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
Limited Edition Now Available

Going to have to make a better post about this but The Book of Love limited edition is now available in Character, Lettered, and Numbered editions. The post Limited Edition Now Available first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Nov 29, 2024
Book of Love, LCRW 49

If all goes well, we’re going to be picking up LCRW 49 from the printer next week and start shipping it out. Ever so slowly, as ever. I could not resist and spent a bit more for the color cover. There are many issues I’ve been very tempted to print i...

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Nov 22, 2024
Breathtakingly Slow Movement

I’ve just added the somewhat breathtaking pricing on our forthcoming 4-volume limited edition of Kelly’s The Book of Love. At the end of the page I’ve pasted in how to get notified. The Book of Love was just included in Time’s 100 Books of the Year a...

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Nov 18, 2024