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FEBRUARY 2014 Leon Forrest: ‘One of Our Biblio File Continued from Page 2 City’S Best Writers, Ever’ and Elsewhere February, 2014 Biblio File Making it up on volumes: Raymond Benson’s The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes: A Novel won the “Lovey” Award for Best Suspense Novel Indie publishers find niche of 2013. Gail Lukasik’s Peak Season for Murder won for Best Traditional Amateur BY THOMAS FRISBIE thrive, and are thriving,” Morris said. Sleuth. Lovey awards are given at the t a time when everything else is This year, Sharon Woodhouse, founder annual Love is Murder conference dinner, getting bigger – large publishers of Lake Claremont Press, launched a new and are selected in a vote by conference Aare consolidating and Amazon is imprint, S. Woodhouse Books, for serious attendees. ... On Feb. 1, Keir Graff, dominating ebook sales – small independ- nonfiction and will publish her first hard- who’s been working ent publishers are finding a niche in cover in 20 years. on a new novel, co- Chicago. “There are definitely challenges for hosted the 90-Second That’s what four proprietors of local book publishing, but there are just as Newbery Film Festival publishing houses said Feb. 11 at a pro- many opportunities for small presses,” with James Kennedy – gram sponsored by the Society of Woodhouse said. “We help authors make “It was a lot of fun to Midland Authors at Chicago’s Cliff a cottage industry out of their books.” be in front of a young Dwellers club. Victor David Giron, president of audience again,” he “Chicago is such a Curbside Splendor, told Biblio File. On great vibrant city for lit- said his company Keir Graff Thursday, Feb. 27, he erature,” said Emily “looks at our authors was scheduled to pres- Clark Victorson, pub- as partners … our mis- ent at the Off Campus Writers' Workshop lisher of Allium Press of sion is to help them in Winnetka. He was to discuss two top- Chicago, which is cele- fulfill their vision for ics: how a pre-pub journal such as brating its fifth anniver- their books.” Booklist selects books for review, and sary this year and pub- All of the publishers social media dos and don’t’s for authors. lishes fiction with a said social media help And his just-for-fun (for now) project, a Chicago connection. “I them spread the word soccer blog he writes called “American had no idea when I Victor David Emily Clark about their new titles. Born Villan,” brought him a little bit of started this what an Giron Victorson “I can’t imagine attention overseas. He was interviewed incredible literary starting a small inde- for an article in a “football” magazine community there is here in the city. … I pendent press and not having social media called When Saturday Comes – on have no idea what it is like in New York, to promote the books,” Giron said. English newsstands now! ... Beverly but I can’t imagine that it is anything like Allium Press has published 11 books so Offen’s essay, “Chicago: Belmont El what we have here, where it is a real far and has four coming out this year. Station” was the lead- community and people really want to Lake Claremont, now 20 years old, has off piece for about two work together and help each other.” published 60 histories and guidebooks, weeks in the online Small publishers also have been helped selling about 500,000 copies. It now pub- Great Lakes Review. by advances in technology that bring lishes about two books a year. Fifth Star ... On Feb. 6, Sylvia down costs, said Ian Morris, founding Press, which publishes “fiction of all Hubbard told WWJ editor of Fifth Star Press. sorts” brought out its first title in 2012, in Detroit: “I want “Because of innovations in technology, and has created a separate imprint called everybody to love this is a time when small publishers can Turn to Page 2 reading. My mother put it in me a long Sylvia Hubbard time ago, just the power of words, just everyone fall in love Literary Landscape New Final with every single letter of the alphabet, Donald Evans Books Chapters 26 times, over and over again. That’s PAGE 3 PAGES 4-5 PAGE 7 Turn to Page 2 Biblio File n Publishers Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 20th Century in Chicago. what I view my role in the metro Detroit Curbside Splendor, which is four years It may not be a fast area – is to get a book in every child’s old, published 12 books last year. It has track to an easy life, but hand and encourage adults to read more.” eight more in its 2014 spring/summer cat- “ Also, Sylvia is scheduled to be on an alog and plans an additional 12 in its next it is an exciting time to April 7 panel at the Royal Oak (Mich.) fall/winter catalog, Giron said. Public Library on self-publishing. ... Lise “As of now, our plan is to do 20 books be involved. McKean writes to say, “I have shifted a year,” he said. “I would describe us as a from full-time employment in research hybrid publisher. We experiment with it’s hard to predict what additional changes are in store” for publishers, Morris and public policy to working independ- different genres from poetry to ently as a writer, editor and translator. My experimental short story collections to said. essays on contemporary art appear in the novels to creative nonfiction and essay “No one knows where this is heading,” online publication Bad at Sports and else- collections.” he said. where, and I’m working on a book about Morris said to succeed, small publish- civil rights in India and translating a ers need to create a clearly defined vision. &&& Hindi novel.” ... A revised and updated “You can take advantage of desktop second edition of Ruth Duskin publishing to get the Upcoming programs: Feldman’s book Whatever Happened to book typeset. Then the Quiz Kids? will soon be published as there are infinite Tuesday, March 11, 6 p.m. social hour, an e-book under an arrangement with the social media outlets to 7 p.m. panel discussion, at Cliff Dwellers Authors Guild. ... Susan Aizenberg has a begin publicizing Club, 200 S. Michigan Ave., 22nd floor, new collection of poems, Capote in books,” he said. Chicago: A tribute to Leon Forrest. Brooklyn and Other Poems, forthcoming But the most inter- Chicago novelist Chicago Leon Forrest from BkMk Press in early 2015. Poems esting reason that (1937-1997) is one of the Chicago from the collection appear in the current small publishers are Literary Hall of Fame’s newest inductees. issue of blackbird and in recent issues of succeeding is that they He also served as president of the Society Spillway, The Journal, Prairie Schooner collaborate with each Sharon of Midland Authors. other, he said. Woodhouse The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Turn to Page 3 “It may not be a fast Donald Evans will present a panel discus- track to an easy life, sion about Forrest’s life and literature. but it is an exciting (See Page 3 for more). time to be involved,” The panel discussion will include: he said. – Ronne Hartfield, a poet, essayist, Victorson said small international museum consultant and publishers don’t need author of the 2004 memoir, Another Way 2014, Society costly big warehouses, Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One of Midland Authors shipping departments Chicago Family. P.O. Box 10419, Chicago IL 60610 or Manhattan offices. – Kathleen E. Bethel, African-American “You can do it with- Ian Editor: Thomas Frisbie out investing huge Morris studies librarian at Northwestern [email protected] sums of money,” she University Library and an advisory board said. “On the other hand, you don’t actu- member for the Project on the History of www.midlandauthors.com ally make huge sums of money.” Black Writing. Victorson agreed that cooperation is – Donald G. Evans, founder and execu- Follow the Society on important to Chicago’s small publishers. tive director of the Chicago Literary Hall Twitter@midlandauthors She has created a cooperative entity of Fame, author of the novel “Good called Chicago Books United that does Money After Bad” and editor of the Society of Midland Authors members such things as allowing small publishers anthology Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of can now pay their membership dues, to share a tent at Chicago’s annual Waiting Till Next Year. buy tickets to the annual dinner and Printers Row book fair. make donations on our website with Giron said his company looks at its role Tuesday, April 8, 6 p.m. social hour, 7 PayPal (there is a $1 fee to help cover as helping authors “fulfill the mission for p.m. at Cliff Dwellers Club, 200 S. PayPal’s fee). To make a donation, visit the book.” Michigan Ave., 22nd floor, Chicago: The our home page at www.midlandau- Society of Midland Author’s annual poet- thors.com and click on the "Donate" Curbside works with authors from all button in the upper right corner. over the country, he said. ry program. But with all the changes in technology, Details TBA. 2 LITERARY LICENSE, FEBRUARY 2014 Leon Forrest: ‘One of our Biblio File Continued from Page 2 city’s best writers, ever’ and elsewhere. ... The Forest Park onald G. Evans will lead a March Historical Society's Des Plaines River 11 panel discussion with Ronne March 11, 2014, program Anthology: Historic Voices from the DHartfield and Kathleen E. Bethel Cliff Dwellers Graveyards of Forest Park was named a about Leon Forrest’s life and literature.
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