New Door Books

12/28/2024

"I used to view the life of the mind as separate and superior to the life of the body. I could not have been more wrong. I understand now that physical strength isn’t a luxury."
- From Beth Kephart's interview with Karen Rile of Cleaver Magazine

Interview by Beth Kephart A CONVERSATION WITH CLEAVER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KAREN RILE Beth: I hear myself through the years asking you questions. About violins and Mozart’s sister. About trapeze art, birds, organs. Rhubarb. The New Yorker. “Hansel & Gretel” (the play version, in which your children...

12/23/2024

Every litmag we follow is asking for money this season!
All are worthy indeed.
But if you can spare a few $$ for OUR fundraiser, remember this: Our budget is small, so we'll love you even more!
https://newdoorbooks.allyrafundraising.com/campaigns/13129-the-blue-door

12/23/2024

In the Washington Independent Review of Books Ellen Prentiss Campbell describes "the strange juxtaposition of impressions: the blasted A-Bomb Dome, the floating Torii gate" from a visit to Hiroshima.
A sober memorial for the holiday season.
https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/portal-to-the-past

The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

12/20/2024

Book reviewers & booksellers: If your holidays include not just HO-HO but HO-HUM moments, there are still a few printed ARCs left of THE BLUE DOOR, 's forthcoming novel that mixes folktales with the story of a mother trying to cope with her daughter's terrible crime. Contact us at https://www.newdoorbooks.net/contact for a copy.

12/18/2024

Color us skeptical of holiday greetings from businesses. And of holiday templates with snowflakes and such.
Nevertheless . . . (Pause.)
We do appreciate all our friends and readers. And, as a reminder, we have an ongoing fundraiser at https://newdoorbooks.allyrafundraising.com/campaigns/13129-the-blue-door
We'll be floating blissfully like a snowflake if you can chip in, just a bit, to help us continue to publish great literature.

12/03/2024

Double your money!
The money you give to us, that is.
In our campaign to support books that NEED to be published, an anonymous donor will double any contribution.
It’ll make you feel as good as Jan did when talking about her new novel.
https://newdoorbooks.allyrafundraising.com/campaigns/13129-the-blue-door

12/03/2024

It’s again.
This year, for the first time, we’re a pitch-er as well as a pitch-ee. Feels kind of awkward, but here goes.
We’ve set up a fundraiser to support first-rate literature!
So, can you dig some $$ out of your pocket? 5 bucks, 10?

For 35+ bucks, there are some great rewards. Check 'em out, please, and thank you!

https://newdoorbooks.allyrafundraising.com/campaigns/13129-the-blue-door

11/30/2024

For , allow us to suggest a two-fer: Buy a book from an press at an bookstore, supporting two worthy small businesses at once! If the store doesn’t have the title you want in stock, they’ll order it for you.
https://www.newdoorbooks.net/catalogue

11/25/2024

We're closing in on $500 raised in only a couple of days!

Find out how you can join the community & enter the magic of the Blue Door.

https://newdoorbooks.allyrafundraising.com/campaigns/13129-the-blue-door
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11/18/2024

First time trying this: a fundraiser!
Lots of cool incentives for contributing - and a video from the author at the top of the page.
Literary friends, will you chip in?
(Fans of Jane Austen, imagine Mr. Darcy bowing to you. But less stiffly.)

https://newdoorbooks.allyrafundraising.com/campaigns/13129-the-blue-door

We are raising funds to support publication of THE BLUE DOOR, an extraordinary new novel by award-winning author Janice Deal.

11/11/2024

For November's "Walking America," online 11/13, Ann de Forest interviews writers Cole Swensen and Lisa Robertson.

To honor the land's former inhabitants, an alternative name this time is "Walking Turtle Island."

Register here for a great conversation:
https://walklistencreate.org/walkingevent/walking-america-writers-in-conversation-with-ann-de-forest-cole-swenson-and-lisa-robertson/

Walking America Turtle Island* welcomes two poets, Cole Swensen and Lisa Robertson, who embrace walking as fundamental to their creative practices, and often as subject matter too. Cole Swensen’s On Walking On (Nightboat Books, 2017) interweaves short poetic chronicles of particular walks with poe...

10/25/2024

In this month's newsletter we formally announce THE BLUE DOOR, Janice Deal's new novel, forthcoming in April. It's available for preorder now.

The novel asks: How much responsibility and guilt can a mother bear for a child who has done wrong?

Or, to put it simply: How do you relate to your kid who's been convicted of murder?

The novel uses both realistic and mythical elements to consider questions of identity, faith, death, and God.

Read the full newsletter here:
https://conta.cc/3Ao2Xpc

10/16/2024

At last, we're able to post on FB again, via a roundabout route. (No thanks at all to FB tech assistance, which seems to be nonexistent.)

Anyway, our first post in this new era is simply this graphic that we've already put on Instagram and Threads: the latest honor for STRANGE ATTRACTORS, the book of linked stories we published last fall.

You can find info about it here:
https://www.newdoorbooks.net/strange-attractors

Our next book is the novel THE BLUE DOOR, by the same author, the amazing Janice Deal. If FB doesn't shut us out again, you'll see more about it here.

02/08/2024

TONIGHT, Thursday, Feb. 8, join us in-person at Kelly Writers House (on the UPenn Campus) or via livestream for a discussion and demonstration of Story Seek. The event will include writers Yolanda Wisher, LM Feldman, and Beth Kephart; Cleaver Magazine founders Karen Rile and Lauren Rile Smith, Cleaver design / web consultant Jackson Tatge, Drexel Entrepreneur Game Studio director Dr. Frank Lee, and Gossamer Games Director Tom Sharpe.

Thursday, February 8, 2024
6:00 PM
Kelly Writers House
UPenn Campus
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA

To attend in person, please register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqhXd7d92zy2ipIlftwk7QM4DqvUQACNq5Q0ffxqEcvwHI4g/viewform

To livestream the event, visit the KWH YouTube Channel here: https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/

02/08/2024

You cannot possibly pass on enjoying some good food?!?! There are some amazing restaurants listed to bid on for our now EXTENDED Philadelphia Stories Winter Auction!! Enjoy places like Royal Boucherie in Old City, Royal Tavern, Triangle Tavern, Cantina Dos Segundos , Cantina Los Caballitos , and Khyber Pass Pub! All with excellent ambiance, inviting service, and most importantly, delicious food!

You now have until February 16th to bid!! https://buff.ly/3Stxx5Z

02/08/2024

02/05/2024

For our teen creative friends in MontCo!

01/31/2024

The Philadelphia Stories Winter Auction is LIVE! Don't miss out on your chance to bid on an array of exciting classes, events, and experiences! Your bids also support the mission of Philadelphia Stories to cultivate a community of writers, artists, and readers in the Greater Philadelphia Area through publications, professional development, and promotion of area writers.

The auction is open through February 9th - so don't wait! Follow the link below to check it out: https://buff.ly/4b46WoI