2008 wraps up with an extra "leap second" tonight. Just long enough for us to give it a quick kiss goodbye. It's always fun at this time of year to reflect back and review what we've accomplished.
Eraserhead Press had a great 2008. We are grateful for all of the support from our loyal readers and the Bizarro community. It's been a fun and productive year. We published 15 books by 9 different authors in 2008. We discovered six stellar new writers:
Jordan Krall
Andersen Prunty
Mykle Hansen
Tony Rauch
Daniel Scott Buck
Cameron Pierce
And published some of the best new work yet by Bizarro authors Kevin L. Donihe, Andre Duza and Carlton Mellick III. Exciting things are happening in Bizarro Fiction and 2009 should be the best year yet!
For now here's a quick glance back at some of the events of 2008:
Carlton and I road tripped down to Salt Lake City for the World Horror Convention in March where we met up with Bizarro authors Andersen Prunty, Jordan Krall, Bradley Sands, Kevin L. Donihe, Gina Ranalli and Mitch Maraude
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| From WHC 2008 |
I went up to Evergreen College in Olympia Washington and participated in a panel on publishing in May and met up with Cameron Pierce.
Carlton went to Seattle for the Clarion West Workshop for six weeks in the middle of summer.
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| From Clarion West 2008 |
We attended the Locus Awards and met William Gibson and Neal Stephenson both authors whose work I have been a huge fan of for a long time.
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| From Clarion West 2008 |
Jeff Burk joined the Eraserhead staff and also became The Editor-in-Chief of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction.
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| From OryCon 2008 |
We attended the H.P. Lovecraft Filmfestival for the fourth time. The event is always a lot of fun. We shared a table with our friends from the Northwest Horror Professionals and made new friends with Andy Johnson of Cosmic Monkey Comics.
The First Annual BizarroCon was held at Edgefield in Troutdale, OR in November. This event brought together Bizarro writers from all over the United States. It was a four-day party which has spawned many great new collaborations and sparked new project ideas. We can't wait for BizarroCon 2 to be held in October 2009.
Friday night at BizarroCon we served homebrewed Bizarro Beer for the book release party of Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III, The Kissing Bug by Daniel Scott Buck, Shark Hunting In Paradise Garden by Cameron Pierce, and The Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere by Mykle Hansen
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| From BizarroCon2008 |
We started a children's book imprint called Spunk Goblin. Spunk Goblin will be publishing dark, twisted children's books for adults (or kids with open minded parents). Our first release on this imprint was The Kissing Bug by Daniel Scott Buck. It's a beautiful, creepy, anti-war tale in the style of Edward Gorey or Tim Burton with beautiful illustrations by Evan B. Harris.
Eraserhead Press attended OryCon in Portland, OR for the first time. We partied with Klingons and made some new friends.
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| From OryCon 2008 |
We co-sponsored a book release party for the U.S. release of Steve Aylett's comic The Caterer at Floating World Comics and had Bizarro authors Mykle Hansen, Carlton Mellick III, Daniel Scott Buck, and Jeremy Robert Johnson present performance art readings.
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| From Caterer Bizarro Release |
Keep reading Bizarro fiction. We have lots of great plans for 2009!
1 comment:
looking forward to all of it - thanks!
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