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Whoa whoa whoa!
And one more whoa! Featherproof has just released FOUR new minibooks for your downloading/printing/folding/(maybe stapling)/reading pleasure!
The Diagnosis of Sadness by Jill Summers will help you deal with the aftermath of the unfortunate electrocution of overweight nine-year-olds.
Hospitable Madness by Jac Jemc involves lots of knives.
Peanuts and The Amazing Gro-Beast by Chris Bower has some poetry in it. And blindfolds.
Dear Michael by Margaret Chapman is, indeed, a letter to the Prince of Pop himself.
Download them, enjoy them. They are things that will make you say, “Whoa.”
Speaking of “Whoa,”
That’s what we said as we flung ourselves, exhausted, onto our couches this week after the AWP conference. In no small part because we couldn’t believe how much fun we had! We have to extend some thanks to everyone who stopped by our table waaaaay in the back. And of course, thanks to our writers who came from the far away south to freeze their butts off in the Chicago weather (Blake, Amelia, Todd, Susannah, Christian), and to our friends at Orange Alert, The Book Cellar, Quickies, Make Magazine and Switchback. Whoa. There are so many!
And Special Awesome Stupendous thanks go out to everyone who came to our smashingly successful AWP After Party/ Book Release Event at the Beat Kitchen, and especially to our performers/readers: Abraham Levitan, Todd Dills, Christian TeBordo, Patrick Somerville, Chris Bowers, Amelia Gray, Kyle Beachy, (un)Bound Stems and Serengeti! We had a great time, and we bet you did, too!
Check out some photographic evidence of the awesomeness:
See more pictures on the Featherproof Book’s flickr page. Oh! And if you’re a fellow tweeter, follow Featherproof Books on twitter. We can't believe it's taken our little bird so long to sign up for this.
And: Whoa! AWP opened the eyes of the world to the genius of Amelia Gray’s AM/PM, and praise is popping up all over the place!
Read an interview with Amelia here.
Read her life story, as written by Michael Kimball here.
Or check out some early love of the book on HTMLgiant.com, a site so awesome, Zach had to raise an eyebrow. HOW Magazine recently raised their eyebrows for boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, winner in the HOW 2009 Design Annual, on newsstands now.
And don’t forget! Time is running out for our special AM/PM/Paper Egg offer, so sign up here.
Some WHOA!s on the Horizon:
Zach pontificates on the existential nature of sit-com fatherhood at a special '80s TV Rec Room, Wednesday March 4th at the Black Rock Bar. It's called "You Give Me Growing Pains, Theodore Huxtable" Guess who's the guest curator? (Hint) There's a bunch of great mini authors representin', including Jac Jemc, Lindsay Hunter, Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, Mary Hamilton and Jill Summers. Full event info here.
And then, featherproof everyman Patrick Somerville’s debut novel, The Cradle (Little, Brown) comes out on Monday, March 9th and we’re celebrating at The Book Cellar with readings from Patrick, Jonathan and Colleen O’Brien. If you saw him read at The Beat Kitchen, then you know how much your pet cow will love this book release party. Read his mini in the meantime. Full event info here.
“Whoa!” is you, if we don't see you there.
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