Reviews, Interviews, and Other Press
“New indie publishers speak out optimistically in the face of decline,” by Carolyn Kellogg, “ Los Angeles Times Blog Jacket Copy
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“Publishing Panel — Upstart Publishers,” Emerging Writers Network
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“In Short Order” by Jan Gardner, “Shelf Life” Boston Globe, July 13, 2008
“At Rose Metal Press, less is more…”
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The Elegant Variation Interviews Rose Metal Press Publisher and Editor, interview by Jim Ruland, May 15, 2008
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“Q&A with Rose Metal Press Founders: Small Presses, Big Ideas, and a Match Made in Heaven” on Word Up, The Phoenix Book Blog by Deirdre Fulton
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Praise for Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess
"Writers Recommend," Poets & Writers, December 2008:
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“Carol Guess: The Write Stuff,” The Western Front by Jory M. Mickelson, July 22, 2008
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Seattle Times, "New titles by Washington authors, or of local interest," December 11, 2008
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Land Mammal, "Drafty On an Icy Day," by Anne Haines, December 7, 2008 "Great, great stuff. […]it's like a cracked window, only all we can see is the actual cracks and from that we're left to understand the shape and heft of the window itself […]it is a terrific book, sexy and wise and unexpected. Highly recommended."
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Colorado Review by Steven Wingate, Fall 2008 "Not many prose poem collections can match Tinderbox Lawn for movement…"
Slurve Magazine by Ryan Collins, December 2008 "What Carol Guess does most impressively in Tinderbox Lawn is create a life, one experienced in well-contained lyric intervals that reveal just how adept any form or poetry can impress a story."
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Praise for In the Land of the Free by Geoffrey Forsyth
Time Out Chicago Books Blog by Jonathan Messinger, August 13, 2008 "I was blown away by Geoffrey Forsyth…Forsyth's chapbook of short shorts, In the Land of the Free, won the Rose Metal Press Second Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest. It's out now and, in fact, had just arrived on my desk a few days before. I've downed about half of it this morning, and I'm going to race through to the end."
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“An Interview with In The Land Of The Free author Geoffrey Forsyth,” by Kelly Spitzer
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Andrew Terhune on the “Andrew is Vanishing” blog, July 28, 2008
“It’s a great read.”
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Dan Wickett on the Emerging Writers Network blog
“Geoffrey Forsyth has a wonderful way of merging reality with the just slightly off kilter magical realism to create a world that we'd love to live in.”
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Praise for A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness
In January of 2009, Kevin Sampsell of Powell's Books, names A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness one of the best books of 2008.
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Interview with Claudia Smith by Erin McKnight at Prick of the Spindle, December 2008, "…[a]… remarkable quartet of collections makes for resonant, commanding reading…"
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SmokeLong Quarterly July 3, 2008
“A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks by Four Women is a triumph for flash fiction. This is not your typical anthology… If you're a fan of flash fiction, A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness is a must-have…”
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“Who Reads Short Shorts? Everyone Should If They’re Like This New Collection” by Deirdre Fulton, The Portland Phoenix
“A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women does not fit in my pocket (although it is rather small), nor is it a flimsy bit of folded paper, as chapbooks used to be. But it provides everything else that chapbooks did — bite-sized, accessible, entertaining stories — as well as what they do today — focused, challenging, experimental work.…These stories are quirky and urgent, and set apart somehow from standard short-story collections or anthologies…”
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The Longfellow Books Blog by Chris Bowe, June 30, 2008
“…powerful, intense and haunting, and they linger long after you've finished. Like a scent on the wind, it comes and goes and leaves you wondering why it seemed so familiar and real, if only for a moment. It leaves you with, well, a peculiar feeling of restlessness.”
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The Writers in Profile blog by Kelly Spitzer
“It’s insanely cool.”
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Charles Lennox on Gather.com, July 9, 2008
“…your retinas will dance with joy as they read the wonderful short fiction of Claudia Smith, Kathy Fish, Amy L. Clark, and Elizabeth Ellen.”
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The Rantings of the Faithful blog by Pastor Peters, July 31, 2008
“I loved this book. Loved it. They were all short stories that were really easy to read. I highly recommend this. This is the only book I brought home with me.”
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“A Book of Ubiquitous Movement” by DiAnne Malone Gently Read Literature: Essays & Criticism of Contemporary Poetry and Literary Fiction
“A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness pushes and wrenches its reader through four chapbooks of short short fiction by authors Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith. What remains is a sense of yearning that cannot be satiated by rereading just one story. The collection resurrects the ghosts of the eerie voices and vignettes in Jean Toomer’s Cane, while making new the strangeness found in Joyce Carol Oates’ collection, The Female of the Species.”
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“Blowing Minds” by Myfanwy Collins on Quick Fiction
“The cover of the book suggests a quartet, offering that these four books will play harmoniously as one; indeed, they do. Taken separately, though, each has its own sound, its own voice. However you choose to read them, the stories within these four chapbooks will most definitely blow your mind. In fact, they will obliterate you. ”
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Praise for How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic by Peter Jay Shippy
Coldfront named Peter Jay Shippy as among their nominees for "Best Book-Length Poem" of 2008 in January of 2009.
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Publishers Weekly writes "Dreamy, playful and at times campy, Shippy's poem interweaves the voices of talking monkeys, birdbots and a flirty Sphinx. The text bends and blends genre, myth and allegory, highlighted by the speaker's catchy patter: 'After // her chutz- / pah / I can't manage to oompah // the money shot." This is ambitious work that manages to be frequently dynamic, describing a world much like our own: "These are dark days for our town. / A virulent stain of self-schaden- / freud- // e / is replicating / spreading the boos.'"
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