Two Plum Press was pleased to make our 3rd appearance at the APRIL Festival in Seattle. This year, for the first time ever, the festival was actually in April. Aaaaaand it was also the last one ever, so that was kind of a drag. But we had a nice time in a weird back office room with our pals at Octopus Books and Quotidian Press. Some other vendor guy was pouring shots of whiskey. We made a janky "Free Booze!" sign to tempt festival goers into our room. We think it worked about half of the time.
TWO PLUM PRESS AND ANTIQUATED FUTURE CELEBRATE 20 RELEASES EACH, WITH A READING AND MUSIC SHOW AT MOTHER FOUCUALT'S
On the evening of March 11th, 2017, the Two Plum Press reading series RETURNED! With a bang, we think, to celebrate having reached 20 releases in 3 years! We joined forces with our dear pal Joshua James Amberson of Antiquated Future- whose tape label ALSO just arrived at 20 releases!
Each reader and music performer read one Preschool Play from The Collected Plays: 2015-2016 by Portland Preschoolers, as a way to tie the whole evening together, and provide some wacky comic interludes. Chris Maday, whose book Pop was our sleeper hit of 2016, opened the show. This was followed by Izzy Ferguson, whose first book, The First Order Of Business, was one of our early releases and who's new book is in the works. Izzy was followed by Sara Renberg, a musician on Antiquated Future who recently made an e.p. about female publishers. Sara was followed by Michelle Overby, whose first book I Stayed Up Listening we published in 2014, and who's new book I Was The Nostalgia is our most recent release. Michelle was followed by Jordan O'Jordan, a narrative songwriter and performer of astounding brilliance, who's most recent record Through Tough Thoughts came out on Antiquated Future. He shared songs on harmonium and banjo and got us all thinking of the magic all around us.
These amazing photographs of the event were taken by our dear friend Holly Meyers. A special thanks to the always-perfect-somehow Mother Foucault's Bookshop for hosting.
Come visit us at this delightful hometown annual holiday small press fair! Wednesday, December 21st from noon to 7 p.m.!
Packing books for author Emma Young, with packing paper pleasingly matched to her covers.
We've reached 20 titles!
The longtime hope has been to produce a letterpress catalog of Two Plum Press titles to hand out at events and include with orders. This will either happen very soon, to commemorate 20 titles, or later this year, when we're inching towards 25.
2016's NEW TITLES:
Awake, Wild, Secret, Free by Andrew Barton (016) / The Collected Plays 2010-2015 by Portland Preschoolers (017) / Pop by Chris Maday (018) / Book To Share by Emma Young (019) / I Was The Nostalgia by Michelle Overby (020)
View of Andrew's train seat, rocketing north towards Seattle, where he folded covers for Michelle Overby's exceptional new book, I WAS THE NOSTALGIA while heading to...
We were pleased to do another year at the Short Run Comics and Arts Festival in Seattle this November.
This event marked the release of two new books, completing a mini milestone for Two Plum Press. We have now released 20 books since starting halfway through 2013!
They are titles we're thrilled to be releasing: Book To Share by Emma Young (019) and I Was The Nostalgia by Michelle Overby (020).
The usual shot of the table!
A customer modeling their accidental Two Plum Press tattoo.
Andrew was there! Selling books! Thanks, Short Run photographer, for doing such nice portraits every year!
