The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

Nightjar Press is an independent publisher specialising in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. It is brought to you by the people behind early 1990s British Fantasy Award-winning publisher Egerton Press, responsible for Darklands, Darklands 2 and Joel Lane’s short-story collection The Earth Wire. The publisher and editor is Nicholas Royle, the designer John Oakey. We are open to submissions from writers who have taken the trouble to research what kind of stuff we like.

The nightjar – aka corpse fowl or goatsucker – is a nocturnal bird with an uncanny, supernatural reputation that flies silently at dusk or dawn as it hunts for food. The nightjar is more often heard than seen, its song a series of ghostly clicks known as a churring. In her poem ‘Goatsucker’, Sylvia Plath wrote that the ‘Devil-bird’ flies ‘on wings of witch cloth’.

https://nightjarpress.weebly.com/

Nicholas Royle is the editor of Salt’s annual Best British Short Stories as well as a fine short story writer in his own right - London Gothic out in the last year is very strong.

As for Nightjar I was lucky enough to be sent one of their recent chapbooks personally by the author. Two Degrees of Freedom by the brilliant Simon Okotie.

Review of that one here. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I saw posts from Nightjar on Instagram, looked them up and saw that they’ve published our own Paul Griffiths, author of Mr Beethoven, and Simon Okotie, author of the Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon? series popular with some here, as well as Wyl Menmuir and Alison Moore who are published by Salt, and others authors that might be familiar.

Three of those are also Salt authors where Royle acts as an editor. Our own Paul G is the exception.

I can’t find what pp is to the USD. I know 100 pence is a pound, like 100 pennies is a dollar, but what is pp? These chapbooks are 10pp to 100pp.

Ummmm......

It means number of pages!!!

In some languages, the convention of doubling the letters in the acronym is used to indicate plural words: for example, the Spanish EE.UU., for Estados Unidos ('United States'). This old convention is still followed for a limited number of English abbreviations, such as SS. for "Saints", pp. for the Latin plural of "pages", paginae, or MSS for "manuscripts"

(Wiki explains)

Ha! Okay, I deserve to be lightly mocked for that question. I’m used to pgs for pages. I didn’t look up pp, I looked up pp to USD, pp to pence.

So, the price is the price including shipping. They offer a 10 book subscription; I’m emailing them for information and will post it here for anyone else who likes these pamphlet/chapbooks.

One more press that makes me wish I lived in the UK for the free shipping.

I would probably use pp more when referring to pages in a book as a reference ie on p 13 or pp 18-27.

I don’t recall seeing pp instead of pgs, but it’s been decades since I’ve read academic material.

A 10 book US subscription is £65 or $92. Kind of steep for 10-19 page chapbooks, but I’m considering it. These should really appeal to you Paul, books can’t get much shorter than 9 pp. and if you wanted to keep them, all ten would fit in a shoebox.