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

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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….

Thea Lim on the Radio

That’s right! Thea Lim co-hosting WKNX Rick and Jerry in the Morning! Houston’s #1 long ride to hell morning show! Special guests T-Pain, Daniel Dae Kim and Kirsten Whig! Listen for your chance to win a Caribbean Cruise for our Winter Bluise brought to you courtesy of Sunwing Travel and Spencer Griff’s Olde Tyme Vacatyons!

Or something like that. I didn’t read the email. Here it is below:

Hello friends,

I guest-hosted this week’s episode of Addicted to Race, the Racialicious podcast.  We talked about such intellectual topics such as Slumdog Millionaire and He’s Just Not That Into You. You can listen to it here:

http://www.racialicious.com/2009/02/12/addicted-to-race-105-slumdog-millionaire-hes-just-not-that-into-you/

It’s not everyday that a movie filled with child abuse, extreme poverty, torture, and violence against women is hailed as a feel-good flick, but that’s exactly what happened to “Slumdog Millionaire.” Do the characters’ race have anything to do with this perception? We also examine the racial dynamics of the new romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You.”

Invisible at Expozine

Come say hi,  give us a high-five or a throat-punch at this year’s Expozine in Montreal (but if you opt for the throat punch, be aware that we fight dirty).  We’ll be there with new books The Art of Trespassing and Fear of Fighting, as well as old gold from the Invisible canon.  Plus, AofT editor Anna Leventhal will be on hand with her yearly Prefaces While-U-Wait, available at Expozine only – get a preface written on-site for your latest work!  Also forewords, epilogues, preludes, epitaphs, director’s commentary, for $2 each.  Makes a great holiday gift.  See you there!

Crucial deets:

Saturday and Sunday November 29th and 30th, 12-6

5035 St. Dominique, near Laurier Metro.  Free admission.

The Art of Trespassing in your city

So we launched The Art of Trespassing into the stratosphere, suckas.  We read in Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, Winnipeg and Ottawa!  We read on a boat!  We read with a goat!  Okay, that’s not true, but we did read on a boat, thanks to anthology contributor Stephen Guy and the Wolfe Island Ferry Story Cabal (see pictures below).  A kind person from Kingston also wrote this killer article about the anthology and “dorks on a boat”.  Adele Barclay, you are a credit to student journalists everywhere.  Any kind of journalist, really.

In Winnipeg we hit #3 on the McNally Robinson Booksellers bestseller list for paperback fiction for 2 weeks, beating out both The DaVinci Code and the Bible.  And check this review from The Nova Scotian (follow the link for full review):

The Art of Trespassing is great, an eclectic anthology of short stories carefully wrapped in a package that presents these new writers in style. Anna Leventhal has gathered a diverse collection of stories differing wildly in style, imagination, energy and rhythm, all of which somehow create a whole. No small feat. [...]

These new writers sometimes eschew more formal literary structures. The result is a collection that crackles with texture and energy. There is much movement in these stories, people going away or coming back, “pushing the envelope,” wanting change or wanting to thwart change.

- Judith Meyrick, The Nova Scotian

Here are some photos from various launches, featuring a group of ridiculously good-looking writers. Thanks to various intrepid photographers Leigh, Chris, Mark, my dad, and others whose names escape me for taking them.

dorks on a boat

Jeff Miller at Novel Idea in Kingston

Anna Leventhal at TATRL in Toronto

Teri Vlassopoulos in Toronto

Managing editor Nic Boshart does a little stand-up

anthology editor Anna Leventhal reading on the Wolfe Island Ferry

Winnipeg launch at McNally Robinson Booksellers

Our new friends in the Wolfe Island Ferry Story Cabal

Michelle Sterling at This Ain’t The Rosedale Library in Toronto

Wasela Hiyate at TATRL in Toronto

JB Staniforth at Redbird Studio in Montreal

Stephen Guy at Novel Idea in Kingston