Hosho McCreesh's Blog, page 25
March 20, 2016
The BLOOD-RED Book Trailer
For your consideration...
Order HERE.
March 11, 2016
Collage
While awaiting the arrival of BLOOD-RED, I made a page for my most recent hobby (see below).
File Under: Making
COLLAGE - Perhaps it's a result of nervous energy, or maybe it's just been a long time coming, and I finally sat down to goof with it. Whatever the case, I'm digging the results! And big props to X-Ray Book Co. for the inspiration...their Kut-Uup project was very cool! I post these on Instagram if you want to see them there, but for those without an account, you can have a look-see HERE!
February 25, 2016
Something BLOOD-RED This Way Cometh!
BLOOD-RED is right around the corner. If you want a hardback, consider this fair warning: 9 remain. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Also, one week remains in the Goodreads giveaway! Have you signed up for your chance to win?
File Under: Impossible?
Paying writers? I mean, could it ever work?
File Under: Propers
Yes! More like this, please! Gallery Beggar (with singles, not unlike the mendicant booksworks design) has a fan who'll put his money where his mouth is!
February 19, 2016
And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red - AVAILABLE NOW
As those on my notify list already know, And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red poems from Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon by Christopher Cunningham and Hosho McCreesh, is available for order, and ships early March from Bottle of Smoke Press.
It's a companion piece to the two nobody-poets' groundbreaking book of letters, Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon.
From the FOREWORD:
In May, 2009, Orange Alert Press released Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon: The Cunningham/McCreesh Letters Vol.1. As part of that release, 26 stunning lettered hardbacks were made by the incomparable Bill Roberts of Bottle of Smoke Press. It's something most book collectors in general have seen—a limited edition hardback, often more expensive—to accompany the trade paperback. But we wanted to make something extra special for all those early supporters. Then it dawned on us: what's better than owning a broadside, or some other uber-exclusive production? A manuscript…an actual typewritten original.
Now this was an idea!
So we got to typing: a double-sided manuscript broadside, featuring an original, unpublished poem from each author. But not just any ol’ new poem—no sir!—one written specifically for the project…with a title pulled straight from the original letters themselves. Yes, a new poem, by each author, off of their respective typers, signed and everything.
Collected here for the first time ever, are the final spoils: those 52 poems from the lettered copy hardbacks—bringing the entire opus full circle. Rarely in life does something as truly terrific as SUNLIGHT and now BLOOD-RED ever happen. From the original wild-typed letters traded between two strangers in 2002, to 13 years later, seeing how a few of those banged out lines dashed off in the sinking midnights have morphed into this. It celebrates everything that is wondrous about the small press—personal, approachable writing by unknown writers, most working day jobs and hoping to make the occasional buck while chasing their humble dreams. The fact that Bottle of Smoke manages to then wrap it all up in gorgeous, collectible artisan productions is further evidence of the vast, undiscovered culture of makers, doers, and creators—the life-blood of the small, artisan, independent press—putting out work that is far more adventurous than any large press (with their bean-counters making decisions based not on art but on the bottom line) can gamble on. We offer this up with our deepest and most sincere gratitude—to all who've supported us, and all who've made us look so damned good.
Paperback Edition: $15
Signed Hardcover Edition: $35
Anyone interested can order now from:
Bill Roberts
P.O. Box 66
Wallkill, NY 12589
orders@bospress.net
bill@bospress.net
View More Info at:
http://bospress.net/order.html
http://www.hoshomccreesh.com/blood-red
February 13, 2016
Still THIRSTY After All These Years...
Way back in 2013, when THIRST first came out, some of you might remember all the DrunkSkull stickers and sundry that made its way around the world. Well, just this yesterday, another sticker landed in another faraway locale -- and here's the photographic evidence (with many thanks to Jocelyn!!)
File Under: Reading
If you've ever wondered why all the best TV ain't on network TV...well, it's the same reason all the exciting beer comes from microbreweries, and all the dangerous books come from the small press! CONNECT THE DOTS HERE.
File Under: Getting
William Taylor, Jr's To Break the Heart of the Sun -- the man hasn't written a bad book yet!
File Under: Watching
Hail, Caesar! - The breezy Coen Bros. romp hides the subtle soul-searching at the core.
February 3, 2016
5 Questions...
File Under: Blathering
Jared Carnie asked me 5 questions. I blathered on about indignantly about corporate publishing greedheads and bean-counters and the primal insult of work. Enjoy!
File Under: Mad Props
X-Ray Book & Novelty Co.
File Under: Listening
"Mean Old World" - Tina & Ike Turner - Ugh, so good!"
"Old Man Down the Road" - John Fogerty - You DO got to Hidy High-dy Hide!
File Under: Reading
Fierce Bitches - Jedidiah Ayres
Transit of Venus - Nancy Pogue LaTurner
January 30, 2016
Truth or Consequences...
The launch of AND TURNS STILL THE SUN AT DUSK BLOOD-RED gets closer every day. Have you signed up for the GIVEAWAY at GOODREADS? You should. The book wants you to read it as much, if not more, than you do!
In other news...
File Under: Rolling
A weekend getaway to Truth or Consequences, NM
In response to a challenge from the radio quiz show "Truth or Consequences" in 1950, this small New Mexico town changed their name from Hot Springs. Why Hot Springs? Because the town sits over a geothermal hot spring. You can rent kitschy little rooms, some with their own private tubs inside, and spend a weekend walking to a handful of cool restaurants, unique shops, and the like. Rumor has it Geronimo even soaked there...the only time in his life he was unarmed! Maybe not the top of the list for first time NM visitors, but a place worth visiting if you ever get the chance.
File Under: Watching
Tangerine - Great little film shot with 3 iPhones!
Ex Machina - Creepy & cool, Oscar Issac continues a solid run.
Love Streams - Rowlands & Cassavettes - I mean, doesn't anyone make charmingly enjoyable and imperfect movies anymore?
File Under: Bragging
Lori at the Spark, is looking forward to AND TURNS STILL THE SUN AT DUSK BLOOD-RED - Can't wait until you read it, Lori!
Don't forget to sign up for the NOTIFY LIST - your first and best place for info about all things Hosho.
January 17, 2016
BLOOD-RED Giveaway
If you have a Goodreads account, log in and sign-up for the And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red... giveaway (available in the US, the UK, Canada & Australia). It comes to you courtesy of Bottle of Smoke Press and the co-authors (read as: Chris and I). We're offering up 2 copies, and hope they both go to someone like you who'll love 'em! The giveaway ends February 28th, 2016.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
And Turns Still the Sun at Dusk Blood-Red...
by Hosho McCreesh
Giveaway ends February 28, 2016.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Enter Giveaway
December 22, 2015
'Tis The Season For...
...a cat haunted by his Existential angst; a free-form podcast that's always interesting and always fun; and, of course, loot!
File Under: Watching
Henri, le Chat Noir- ah, but stop watching before the creators sell out to a cat food company!
File Under: Listening
THIS IS NOT A TEST - Podcast by Michael J. Phillips, 52 episodes and counting!
File Under: Free Stuff
Those on my NOTIFY LIST already know that I do the occasional give-away of small press books. If you want to be in the running, all you have to do is join. I pick a random winner from everyone who opens the email. What could be easier?
Thank you for your support, all you beautiful people! Be good, stay safe, & tell your people what the mean to you!
December 4, 2015
File Under...
File Under: Forthcoming
Christopher Cunningham and I are slated to have our new Bottle of Smoke book out in January, 2016.
Also, it looks like I'll have something in THIS.
And maybe even HERE.
File Under: Watching
Belle Du Jour by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve
BoJack Horseman - Season 2
File Under: Listening
Leeches of Lore -
Motel of Infinity
"Nirvana" - a Charles Bukowski poem as read by Tom Waits
File Under: Reading
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori Jakiela
How To Get Into The Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak
