Happy Adventurists Day!

Tue 22 Mar 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

The Adventurists coverHappy publication day to Richard Butner whose debut collection The Adventurists comes out today and should be available at all your favorite indie (and other) bookshops! If you’d like a taster,  you can read or listen to Ash City Stomp [audio], or read Circa, or read Under Green which was just published this month in Uncanny.

It’s been fun to see the wide variety of places these stories were first published in: from Crimewave (“Holderhaven”) to F&SF (“Give Up”), LCRW (“Pete and Earl) to Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, (“Horses Blow Up Dog City”) — and of course there are a good number of new stories in the book. The first story, “Adventure,” also appears in the new issue of The Deadlands which came out three days ago. That story just gets better every time I read it.

We’ll have more about the book soon. All the pre-orders were sent out this week — thank you! Some are delivered, some still on their way — sorry about that, I usually try and have them arrive by or before publication day. But we did include a bonus book where we could so maybe that will make up a little.

The Adventurists is available with a lovely felted-paper cover and also as a DRM-free ebook from Weightless — and maybe a DRM’d edition everywhere.

Richard, who was just at ICFA this weekend, will be doing a couple of North Carolina readings — pre-order your signed copies here:

April 2, 6 p.m. Richard Butner, John Kessel, & Wilton Barnhardt, So and So Books, Raleigh, NC

May 17, 6 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC

And we’ll have more reviews and stories online and things to talk about in coming weeks. Kelly has been planning this for years and it is just great to have this book out. Enjoy!