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We’re off to the beach – and you? Too, we hope. We’ll be lingering a while – getting the sand out of the cracks, natch, and making our way to the bottom of that tub of lobsters. And the other one, of beer. Back June 7, with the next installment of Love By Drowning.

Spring Break

Are we sunning ourselves, on a distant white beach? Are we whiling away the hours with a Jackie Collins novel, worried about nothing save the question of whether we should start drinking at 3 or at 4? Sadly, no. But we need a break. And so we’re taking one. Back Tuesday the 22nd, with poetry by Jenn Blair.

We’re off…

…for the holidays, and so forth. Back January 4th, with a great (and sex-filled, after a fashion) new story by James Fleming.

Another nice review for a failbetter…er

buffalo lockjawCongrats to Greg Ames (Issues 17 & 2) who continues to garner great reviews for his debut novel, Buffalo Lockjaw.  Check out recent praise in Kirkus Book Reviews.

Ben Greenman: An Evening of Celebrity,
Comedy and Conversation

ben_greenman_largeWe’re using the massive power of ”the internet” to try to make people come to fb author Ben Greenman’s reading this Thursday!  Come right when doors open, you might get your memoir ghostwritten by Ben or Neil Strauss. Check out the details here.

Spam, and submissions

We have been having a lot of problem with spam coming to the email account we use to receive submissions. Therefore, effective immediately, you must put the word “Submission” in your email’s subject line. If you do not, your email will be automatically deleted by our spam filter, and you will not receive a response. Our spam filter is inflexible and unforgiving – there are no exceptions to this rule. Sorry if this creates any hassle.

Summer, high

It’s high summer—time for Stephen King novels, sunburns, and drinking too much beer while we wait for the clams to bake. Busy with all that, we’ll be taking a break from all this, ’til the day after Labor Day. Join us then, for great poetry from our old friend John Rybicki, and the announcement of the winner in our 10th Anniversary Novella Contest.

We’re off next week…

…we’ll be busy grilling, drinking beer, and recovering from driving ol’ number 88 in the Coca-Cola 600.  Back Tuesday June 8 with great new work from Melissa Hotchkiss.

What is literature? What is life?

Levi Asher and Javier Marias have very different views, notes Scott Esposito. Click through to see which will be saved for posterity: every Tweet ever Tweeted, or the works of three famous authors, who may or may not be as talented as they are long-winded.

Now this is an author website

Most authors’ websites are either rough on the eyes, filled with PR and no real content, or both. Not this one, which is new from Ben Marcus – it’s a worth a long look, from both web designers and authors. Nice work, Ravi Rajakumar.



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