Printing poetry chapbook innards and getting ready to mail recent Blood Pudding Press purchases this coming Monday.
If you place an order tonight or this weekend, then your purchase will be part of that mailing.
Showing posts with label small press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label small press. Show all posts
5/1/09
indie presses
I updated my list of 'other indie presses' (right hand side bar), but if I forgot your press, feel free to let me know and I'll add you (and please also feel free to add Blood Pudding Press to your list). I know there are oodles of delightful small presses out there and it can be a challenge to stay on top of you all. I'm especially intrerested in independent, poetry-oriented presses that publish chapbooks and small books, but will probably add to the list any small press that drops me a line.
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Also, just a little reminder for interested parties that I do have a newish personal/poetry blog at http://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com/ where I sometimes write about Blood Pudding Press stuff, sometimes write about my own personal poetry stuff, and sometimes write about other literary matters.
XO. Juliet Cook
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P.S. In other indie press related news, I only have ONE copy remaining of MONDO CRAMPO, my recent pussylicious poeyry chapbook published through the dusie kollektiv 3. Here's a mini review by poet/editor Brooklyn Copeland:
‘The design is cool and the poems are so very Juliet Cook. Meaning, I can't read them before bed or before eating. I can safely read Juliet's poems between the hours of 12p and 4p. I love how inventive she is. I feel like she takes all the girly dressings and yummy fixings about which I am most nostalgic, puts them in a blender with her own blood and spit, and pours them into a cupcake pan for baking.’
Available (until it's not) via http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/
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Also, just a little reminder for interested parties that I do have a newish personal/poetry blog at http://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com/ where I sometimes write about Blood Pudding Press stuff, sometimes write about my own personal poetry stuff, and sometimes write about other literary matters.
XO. Juliet Cook
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P.S. In other indie press related news, I only have ONE copy remaining of MONDO CRAMPO, my recent pussylicious poeyry chapbook published through the dusie kollektiv 3. Here's a mini review by poet/editor Brooklyn Copeland:
‘The design is cool and the poems are so very Juliet Cook. Meaning, I can't read them before bed or before eating. I can safely read Juliet's poems between the hours of 12p and 4p. I love how inventive she is. I feel like she takes all the girly dressings and yummy fixings about which I am most nostalgic, puts them in a blender with her own blood and spit, and pours them into a cupcake pan for baking.’
Available (until it's not) via http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/
3/22/09
new interview and review at Prick of the Spindle
Hi. I kind of feel like I'm runnung out of self-promo steam or maybe it's just a glitch, but lately I've been struggling with how to get the word out there about new projects and credits and literary developments that are important and exciting to me without seeming like some obnxious over-inundater or self-indulgent narcissist. Any words of insight from other artists or literary types about how they negotiate this balance would be most welcome.
Because my creative announcements are going to keep coming (because I keep working on creative projects) and I don't want to oversaturate (or do I?), but I do want to make these little annoucements available.
So here's the latest one: I have a new interview in Prick of the Spindle, Volume 3.1, as well as a new review of my book 'Horrific Confection'. Both the interview and the review were conducted by writer/editor, Cynthia Reeser. My interview with her was a thought-provoking exchange for me personally and might be of interest to some others, as well. Part of it deals with my inspirations for 'Horrific Confection', but part of it also deals with poetic landscapes, small-scale feminism, DIY publishing, and more--inlcuding Blood Pudding Press.
It also makes mention of a few poets who have been published by Blood Pudding Press, a few upcoming projects from Blood Pudding Press, and a few other poets who have especially interested me in recent years.
Check it out if so inclined, here:
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/
Feel free to let me know what you think.
XO. Juliet
Because my creative announcements are going to keep coming (because I keep working on creative projects) and I don't want to oversaturate (or do I?), but I do want to make these little annoucements available.
So here's the latest one: I have a new interview in Prick of the Spindle, Volume 3.1, as well as a new review of my book 'Horrific Confection'. Both the interview and the review were conducted by writer/editor, Cynthia Reeser. My interview with her was a thought-provoking exchange for me personally and might be of interest to some others, as well. Part of it deals with my inspirations for 'Horrific Confection', but part of it also deals with poetic landscapes, small-scale feminism, DIY publishing, and more--inlcuding Blood Pudding Press.
It also makes mention of a few poets who have been published by Blood Pudding Press, a few upcoming projects from Blood Pudding Press, and a few other poets who have especially interested me in recent years.
Check it out if so inclined, here:
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/
Feel free to let me know what you think.
XO. Juliet
3/19/09
small press tidbits
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!
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!
2/5/09
Blood Pudding Press still accepting submissions
Blood Pudding Press is still accepting submissions for its first poetry chapbook contest!
Chapbook manuscript submissions will be accepted through February 28, 2009.
Two winning chapbooks will be chosen—one to be published in Spring 2009 (April or May) and one to be published in Summer 2009 (June or July). The winners will be announced in March. Each winner will receive fifteen free copies of their chapbook, which will be a ribbon-bound, delectably designed affair.
There is a $5.00 fee per manuscript for entering this contest; these entry fees will be used to purchase supplies for publishing the winning chapbooks. The fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal account at JulietX@Bust.com. (You may either use Paypal’s Send Payment feature to send payment to that email address—or use the Donation button near the bottom right hand side of the page here–or if you would like to make alternative payment arrangements, you may contact me.)
I would like to consider collections of 10-20 poems. Some of the poems may be previously published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published before. Send your collection of poems to JulietX@Bust.com along with title, acknowledgments, a brief bio, and your contact data. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere, please let me know right away.
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Blood Pudding Press is also accepting submissions for our new online literary publication, Thirteen Myna Birds. Please visit http://13myna.blogspot.com for the semi-amorphous guidelines. Submissions for this project will be accepted on a rolling basis, indefinitely.
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Lots of new goodies have recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop at www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com. Why not take a peek and help support independent poetry and art?
XO
Chapbook manuscript submissions will be accepted through February 28, 2009.
Two winning chapbooks will be chosen—one to be published in Spring 2009 (April or May) and one to be published in Summer 2009 (June or July). The winners will be announced in March. Each winner will receive fifteen free copies of their chapbook, which will be a ribbon-bound, delectably designed affair.
There is a $5.00 fee per manuscript for entering this contest; these entry fees will be used to purchase supplies for publishing the winning chapbooks. The fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal account at JulietX@Bust.com. (You may either use Paypal’s Send Payment feature to send payment to that email address—or use the Donation button near the bottom right hand side of the page here–or if you would like to make alternative payment arrangements, you may contact me.)
I would like to consider collections of 10-20 poems. Some of the poems may be previously published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published before. Send your collection of poems to JulietX@Bust.com along with title, acknowledgments, a brief bio, and your contact data. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere, please let me know right away.
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Blood Pudding Press is also accepting submissions for our new online literary publication, Thirteen Myna Birds. Please visit http://13myna.blogspot.com for the semi-amorphous guidelines. Submissions for this project will be accepted on a rolling basis, indefinitely.
*
Lots of new goodies have recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop at www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com. Why not take a peek and help support independent poetry and art?
XO
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
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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.'
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'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
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'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
8/18/08
what’s next for Blood Pudding Press
I’ve been receiving a few queries lately and although Blood Pudding Press is not currently accepting submissions, I do very much appreciate the interest. Thus, I wanted to offer a small update regarding what’s next for Blood Pudding Press.
All of this information is tentative and subject to fluctuation, but here are some inklings of what to expect from Blood Pudding Press in the coming months.
I am in the midst of participating in the very exciting dusie kollektiv 3 collaboration chapbook swap project. As a part of this project, Blood Pudding Press in conjunction with dusie press will be publishing ‘Humoresque’, a poetry collection by E. Tracy Grinnell, this October.
Shortly thereafter, circa early winter 2008, I anticipate that I will begin accepting submissions for the next Blood Pudding Press multi-writer project. This will be another poetry-focused chapbook similar to [GROWLING SOFTLY] and ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, but this time around, instead of selecting 1-2 poems by approximately 30 different poets, I will most likely be selecting 2-3 poems by approximately 15 different poets—and maybe a few other goodies, too. Please do not submit until I post my official ‘Call for Submissions’, which will appear here and elsewhere—and if you are interested in being added to the Blood Pudding Press email list, feel free to let me know.
I occasionally receive the question, ‘Does Blood Pudding Press consider poetry by men?’ and the answer is YES. Blood Pudding Press does harbor pussycentric tendencies and predilections, for sure. That said, I am delighted to consider creative material by women AND men AND those who identify in a more gender-fluid way. I am even delighted to consider submissions by alien witches.
After the next multi-writer project is published, I will probably begin accepting submissions for the next Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook by an individual poet. I have not yet decided exactly how these submissions will be handled—it could be an open reading period, it could be more of a contest format (addendum: although now that I think about it, it most likely will NOT take the form of a contest model, because in the midst of the lastest rash of contest horror stories, I am very much starting to wonder why I even ENTER poetry contests, let alone consider hosting one through my own small press; for cripes sake, in some ways contests seem antithetical to who I am as a human being), it could be something different. Either way, stay tuned to this blog for more details sometime in spring 2009.
As always, Blood Pudding Press is an adoring fan of chapbook trades and other art swaps—so if you are a creative writer and/or small press editor who is interested in exchanging one of your chapbooks for one of the currently available Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, please do feel free to enquire. Review copies are also available upon request.
Thank you so very much for your interest in Blood Pudding Press. I am excitedly looking forward to reading and considering some ooze-ilicious new poetry in the coming months! Slurp!
Juliet Cook, editor, Blood Pudding Press
All of this information is tentative and subject to fluctuation, but here are some inklings of what to expect from Blood Pudding Press in the coming months.
I am in the midst of participating in the very exciting dusie kollektiv 3 collaboration chapbook swap project. As a part of this project, Blood Pudding Press in conjunction with dusie press will be publishing ‘Humoresque’, a poetry collection by E. Tracy Grinnell, this October.
Shortly thereafter, circa early winter 2008, I anticipate that I will begin accepting submissions for the next Blood Pudding Press multi-writer project. This will be another poetry-focused chapbook similar to [GROWLING SOFTLY] and ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, but this time around, instead of selecting 1-2 poems by approximately 30 different poets, I will most likely be selecting 2-3 poems by approximately 15 different poets—and maybe a few other goodies, too. Please do not submit until I post my official ‘Call for Submissions’, which will appear here and elsewhere—and if you are interested in being added to the Blood Pudding Press email list, feel free to let me know.
I occasionally receive the question, ‘Does Blood Pudding Press consider poetry by men?’ and the answer is YES. Blood Pudding Press does harbor pussycentric tendencies and predilections, for sure. That said, I am delighted to consider creative material by women AND men AND those who identify in a more gender-fluid way. I am even delighted to consider submissions by alien witches.
After the next multi-writer project is published, I will probably begin accepting submissions for the next Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook by an individual poet. I have not yet decided exactly how these submissions will be handled—it could be an open reading period, it could be more of a contest format (addendum: although now that I think about it, it most likely will NOT take the form of a contest model, because in the midst of the lastest rash of contest horror stories, I am very much starting to wonder why I even ENTER poetry contests, let alone consider hosting one through my own small press; for cripes sake, in some ways contests seem antithetical to who I am as a human being), it could be something different. Either way, stay tuned to this blog for more details sometime in spring 2009.
As always, Blood Pudding Press is an adoring fan of chapbook trades and other art swaps—so if you are a creative writer and/or small press editor who is interested in exchanging one of your chapbooks for one of the currently available Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, please do feel free to enquire. Review copies are also available upon request.
Thank you so very much for your interest in Blood Pudding Press. I am excitedly looking forward to reading and considering some ooze-ilicious new poetry in the coming months! Slurp!
Juliet Cook, editor, Blood Pudding Press
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