The Edge of Maybe now available for ereaders!
For those of you holding out for a digital copy, here’s your chance!
The Edge of Maybe is now available on Kindle for $5.99, and on the Barnes and Noble Nook for $5.39.
New Pages Praise for The Edge of Maybe
We’re thrilled to report that the smart and discerning review staff at Newpages.com (truly one of the top portals to the world of small and independent publishing) recently chose to review Ericka Lutz’s “The Edge of Maybe”.
Jodi Paloni wrote a wonderful review of our newest novel. Our favorite part is the admission that Ms. Paloni read the whole thing in two sittings; it just goes to show how engaging this literary page turner is.
Literary Landscape: Aqueous Books
Aqueous Books is an independent publisher of unique literary fiction, with imprints specializing in everything from literary theory and philosophy to magical realism and horror.
Cynthia Reeser is the publisher for Aqueous as well as the Editor-in-Chief for literary magazine Prick of the Spindle. We spoke about Aqueous’s inception and popularity, as well as her work load and what she looks for in a manuscript.
SD: How did Aqueous start: what inspired its creation?
CR: I can honestly say that the idea for the company came to me suddenly, just as so many inspired ideas do for some writers.It also made a lot of sense to initiate an avenue for print publication. Prick of the Spindle was receiving more than its fair share of long-form fiction, and publishing it–and by long-form I mean novellettes, novellas, and even novel submissions–and these, added in to the mix with the sheer volume of submissions we receive, made it a bit hairy for our team to get timely decisions sent out as quickly as we would like to. So I thought, why not give it a shot, and Aqueous Books was born. Read more…
Literary Landscape: Hanging Loose Press
Introducing a new series on the Last Light Blog: Literary Landscape profiles small presses and literary magazines. Some have been established for decades, while others are virtually brand new. The series kicks off with Hanging Loose Press.
Hanging Loose Magazine publishes non-traditional, distinctive poetry, fiction, and art. It started as a poetry magazine in 1966, taking its name from its format: a collection of loose pages. Though it has since dropped that in favor of bound copies, Hanging Loose is, as always, committed to publishing work that takes readers by surprise. Based in Brooklyn and Boston, Hanging Loose also puts out poetry collections and novels as well as its biannual magazine.
I spoke with one Hanging Loose’s founders, Robert Hershon, about the history and focus of the press.
Hanging Loose’s original format was a collection of free pages, rather than a bound book. What was the idea behind that?
The original impetus was cost. The mimeograph machine was a cheap way to run off pages. Back in the 50s and 60s there was one in every school and church; they were ubiquitous. In the 60s there was an explosion of magazines in the Lower East Side and especially St. Mark’s Church because with the mimeograph is was easy and at little cost. We didn’t bind it, and we put the magazine together ourselves. Read more…
Ms. D’Emic Makes Us Proud
If you scroll through this blog, you will notice that a number of posts were written by an sdemic. Who is sdemic? Who is that mysterious young woman in the hat? Well, the answer is that she is Sara D’Emic, our outstanding editorial intern, and now she’s getting a post dedicated to her. And the reason why is because we recently learned that in addition to graduating from Emerson College this spring, Sara has been offered and accepted a position with a well established literary agency in Connecticut! Great news, Sara! We’re so proud of you, and expect you to be behind the publication of several best-sellers in the near future!
Hear Eirka Dreifus on Sunday, April 15 in NYC
Erika Dreifus is welcomed by the City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism on Sunday, April 15:
MY GERMAN-JEWISH GRANDPARENTS AND THIRD-GENERATION PREOCCUPATIONS: History, Healing, and Happily Ever After?
What is it like to live in the shadows of our parents’ and grandparents’ lives? What does it mean to “work through” their experiences, and what do we have to work through anyway? What duty do we have to the past? What responsibility do we have to bring it with us–or leave it behind?
Erika Dreifus’s debut story collection, Quiet Americans, addresses these questions and others as the author contemplates the experiences of German Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust. A Jewish doctor in Berlin treats the Reichmarschall’s child. A Jewish immigrant in the US army is assigned to supervise German POWs. Each situation is fraught with choices. There are no simple answers.
We were thrilled to find Regan McMahon’s excellent review of Ericka Lutz’s novel in last Sunday’s Book section of the San Francisco Chronicle. The review was positive and we think that Ms. McMahon did a great job of finding the critical heart of the story and characters.
…Lutz, who teaches writing at UC Berkeley, has published seven nonfiction books and performed the moving one-woman show “A Widow’s To-Do List,” not only makes her characters in this first novel come fully alive, she crafts some stunningly poetic passages…
Read the entire review here! Then get intrigued and buy the book here!
