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Hey Gang
The wind is howling around the farmhouse tonight. We've had a crazy spell of warm days here in Northeast Kansas--which for us meant sitting outside with books, soaking up the precious sun around a daytime bonfire. You can take the kids away from California, but you can't take away our need for as many sun rays as we can possibly get onto our faces. But I think this crazy, cold wind shaking the windows is calling an end to the sunny day-fires. At least for a few weeks. Once that thermometer goes over 40 we'll be back outside and at it again.
Do you follow us on any of the social media things? If you aren't you're totally missing out on a super rad contest we've got going on right now to celebrate The DIY Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad's 6th printing! It's our "Fight the Winter Blues" Contest! Win big! Take a pic of you holding a copy of Big Sad and post it on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, and um, Twitter maybe, tag it "adam gnade," and you'll be entered to win 10--that's right I said
10!--copies of Big Sad. Go here for more details!
Oh, and hey. We didn't get a chance to talk about this below, but our e-book section is blowing UP right now. We've seriously TRIPLED the number of e-things we carry in the last week. If you're an e-reader (or a user of an e-reader?) check it out.
Stay warm out there everybody.
xoxo, Elizabeth, Adam, Jessie, the boys, and all the rescues of the Hard Fifty Farm
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Anti-Valentine's Gifts
We love Valentine's Day! We hate Valentine's Day! Love is great and fun and awful and confusing! Argh. One thing we know: calling it "V-Day" sounds wrong as hell. Fuck it, here are some presents ...
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Soft Split by Silvia Molnar - $5 Silvia's excellent Soft Split chapbook is about sex and love but it's one of the most frustrated, pent-up, angry things you'll ever read. NSFW as it gets. But so are you, right?
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Caveworld: A Novel by Adam Gnade - $13 Adam Gnade's Caveworld tells the story of two love affairs separated by a 20 year gap. It's the darkest, most devastating read we've published. Is love truly a dog from hell like the saying goes? This book says FUCK YEAH IT IS.
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Valentine's Gifts that are Actually About Love
Sometimes Valentine's Day is kind of sweet and wonderful and rad. Just like love. Don't tell anyone we said that.
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Steampunk's Guide to Sex by Professor Calamity - $10 Your guide to the sexy side of steampunk, covering everything from kinky Victorian sexuality to contemporary subcultural sex. Covers such hot topics as erotica, sex work, burlesque, BDSM, alternative sexualities, consent, etc.
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Anti-Depression & Self-Care Advice from Fantasy Warlords
Which one of these dudes is the true fantasy warlord? YOU DECIDE.
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Skeletor's Guide to Self-Care by Skeletor - $8 Skeletor's Guide to Self-Care is a brand-new comic chock full of the fearsome He-Man
villain's philosophy on self-care, radical mental health, and battling depression. From cutting toxic personalities out of your life (read: He-Man, Orko, Teela, etc) to learning the joys of being single, Skeletor gives the goods on finding a happy, satisfied, balanced life for yourself. (Note: evil/weird/WTF as this sounds, the advice here is actually totally sincere and usable.) Who knew the evil sorceror of Snake Mountain had such a deep, giving, ever-searching soul? The good folks at Eternia Press did! They were, like, "Somebody give this man a book deal!" And thus this comic was born! Hail, Skeletor. Hail him now. Hail him always.
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Each month we'll send you $10 worth of whatever new things we get onto our shelves! Shipping included! Sign up for a 3, 6, 9 or 12 month subscription!*
3 months - $30
6 months - $55
9 months - $80
12 months - $100
This is a GREAT way to help support us and the authors and artists whose works we carry!
*US customers only--sorry! Live outside the US and want to sign up? Email Elizabeth@PioneersPress.com
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Lit Love
We are over-the-moon stoked to be carrying Ladybox Books releases now. Their stuff is kicking our ass. So good. If you like someone, buy them a novel. If you love them, get them one of these!
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Read More Books sticker - $2 We just got this one printed. It's about as fresh off the press as they come. Show your love for books in the face of the snarling dumbs!
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Shit to Make You Laugh
You know what's better than a shitty date on Valentine's Day? Laughing. This one time, one of Pioneers' staff, after being jilted by a significant other not to be mentioned here (cough cough coughMelanieHostcough), spent their entire Valentine's night sitting in a corporate bookstore reading Marilyn Manson's autobiography just so said sad sack wouldn't have to go home and face their parents, who would be like, "Why aren't you out on a date? What happened?" Oh, teenagehood! Oh, agony! (The book sucked, by the way. These don't.)
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Snowed-in Reading List
Winter, we're still in your grips. Friends, stop refreshing Facebook and read something that will make your brain grow like a damn kudzu vine overtaking a small Southern town. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH INESSENTIAL BULLSHIT AND UNSATISFYING SOCIAL MEDIA. On your deathbed you will regret a lot of things. Not these ...
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Farm Report
Cold days. Then warm days! (Go figure.) Sleeping dogs, goats, day-fires, window gardens, snowy mornings, Hard Fifty Farm kombucha, nice sunsets ... here's some life right now ...
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