When putting out a new book, I make a "media kit" to send out to book reviewers. I don't know exactly what's supposed to go into one of those...
Behind the Scenes
Dan Brady’s poetry “Subtexts”
Subtexts is a poetry collection that finds the language within language and examines how layers of meaning add and subtract from each other. Brady explores an entirely new way to “write” erasure poetry.
Cover Art for Lilith, but Dark!
A dreamscape that features this mythical Lilith dominating her lover, giving him immortality but not in the flattering way he hoped.
Cover Art for Yr Skull a Cathedral!
The book cover isn’t the point-of-sale marketing tool it used to be. Plus, we can do whatever we want because there are no rules.
Matthew Rohrer on Dan Brady’s book, “Strange Children”
“It’s dark but there is light at the heart of it,” says Matthew Rohrer about Dan Brady’s book.
Introducing “Irksome Particulars” by Matt Cook
It’s nice to have a new book and Matt Cook’s most recent poetry collection, Irksome Particulars, came out this week.
Designing “Mystery and Mortality” (A Book Is Born #3)
In this post, I talk about designing Paula Bomer’s book of essays, “Mystery and Mortality.”
Hot off the press again, Pee On Water
Check it: Though alien to the world’s ancient past, young blood runs similar circles. All those bones are born from four grandparents. Baby teeth...
Editing with Paula Bomer (A Book Is Born #2)
Welcome back to "A Book Is Born," Publishing Genius's series on the process of putting out our next book, which is a collection of essays by Paula...
A Book Is Born #1
And now every other week we’re going to send you one of these emails, letting you know how things are going. On January 17th I’ll tell you about the editing process, and after that we’ll unveil some book design options. Lots more, too—along the way we’ll talk to Paula herself, the printer, our distributor. Basically the whole gang at the sausage plant is waiting to say hello.
Book Submissions Are Open
Submissions are open, and this year we’re doing things a little differently.
Free Comic Book!
Hot off the press! I just got home from the post office, where I'd shipped off the contributor copies of The Well-Dressed Bear to Jarod. As I pulled...
Some hot pics of The Well-Dressed Bear
Here's the beautiful cover of our newest book, a graphic novel by Cuban-American cartoonist, Jarod Roselló. And this is what it's like inside: It's...
Welcome to the New Publishing Genius Website
Hello, and welcome to the new and improved online home of Publishing Genius. The update was past due, and when the site started crashing a lot I...
Real Pants, Week One
Real Pants, the newest website in the Publishing Genius habitat, launched on January 1, 2015. Here’s a “by the numbers” look at the first week, including how many words we published (18,332), plus some surprises from our trip to New Orleans.
The SCARECRONE Story
At the Publishing Genius Tumblr, you can read the inside scoop on how Melissa Broder's new collection of poetry, SCARECRONE, came into being. Impose...
PGP Fellowships
Are you interested in literature, publishing, or the biz? In 2014, Publishing Genius will be offering three month stints for highly motivated, skilled geniuses.
The Technology of Reading
Who is the Big Pharma of literature?
Cheers to Bookstores (?)
Every year, Publishers Weekly honors a literary figure of major influence with its Person of the Year award, and this year they named Oren Teicher...
Interview with Adam Robinson
In 2012 Joe Ponepinto, former book review editor of the LA Review of Books, asked me some interview questions for an article he was working on....
Sneak Peek of Craig Griffin’s Eat, Knucklehead!
PGP is putting out Craig Griffin's cookbook, Eat, Knucklehead! next year. The concept of the book is that it's a series of letters from a father to...
Amazon Announces DAY ONE
The publishing arm of Amazon announced that they're going to publish a weekly journal called DAY ONE. It's for the Kindle and will feature short...
Tour Blog Post
Here's a picture of me shaking hands with Guy Benjamin Brookshire, author of The Universe War. We were onstage in Athens, GA. In July, I went on a...
Fun Camp eBook
This week we released the eBook of Gabe Durham's novel Fun Camp. There are now a number of ways to get a copy, including SPD (they just ordered a...
Night Moves, SPD, It’s So Easy to Do This
You can get Night Moves at SPD, and why wouldn't you?
Drawing a Book Cover for the Esteemed Adam Robinstein
I’ve known and been friends with Adam Robinson for going on fifteen years now. Though I’ve been drawing all my life, I cut my indie art teeth with...
Stephanie Barber, Linda Franklin, Megan McShea, handsome stranger
Warmer days: Megan McShea, at left, is the author of A Mountain City of Toad Splendor. Stephanie Barber, at right, is the author of Night Moves...
Normals Books
Last weekend I dropped off a ton of PGP wares at Normals, Baltimore's cool, smart used bookshop run by Rupert Wondolowski. (Here is the blog...
Forthcoming: Matt Cook’s Proving Nothing to Anyone
Matt Cook's book has a cover, and this is it. The drawing is by Friese Undine. Proving Nothing to Anyone will be available in March. Here is a...
Submissions Update
We have worked our way through the nearly 300 book submissions received in June. Thanks to the diligent work of Lisa Charron, intern and David...
Self-Publishing, Publishing, Technology, and Reader Habits
I've always been interested in self-publishing—I even self-published my MFA thesis, Say Poem ($4), a couple years ago. But recently I've become even...
Coming soon, a book by Megan McShea
Megan McShea is a writer who lives in Baltimore. We are excited to introduce her book, which will be released late this fall (and available for...
Falcons Launch Site
Hey, checkit, get Falcons on the Floor for $10 by signing up at our Launchrock site, falconsonthefloor.info. All you have to do is enter your email...
Organizing Poetry
When you read a book of poetry, do you get a sense of an intentional arrangement of poems? When you get a sense of an intentional arrangement of...
February’s $5 Book
I just Tweeted a request for which book to sell for $5 in February. (This month it's Mike Young's Total Amazeball Poetry Championship, We Are All...
& the Winner Is: BOOKS TODAY.
Because "Short, massive books since 2006" doesn't really apply to Publishing Genius books anymore, I decided to have a contest to come up with a new...
Joe Hall’s “Post Nativity”
A few weeks ago I heard Joe Hall read a long poem called "Post Nativity" at the Benevolent Armchair series here in Baltimore. It struck me as a...
eBook Lending: Not Enough Friction
At HTMLGiant, Mike Meginnis wrote a really interesting and well-reasoned post about publishers who price eBooks higher than paperbacks. The NYTimes...
Website Building Requires Time Off
I've been working on this website for months, either conceptualizing, researching, or implementing the design. I'm pretty much done with it, and in...
