August 27th, 2010
Our distribution deal with SCB is signed and sealed. The stock is in their hands and printed. The order process is ready to go. Bookstores can click our scb link above or to the right now. The big part now is getting all the new books ready and our sales packets ready. We are pushing. Thank you for supporting us. We will send all donor packets out soon. Thank you for believing in powerful poetry and fiction. This was the hugest step to getting sales teams all over canada and The US to pitch out line of books to major retailers everywhere. I still can’t believe it. major thanks to Gabriel and Aaron at SCB.
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August 3rd, 2010
We are set to go to a level, a pro level and achieve a goal we have had for a long time, which is to get our books in a lot of bookstores and libraries. We have been given the chance of a lifetime to partner with SCB distributors, but we have to have our catalog updated by Aug 15 and I have to have all book stock to them by this time.
We of course operate lean and mean and need more capital to print all the books we need to make this happen.
Over 30 titles, 50 to 100 copies of each, there’s some big numbers. If you want to know more, please click HERE.
IF YOUD LIKE TO POST THIS ON YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE OR BLOG, WE WOULD BE HONORED:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/579529442/write-bloody-goes-to-the-next-level
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July 14th, 2010
- Coming in one month from WB!
Attn Teachers: Did you know that the new classroom anthology “Learn then Burn” is available through writebloody.com and even more importantly, donorschoose.com? Well it is, as is the entire Write Bloody catalog. If you want to be the coolest teacher in your school come this September, we highly suggest you create a project for a classroom set of “Learn Then Burn”. Think of the children! Think of the pencils in the ceiling! Below is the companion materials for ready made project, discussions and exercises specifically made for the Learn Then Burn anthology. Available Aug 25.
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June 13th, 2010
Check out Mindy’s great interview for her new book on TNB. Her last answer should be seen by everyone in the writing world and maybe even taken to heart
HERE IS THE INTERVIEW
this girl is getting married this weekend to david!
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May 28th, 2010
We at Write Bloody are thrilled to announce our manuscript contest winners for our next publishing season. Holy Moly!
Before I have the pleasure of announcing these golden wordsmiths, I first need to address the issue of our posting of editors comments regarding manuscript submissions in our blog. Not all comments were negative but many were negative, short and to the point. We requested these short curt responses since there were so many entries. A score was also used to judge the submissions. We won’t post those because that doesn’t help. We want to help those who want a clearer vision of what works and what doesn’t for WB. We aren’t looking for a discussion between authors and press about what works for us, we just want you to have a clearer picture of our preferences. We here at WB realize that writing is a wrenching, sensitive, gut searching process. I can assure you that the editing and critical process is not. It is often direct and painful. A great manuscript is worth the work.
After many weeks of phone calls, scoring, reading and re-reading, this batch selection of WB authors has proven to be amazing. If we were rich, we would publish all of these 25 submissions. I mean it. We have even decided to piece together an anthology collection of the most beloved pieces from this submission process in the next few months. Since we have a tiny staff, small funds and a passion for great writing, we had to narrow it down to eight winners. Winners were chosen for a manuscript that showed range, consistency, power and creativity.
Here they are. Welcome to the Family. We are proud of you.
1. LAURA YES YES
2. BRIAN ELLIS
3. TARA HARDY
4. DAVID PEREZ
5. BENJAMIN CLARK
6. ELAINA ELLIS
7. JON SANDS
8. PAUL SUNTUP
The closest contenders in terms of scoring were:
Daniel Romo, Megan Falley, Jason McBeth, Tufik Shayeb, Adam Stone and Steve Subrizi
SUPER THUNDER CLAP CONGRATULATIONS for even making it to the finals. We will be contacting the winners next week with more information. To all our finalists, thank you for honoring us with such quality manuscript submissions. We have only been doing these call for submissions for our second year and thank you for making it so, so, so difficult.
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May 25th, 2010
Hi gang. Finalists were so hard to choose from this year. If we were rich we would print them all. Any small press owner will tell you, that putting out 14 books in one season is insane work, but I am dedicated to pulling it off, so we can only print 8 new comers this year /season. A lot of interesting debate in the blog section. A few words: Thank you for your passion. All we care about is power on the page and that the author will tour, their status in the poetry slam world plays no part. Please be nice on our site. We aren’t super bloggy. Persona poems are wonderful. We LOVE The page the page the page. We just got orders from Guam and South Africa, so obviously, we aim to reach out from our known worlds with poetry and prose… and most of these books will be bought online or in bookstores so… the page the page. We will announce the winners on this Friday and our next blog will have ambiguous notes from some of our 12 talented unnamed editors. Our goal is to make poetry big. As big as anything you’d see on a Friday night freak Trot. We underground authors wield their power over people and we believe in them, no matter how cheeseball that sounds. DCB PS- If you love poetry, fiction and interviews and live performances, we have some free hot recordings you can download under podcast at lightbulbmouth.com
Derricks hand has got to be hyperbolic to party at the radio hour
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May 3rd, 2010
Congratulations to those manuscript submission folks who pushed through to become the favorites of our editor crew. We had over three hundred this year so the competition was tight. First off, here are the manuscripts we hand picked for publication:
RICHARD SWIFT-BUDDY WAKEFIELD-MINDY NETTIFEE-IDRIS GOODWIN-BEAU SIA-CR AVERY
Here are the final contestants selected to send in a 40+ poem or 12-15 story short story collection. If you know any of these authors, please congratulate them. This is the only way we notify the winners. There were many manuscripts that came close to making the top round. As a thank you, we will post the almost selected crew below the winners. But for now, here are your final selected contestants for 2010. Remember, show variety, show power and originality. This will be a tight race, so look for small things like spelling mistakes or lower case poems for no reason. The format requested is on our submissions page: Selected contestants:
17. JON SANDS
18. TUFIK SHAYEB
19. DANE KUTTLER
20. BOB REDMOND
21. ADAM STONE
22. CARRIE SEITZINGER
23. MOLLY MEACHAM
24. DANIEL ROMO
25. SARAH BRICKMAN
Special Congratulations to Charley Pope and David Ayllon for being selected to be in our new Learn Then Burn anthology for the classroom.
The almost selected:
CYNTHIA FRENCH-JAKE DANNA-STEPHEN MEADS-WINNIE OLIVER-CARLOS ANDRES GOMEZ-KHARY JACKSON-PAUL HELLWEG-WESS MONGO JOLLEY-DAVID DOC LUBEN-JENNIFER GIGANTO-MICHAEL D LEE-PAUL HELLWEG-ZEIN EL-AMINE-RONNIE STEPHENS-JARED SINGER-AUSTIN ZERPOLI-KRISTEN TOMANOCY-MERCY GALLAGHER TEAGUE-CASEY ROCHETEAU-VANESSA PIKE-VRTIAK-BRETT ELIZABETH JENKINS-HANNAH BROOKS OLSEN-HENRY GANT-JESSE LETOUR
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April 30th, 2010
The final advancers will be listed here on monday morning. Or you can go
to lightbulbmouth.com and click on last nights podcast to hear who the final few were!
In the meantime, guess which wb author got this tattoo?
who dat?
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April 22nd, 2010
The next eight authors of 24 advancers will be announced here now: The next and final 8 will be announced via podcast at lightbulbmouth.com on Thurs morning.
9. TARA HARDY
10. MEGAN FALLEY
11. DAVID PEREZ
12. NATALIE ILLUM
13. BENJAMIN CLARK
14. PAUL SUNTUP
15. ELAINA ELLIS
16. JASON MCBETH
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April 13th, 2010
READ THIS PLEASE FRIENDS. Our 2010 submission process is over and those chosen to submit a full manuscript are being accepted into the final round. Finalists must submit a full 40 poem or more manuscript (or 15 short stories or both) within two weeks. We then choose 8 final winners out of the 24 selected manuscripts to be release from now til next June. We hope the pockets are deep cause this is amazing company to keep. These submissions were stellar. Here is how we will do it. We will announce 8 advancers every monday, making the total 24 advancing to finals out of 330 entries. Eight brilliant authors will join our family when the smoke clears. Check back in with our site to see who makes the cut. We are so excited. It was a very close race this year.
Also, we will be announcing the next advancers early, on wednesday at lightbulbmouth.com somewhere in the podcast, that posts each thurs morning for the eager ones. (Not this WED. Derrick will be in NYC, show on monday april 19th for Night reports and also a literary death match at pianos on wed night in nyc.)
ADVANCE GROUP 1.
1. BRIAN ELLIS
2. CURTIS X MEYER
3. JEFF LACY
4. LAURA YES YES
5. MICHAEL GUARDABASCIO
6. STEVE SUBRIZI
7. CHRIS GILPIN
8. JOAQUIN ZIHUATANEJO
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