Late March Shipping Update

Mon 24 Mar 2025 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

We’ve been working (as slowly as I ever do these days) with Maple Press on getting shipping re-started on our limited edition of Kelly’s novel The Book of Love and the good news is that it should begin again next week.

We have two Character Editions available — Maryanne and Caitlyn Hightower — along with the Lettered. The final count of the Numbered edition will end up being less than 500 copies.

Otherwise we’re continuing to ship LCRW from Book Moon and most Small Beer books from our distro, Consortium/Ingram in Jackson, TN. We’re all caught up with everything there — bar one new subscription which came in this morning, ha!


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.

Added Illustrations

Tue 2 Jul 2024 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | 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.


Stranger Things Happen Limited Edition is here!

Tue 11 Dec 2012 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Guess what just arrived in the office? The Subterranean Press signed and numbered limited hardcover edition of Kelly’s first collection, Stranger Things Happen. What a treat this book is. Someone asked me once why Small Beer didn’t publish it ourselves and I have the answer right here in these two books in my hands.

You can now get STH (as it goes by around the office) in a 6″x9″ hardcover with a fantastic wraparound jacket by Kathleen Jennings. I may have to sacrifice one of the dustjackets to my wall—although Kelly bought some of the art from Kathleen, so maybe that will be good enough. I’ve included two of the title-page illustrations Kathleen did for each of the stories in the book, “Shoe and Marriage” and “The Specialist’s Hat.”

As Carolyn Kellogg noted in the Los Angeles Times, “This is one of the ways that publishers can distinguish the print work they do from the e-books they issue, focusing on creating an object that’s worth having. And Link’s work seems a great place to start.”

Kelly isn’t in the office today but she will be later this week and then we will ship out the personalized copies asap.

Of course the book is still available in our paperback edition—now in its seventh printing with that iconic Shelley Jackson cover—and as an ebook, although neither of those editions include the two-story hardcover chapbook (Origin Stories: “Origin Stories” and “Secret Identity”) that comes with the Sub Press edition. Those are some crazy, beautiful books and here are some photos to prove it:

Stranger Things Happen limited edition    Pretty pretty signing page.  "The Specialist's Hat" illo  "Shoe and Marriage" illo  The back cover — and the chapbook  Untitled  and for fun


Stranger Things Happen limited edition news

Fri 25 May 2012 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link.jpgStranger Things Happen is Kelly Link’s debut collection of stories. It contains eleven stories It was one of the first two books—the other was Ray Vukcevich’s Meet Me in the Moon Room—we launched with back in July 2001 and is our bestselling title. We just recently got in copies of the seventh printing of the paperback. It has also been downloaded more than 110,000 times from our site and others as well as selling very well as an ebook. It is taught at many schools and has been published in Japan, Italy, Hungary, Russia, the Czech Republic, France, Israel, and Korea. Yay!

This October, eleven years after first publication, Stranger Things Happen will be published in a hardcover edition by the good people at Subterranean Press. We could have published this edition ourselves but Kelly has long wanted to work with Bill Schafer and everyone at Sub Press and they are pros at this kind of project. As with many readers in this genre, we’ve long been admirers of the press and Bill has often given us great advice over the years. We own many of their books—and we have all these great books we’re working on so it made sense to go to them with it.

It is also gave Kelly a chance to work with one of her favorite artists, Kathleen Jennings, who has provided the cover illustration as well as story headers for each of the eleven stories.

This special signed limited edition of Stranger Things Happen is accompanied by a exclusive hardcover chapbook, Origin Stories, which contains two stories, “Origin Stories” and “Secret Identity.”

There are only going to be 500 copies, all of which will be signed, and we have arranged with Kelly to personalize copies ordered here.