Tue 9 Jan 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

January means it’s time for another Tiptree Award anthology (once more cleanly designed by John Berry). This year’s is the third in this series and has a ToC that just shines, baby, shines. Ted Chiang, Timmi DuChamp, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margo Lanagan, Nalo Hopkinson, Aimee Bender, Tiptree.
Also out on the tubes: an interview with Cindy of Doris zine fame. Yes, you should order it.

And after you read that interview check out the glory that is ZineWiki. Or should that be the Time Sink That Is ZineWiki? For it is indeed an amazing place. Phew. Get to work, you heathens! Edit, Edit, Edit!

Another interview: Tim Sandlin in the Jan. issue of Bookslut—which has a lot of good reading. Sandlin is the author of Skipped Parts, a hilarious read, and has a new novel coming out next week or so, Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty—which, if you like labels, is maybe near-future social science fiction. Or, a fun read in which a bunch of old baby boomers (although sadly not Jimi) rebel against their unfair captivity. Give it to any boomer and watch them whine about how it wasn’t like that in the Sixties and anyway, how would you know, were you at Berkeley in ’68? I didn’t think so.
(Exit, laughing.)

And: Sean & Co. are busy again. Win a trip to space. Immerse, immerse!


James Brown, RIP

Tue 26 Dec 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Damn. Look at those feet move. Missed this due to viruses, visitors (& helping Santa out of the blocked chimney), etc. Among other things passed back and forward: Bees and Trees from Heifer.

No snow yet although flurries are promised. Global warming, we see you not. Much.

Hope y’all had fun wherever you were.


Thu 30 Nov 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Just posted a new newsletter. Which contains secrets. It starts like this:

First: Happy St. Andrew’s Day! Get your kilt on, your flask filled, find a partner, and get out on the dancefloor. Scots Wha Hae an’ a’ that an’ a’  that.

Not sure about the dancing? How about raising a glass to Colin Beattie. Who? Alisdair Gray has a blog where he occasionally posts letters and so on. He just posted a wonderful history of the Oran Mor pub (which is a place of beauty due in no small part to Gray’s paintings) which Beattie bought in 2002.

Not such a good thing going on a wee bit south of Scotland. Anyone passionate about theatre and theatre history, please take a minute to add your name to the growing petition to challenge the closing of the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.

VQR has a bandwagon. The fall issue: whew.

Mistype of the day: Skinny Dipping in the Kale of the Dead.


Thu 30 Nov 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Just posted a new newsletter. Which contains secrets. It starts like this:

First: Happy St. Andrew’s Day! Get your kilt on, your flask filled, find a partner, and get out on the dancefloor. Scots Wha Hae an’ a’ that an’ a’  that.

Not sure about the dancing? How about raising a glass to Colin Beattie. Who? Alisdair Gray has a blog where he occasionally posts letters and so on. He just posted a wonderful history of the Oran Mor pub (which is a place of beauty due in no small part to Gray’s paintings) which Beattie bought in 2002.

Not such a good thing going on a wee bit south of Scotland. Anyone passionate about theatre and theatre history, please take a minute to add your name to the growing petition to challenge the closing of the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden.

VQR has a bandwagon. The fall issue: whew.

Mistype of the day: Skinny Dipping in the Kale of the Dead.


Bloggery

Mon 27 Nov 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Did you know there are now more (interesting) blogs than there are minutes in the day? Darn.
Ever feel you are living in a secret history? See the Eos blog where they’ve posted a conversation between John Crowley, Jeff Ford, Tim Powers, and James Morrow. Parts: Two, Three.
Chris Nakashima-Brown and a number of other Texan-area writers claim they have No Fear of the Future.

Texans, even those who move there, like the stance-based blog title, a good example being Maureen McHugh’s No Feeling of Falling. Go for the recipes, stay for the pictures, subscribe for continued happiness.


Octavian Everything

Thu 16 Nov 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation: Volume One, The Pox Party CoverIn our usual post-literate manner: Yay! And: Good Golly.

The ABA claims M.T. Anderson received the National Book Award last night for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation: Volume One, The Pox Party.

Numerous other internetty places confirm it, so it must be true: yay again!

Last night we were at McIntyre’s Books in Pittsboro, NC, where Kelly read to a nice wee crowd and Beth (hello Beth!) drew a monkey face in our book and we (hopefully) persuaded her to read above said book which is too rich and too smart for us to write about. Just go pick it up and read it!


Elsewhere on the web:

Mon 13 Nov 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Did we ever post these? No. Ooops. Been working on our MySpaceShip page. (It will be shiny, shiny, shiny! The spaceship. Not the page. Which will not ever exist. Until it does.)

Actually, we have been driving (hence everything being slow) and being awestruck at the devastated New Orleans. Democrats who just gained power: get to work.
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Ain’t it Cool News takes on the challenge of Alan‘s collection.
Gwenda pointed us to our next car. Not saying which one.
Richard points toward this Flickr set of an ancient zine:

“The first issue of the magazine produced inside the WWI camp for English POWs in Germany. My grandfather, Sol Geduld, was the German-born son of a British subject (Harris Geduld) and put in Ruhleben at the age of 8 in the year 1915 where he lived for one year until he was traded with his father in exchange for two German prisoners.”

A recent note from the lovely folk in Cauheegan and Seattle (that would be Payseur & Schmidt — join their list at postmaster@list.payseurandschmidt.com), informed us of a few lovely oddities slipping out into the world:

John Clute and 30 Amazing Illustrators – The Darkening Garden: A Lexicon of Horror

The wait is over. Our second beautiful hardcover book is back from the printers and ready to ship. Those of you who pre-ordered will be getting your copies very soon. If you haven’t pre-ordered, now’s your chance to own this stunning, limited-edition book. John Clute explores the darker side of the fantastic with 30 motifs of horror, each accompanied by a full page illustration from a talented artist, illustrator, or designer. This material will eventually be incorporated into the author’s not-yet-published scholarly opus, The Encyclopedia of the Fantastic. 170 pages, casebound, signed and numbered by the author, and limited to 500 copies. $45.00

Postcards of Doom

This exclusive set of 30 lovely postcards highlights the hot young illustrators and artists who grace the pages of John Clute’s Darkening Garden. Printed by Payseur & Schmidt’s specialty printing pals thingmakers.net, this postcard set is housed in a deluxe die-cut box (which itself is illustrated by Adam Grano.) Limited to 300 numbered sets. $20.00

Therese Littleton – Teeth

A story of genetic transformation, interspecies conflict, and fresh seafood by Therese Littleton, author of A Case for Cannibalism and The Diving Belle. Signed and numbered limited edition of 125. 18 pages. Deluxe screen printed jacket. Each hand-stitched chapbook comes with a unique souvenir shark’s tooth. $10 plus shipping.

The shark’s tooth is a real eye-catcher, as it were.


Happy Halloween

Tue 31 Oct 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Yes: we are going to Texas for the WFC. (To sing Joe Hill songs!) Kelly is not, apparently reading there, but we’ve got a nice reading on Sunday at 5 PM at Book People with Kelly, Howard Waldrop, and Ellen Kushner. Phew, that’s talent. Everyone else is reading here.
There’s a bookshop t-shirt tour pic here for Book People somewhere.

If this is your month to write a novel (and this is said with love): break a leg!

We’re in the American Southwest and the camera cannot be attached to the computer due to cord-at-home-itis. Duh. Must take pix anyway. Mactop can take pix with its scary little eye watching all the time. See what we’re doing now? Huh? Hello Big Brother. [Hello, said Steve J. What’s Up?]

We are in the American Southwest (as above) and the food is mostly pretty good! But it means all those submissions are just piling up back at the office. Eyargh.

LCRW? Sometime soon!

Let’s see: war in Iraq. A cockup. Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer. % of companies offering health insurance has dropped from 69% in 2000 to 60% now. (Whose term does that coincide with?). Yep: now is the time for gasoline prices to fall and to raise the fear terrorist threat level to Vote!


Slither!

Thu 26 Oct 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

For those who like the horror movies, Slither, Kelly’s favorite horror movie since Shaun of the Dead, is now available on DVD.

For those who keep track of these things, it stars Nathan Fillion of various things and is directed by James Gunn (who wrote The Specials—an excellent little film—and the newer Dawn of the Dead). Apparently it’s smart and funny and plays with all kinds of horror conventions.

Kelly would be like the millions of peeps who missed this if it weren’t for some smart folk in North Carolina who dragged her to see it. They knew what they were doing (thanks!) and she’s been telling people about it ever since. She got her copy yesterday.


T-shirt tour

Thu 5 Oct 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Prairie Lights, Iowa City. Nice aesthetic. Pity about the bod.


Bye, Mark. Bye Dennis? Bye bye George.

Wed 4 Oct 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Mark Foley may bring down the government. (Perhaps it’s time to start drinking, not stop?) After the torture “debate”, hackable voting machines, pushing a war (or two, hello Afghanistan, increased opium production and all) based on false (where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?) premises, an energy policy crafted by oil insiders, and so (endlessly) on for the last six years, the present administration is going down over this? Sure, why not.

Didn’t they learn from last time they were in power? It’s the Cover Up, stupid.

Mark Foley is a poor fuck-up who we now hear was an abused kid, is gay, and a drunk—still waiting to hear his next excuse; believe it has something to do with being paid to send those IMs by the Democratic National Committee. He was the Co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children by day and, by day, exploiting children. The question rattling through Washington is who knew what he was doing and when?

Who thought it was a good idea to shuffle reports of his behavior into the “to do later” pile? Fire them all! This isn’t anti-Republican. It’s not a campaign orchestrated by anyone: if anything it’s a consensual cover-up being exposed. The IMs are coming from ex-Pages (who don’t want their own careers ruined), not from anyone else in DC.
There’s no organization, company, or group in the world who wouldn’t be calling for the heads of anyone involved in not acting on this information.


Generalized ineptitude/updatitudinal

Fri 29 Sep 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Friday afternoon and the tree limbs are scraping against the window. How did they get here, to the 54th floor? We send one of the temp typographers over to open the window and he is never seen again. Did he run out to get more ink, or did the trees take him? The light is yellow, burning, and our secret HQ’s engines aren’t responding. We have done our Scotty imitation but so far we are stuck. And the tree branches are scraping, scraping.

—

Kelly Link and Shelley Jackson read tonight at Amherst Books in Amherst, MA, and next Sunday at KGB Bar in NYC. They read last night at Newtonville Books with Kelley Kerney (who read from her funny and dark first novel Born Again). Newtonville has a great reading series: Books and Brews. Smart peeps who know readings always go better with drinkies. Newtonville Books is also the spiritual home of a smart mag, Post Road, of which we are often enjoying.
LCRW 19 is becoming an item. The fun thing about this: it is the ten year anniversary issue. You will know because everything will be repeated 10 times. Times. Times. (Etc.) Table of contents, type of chocolate, still to be fully determined. Yes, we are pushing it. No, reviewers can’t get it yet. No one can.

Exciting LCRW news will be released to the tubes at some point. Until then go phone the White House and see if Mr. Stupid will explain his latest abuse of the constitution.

Incessantly listening to Thom Yorke. (There’s a site for his new CD, but it’s filled with flash and pdfs, so, really, what’s the point. That’s not browsing, that’s work.)

Good books and mags have been flooding in for this year’s Year’s Best. Now we are officially buried. Yay!

[Update] Good news about the 2006 edition: our editor reports the paperback edition just went back to press.
Big developers with no taste want to knock down Las Manitas restaurant in Austin, TX. How dumb is this? Does Marriott really want to close down a childcare facility and lose the best breakfast place for blocks around? Not a smart pr move. (Thanks for breaking our hearts, Robert.)

Git ye to an apple farm and pick.


Text Edit, energy, stickers.

Tue 19 Sep 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

For anyone fed up with how slow Word can be, Jed Berry pointed us to this handy text editor: a modified version of TextEdit. Get the Ogre Kit extras too, set the preferences, and off we go.

Futurismic points to good energy news:

Since 2000, global wind energy generation has more than tripled; solar cell production has risen six-fold; production of fuel ethanol from crops have more than doubled; and biodiesel production has expanded nearly four-fold. Annual global investment in “new” renewable energy has risen almost six-fold since 1995, with cumulative investment over this period nearly $180 billion.

Cafe Press updates (very irregular):


Edge of Darkness

Thu 7 Sep 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Mid-1980s, the ‘star wars’ defense, the women’s camp outside Greenham Common, Northern Ireland a quagmire, Joanne Whalley, Joe Don Baker, the late Bob Peck, slippery backroom government wallahs hand-in-hand with the industries they’re meant to regulate, the miners strike, Bloody Thatcher, ghosts…. All of this was put together in Edge of Darkness (Imdb) a thoughtful, deep BBC thriller that 20 years later still stands as one of the best series ever made.
Thanks to a certain plugged-in zinester for reminding me to go see if it was available yet. It’s now available in the UK and at some point should be released in the US.


Happy Birthday Douglas!

Thu 3 Aug 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Happy Birthday Douglas!

– John Scalzi (who earlier interviewed Alan) puts Ellen Kushner to the sword in a very good interview.

– Locus picked Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead for their Notable Books: “Deeply weird, sometimes challenging, but always smart and affecting.” Yes indeedy.

– Also: “Endlessly imaginative,” says Venus magazine.

– Local pop stars The Fawns have a new CD out, A Nice Place to Be. They had a launch gig the other night at The Elevens in Northampton (they’re playing next on Saturday, August 26, for free at The Basement). Delightful, funny, smart, what’s not to like? Poptastic. Makes a good break in between the Tilly and the Wall CDs. Pop for it! While that is in the mail to you, why not listen to their firstlCD, Smiling. Wonder if they’d go over well at Wiscon?


Brudders of der Head

Fri 28 Jul 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Check our email announcement list for some more news. Especially about “Brothers of the Head” which is a dark, elegant film about a proto punk band formed around a pair conjoined twins. Opens in NYC and LA Friday.


Delocate yourself for coffee, books, films

Fri 28 Jul 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Add things to Delocator, make it even more useful. You can find indie cafes, bookshops, and cinemas — this is what I’ve been looking for for ages. Brilliant idea. There are probably hundreds of such sites but this one didn’t have tons of distracting ads and so on, it just does what it says it does. But, it needs more content, so: add your fave coffee shop today.


Poetic fruit and some readings

Mon 24 Jul 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Meanwhile, we are out the back with Seamus Heaney Blackberry Picking. We are not, however, entertaining takeover bids from the Ocean Spray cranberry collective, no matter what you may have read in today’s Wall Street Journal.– More readings: Kelly is teaching the final two weeks of the Clarion East workshop with Holly Black and is reading with Holly on the 26th at 7 PM -at the Capital Area District Library, 401 S. Capital Ave, Lansing, MI 48933 517-367-6363 and by herself at the lovely Archives Book Shop, 517-519 W. Grand River, East Lansing, MI 48823.

Half Life– Should you be on the west coast tonight, you have the chance to go see Shelley Jackson read from her new novel Half Life:

July 24, 8 PM – Dog Eared Books, 900 Valencia St (@ 20th), San Francisco (415)282-190
July 25, 7 PM — Cody’s Books 1730 4th Street, Berkeley 510-559-9500
July 26, 7:30 PM — Powells City of Books 1005 West Burnside, Portland 503-228-4651
July 29, 7:30 PM — Elliot Bay Books 101 South Main St, Seattle 206-624-6600
More here.


SBP1 – Erik the Shipping Tzar

Thu 6 Jul 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Erik the Shipping Tzar (self-declared) tells the whole truth on YouTube. (More lo-res videos to come.)


Fireworks +

Tue 4 Jul 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Get out there and celebrate the freedoms you have!

– Sean Stewart came and went and signed lots of books in the meantime. And … left us an ARC of Cathy’s Book — yay!


Sat 3 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Bear discovers flickr. YouTube.


Sat 3 Jun 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Bear discovers flickr. YouTube.


May reading

Mon 22 May 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

– Not to be missed: a huge LA Times profile of Jim Sallis and review of his latest book.

– Takedown in Jill Lepore’s New Yorker review of Nathaniel Philbrick’s book Mayflower, a history of King Philip’s War (ca. 1675) in which Philbrick relies on a biography of Benjamin Church written by his son long after the war:

On the second-to-last page of his book, he [Philbrick] reluctantly concedes that Church is a “persona,” even as he insists that “Church according to Church is too brave, too cunning, and too good to be true is beside the point.” This is about as reasonable, and as indefensible, as writing a history of the Vietnam War that relies extensively and uncritically on an “autobiography” of John Kerry written in 2013 by Kerry’s daughter Vanessa.

– Congrats to Rick Bowes whose SCI FICTION story ” There’s a Hole in the City” won the Million Writers Award. (Seen at Matt‘s.)

– “The United States announced that it would free 141 of the 490 “enemy combatants” at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba because they do not threaten U.S. security after all.” (Harpers Weekly)

– New story on Strange Horizons by Gavin Grant: “We Are Never Where We Are.”

– Today’s moral leader: Steve Almond? Wow. Go Steve. (Seen at Bookslut.)

Like the president whom she serves so faithfully, she refuses to recognize her errors or the tragic consequences of those errors to the young soldiers and civilians dying in Iraq. She is a diplomat whose central allegiance is not to the democratic cause of this nation, but absolute power.

This is the woman to whom you will be bestowing an honorary degree, along with the privilege of addressing the graduating class of 2006.

It is this last notion I find most reprehensible: that Boston College would entrust to Rice the role of moral exemplar.


April reading &c.

Sat 29 Apr 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Jane Jacobs died yesterday in Toronto at the age of 89. She lived there because she thought it was one of the best cities in the (Western) world. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities has had a great effect on city planners (and should be read by the people guilty of suburbing this country to death). She synthesized a ton of information and makes it palatable to the general reader. One smart woman. You could do worse than read more of her books.

– Meant to post a link to this obit for Muriel Spark who wrote many enjoyable books gave Maggie Smith the role of a lifetime.

– The Zoo Press story keeps going the rounds and Tom Hopkins won’t let it go — yay!

– Mad comic book update. As in, update on a mad comic book, not a long, impassioned, knowledgeable update on many comics. Mostly because while traveling we are piling up comix at our local comic shop (hoping they have added the new Kevin Huizenga titles) which means that at some point there will be champagne, chocolate truffles, and a pile of comics-day. Always a day to look forward to.

Meanwhile, the people at NBM keep putting out these absolutely crazy Lewis Trondheim books (as do Fantagraphics — great days for picturebook lovers). First “read” (as they’re often wordless) some of the minibooks (Diablotus was noted but not much said about it in LCRW 4) and loved the whimsy — not something that’s generally hugely popular around here — cut with irony.

Meanwhile, the people at NBM keep putting out these absolutely crazy Lewis Trondheim books (as do Fantagraphics — great days for picturebook lovers). First “read” (as they’re often wordless) some of the minibooks (Diablotus was noted but not much said about it in LCRW 4) and loved the whimsy — not something that’s generally hugely popular around here — cut with irony.

The latest NBM book is Dungeon Twilight Vol.1 Dragon Cemetery. There’s a whole complicated back story about a stopped planet with a dark side and a light side (hmm, think of the storms at the dark/light edge!) but what’s really going on is an absolutely mad quest with the Dust King, a barbarian-in-training rabbit who named himself after his hero, Marvin, giants, love (why not?), and so on.

If, since you stopped reading Conan and Rider Haggard, you miss the mountains of skulls those titles often featured; quick, order the book.

Talking of poetry (and we know you were as you are a secret poet (except your secret is out now!) and you have been gleefully using April, NatPoMo to you, to push chapbooks on everyone you know, you bastard) here’s an enthusiastic if uninformed recc: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Lug Your Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk is great. It’s made up of seven long poems, you can read part of one here — which was also published in a chapbook, A Ghost As the King of the Rabbits.

Poetry is like stained glass windows, there’s light coming through and it illuminates the world in odd ways. Some people like it, some don’t. The light coming through here is hypnotic (hey, isn’t all poetry to a certain extent?) and addictive.

– Strange Horizons are in the midst of their spring fund drive. Please consider supporting them. With Scifi.com closing Scifiction last year and the recent closing of Fortean Bureau this is an especially good time to support Strange Horizons. Also, they have some great gifts (including a limited edition of Mothers & Other Monsters) and even memberships. Ok, it’s always a good time.

I doubt Strange Horizons will have Kelly Hogan singing backup the way the amazing Neko Case does on her current tour (Do Not Miss), but they do have annual Reader Awards and apparently readers are enjoying speculative poetry and getting put off starting a small press, yay!

Articles

Also, in reviews, Third Place went to a review of Magic for Beginners by Geneva Melzack. Congrats to all the winners and thanks to all the readers who read and voted.

One of the nice things about editing the Year’s Best Fantasy is that people will sometimes send or give you books. (Of course, sometimes we can’t track down the books we’d really like to read which sucks.)

Last year at some convention Scott Thomas (I think!) gave us a copy of his book, Westermead. It sat on the shelf (we have a section of the office where Year’s Best materials pile up. It is not always pretty or tidy.) for a while until one of those days when a stack (in this case a stack is the length of one’s arm) was moved to a reading area for some quick smart reading. Westermead slowed everything right down. Its a collection of linked stories that borrows from nineteenth century pastoral novels without being the usual pastoral fantasy. It isn’t just the odd twists that the stories take, it’s the embedded stories and mythologies, the depth of the world glimpsed at in the margins. In some ways this was more reminiscent of the pastoral novels of Thomas Hardy or the short stories of M.R. James than other fantasy novels. Either way, a treat. Westermead is also available in a beautiful over-sized limited edition.

– A review of Justina Robson’s Living Next Door to the God of Love. Is it the title that makes readers love this book?

– Publishers Weekly did their annual science fiction and fantasy issue (yes, we all have issues) including a good piece on the state of the nation by by Gwenda Bond.


Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Fri 17 Mar 2006 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Drive out the snakes! Don’t drink that green stuff. Go to bed early. (Pardon?)

Variety and other sources say Hugh Jackman’s production company has optioned Jim Sallis’s short novel, Drive. Yay! (Another link: Dark Horizons)

A couple of things. Karen Joy Fowler has a thoughtful piece on Octavia Butler on Salon. Among the letters is one from a guy who has never read Butler and therefore she must be completely unimportant. Makes a limited amount of sense. Not mocking, just hope he gets to read some of those messy, fluid novels sooner rather than later.

From the Times Argus in Vermont comes the best reason for someone to call you at 6 AM: “Katherine Paterson wins international award, $640,000 prize.” The award is the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature established by the Swedish government and is great PR. Hopefully other governments will pick up this idea and start new awards. More awards?! Sure, more book awards which pay like that!

On $$$, Borders revenues were $4bn in 2005. B+N’s were $5bn. Small Beer tops them all with $5.0000001bn! The surprise breakout bestsellerdom of LCRW No. 15 (1.14bn sold and counting [if you’re waiting for yours we just got the 291st printing in stock]) added an unexpected $5bn to Small Beer’s revenue which resulted in a year on year percentage gain in sales that is too large for our tiny calculator to calculate. Paradise Copies in Northampton, MA, who print LCRW, were reported as saying over and over again, “Sure, we can get this to you by Monday.”

Great art. Neko Case‘s new CD has cover and some interior art by Julie Morstad — see more of her art here or order a kid’s book she illustrated When You Were Small by Sara O’Leary.


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