Publishers Weekly has a nice news item about Paper Egg.
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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.
Announcement #3: And in the beginning, there was an overly generous giveaway enticement
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!
Early believers
Thanks to those who have already signed on to our project, day-old as it is. A third, exciting announcement arrives tomorrow.
ANNOUNCEMENT #2: AND IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS AN AUTHOR
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.
Announcement #1: And in the beginning, there was a designer
I thought I’d start off with a bang for our first announcement (#2 comes tomorrow), which is the following:
The Great Paul Hornschemeier, he of the prodigious illustrative talents and author of numerous fantastic Fantagraphics books, will illustrate and design every edition of Paper Egg. As much as this little effort is something of a throwback, we wanted to embrace the old-school methods of having each Paper Egg contain similar design elements, so that as you line them up on your shelves year after year, they begin to amass a sort of group mind. To that end, Paul will work closely with featherproof design guru Zach Dodson to create our new line of books. And, of course, Paul will illustrate each Egg.
Really, we couldn’t have found a finer artist for the job, as Paul has done some incredible book design work in the past, and each of his own books—including Mother, Come Home and The Three Paradoxes—combines all that we love in art: a technician’s eye, an impish sense of humor, and enough melancholy mixed in that we can never quite set our compass right.
If you’re not acquainted with Paul’s work, please, please acquaint yourself.
Here it comes…
We’re just getting rolling over here. Check back after the new year. Or in the meantime, hang out at our mothership.