I was going through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Words Are My Matter the other day and was caught (again) by this lovely dartboard-throwing description of Carol Emshwiller’s writing in Le Guin’s review of Ledoyt: Most reviewers prefer pigeons that fit in hole...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.