11 Announcements on 11/11

1. $11.11
All of our published books are priced at $11.11 for TODAY ONLY. W/ free shipping in the U.S., these are our lowest prices of the year. This covers the cost of product & author royalties + shipping; we bank $0 today. Shop HERE

2. Little Hollywood Cover
We’d like to officially announce Jinnwoo’s cover for Little Hollywood — AND — in case you missed it, Gay Death Trance published the script “The Protector of Small Things” last weekend. Read it here. (Thank you GDT!)

3. Memorabilia
Memorabilia T-shirts have arrived for the December 7, 2019 release party in Elizabethtown, KY. More details here. If we have any left, we’ll sell them online. We’re selling a signed limited print run of Memorabilia (numbered to 100) for $25 (free U.S. shipping). Get your copy here.

4. A.S. Coomer Interview
Clifford Brooks interviewed author A.S. Coomer in this month’s issue of the Blue Mountain Review.

5. Dear Indie Bookstores
We will have a distributor in early 2020 for all books currently not available through traditional distribution channels. Thank you to the many bookstores we’re already working with on titles that are consignment only.

6. Sam Pink (whaaa?)
We’ll be re-issuing Sam Pink’s early books in one collection titled: “Early Stuff”. We’re aiming to release this book (with limited signed hardcover) this spring, around the time The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories comes out.

7. Grant Maierhofer Can’t Stop Writing
Grant Maierhofer’s 2020 summer release, Bleach Book, will consist of three volumes:
Volume I: Flamingos (Complete Expanded Edition)
Volume II: Postures (Complete Expanded Edition)
Volume III Bleach (Stories)

Here is the cover art by Sam Robertson

8. Maierhofer’s Closet
We have a celebrity clothing line on the 11:11 merch website: Maierhofer’s Closet. Simply put, these will be shirts Grant thinks people should have in their closet. (More will be added soon!)

9. People are still talking about Human Tetris
Human Tetris was recently reviewed in Diagram by Bryce Jones, and it’s a wonderful read.

10. 11:11 SPAM EMAIL
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11. Join Our Street Team
Punk might not be the best word to describe what we’re doing, because it’s what every small grassroots movement has done. We don’t like to see ourselves as a publisher, but rather, as an extension of the community who provides a platform for writers willing to take risks in their art. Our goals are simple: 1) We want to publish new types of stories because we believe the world needs more than the same-old Hero’s journey, 2) We want to engage with the growing community of authors, readers, and publishers (yes, publishers – we are a community, this is not a competition) who are pushing back against big publishing and easy-bake oven recipe books (aka brainrot), and 3) We don’t want to go bankrupt. We pay our authors fairly and continue to reinvest profits into future titles; no one at 11:11 has taken home a paycheck. If you like what we’re doing and want to help spread the message, email us at 1111 (at) 1111press.com. We don’t have a whole lot of resources right now, but if you help us, we’d love to thank you with books, shirts, stickers, and whatever else we can slap our logo on. We’d love your help spreading our mission (and books) to your local library, bookstore, book club, college campus, newspaper, zine, underground newspaper, tattoo shop, podcast, and wherever else you think we should be.

<3 Andrew & Megan (and Sam, Hanna, & James + Kelly & Erica)