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Our Amazing Kindle Deals As of last week Amazon is NO LONGER delivering "non-priority" goods. Justifiably included in that category are physical books, along with other entertainment and art objects like films and videogames. In this day and age, physical sales through Amazon can make up the lion's share of a small press' earnings, and with bookstores now closed, as well as in-person gigs no longer an option, many of us are left without our most reliable income streams. Fortunately, the virtual market is still available to indie presses. All of our books can be bought as Kindle editions … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Hazen Describes the “Girls Like Us” Menu with Lesley Wheeler As part of Lesley Wheeler's "Virtual Salon" Series, Elizabeth Hazen describes an accompanying menu for her poetry collection "Girls Like Us" and gives advice on getting through the quarantine. "If one wanted to emulate the women in many of the poems, straight liquor – any kind – would be a fitting refreshment; another version of the party’s menu could be the austere black coffee and stale donuts or off-brand cookies so often associated with recovery. A wild array of mocktails would be better suited to a … [Read more...]

Rose Solari Shares New Poem “Hunger” After Jackson Browne Solari's new poem was shared to her Facebook page on Friday. Hunger His voice is the taste of Michelob and cheap weed, a late spring evening leaning into summer in somebody’s absent parents’ rec room. Black lights and band posters. “Saturate Before Using” spinning our smoke-addled heads. Now   someone picks up a guitar, and the still- though-not-for-much-longer tenor star of our school chorus starts singing, Doctor,   my eyes, and everyone, even the metal-head kids, chimes in. We all know this singer’s story — the … [Read more...]

Covid-19 Update from ASP WE WRITE THIS in unprecedented times. Only a few weeks ago, we were looking at a spring and summer calendar full of author events celebrating our new titles. Now, with cancelations rolling in, we are doing our best to get you the good reads you want when sheltering in place, and provide some virtual community as well. Right now, nearly all of our ASP Kindle books are on sale for $.99 to $1.99, and we’re going to keep them at that price for as long as we can. We are also running a series of rolling sales on books purchased direct from our site, with free shipping on … [Read more...]

Baltimore Magazine Names Elizabeth Hazen an Author to Read During Social Distancing Elizabeth Hazen, author of "Girls Like Us," is named beside Dora Malech and D. Watknins as authors to read during social distancing in a new Baltimore Magazine editorial. Elizabeth Hazen addresses a packed house at Atomic Books. In a new editorial from Baltimore Magazine, Baker award finalist Elizabeth Hazen is named as an author to read "while working from home" (read: social distancing). The magazine puts her name next to other Baltimore stalwarts like the incredible poet Dora Malech and the … [Read more...]