http://inkandpapergroup.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:50:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Join Ink & Paper Group in celebrating our region's writers, readers, and small presses at the Multnomah County Library Writers Resource Fair this Sunday, February 28, from noon to 3:00 pm at Central Library in downtown Portland. We look forward to seeing you there! Want to share the love? Here's ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/writers-resource-fair/ by guest writer Eric Blockland The birth of m. m. garcia’s Hate Mail (Dame Rocket Press, 2007) goes something like this: first, garcia impressed her instructors at a high school math and science program—or “nerd camp,” as she calls it. Then she was selected to attend NASA’s Space Camp, where she ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/back-with-hells-bells-on-catching-up-with-author-m-m-garcia/ Pictured: The mothers of America's Sufferage Movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Photo by Napoleon Sarony, National Woman's Party Records, Library of Congress (See also the Ken Burns /PBS film Not for Ourselves Alone to learn more about these amazing women...) Did you know that all but one of Ink ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/big-sale-in-march-to-celebrate-womens-history-month/ Did you know that the Pacific Northwest is home to a thriving small press community? Join Ink & Paper Group and its imprints—Bowler Hat Comics, Dame Rocket Press, and Three Muses Press—in celebrating the compelling, diverse, and newsworthy literary voices being brought to you by small presses in our neck ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/small-press-month-march-2010/ Kid Beowulf and the Song of Roland made its way to the printer this week! Here's some early buzz: With Kid Beowulf, cartoonist Alexis E. Fajardo combines a wonderful sense of whimsy and high adventure into a totally captivating and enjoyable series. Great fun for young and old readers! ~ Jeff Lemire, ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/kid-beowulf-and-the-song-of-roland-goes-to-print/ OK, OK. So, we'd hoped to have more done with the Dame Rocket website this month, but we've got our plans in place—we swear! It's just these blasted, everyday challenges that come from trying to run a small independent press! It's pure insanity, no matter HOW passionate and dedicated you ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/dame-rocket-press-still-in-orbit/ At long last, Morgan's Pasture by Wallace J. Swenson is back on Three Muses' production schedule. We look forward to seeing this wonderful YA coming-of-age story in print this May. Stay tuned for more details... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/morgans-pasture-to-release-in-may-2010/ "It is, then, the strife of all honorable men of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of races, the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/02/stet-says-16/ We don't see HOW you could have gotten enough of I&PG's authors yet, so here are a few opportunities to see two of them read in the next few weeks: *Thursday, January 28, 2010* Viva Las Vegas will be reading from her Dame Rocket Press title Magic Gardens for the Gray Skies ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/01/upcoming-ipg-author-events/ Bowler Hat Comics announces Schoolhouse Supplies as the recipient of donations from Bowler Hat's December Charity Challenge. With several copies of Kid Beowulf and the Blood-Bound Oath and Visibility going to Schoolhouse Supplies, Bowler Hat Comics calls this experimental challenge a success and looks forward to doing it again next ... http://inkandpapergroup.com/2010/01/december-charity-challenge-recipient-announced/