Last evening, I received the fantastic news that my chapbook manuscript 'Tongue Like a Stinger' will be published online this spring by Wheelhouse chapbook series & press. Hurrah!
This got me to thinking about how it wasn't until after I started Blood Pudding Press that I also began to expeience more success with other small presses, which I think is mainly because Blood Pudding Press gave me an itty bitty bit more visibility on the literary scene and also offered me more opportunity for more interactions and connections with other poets (most especially as a result of the Blood Pudding Press multi-writer projects).
I started Blood Pudding Press towards the end of 2006 and for my first project, I self-published my own first poetry chapbook ('The Laura Poems'). I self-published another poetry chapbook in mid-2007 ('Girl Gang') and then another at the very beginning of 2008 ('Planchette').
By that time, Blood Pudding Press was already picking up some significant momentum (2008 ended up being a very busy and productive year for the press) and I was already starting to think that I would prefer to focus on the work of other writers with Blood Pudding Press--but I also still had quite a few of my own projects that I desired to have published, so I started sending those out to other small presses more consistently. Thus, 2008 saw not only the publication of quite a few Blood Pudding Press projects, but also the publication of my first print chapbook from another press ('Gingerbread Girl' published by Trainwreck Press), as well as my first online chapbook from another press ('PROJECTILE VOMIT', published by Scantily Clad Press).
Now, in the wake of this wonderful news from Wheelhouse, I have three chapbooks in the works for 2009--MONDO CRAMPO, a print chapbook via the dusie kollektiv 3, which should be available in mere days--PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR, to be published this spring by the new Spooky Girlfriend Press--and now 'Tongue like a Stinger' through Wheelhouse.
I am very excited about all of these impending publications, not only because my creative work has found some good homes and will be released into the world, but all because it frees up limited Blood Pudding Press resources to focus on other writers and projects.
Speaking of which, just because Blood Pudding Press has not published a new chapbook in several months now, don't go thinking I've abandoned the barnacle-encrusted, slime-oozing ship. The next multi-writer project, SPIDER VEIN IMPASTO, is very much in the works--AND the winners of the first Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest will be announced very soon.
Also, Thirteen Myna Birds, the new online outcropping of Blood Pudding Press, is accepting submissions on a rolling basis.
Speaking of which, it is almost time for a new flight formation.
Viva la small press publishing!
Showing posts with label Trainwreck Press. Show all posts
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3/19/09
9/3/08
my misshapen gingerbread baby
ONLY ONE COPY LEFT IN MY ETSY SHOP!
My first awfully yummy poetry chapbook published by another press (rather than self-published through Blood Pudding Press) is now available in my etsy shop--www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com--I am offering a very limited number of signed copies for only $5 each!
‘Gingerbread Girl' was recently published by Trainwreck Press out of Canada and is also available for sale via the Trainwreck Press shop (see url below). Please do feel free to purchase from either shop, perhaps whichever would result in swifter and more inexpensive shipping for you.
The cover features the image of a delightful painting by one of my favorite artists, Kendra Binney, a fine mistress of disturbingly cute misfit-esque artworks. This particular painting is called 'Pink Bird' and one of the poems in this collection is named after the painting and inspired by Binney's art.
I am also pleased with the content of the chapbook, which deals with my warped perspective on edibility, consumption, cautionary tales, uneasy lessons, girlhood baggage, misfit-ism, anger, horror, dessert products, and more.
If you prefer your gingerbread girls misshapen and strangely inedible, please feel free to nibble your way to the oddball innards inside Juliet Cook’s ‘Gingerbread Girl' !
http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/
or
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm
***
A blurb from John Goodman, editor of Trainwreck Press:
'Sharp insight into a woman torn between self-direction and socially determined images of the feminine with language that is by turns sugary sweet and challengingly jarring.
An engaging addition to any poetry shelf.'
***
'An at-times monstrously delightful, skittering little collection of mellifluous soundbites and narrative flashes. Manages to do a fine job of making all the sugar and spice of which little girls are made into arsenic-laced almond cookies and many-tentacled creeping things. The proliferation of metaphors linking the seemingly innocent and delectable to the insidious and threatening are a testament to Juliet's virtuosity, but like any sickeningly sweet confection, are best consumed in small and measured bites. This is a chapbook to give time, not devour in a single voracious sitting. You may wish to cleanse your palate with a little mouthwash afterwards so as to avoid the rapid onset of aching teeth.'
John Moore Williams, poet
***
'After reading Gingerbread Girl I thought about red velvet cake as crimson lipped and bloody yum. Images of lemon cake batter moving like mucous. A glob sliding down my throat while I soiled heart-patterned panties. Who would have ever known poison of a mind tasted sweet as Mother baked and hissed with them knivey licks? Only, Juliet Cook. '
Ginnetta Correli, writer
My first awfully yummy poetry chapbook published by another press (rather than self-published through Blood Pudding Press) is now available in my etsy shop--www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com--I am offering a very limited number of signed copies for only $5 each!
‘Gingerbread Girl' was recently published by Trainwreck Press out of Canada and is also available for sale via the Trainwreck Press shop (see url below). Please do feel free to purchase from either shop, perhaps whichever would result in swifter and more inexpensive shipping for you.
The cover features the image of a delightful painting by one of my favorite artists, Kendra Binney, a fine mistress of disturbingly cute misfit-esque artworks. This particular painting is called 'Pink Bird' and one of the poems in this collection is named after the painting and inspired by Binney's art.
I am also pleased with the content of the chapbook, which deals with my warped perspective on edibility, consumption, cautionary tales, uneasy lessons, girlhood baggage, misfit-ism, anger, horror, dessert products, and more.
If you prefer your gingerbread girls misshapen and strangely inedible, please feel free to nibble your way to the oddball innards inside Juliet Cook’s ‘Gingerbread Girl' !
http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/
or
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm
***
A blurb from John Goodman, editor of Trainwreck Press:
'Sharp insight into a woman torn between self-direction and socially determined images of the feminine with language that is by turns sugary sweet and challengingly jarring.
An engaging addition to any poetry shelf.'
***
'An at-times monstrously delightful, skittering little collection of mellifluous soundbites and narrative flashes. Manages to do a fine job of making all the sugar and spice of which little girls are made into arsenic-laced almond cookies and many-tentacled creeping things. The proliferation of metaphors linking the seemingly innocent and delectable to the insidious and threatening are a testament to Juliet's virtuosity, but like any sickeningly sweet confection, are best consumed in small and measured bites. This is a chapbook to give time, not devour in a single voracious sitting. You may wish to cleanse your palate with a little mouthwash afterwards so as to avoid the rapid onset of aching teeth.'
John Moore Williams, poet
***
'After reading Gingerbread Girl I thought about red velvet cake as crimson lipped and bloody yum. Images of lemon cake batter moving like mucous. A glob sliding down my throat while I soiled heart-patterned panties. Who would have ever known poison of a mind tasted sweet as Mother baked and hissed with them knivey licks? Only, Juliet Cook. '
Ginnetta Correli, writer
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