books

For this week’s Sunday’s List we asked Entropy contributors: What’s the last book you loved? Janice Lee Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer Tyler Crumrine Theatre of the Unimpressed by Jordan Tannahill…

I’m interested in writers who offer exceptional counterpoints to the literary mainstream. These days that usually means people situated outside the Academy.

For this week’s Sunday list we asked Entropy contributors: What is a book you would send in the mail to cheer someone up? Sara Finnerty Turgeon Your illustrated Guide To…

We are fourteen hours into our twenty-seven-hour road trip to Colorado Springs, bursting at the corners with people, luggage, and sustenance for the ordeal. To my right, my sister Camille…

We’re pleased to bring you the newest installment of the Where to Submit list, headlined by a photo from Pelle Cass’s “Selected People” series. Cass writes: This work both orders the…

That may not be “smart” in the normal sense of the word, but I don’t really care. Kiddiepunk is almost like a big art project to me, and I’ve never used my art as a money-making source. It keeps things pure that way because I just do what I want and I only publish things that I love. There’s no pressure on any particular release to “succeed” on a financial level. It’s a punk mentality that is just kind of ingrained in my head. But it’s great these days because you can do these things relatively affordably and sell them directly to the people who are interested. You don’t need distribution, ISBNs, any of that stuff. You just need to put your energy into making something great. In the not-so-distant past, before the internet, before high quality digital printing, you really couldn’t do what I do now, so it’s cool.

Website Submission Guidelines: “Our submissions page is very unfriendly, so as to discourage writers who don’t fit the Pacific or experimental categories. But I’m open to discussions, queries, small samples…

With Fashion Week currently gallivanting about New York, I figured it’d be a good time to check-out the latest and greatest in lit scene fashion. So grab your pince-nez and let’s…

I basically started Scrambler because I have always like to read and write. In college I was influenced and read a lot about the history of publishing and especially how independent publishers such as Sylvia Beach and Lawrence Ferlinghetti started out. After I graduated from college and all that history of publishing stuff had sunk in for a few years, I decided that I wanted to somehow publish and edit something and that something has become Scrambler Books.

Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson Graywolf Press, 2015 160 pages – Graywolf / Amazon   Subtitled “Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries,” Ander Monson’s…

We wanted to find out what people actually want to pay for a book of poems. If it’s a book by their favorite author, maybe they would pay $15-$20 for a paperback, plus shipping. If it’s a poet they’ve never heard of, we have a free PDF excerpt of the book they can download from the website. Maybe they like the poems from the sample and pay $10 for the book. Maybe they don’t have $10 to throw down, so they spend $5. Maybe they spend a penny and we lose a few bucks on that copy, but there it goes out into the world, sitting on someone’s coffee table. To me, that’s fine, I chalk it up as a marketing expense. If everyone paid a penny we’d lose a lot of money, sure, but not everyone is. Actually, we’re finding people pay along a wide spectrum. The average price being paid right now, with Noah Eli Gordon’s campaign, is about $13 a book, including shipping. Some people have paid $25 for the book, which is surprising and wonderful, and a great number have paid $18, which will be the cost once the promotion ends.

That’s When the Knives Come Down: Stories by Dolan Morgan Aforementioned Productions, August 2014 208 pages – Aforementioned Productions / Amazon   Dolan Morgan’s That’s When the Knives Come Down is…

How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer Coffee House Press, August 2014 167 pages – Coffee House / Amazon We transport ourselves into the fairy tale. We…

Bird Box by Josh Malerman is a dark, tense, and touching story that is incredibly hypnotic. It’s the story of one woman, Malorie, and the lengths she’ll go to in…