Kathleen Jennings and Kij Johnson Redux

Kathleen Jennings’s Kindling: Stories has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Award — “Australia’s premier speculative fiction award” — for Best Collection. The cover for Kathleen’s next novel, Honeyeater, dropped and it is worth clicking on the link....

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Apr 16, 2025
LCRW Costs, They Go Up

Damn my eyes. I have seen — and ignored for a year or two too many — spreadsheets such as no zinemaker should see. I have calculated numbers no right-thinking person should know. I have stared at the Sum of all Costs and my very soul trembles before...

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Mar 30, 2025
Making Karen Russell Blush

Karen Russell is out on tour with her new novel The Antidote wrote a great list of book recommendations for Elle. They format it so that each book is finishing the sentence “The book that . . .” and for this one the first answer was Kristen Arnett’s...

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Mar 27, 2025
Nebula Award finalist: Jennifer Hudak’s, The Witch Trap

Sending our congratulations and sharing the joy that Jennifer Hudak’s story “The Witch Trap” from LCRW 48 is one of six fine finalists for the short story Nebula Award. The post Nebula Award finalist: Jennifer Hudak’s, The Witch Trap first appeared o...

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Mar 26, 2025
Reverting Rights

This is to note that we’re reverting — by Angélica Gorodischer’s estate’s request — rights on two of the three of her books that we have in print: Kalpa Imperial (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin) and Prodigies (translated by Sue Burke). The contract...

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Mar 25, 2025
Late March Shipping Update

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...

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Mar 24, 2025
Ayize @ Harvard

Ayize Jama-Everett will be at this Harvard conference on Wednesday and Thursday Psychedelics in Monotheistic Traditions: Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition. His film A Table of Our Own  is showing at Harvard Law School Room WCC 2004 on Wed. 3...

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Mar 03, 2025
Free Sticker Templates

This Wednesday our newest batch of Read Books Punch Nazis square and bumpers stickers will arrive at Book Moon from Rockin’ Stickers. Also dropped the price of the square stickers from $2 to a single dollar. (Previously I’d ordered from Sticker Mule...

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Feb 24, 2025
Meal of Thorns Podcast on Fire Logic

I enjoyed listening to Benjamin Rosenbaum guest on the Ancillary Review of Books podcast with Jake Casella Brookins as they took a deep look at Fire Logic, the first book of Laurie J. Marks’s Elemental Logic series. A Meal of Thorns 17 – FIRE LOGIC w...

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Feb 18, 2025
NALM 7

Just 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...

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Feb 12, 2025