News
Molly Gaudry under the spotlight at Dark Sky Magazine
The wonderful spotlight feature at Dark Sky Magazine has thrown its light on Mud Luscious Press novel(la) author Molly Gaudry where she talks about what is coming next (three books - yeah, that's right) & what fairy tale, musical, etc. she loves. Read the interview here & get a copy of WE TAKE ME APART here for $12 + shipping or in a package with Fletcher's WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED & Brooks' AN ISLAND OF FIFTY here for $30 with free shipping.
Review / Interview of Glaser & PEE ON WATER
I am full of reviews lately. Here is my new review / interview of Rachel B. Glaser concerning her great & wonderful collection from Publishing Genius Press PEE ON WATER. Check it out in the latest issue of Rumble (where you should also submit work if you haven't do so recently).
Fletcher's WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED given an in-depth by Pank
Check out Troy Urquhart's wonderfully deep-digging review of Sasha Fletcher's Mud Luscious Press novel(la) WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED. It is a really phenomenal reading of this tremendous book, & should be all the convincing you need to pick up a copy from us today. Thanks Troy & Pank, you both rock.
Cooper Renner & his Mud Luscious Press chapbook DR. POLIDORI'S SKETCHBOOK
Cooper Renner was recently interviewed by B. L. Pawelek for his Ten Everywhere series (newly adopted by FlatmanCrooked). Read the interview here, search out a copy of this sold out chapbook here, & dig into our other equally impressive chapbook titles here. Thanks Mr. Pawelek & Mr. Renner, we appreciated reading this interview.
INCONCEIVABLE WILSON nicely reviewed at The Collagist
In the latest issue of The Collagist, Ethan Joella gave a succinct & pervasive & grand review of my debut novel(la) INCONCEIVABLE WILSON, saying among other things:
"..the tranquil, masterful way Tyler returns to his themes reminds one of mellow ocean waves that keep returning, a subtle artistry that impresses and reminds: Thoughts return. Images return. We deal with life again and again in different ways and through different perspectives..."
I have one signed-copy to send out in thanks to whoever is reading this & has yet to read INCONCEIVABLE WILSON (just email me here), the second & third & so-on persons can get a copy here though for a mere $12 & in support of a press that already published Shane Jones & is looking forward to publishing Matthew Savoca & Kendra Grant Malone.
another bout of W A T E R published in Prick of the Spindle
The kind & lovely folks at Prick of the Spindle were nice enough to include an excerpt from my novel-in-progress WATER in their latest issue. Read 'An Episode of Length' here. Thanks Prick of the Spindle eds, you are wonderful.
AN ISLAND OF FIFTY on Dennis Cooper's potential 'Best of 2010' Top Ten List
Dennis Cooper has posted his "mid-year round up of the early prime candidates for his year-end Best of 2010 Top Ten Lists" & gave Ben Brooks' Mud Luscious Press novel(la) AN ISLAND OF FIFTY a nod amongst other giant books like Justin Taylor's EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER & Joshua Cohen's WITZ.
If you want to feel like Dennis Cooper feels about Ben Brooks' excellent writing, you can pick-up a copy of AN ISLAND OF FIFTY for $12 + shipping here or buy it in tandem with Sasha Fletcher's WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED here for $20 & free shipping. Thanks DC. We are honored.a new piece up at Word Riot, & my longest book to date: WATER
Up in the new issue of Word Riot is my piece 'An Episode of Hills'. You can read it in the stretching-forms section &/or listen to me reading it here.
This is a small piece of a 10k word prelude to my longest project ever, tentatively entitled WATER. More of these episodes of the prelude are forthcoming with decomP, Prick of the Spindle, & the Moon Milk Review anthology. These are all episodes of children in the rain, children killing children, children taken down to remains.
Another part of this book called WATER is the chapbook OUR US & WE, recently released from Greying Ghost & available now in a limited-edition run of 100 copies here. It is about parents losing a child under water, a boy lost to the woods & frozen in a lake.
There is also another chapbook portion in WATER called WOODS that was just rejected by a chapbook contest. It's okay. I accept defeat with melancholy fingers. But some of the WOODS pieces will be appearing soon in Caketrain, trnfr, & JMWW. They are surreal vignettes about a man in the woods & a woman in the ocean & children who are gone but still want to hear stories.
What is also in WATER is my five-part revisionist story ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ that will be simultaneously released in May 2012 in four chapbooks from Greying Ghost, Pangur Ban Party, NewLights Press, & Warm Milk Printing Press & as a free online segment with The Collagist. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ is the five-part re-telling of the last water taken from a girl & the boy who finds her.
What will finish-off this book called WATER are three new sections I am writing now: 'Noah', 'Dryness as a Sore on the Body', & 'The Lake is a Mouth'. Those will make WATER my first genuine novel at around 80-85K words. I don't know what that means, but I hope something good.
Writing Workshop ( / ) Worship with ( / ) of Mathias Svalina
It is no surprise that I love Mathias Svalina's writing. After all, Mud Luscious Press is publishing his novel(la) I AM A VERY PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEUR in 2011. But you never know what to expect when you meet someone in person, like how I met Mathias for the first time last Saturday when he lectured & work-shopped with the Colorado State University National Writing Project.
What I learned: Mathias Svalina is a kind & nice & personable person. Mathias Svalina understands how to teach about writing. Mathias Svalina takes armloads of grocery store receipts in order to write out of them. Mathias Svalina is a bad-ass writer & I am lucky to know him.
When someone says 'hey, attend this writing workshop / reading' you should.
Don't even think about it, just go.
Michael Kimball & EWN & Trick with a Knife & FictionDaily, all talking Mud Luscious Press
O yea. Yes. Wonderful.
Michael Kimball mentioned Mud Luscious Press as an exciting indie press to watch here at the best damn creative writing blog & Dan Wickett's Emerging Writers Network talked up Mud Luscious Press in its novel(la) month postings here & Trick with a Knife said some aggressive & beautiful things about Ben Brook's AN ISLAND OF FIFTY here & FictionDaily threw the short short short spotlight on Sasha Fletcher's WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED here.
Get in on a package of Mud Luscious Press books here, available in increments of $20, $30, & $40, & no shipping if you order with these deals. Come on in.
