Really, is there anything that we can't mangle?
Froth about forthcoming
A few short stories to read from SBP peeps
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Really, is there anything that we can't mangle? Call that a headline?
Something pithy or pissy to catch the imagination? Maybe $1 books
works by itself.

Anyway, the $1 sale ends Wednesday:
http://www.lcrw.net/special.htm

Other titles are also on sale there, what do you know.

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Friends recently started a fight at the old homestead by dropping off
an odd number of these utterly fantastic chocolates:
http://www.chocolatesprings.com/

They are somewhat local, maybe we will go see them. Hee hee. Good
lord, look at that stuff. Now that's a subscription to sign up for.

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We recently announced a few new titles -- and there don't even
include 2 more novels and 2 more story collection we are buying Right
Now. We will tell you first. Promise.

* September: Hound by Vincent McCaffrey
A debut novel about a Boston bookhound, books, death, and maybe the
death of books. This is the first in a series and it will come out in
hardcover.

* October: Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New
Orleans by Poppy Z. Brite
This paperback collects two of Poppy Z. Brite’s chaotic and fun short
novels (The Value of X and D*U*C*K) featuring two New Orleans chefs,
Rickey and G-man, who grow up together, fall in love, open a
restaurant, Liquor, and have some fun along the way. Poppy is writing
a new afterword to go with the novels. Love this series, love that we
get to be a part of publishing it. Huge thanks to Bill Schafer of
Subterranean Press for helping put this together.

* November: Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
edited by Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak. The editors went out
into the fields and found 21 pieces of excellently border-crossing
material. They’re also putting together an online launch party and
auction which will be filled with wonderful art, music, and stories.
The book will be the icing and the cake, though.

* January: Suprise! We are still eating Christmas cake and not
thinking about books. Not all true, though, as Feb. is going to be a
big mouth month:

* February 2010: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black.
Our second Big Mouth House title is a debut collection of young adult
stories from New York Times bestseller (and one of our neighbors),
Holly Black. Holly’s stories have just gone from strength to strength
over the past few years — as evidenced by her appearances in various
Best of the Year anthologies and lists. The Poison Eaters includes a
new Modern Faerie Tale as well as some of our favorite stories of
recent times.

Our distro is clamoring for info on books after that. We say: can't
you be satisfied with the present day? We just published Greer
Gilman's second novel, Cloud & Ashes, and it is a knock out. Can't
you go tell the bookshops and so on about it? Publishers Weekly liked
it ("Sublimely lyrical . . . an unforgettable realm and ideology").
We did, too. It is headbombingly addictive, immersive, knotty,
naughty, and unlike much else around.

http://lcrw.net/gilman/index.htm
http://lcrw.net/lcrw/shopping3.htm#gilman
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781931520553?&PID=26490

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A few things to read:

"The Cinderella Game" by Kelly Link in Ellen Datlow and Terri
Windling’s new anthology Troll’s Eye View
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780670061419?&PID=26490

"The Elect" by Gavin J. Grant online at 3 AM Magazine
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-elect/

"Ourselves, Multiplied" by Jedediah Berry
"Dowsing for Shadows" by Karen Russell
"La Tête" by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (translated from the
French by Edward Gauvin)
all of which can be found in the new issue of Conjunctions (# 52):
Betwixt the Between
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780941964685?&PID=26490

"Saint Andrews Hotel" by Sara Majka in the new issue of A Public Space
http://www.apublicspace.org/back_issues/issue_8/

"Of Thinking Being and Beast” by Michael J. DeLuca in Beneath
Ceaseless Skies
http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/story.php?s=20


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