NALM 7

Wed 12 Feb 2025 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

North American Lake Monsters cover - click to view full sizeJust got a notification from the printer that the seventh paperback printing of Nathan Ballingrud’s collection North American Lake Monsters is ready to ship and will be heading over to our distributor and from there out to bookstores all over.

I need to update the international edition list, too, as — happily — we have a couple more to add to this lisst:

Agave, Hungary. Edizioni Hypnos, Italy. MAG, Poland. Russia. Spain. Ithaki, Turkey.


Never Have I Ever Again

Tue 24 May 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Never Have I Ever coverI’m delighted to report that the second printing of Isabel Yap’s debut collection Never Have I Ever is now starting to wend its way back to bookshops. The book came out last February and has found a very happy readership, no doubt helped by it being a NYPL Best Books for Adults and on both the Locus and Crawford Award shortlists.

It turns out last year I sent eleven books back for reprints — one of those numbers that makes it more obvious why I felt so busy even though we only published six new titles: 4 short story collections and 2 Elizabeth Hand mystery novels in paperback. Even though it takes 2-3 times as long now to get a reprint as it did a year or two ago, running out of books is the best problem to have!

Anyway, here’s to our second reprint of the year — and I’m sending another book back this week and another back next week — may this reprint be the first of many for Never Have I Ever.

Want some more about the book?

  • Here’s Isabel Yap interviewed by Megan Kakimoto at Full Stop.
  • The Washington Post said the book: “overflows with life and magic, and if you are not familiar with the vibrant literary scene in the Philippines, let this serve as a worthy introduction.”
  • And in their starred review Booklist ended by calling it “A joy to read.”
  • You can also read some dark and fabulous stories: Good Girls, Milagroso, Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez?
  • & that fabulous cover illustration? That’s “Serpent’s Bride” by Alexa Sharpe.
  • And here’s Isabel’s site.

Lining up the reprints

Thu 3 Mar 2016 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Cry Murder! in a Small Voice coveris what I’ve been doing recently. And the first one to go to the printer is Greer Gilman’s first Ben Jonson (“Detective!“) chapbook Cry Murder! in a Small Voice. Despite or because of that amazing Elizabethan voice, this is the little book that could. We are out of stock for a couple of days, but, hey, the ebook is always available!