For much of this century — from first conversations in 2005 to the paperback edition of And Go Like This in 2022 — we were one of John Crowley’s many publishers. During that period, he also published with Simon & Schuster (Ka), Tor (Flint and Mir...
Twenty-five years ago this month Kelly and I published our first Small Beer books, her first collection Stranger Things Happen (STH) and Oregon writer Ray Vukcevich’s first collection, Meet Me in the Moon Room. If you haven’t read Ray’s story Whisper...
5 copies of Sarah Rees Brennan’s In Other Lands, which in May we reprinted once again — accompanied by a signed themed bookplate — are up for grabs at Bookfinity: Precocious, snarky teen Elliott is invited to a secret magical school but even there li...
It is too hot to mail chocolate bars this week so while all the rest (I think!) of the LCRW 52s have been mailed, the +chocolate copies will go out next week. The post Chocolate, emphasis on late first appeared on Small Beer Press.
LCRW 52 is off to the printer so at some point soon it will come back, magically multiplied, and we will need to start sending it out. I think that will be while some Book Moon people are traveling so it may take a while. What, these days, does not?...
Who doesn't have at least 52 issues? The post Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52 first appeared on Small Beer Press.
The third paperback printing of Sarah Rees Brennan’s novel In Other Lands is on the way from the printer, Versa Press, in East Peoria, IL, to the Consortium warehouse in Jackson, TN. Not coincidentally, Sarah’s new excellently titled novel, All Hail...
Should have posted this BKMN IBD update here. I’ll be over by one or so. Kelly a little later. Will leave the Small Beer discount up until Monday morning: We’ll have (some of these) exclusive goodies which will be available as of Saturday morning. If...
When I was a kid my dad liked getting a whole stack of Sunday newspapers — which was easier in early years in Ayrshire than in later years in Argyll. Walking, or occasionally biking, a mile down to pick up the Times, Observer, and Sunday Post(!) at t...
Because I cannot keep up with time I hadn’t realized March was coming up so quickly and now we are a day away from rights to Amalia Gladhart’s translation of Angélica Gorodischer’s Trafalgar reverting to the estate. I’d meant to make a fuss a few wee...
Good Day,I've had this newletter open all week but been unable to write. There are so many interesting things going — where "interesting" means "fascinating" not " — in the bookish world but the Stupid World keeps interrupting. Imagine voting for som...
Dear Readers,As you probably know (since I'm coming up on my 3-year Long Covidversary — party time!), I have long Covid; noted here as everything about distributing this book will be done slowly.We've opened orders for our four-volume limited edition...
Edited to add: something went kaput yesterday and this email didn't go out to most people so here I try again. I voted by mail and today we went to our polling place to hit up the election day bake sale and support the school PTO. I hope you will vot...
Hi all,If you are eligible to vote in the USA, I hope you have already voted for Harris/Walz or have a plan to do so tomorrow. If you are voting, please vote the whole ballot. Sister District reported that Republican voters are more likely to vote th...