The Papercuts Anthology

2017

In the first year at Papercuts J.P., we hosted a countless number of incredible authors. On the one year anniversary of the store’s opening, we wanted to make a book. We published the book with Inkshares, a crowdfunding publisher. I launched a campaign for readers to preorder our book in order to fund the publication. I solicited pieces from all of the authors who had visited the store in its first year. I worked with them on editing their pieces, and then I compiled the manuscript for editing and printing by Inkshares. Managing the process—including cover, interior design, and editorial, was a fun and rewarding process. As was running a marketing and publicity campaign, both to readers and to other independent bookstores who stocked the title on their shelves. The Papercuts Anthology spent over a year as the #1 bestseller at Papercuts.

The Papercuts Anthology chronicles one year of a life of a bookstore, through rare works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the distinct authors indie bookstore Papercuts J.P. hosted in its first year. From New York Times bestselling to hometown treasures, this book of cutting-edge writing encapsulates what happened during year one of “tiny Boston icon” (Guardian).

A Dream Between Two Rivers: Stories of Liminality

2017

I was so thrilled when KL Pereira reached out with her manuscript for A Dream Between Two Rivers, and I am still very proud to have had a hand in this magical collection reaching readers. I edited and managed the publishing of this vivid and imaginative short story collection, as well as planning a Southern and New England author tour and running a marketing and publicity campaign for the book.

"A Dream Between Two Rivers: Stories of Liminality is a precious gem all its own. Folk tales, experimental literature, speculative fiction, and mythology whether invented or neoclassical, all play together here gorgeously. The ghosts of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Donoso, Leonora Carrington, and Octavia Butler haunt this potent collection by an author of boundless imaginative gifts. Imagine a poet and painter in another dimension possessed by fever dreams and trying to tell our stories, and that will bring you only somewhere close to the magic of KL Pereira."
—Porochista Khakpour, author of the novels Sons & Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion and the memoir Sick

The Paragraphs

2017

When Boston legend Rick Berlin came to me for advice on self-publishing his wild memoir, it inspired us at Papercuts to launch our own press so that we could publish it ourselves. We started Cutlass, and Rick’s book was our first. I edited and managed the publishing of this memoir and ran a full marketing and publicity campaign. I also coordinated a dynamic author tour—Rick traveled to bookstores, art galleries, and club with his keyboard, alternating between reading passages and playing the songs they related to. There was rarely a dry eye in the house by the end of the event.

The Paragraphs is a memoir of a life in music, made up of vignettes penned as exercises in songwriting by Boston music icon Rick Berlin.

“Like Leonard Cohen, Rick Berlin’s poetics are timeless, speak directly to the heart confronting us with postmodern mythologies.” —Amy Rome

Ragged; or, The Loveliest Lies of All

2017

I acquired and edited, and managed the publishing of this novel, complete with gorgeous custom art. I ran a marketing and publicity campaign for the book, as well. It was a unique challenge to edit a book with only animal characters. By the end, I missed the anthropomorphic characters as much as I miss human ones when I’m done reading a great novel.

Ragged is a vivid fever dream, mixing Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Watership Down, and Jim Thompson. As impressive and convincing the world Irvin creates is, the real triumph is how his society of athropomorphized beasties are more human than human. I wish I wrote this.”
—PAUL TREMBLAY, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil’s Rock