SCB SPRING 2021 SCB: TRULY INDEPENDENT SCB DISTRIBUTORS IS Adele Renault PROUD TO INTRODUCE Happyluja Spiritual Arts Institute SCB THANKS Daniel & Daniel Publishers and Perseverance Press We are dedicating this catalog to Susan and John Daniel, two lovely, accomplished book people and dedicated partners. With this season, they are closing the doors of their beloved publishing company after 35 years of lively mysteries, really good poetry and many other interesting books – almost 1,000 titles! We have so enjoyed working with them, and we’re going to miss talking with them and seeing their new books each season. Fare thee well, friends! SCB: TRULY INDEPENDENT The cover image for this catalog is from the book Living with Clay: California Ceramics Collection, Rody N. Lopez. Mimbres Black and White Bowl: Double Fish A.D. 950-A.D. 1300. From the MAW Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Photograph by Eric Stoner. This title is published by Grand Central Press and may be found on page 93 of this catalog. Catalog layout by Dan Nolte, based on an original idea by Rama Crouch-Wong. Erase the Patriarchy An Anthology of Erasure Poetry Edited by Isobel O’Hare These erasure poems embody the desire for a paradigm shift on a global political scale. Familiar statements and treatises are transformed into poetic versions of what could emerge when we resist the vicious machine of patriarchal capitalism. The 53 contributors herein lay bare the paths forward. Erasing what no longer serves us can reveal another avenue from which to begin. Isobel O’Hare is a poet and essayist who wrote 3 chapbooks and all this can be yours (University of Hell, 2019). O’Hare’s work is in many journals and anthologies, including Harper’s, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, Poetry Foundation and Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3. They earned an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and won awards from Split This Rock and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. O’Hare edits the journal and small press Dream Pop from their POETRY TO INSPIRE home in Taos, New Mexico. INTERNATIONAL RESISTANCE MARKETING ■ Promotion via contributors’ massive combined social media presence ■ Review copies available ■ Editor’s website: www.isobelohare.com ■ Editor’s Instagram: isobelohare Erase the Patriarchy ISBN: 9781938753374 $25.00 | paper 54 x 8 252 pages Color Images Throughout Available Poetry UNIVERSITY OF HELL PRESS SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..SPRING 2021..|..1 Department of Death A Nick Hoffman Mystery By Lev Raphael “This series has always been distinguished for its irreverent academic wit and hip social observations.” – Washington Post Book World “Lev Raphael skewers academic pretensions with wicked glee and Dickensian flair.” – Chicago Sun-Times “Combines stylish literary mystery with an intimate look at the jungle of academia...witty, impeccably written.” – The Mystery Review Years ago Nick Hoffman was only given a position in the English Department at the State University of Michigan because they wanted to hire his partner as writer-in-residence. Now he’s been unexpectedly installed as Chair of the department. He’s a wildly unpopular choice, and an admittedly poor administrator. Then tragedy strikes, very close to home: Someone seeking his help is murdered and he is a prime suspect. Hounded by campus police, the local press, and social media, Nick wonders if this is the end of his career – that is, if he WITTY MYSTERY ABOUT ACADEMIC LIFE manages to stay out of prison. In the spirit of Richard Russo and Jane Smiley, this is Raphael’s most blistering satire yet on the absurdities of academia. Lev Raphael, originally from NYC, has written 26 books from memoir to mystery. His work has been translated into 12+ languages. A crime fiction reviewer for the Detroit Free Press and Michigan Department of Death Radio, he hosts his own talk show. Raphael teaches creative writing at Michigan State University in ISBN: 9781564746191 ALSO AVAILABLE $15.95 | paper Lansing, MI. 52 x 82 256 pages MARKETING April ■ 75 review copies to mystery and media bookstores ■ Author appearances in and around Detroit and Chicago ■ Review copies available ■ Website: www.levraphael.com ■ Mystery State University Twitter: levraphael of Murder: A Nick Hoffman Mystery PERSEVERANCE PRESS 9781564746092 2..|..SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..SPRING 2021 The Price of Dreams Patricia Highsmith, the novel of her life By Margherita Giacobino “...This captures something essential about Patricia Highsmith – a unique but altogether plausible version, whose voice so echoes the voices the woman created throughout her writing life. This is just an astonishing work – a revelation.” – Dorothy Allison “While reading, we feel that we are Pat.” – Delia Vaccarello, L’Unità “...an authentic and engaging voice...” – Bruno Quaranta, La Stampa A fictionalized biography/autobiography of Patricia Highsmith, taking the form of diary entries – all fictional – written in her voice and interspersed with a third-person narrative. The story focuses on Highsmith’s psychological and emotional life, with emphasis on her feelings, relationships and aspirations, rather than on facts and dates. A lesbian in a difficult era, Highsmith struggled with her sexual identity. The author, also a lesbian, compassionately FICTIONALIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY explores how this might have contributed to her oeuvre, exploring the role of socially-repressed OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH homosexuality in the creative process. The title echoes Highsmith’s The Price of Salt, originally published under a pseudonym after being rejected by the publisher of her first novel. Only in 1990 did Highsmith agree to reissue it under her own name, with the new title, Carol. ■ Author’s Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter The Price of Dreams was shortlisted for the Italian prose award in the US in 2019 ISBN: 9781910213957 $17.99 | paper Margherita Giacobino lives in Turin. She is a ALSO AVAILABLE writer, journalist and translator of Emily Bronte, 5 x 7w Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Atwood and Audre 336 pages Lorde. She wrote her first novel, Un’Americana a February Parigi (1993) under the pseudonym Elinor Rigby. Dedalus has published 2 of her 4 novels. Fiction MARKETING Gender Studies ■ Reviews and features in literary journals and LGBT media Modern Art ■ DEDALUS LIMITED Review copies available 9781910213995 SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..SPRING 2021..|..3 Alone in Space A Collection By Tillie Walden “Walden creates the intoxicating effect of a universe as mysterious as our real one.” – Rowan Buchanan, The Atlantic “Tillie Walden is an unstoppable force in comics…responsible for some of the most heartfelt and striking graphic novels to hit the stands.” – The A.V. Club “The young storyteller is among the most essential graphic novelists of her generation.” – EW A collection of long and short comics from the 2X Eisner award-winning artist Tillie Walden. I Love This Part, The End Of Summer and A City Inside are presented in one volume, along with never before-printed webcomics, including What It’s Like To Be Gay In An All-Girls Middle School, which propelled Tillie to international recognition. ■ Includes process illustrations and early sketches, casting insight into how Walden creates her acclaimed work Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, TX. One of the youngest to be so awarded, COLLECTION FROM THE 2X her first Eisner Award was for her graphic memoir EISNER AWARD-WINNING ARTIST Spinning. Her webcomic On a Sunbeam was featured in The Atlantic, NPR, and The New Yorker, among others. In 2020, she won her second Eisner for Best Graphic Novel for her work Are You Listening? She now lives in New Hampshire and teaches at the Centre for Cartoon Studies. Alone in Space ISBN: 9781910395585 $32.95 | hardcover 7 x 9 324 pages Color Illustrations Throughout June Graphic Novels AVERY HILL PUBLISHING 4..|..SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..SPRING 2021 Space Tourism Business The Foundations By Derek Webber The author lays out the foundations for the space tourism business in this valuable and compre - hensive sourcebook. Using original documents with contemporary updates, datasheets of key information and a series of textbook challenges, he invites readers to imagine themselves in the thrilling new industry of space tourism. Covers ■ Why is space tourism important? ■ What is the size of the market? ■ When will there be space tourism flights to the Moon? ■ Which companies are offering space tourism experiences? ■ Who is financing space travel? ■ Where are the spaceports? ■ How is the industry being regulated? 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ISBN: 9781838128012 $29.95 | paper MARKETING ALSO AVAILABLE 8 x 12 ■ Promotion via 200+ university and college lecturers who supplied material for this book 200 pages 33 B&W Images & ■ Ads, reviews and features in science and technology media 13 Color Photos ■ Website: www.spaceportassociates.com March Science Travel Nonscience Returns CURTIS PRESS 9780993400254 SCB DISTRIBUTORS..|..SPRING 2021..|..5 SOMNIA By Brandon Chen Illustrated by M. Ali Ren is just a normal teenager playing video games and ignoring his parents, when he receives a mystic lantern that makes his dreams become reality. Pretty soon, and to his great surprise, he’s brought a cyborg-samurai, a Jubei, to life. With his unique companion by his side, Ren enters into an ongoing war between fellow Dream-Walkers, monsters forged from the dreams of sleepers. The monsters become stronger as they feed off nightmares, growing more powerful as the dream battles slide into reality.