John Madera says on the Open Letters Monthly blog...

...that "while [Sean] Lovelace is a trickster and a jokester, he’s also empathetic, for even when his stories pirouette, go pyrotechnic, and slip the stream, he goes beneath the surfaces of things and finds as much gold as he does mud, lava, and earthworms." We agree. Be sure to read the rest of the review here. Thanks, John, and thanks Open Letters Monthly!

Matt Bell reviews The Rose Metal Press Field Guide...

...on The Critical Flame.

"Taken as a whole, The Rose Metal Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction is an excellent starting place for the study of writing short short stories. For teachers of the genre and for writers still learning the form, The Rose Metal Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction will certainly satisfy, and perhaps become an indispensable desktop companion for some time. For more established writers, there's still plenty to be inspired by here, and I'm not sure that there is anyone so far along on their writerly journey as to completely disregard this concise volume," he says. Check out the whole review here. Thanks, Matt!

Abby and I interview each other...

...over on the blog of The Short Review. Thanks to Tania Hershman for giving us this opportunity to chat with each other!

Chapbook Publishers Roundtable 2009!

At The Chapbook Review! Including Rose Metal Press along with Bannock Street Books’s Sarah Black, TinFish Press’s Susan Webster Schultz, Yazoo River Press’s J.Q. Zheng, Small Fires Press’s Friedrich Kerksieck, Publishing Genius Press’s Adam Robinson, Musclehead Press’s John Berbrich, Dancing Girl Press’s Kristy Bowen, Toad Press’s Genevieve Kaplan, Blood Pudding Press’s Juliet Cook, and Mud Luscious Press’s J.A. Tyler! Thanks to John Madera for moderating.

The Montgomery News hearts Sherrie Flick...

...and mentions The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. "Rich with provocative details and intimate character development," they say of Flick's novel Reconsidering Happiness. Be sure to check out the whole story here.

The Field Guide to Flash Fiction continues to take the nation by storm

As evidenced by Sherrie Flick's flash fiction lecture at Salem College in North Carolina last Wednesday. Note the prominently displayed Field Guide on the table to Sherrie's left. Note also that Sherrie's novel Reconsidering Happiness is available for purchase from University of Nebraska Press. Consider purchasing a copy of both books. Thanks, Sherrie!

Timothy Gager reviews the Field Guide...

...over at the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene blog. Check it out here. Thanks, Timothy and Doug!

Check out who's Number 6...

...on the latest Small Press Distribution list of nonfiction bestsellers. That's right, it's The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, edited by Tara L. Masih. Congratulations, Tara~

Tania Hershman campaigns for Eggs...

...over at the Campaign for the American Reader. "I've just finished reading Sean Lovelace's How Some People Like Their Eggs, a slim chapbook of flash fiction published by the excellent Rose Metal Press. I love flash fiction, short short stories of only a few pages which, when done well - and here they really are done well - make you wonder why anyone ever needs to take 250 pages to tell a story," she says.

You can read her entire entry here. Thanks, Tania!