AWP Chicago

Monday, February 27th, 2012

AWP has arrived, as it inevitably does, and off we go to fulfill all those drinks-at-AWP promises. We don’t have a table this year, but a bunch of lovely presses and publications will be hosting copies of Matthew Salesses’ The Last Repatriate. You can find them at:

 

Kartika Review

Redivider

NANO Fiction

FRINGE

MAKE

American Short Fiction

PANK

 

You can also send us an e-mail or a Tweeter and we can set up a special drop off, like we’re doing something illegal. Matt will also be manning the FRINGE booth on Friday from 3 pm-4pm, so go on and get your book signed.

 

For those of you that are curious about our next book, you can sneak a peek at Daniel Torday at least twice:

 

Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m Daniel will be on the following panel:

R115. A Room with a Review: The Art of Literary Criticism

(Andrew Ciotola, Mindy Kronenberg, Daniel Torday, Scott Parker, Christina Thompson)

Wiliford A, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor

Literary journal editors discuss the ethics, mechanics, and value of reviewing.

 

He’ll also be reading on Friday at 5:00 p.m. at the

Syracuse MFA alumn reading, GRAIN OF SALT.

Center for Book and Paper Arts

Columbia College Chicago

1104 S. Wabash, 2nd fl.

 

Come and acquaint yourself with the work of our next author. See him in his natural habitat. Get excited for The Sensualist.

 

Safe travels, friends. We’ll see you soon.

In the New Year

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

Happy New Year, Nouvellaers. Twenty-twelve has arrived and so far our year has set out skipping. First case in point: we are absolutely thrilled to announce the release of our next novella, The Sensualist by Daniel Torday. We don’t want to divulge too much too soon, but we’re busy behind the scenes right this very instant, getting ready for a mid-March release. In the meantime, read up on this Dan fellow (web hint: Five Chapters and 52 Stories). You’re going to want to get in on the ground floor on this one, believe you me. Stay tuned for more details.

 

And now for a bit of news from the Flatmancrooked vault: In celebration of selling out of the second edition of Edan Lepucki’s If You’re Not Yet Like Me, we are offering the very last of the first-edition copies (we came into a few extra copies after a shipping mishap during the October 2009 launch.) Head over here for more details and to get one of the 15 remaining signed copies.

 

Lastly, I wanted to reiterate my thanks for all the support this last year. The release of our first Nouvella title, Matthew Salesses‘ The Last Repatriate, went terrifically. Some great write-ups have gone up at The Stage and at Ethel Rohan‘s blog, and it appeared on “best of” lists at Big Other and NANO Fiction. If you’re still itching to see Matt read and/or pick up an illusive hard copy, you’re in luck: he’ll be reading at Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday, January 18th at 7pm, along with Elizabeth Searle, author of Girl Held in Home. The following week, on January 23rd, he’ll be at “the sexiest reading series in Cambridge” at Literary Firsts, 7pm, Middlesex Lounge. Precisely one month later Matt will be doing the Writers Series with Margot Livesey at Salem State University (that’s February 23rd, 7:30pm). And finally, the web’s coolest fiction contest (so says I): “My Protagonist is Matt Salesses.” It’s essentially exactly what it sounds like, and it’ll be judged by Matt Bell (How They Were Found), Laura van den Berg (What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us) and Steve Himmer (The Bee-Loud Glade). The winner will be announced at/around AWP, and prizes include various books.

 

Thanks for checking in. As always, more exciting news soon.

 

-DD

Nouvella is on the Hunt for an Intern

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Nouvella is looking for a social media and public relations intern. The ideal candidate will be an avid and engaging Twitterer and Facebooker. She or he will also have strong composition skills and the ability to write knock-’em-down-drag-’em-out press releases. Familiarity with the literature and publishing industry is a big plus. Internships are unpaid and last for four months with the option to extend. Expected workload is anywhere from 4-10 hours a week, depending on where we are in terms of releasing a book. Please e-mail a CV or resume to the editors along with a brief explanation of why you are interested in and qualified for the position.

 

Perks include:

 

-Your name on the masthead!

 

-Weekly, mostly morale-boosting e-mails from the editors

 

-Drinks, if we ever meet face to face

 

-A killer letter of recommendation reflecting your killer work ethic

 

 

Thanks in advance to all applicants; we look forward to hearing from you.

 

 

-DD

 

FIN!

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Thank you to everyone who helped make Matt’s launch a terrific success! It was a thrilling week all around and we’re looking forward to hearing from all our investors as the books start to arrive in mailboxes. Speaking of which, the books will ship out mid to late-November—just as soon as they’re all signed. The thank you notes will arrive separately and soon after; they’ll be coming from Matt in Boston and the books will be coming from me in California, so keep an eye out for your postman not once, but twice.

 

If you missed the launch or else if you are a Matt superfan, the e-book version for Kindle, iPad and Nook will be released in a few weeks, so stay tuned. In the meantime, Matt will be having his release party at Newtonville Books in Boston on November 16th at 7PM. The very next evening he will be fighting the good fight at Literary Death Match at what appears to be a very cool club. That’s November 17th at 7PM as well. Come shake the man’s hand and enjoy all the awesomeness that LDM has to offer.

 

Thanks again for all your support so far. More news of the best variety coming very soon.

 

-DD

 

Nouvella in the August issue of NYLON

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

There we are in the Shelf-Help section, nestled right between Ben Loory and Tin House’s Fantastic Women. A good place to be, if you ask me. Miranda July is in there too, as is Yannick Murphy. Hip. (And yeah, that’s a sneak peek at Matthew Salesses’ cover for The Last Repatriate. Keep it under your hat.) Read the piece (and access an archive of the very cool Shelf-Help) here.

 

NYLON is on the stands now, available at most fine purveyors of news and media—even at Wholefoods, we hear. Go out and get a copy. You’ll be cooler for it, promise.

 

-DD

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Place at Which We’ve Arrived

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

This here is Nouvella. Thanks for stopping by. It’s been a blurry couple of months, but I am thrilled to be here, by which I mean that I am happy to have written this from my beloved knockoff Eames chair, knowing that you, dear reader, have come to see the site.

 

If you make your way over to the About page, you will find some basic information, including submission guidelines and a place to sign up for our mailing list. In the Books section you’ll find e-books from the Flatmancrooked novellas If You’re Not Yet Like Me by Edan Lepucki and Your Rightful Home by Alyssa Knickerbocker, available for your immediate electronic purchase and perusal. A limited number of physical copies of Edan’s second edition novella are also available.

 

Presently, we are getting ready to debut our first novella The Last Repatriate by Matthew Salesses in a few weeks. We’ll be posting some links to fiction by Matt and an excerpt from the novella in the beginning of August, a week before his LAUNCH, so you can get a general idea of what we’re so excited about.

 

Thanks again for coming by. It’s a pretty gorgeous website, right? I can say this with impunity, because I had almost nothing to do with making it look this way. I’d like to thank my graphic designer Daniel D’Arcy and web developer Greg Mathews, without whom this website would be a Geocities page. Thanks to my editorial staff and our authors for their support, and to everyone who has sent messages/drinks/pastries/kicks-in-the-pants my way, reassuring me that pretty soon, this is going to be a real thing. Today it feels pretty real.

 

Sincerely,

Deena