Iconic indie book press/online literary journal (Vlad Mag) founded by
@brianalanellis
😘 IF YOU DONT READ BOOKS YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF -
@the_ironsheik
Meet VLAD MAG, the new lit journal from House of Vlad Press 😋 Issue one, edited by
@brianalanellis
, is available to read now at:
Issue two will be edited by
@JillianLuft
(visit the site for submission guidelines)
Please SHARE and ENJOY!
Meet VLAD MAG
#2
: HOT SLOBS (guest-edited by
@JillianLuft
)!
Please SHARE and ENJOY!
Issue
#3
submissions are OPEN NOW (visit the site for guidelines)!
Dropping the first House of Vlad title of 2021 Beyoncé style... Have Amazon Prime? Get HORROR VACUI, the new book by
@formermissNJ
, by Thursday, January 9, which is Shy's birthday! Paperback/e-book available now at ! Cover art by
@sampinkisalive
Hey, it's my responsibility as a complete idiot to continue the thankless hard work it takes in bringing you marginalized books that make very little money & get very little attention all while my mental health diminishes & my personal life falls apart, kapeesh?
Super stoked to announce that SCUMBAG SUMMER, the debut by
@JillianLuft
(out 6/20), is now available as a SIGNED PRE-ORDER! Promises to be the most anticipated book of the summer! Premium merchandise bundles are also available! Catch her at
@treefortfest
!
This was the worst year of my life but I still managed to bring y'all some of the tastiest indie lit there is, so please bow down to me. Bow down to your sad, broken indie lit Messiah.
It's ok to get outsiders into books, especially in wild, clever ways. Make your own rules. You don't have to appeal to the academic, stuck-up, gatekeeping haters. And you don't gotta be rich. You can do this in places smaller than NY or LA. Literature should be fun and welcoming.
for nylon’s annual It Girl issue, i wrote about Literary It Girls & the exaltation of the book launch ft. the coolest, smartest writers who are changing the book world 🖤
Top 5 Writers I'd Like to See on An Episode of Hot Ones [retweet and share your own picks]:
1. Ottessa Moshfegh
2. Scott McClanahan
3. Elizabeth Ellen
4. Samantha Irby
5. Dave Eggers
PRO LIT TIP: Just combine all of your shitty exes into one evil character so that it will confuse them if or when they finally read your scathing, autobiographical anger novel.
With great sorrow, and on behalf of his grieving husband and family, Tyrant Books confirms the death of our founder and publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano 💔
The next two titles, I HATE YOU, PLEASE READ ME by
@postitbreakup
and BODY HIGH by
@JonJonlindsey
, are dropping early next year, and we have PDF copies for writers interested in reviewing them for blogs and journals, so slide into our dm's with your credentials and contact info!
If you have issues with a person's past behaviour, is it better to confront them privately about your feelings, or would you rather just publicly drag them and the people they're associated with through the one-sided hate-o-sphere that is social media? Yes, asking for a friend.
Meet VLAD MAG
#3
: BAD VIBES (guest-edited by
KRIS HALL)!
Please SHARE and ENJOY!
Issue
#4
submissions, guest-edited by
@Teaweave
, are OPEN NOW (visit the site for guidelines)!
HOV has a domain now () that basically directs you to a tumblr page (LOL). Downgraded the big cartel site to where only selected titles & pre-orders will be sold. All titles can be purchased through this new address via links to either Amazon or Bookshop.😘
Cover reveal for Noah Cicero's WILD KINGDOM: An Autobiographical Poetry Adventure by Noah Cicero (House of Vlad, 2021) ⭐ Advance PDF copies are available for press-related things. So slide into our DMs, eh?
People talk about their novel a lot, which seems annoying, yes, but sometimes it's the only thing they got going in their life, with how consuming it is, so maybe we should let people have that, I dunno.
Writers, I highly recommend reading The Elements of Style because it teaches you to clarify text by simply, and properly, substituting awkward phrases like "knelt on" with just "murdered."
A Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel where the protagonist has health insurance, a loving relationship, a fulfilling career, no drug or alcohol dependency, and had a positive upbringing.
MTV True Life: I always found it shameful and embarrassing to tell strangers irl that I publish indie lit books in my spare time so now I just tell them I go on twitter a lot which garners the same reaction without having to explain what publishing indie lit books even means lol
You can now PRE-ORDER a signed, limited-edish copy of the new
@brianalanellis
hardcover! 200 pages, 27 classick short stories, 50 grrrreat poems & over 30 pages of rad bonus stuff that's mostly never been collected in book form! Out in September!
🔥 🔥
“
@JonJonLindsey
is the new gleefully heartbreaking voice of California’s broken world... [Body High] unfolds in rioting prose that bursts into crazed poetry around every curve...” -
@gariellelutz
. author of Worsted (
@hobartpulp
) //
BODY HIGH by
@JonJonLindsey
(out May 1) and NOAH CICERO'S WILD KINGDOM (out April 14) are both up for PRE-ORDER at // HORROR VACUI by
@formermissNJ
and I HATE YOU, PLEASE READ ME by
@postitbreakup
are both OUT NOW!
Don't know how other presses work but anyone new to indie lit, or old to indie lit, can always message me for a free House of Vlad PDF sampler... No fear, no worries, my pleasure ❤️
Dear God, please grant me the strength to promote/finish editing the books I thought were a good idea to publish in those all too brief instances where I felt super motivated and the pointlessness of existence held less weight.
NOAH CICERO'S WILD KINGDOM by NOAH CICERO is OUT TODAY!
“Cicero’s practical language couches a deep and searching spiritually...” —
@believermag
Paperback/ebook:
Suspicious of writers who never share anything embarrassing or manic or sad about themselves on social media and will just post about the academic literary prizes they won and/or whatever "short list" their book made that week, LIKE WHAT ARE YOU HIDING??
Writers be like, "I know a place," and then slide into your inbox with an unedited, 500-page manuscript of experimentally formated poetry and flash fiction pieces they want you to publish.
TASTY DEAL! Order/Pre-order any book by
@formermissNJ
,
@postitbreakup
,
@JonJonLindsey
or Noah Cicero on now & receive via the e-mail on your invoice a PDF of the HOV Super Sampler (w/ the No Frills Sampler
#1
& the yet-to-be-released No Frills Sampler
#2
)!
Thanks again
@NPR
for not including on your little list any of the books I both lovingly & painstakingly edit & publish from the bedroom where I share cold pizza with my cat & wait for death, which reminds me: 30% off using promo code HOV30 at houseofvlad dot bigcartel dot com 😉
Maybe you're born with it, maybe it's that you sometimes disagree with people you actually agree with just to make them angry because self-assured people are mostly annoying.
Shout-out to all the relatives who don't create anything besides babies and who never even really read books but are so quick to offer unsolicited advice on how to make money in the publishing world.