Lee D. Thompson's Blog

We're holding a little fundraiser for about 50% of our operating budget this year (office rent, website hosting, etc). The press is doing well, but we're a little swamped with freelance work (a lot, actually) and this will help with getting books out more quickly.

Galleon Fundraiser

Ciao, and thanks,

Lee

We'd love to add more members to our Galleon Books group page. Keep track of new publishing developments and recipes from your favourite authors, or pictures of their cats, dogs, or learn about their bad dietary habits and moments of existential despair.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

This is from 2023, but I had entirely forgotten about this interview with Tom Bowden of The Book Beat. Scroll down the page for the nice little review and shortish interview.

https://www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/...

Awards, awards... say what you will about them, but it does get the book out there a little better. So, I hereby announce that Apastoral: A Mistopia received the Mrs Dunsters (yes) Award for Fiction at the New Brunswick Book Awards, 'bleating out' (I mean probably just bullying itself forward very rudely) Varlerie Sherrard's charming young adult novel A Bend in the Breeze and Megan Rose Allen's fine collection The Summer the School Burned Down. There it is. Now go and buy it? Yes, do that.

My novel Apastoral: A Mistopia was published by semi-obscure, cult-riddled, somewhat bent and partially submerged underdog press Corona/Samizdat on July 15, 2022, and we wouldn't have it any other way. The novel is a dystopia of sorts, but so little time is spent on the world outside that that word - dystopia - didn't feel right. And plus, this is more Heart of a Dog (Bulgakov), or We (Zamyatin), or Riddley Walker (Hoban) or near sci-fi like McElroy's Plus, than, you know, Hunger Games (author deleted) or even 1984(well). So I called it a mistopia, a "wrong place".

It's the story, in short, of petty criminal whose punishment is to have his brain implanted into a sheep, to live out his sentence as a farm animal, amongst other such farm animals (Constock).

You can purchase it direct from the Slovenian-based publisher, right here.




Lee, 8/15/22

Recently received - inherited? rescued? - three boxes of my first book, S a novel in [xxx] dreams. The publisher of Broken Jaw Press, Joe Blades, passed away a couple of years ago, sadly. Send me a message if interested in a copy. $10 including shipping.

Also have a handful of copies of my chapbook 'mouth human must die' - it's a limited edition! 125 were printed. $20. Again, message me.

Just pulled my first edition FC2 Evan Dara The Lost Scrapbook off the shelves, nearly mint condition, and whimsically checked Abebooks wondering this worth anything? Oh, like, $2000 Canadian... Hugs book.

A partial manuscript (30,000 words) of my ongoing story collection (entitled "The Purpose of Evolution is not Immortality" - taken from a line in one of the stories) was awarded the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick's David Adams Richards Prize this past month.

Adjudicator/author Michelle Butler Hallett said this:

Sophisticated literary fiction: haunts, tickles, and disturbs — and subverts. I laughed several times in places I later felt I shouldn’t, and I often shuddered. I at once admired the writer’s technique, and experienced emotional connections with the characters; those two things don’t always happen. Because the writer seems to be not as concerned with plot as much as what the characters believe is happening, some stories risk sag in the middle. Overall, however, the work is a delight: rich and strange.

Great little publisher Frog Hollow Press (Victoria, BC) has released a limited edition of my short story "mouth human must die." Thrilled about this. It's beautiful little book, 46 pages long, collectable (125 copies were printed). It's available here:

http://froghollowpress.com/catalogue....

Once again some new fiction has appeared with Numero Cinq. A long story that's part of a collection in the works:

http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/01...