Blue Square Press will be in Jackson Mississippi August 9th at Lemuria Books celebrating the release of Jack Boettcher's novel, Theater-State.
Link to Lemuria: here.
The event starts at 5:00 PM. It would be rad if you could come. Talk to us.
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7/23/11
4/20/11
Blue Square Press Supports books
Blue Square Press will buy a copy of Darby Larson's The Iguana Complex (published by Nephew) for the first two people who purchase- and leave a comment on this post- both Flowing in the Gossamer Fold and Theater-State for $20 at the following link, here. The first two people who follow the (here) link, purchase and comment will receive Darby Larson's book for free. Darby Larson is awesome. Check out Abjective if you don't already.
About Nephew: "Nephew, an imprint of Mud Luscious Press, publishes raw & aggressive pocket-sized titles in limited-editions of 150 copies or for a sales period of 90 days, whichever comes first. There will be no subsequent editions."
As I type this there are 50 copies or 34 days left, whichever comes first.
Have a good day.
12/13/10
The Knox Writers’ House, a List, a List.
1.
Three rad students from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (Sam Conrad, Emily Oliver and Bryce Parsons-Tweston) came to my house today to record my voice. They started driving around the Midwest in June talking to over 80 writers about their work, recording audio poems and stories in each place they stopped. Now they're in the South. This massive project will result in an impressive collection of voices that will be presented and archived on their eventual website "The Knox Writers' House." They are backed by grants and stuff. They sleep on couches. They are super nice.
They recorded me reading the following: Excerpted chapters from Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 11 (the book has 40 chapters). Two short stories: Tattered, Velvet, Ocean & Smother.
They also ask each writer they record to read somethings from people they admire: I read dolemite by Sean Kilpatrick, Three Boys Who Thought Experimental Fiction Was For Pussies by Dennis Cooper, and The Well by Jesse Ball.
I'll let you know when the recordings are up, probably sometime early to mid next year. I don't want to spoil the surprise but when The Knox Writers’ House launches you're going to be treated to some awesome stuff.
2.
Maybe consider subscribing to the 2011 Mud Luscious complete print collection.
3.
Maybe consider adding Flowing in the Gossamer Fold to your goodreads queue, that would be nice.
4.
Robot Melon.
5.
Blue Square Press is very excited about Jack Boettcher's forthcoming book Theater-State. We'll have a lot more information about it at the beginning of the new year.
6.
I started a collaboration thing with Brandi Wells.
7.
The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge.
8.
Dogfish Head 90 min IPA.
9.
A lot of fires. It is cold.
10.
All of her teeth were scattered.
And then people were holding them like diamonds.
11.
Burnaway authors on art: Shane Jones, Heather Christle.
12.
13.
Uhh.
14.
Robert Lopez.
15.
Happy holidays.
16.
A full plate of pulled pork bbq nachos was a bad idea. 1/2 plate would have sufficed.
Three rad students from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (Sam Conrad, Emily Oliver and Bryce Parsons-Tweston) came to my house today to record my voice. They started driving around the Midwest in June talking to over 80 writers about their work, recording audio poems and stories in each place they stopped. Now they're in the South. This massive project will result in an impressive collection of voices that will be presented and archived on their eventual website "The Knox Writers' House." They are backed by grants and stuff. They sleep on couches. They are super nice.
They recorded me reading the following: Excerpted chapters from Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 & 11 (the book has 40 chapters). Two short stories: Tattered, Velvet, Ocean & Smother.
They also ask each writer they record to read somethings from people they admire: I read dolemite by Sean Kilpatrick, Three Boys Who Thought Experimental Fiction Was For Pussies by Dennis Cooper, and The Well by Jesse Ball.
I'll let you know when the recordings are up, probably sometime early to mid next year. I don't want to spoil the surprise but when The Knox Writers’ House launches you're going to be treated to some awesome stuff.
2.
Maybe consider subscribing to the 2011 Mud Luscious complete print collection.
3.
Maybe consider adding Flowing in the Gossamer Fold to your goodreads queue, that would be nice.
4.
Robot Melon.
5.
Blue Square Press is very excited about Jack Boettcher's forthcoming book Theater-State. We'll have a lot more information about it at the beginning of the new year.
6.
I started a collaboration thing with Brandi Wells.
7.
The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge.
8.
Dogfish Head 90 min IPA.
9.
A lot of fires. It is cold.
10.
All of her teeth were scattered.
And then people were holding them like diamonds.
11.
Burnaway authors on art: Shane Jones, Heather Christle.
12.
13.
Uhh.
14.
Robert Lopez.
15.
Happy holidays.
16.
A full plate of pulled pork bbq nachos was a bad idea. 1/2 plate would have sufficed.
9/28/10
-I've been nominated for a Best of the Net 2010 for my piece in For Every Year (thanks Crispin).
-Newest issue of Dogzplot.
-Abjective blog.
-Jack Boettcher is the author of Theater-State, the second book from Blue Square Press and he recently had a killer piece published in the ongoing SLEEPiNG FiSH ix, check it out.
-Newest issue of Dogzplot.
-Abjective blog.
-Jack Boettcher is the author of Theater-State, the second book from Blue Square Press and he recently had a killer piece published in the ongoing SLEEPiNG FiSH ix, check it out.
8/18/10
1. The Daily s-Press
ran a feature on Flowing today.
2. I'm glad that Pilot Books in Seattle is now carrying BSP books.
3. Submissions are still open for a couple more weeks: editor@bluesquarepress.com
4. If you're a journalist/ blogger that's interested in reviewing Flowing or interested in interviewing me please send a query to the e-mail address above.
2. I'm glad that Pilot Books in Seattle is now carrying BSP books.
3. Submissions are still open for a couple more weeks: editor@bluesquarepress.com
4. If you're a journalist/ blogger that's interested in reviewing Flowing or interested in interviewing me please send a query to the e-mail address above.
8/11/10
Blue Square Press News
1. The Flowing in the Gossamer Fold book release party in Atlanta is being hosted by the Solar Anus reading series (Blake Butler, Amy McDaniel, Jamie Iredell) and the Beep Beep Gallery. The release is at Beep Beep--there will be a raffle, a DJ, cocktails, beer, a reading, etc. It's from 7pm to 9pm, August 29th. If you are in Atlanta I hope that you attend.
2. Powell's Books is now carrying Flowing. Thank you Powell's.
3. BSP submissions are open until the end of the month.
4. David Peak and I will announce our second book soon. I can't wait. Can you?
5. Peak did a reading for Apostrophe Cast which you can listen to today.
6. Paul Kincaid wrote a review of Peak's novel, The Rocket's Red Glare over at Big Other.
2. Powell's Books is now carrying Flowing. Thank you Powell's.
3. BSP submissions are open until the end of the month.
4. David Peak and I will announce our second book soon. I can't wait. Can you?
5. Peak did a reading for Apostrophe Cast which you can listen to today.
6. Paul Kincaid wrote a review of Peak's novel, The Rocket's Red Glare over at Big Other.
"One of the unexpected delights of writing for Big Other has been the occasional book that has come my way as a result, books that I probably wouldn’t have seen or even heard of any other way.Two that I have been meaning to write about for some weeks now (except that other things got in the way, sorry guys) were Metrophilias by Brendan Connell (Better Non Sequitur Press) and The Rocket’s Red Glare by David M. Peak (Leucrota Press). Both are excellent, both are well worth reading, and I commend them to your attention without hesitation."
8/6/10
Origin Story: An Interview With David Peak in Knee-Jerk Issue # 14
Not only is David Peak a rad dude, a fantastic writer and friend, but he's also the co-editor/ founder of Blue Square Press. There' s an interview with Peak in the most recent issue of Knee-Jerk that should not be missed--he talks about BSP's inception, independent, literary video games, some of our inspirations, and small press stuff in general.
"Ben and I were both published in a genre anthology a few years back. I read his story--a really taut, visionary piece of sci-fi--and loved it so much that I wrote him an email, telling him so. We stayed in touch after that, eventually started exchanging writing, venting our frustrations/successes with getting published. Now I consider him a very dear friend.
All the while, he had this book he was working on. He'd send me pieces and I'd give him notes. I thought it was incredible, one of the best books I'd ever read. I didn't want to see it slip through the cracks--like so many good books do. So I emailed him one morning and I was like, I want to start a press with you and I think our first book should be yours."
1/31/10
Book: Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, coming soon
There is a long story behind this, which I will document and discuss over the next several months, but the short version is that David Peak helped and encouraged me at various stages of gossamer's existence, shaping it into what it is today. I am excited to announce that my novel Flowing in the Gossamer Fold will be published later this year by Blue Square Press, a publishing company David Peak and I co-founded. Chi Birmingham will be designing the cover. We're looking at a late summer release.
I am excited out of my skin, bones, all of that.
I am excited out of my skin, bones, all of that.
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