Publication Day!
 

About a year ago, I was asked to join the board of a new non-profit publishing company (Dzanc books). Our mission is to publish fantastic literary fiction which gets passed up by the big publishers and for-profits because it does not fit neatly into the marketing pigeonholes currently used in the industry.

Today, our first book is launched -"All Over" a collection of short stories by Roy Kesey. I'm off to the reading by the author (flown in from China, where he lives) in a few minutes.

I helped select this story collection -I trawled through the submissions -solicited and unsolicited. I helped choose the cover. I was the non-industry voice, the library-user who'll try anything, but it has to draw me in quickly. I was really only a very little part of the decision-making process, but I still feel like a tiny part of this project is mine. And I'm pleased with the results.

And now I need to see if I can remember how to put make-up on.

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Wow, that's so completely cool. How wonderful to be a part of something like that *smiles*

That's fantastic, monster. I really want to read that book...

Thanks, guys. I really highly reoommend the book, and I had a great time at the launch -topped off by the Dzanc founder introducing me to the author as a person he should thank because it was my email about getting so caught up in the stories that I let my lunch burn (we communicate by email mostly) which prompted them to take another look! :o I never knew -I'd forgotten all about that email, but he knew what they were talking about, so it must have been passed on. I think they should have put it in the blurbs :"So good I burned my lunch" -monster, cellar.org :lol: