LCRPrinter

It’s about true, next issue of LCRW is taking the snail trail to the printer quite soon. Which means I should make an ebook and start getting the old team back together to mail this thing out. Ok, I’m going to need a safecracker and a driver . . . Th...

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Aug 07, 2024
Readercon 2024, the Aftermath

We arrived at the Quincy Marriott for Readercon a little after 1 p.m. on Saturday. I was relieved and delighted to immediately get into our room and take a break as there was a panel I wanted to see at 3 p.m., The Works of Naomi Mitchison, with Amal...

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Jul 17, 2024
Times: Top 100. Lithub: 71 More. Small Beer: 101+

The NYT, not a paper I’ve given money to in years because despite their usually solid work I find them terrible on US politics — did they ever stop prevaricating and just state that Tr*mp lies? Ugh — and can be awful on minorities and trans people. T...

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Jul 17, 2024
Readercon 2024

I’m looking forward to Readercon this coming weekend. It looks like we will be there from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. I am hoping to attend a panel on Naomi Mitchison on Saturday afternoon and then lie around and not do much. A number of Sm...

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Jul 10, 2024
Added Illustrations

As things move along on The Book of Love I’ve updated the description and added a page with all Wesley Allsbrook’s interior illustrations. The post Added Illustrations first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Jul 02, 2024
Ayize @ ALA, July 1

Ayize Jama-Everett (Heroes of an Unknown World) will be winging his way down to San Diego next Monday to take part in a panel at 2024 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition: How the World Might Be: Speculative Fiction, Horror, and the Endless Possibi...

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Jun 26, 2024
Approving Proofs, Short Run Printing

Just like old days here: sent two books to the short run printer before breakfast — 1 box of Laurie J. Marks’s Fire Logic for Book Moon, 5 boxes for our distro; along with another 3 boxes of Geoff Ryman’s Was. Both books generally receive a small ann...

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Jun 25, 2024
Slow Moving

LCRW 48 comes along very slowly caused entirely by my laptop keyboard and trackpad no longer communicating with the computer. Who knew that could happen? The post Slow Moving first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Jun 21, 2024
Sooner or Later in New StoryBundle

Sarah Pinsker’s award-winning debut collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of thirteen books in Catherine Lundoff and Melissa Scott’s newly launched Pay-What-You-Want 2024 Pride Bundle. The bundle is available for 31 days — t...

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May 31, 2024
Kathleen at the Brisbane Writers Festival

Kathleen will be on a couple of panels at the Brisbane* Writers Festival this coming weekend. We went to that festival I think a couple of times and loved it. Kathleen is on not just one but two panels with Naomi Novik whose Scholomance books I whole...

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May 30, 2024