Friends who love & care about Rose Metal Press & our 18 years' worth of books and authors!

We need your help in the wake of the abrupt & irresponsible closure of our distributor Small Press Distribution!

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Spite is and always will be one the best reasons writers keep writing. Not the noblest emotion! But perhaps among the most productive…

Overjoyed to share I've joined the faculty at The Rainier Writing Workshop (The Rainier Writing Workshop). If you're considering a low-residency MFA, come hang out with me for some summers in Tacoma! plu.edu/mfa/

For some probably obvious (and not so obvious) reasons, Station 11 and really Emily St. John Mandel in general was on my mind when I sold How High We Go in the Dark during a pandemic. I’m very excited to interview her at the Unbound Book Festival later this month.

Are you an independent bookstore owner or buyer? We have a message for you!⁠
In the wake of the sudden closing of SPD Books, we are now offering wholesale services. Drop your name, store name, and email address in our DMs and we will be in touch!

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Like so many other small presses, Black Lawrence Press
is devastated by the sudden closure of Small Press Distribution which leaves us and hundreds of other small presses to grapple with logistical nightmares and financial peril.

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A good percentage of viral threads in recent years seem to be about people being pissed that their conception of how people should live according to social class is upset by someone finding small joys in living differently/spending their money differently.

Need to get up to write and do the things, but Fenris isn’t exactly a picture of motivation.

BREAKING: SPD's GoFundMe donors may have only 5 days to receive a full refund due to fraud.

Legal steps need to be taken ASAP to determine when SPD leadership knew they were closing & whether this campaign was fraud.

Barely 50 degrees and outdoor eating areas in Minneapolis are declaring it full blown spring. Shorts on the street abound. Word count fuel . . .

Genre is what lives on, it is the body of stories folks read not just once, but forever.
Shakespeare was the derided /genre/ writer of his time, for being too emotional, too fun, too bawdy, too gory.
The stories we remember - from Austen to Asimov & beyond: Genre. Long live it.

honestly can you imagine buying into mystical fascist pseudo-history about the Magical Abilities of People In The Heroic Past when in reality if you pay artists to spend their time doing art, they get better at it much more quickly than if they are trapped in a 9-5

Looks like the Japanese version of How High We Go in the Dark is making its way out in the world.

ok I know it's getting silly now but last one, I promise: so THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is! also! nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel. this has been a bizarre month and I have expired vajra.me/2024/03/29/the…

Who is surprised? Also, generational wealth. Mostly don’t care so long as those people write pretty sentences and aren’t jerks and at least half-heartedly acknowledge their privilege once in a while (“It’s a tough year. Can’t renovate the writing villa!”) 😂

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category. I'm grateful for this unexpected and difficult joy. As a Lammy nominee—so very strange!—I have three painful things to say. I'll try to keep it short. vajra.me/2024/03/27/the…

2700 words on the next novel and cleaned the house. If I ever run out of book ideas I’m gonna cash in the Princess Diana Beanie Baby Bear that I know we all have in a box somewhere.

Authors, convince us to read your book with one of your favorite lines & absolutely no context:

The woods are old, the mountains are older, and those who dare venture in will find themselves quite surrounded...