We’ve postponed the contest and launch event for Sim Kern’s DEPART, DEPART!, ironically, because Houston is currently threatened by two incoming hurricanes. Check out this post for updates, and link to Sim Kern’s YouTube channel where they are vlogging their hurricane prep.
We received our beautiful printed books on Friday and spent all weekend packaging and shipping to all who pre-ordered a print copy of Sim Kern’s Depart, Depart! Read for more information on the availability of printed books and some issues with shipping via USPS and Canada Post.
This past month, I (Selena Middleton, Stelliform Publisher and EIC) read Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians alongside my friend and invaluable Stelliform helper and fellow English PhD, Kristen Shaw. Since our conversations often fall into fairly nerdy literary analysis, we thought we would share our thoughts about The Only Good Indians in the form of the conversation that we might have had if the pandemic had not prevented an in-person meeting. What follows is our conversation-review of SGJ’s novel, which was published by Saga Press in July 2020.
It’s important to carve out these spaces where the reader can sit for a moment — within a bigger problem always, but for a moment focusing on a small world that the fantastic creates for us. The feelings around climate change are big and oppressive and overwhelming and I’m not entirely interested in recreating that experience in Stelliform books. The world is doing that for us already. Instead, I’ve been delighted to read stories that shape a smaller but still inter-connected experience. Read more about that in this post.