didn’t have the experience to know how hard it can be to get publicity or to get bookstores to carry reprints. So the multi-volume set idea went out the window and instead between 2008 and 2016 we published three new collections of Joan’s stories.

The first collection we published was The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories and — it still amazes me — we somehow reached Philip Pullman who sent us this:

“Joan Aiken’s invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come.”

But the real reason to mention that book is to mention UK artist Andi Watson who illustrated it and to send you off to celebrate Joan’s books by checking out this page of illustrators who worked on her stories over the years.

 


Blurred Boundaries Award Winner

Tue 3 Sep 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Blurred Boundaries Award Winner | Posted by: Gavin

OKPsyche cover Good news for Anya Johanna DeNiro whose short novel OKPsyche has been chosen as the winner of the Blurred Boundaries Award at this year’s Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. You can read more about the awards here and here are the rest of this year’s winners:

FANTASY

Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi (HarperCollins India)

SCIENCE FICTION

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chaingang All-Stars (Pantheon / Harvill Secker)

NOVELLA

Indra Das, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar (Subterranean Press)

SHORT FICTION

Kristina Ten, Approved Methods of Love Divination in the First-Rate City of Dushagorod (Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine)


Alisa Alering, Smothermoss

Thu 8 Aug 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on Alisa Alering, Smothermoss | Posted by: Gavin

I was just listening to Alisa Alering talk with Lindsay Hunter about her debut novel, Smothermoss — which has a great cover — on Lithub and thought you might enjoy it, too. You might remember Alisa had a great story in a LCRW 43.

Alisa Alering on Being the Mountain


LCRPrinter

Wed 7 Aug 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on LCRPrinter | Posted by: Gavin

It’s about true, next issue of LCRW is taking the snail trail to the printer quite soon. Which means I should make an ebook and start getting the old team back together to mail this thing out. Ok, I’m going to need a safecracker and a driver . . .


Readercon 2024, the Aftermath

Wed 17 Jul 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Readercon 2024, the Aftermath | Posted by: Gavin

We arrived at the Quincy Marriott for Readercon a little after 1 p.m. on Saturday. I was relieved and delighted to immediately get into our room and take a break as there was a panel I wanted to see at 3 p.m., The Works of Naomi Mitchison, with Amal El-Mohtar, Kate Nepveu (moderator), Lila Garrott, Max Gladstone, and Rebecca Fraimow.

Outside our room Kelly, our kid, and I were all masked and we all use a nasal spray: used to be Enovid, now we use ePothex.

I took a break then took the lift down (no more stairs for me, meh) and slipped into a seat at the back of the room while Kelly took some last minute books and T-shirts to the dealer’s room where Kate and Jonathan had set up next to friends at the Ninepin and Reckoning tables.

The panel was great. Everyone knowledgeably discussed three of Mitchison’s novels with thoughtful and sometimes amusing diversions into discussions of some of her other books. Her UK publisher does her few favors with the terrible covers they’ve slapped on all the books. Oh well, better in print than not? I’d have been happy if the panel had been twice as long. Well, maybe not all at once. I visited the dealer’s room to say hi to a few people, many fewer than I’d like to, returned to our room and went to bed.

Later on Kelly sat with three friends having dinner and now two of them have tested positive for Covid. I woke up when she came back from that and we ordered dinner delivered. I hoped to make it to more convention programming but I couldn’t really make it out of bed, so that was Saturday.

On Sunday morning after breakfast in our room we went to the dealer’s room at 10 a.m. and I was lucky enough to see some friends and chat while sitting down. By eleven I was done in and we set out for home.

I just checked Bluesky again — good break for when I get so tired every word or two has a typo — and someone reports there are now 20 Covid cases “out of a (rough) total of 700 attendees.”

So now we’re waiting to see if — at my first convention/bookfair/conference in four years — any of us have picked up Covid, too.

That said, I’m delighted that Readercon takes safety so seriously. They require masking in panels and added Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to rooms so as not to just rely on the hotel’s air filtration system. But they can’t control people outside of that. People travel, eat, wander around outside without masks and since the coronavirus is an aerosol that stays in the air (especially if a place gets stuffy), the virus gets passed around.

We’ve missed so many events, concerts, movies, let’s not even get into travel, and so on because 1) I am disabled, and 2) masking is not required. I don’t know what would would happen if I get Covid. Would I, lying on this couch as sitting up wears me out, shrug it off? Hmm.

We went to Readercon knowing and planning on it being a test for our household of The Way We Live Now (ahem). How will I do? Can we as a family go to conferences? (Our kid is 15 and would love to go to more of them.)

The answer is that we’re still assessing the risks — as ever these days. I understand the want for the pandemic to go away as it was so lovely to sit with friends, even if briefly. We’ll just cross our fingers and keep replying on nasal sprays, vaccinations, N95 masks, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes at Book Moon, and asking visitors to either stay outside or test before coming in. I don’t have the energy or ability to return to my pre-pandemic life so I really need to do what I can to not get Covid again.*

 

* I am in the long Covid cohort who never tested positive for Covid, woohoo, etc.


Times: Top 100. Lithub: 71 More. Small Beer: 101+

Wed 17 Jul 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on Times: Top 100. Lithub: 71 More. Small Beer: 101+ | Posted by: Gavin

The NYT, not a paper I’ve given money to in years because despite their usually solid work I find them terrible on US politics — did they ever stop prevaricating and just state that Tr*mp lies? Ugh — and can be awful on minorities and trans people. They have millions of subscribers and don’t need me.

Anyway, their latest complicated listicle is something along the lines of some hundreds of writers come up with 10 books from this century they admire and they made a Top 100 out of that list: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

I’ve enjoyed some of the books on the list and there are definitely some I intend to read. Hilariously Lithub then published What the New York Times Missed: 71 More of the Best Books of the 21st Century. I don’t know if there is any crossover. So that’s 100+71 books. What about the 101+ Small Beer books? Always 10% off on Bookshop.org — shipping free today.

In the meantime, I’m reading Ben Francisco’s Val Vega: Secret Ambassador to Earth which is a pageturner and now our kid wants to steal it from me before I finish. Eek. I recommend it and am open to suggestions for what to read next.


Readercon 2024

Wed 10 Jul 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , , , , , | 1 Comment | Posted by: Gavin

I’m looking forward to Readercon this coming weekend. It looks like we will be there from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. I am hoping to attend a panel on Naomi Mitchison on Saturday afternoon and then lie around and not do much. A number of Small Beer authors will be there —

Benjamin Rosenbaum
Greer Gilman
Jeffrey Ford
Sofia Samatar
Susan Stinson

— and Kate and Jonathan will have some of their books at the Small Beer/Book Moon table in the dealer’s room.

I am both intrigued to go to a convention for the first time since Boskone 2020 (what a close escape as there was an early superspreader event at another Boston convention that month!) and also nervous about 120-year-old me running out of steam very quickly. Oh well! It will be a lot for everyone.

Quite a few people are down with Covid so we’ll be using our carrageenan nasal sprays, wearing our N95 masks, and cross our fingers that everyone doing the same will keep us all safe.

screenshot of many titles by Benjamin Rosenbaum Greer Gilman Jeffrey Ford Sofia Samatar Susan Stinson


Added Illustrations

Tue 2 Jul 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on Added Illustrations | Posted by: Gavin

As things move along on The Book of Love I’ve updated the description and added a page with all Wesley Allsbrook’s interior illustrations.


Ayize @ ALA, July 1

Wed 26 Jun 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on Ayize @ ALA, July 1 | Posted by: Gavin

Ayize Jama-Everett (Heroes of an Unknown World) will be winging his way down to San Diego next Monday to take part in a panel at 2024 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition:

How the World Might Be: Speculative Fiction, Horror, and the Endless Possibilities of Genre Fiction

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Speculative fiction, horror, and sci-fi offer endless possibilities for future worlds – so then why is so much of this genre associated with outdated tropes? In this diverse panel of authors and publishers, we’ll talk about how libraries can maintain a strong collection of genre fiction, and why speculative fiction can still give us hope in the bleakest times.

Panelists: Esme Addison, author of An Intrigue of Witches (Severn House); Bill Campbell, writer, editor, and owner of Rosarium Publishing; Ayize Jama-Everett, author of Heroes of an Unknown World (Small Beer Press); M. M. Olivas, author of Sundown in San Ojuela (Lanternfish Press); Jim Ruland, author of Make It Stop (Rare Bird); Sharon Virts, author of The Grays of Truth (Flashpoint); and moderated by Beth Reinker, manager of Collection Development Curation for Ingram Library Services.

Monday, July 1, 2024 

11:30 AM- 12:20 PM 

Stage: Diversity in Publishing Stage (Booth 2250)

There was a good and thoughtful review of Ayize’s most recent one by Jenny Hamilton on Strange Horizons:

The decision is shocking, and it highlights one of the key themes of the book: we are all imperfect, broken, compromised. The salvation of the world has fallen to Taggert and his team, and they are choosing to answer the call—but neither they nor the reader should be under any illusion that this makes them good guys. They’re not good now, and maybe they never can be. It’s just that they’re all they’ve got. Taggert and Tamara and Prentis are powerful, sure, but the most important thing they are is passionate.
What does it take to save the world — even if it’s not as you know it? Friends, frenemies, family, sacrifice, and a hell of a party.


Approving Proofs, Short Run Printing

Tue 25 Jun 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on Approving Proofs, Short Run Printing | Posted by: Gavin

Just like old days here: sent two books to the short run printer before breakfast — 1 box of Laurie J. Marks’s Fire Logic for Book Moon, 5 boxes for our distro; along with another 3 boxes of Geoff Ryman’s Was. Both books generally receive a small annual boost from Pride Month, which — from a publishing and personal standpoint — heartlifting.

Was is also taught in a couple of universities. If you’ve visited our table at AWP or, really, almost any bookfair, in the last 10 years I may have tried to put this book in your hands. It is a heartbreaker, an absolute unstoppable train that no matter how many times I reread it, I keep hoping the end will be different. It wasn’t ever a book I expected we would reprint but then, after we published the US edition of The King’s Last Song we were able to pick up the rights. And I keep re-reading it, and keep hoping. So many readers have found the same. Ack. What a book.

I started this meaning to write 2 lines: one about reprinting books, the other about approving printer proofs. I am not sure when I’ll next do this so there’s an odd feel to it. What used to be a run-of-the-mill task now holds an extra weight. The proofs are for the limited edition of Kelly’s novel, The Book of Love, and are for the endpapers, the signing sheet, the illustrations, the onlays, and the text, and I am not sure we’ll get them all approved today. Luckily for the two of us, this (hmm, somewhat mentally exhausting, there goes the day!) work also qualifies as fun.


Slow Moving

Fri 21 Jun 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on Slow Moving | Posted by: Gavin

LCRW 48 comes along very slowly caused entirely by my laptop keyboard and trackpad no longer communicating with the computer. Who knew that could happen?


Sooner or Later in New StoryBundle

Fri 31 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on Sooner or Later in New StoryBundle | Posted by: Gavin

Sarah Pinsker’s award-winning debut collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of thirteen books in Catherine Lundoff and Melissa Scott’s newly launched Pay-What-You-Want 2024 Pride Bundle.

The bundle is available for 31 days — today + Pride month! The 4-book basic bundle is $5, and is really 5 books as it includes both volumes of Ginn Hale’s Champion of the Scarlet Wolf. The real deal is at $20 (or more, seems to top out at $100, challenge activated?) where you get all 13 titles.

Every buyer chooses how their payment is split between the authors and the platform (StoryBundle) and can choose to donate 10% to the charity Catherine and Melissa selected, Rainbow Railroad whose mission is to help at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety.

Hope you enjoy the bundle and any help spreading the word over the next month would be much appreciated.


Kathleen at the Brisbane Writers Festival

Thu 30 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Kathleen at the Brisbane Writers Festival | Posted by: Gavin

Kathleen will be on a couple of panels at the Brisbane* Writers Festival this coming weekend. We went to that festival I think a couple of times and loved it. Kathleen is on not just one but two panels with Naomi Novik whose Scholomance books I wholeheartedly recommend. Shelley Parker Chan is also on both of those panels and Angela Slatter — to whom Kindling is dedicated — is also on the Gothic Tales panel.

For a little more about Kathleen’s stories, she just posted notes on each story in Kindling.

* Friends (lovingly) called Brisbane BrisVegas and it stuck for me. Maybe one day they’ll have a BrisVegas Writers Fest.


10 Great Fantasy Book Series Without Romance

Thu 30 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Comments Off on 10 Great Fantasy Book Series Without Romance | Posted by: Gavin

Love to see Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Archivist Wasp (and its sequel, Latchkey) on this list of 10 Great Fantasy Book Series Without Romance by Mary Kassel on Screenrant along with books such as The Goblin Emperor, and books by Pratchett, Le Guin, and more.


They [Do Not] Come in Peace: On Claire G. Coleman’s “Terra Nullius”

Wed 29 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Comments Off on They [Do Not] Come in Peace: On Claire G. Coleman’s “Terra Nullius” | Posted by: Gavin

I recently came across Dr. Billy J. Stratton’s LA Review of Books article on Claire G. Coleman’s novel Terra Nullius, They [Do Not] Come in Peace: On Claire G. Coleman’s “Terra Nullius” LA Review of Books and I’m happy to say it references one of my favorite teen movies, John Carpenter’s They Live, as well as Coleman’s  2021 work of Aboriginal anticolonial history, Lies, Damned Lies: A Personal Exploration of the Impact of Colonisation.” Low culture, high culture, it’s all culture!


Aurealis Convenors’ Award for Excellence for Jennings, et al.

Tue 28 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Aurealis Convenors’ Award for Excellence for Jennings, et al. | Posted by: Gavin

Kathleen Jennings, along with Helen Marshall and Jo Anderton, received the Aurealis Convenors’ Award for Excellence for their article “Science fiction for hire? Notes towards an emerging practice of creative futurism”! (read here)


eLCRW in the EU

Mon 20 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on eLCRW in the EU | Posted by: Gavin

Over at Weightless Michael has found a way — with help from our friends at Interzone — to make LCRW available as an ebook in both the EU and the UK using Payhip. I am very grateful to everyone that 1) there’s a solution and 2) it was implementable.

I am sorry we can’t send chocolate over with the e-subscriptions. I’d say one of these days, but I kind of hope we don’t all end up with food printers in our kitchens so I hope you can get a good snack wherever you are to go with the zine. Is it really an issue of LCRW, anyway, if there aren’t chocolatey fingerprints on it/the ereader?


Kathleen Jennings at the Brisbane Square Library

Fri 17 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Comments Off on Kathleen Jennings at the Brisbane Square Library | Posted by: Gavin

Brisbane Square Library has booked Kathleen Jennings for a local launch event for her debut collection, Kindling on Friday 14 June, 6 p.m.* AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

Meet Kathleen Jennings - Brisbane Square Library

* Flat Earthers please note the time is local, no matter where you live.


Lost Places is a Locus Award Finalist

Tue 14 May 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Comments Off on Lost Places is a Locus Award Finalist | Posted by: Gavin

Lost Places cover - click to view full sizeDelighted to see Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places is a finalist for the Locus Award for best short story collection — along with one of her stories and one novelette.* Small Beer is a finalist which I take it to mean that all of our 2023 titles were much enjoyed by readers.

Congratulations to all the finalists! — including Kelly, for her collection White Cat, Black Dog, and her story “Prince Hat Underground” which are also finalists.

The Locus Awards weekend is June 19-22 live in — and online from — Oakland, CA.

* Still funny to write that instead of two short stories. When does one get used to the names for the various short  categories?


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