Gavin J. Grant's Blog
November 30, 2009
Almost forgot (even though, yes, it's noted in our Daily Planner—but, hey, that's for 2010, not 2009)—to wish everyone Happy St. Andrew's Day: a perfect excuse (as if one were needed) to have everyone over for a haggis dinner!
(Thanks to Karen Lord for the reminder!)
November 25, 2009
Publishing seems to take today off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday—maybe everyone on NYC is taking the day off to empty the oven of books so that they can try and cook a turkey?—but we in indie press land don't recognize your bourgeois concept of "holidays." All days are holidays here!
And in the meantime, coming up soon we have an interview with Daniel Rabuzzi author of The Choir Boats and we're looking forward to the new issue of Xerography Debt (with a few reviews by yours truly).
Hilari...
November 23, 2009
Nice surprise: Kelly's story "Stone Animals" is excerpted at NPR.org.
It's a hive of activity (punctuated by Sierra Nevada holiday ale!) here shipping out the Writer's Daily Planner (and perhaps still following the Hq stuff…!)
Here are a couple of random shots of it — it's great to have it (at last!) and be able to heft it around. Stores will be receiving it soon and we're sending it out to writing programs and all kinds of things.
It's a hive of activity (punctuated by Anchor Steam holiday ale!) here shipping out the Writer's Daily Planner (and perhaps still following the Hq stuff…!)
Here are a couple of random shots of it — it's great to have it (at last!) and be able to heft it around. Stores will be receiving it soon and we're sending it out to writing programs and all kinds of things.
November 22, 2009
Opening up new horizons to all writers is where we are at! We understand that just over the horizon is where dreams are made! We are down with your writerly ambitions! We understand, as we is writers ourselves.
And, so, having no interest in the bottom line, after all we are publishers and everyone in publishing is in it for the art not the money, we are announcing the formation of a new, er, imprint? Vanity press? Bold, New, Shiny, Revolutionary, Don't Watch Our Hands, Lots of Small Type in...
November 21, 2009
Got kids in the Boston area? Drop by Jordan's Furniture in Avon, MA, on Sunday, November 29th, 2009, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM for The Enchanted Village fundraiser for Franciscan Hospital for Children. And, yay!
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Experience an exclusive private viewing of the iconic Enchanted Village during its inaugural year at Jordan's Furniture in Avon! Walk through the yesteryears of the display, take a...
November 20, 2009
Mini-io9 linkdump:
One of our authors Karen Lord's debut novel Redemption in Indigo makes a list of 20 SF books to look forward to. And they are right! (Although it is the first edition, not only the first US edition. Hey, but rights are available… ) Anyway, it's great and great fun and wethinks you will enjoy it.
SBP gets hauled out in a list of publishers reinventing publishing. Don't know about that but it's a list with some great people on it. (We all make that face when we pick up the...
Just posted an excerpt from Poppy Z. Brite's wonderful short novel The Value of X, which can be found in our new book Second Line.
You can read the start of the second short novel, D*U*C*K, at the BSCreview.
November 19, 2009
The somewhat slightly maybe perhaps a teensy-bit delayed Working Writer's Daily Planner has shipped from the printer! It'll arrive on Friday at our distro's distroing HQ (in Jackson, go comb your hair, Tennessee) and from there head out into the wide world. It may not hit stores by the No Shopping Friday-After-Thanksgiving but it should be getting out the week after. Wild cheers will greet any pics sent in of it out there in the wild.




