“Kickstarter is a movement building tool that helps you create buzz around new books. The house also regularly uses Kickstarter to fund titles. Biel was interviewed while attending the Oklahoma Bike Summit, a bicycling advocacy event, and he brought along about 150 Microcosm books to sell to the 500 attendees. The company has also been innovative in finding new markets. Today, the house has evolved into an eclectic but growing indie book publisher, publishing a range of books (and graphic novels) on alternative culture, environmentalism, history, and feminism. The house first published zines on punk rock and distributed zines, books, T-shirts, and alternative cultural manifestos to a network of retailers that include record stores, bike shops, clothing shops, and festivals. Other books coming in 2016 include Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking by Anne Elizabeth Moore, a work of graphic nonfiction about the connections between the global fashion market and the sex trade, featuring such comics artists as Leela Corman and Ellen Lindner Urban Revolutions: A Woman’s Guide to Two-Wheeled Transportation by Emilie Bahr, a look at women and biking in Portland and The Post-structuralist Vulva Coloring Book by Meggyn Pomerleau.īiel founded Microcosm in 1996, in his bedroom. I only heard words I could not detect facial cues.” Recalling a failed marriage, years of frustration, and emotional conflict with friends and family, he said, “You know you’re different, but you don’t know why.” Biel spent three years working with a cognitive behavior specialist to learn how to “mimic neuro-typical people.” The book details Biel’s diagnosis (at the age of 32) of Asperger’s syndrome, 15 years after he founded Microcosm, and offers his story of building a company despite being “inflexible and difficult.” As he explained, “for most of my working life, my Asperger’s made it much more difficult to have relationships with my coworkers. Andrews (Editor) Literature General Historical Anna Yeatts, Flash Fiction Online, LLC Novella Poetry Fantasy Epic Fantasy Aliette de Bodard Anthologies (multiple Authors) Publishing Science Fiction flash fiction Lightspeed Magazine Yoon Ha Lee Beneath Ceaseless Skies Reviews humor Kirsten Gong-Wong NYRSF Fiction Magazine Short Fiction Bestsellers Interviews Dzanc Books Nonfiction E.Microcosm will release about 20 titles in 2016, including Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger’s, by Biel, a memoir and business book. Valente Suzanne Vincent Forever Small Beer Press General Magazine Tachyon Publications Wyrm Publishing Horror Reviews Adamant Press Literary Adventure Fantasy novel The Dark Andy Cox Dark Fantasy News Short Story Collection Novel Cat Rambo Carrie Vaughn Lethe Press General semiprozine Short Story mainstream literary Nightmare Magazine Science Fiction Reference infinity plus fantasy Flash Fiction Online Speculative Fiction Firkin Press Locus Science Fiction Foundation Neil Clarke Apex Publications Updates Anthology Liza Groen Trombi Locus Forever Wildside Press LGBT Fiction Short Stories Rich Larson Adventure Fantasy writing Fantasy Fantasy Magazine Burrowing Wombat Press collection Online Magazine Aqueduct Press Prime Books short stories Short Story Epic Fantasy Scott H. General Dark Fantasy Apex Magazine Sean Wallace PM Press Clarkesworld Speculative Fiction Catherynne M. Some are familiar faces to you regular readers out there,… More Hello dear readers and welcome to the fourteenth year of Luna Station Quarterly! Issue 053 is going to kick this year off right with 16 stories by 16 awesome authors. by Luna Station Press 1 March, 2023 Issue 053 Release!!! Meet cover artist Olivia Hintz!.Apex Magazine: Legacy Monthly Subscription.The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2022.Galaxy’s Edge Magazine Annual Subscription.The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/Jun 2022.The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2023.Uncanny Magazine – 12 Month Subscription.The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – 6 Issue Subscription.Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 4-Issue Subscription.On Spec Magazine 1-Year Subscription (4 issues).New York Review of Science Fiction 6-issue Subscription.New York Review of Science Fiction 12-issue Subscription.Nightmare Magazine: 12-Month Subscription.Nightmare Magazine: 6-Month Subscription.Luna Station Quarterly 12-Month Subscription.Lightspeed Magazine: 12-Month Subscription.Lightspeed Magazine: 6-Month Subscription.Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Subscription.Flash Fiction Online, 12 month subscription.Fantasy Magazine: 12-Month Subscription.Constelación Magazine 12-Month Subscription.Clarkesworld Magazine – 6 Month Subscription.Clarkesworld Magazine: 12-Month Subscription.Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12-Month Subscription.
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