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.

John Cusack, waiting for 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

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

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

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

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