small press, big plans
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2009
Since I wasn’t able to find an adequate step-by-step for this process online, I thought I would describe our steps for covering the boards we’re using for our next project. Also, this will satisfy my need to document even the most banal and uninteresting aspects of our small press.
Tools required:
-X-acto or similar knife
-PVA glue, plus [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2009
We took the next step forward with the Larding project tonight, choosing the bookcloth we will use for the edition. The deluxe edition (20 copies) will have charcoal gray paper and very pale green (almost gray) textured cloth-covered boards. The presentation copies (3 copies) will have grass-green paper and natural cloth-covered boards. (The green cloth [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2009
It should come as little surprise to the legions of followers of my book collecting blog that I am a gigantic fan of Dave Eggers and McSweeney’s Quarterly. Well, thankfully to those of us who live in the Bay Area, Eggers appears at bookstores fairly frequently, and he always graciously signs the absurd stacks of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2009
So, with MJP’s book completed (and almost SOLD OUT in the limited edition), don’t think we’re slowing down here at Chance Press HQ (aka, our run-down apartment in Oakland where we were without power last night because our fuse box can’t tolerate a microwave and toaster running at the same time). The truth is that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2009
And so we reach a new milestone in our career as small pressioniers – A Common Thread, our first book, is now our first project to sell out all of its editions. In total, I think we made about 80 of these – there was the 50 copy first edition that sold out in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2009
Frequent visitors to Chancepress.com might notice that they are seeing a blog on the opening page, rather than the now-stale “About Chance Press” page. (These visitors are very astute, you know.) It’s true – in an effort to spice up our web presence a little bit, we are going to start blogging about all manner [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2009
Now that the News page has disappeared, I thought I would save the first 18 months of gripping news updates in one handy post.
Relive the good old days when we had no idea what we were doing [we still don't] and think about how far we’ve come [not very]…
October 23, 2009: The Hines book [...]