SMOL FAIR 2022

In the continued absence of opportunities to table and regularly scheduled book fairs, the nice and inclusive digital Smol Fair is a sweet thing to be joining. See this link for all the participating presses.

For the week of March 19th-26th, you may use the code SMOLFAIR22 for 15% all orders big and small.

Please note: this is currently a one-person operation run by a school teacher and I am going to be out of town for Spring break, so all orders placed during the fair will be processed the first week of April! Thanks in advance for your understanding and support!

Two Plum Press at BOOKS ARE MAGIC (Brooklyn, NY)

We are so pleased to share that Two Plum Press is featured as November’s “Indie Press Spotlight” at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, New York. This is our first official East Coast stockist, and we couldn’t be happier with such a fine display.

Many of our authors have done stints in or currently reside in New York: Sofia Alvarez, who initially suggested the shop for hosting; Emma Young– her book was once upon a time at McNally Jackson; Alex Baker has shared her book in a few places around the city such as Molasses Books; and Chelsea Harlan, author of our latest title ‘COUNTRY MUSIC,’ once called this great city her home.

If you live in the area or pass through this month, please pay a visit to their fine establishment and buy some books in person!

A special thanks to my college friend Crystal Barrick for the photos!

20s / 20s

Two Plum Press is very excited to announce “20s / 20s” a new series of books with the simultaneous release of 4 titles, just as we began the press with 4 titles in 2013.

The official blurb:

20s / 20s is a series of classic slim volume works, published by Two Plum Press in the 2020s. Works featured in the series were originally published in the 1920s and have newly entered the public domain. 20s / 20s is an opportunity for the press to share favorite works by favorite authors of the past, and to uncover lost classics along the way. Placing these works side by side with the press’s contemporary titles is an intentional way to glance back 100 years and to feel the enduring magic of the small book.

SMOL FAIR

Two Plum Press is proud to be participating in the SMOL digital book fair this March 3-7, 2021.

Visit the SMOL website for more details on events are hosting and a listing of all the other presses involved!

We will be offering a site-wide discount during the fair! Use the code SMOLFAIR2PLUMS for 20% off, these days only.

SELECTED SONGS

Two Plum Press has started a collaborative cassette tape series inspired by Selected works in literature, called SELECTED SONGS, with Antiquated Future Records (the tape label offshoot of Antiquated Future Distro, our favorite online stockist! This operation is run by Two Plum author Joshua James Amberson– a completely cohesive meeting of our two operations.

I created a uniform design, much in the spirit of Two Plum’s dust jackets, for each tape in the series– using the brilliant “Brad Pack” box from Stumptown Printers. Miraculously, we are also blessed to have the folks at Stumptown Printers, my personal print heroes, offset / letterpress printing and die cutting these boxes for us. There are also 32 page risograph-printed zine booklets included in each box.

The first three volumes are out now! Two are nearly sold out. More volumes planned for years into the future at the rate of approximately 4 per year. A subscription to the 2021 volumes is listed under “Buy Tapes & Records.” Purchase these through the Antiquated Future Records Bandcamp page, where you can also find “LIKE LIKE,” the 2017 album from my band, Advrb.

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the official blurb:

SELECTED SONGS SERIES

The Selected Songs series seeks to shine a light on under-appreciated and overlooked artists from the present and past. Each volume serves as a curated primer to an artist’s catalog, or a hand-picked selection of an artist’s lost or forgotten songs.

The series is released by Antiquated Future Records and designed by Two Plum Press. Printed in editions of 200 gold-ticket cassettes, each volume is packaged in letterpress and offset-print boxes by Stumptown Printers Worker Cooperative, accompanied by Whatnow Press risograph-printed booklets with personal essays by curators Andrew Barton and Joshua James Amberson to give context to the artist’s work.