Madrona Books is back open for submissions! To date, we've fielded 700 unsolicited manuscripts, published two, and learned lots along the way. Our revamped listing requests a $5 fee and now targets specific genre categories. Find us on Submittable!

As promised, Madrona is giving away WEFT for 48 hours! It's free when you visit the book's Amazon page. For the uninitiated, the novel has: a haunted house, a Star Wars casting con, mother-son grifters, the word "qualtagh," and lots of 90s nostalgia. Literary. Horror-ish. Halloweeny.

I wrote a little post about why a small press would give away its inaugural pub for free. I talk about the publishing business, attracting quality submissions, and finding the right readers for a wonderfully strange novel: www.madronabooks.com/news/kindle-...

First post, big post! Madrona Books is giving away its novel WEFT later this week! On Thursday and Friday, you can download this Halloweeny novel for free on your Kindle. You'll be hearing lots more about this promo in the coming days (sorry), but for now, mark your calendars accordingly