The Bumblepuppy Press

06/22/2024

Après ça, la déluge – so, Ottawa folks come on out before Sunday’s storm and buy a book at the spring 24 Ottawa Small Press Book Fair to keep you cozy while it pours!

The Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Road Ottawa, K0A 3M0!

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(If you’re not in town, visit https://www.bppress.ca/shop/ )

06/20/2024

Cascade writer Rachel A. Rosen and David L. Clink dropped the Episode 2 of the Wizards and Spaceships podcast this past Saturday. You can listen to "You Never Get a Second Chance to Make First Contact" at https://wizardsandspaceships.ca/2024/06/15/you-never-get-a-first-chance-to-make-first-contact/.

In this episode, we talk about meeting sentient extraterrestrials: The challenges of communication, what first contact stories say about our own Earthbound society, and why the aliens won't return our texts.

06/19/2024

Falling in Love with Oliver and Mortensen: A Meter Cute with Stevenson and Auclair

06/19/2024

Ottawa theatre lovers unite! This looks like a good play at the Fringe!

Our cast and crew have the day off today!

We are hoping to have full houses for our final three shows, and we’d love your help getting the word out there that BUYSEXUAL is worth seeing! We invite you to share a post or story on FB or IG about what you thought of the show - Tell us what you liked, what you loved, what made you laugh, and/or what made you continue the conversations after you left the theatre. Any and all thoughts will be appreciated! 🍆🙏🏼

(You can email us in secret, asking to remain anonymous, or post publicly on your socials accounts, tagging us and Ottawa Fringe if you can.)

06/19/2024

And ... another win for AI!

06/19/2024

Of Pride and Poetry

Another week, another post! (Please click the link below for all the details.)

• Our most recent release, Skipping Stones, is now available through most of your favourite online vendors in both paper and electronic editions, as well as directly from our shop;
• The Bumble Puppy Press celebrates Pride Month with a 25% discount on Cascade and Reprise. (I also talk about my own relationship with Pride);
• For Ottawa folks, we have a table at the upcoming Ottawa Small Press Book Fair on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at the Tom Brown Arena between noon and 5:00 PM;
• And a reminder about the Skipping Stones virtual book launch on June 26!

(Now click this link! https://bppress.ca/from-the-bumblepuppys-nest-002/)

06/11/2024

More BumblePuppy news: Booklaunches and podcasts, oh my!

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06/10/2024

Online Launch: Skipping Stones

As early sales trickle in, and as I work to set up in-person events, Skipping Stones authors Marie-Andrée Auclair and Adrienne Stevenson, Writer will be hosting a virtual launch of this wonderful collaboration in verse on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, between 7:00 and 8:00 PM (eastern time).

The event will feature a poetry reading followed by an interview with the authors. The event is free, but registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/chapbook-launch-skipping-stones-tickets-914917481817/.

If you can't make it, the book itself is available directly from the publisher via https://bppress.ca/shop, or from your favourite online vendor via https://books2read.com/skipping-stones.

Skipping Stones is a poetry collaboration between two Ottawa poets, Adrienne Stevenson and Marie-Andree Auclair.

05/28/2024

May 28, 2024 - It seems like it took forever, but in truth it's only been three quarters of a year or so.

Our first book (or chapbook, if you prefer) of poetry is now officially out and about in the world.

Skipping Stones, by Adrienne Stevenson, Writer and Marie-Andrée Auclair, is a singular collaboration, a cycle of poems that finds the magic at the heart of the everyday.

Order from:

• The publisher via www.bppress.ca/shop
• Amazon via https://www.amazon.ca/Skipping-Stones-Adrienne-Stevenson/dp/1738759849
• Your favourite online vendor via: https://books2read.com/skipping-stones

05/21/2024

On beyond Amazon ... the ebook is now available for pre-order outside of the Big A. Find it at your favourite digital store! https://books2read.com/skipping-stones

05/19/2024

I am thrilled to announce that Skipping Stones, our first book of poetry is now available for pre-order!

https://bppress.ca/pre-order-skipping-stones/

05/12/2024

Ottawa folks!

Final reminder that I will be hosting a table at the inside the gorgeous big room in the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue.

Come out, say hi ... and buy a book (or three - and not to mention all the other vendors)!

Today, Sunday May 12, from 10:30AM to 3:00PM.

05/09/2024

If it's mother's day, it must be a Sunday!

The BumblePuppy Press is delighted to be taking part in Square Lemon Ottawa's Mother's Day Craft Market this coming Sunday, May 12, at the Glebe Community Centre from 10:30 to 3:00 PM (175 Third Avenue in Ottawa).

If any of the mums in your life are readers, we'll be sure to have something for them!

(And of course, all our books are available direct from www.bppress.ca/shop, as well as the usual online vendors.)

04/18/2024

“A flick of the wrist
and the world
in shards of coloured glass, shifts.”

April 18, 2024 - One thing I would never have predicted when I started The BumblePuppy Press was that we would publish poetry. But here I am, saying, "We are about to publish a (wonderful) book of poetry!"

Skipping Stones, a remarkable collaboration by Ottawa Poets Adrienne Stevenson and Marie-Andrée Auclair, is a cycle of poems that speaks to the living truths within us all. With humour and insight, Auclair and Stevenson celebrate the magic and wisdom that lie behind the ever-shifting relationships in our restless world.

Coming in May 2024!

(Photo shows Marie-Andrée and Adrienne holding proof copies this past Tuesday morning.)

04/15/2024

Podcast! Cascade author Rachel A. Rosen is keeping busy. Today marks the public debut of Wizards & Spaceships, hosted by Rachel and poet David L. Clink, in which they cast spells and cast off on brave new voyages while pondering life, the universe, and everything all at once. And the deep questions – Are we alone? Does magic exist? Tights – yes or no? And why are there no ugly people in space?

In the first episode David and Rachel introduce themselves, discuss their favourite media, and explain why genre snobs need to get a lot less snobby. Do infodumps have a place in literature? Do all fantasy novels need to be a series? (Photo shows David L. Clink on the left, Rachel A. Rosen on the right.)

https://wizardsandspaceships.ca/2024/04/15/episode-0-where-are-we-and-why-are-we-in-this-handbasket/

03/11/2024

A gentle reminder that Carl Dow will be joining me this Saturday, March 16, 2024, at Square Lemon Ottawa's Let's Think Spring Craft Market on the 2nd floor at the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue, between 10:30 and 3:00 PM.

And if you can't make it, all of our books are available at www.bppress.ca/shop, or at most online vendors.

(Pictured is a toddler reading Carl Dow's novel, Black Grass; Carl Dow; a poster for the Let's Think Spring Craft Market; and a price sheet featuring our books, including the covers of Black Grass by Carl Dow, Cascade by Rachel A. Rosen, Reprise by Zilla Novikov, So Human As I Am by Rachel A. Rosen, and The Old Man's Last Sauna by Carl Dow.)

03/09/2024

Ottawa folks! The BumblePuppy Press) will be hosting a table at the Let's Think Spring Craft Market on the second (accessible) floor at the Glebe Community Centre, on Saturday, March 16, 2024, between 10:30 and 3:00 PM, 175 Third Avenue.

Come out and say hello, or just point at a book to indicate you want to buy it! Mark those calendars and come on out great books as well as a wide range of local arts and crafts!

Of course, if you can't make it, all of our books are for sale at www.bppress.ca/shop, or at most online vendors.

(Pictured at a poster for the Let's Think Spring Craft Market, a price sheet featuring our books, and the covers of Black Grass by Carl Dow, Cascade by Rachel A. Rosen, Reprise by Zilla Novikov, So Human As I Am by Rachel A. Rosen, and The Old Man's Last Sauna by Carl Dow.)

02/20/2024

I am very happy to report that *Cascade* author Rachel A. Rosen's excellent short story, "solidAIrity," is up on the Nebula reading list. There's a direct link to a PDF version on her website, as well as to the anthology in which it was originally published.

12/20/2023

Still time to be a Santa, not a Grinch!

Whether the bookworm in your life adores short fiction, yearns for a slightly-kinky time-travel romance (with a side-order of family-time Dungeons and Dragons), seeks historical adventure on the Canadian prairies, or shivers in anticipation of a climate-change thriller (with magic!), The BumblePuppy Press has you covered!

All our books are now 20% off exclusively at www.bppress.ca/shop, and our ebooks are always DRM-free, perfect for that electronic stocking-stuffer!

And if you're in central Ottawa, we'll deliver any time between now and Christmas Eve for only $5.00, no matter how many books you order! (Please email orders (at) bppress.ca before placing your order to make arrangements.)

12/01/2023

Coming In 2024:

Well, yesterday was fun. I had the great pleasure of sitting down to sign a contract old-school - pen on paper! - with Adrienne Stevenson and Marie-Andrée Auclair, two Ottawa-based writers whose collaborative book of poems (or "chapbook", if you prefer), Skipping Stones, will be published by The BumblePuppy Press in the spring of 2024.

I never thought we would branch out into poetry, but Skipping Stones is a book - chapbook! - whose sometimes meditative, sometimes funny, sometimes moving, poems demanded that we grow a new artistic limb.

Speaking of branching out, stay tuned for announcements about a memoir written by Jules Paivio, who was the last living member of the famed Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, and a children's book, The Inclusive Winnie-the-Pooh.

And meanwhile, all of our books currently in print are available on our website at 20% off! www.bppress.ca

11/23/2023

Black Friday? 'Tis the season!

For the book-lover in your life (or even for yourself), The BumblePuppy Press makes your holiday shopping a breeze!

• Historical action and romance? Try Black Grass, by Carl Dow!

• Fantasy with climate catastrophe? Rachel A. Rosen's Cascade!

• Time travel with Dungeons and Dragons and a kinky twist? Reprise, by Zilla Novikov!

• Prefer short fiction? Carl Dow's The Old Man's Last Sauna!

All of our books are now on sale for 20% off the list price, one at www.bppress.ca/shop.

11/17/2023

Tomorrow promises to be a busy day!

Not only will we I be taking part in this fall's Ottawa Small Press Book Fair (see my previous post), but Carl Dow and Randy Ray will be taking care of business in the Glebe at this fall's "Tis' the Season to Shop Local" arts and crafts (and books!) fair in the Glebe Community Centre (175 Third Avenue) between 10:30 and 3:00.

If you can't make it to the Tom Brown Arena to see me, say hi to Carl and Randy at the beautiful Glebe Community Centre!

11/17/2023

It's coming on "that" time of the year, and we are delighted to be taking part in this fall's edition of the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair on Saturday, November 18, from noon until 5:00 PM at the Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road.

06/26/2023

OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. Reprise – by Zilla Novikov Publisher: The BumblePuppy Press, Ottawa,

06/26/2023

From the Department of: If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

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A father’s love, a publisher’s distaster Monday, June 26, 2023 — Friday saw two things of note happen to your obedient servant. First, I took my nearly four-year old daughter […]

06/20/2023

Zilla Novikov's Reprise now available!

"Full of tension and twisting storylines, Reprise is ... a breakneck journey, a loveletter to being a nerd, and a good time." - Independent Book Review

The imagination of Douglas Adams
The wit of Jane Austen
The passion of Anaïs Nin …

In a caustically funny post-modern Gothic, Dr. François Gagnon offers Eddy Courant a postdoc position studying time loops at his Ottawa laboratories.

The chance to revive her stalling research career pulls Eddy from a deep depression. She loses herself to the thrill of science, and to the simpler pleasures in life – like flirting with her boss and seducing his wife. Until the men funding the research demand more ground-breaking data to justify keeping her on board.

Available from the usual online vendors, or direct from the publisher: https://bppress.ca/reprise/

Zilla Novikov is the author of the novella, Query, and co-author, with Rachel A. Rosen, of The Sad Bastard Cookbook. The BumblePuppy Press is an Ottawa-based publisher.

Post-scriptum: If you are a book-blogger or reviewer, please feel free to contact me for an ARC.

The imagination of Douglas Adams,The wit of Jane Austen,The passion of Anaïs Nin … Reprise In a caustically funny post-modern Gothic, Dr. François Gagnon offers Eddy Courant a postdoc position […]

06/17/2023

Not really relevant to selling books (such as I am), but I do wonder: why *do* some people wear masks under their chins instead of over their mouths and noses?

06/10/2023

Selling existing books is one thing, selling a is just a little extra special.

There's still time to come out to Lansdowne Park in for !

06/10/2023

The perils of outdoir book - vending:

Not much smog, sun, and friendly people at on the Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa's Lansdowne Park.

Only downside so far was the avian critic who be-sh*tted a copy of Rachel Rosen's Cascade.

There's still time for you (if you're in Ottawa) to lend your support to the human race by coming down and buying a book!