Rare Bird Books A Barnacle Book imprint: 47 books

This, the first of the Barnacle Split Editions, features two stories, one by Jesse Michaels, one by Sam McPheeters.Jesse Michaels' "Make No Mistake" revolves around a middle-aged man in San Francisco whose chance encounter with a woman changes his life.Sam McPheeters' "Sophisticated Devices" takes on...

Promotion during Literary Death Match events around the world Features in LitHub, Electric Lit, The Millions, etc. Events in Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Portland, ME, Tulsa, OK, San Francisco, Miami, London, and more Promotion on the Literary Death Match podcast Adrian...

Following Bob Chinn's life from his humble upbringing by Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, the Territory of Hawaii, and southeastern New Mexico, The Other Side of Paradise shows how the world around him shaped Chinn into the man who would become one of the best adult film directors of all time. Set...

It’s no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliché that “the book was better than the movie” holds true for more reasons than the average reader will ever know. When asked about selling their book rights to Hollywood authors like to joke that they...

Events in Ann Arbor, MI; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA West Coast events will be with poet Matthew Dickman, Guggenheim Fellow Author was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers She has an MFA from University of Washington Excerpts...

Follow up to Keith Buckley's successful first novel Scale—10,000+ copies in print Keith Buckley is the frontman of the punk/metal band Every Time I Die Keith has 97k twitter followers Every Time I Die has sold hundreds of thousands of albums world wide Every Time I Die...

Madison Young has had a lot of daddies in her life. From the relationship with her biological father to "leather daddies" of the adult and BDSM communities, Daddy explores Young's interwoven relationships with each of them and the sex positive values that she teaches and lectures on across the country...

The 1970s were a heyday for Los Angeles, Hollywood was being revolutionized, the music business was booming, and authors like Joan Didion were producing great novels about the realities of living in the land of eternal sunshine. In Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine, great writers muse on the city...

Events with inter-country adoptee groups around the country South Korean events Events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, and more Possible course adoption as a primary text Partnerships with the Overseas Adopted Koreans, LA Futbolistas, and Adoptee Solidarity Korea-LA

Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it, hipsters scoff at it. Yes Is The Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters, the first literary anthology devoted to the sub genre. Featuring acclaimed novelists, Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, Charles Bock, and Joe Meno,...

Whether it was Patti Smith's angry moan, Nina Simone's guttural growl, or Dolly Parton's towering hair and sweet voice, women have been a musical force to be reckoned with, inspired by, and paid attention to. In Here She Comes Now, today's biggest and brightest writers tackle their favorite female...

Experimental O'Neill compiles in a single volume six of Eugene O'Neill's early plays: The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, and what are often referred to as “The S.S. Glencairn Plays,” four related one-acts. With extensive companion essays and critical analysis, this indispensable volume brings together...

A dextrous novel centered around the current generation of American teenagers coming of age in a networked world highly conscious of violence and the apocalyptic, Echo of the Boom is literary fiction about the Call of Duty and The Hunger Games generation. While the narrative spans the globe and jumps...

In 2008, Tosh Berman-author and publisher of TamTam Books-got on a plane with a single motive: "Sparks Spectacular." It had been announced that the band Sparks would perform all twenty-one of their albums in a succession of twenty-one nights in London...a monumental experience for any Sparks fanatic....