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This tweet has perhaps sold more books more quickly than any single review we've ever had. Most sales spurts like this have happened because of enthusiastic readers on social media, not traditional publicity. All of which is to say: Talk about the books you read! It helps!
I can't imagine being a writer and not reading this book.
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So... we sold out of INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE! We are keeping orders open and the next print run will arrive later this month. Thank you all so, so much for responding to this book, and, of course, to
@anthgarrett
for being instrumental in getting all these new eyes on it!
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This year, we (Sublunary Editions and the nominated translators) declined to participate in
@PENamerica
's annual awards. We did not feel we could do so in good conscience, given their utter failure to address an ongoing genocide. A statement here:
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Announcement 🧵!
Submissions are open for the first time for the website! Starting next month, we'll be publishing regularly there, with new work, as well as archival content from the Subluniverse. (Yeah, I said it.)
Our dear
@VikShirley
will be at the helm as Digital Editor.
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When the full manuscript of Herman Melville's ISLE OF THE CROSS was found recently in a Cape Cod attic after more than 100 years, we were lucky enough to be on the mind of one of the archivists present.
@EmpyreanSeries
#21
, coming this fall:
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He was a tough get, but we pulled it off.
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Here’s what our 2022 publishing year looked like. 4 issues of Firmament, 14
@EmpyreanSeries
titles, 4 volumes of Collected texts, our first hardcover, a collaboration with Chatwin Books, and a whole host of new translations. It was a pleasure to work with new and old friends.
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Cover reveal!
Coming in November, MY HEART HAS SO MANY FLAWS collects the early (pre-WWI) poems of Robert Walser, translated by Kristofor Minta (
@KristoforMinta
).
You can pre-order it here:
Or here:
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How about a little cover reveal to spice up a flavorless Tuesday? Meet the future façade of MYSTERY TRAIN, an "anxiety dream spliced with a fable" of a novella by Can Xue, translated by
@natascha_bruce
. Out this fall.
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Um, hello to all of our new friends! Very glad to have you here. If you're new to our list, well, here it is!
Do feel free to browse:
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Today, we launch a refreshed online publishing presence! Under the editorial auspices of
@VikShirley
, we'll be bringing you new writing multiple times a week. We begin today work from Wolfgang Hilbig (tr.
@unpaginated
),
@JoyelleMcS
, and
@kyrasimone11
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Eh hem.
Would read a whole book of prologues and a whole book of epigraphs. 12/10 they are my favorite. Like little appetizers. Tapas. A charcuterie of literature!
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Announcing the launch of the Empyrean Series, our line of fresh printings of out-of-print/hard-to-find works from the annals of literary history.
We'll break things down for you here, but get the full scoop here:
And follow
@EmpyreanSeries
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And speaking of pre-orders for early 2024 titles... COVER REVEAL!
Christina Tudor-Sideri's (
@dreamsofbeing_
) second novel, SCHISM BLUE—a novel about intimacy and dressing absence in reinterpretation as an act of love—is out March 11:
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Wanting to get the production just so on this one, we've pushed MY HEART HAS SO MANY FLAWS, Walser's collected early poems in
@KristoforMinta
's translation, back to March 26. Trust us when we say you'll be stunned by book and object very soon!
Pre-order:
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Friends, do join us in welcoming Rachael de Moravia (
@rachael_moravia
) to the team as our copy editor! Rachael is a good friend of the press and an exceptionally sharp eye who will lead us in the battle against typos.
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Coming in Fall 2021, Anecdotes by Heinrich von Kleist will mark the first complete English translation* of these brief, feuilletonic stories that read like forebears to Walser, Kafka, the brief stories of Bernhard, etc. deftly rendered by
@unpaginated
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NYC and adjacent friends! Proper graphic coming soon, but hold the date for March 30th at 7PM. Kris Minta and Josh Rothes will be at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn to celebrate the release of MY HEART HAS SO MANY FLAWS, the collected early poems of Robert Walser. Come out!
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Joining the lineup for 2023, we are thrilled to announce our first project with translator
@AntonHur
. INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE is a collection of aphorisms on poetry-writing by the South Korean poet Lee Seong-bok, assembled by his students from his lectures.
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The big news: Starting next year, we will be publishing a quarterly magazine, Firmament, featuring interviews, columns, excerpts from upcoming books, and, of course, new writing from around the world, much of it in translation.
More info in thread...
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This October, we are thrilled to be able to bring you the very first translation into English of a recently attributed story by Bruno Schulz—very likely his literary debut—in translation by
@limmoraliste
.
Pre-order:
More info:
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Feast your eyes on the next iteration of Firmament, hitting shelves, stands, and stoops in January.
With
@aliner
,
@LapsusLima
, Henry Miller, Emanuel Carnevali,
@uhume
,
@vilmastuttle
,
@benlibman
,
@iab9208
,
@RachelGenn
,
@izidora
,
@saintsoftness
& more!
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EMPYREAN SERIES 36-40 🧵
• The Country Preacher by Jakob Lenz, tr. Douglas Robertson
• Twelve Stories by Margery Latimer
• Of the newe landes by Jan van Doesborch
• A Very Original Dinner by Fernando Pessoa
• Dialogues with Leucò by Cesar Pavese, tr. Arrowsmith & Carne-Ross
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On May 1st, we open up for manuscript submissions for books as slim as ~20 pages up to about 30k words. Publication in 2022/23. Full guidelines are here:
If you have any questions in the meantime, leave ‘em here!
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"Years pass and life bleeds into fiction. Other voices; other texts. I am more and more reflectively aware of the powers of language."
Online today, a new essay by Christina Tudor-Sideri (
@dreamsofbeing_
) on reading Duras's Malady of Death.
Read it here:
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More food for the eyes (and soon, for the poetic soul), the cover of INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE by Lee Seong-bok, a collection of aphorisms on poetry-writing which are, themselves, a series of miniature poetic worlds. Translated by none other than
@AntonHur
. Out this September!
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Happy birthday to Robert Walser, who would have been 146 years old today, assuming a cure for aging and other odd ailments.
In all seriousness, if you're a Walser aficionado, you need this sublime translation (via
@KristoforMinta
) of his early poems:
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The missing ingredient in your favorite summer cocktail:
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Fun fact: all of our books are in print! The one not in the picture now is in the next room being reprinted as we speak. If you guess which, we’ll send you a copy of it!
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🎊🎉🪅 We are thrilled to be able to announce that we can now offer (much!) reduced international shipping rates to readers in more than 50 countries! Applies to all packages under 2kgs (~4.4lbs).
EX: A copy of WE THE PARASITES to the UK? Now just $6.93! To Germany? $7.32!
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Here's a look at what's coming from us in the next 12 months.
And, apropos of nothing, a link to subscribe for 12 months:
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“I’m suffering from a headache and the universe.” — Fernando Pessoa (tr. Richard Zenith)
Pessoa died on this day in 1935.
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Happy publication day to SCHISM BLUE, our third book (not counting bountiful translations) with and the second novel from the incomparable Christina Tudor-Sideri (
@dreamsofbeing_
). A book that will hold you in its sway long after you've put it down.
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Still a bit starstruck from getting to meet Naveen Kishore from
@seagullbooks
today, one of our publishing heroes.
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Joining the chorus to celebrate the publication day of A. V. Marraccini's debut book! An immensely fun, erudite work that does serious, serious work in exploring the (oft erotic) tension between critic and artwork, restoring immediacy to the space of the encounter.
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Feast your eyes, all, Empyrean Series Nos. 41–45!
41. Logbook of Giannozzo the Balloonist by Jean Paul
42. Kruitzner by Harriet Lee
43. The Failure by Giovanni Papini
44. Of Clouds and Mists: The Collected Poems of Pascal D’Angelo
45. The Adventures of Lady Egeria by W.C
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Today, at long last, dear friends, MY HEART HAS SO MANY FLAWS, the early poems of Robert Walser translated by
@KristoforMinta
is out in the world.
Order:
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Today, we officially turned our old "blog" page into a proper online home for Firmament. You'll get more stories, poems, and essays from our archive, as well as the continued stream of findings from
@EmpyreanSeries
deep dives. Give it a look:
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We're just over a week away from the publication of Christina Tudor-Sideri's (
@dreamsofbeing_
) debut novel, DISEMBODIED, a story delivered not just in a single breath, but a final breath:
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Eh hem: The. First. Supernatural. Horror. Novel. In. English. Literature. Published. 1585. Edited. And. Introduced. By. Steven. Moore.
(Did I do this right? Anyway... big deal. HUGE deal.)
And finally THE ADVENTURE OF LADY EGERIA is the first supernatural horror novel in English literature, published in 1585. This marks the first modern edition of the text, edited and introduced by none other than Steven Moore.
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We share space with another press and a bookstore, so sometimes we spy things like this around the office.
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"With no linear thread to follow, with nothing to support her, with nothing to guide her, she has lost sight, she no longer remembers the blue outside the window, the blue within the heart..."
SCHISM BLUE by
@dreamsofbeing_
arrives soon.
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Reminder: two weeks from tomorrow, June 1, we’re opening up for our first submission period, lasting all month, or until we reach 100. Considering works of fiction, essay, and poetry, from roughly 20-100 pages.
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One more cover reveal for the year, and it's this one: ANECDOTES by Heinrich von Kleist (tr.
@unpaginated
) comes your way in the fall of next year, collecting the short fiction and anecdotes that appeared in the Berliner Abendblätter from 1810 to 1811.
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After its whereabouts were unknown for the better part of half a century, we are excited to announce that we will be publishing Henry Miller's THE BOOK OF CONVERSATIONS WITH DAVID EDGAR in 2023:
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Here's your first look at Firmament Volume 3! Work from:
@crossmansusanna
,
@MinxMarple
,
@iab9208
, Dustin Leavitt, David Lloyd, Bob Brightt,
@nate_knapp24
,
@Scott_Hadley
, Urmuz, Jean Paul, Emanuel Carnevali, Ruth Pine Furniss, James Wilkes, Letícia Myrrha, Leo Boix...
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No one in twentieth-century Latin American literature melded the baroque and the lowbrow quite like Osvaldo Lamborghini, most famous as the mentor of César Aira. In January,
@jess_sequeira
brings Two Stories of his incomparable prose into English.
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Please know that when I take your orders to be shipped, this guy is invariably along for the ride.
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We're excited to announce that in December, we will be publishing the late Mihail Sebastian's earliest book, Fragments From a Found Notebook, in English for the first time, translated from the Romanian by none other than
@dreamsofbeing_
Pre-order now:
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Happy publication day to INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE, a collection of nearly 500 aphorisms on poetry and poetics by lauded Korean poet Lee Seong-bok, translated by none other than
@AntonHur
.
We'll be sharing some of our favorites all week!
Order:
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Minta, Marraccini, Barbieri, Voronca, Miller, Czechowicz, Lee, Iyer, Monterroso, Shirley, Foster, Dyrness, Richter, Levy, Taylor, Verhaeren, Unamuno, Jolas, Latimer, Lenz, van Doesborch, Pessoa, Pavese.
Heck of a 2023. You guys keep us going, and we thank you all.
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You beautiful people have bought a lot of books this year, and we couldn't be more appreciative. That's it.
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A scant few weeks now, friends, till release date, and the onset of the Summer of Hilbig.
TERRITORIES OF THE SOUL / ON INTONATION, translated by
@unpaginated
, arrives June 25:
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Coming in 2022, THE CENTAUR TREE collects stories, essays, and prose poems (indistinguishable by the end) by Ilarie Voronca, one of Romania's foremost avant-gardists. We are delighted, of course, to once again be working with
@dreamsofbeing_
for the translation.
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COVER REVEAL:
Coming July 25, Augusto Monterroso's THE GOLD SEEKERS, translated by
@jess_sequeira
.
Pre-orders are now open:
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Friends! It's been, um, a weird couple of days, so apologies for not trumpeting this more than we already have, but if you're in NYC, we're at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn tonight at 7pm where Kris Minta and Josh Rothes (i.e. me) will be chatting about Robert Walser! Come by!
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We spilled the beans in our newsletter this morning, but let's all now luxuriate in legumes: This fall, we will be publishing THE COLLECTED EARLY POEMS OF ROBERT WALSER, translated by
@KristoforMinta
. You may remember some of Kris's translations of Walser from Firmament 3...
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We couldn't be more excited to announce that we'll be publishing a new novella by Jessica Sequeira (
@jess_sequeira
) in 2024, JAZZ OF THE AFFECTIONS. Stay tuned for more info toward the end of the year, but do start getting—eh hem—jazzed now.
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Coming in June of next year, we're thrilled to bring you the literary debut of one of the most important Polish writers of the early 20th century, Józef Czechowicz.
THE STORY OF THE PAPER CROWN, translated by Frank Garrett (
@limmoraliste
):
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Poetry lovers! You may be duly stoked that our Metrical Analysis bookmarks are back, and we are selling them in sets of 10. Tag your favorite poetry teacher!
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All hands (hands not pictured) on deck for working through the many, many orders of INDETERMINATE INFLORESCENCE. The third printing (!!!) arrives Friday!
Get in on the sensation here:
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The lineup for Firmament Vol. 2, No. 2 (aka
#6
) is in, with Juan José Saer (tr. Jessica Sequeira),
@Greg_Gerke
,
@DawnRaffel
, translations from
@MirabellaM_
,
@fliglman
,
@PersonalRecords
,
@JRichWords
and more!
Out early April:
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Wishing a very happy new year to everyone, with much peace and good reading in the year ahead. Thank you to everyone who read us, supported us, and/or allowed us the honor of publishing your work. Sublunary IS the community around it, and I’m glad you’re all part of it. —JR
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2023 so far*, all for sale (along with 2019–2022) for the remainder of the day at 40% off!
* Parasites shown in ARC form until fresh ones arrive next week.
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Friends! This wonderful, unreservedly queer, febrile, lyrical, etc., etc. novella is out today, almost exactly 100 years after its original publication thanks to the tireless efforts of
@limmoraliste
.
We'll be sharing excerpts all day; grab a copy here:
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Coming soon: The final work of the Romanian-Jewish writer Max Blecher, an intensely personal novel drawing from his experiences living out his final years in the sanatoriums of Europe. THE LIGHTED BURROW: A SANATORIUM DIARY arrives in 2022, translated by Christina Tudor-Sideri.
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We are honored to be able to announce that we are teaming up with Seattle's Chatwin Books to bring you THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MARGUERITE YOUNG this fall!
Full press-release:
Paperback pre-orders open now:
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In other good news, Empyreans 36-40 are all in and heading out the door now!
Pessoa! Pavese! Latimer! Lenz! van Doesborch!
Get ’em all as part of a bundle:
Or individually:
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Apropos nothing, a reminder that Marguerite Young’s Collected Poems are available right here:
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Now available for pre-order,
@VikShirley
's NOTES FROM THE UNDERWORLD, the cthonic sequel to CORPSES that follows the unfortunate souls of Hades through the mundanities and minor indignities of the afterlife. Illustrated by
@joshuarothes
. Out Halloween!
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All, here is your lineup for the next issue of Firmament, dropping mid-July. Pre-order/subscribe here:
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You may have heard that everything is 30% off right now. But do we have what you like? Probably! If you like…
Great short stories:
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How 'bout a little cover reveal?
Moving between lyric poetry, personal essay, and gothic horror, Territories of the Soul/On Intonation (tr.
@unpaginated
) showcases Wolfgang Hilbig's remarkable versatility and depth of feeling. Out June 18.
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Basking in the new arrivals at Sublunary HQ, including hardcovers of our Henry Miller, the poems/mythdreams of Eugene Jolas, and, of course, The Story of the Paper Crown!
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Here is your cover and lineup for Firmament No. 3!
More details to follow in the thread. Pre-order available here:
Launches July 1.
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Say hello to the covers of our two forthcoming Cortázar volumes, arriving January 25, 2022.
LETTERS FROM MOM was translated by
@magda8lena
WHAT THE MUGWIG HAS TO SAY & SILVALANDIA, featuring the artwork of Julio Silva, was translated by
@chrisgclarke1
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Jean Paul, to the consternation of many around him, had a pet squirrel that slept in a sack on his sofa and often accompanied him on walks, tucked into his pocket. It was even present at the christening of his godson, though he kept it hidden.
"Always leave the two doors of my room locked; also the squirrel is not allowed in."
Jean Paul, letter to his wife, instructing her on managing the house while we was away.
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Alright folks, submissions for the next issue of Firmament are OPEN for the next TWO WEEKS!
Submit here:
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Out today! The debut novella from San Francisco-based writer Michael Holt, a surreal, purgatorial exploration of the psyche between letting go and holding on, of memory, mutability, solitude, and time.
Available here:
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Out today! Two books containing a total of three short works by Julio Cortázar, all for the first time translated in to English in their entirety.
LETTERS FROM MOM:
WHAT THE MUGWIG HAS TO SAY & SILVALANDIA:
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Today is, at long last, publication day for Christina Tudor-Sideri's (
@dreamsofbeing_
) first novel, DISEMBODIED, a breathless monologue delivered by a woman lying dead in her yard, an imaginative take on the old notion of life flashing before your eyes.
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And we're back from vacation!
We're hitting the ground running, with Daniela Cascella's CHIMERAS out tomorrow, and two new Empyrean titles coming in the next two weeks. Oh, and books by Marguerite Young and Can Xue next month. Did we mention that?
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Dear friends, We hope you'll join us for the virtual launch of A. V. Marraccini's WE THE PARASITES! The author (
@saintsoftness
) will be in conversation with none other than Alina Stefanescu (
@aliner
) on February 25 at 1:30 EST / 9:30 GMT.
Register here:
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