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{ 1 } Issue Eleven (the all excerpts issue)

{ 2 } the first mlp bookmark contest

{ 3 } our AWP reading with FlatmanCrooked

{ 4 } pre-orders for the 2010 novel(la)s

{ 1 } Issue Eleven (the all excerpts issue): www.mudlusciouspress.com/eleven

We thought about all the great books that have either recently released or are headed out in 2010 & wanted to showcase them, so Mud Luscious 11 is our all-excerpts issue, featuring words from Amelia Gray, Rachel B. Glaser, Peter Markus, Robert Lopez, Scott Garson, Joanna Ruocco, Alissa Nutting, Ken Sparling, Roy Kesey, Michael Kimball, Lily Hoang, Aaron Burch, Jac Jemc, James Kaelan, Adam Robinson, James Chapman, Ted Pelton, & Dawn Raffel. Online & for free – check it out here

{ 2 } the first mlp bookmark contest: www.mudlusciouspress.com/contact

The first ever Mud Luscious Press contest is underway now & closes on May 1st. We want your 150-word or less story or poem for our next slick printed bookmark, to be included with all the novel(la) & chapbook shipments beginning in June. $5 for one entry, $8 for two, & our winners (x2) will each receive one-quarter of the total entry fee pool plus a load of c. copies to distribute as they see fit. Enter your work here

{ 3 } our AWP reading with FlatmanCrooked: www.flatmancrooked.com/archives/6584

Join us at AWP – on April 9th, 4:00 pm, at the FlatmanCrooked booth, we are co-hosting the first ever puppet reading. Featuring Joanna Ruocco, Alyssa Knickerbocker, Molly Gaudry, Emma Straub, Elizabeth Ellen, Edan Lepucki, Jac Jemc, Aaron Burch, & Bradley Sands – all controlling their fmc designed puppets as they read their work. Keep the date on your radar

{ 4 } pre-orders for the 2010 novel(la)s: www.mudlusciouspress.com/purchase

Don’t forget, in June we will release both AN ISLAND OF FIFTY by Ben Brooks & WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS & WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS by Sasha Fletcher. Two amazing books that are already getting some big mentions from some big writers:

AN ISLAND OF FIFTY is a new literary bomb, resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean, chandeliers, dreams, blood, & flame. Old & stale literature won't know what just hit. This is something new masking itself in the old & I'm so so so excited. -- Shane Jones, author of LIGHT BOXES

My advice: those who are to read Sasha Fletcher's delightful enjoinder WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED should go into an empty house of an afternoon, shut themselves in a backroom closet on a low shelf, & read straight through without stopping. -- Jesse Ball, author of THE WAY THROUGH DOORS

Pre-order both here.

Hope to see you at AWP,

J. A. Tyler

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