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!

Matt Bell interviews Peter Jay Shippy...

...about novellas-in-verse and other mutants over at The Collagist. Thanks, Matt!

Matt Bell interviews Sean Lovelace...

...over at The Collagist. See them talk about how you can like How Some People Like Their Eggs even without personally liking eggs yourself here. Thanks, Matt!

Jim Cullen talks up the Field Guide...

...over on his blog in an insightful post about how "technological innovation [...] can revitalize older forms of artistic expression and give them a new lease on life." Check it out. Thanks, Jim.

A short review of EGGS in The Short Review

According to Tania Hershman in her review of HOW SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEIR EGGS: "Sean Lovelace is an author whose work I shall definitely seek out, now that I've been formally introduced. Lovelace is a professor of creative writing, and I envy his students, having a teacher whose own writing is one of the clearest examples of creativity I've had the pleasure to review." Be sure to read the whole piece here. Thanks, Tania!

Do you have a flash story inspired by the RMP Field Guide?

If so, remember that you can send it to editor Tara L. Masih for publication on her blog.

Be sure to check out the latest Field Guide-prompted story by Rosette Melikian, who wrote this in a class Tara taught at the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City, here. Thanks for sharing, Rose!

Reading Sean Lovelace leads to eggceptional commutes

So says Sara Crowley who, while reading How Some People Like Their Eggs during a homebound train ride found herself suddenly serenaded by her fellow passengers. Read all about it here, then buy your own copy here so you can see what reading Sean Lovelace can make happen for you. Thanks, Sara!

J.A. Tyler takes a story by story walk-through...

...of How Some People Like Their Eggs over at The Chapbook Review, and Sean Lovelace gives some great answers to the interview Qs, including this answer about the importance of celebrity to his writing:

"They are the only gods I see left. The largest drug we take. I mean it’s so fascinating, to know these people’s names and their sex lives and their incomes and all this personal shit, and most of us don’t even know—or want to know!—that about our own family, or the neighbor. I keep asking what is this celebrity phenomenon? It fuels my fiction. I think fiction can provide answers, by working, re-working a thing. I still haven’t figured our obsessive need to follow these people, to like and love them, to desire them, especially when so many of them are clearly awful human beings. Why do I need to see their bodies in bathing suits/baby carriage/crotch shot/newest lover/newest Disney green dress/drug-addled party flesh/DJ/car crash/cancer scare/charity whore/ etc.? Who knows? Are they us, by proxy? Are they who we need or want to be? Are they our personal Satan? Or—and excuse me Depeche Mode—our Jesus? Are they mirror or a cocaine mirror or my reflection on the face of a deep well? Fuck. I really don’t know, so I just keep writing about them. They just appear."

Read the whole piece and pick your fave Q's and A's here. Thanks, J.A. Tyler!

Rose Metal Press is profiled...

...on ArtSake, the Massachusetts Cultural Council blog. According to MCC: "We’re interested in Massachusetts arts organizations that identify a specific need for artists, then shape their organization to directly meet that need – in essence, match the right horse with the right course." They think we do that. And we think they are right. You can read all about it here. Thanks, MCC!