Feb
09
Our bonus book, AM/PM has arrived, and we’ll start shipping out copies to subscribers this week, so thanks to all who have already signed up. If you’re coming to our release party/blowout/AWP-awesomeness on Friday night, drop a line if you’d just like to pick it up then and have Amelia sign it.
And, we’re about to hit a nice, round number for our subscriber base, so the next person to sign up will get a bonus bonus book from my personal collection of bonus bonus books.
We plan on continually rolling out ridiculous promotions like this, because we own the company and no one can tell us not to. Hooray.
Jan
26
Our grand ol’ mothership, featherproof books, continues to publish our old-fashioned, in-bookstore list while Paper Egg takes to the mailways. Next up for the ‘proof is an incredible, collection of interlocked, mouth-watering short-short stories from the great Amelia Gray, AM/PM.
And check it out: The first 250 people who sign up for a subscription will receive a free copy of AM/PM to read and read while you wait for Christian’s book to arrive in October. Free! Amazing book! Free! And of course, it won’t count as one of the two books you receive per year in the mail.
We’ll have these books on hand for our AWP table, so this is actually our conference deal that we’re opening up online a little early. If you’ve already signed up for a subscription, expect a copy of the Gray papers in the mail to you as soon as it comes back from the printers.
For those of you who haven’t signed up yet, sign up! Free (incredible) book!
Jan
15
So now that you know what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, it’s time to tell you what we have in store. For our first Paper Egg, we’ll be sending you The Awful Possibilities by Christian Tebordo. It’s Christian’s first collection of short stories, and anyone who’s familiar with his past work knows it’s got to be dark, beautiful, strange, and the kind of book that opens new doors with every page turned.
A little background: I’m lucky enough to hold off the bill collectors with my job as the editor of Time Out Chicago’s Books section. When Christian’s first novel, The Conviction and Subsequent Life of Savior Neck came across my desk in 2005, I was blown away. I had one of those nights where I didn’t fall asleep until a couple of hours before work, when the book was finally done. Since then, he’s followed it up with Better Ways of Being Dead (awesome) and We Go Liquid (amazing). So when we decided to launch Paper Egg, it was obvious to me that we should to start off right with a book from Christian. In fact, in some sense, Paper Egg was designed to publish Christian’s book. It’s brilliant, and strange, and the mammoth bookselling network is simply not suited for something like it. We’re hoping we are.
To read a great Ned Vizzini interview with Christian, go here, and one of his stories at La Petite Zine.
