The Positive Side of Mail Theft

Over on Locus, Paula Guran’s column from the January issue of the magazine covers LCRW along with: Nightmare 10/24 Uncanny 11/12-24 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 9/24 Reactor (10/2/24 – 11/20/24) and she writes that “Four tales in Lady Churchill’...

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Feb 10, 2025
Read Books Punch Nazis

I made a new thing today somewhat along the lines of things I’ve done before but, unlike this sentence, much clearer in what is being done! For the last few years various bookshops (and many other groups) have run fundraisers and plain just sold t-sh...

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Jan 21, 2025
Who Reads Lit Mags?

tl;dr Jessica Dylan Miele. Admittedly this is on Substack, which I generally skip due to their Nazi Bar problem, but everyone should see the cover of the Bennington Review. There may indeed be “lit mags that refuse to publish anything but conventiona...

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Jan 03, 2025
Shipping News

Books are shipping from our distro, Consortium (albeit they are slowed down by winter storms). Zines and so on are going out slowly (due to me!) from Book Moon. The post Shipping News first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Dec 28, 2024
Got Poems? Try Snakeskin

Just received a note from frequent LCRW poetry (and sometimes fiction, too) contributor Jessy Randall who asked me to share this with You. Jessy Randall will guest-edit the February 2025 issue of the long-lived online poetry magazine Snakeskin. The t...

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Dec 19, 2024
NY Mag: What’s Your Go-to Book to Gift Big Kids?

Joan Aiken’s The Serial Garden received a lovely lift this week as writer and book editor Lauren LeBlanc chose it for New York Magazine’s feature What’s Your Go-to Book to Gift Big Kids? “Told in stories, this is an ideal book to read aloud at bedtim...

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Dec 18, 2024
2024 Bestsellers So Far

Here are two versions of our 2024 bestsellers so far: the first is from NPD/Bookscan which captures between 50-70% of sales for our books. The second is Combined Net Sold Print Units from our distributor, Consortium — which means books shipped out mi...

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Dec 12, 2024
Late Holiday Shipping Note

I forgot to post about holiday mailing dates. Our office is closed and orders are going out from either the Consortium warehouse or the fab people of Book Moon. Media mail shipping is free. However, if you’d like pre-holiday arrival, please choose Pr...

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Dec 12, 2024
North American Lake Monsters hc sale

This month we’re celebrating the news of Nathan’s novel The Strange being picked up for film adaptation by taking 25% off the first hardcover edition of North American Lake Monsters — was $100, now $75. The post North American Lake Monsters hc sale f...

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Dec 09, 2024