I am really excited about having the chance to publish Robert Ignatius Dillon's first full-length work through my new publishing empire, Hopeless Books Unic.
Beyond the Bush is a satire (are we noticing a theme here?) of imperial proportions and very tight bits. Read more about it at the Hopeless blog or just take your own word for it (Amazon will let you "click to look" here).
Only $3.99... OR, as usual, any Hopeless release is always available to potential reviewers for the low, low price of getting off your ass and asking me to send you a PDF (asterzingerzatgmail.com; if I don't answer try again and/or remind me in the comments section... my email account is kind of dying of spam, I should probably think about a new one).
We are still running the "buy no books, get a book free!" special on my first novel, Girl Detectives, now through this Wednesday. If you don't get a laugh we will happily return your no money.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
FREE BOOKS FROM HOPELESS BOOKS UNINC.
In honor of my frightening new power as a publishing empress (tremble, worm food!), I'm offering you five days of ABSOLUTELY FREE ACCESS to my/our retroactive first release, 2008's comic murder mystery GIRL DETECTIVES.
GIRL DETECTICES was a tragic slapstick that unwittingly served as a chronicle of what Jeopardy mogul Neal Pollack recently called the dying of the light of hard-core paper journalism in Chicago. It's available from now, Nov. 2, through this Wednesday, Nov. 5 as
AN ABSOLUTELY FREE EBOOK!
And NO, cats and kittens, you do NOT have to own a Kindle or any other special device or pay a fee or ANYTHING WHATSOEVER, even though Amazon tries to keep this information hidden in its shitty interface; go
HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE APPS.
It's all free. So what's your excuse? You don't like funny? You don't like first novels? You don't like me? Fair enough. But personally, when I see a free book in the Dumpster, I pick it up.
Love,
Ann
GIRL DETECTICES was a tragic slapstick that unwittingly served as a chronicle of what Jeopardy mogul Neal Pollack recently called the dying of the light of hard-core paper journalism in Chicago. It's available from now, Nov. 2, through this Wednesday, Nov. 5 as
AN ABSOLUTELY FREE EBOOK!
And NO, cats and kittens, you do NOT have to own a Kindle or any other special device or pay a fee or ANYTHING WHATSOEVER, even though Amazon tries to keep this information hidden in its shitty interface; go
HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREE APPS.
It's all free. So what's your excuse? You don't like funny? You don't like first novels? You don't like me? Fair enough. But personally, when I see a free book in the Dumpster, I pick it up.
Love,
Ann
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Call for submissions, part two: HOPELESS BOOKS, UNINC.
aka My vast and wicked publishing empire.
So, I decided to start a publishing company this week. No, that's not exactly true; this week I was reminded that, several months ago, I made a drunken promise to start a publishing company.
I'm hard at work setting up the blog and editing release #3, so let me just give you a screen shot and a link by way of further explanation:
HOPELESS BOOKS UNINC., POST #1
Feel free to submit manuscripts (fiction preferred, genre fiction accepted, brilliant nonfiction also taken with zest, but I may recommend a more nonfiction-centric publisher) to the same email address given in Call for Submissions, Part One (asterzingerz@gmail.com).
But be forewarned: My business model is zero budget—except for cover art; by the way, ALL royalties will go to the authors, I'm only keepin' my own—but it's not zero risk. I'm staking my reputation on my writers' talent.
So, thin skins, please do not apply with something that sucks and then get some sort of passive-aggressive Intertubes revenge. Please. It will be bad for both our souls. I mean, sure, you'll probably want to say some nasty things about me, I know the feeling, but do it in an honorable fashion, SVP.
Of course I'm interested in antinatalist literature, but my judgments will be aesthetically based, not ideologically based. Never cling too hard to an "ism"; it will ruin your eyes. So if you send me something like this embarrassingly written thing, I will agree very cordially with your opinion about reproduction, but not with your opinion about your writing talent, and we will not be able to work together, to my regret.
Nevertheless, I encourage you to submit. Whatever your opinions about things. Because the only thing I know for sure is that we're all sort of on the Titanic.
Love,
Ann
So, I decided to start a publishing company this week. No, that's not exactly true; this week I was reminded that, several months ago, I made a drunken promise to start a publishing company.
I'm hard at work setting up the blog and editing release #3, so let me just give you a screen shot and a link by way of further explanation:
HOPELESS BOOKS UNINC., POST #1
Feel free to submit manuscripts (fiction preferred, genre fiction accepted, brilliant nonfiction also taken with zest, but I may recommend a more nonfiction-centric publisher) to the same email address given in Call for Submissions, Part One (asterzingerz@gmail.com).
But be forewarned: My business model is zero budget—except for cover art; by the way, ALL royalties will go to the authors, I'm only keepin' my own—but it's not zero risk. I'm staking my reputation on my writers' talent.
So, thin skins, please do not apply with something that sucks and then get some sort of passive-aggressive Intertubes revenge. Please. It will be bad for both our souls. I mean, sure, you'll probably want to say some nasty things about me, I know the feeling, but do it in an honorable fashion, SVP.
Of course I'm interested in antinatalist literature, but my judgments will be aesthetically based, not ideologically based. Never cling too hard to an "ism"; it will ruin your eyes. So if you send me something like this embarrassingly written thing, I will agree very cordially with your opinion about reproduction, but not with your opinion about your writing talent, and we will not be able to work together, to my regret.
Nevertheless, I encourage you to submit. Whatever your opinions about things. Because the only thing I know for sure is that we're all sort of on the Titanic.
Love,
Ann
Monday, October 28, 2013
Matt Forney, Kafka, managers, and Andy Nowicki and me and ghosts. Happy Halloween!
Linked below: another set of kind words from Matt Forney regarding NVSQVAM (the stupidest thing anyone ever named a book, publicity-wise, as it turns out; way to go, me), fellow novelist Andy Nowicki, and our mutual embodiment of the Generation X... continual malaise and the er... zeit... hm.
How does one underline the more ghoulish shadings one could pull from the dreaded word "zeitgeist" when our zeit has already rolled over us and left us under the shit-infused tarmac of the 21st century?
Ah well. If you don't like novels, the first half of the interview touches on some fascinating stuff about managerialism, a practice as well as a theory which describes, as I gather, the unpleasant, Platonic, Kafkonic reality underlying the eerie similarities between communism and late "capitalism" (and the reason why your CEO, not the stockholder, is truly the master of your neoserf hind end):
http://www.counter-currents.com/2013/10/matt-forney-on-james-burnham-ann-sterzinger/
How does one underline the more ghoulish shadings one could pull from the dreaded word "zeitgeist" when our zeit has already rolled over us and left us under the shit-infused tarmac of the 21st century?
Ah well. If you don't like novels, the first half of the interview touches on some fascinating stuff about managerialism, a practice as well as a theory which describes, as I gather, the unpleasant, Platonic, Kafkonic reality underlying the eerie similarities between communism and late "capitalism" (and the reason why your CEO, not the stockholder, is truly the master of your neoserf hind end):
http://www.counter-currents.com/2013/10/matt-forney-on-james-burnham-ann-sterzinger/
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