Lividian Publications

[bsaenz24]

We'll prepare for an October Sweetest Day launch. The HeartShape tray case for our first book will be constructed from a shell of freeze-dried edible flowers. There will be no door to access the book. You will have to eat through the case. Literally Eat Your Heart Out. Which is the title of the book.

LOL!!! I can see the money pouring in now!

[Dan Hocker]

Do we take the word LetterPress literally or just as the name lol. If we do take it literally, there might be some pricey but epic editions coming

I don't think you should take that literally.

[Brian James Freeman]

Very curious to see what the debut offering is. Curious, too, to see what the aim of the new press is, e.g. high-end ala Suntup or upper-mid like Thunderstorm or more of an extension of CD’s model or...?

Not going high-end ala Suntup. Originally, that was the plan, but that was pre-Suntup, and life got in the way. There's not enough market for all of us to publish those kinds of editions, and the guys already doing it are doing a great job at it.

But I already had picked the name, and started using it for some other business stuff, so now it's the name. I'll talk about that on the site sooner than later... unless I finally think of another name, which hopefully I will!

Official launch in 40 minutes!

Brian

[Martin]

We'll prepare for an October Sweetest Day launch. The HeartShape tray case for our first book will be constructed from a shell of freeze-dried edible flowers. There will be no door to access the book. You will have to eat through the case. Literally Eat Your Heart Out. Which is the title of the book.

You release a book in a Heart Shaped Box I better see a Joe Novel inside!

[jeffingoff]

You release a book in a Heart Shaped Box I better see a Joe Novel inside!

Well, it's not his novel, but Joe Hill is slated to sign anyway. We tried to stop him but he has a letter from a lawyer that says he must sign everything.

[bsaenz24]

https://letterpresspublications.com


ORDERED!!!! ORDERED!!!! ORDERED!!!! ORDERED!!!!

That looks seriously gorgeous!

[Marmaduke Grigsby]

An announcement so huge it broke the forum!

It sure didn't take Camelot Books very long to share the announcement both on Facebook and in their email newsletter.

Congrats on this huge initial offering, Brian! It is sure to be a hit. Order placed! 2862happydance-thumb.gif.23163b0539f4613d605203ebdbd358bb.gif

[bsaenz24]

The bottom of the home page shows several examples of the art for the book. Gorgeous pieces!!

[atariguy]

So I'm curious about the purpose of this new venture when you already have Lonely Road Books, and they both appear to have the same goals?

[Dan Hocker]

So I'm curious about the purpose of this new venture when you already have Lonely Road Books, and they both appear to have the same goals?

Brian talks about it here on his blog.

https://brianjamesfreeman.com/2019/0...-line-up-soon/

[Martin]

Here is the link to the EW article:

https://ew.com/books/2019/05/15/step...ctors-edition/

[jeffingoff]

BIG CONGRATS TO BJF!!! I love how he got all the small presses to assault my inbox at the same time. It creates a lot of buzz.

[sholloman81]

Ditto on the congrats! I have preordered a copy as well! Yep, thought it was funny to see four or five of my favorite small presses reach out to me about this today. The only hard part was deciding which one to use for the preorder.

[bsaenz24]

Ditto on the congrats! I have preordered a copy as well! Yep, thought it was funny to see four or five of my favorite small presses reach out to me about this today. The only hard part was deciding which one to use for the preorder.

I ordered from CD. I figure it's "closest" to Brian.

[Brian861]

I went with Camelot because they seem to be my go to of late and I don't have to pay until it's ready to ship. I really love that aspect of their business.