AWP and a Cure for FOMO
The walls are closing in on us. We’re just a week and change away from both the release of Joshua Trent Brown’s novel and AWP in Baltimore. For those of you who will be at AWP, you can find us at table #506, near the book fair stage. Trent Brown will be there, signing copies of The Walls Are Closing In On Us. We’ll also be represented by Joey Hedger, Spencer Fleury, Alex Miller, Benjamin Warner, Justin Bryant, and OF Cieri.
Trent and Joey will be reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, at the Golden West Cafe in Baltimore. (All these years later and I still remember the order for for listing events in AP style.) We are trying to set up another reading for Friday, March 6, but it is still up in the air.
If you preordered a copy of The Walls Are Closing In On Us, you should receive it close it the release date of March 3. Copies of the book, printed in Minneapolis by Bookmobile, are on their way to Trent’s house, should land there midweek. He’s going to sign them and ship them out, along with a copy of King Ludd’s Rag No. 20, featuring one of his short stories, and a zine of poems by Ly Faulk, called Sick Sad Queer. We have about ten copies of KLR still available to go out with preorders, and Trent’s novel is on sale this week for $20. If you preorder by 2/28 we can guarantee a signed copy plus a free poetry zine.
If you’re not able to make it to AWP, you can still get AWP pricing, starting now. All our books (except returns) are priced in multiples of five. If a book’s normal price is $24, it’s on sale for $20. If a normal price is $18, it’s on sale for $15. Studies show that the surest cure for book fair FOMO is buying ordering too many books.
This is also a great time to sign up for our book club because the first order of the year will be going out soon, and anyone signed up now is going to get a first print run copy of The Walls Are Closing In On Us signed by the author. When the first run copies run out the book will most likely only be available in its print on demand version.
In other news: I haven’t been able to track down the exact quote, but one of my colleagues mentioned to me recently that Jane Goodall had said she and her team date the birth of humanity to the first skeletons that featured healed bones, suggesting that other humans had taken care of them when they were injured. I’m sure Goodall said this more eloquently and forcefully, but this idea that humanity is care has been on my mind ever since, and I can’t think of a better definition.
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