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Coming in 2012

It’s official now. We will be publishing two new books in 2012. Tentatively scheduled for an April release is Navigation, a book of poetry by Brittney Corrigan which explores themes of family and navigating through life. Scheduled for the fall is Vines Black Upon Black Leaves, a new book of poetry by RockerFeller Award recipient, [...] Continue reading

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The latest news: moving, new offerings, website changes

First on the list is our big move. In late July we will be packing up and heading to Milepost 5, an arts community in Portland’s Montavilla neighborhood. Montavilla is our old stomping ground, where Elohi Gadugi/The Habit of Rainy … Continue reading

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Screen page formats needed

Every time I receive a manuscript by email –the only way we take them– I struggle with reading it on my laptop. It’s not so bad if it’s in a MS Word format, but an 8.5 x 11 pdf just does not fit well on my screen. All of the word-processors and pdf-making software programs [...] Continue reading

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One more word on POD

POD, print-on-demand. That’s vanity publishing, right? Wrong. Print-on-demand is a book printing technology, and vanity publishing is a business model. It’s pineapples and ugly-fruit. So why is it that tradition publishers, book review organizations, and others in the trade insist on conflating the two? “We don’t accept POD books for review,” says one book review [...] Continue reading

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Bartlett House on the streets

Bartlett House, our mystery novel, has been out for several weeks now, and it is time for us to get serious about promoting it (actually that time was six weeks ago, but we had too much on our plate and … Continue reading

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