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The Invisible Publishing blog has moved to our sweet new website.

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It’s actually being updated once in a while

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In the spirit of online innovation…

We’ve created a new Facebook page. Have you even heard of such a thing? A publisher on Facebook? I know! It’s crazy! That’s why we’re on the cutting edge of web 2.0 innovation. For realz.

We Didn’t Win! (Plus Twitter)

Yeah, we lost at expozine. Still, it was an honour to be nominated, blahty blah blah.

But follow all your best dudes on Twitter! That’s us! We’re your best dudes!

@invisibooks - The official Invisible Twitter.

@MissStaceyMay – Stacey May Fowles, author of Fear of Fighting. She mostly talks about Morrisey and various illnessess.I think she’s also @levarburton.

@theapants – Thea Lim, relentless self promotion machine and author of The Same Woman. Her tweets are either about her own blog posts, photoshopped pictures of her and Nicholas Cage, or lists of things she wants.

@robbiemacg – Robbie MacGregor, our publisher. The Emile Zola of Twitter. ‘I have a cup of water, the water is wet, and clear and I see the bottom of the cup through the water’. He updates seriously like 120 times a day and they’re all like that.

@NicBoshart – Mostly retweets of his cousin @dougyoder and general rants directed at all twittering city hall officials. @mayormiller STOP PISSING IN MY FOYER!! (We keep trying to tell him David Miller isn’t an orange cat.)

@thehorses – Jenner wades through our slush pile… or puddle as it may be, and generally (JENNERALLY!!!) keeps us in check when we make bad decisions, like eating ALL THE HAMBURGERS!

The Art of Trespassing in New Yawk

Nearly a year after its Canadian release, the short story collection The Art of Trespassing is crossing the border. Come play!

Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Location: Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St. New York, NY (Map)

The American launch will feature readings by the anthology’s contributors:

Wasela Hiyate – widely anthologized author of stories on travel, cultural alienation and the global economy.

Anna Leventhal – the anthology’s editor and comma-wrangler, Journey Prize loser and occasional performing artist.

There will also be readings by special guests:

Pasha Malla – author of The Withdrawal Method (House of Anansi), McSweeney’s contributor, and funny-ass guy.

Molly Reed – obscure genius making a rare public appearance.

Here’s the Facebook listing (requires logging in).

Tell your friends, families and pet monkeys!

Fear of Fighting Wins an Alcuin Award

Brrap brrap! Congratulations to Megan Fildes for scoring the prose-fiction third prize in the Alcuin Society’s awards for excellence in book design in Canada! Megan designed the beaudi-ful cover for Fear of Fighting.

A list of the 2008 winners can be found here.

Fear of Fighting at Feminist Review

Ari Moore reviews Stacey May Fowles’ Fear of Fighting:

This window into the complex inner life of a very real-feeling woman is refreshing. She lives an ordinary life that, when closely examined—like all ordinary lives—is extraordinary in its details. Similarly extraordinary-in-its-ordinariness is Fowles’ sweet little book; its honest and unassuming acknowledgments and author and printer profiles reveal a collaborative labor of love between independent creatives. The result is a a pleasure to see, to hold, and to read.

Check the full scoop at Feminist Review.

Fear of Fighting Nominated for Expozine Best Book

This year’s Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala will be held at Casa del Popolo, 4873 boul. St-Laurent, on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 from 8 to 10 p.m., free admission, followed by a DJ set. Six prizes will be awarded (three in English and three in French), recognizing the best book, comic and zine sold at Expozine 2008. The winners will be chosen by an esteemed panel of judges out of the hundreds of publications submitted at Expozine in November.

English Book Nominees:

Words the Dog Knows, J.R. Carpenter, Conundrum Press
The Debaucher, Jason Camlot, Insomniac Press
The Sunlight Chronicles, Chris Dyer (aka Carlos Sanchez), Divine Life LLC

Fear Of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles & Marlena Zuber, Invisible Publishing

Blert, Jordan Scott, Coach House Books
Jack, Mike Spry, Snare Books

Also Soul Gazers, a writing gorup featuring essentially everyone in The Art of Trespassing is nominated for best zine! Atta B, Lev!

Um.. so… if anyone is going, could they let me know? And bring some books with them? Kind of short notice….