Hello
there. As many poets who are also small
press editors/publishers are aware of, it seems like as soon as your press
publishes a new chapbook, you receive many more handfuls of people asking you
if you’re accepting submissions, rather than handfuls of people buying your
presses chapbook.
Even though that sometimes bums me out a bit, I’m not really complaining, because I’ve done it a few times too (although if I’m querying a press I’ve never actually purchased anything from, I do at least research the press, to find out if I think we might be a good fit stylistically – but sometimes the people who ask me if my press is accepting submissions, not only have not purchased anything from my press, but also seem to have no idea about my press’s style, even though I try my best to have that information available online, via various sources – the Blood Pudding Press blog, my personal blog, and the Blood Pudding Press shop, where even if you can’t afford to purchase something, you could at least take a peek at what I publish).
Here’s
a short version for you about Blood Pudding Press and its style.
Blood
Pudding Press is an itty bitty indie poetry press handled by one woman
(poet/publisher/artsy dingbat Juliet Cook) and although the press is open to lots of
different styles, its primary interests involve pussy-centric, oddly emotional,
sweet/sour, dark/light hybrids. Contempo
horror alterations, kink amalgamations, grotesque treats. Flirty, volatile, contradictory. Railroad
track debris and purring pussies.
Blood
Pudding Press does not usually accept submissions on an ongoing basis. Its most recent series of submissions were accepted
through a contest from this past September/October – and then the two contest
winners were announced in November – and then the first contest winner’s poetry
chapbook was published/went live on New Year’s Eve – and the second contest
winning chapbook is currently in progress and will likely be published next
month, February 2013.
You
can partake of and/or purchase that
first recent contest winning chapbook – Renegade//Heart
by Lisa M. Cole at the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop (as well as taking a
peek and/or purchasing previous chapbooks and other stuff there too). Here’s the link - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress
Stay
tuned for the second recent contest winning chapbook, coming soon - Poking Through The Fabric of the Light that
Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom
In
any case, when I AM accepting submissions for Blood Pudding Press, I
will post about that on the Blood Pudding Press blog and elsewhere.
Also,
if you’re going to query it's okay if you have not purchased a Blood
Pudding Press offering, but AT LEAST investigate Blood Pudding Press offerings
and style a bit to attempt a vibe as to whether or not you think we might
stylistically/artistically mesh.
Again,
as many other poets and small press editors/publishers understand, it’s not
easy managing to alternate your creative focus between other people’s creative
work AND your own creative work – but I try my best to do what I can in terms
of writing and submitting my own work – reading and occasionally publishing
other’s work – plus poetry readings and art and more more more – and don’t even
get me started on the promoting (I’m not sure how to decide if I’m under-promoting
or over-promoting or where/how best to promote, but I try my best).
We all have our own creative stylistics, right? I do what I can with mine.
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Since
time wise and energy wise and mentality wise, I cannot afford to publish a lot
of print chapbooks for Blood Pudding Press, I also have an online blog style
lit mag called Thirteen Myna Birds that is updated almost every month – and is
almost always accepting submissions. You
can take a peek at that page (which was just updated a few days ago with new
poems) AND it’s guidelines here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/
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