Rosarium Publishing

26/10/2024

Because, why not try something different? Today you can find me at the Lost Rhino Bar in Ashburn, VA.

23/10/2024

Hey, DMVers! If you're around, you should drop by and check out Damian Duffy and John Jennings. I hear these kids are pretty good at what they do.

23/10/2024

Every time I visit my mom and aunt I am reminded of my B***Y NOVEL days. 😆

20/10/2024

Yeah, I lost the World Fantasy Award, but it's good to hang with friends.

06/10/2024

It's been 3 weeks, but I am back at my favorite spot: the Flea Market at Eastern Market.

And the table cloth is relatively straight!!!

02/10/2024

To start a new season of Panel Borders, we have a special episode coinciding with Black History Month featuring the creators of comics inspired by Caribbean history and legends discussing their wor…

24/09/2024

One thing with hand selling at all these events (I've sold over 1,800 books so far this year) is the steady stream of shipments landing on our porch. The living room is about to be a mess.

11/09/2024

R.U.R. makes ICv2's Gift Week list!

Books for Fans Who Can't Get Enough

08/09/2024

A brotha just tried to challenge my Picksburgh bona fides. Boy, did that jagoff get an earful.

06/09/2024

Well, I'm sure many of you will be happy to know that our R.U.R. BackerKit campaign is finally over--and fully funded! Thanks, everyone, for your support and patience.

05/09/2024

For you last-minuteers, you have a few hours left to back our R.U.R. campaign. So, head on over!

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/rosarium-publishing/r-u-r-a-graphic-novel-adaptation-of-the-karel-capek-sci-fi-classic

04/09/2024

Good day, comrades!

Thanks to you we reached our funding goal. However, as you can imagine, having a 260-page hardcover, full-color graphic novel costs a weeeeee bit more than $5K. So, please, don't let the fact that we hit our goal stop you from backing R.U.R.

(Link in the Comments)

03/09/2024

Hey, Everybody--

There are only TWO DAYS LEFT in the R.U.R. campaign, and we are only $160 away from being fully funded.

If you were thinking about backing the campaign, there is no better time than the present. :)

(Link in the Comments)

02/09/2024

ONLY THREE DAYS TO GO!

What better time to back the robots than on Labor Day.

The Robot Revolution is your own.

Run on over to BackerKit.
(Link in the Comments)

31/08/2024

Me constantly looking at the numbers of the R.U.R. campaign, wondering when/if we are going to hit our goal. LOL!

(Link in Comments)

30/08/2024

Congratulations, Nisi Shawl, on your STARRED REVIEW in Publishers Weekly!!!

"This concise novel packs a powerful punch."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/979-8-9866146-6-3

(You can, of course, pick up your copy as part of the R.U.R. BackerKit campaign. We only have six days and $945 to go.)

Shawl (Everfair) wows in this alternate history of the Beat generation told through the diaries of an overlooked Black poet. As ...

29/08/2024

28/08/2024

Signed up for a new venue, The Mixed Market in Tysons Corner, VA, having no idea it was nearly 100• out here in these streets.

Speaking of sweating, we are now $1,100 shy of our goal with a little over a week to go!

Link in the comments.

28/08/2024

There are 8 days to go in our R.U.R. BackerKit campaign. It's a graphic novel adaptation of the Karel Čapek play that gave us the word "robot" and the first robot revolution. It's our first translated comics project. We'd really appreciate a signal boost, if you could. We're really close to hitting our goal.

(Link in the Comments)

27/08/2024

Hell, yeah! R.U.R. tops Paul Gravett's TOP 32 GRAPHIC NOVELS for November!

(In related news, we are $1,120 away from our $5K goal. Help make it happen, yall! Link in the Comments.)

http://paulgravett.com/articles/article/top_32_graphic_novels_comics_manga4?fbclid=IwY2xjawE6x1ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWNjxLsY1ZqZkCgl5-gU31P7GMObhTP5aorkYWqqLCRv5tbS5JLZUvHK8Q_aem_osf8vE0_Uus5bto7HHPRuA

27/08/2024

Hell yeah! R.U.R. tops Paul Gravett's list for TOP 32 GRAPHIC NOVELS for November!!!

(In related news, we are $1,120 away from our $5K goal. Help make it happen, yall!)

http://paulgravett.com/articles/article/top_32_graphic_novels_comics_manga4?fbclid=IwY2xjawE6wklleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHazGsiitmcHfHr7bAyYfM38XTJm7u5bluE_wmiKNbrtwLjZ0CLzw2Pf9dQ_aem_Z5KXeZuJgzsz_Sm1jQYlWQ

Explore the ever-changing worlds of Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga, with the author of 'Comics Unmasked'' and 'Comics Art,' Paul Gravett!

26/08/2024

Many of you may already be familiar with the graphic novel that Bizhan Khodabandeh and I did back in 2021, THE DAY THE KLAN CAME TO TOWN (Honorable Mention for Graphic Novel of the Year by Publishers Weekly). For those of you who are not, it's about a Klan riot that happened in my hometown, Carnegie, PA, when, in a show of white supremacist force, the Ku Klux Klan marched 30,000 people on the borough of 10,000, targeting the Irish, Southern and Eastern Europeans who lived there. They outnumbered the immigrants 10 to 1 in the streets, and the Klan lost. However, in a case of purposeful "amnesia," this historic riot became a town secret until Bizhan and I came out with the book.

Well, yesterday was the 101st anniversary of the riot. Last year, Carnegie actually hosted us to commemorate the 100th anniversary This year, we still be offering free, signed (by the author) copies to the next five backers of $30 or more to this campaign!!!

So, if you've been thinking about backing the campaign, this is the time!

(Link in the Comments)

24/08/2024

Trying a new market, Dupont Circle Pop-Up! 2021 P St. I am right at the door of the Residence Inn. So, drop on by!

Meanwhile, the R.U.R BackerKit Campaign question of the day is ...

Who will be our 100th backer?

23/08/2024

Greetings, Party People!

It's the dog days of the R.U.R. BackerKit campaign, where things have slowed down to a trickle and I constantly have to not ask myself, "Are we gonna make it?"

But there's nothing like a new book to get your mind off of things. And what a book it is! THE DAY AND NIGHT BOOKS OF MARDOU FOX! Nisi Shawl has really put their foot in this one. I can't speak highly enough about this novella.

“A novel full of art and magic; s*x, murder and love, The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox casts a spell on the reader. Nisi Shawl tells the moving tale of a writer’s life, rich with insight and meaning, pain and pleasure. A short book, but not a small book.”

—Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women

“Step back, Kerouac! I loved this fabulist reckoning with the legacy of the Beats from the perspective of an overlooked member of their circle: a singular black writer who is no one’s muse. Shawl’s generous gifts bring ‘Marlene Todd,’ a.k.a. ‘Mardou Fox,’ to complex vibrancy in a brilliant act of literary comeuppance.”

—Alaya Dawn Johnson, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Trouble the Saints

We're just shy of $3,500 on the campaign. Help us get there this weekend (Link in the Comments).