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sashash

The End of the Heart We Know

Sep 14, 2009 12:13

Effective October 15, 2009, Destructible Heart Press is shutting down publishing operations. Gourmet Books and Adam's new artist's book imprint, Books for Books, will continue, as will the Treehouse reading series. We're thinking of this as a hibernation, and hope to reappear in ten years, with books that will make ours look lame by comparison ( Read more... )

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mskittieface September 14 2009, 22:26:32 UTC

???

sashash September 15 2009, 05:30:45 UTC

After 7 years of asking for help and receiving nothing substantial (except in the case of Susan McAllister, our amazing business manager), pouring Herculean amounts of time, money, craft and energy into it, the Press's operation has finally prevented me from paying my bills. I'm trying not to be cynical about it, identify my mistakes and address them in its next incarnation.

tupelo_lights September 14 2009, 23:42:21 UTC

Akk!

sashash September 15 2009, 05:30:57 UTC

Yup.

well, you warned us... a_joyous_life September 14 2009, 23:44:00 UTC

If the name was INdestructible Heart I'd be more fussy. Congrats on a great run, and blessings toward the next big thing.

Re: well, you warned us... sashash September 15 2009, 16:07:26 UTC

Thanks, Kelly. It's a very hard thing to let go.

saracowgirl September 15 2009, 06:00:28 UTC

BAH!

This makes me sad. You have put out some killer books and should be proud of your work Adam. You've done a great deal to bring chapbooks back to classy. Can't wait to see what you do next.

sashash September 15 2009, 14:16:25 UTC

Thanks, Sara. I wish more people had bought them.

valis429 September 16 2009, 05:15:55 UTC

If it's any consolation - and it's probably not - doing the books blog at work absolutely breaks my heart, and I'm not even cranking these things out. I see thousands of books come in every week that ultimately won't get any love because the industry is flooded and the economy is poop. And that's the "mainstream" press. Making beautiful things the way DH has (and hopefully will again) is even more valiant than you know.

All of which is to say FUCK.

sashash September 16 2009, 13:22:10 UTC

Thanks, brother. I'm far from done making books, I just can't speak to how affordable they'll be again for a while. (Which is to say, I'll be doing freelance work, where I won't have control over the final selling price, and that I'll be doing books that will simply be priced more appropriately around $30-40 than $10.)