I’ve been enjoying the Consortium Corner microinterviews with various Consortium people as they celebrate their 40th anniversary. We signed on with them in 2007, latecomers!, after starting with Pathway Book Service for a couple of years and then SCB Distributors. We’d talked to a few distributors and although not everyone at the company really got […] The post CC first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Thank you Jenny Z. for asking if we offered LCRW subscriptions with a chapbook but without chocolate. My answer: Um, no. For some reason when I made that little list of serious-to-silly offerings some time ago (and even during the many remakings) it never struck me to offer a chapbook with the first issue of the zine. Ok, so […] The post LCRW + a Chapbook first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Congratulations to all the finalists for the World Fantasy Awards, especially Kathleen Jennings, whose debut collection, Kindling, is one of five finalists for Best Collection. Kelly, the sole woman, and I — one of six men — are finalists for “Special Award – Non-Professional” for LCRW, and yay for that. However, if you’re voting this […] The post Kindling is a World Fantasy Award finalist first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
With world temperatures rising, and soon the seas, we talked about dropping the LCRW+chocolate option but maybe instead I can get it together and publish the two issues in November and February so that no one gets a fabulous and delicious but melted chocolate bar. In the meantime, earlier this month we mailed out 99% […] The post Out Went LCRW 50 first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Kelly and I have been talking about this one for a while and today, since the new LCRW is at the printer and I am busted because I ran an errand (woo) this morning, I put it up on Bonfire. All monies got to BINC, who do quiet and absolutely necessary work supporting book and […] The post Cast Spells Punch Nazis first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
LCRW 50 is at the printer. How will it be mailed out? Slowly! The post Edit, Make, Mail first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Sharing more joy for Jennifer Hudak as her story “The Witch Trap” from LCRW 48 will be reprinted in this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams along with 19 stories which originally appeared in Amazon Original Stories, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld (x3), FIYAH (x2), Lightspeed (x3), Nightmare, Reactor (x2), […] The post Stepping up the Joy first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
LCRW 50, (probably — everything I do is still slower than I expect) coming out next month, is our latest celebration of writers, edited by Kelly and me, to be printed in the near-ish future by our local copy shop (who have a lovely garden and great holiday lights). Every copy comes with a free […] The post Running Up That Zine first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
LCRW at bat, 50 not out. The post Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 50 first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
I am talking to the President, to the (nominal) political party he belongs to, as well as his cabinet. Tell me one good thing. Not taking vaccines away, or making food and air and water and work more dangerous; not destroying a legacy of international relations (bloody as they have been); not attempting to destroy […] The post Tell Me Something Good You Have Done first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Excellent news: Elwin Cotman is one of ten 2025 Whiting Award Winners. There’s a good story on it in Elwin’s hometown paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Elwin has a novel coming from Scribner, The Age of Ignorance, as well as four collections of stories, including Dance on Saturday. The post Elwin Cotman Wins a Whiting Award first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Kathleen Jennings’s Kindling: Stories has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Award — “Australia’s premier speculative fiction award” — for Best Collection. The cover for Kathleen’s next novel, Honeyeater, dropped and it is worth clicking on the link. Also of note, Kathleen did the cover art and half-page pen-and-ink illustrations for Kij Johnson’s forthcoming RiverBank roleplaying […] The post Kathleen Jennings and Kij Johnson Redux first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Damn my eyes. I have seen — and ignored for a year or two too many — spreadsheets such as no zinemaker should see. I have calculated numbers no right-thinking person should know. I have stared at the Sum of all Costs and my very soul trembles before them. In the long dark tea time […] The post LCRW Costs, They Go Up first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Karen Russell is out on tour with her new novel The Antidote wrote a great list of book recommendations for Elle. They format it so that each book is finishing the sentence “The book that . . .” and for this one the first answer was Kristen Arnett’s forthcoming novel Stop Me if You’ve Heard […] The post Making Karen Russell Blush first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Sending our congratulations and sharing the joy that Jennifer Hudak’s story “The Witch Trap” from LCRW 48 is one of six fine finalists for the short story Nebula Award. The post Nebula Award finalist: Jennifer Hudak’s, The Witch Trap first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
This is to note that we’re reverting — by Angélica Gorodischer’s estate’s request — rights on two of the three of her books that we have in print: Kalpa Imperial (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin) and Prodigies (translated by Sue Burke). The contract for Trafalgar (translated by Amalia Gladhart), which I had already extended […] The post Reverting Rights first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
We’ve been working (as slowly as I ever do these days) with Maple Press on getting shipping re-started on our limited edition of Kelly’s novel The Book of Love and the good news is that it should begin again next week. We have two Character Editions available — Maryanne and Caitlyn Hightower — along with […] The post Late March Shipping Update first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
Ayize Jama-Everett will be at this Harvard conference on Wednesday and Thursday Psychedelics in Monotheistic Traditions: Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition. His film A Table of Our Own is showing at Harvard Law School Room WCC 2004 on Wed. 3/5 @ 8pm & is free & open to the public. The post Ayize @ Harvard first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
This Wednesday our newest batch of Read Books Punch Nazis square and bumpers stickers will arrive at Book Moon from Rockin’ Stickers. Also dropped the price of the square stickers from $2 to a single dollar. (Previously I’d ordered from Sticker Mule but I won’t be doing that again.) We sell quite a lot of […] The post Free Sticker Templates first appeared on Small Beer Press.| Small Beer Press
I enjoyed listening to Benjamin Rosenbaum guest on the Ancillary Review of Books podcast with Jake Casella Brookins as they took a deep look at Fire Logic, the first book of Laurie J. Marks's Elemental Logic series. https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/02/10/a-meal-of-thorns-17-fire-logic-with-benjamin-rosenbaum/| Small Beer Press
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