I’ve updated my chart of the ratio of formats Small Beer titles (including chapbooks and LCRW) sell in. Print books (in red on the chart) were 90% of sales in 2010 — we started selling ebooks in 2005 — and dropped to a low of 49% in 2014 (or: we sold...
Brought low by the news that Howard Waldrop died yesterday, January 14, at the age of 77. We delighted in bringing his first collection, the still well and hilariously named Howard Who?, back into print in 2006 and then publishing a later collection,...
A limited edition of Kelly’s first novel, The Book of Love, to be published later this year by Small Beer Press, courtesy of Random House who published the novel in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook on February 13, 2024. The Book of Love is a huge beau...
Anya Johanna DeNiro just confirmed two more events for her novel OKPsyche: (Postponed) 1/20/24 from 3 -5 p.m. at Avant Garden, 215 E. Main St., Anoka, MN 55303 and 3/25/24 at A Room of One’s Own, 2717 Atwood Ave., Madison, WI. I haven’t been to Room...
On a very snowy, wet, dreich day it is funny to write about a book called Kindling but the spark in Kathleen Jennings’s collection is bright enough to shine even in weather like this. (I realize weather is localized and that it is incredibly hot, but...
We just added a page on the BKMN website for preorders for signed or personalized copies of Kelly’s forthcoming debut novel The Book of Love. If you’d like your book(s) personalized, once it’s in your cart, put the name of the person you’d like it pe...
2023 was the another odd year for the press. Since I did the top 14 (BS = Bookscan, now called Circana) bestsellers last year (for a reason that eludes me now), here are the past year’s top 15 — look at all those short story collections! The post S...
Kathleen Jennings’s new book, Kindling, her first collection of stories, is being trucked from printer to distributor and from there on its way to shops, cafes, backpacks, bedside tables, ship’s libraries, and a few to alternate worlds. One of those...