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Marianne Porter's nanopress imprint, Dragonstiars Press, has just announced its latest chapbook!
The Devil's Bestiary, a dark, brooding, and occasionally scabrous piece of fun composed by your truly, will be made available for purchase tomorrow, Thursday April 9, at noon Philadelphia Time (that's 4 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time) at the Dragonstairs Press website, www.dragonstairs.com.
But not a minute before then.
Here's the official announcement:
The Devil's Bestiary is Michael Swanwick's cynical,whimsical take on twenty nine creatures of myth and fables. It is 5 ½ inch square format, with an outer wrapper of hand-dyed kozo paper, hand-stitched, numbered, and signed by the author. It is published in a limited edition of 45, of which 40 are available for sale.
The signed and very limited edition chapbook will go for $12 in the USA and $14 elsewhere, postage included. (When I tell Marianne she's not charging enough, she just glares at me.) Which means that it will sell out pretty much immediately.
It's a lovely thing and I'm proud, as the content provider, to own a copy.
And rather than buy a pig in a poke with a blind horse . . .
Here are a couple of typical entries from The Devil's Bestiary:
A thousand years ago, a demon grew
tired of his existence and came down to Earth to surrender himself to the first
saint he encountered. He’s still looking.
A ghoul was caught in the act of
anthropophagy by a camera crew from the local Action News, who needed something
sensational for sweeps week. He was tried by an ambitious D. A. and defended by
a lawyer from the ACLU. The jury was hung, asnd he got off. But afterward?
Afterward, it was lean times for him indeed. He was not allowed near graveyards
and he could not stomach non-human flesh. Vegetarianism was out of the
question. He almost starved to death before an innovative mortician offered him
honest work.
Those, at the low-rez pic above, should tell you right away whether you need a copy or not.
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1 comment:
Noon whenever noon is in Philadelphia.
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