New Chapbook from Chance Press - No. 2236 Flying Wedge
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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
I just got the e-mail notification. Thank you it looks good. Did you use old paper for the artwork?
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
I liked that the e-mail did not mention who the new chap book was done by. It made me look.
mjp
Founding member
No, I painted right on the covers.
I don't think the green paper is old, but I don't think you can get one of those either. They are just taunting you with the pics. They are diabolical, honestly.
jordan
lothario speedwagon
ahh, that makes more sense. i got that green paper in a pack of 100 sheets sitting in the bargain bin at flax, the greatest paper store on the planet. we mostly use it for mock-ups, but it has kind of a nice face on it, so i thought it would be fun to make some dustjackets out of it for the AP copies.
mjp graciously illustrated the dustjacket for AP #1, which is what you see in the picture - the rest are gocco printed like the cover.
mjp graciously illustrated the dustjacket for AP #1, which is what you see in the picture - the rest are gocco printed like the cover.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Good job on that.
Johannes
Founding member
Congrats!
MJP, is this similar to your blog-entry from some time ago? Don't know, if I remember it right ... about stumbling over this special type of Flying-V and buying it and remembering the past?
Anyway. Looks very good.
Would like to have a Trade Edition, but will have to check if paypal finally works for me.
MJP, is this similar to your blog-entry from some time ago? Don't know, if I remember it right ... about stumbling over this special type of Flying-V and buying it and remembering the past?
Anyway. Looks very good.
Would like to have a Trade Edition, but will have to check if paypal finally works for me.
looks ok, I suppose...
kidding, looks fantastic. can't wait to get mine.
congrats.
kidding, looks fantastic. can't wait to get mine.
congrats.
bospress.net
www.bospress.net
I can't wait to get my copies!
Bill
Bill
Rekrab
Usually wrong.
Well, I'm going to have to order one of these because it looks great, and I want to see mjp make embarrassing confessions. The green wrappers are so cool, especially with his drawing. Too bad that couldn't be part of the edition. No matter how much you give us, we want more.
mjp
Founding member
You don't get enough of that here?!
Yep. It's been slightly re-juggled though, and the end is new.
And the blog is dead, so you have to pony up for the book! I know how you (we) cheap bastards think!
mjp
Founding member
I'm very happy to have the story appear in this little gem of a book. I think they broke a small press record for least time from concept to finished product. They suggested using the story on October 8 and had it ready to ship a mere 41 days later. I am still dizzy from the whole thing. Small press publication schedules are usually measured in months (or years - really).
jordan
lothario speedwagon
since we are a two-person operation, we're hoping to get good at integrating short timeline projects in with things that will take us longer. for instance - common thread and steve's book were both really long-timeframe projects, while this one and the serafini one were conceived to give us something to work on while we were in between other long-term projects (and both used text that had already been written, coincidentally). the main thing we learned in the first year of our press is that it's pointless to have a timeline, because some projects get put off indefinitely, and other - like this one - come out of nowhere (eg: i had 50 half sheets of black cardstock and thought it would be fun to do a small chapbook with mjp while we waited on some other things that are holding up our next few projects).
congrats mjp.
put me down, please, J & J for a DELUXE if still available. I'll get the dough off to ya this week.
thanks.
put me down, please, J & J for a DELUXE if still available. I'll get the dough off to ya this week.
thanks.
LickTheStar
Sad Flower in the Sand
You small press people are killing me. Someday, I hope to return the favor. Can't wait to order a copy for myself.
jordan
lothario speedwagon
okay, we shipped books for everyone who ordered as of 9AM this morning (whether or not you've paid yet), so keep an eye out for them in the mail. also, you'll be happy to know that - if you ordered a deluxe - they're shipping in an envelope with the letter written in gigantic handwriting, so you'll know what letter you have (meaning, the people who got "D" and "O" or "H" and "N" won't be living in a confused fugue state for the rest of their lives).
i forgot to pick up magnifying lenses from work, so those of you that requested them will have to wait for the next book to come out.
i forgot to pick up magnifying lenses from work, so those of you that requested them will have to wait for the next book to come out.
whew! good thing I pre-ordered mine. Can't wait.
number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
Hmmm..... what do you mean by "next book" ? Seems to me, I remember a certain someone making a promise like this:
i am opening up a standing offer for any chance press customer - if you would like a magnifying lens (not really a "magnifying glass," since it is around the size and thickness of a business card), i will include one free of charge with your next purchase from chance press.
Okay - I think I've got you on false advertising, commercial fraud, and internet shenanigans. Don't think I can't sue you with my imaginary lawyers either. You are so busted .....
LickTheStar
Sad Flower in the Sand
I'm in. Let's go class action on their ass.
After all, they are a book publisher. And millions of books are sold a year. Ergo, they have millions and millions of dollars. Let's do this shit, light this candle.
After all, they are a book publisher. And millions of books are sold a year. Ergo, they have millions and millions of dollars. Let's do this shit, light this candle.
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Maybe Jordan is thinking of these kinda magnifying glasses:
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Code: FPN 0508
Description:
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Price:
250 $ 3.07 (ea)
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288 $ 3.07 (ea)
576 $ 2.26 (ea)
1152 $ 2.03 (ea)
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Nice work all around.
jordan
lothario speedwagon
i have access to the magnifiers already, i just forgot to pick them up from work. also, there are laws on the books that giant conglomerates like chance press use to prosecute people who initiate frivolous lawsuits, so don't be surprised when the bulging arm of the law crushes you like a bug and we go on baiting and switching as we please.
Received my copy today. Holy crap, that was fast!
Awesome chap book! Hats off to Justine and Jordan and especially MJP for a story that brings back fond memories of my Vantage Avenger. Not the first guitar I owned, but the first one that didn't have strings that sat three inches off the neck.
Good job guys!
Awesome chap book! Hats off to Justine and Jordan and especially MJP for a story that brings back fond memories of my Vantage Avenger. Not the first guitar I owned, but the first one that didn't have strings that sat three inches off the neck.
Good job guys!
I like how the magnifying glass is actually placed over the dictionary entry for the word 'enlarge'.
Just in case you were wondering what magnifying glasses do.