J.A. Tyler's Blog

Thanks all for enjoying Mud Luscious Press in 2010, but we are closing our doors.

Just kidding.

What we want is to give you some freeness right at the start of your 2011. So click to read Sasha Fletcher's 'The World Changes As It Wraps Around You', an exclusive pdf chapbook produced from the reworked cullings of his Mud Luscious Press novel(la) WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS & WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS, which has sold nearly 300 copies already in its brief six-month existence.

Enjoy this freebie in 2011, check out Fletcher's book, & remember that our subscription offer (3 novel(la)s, 1 anthology, & 10 chapbooks for $40) will only be available for another week or so.

Happy new year all.

I am super excited to have a piece called 'All These the Violent Children' in Super Arrow No. 3, which makes 82 pieces I have published in 2010.

& I always feel it necessary to post some kind of look-back session of numbers, so here it is for 2010:

in 2010 I turned 32

in 2010 I published 82 pieces of fiction & poetry

in 2010 I published 61 pieces online & 21 in print

in 2010 I submitted 297 places / pieces

in 2010 I published 0 books

in 2010 I published 2 chapbooks (with Sunnyoutside & Greying Ghost)

in 2010 I was short-listed in the Wigleaf Top 50

in 2010 I had two pieces listed in the notable section of Dzanc's BotW

in 2010 I had one piece included in the Dzanc BotW anthology

in 2010 I edited Markus' forthcoming We Make Mud

in 2010 I edited Goransson's forthcoming Entrance to a colonial pageant

in 2010 I started blogging with Pank

in 2010 I started interning with Monkeybicycle

It has been a good year, & I am super thankful to have appeared with Smokelong, Caketrain, trnsfr, elimae, La Petite Zine, Knee Jerk, Mipoesias, Glitterpony, Alice Blue, Action Yes, Quick Fiction, Annalemma, & a host of other really righteous & awesome journals. Thanks to all those editors for taking on my work.

As for 2011, here is the schedule, though all is, as you know, subject to vast & uncontrollable change:

in 2011 I have 26 pieces scheduled for publication (with Juked, No Tell Motel, Bathhouse, Broken Plate, New York Tyrant, The Collagist, FlatmanCrooked, Quick Fiction, & others I am enormously happy about)

in 2011 I have 3 chapbooks scheduled for publication (with Greying Ghost, Warm Milk, & NewLights)

in 2011 I have 7 books scheduled for publication (with Fugue State Press, Cow Heavy Books, Vox Press, Black Coffee Books, Aqueous Books, Jaded Ibis Press, & Scrambler Books)

in 2011 Mud Luscious Press will release 3 novel(la)s, 1 anthology, & 10 chapbooks

& then what? Who the fuck knows.

Best in the new year everyone,

At WWAATD Adam Peterson takes on Adam Peterson about his Stamp Story contribution. Check it here. This is about his piece in the forthcoming [ C. ] An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology, available for $12 on pre-order or along with a bunch of other MLP titles for $40. &, just in case you don't know what all you could get for $40 in 2011, here is the full listing:

A 2011 Mud Luscious Press subscription nets you, these perfect-bound books:

GRIM TALES by Norman Lock

THE HIEROGLYPHICS by Michael Stewart

I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR by Mathias Svalina

[ C. ] AN MLP STAMP STORIES ANTHOLOGY

plus these handmade chapbooks:

BOY & SHE by Jessica Newman

A VACATION by Stephen-Gropp Hess

PIG OTHERS by Andrew Borgstrom

AT THE BEACH by Neila Mezynski

ERRATA by Kristina Maria Darling

A TOUR OF A GIRL by John H. Henry

THIS LOVE IS OFFICE LIGHTING (GREAT & HARSH BUT ALWAYS OFF WHEN NO ONE'S THERE) by Ani Smith

HOLD ON by Sarah-Jane de Brito Martin

THE LOST BODIES OF OUR ALLIGATORS by Robert Kloss

THE BODY BETWEEN THE GLASS by Ben Spivey

That's right. All of that, all year long, for $40. Like it? Subscribe here.

We Who Are About to Die has more meta-reviews from the Mud Luscious Press Stamp Stories project, whose anthologized version { C. } will be out from Mud Luscious Press in fall 2011. Until then, you can read Justin Sirois on Justin Sirois here.

& for those who celebrate the holidays: happy holidays. & for those who buy gifts, join our facebook friends or twitter followers & you can hook yourself up with an exclusive MLP deal. May the merry bells keep ringing.

Thanks to David Hoenigman, there is a nice interview with me up in the current issue of Word Riot. I talk a bit about my recently completed book VARIATIONS OF A BROTHER WAR & the new work that I am trying to work on amidst all the other work I'm doing. Or maybe I am not writing it at all. I am unsure. In any case, the interview is living here.

& this may be as good a time as any to say that though I have 2-3 books set for release in early 2011, there are two chapbooks that I am dearly in love with available right now from two of my favorite publishers: OUR US & WE (Greying Ghost) & THE ZOO, A GOING (THE TROPIC HOUSE) (Sunnyoutside). Get either by clicking the links above or, if you want a signed copy, shoot me an email & I'll hook you up. I maybe haven't shouted about my love for these chapbooks enough, so I want people to know that they are lovely-made & full of words that I believe in. There, I feel better now. Go get if you like.

Gulf Stream no. 4 has 'Variations of a Brother War (Markers Triptych)' living inside of it.

Norman Lock's GRIM TALES is back from the printer, loaded on our shelves, & ready to be shipped for pre-orders Jan., 2011. We are ecstatic to be holding this book. It is beautiful & toothsome & bright.

If you haven't pre-ordered this title, get it individually here ($12 + shipping) or buy into an MLP subscription for $40 (free shipping) here & you'll get GRIM TALES along with every other title we ship in 2011 (4 perfect-bound books & 10 handmade mini-chapbooks).

Also, let's show Lock how much we are looking forward to this book & add it up to your goodreads queue here. Lock, you are a wonder, & we are excited beyond belief.

Smalldoggies has just published 'Variations of a Brother War (Liquor Triptych)' & we are so thrilled to be on their virtual pages. Thanks to editor Matty Byloos for including my words.

Guess we gave it all away in the title of this post. Have at it.

Heavy Bear 7 includes '& 73', an excerpt from my forthcoming book GIRL WITH OARS & MAN DYING (Aqueous Books, 2011). That is all.