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We've been talking it up, and now it's finally here. Featherproof Books' most whiz-bangy thing-a-ma-jig yet. The TripleQuick Fiction iPhone app. TripleQuick.com (http://www.triplequick.com) Another exciting feature of TripleQuick is the ability to compose and submit your own stories, right on the iPhone. Those with writerly inclination can just type in three screens of their best work, type in a bio, even take an author photo using the iPhone's camera, and submit the story to the featherp...

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Chicago lost the Olympics. And we here at featherproof are going to personally make up for it by holding spectacle events of our own. Like, next week. First up: book-eating at the Chicago release party for Dollar Store Super Tour (http://dollarstoreshow.com/) you know that when these two get together to read, shit goes down. Like fortune-tellin, hair-humpin, baby-eating, bicycle birthday shit. These two will be joined by the power of Sam Pink and Kathryn Regina. Who will win the gold medal ...

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We're pleased to announce that it's all come true. Here's the debut eBook title for our newest project: featherproof remixes. Those are short story collections wherein awesome writers rearrange, rewrite, redefine and reimagine a work just as it’s getting out into the world. We're publishing each remix as an ebook, downloadable to your computer or mobile device. We’ve kicked it off with Blake Butler’s click to download (http://www.featherproof.com/Mambo/downlo...) 151 ...

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Hey gang, nice to see you here. SO. You may have noticed, our little shopping cart went away. We were being flooded with mail orders, and our warehouse couldn't keep up. We've decided to kick it out to Powell's, the pros when it comes to mailing you books. In honor of that we're staging: A LITTLE CONTEST. "Have you read AM/PM? Cleverest review on Powells.com (http://www.powells.com/partner/34378/bib...) or Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977199...

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Hey. I mean: HEY! we've got an exciting announcement over here. It's our spring book! Check it: awfulpossibilities.com (http://awfulpossibilities.com/) This book was originally part of a little experiment we were cooking up, called paper egg. But we realized this book needs to reach everyone who has eyes. And our best chance is with our full distribution, so we're doing it proper. If you ordered this book via paper egg, you'll still get it, head over to papereggbooks...

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