A Black Friday through Cyber Week Sale in my Blood Pudding Press Shop!

My Blood Pudding Press shop has a special Black Friday through Cyber Week Sale going on, in which a lot of the items in the shop (Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, art, and more) are 20% off from NOW until December 1st.

Visit the shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

a new photo of a ten year old Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "GROWLING SOFTLY"

This past weekend, I mailed a Blood Pudding Press order that included a variety of different Blood Pudding Press chapbooks that had been created all the way from 2007 until 2017!

Before mailing the order, I decided to scan a front image of the oldest chapbook the order included, the 2007 multi-writer chapbook, "GROWLING SOFTLY". I hadn't sold one of these in a while, but it is indeed still available within the Blood Pudding Press shop and includes work by 28 different poets!

You can find out more details HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/61840747/growling-softly-by-multiple-poets?ref=shop_home_active_4

Bound Art Book & Zine Fair this Friday and Saturday (September 14 and 15)

This Friday and Saturday! I won't be there personally, but some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks will be there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/268243227241420/

A reader's remarks about Juliet Cook's "From One Ruined Human to Another"

"I am reading Juliet Cook's incredible chapbook "From One Ruined Human to Another" and I encourage you to get a copy and read it.

Juliet has a sincere and powerful voice. She pulls no punches and gives crystalline insights on not only her experiences but, I think, experiences of all daughters.

If we assume Juliet refers to herself as being a ruined person, I would argue that if she can create art as true as this, she is in no way ruined."

Mike Griffith's remarks on my new poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" (CWP Collective Press, 2018) 

You can acquire your own copy of "From One Ruined Human to Another" here -https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Another copy of "From One Ruined Human to Another" has found a new home!

John Burroughs' copy of my new poetry chapbook "From One Ruined Human to Another"!

Thank you to John for sharing this photo!

You can acquire your own copy of "From One Ruined Human..." from Cringe-Worthy Poet's Collective Press, HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

or directly from me, while supplies last (via paypal $8 to Julietcoo@gmail.com, with no "k" after the "coo")...

More Blood Pudding Press chapbooks heading out into the world...

Today I mailed hand-designed copies of the four most recent Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks to the Poets House Showcase (the 26th annual Showcase opens on Thursday, June 28, 2018 and the exhibit will be on view through August 18:) - and I also mailed review copies of the recent chapbooks to Galatea Resurrects (from which anyone who would like to receive a review copy of a specific Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook can request it from Galatea and then write a review for Galatea).

Tonight, I'll be hand designing a few more Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, in order to prepare the latest order for mailing and have a few more in stock.

Tonight might be a good time to acquire yourself a copy of a Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook!

The Blood Pudding Press shop is HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

folding or flailing

This is not meant as a negative commentary about small presses or editors or publishers. After all, I run my own tiny indie small press (and I'm not some sort of perfect professional expert and I'm not a fan of business socks) and I've always been personally drawn towards small indie presses.

This is just more like a personal mini-rant of small frustration.

In the last less than three years, I've had three different encounters where a poetry chapbook of mine was accepted, but then never ended up being published by the press that accepted it.

If this would have been a onetime thing, I don't think I'd have quite as big of a mental glitch about the matter, but three times in less than three years? 

One was solicited, I pulled it out of the other presses it was submitted to, the tentative publication date was put off several times, and then communication from the press just stopped, until I finally just pulled my chapbook out and started submitting it elsewhere.

The other one was accepted by a small press that ended up shutting down close to a year ago - but shortly after that, another small press said they'd love to publish it - but yesterday, I was informed that other small press has decided to shut down too.

So my first poetry submission of February 2018 was submitting a poetry chapbook that's been accepted twice, but then let go of twice, to ANOTHER small press.

I'm not mad; I'm just rather frustrated by this three time sequence of exciting acceptances disappearing into nothing.

Interestingly enough, one of the chapbooks is entitled "circles into nothing". Maybe I should re-name it. Maybe its title is making this happen.

I know a lot of writers have undergone this kind of thing in recent years. Getting extremely excited about having a chapbook or even a full-length book accepted for publication - and then eagerly awaiting that publication - and then having the press suddenly shut down and feeling like you have to start over with your book again (and sometimes wondering if you even SHOULD start over again). The limbo land of an accepted chapbook being pending pending pending and then suddenly let go of and now it's starting to feel old and causing you to wonder if maybe you ought to give up on it.

Since this has now happened to me three times in less than three years, part of my brain feels like giving up on submitting these chapbooks. I'm not saying I'm going to do that, but it has crossed my mind. Also, it's crossed my mind that maybe I should just publish one of my own chapbooks myself, so it can be published before it feels even older, and so that I can move on, without giving up.

I know some people look down on self-publishing and/or don't take it as seriously as being published by another press, but I don't want these two chapbooks of mine to remain in limbo land for another year. Maybe I should compile my three unpublished chapbooks into a full-length manuscript and start submitting that instead. Or maybe I should swallow them all up and then spit them out into something new, like some vomiting broken bird shaped piece of art.

I can handle rejection, but this feels different than rejection.  This is getting all excited about an acceptance, extracting your accepted work from other sources, having your accepted work on hold for half a year or more, and then having it suddenly released into the wilderness again and having to start over with it again and wondering if its wings are too misshapen to continue the journey and wondering what the journey even is.

Maybe I'm being melodramatic here, but hey, I'm a poet.

(My next mini-rant might be about how porn appeals to me less and less now that most porn stars are close to half my age. Or it might not. Time will tell I guess.)

TWO 2017 Chaps for a lower price - Cutting Eyes by Den Bleyker, Thirsty Bones by Lilius, Fuck Cancer Poems by Grover, Paloma by Hudgens

Set of TWO! – Get two 2017 Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbooks for a substantially reduced price!

Choose TWO among the following four:

-Cutting Eyes From Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker

-Thirsty Bones by Sarah Lilius

-Fuck Cancer Poems by Michael Grover

-Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens

Each of these four poetry chapbooks costs $7.00 individually; with this listing, you will pay $10.00 for two of them, saving $4.00.https://www.etsy.com/listing/569977587/two-2017-chaps-for-a-lower-price-cutting?ref=shop_home_active_7
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Find out more about each of these chapbooks by perusing their individual item listings.

Cutting Eyes From Ghosts - https://www.etsy.com/listing/512469489/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Thirsty Bones - https://www.etsy.com/listing/522735584/new-thirsty-bones-by-sarah-lilius-2017?ref=related-3

Fuck Cancer Poems - https://www.etsy.com/listing/560564955/new-fuck-cancer-poems-by-michael-grover?ref=listing-shop-header-1

Paloma - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1

They are indeed available separately, but buy two together and acquire double the powerful poetry for a special rate.

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Please name the two chapbooks you would like within the Notes section of your purchase.

If you have color preferences, as described in the individual listings, feel free to leave a note about the colors you would like too.

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Feel free to let me know if you have any questions/concerns. 

Shipping is usually handled within 1-3 business days after your purchase.

Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens is coming very soon...

"We were sweet bitches / Feminist cunts / before feminism was /

Internet meme and pussy hat protests"

from the poem "1996" inside the chapbook "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, available for pre-order from Blood Pudding Press and coming very soon...
https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3

A more close up photo of the Blood Pudding Press table at the Underground Lit Fest!

A more close up shot of the Blood Pudding Press table at this past weekend's wonderful Underground Lit Fest in Michigan City, Indiana!

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(thank you very much to Darryl Shupe for taking this photo :))

Less Than 24 Hours to Submit to Blood Pudding Press!

A little less than 24 hours left to submit samples from your poetry chapbook for Blood Pudding Press consideration.

This submission period ends right after midnight Wednesday March 15 (when Wednesday turns into Thursday).

See the details in this Blood Pudding Press blog post - http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2017/03/blood-pudding-press-is-now-accepting.html

ALSO, tonight I sent a small group email to everyone whose submission has been received so far - so if you didn't receive that email, that means I didn't receive your submission yet.

I will send another email a little after midnight tomorrow, to those who submit tomorrow.

Thank you for your interest in Blood Pudding Press. 

3 Days Left to Submit to My Blood Pudding Press!

3 days left (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday March 15th) to submit samples from your poetry chapbook for Blood Pudding Press consideration.

Read the details in this previous blog post -http://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com/2017/03/my-blood-pudding-press-is-now-accepting.html

A New Poetry Chapbook is coming soon from Blood Pudding Press - Cutting Eyes From Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker!

My Blood Pudding Press would like to excitedly announce that it will be ending its 2016 hiatus by publishing a new poetry chapbook in January 2017.

"Cutting Eyes From Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker.

More details will be shared near the beginning of January - and the chapbook is aiming to appear near the end of January.

The Blood Pudding is delighted that Ariana D. Den Bleyker's poetry will soon be joining our scarred icing bags.

April Poetry Events and Blood Pudding Press and chapbooks!

Printing and designing chapbooks in preparation for two upcoming poetry events! 

This coming Friday April 8, Juliet Cook will be the Visiting Artist at Bowling Green State University (reading poetry and answering questions) and will have some of her own chapbooks and some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks along for the ride.

AND she will soon be mailing a batch of Blood Pudding Press chapbooks to a new first time event in Virginia called PoetCon, happening Saturday April 23 from 1-10PM 

https://www.facebook.com/PoetCon-952868151417662/

So if you happen to be a poet in Virginia who will be attending PoetCon, Blood Pudding Press chapbooks will be there too.

And of course, anyone who will not be in Bowling Green or Virginia can get your chapbooks (and other artsy goodies) from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

A NEW Interview with Lauren Gordon about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" (at THE VOLTA BLOG)

"I love chapbooks. I love reading in small bites. I love the affordability and the art and love put into them. No one is starting a chapbook press because they want to make money. It’s purely for the love of the art...and I was lucky that it won the contest with Blood Pudding Press. The editor, Juliet Cook, makes really lovely handmade chapbooks and I’m so happy with the finished product. It seems like something that is true to the art. I also created the artwork for the cover. It’s a combination of images from a children’s nursery rhyme book from the nineteenth century. Hidden in the scroll-work are the names of my husband and daughter, and the blackbird is homage to Blood Pudding Press’s journal, Thirteen Myna Birds."

from part of a new interview of Lauren Gordon, about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" - conducted by Lizi Gilad at THE VOLTA BLOG

read more of the interview here - https://thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/interview-fiddle-is-flood-lauren-gordon/

buy the chapbook here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_active_20

Blood Pudding Press April Special Offer

Since April is poetry month, you may use Coupon Code APRILPOEMLOVE for 25% off any poetry chapbook purchases made from the Blood Pudding Press shop this entire month! - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Blood Pudding Press 2014 Poetry Chapbook Contest Results!

Four Semi-Finalists (in no particular order):

~wingless, scorched and beautiful/Allie Marini Batts

~Old Mother Witch Woman: Nursery Rhymes/Jessy Randall

~Interior Ransack/Martha Deborah Hall

~Love like Jack/Pattie Flint

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Three Finalists (in no particular order):

~There’s No Place Like Hell/Jay Sizemore

~The Last Place on Earth/Donavon Davidson

~Red Moon/Kelly Andrews

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The Three Winners (in the order I plan to publish them):

~House on Fire/Susan Yount

~Stick Up/Paul David Adkins

~They Talk About Death/Alessandra Bava

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Big congratulations to all of you!

My tentative time frames for publishing the three winning chapbooks are as follows:

Susan Yount’s House on Fire in early February

Paul David Adkin’s Stick Up in late March or April

Alessandra Bava’s They Talk About Death in June, July, or August

I will be in touch with each of you closer to that time to discuss more details – so that means I will be in touch with Susan Yount fairly soon.

Best, Juliet Cook, Blood Pudding Press

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To partake of previously published chapbooks by Blood Pudding Press, take a look at the Blood Pudding Press shop here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress 

Another Art and Poetry Combo Pack With Altered Art Halloween Baby Shoes

This listing offers a creepy artsy one-of-a-kind Halloween ornament AND a poetry chapbook.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/162321948/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?

Both are available separately within the Blood Pudding Press shop - but with this listing, you can get both combined for a slightly reduced price, rather than buying them each separately.
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The altered art Halloween ornament was created from a small vintage baby shoe I purchased and then painted with various colors of acrylic paint (especially blood red) and stabbed a tiny hole into and added a colorful and dark ribbon binding, so it can be hung as an ornament.
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With this purchase, you can choose ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:

RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole

(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?ref=shop_home_feat)

OR

Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom 

(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light?ref=shop_home_feat)

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Only one of this Halloween ornament exists, so this is a one-of-a-kind listing. Once it's gone, it's gone.

However, there is also one similar listing - featuring a one-of-a-kind mini painting and two other 2013 chapbooks to choose from here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?ref=listing-shop-header-0

TWO NEW Blood Pudding Press book reviews!

A new book review written by Lisa Cole about the 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Poking Through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror" by Lora Bloom!

Here’s a piece of the review - Lora Bloom’s new chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, Poking Through the Fabric of Light That Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror is not for the faint of heart, or the faint of stomach. This is a place where undigested noodles, burps, projectile nausea, and chunks of eyelids are deemed normal, and things most often deemed beautiful are viewed in a new, less favorable, often ghastly light. This collection is filled with things grotesque and horrific but still captivating. In the poem “Remember,” for example, the sun “heaved its dry spew” and “bloodied itself on the earth’s rocky crags’ and in “Pizza Maker,” moons are “battered” “bloody” and “slaughtered.” 

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/lora-blooms-poking-through-fabric-of.html#comment-form

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Lora Bloom is featuring a special art-drenched event in support of her "Poking Through the Fabric..."(July 7 in Philadelphia), during which she will have some of her chapbooks available for sale. Find out more here -https://www.facebook.com/events/521439394576304/

If you can't attend that event and would like to partake of her chapbook, it is also available in the Blood Pudding Press shop, here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light

Juliet Cook's chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (also mentioned in the review above) is available from Grey Book Press, here -http://greybookpress.com/index.php/site/titles/

AND the poet who wrote the review, Lisa Cole, also has a chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press, RENEGADE//HEART, available here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?

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Another new book review written by Lisa Cole about the newest 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary!

Here’s a piece of the review - a tribute to a sister, a trip backward in time to a childhood of pinky swears, playgrounds, and childhood games. The sisters partake in a lifelong dialog with nature, examining turtle bones, eggshells and pig meat, or watching as “the minnow’s dance cupped/its body silver shimmering/In the dusk of summer evening.

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/paula-carys-sister-blood-and-bone.html

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You can get yourself a copy of Paula Cary's "Sister, Blood and Bone" poetry chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?

OR you can get yourself TWO 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, at a lowered price (choose between "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary and/or "Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora Bloom and/or "RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa Cole) here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/151139145/set-of-two-your-choice-of-two-2013?

Blood Pudding Press is not currently accepting submissions, but the Myna Birds flock always is…

Hello there. As many poets who are also small press editors/publishers are aware of, it seems like as soon as your press publishes a new chapbook, you receive many more handfuls of people asking you if you’re accepting submissions, rather than handfuls of people buying your presses chapbook.

Even though that sometimes bums me out a bit, I’m not really complaining, because I’ve done it a few times too (although if I’m querying a press I’ve never actually purchased anything from, I do at least research the press, to find out if I think we might be a good fit stylistically – but sometimes the people who ask me if my press is accepting submissions, not only have not purchased anything from my press, but also seem to have no idea about my press’s style, even though I try my best to have that information available online, via various sources – the Blood Pudding Press blog, my personal blog, and the Blood Pudding Press shop, where even if you can’t afford to purchase something, you could at least take a peek at what I publish).

Here’s a short version for you about Blood Pudding Press and its style.

Blood Pudding Press is an itty bitty indie poetry press handled by one woman (poet/publisher/artsy dingbat Juliet Cook) and although the press is open to lots of different styles, its primary interests involve pussy-centric, oddly emotional, sweet/sour, dark/light hybrids. Contempo horror alterations, kink amalgamations, grotesque treats. Flirty, volatile, contradictory. Railroad track debris and purring pussies.

Blood Pudding Press does not usually accept submissions on an ongoing basis. Its most recent series of submissions were accepted through a contest from this past September/October – and then the two contest winners were announced in November – and then the first contest winner’s poetry chapbook was published/went live on New Year’s Eve – and the second contest winning chapbook is currently in progress and will likely be published next month, February 2013.

You can partake of and/or purchase that first recent contest winning chapbook – Renegade//Heart by Lisa M. Cole at the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop (as well as taking a peek and/or purchasing previous chapbooks and other stuff there too). Here’s the link - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Stay tuned for the second recent contest winning chapbook, coming soon - Poking Through The Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom

Blood Pudding Press is not anti-query, BUT due to the fact that I’m currently working on the chapbook noted above AND have already planned to look at/consider the work of several other poets in the next few months, I do not wish for any more queries until September 2013, at which point I might (or might not) launch another chapbook contest, depending on various things.

In any case, when I AM accepting submissions for Blood Pudding Press, I will post about that on the Blood Pudding Press blog and elsewhere.

Also, if you’re going to query it's okay if you have not purchased a Blood Pudding Press offering, but AT LEAST investigate Blood Pudding Press offerings and style a bit to attempt a vibe as to whether or not you think we might stylistically/artistically mesh. 

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Again, as many other poets and small press editors/publishers understand, it’s not easy managing to alternate your creative focus between other people’s creative work AND your own creative work – but I try my best to do what I can in terms of writing and submitting my own work – reading and occasionally publishing other’s work – plus poetry readings and art and more more more – and don’t even get me started on the promoting (I’m not sure how to decide if I’m under-promoting or over-promoting or where/how best to promote, but I try my best). 

We all have our own creative stylistics, right? I do what I can with mine.

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Since time wise and energy wise and mentality wise, I cannot afford to publish a lot of print chapbooks for Blood Pudding Press, I also have an online blog style lit mag called Thirteen Myna Birds that is updated almost every month – and is almost always accepting submissions. You can take a peek at that page (which was just updated a few days ago with new poems) AND it’s guidelines here -http://13myna.blogspot.com/