The Book of Love Limited Edition

A limited edition of Kelly’s first novel, The Book of Love, to be published later this year by Small Beer Press, courtesy of Random House who published the novel in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook on February 13, 2024. The Book of Love is a huge beau...

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Jan 11, 2024
OKPsyche in MN & WI

Anya Johanna DeNiro just confirmed two more events for her novel OKPsyche: (Postponed) 1/20/24 from 3 -5 p.m. at Avant Garden, 215 E. Main St., Anoka, MN 55303 and 3/25/24 at A Room of One’s Own, 2717 Atwood Ave., Madison, WI. I haven’t been to Room...

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Jan 11, 2024
2 Weeks Until Kindling

On a very snowy, wet, dreich day it is funny to write about a book called Kindling but the spark in Kathleen Jennings’s collection is bright enough to shine even in weather like this. (I realize weather is localized and that it is incredibly hot, but...

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Jan 10, 2024
Preorder The Book of Love

We just added a page on the BKMN website for preorders for signed or personalized copies of Kelly’s forthcoming debut novel The Book of Love. If you’d like your book(s) personalized, once it’s in your cart, put the name of the person you’d like it pe...

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Jan 08, 2024
SBP BS Bestsellers 2023

2023 was the another odd year for the press. Since I did the top 14 (BS = Bookscan, now called Circana) bestsellers last year (for a reason that eludes me now), here are the past year’s top 15 — look at all those short story collections!   The post S...

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Jan 05, 2024
The Heart of Owl Abbas

Kathleen Jennings’s new book, Kindling, her first collection of stories, is being trucked from printer to distributor and from there on its way to shops, cafes, backpacks, bedside tables, ship’s libraries, and a few to alternate worlds. One of those...

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Jan 04, 2024
DeNiro on Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans

Something good to start the new year with: Anya joins Mary Anne Mohanraj and Benjamin Rosenbaum on Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans for a conversation about her novel, OKPsyche. The conversation roves all over: on genre, gender, writing, history, po...

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Jan 03, 2024
Not the Delaware Attorney General

Not to be missed in all of this, in January we’re publishing Kathleen Jenning’s first collection of stories, Kindling. The printer, Maple Press in York, PA, is about to ship the hardcover and trade paperbacks to our distro, Consortium, whose main war...

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Dec 21, 2023
Halting Subs, But Going On (and On)

Thank you, Vanessa Armstrong, for this news story about Small Beer on Tor.com. The article led to a small flood of men emailing manuscript submissions and queries, showing that no matter how clear a headline is (“Small Beer Press Is Halting New Publi...

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Dec 21, 2023
Top 5 Bestsellers 2023

Here are our top 5 bestsellers so far this year by numbers shipped from our distributor: Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters Kij Johnson, The Privilege of the Happy Ending Anya Johanna DeNiro, OKPsyche Sarah Ree...

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Dec 19, 2023