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Post by --Ed. on May 31, 2006 13:01:29 GMT -5
It's been a lot of work, but let's not fuck around, it was all for a good cause. This is the book you've been waiting to carry around in your back pocket, to the laundromat, the bus stop, and the shitter. 25 of my favorite stories from Thieves Jargon, and new ones from each of the three weekly writers who have completed their cycles. It's all the stuff TJ does good. Short days and long, long nights. Honest drunks and sleep-deprived salesmen, moosefuckers and dead dogs, Elvis Presley and Sammy the Shake. Bad things happening to good people and bad things happening to bad people. I haven't seen anything like this around, because they don't make books like this. So uh tell a friend, huh? www.thievesjargon.com/press |
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Post by Boyle on May 31, 2006 14:57:56 GMT -5
Yay!
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Post by boredomman on May 31, 2006 22:21:40 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by litvision on Jun 1, 2006 1:10:23 GMT -5
Cool choice of printer, personally i hope you play the pod aspect up in your promo. I'll buy it soon. How much is the shipping charge? Are you able to bundle "Delphine's" book and this at a discounted price? I'm all about bundling.
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Post by --Ed. on Jun 1, 2006 10:19:13 GMT -5
Cool choice of printer, personally i hope you play the pod aspect up in your promo. I'll buy it soon. How much is the shipping charge? Are you able to bundle "Delphine's" book and this at a discounted price? I'm all about bundling. What benefit do you think will be there from playing up the POD aspect? Lulu offers a variety of shipping options, from dirt cheap to mad expensive. I'm sure I could do a Delphine/YOTT bundle. Say $15, for a savings of 9 dollars. Why not? There is no reason why not. |
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Post by Writer/Rocker on Jun 1, 2006 16:24:17 GMT -5
Congratulations, Matt, and everybody - the world needs more challenging and audacious storytelling. It's a lonely job, but at least the pay sucks.
Vaya con Dios,
Dave M.
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Post by litvision on Jun 1, 2006 22:50:09 GMT -5
More glory to POD, and to you having the guts to use it for your lit'ry press. Sets a good example. Unless you see an anthology as a potentially weaker seller than TJpress novels?
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Post by litvision on Jun 1, 2006 22:54:42 GMT -5
Fugate-
Mexican migrant workers in my undies? I see you are still a San Fran liberal at heart, otherwise you would have said that clitvision has loads of illegals bundled into his trunk.
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Post by --Ed. on Jun 2, 2006 10:34:07 GMT -5
Actually, doing this in the POD realm is cool, because the POD bar is set so fucking low, I really do feel like I can vault over it with this (and any other) project.
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Post by lostcause on Jun 3, 2006 2:10:13 GMT -5
I just put in my order. I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Congratulations on putting it together, Matt.
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Post by --Ed. on Jun 3, 2006 23:34:45 GMT -5
Hey cool man, thanks for supporting the small press in general and thieves jargon press in specific. I hope to hear from people who get a copies of this thing, as it starts to float out into the world. I'd like to know your thoughts and favorite stories. It would please me very much to hear these things.
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Post by adh on Jun 13, 2006 11:53:26 GMT -5
Just spent the last few hours of my free time plowing through Year of the Thief. I liked most of the stories, the variety, the fact that the little fucker fits in my pocket! Plus, not any B.S. -- just the title page, the contents and the fucking stories coming at you like a triphammer. Amen. Here, then, are my favorite stories:
* "Happy Hour" by Mike Boyle. A pretty straight-forward bar tale that reminds me a bit of Bukowski, but not too much, you know? I typically like the presence of the devil or at least exploding chickens in my stories, so I don't know how to explain it. Let's just say it puts you there.
* "Like a Thief in the Night" by Malon Edwards. Here's the devil! In the form of a little girl with horns. That's imagery that stays with you.
* "Scrambling" by Tom Meek. A football story -- like I said, variety. And as my friends can tell you -- OK, I don't have any friends, but if I did they'd tell you I love football and, by extension, football groupies.
* "Odeen Hibbs" by Marvin Dorsey. More disturbing imagery -- of a man falling to his death instead of taking flight.
* "Disco Killed Elvis" by Bradley Mason Hamlin. It's true.
* And the best description goes to Paul Silverman, of a pair of ta-ta's, in "The Entrepreneur of Room 303": "But when Francine was in Room 303 straddling Jitzy and they were swinging down around his head they looked about two feet long, like the party balloons you can squeeze and bend into animal shapes."
-- Good fucking job all you writers, and you, -- Ed.
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Post by Boyle on Jun 14, 2006 16:55:37 GMT -5
Got it in mail today. Looks good. A class act all around.
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Post by kerz on Jun 15, 2006 4:43:32 GMT -5
my copy landed today, complete with two - count em - TWO matchbooks, just in case it doesn't catch properly the first time I assume
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Post by kerz on Jun 15, 2006 5:04:24 GMT -5
and I don't think this is significant but my housemate just picked it up and his leg went to sleep
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Post by kavcarter on Jun 20, 2006 17:18:55 GMT -5
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Post by jakemooney on Jun 24, 2006 8:39:42 GMT -5
After lots of reading and rereading, I am willing to name Kavanagh's "Gin" as my personal favourite story in the collection. Do I have any agreement from the masses? Disagreement?
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Post by greco on Jun 24, 2006 12:18:32 GMT -5
I'll second Gin as the best of the bunch. Whalemeat Returns to School Lunch is another favorite of mine.
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Post by jakemooney on Jun 24, 2006 15:39:23 GMT -5
My runner up trophy gets split between two sports themed stories, I'll take Meek's Scrambling and (even though I'm not a fan of his site) the dude who wrote that baseball story near the end.
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Post by adh on Jun 26, 2006 8:24:21 GMT -5
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Post by gcp on Jun 29, 2006 5:48:00 GMT -5
Another vote for Kavanagh's "Gin". Also Vishal Khanna's "Whisper California".
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Post by nateLee on Jul 23, 2006 22:18:39 GMT -5
I'll push my glasses up on my nose and suggest Willie Smith's story take two. It's a boot to the brain.
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Post by Boyle on Aug 2, 2006 16:17:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the props for Happy Hour, Andy.
Whole lot of good stuff in the book so why does that moosefucker story stick in my head & what does that say about me?
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Post by --Ed. on Aug 3, 2006 9:22:35 GMT -5
Ah, the Moose Hunter... that was the last story to go in to the anthology, lots of hand wringing over whether or not I should put it in the book, being that it's probably the most inappropriate and offensive piece I've run thus far (that or "The Trip" by Gary Dobbs). I'm glad I did though, several people have mentioned it as being thier favorite.
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Post by diabeditor on Aug 12, 2006 15:55:11 GMT -5
Matt, I am sure that you have your own ideas for an upcoming TJP book, but here's my idea....
Have stories that represent each of the Seven Deadly Sins. You'd definitely have a lot of stories to choose from past issues of Thieves Jargon. Three or four stories for each sin would equate to 21-28 stories. Just a thought.
If you don't like the idea, perhaps it's something I will consider for my next Lulu project.
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