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In 2002 we published two books by Carol Emshwiller (a novel, The Mount, and Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories), a favorite author with six previous books to her name. Last year our first two books (Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen and Ray Vukcevich's Meet Me in the Moon Room) were well received. We are committed to publishing short story collections and novels by authors we feel are slipping through the cracks. In 1996, long before I ever thought I'd publish any books, I started a small press zine, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (LCRW). Whenever I flipped through the magazines at Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop in Boston, MA, where I worked, I was frustrated that none seemed to have just the right mix (fiction, a spot of poetry, a flash of humor, maybe some art) that I thought would make the perfect magazine. Eleven issues and many long nights at the computer later, LCRW goes from strength to strength. In 2000, we took our first real step toward publishing books when we published two chapbooks, 4 Stories by Kelly Link and Five Forbidden Things by Dora Knez. The chapbooks -- deliberately designed as low-priced editions to introduce new writers and give them a step up between publishing stories and books -- gave us confidence in our design and production capabilities. At about the same time we set up a half-decent website (oddly enough, we still have a half-decent website, www.lcrw.net, but it's larger now) and, with the advent of Paypal, our zine and the chapbooks were suddenly available to anyone...who had the urge to look us up. LCRW and the chapbooks complement our books: they give readers a way to sample our authors without popping for the more expensive books -- the zine is only $4, chapbooks $5, and the books $16 -- and the zine and chapbook reach very different audiences than our books. Our books are carried by Ingram and Baker & Taylor -- our biggest LCRW distributor is Last Gasp. |
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