UPDATES
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The following will be updated regularly with
news relating to Murder Slim Press...
Savage Kick, Hating Olivia and its
sequel Lounge Lizard, and MSP's range of chapbooks... November '08: --- Mark SaFranko's Loners website is up and running! Click on the link on the Loners shop page to pre-order your copy of the book. It comprises eight short stories by Mark SaFranko... and features eight pieces of art by Richard Watts and Steve Hussy.
October '08: --- Mark SaFranko's LONERS is coming soon! Barring any hiccups, the website for Loners will be opened on the 5th November 2008.
We've set up fireworks' displays across the country to celebrate the event. In the meantime, here's the cover of Loners. Enjoy!
September '08: --- Negotations are ongoing with Seymour Shubin regarding Murder Slim Press publishing his new book The Hunch. We'll keep you posted. August ’08: --- 13th Note Press have picked up the French language rights for both Hating Olivia and Lounge Lizard. They'll be released in 2009 and 2010. Get ready, French readers!
July ’08: --- Mark SaFranko’s new
book Loners will be available in
the next few months via Murder Slim Press. It’s a collection of eight
stories from SaFranko, loosely themed around
outsiders. June ’08: ---The buzz for both Hating Olivia and Lounge
Lizard remains strong. A new review – with a good slant on the book
– is available on Amazon. Check it out on their site,
or through our Reviews page. May '08: --- Mark SaFranko
has taken over Beat The Dust for the whole of May. The site will
feature art, music, and previously unavailable poems. There's
also excerpts from a couple of SaFranko's
plays and stories. April '08: ---Zsolt
Alapi's interview on The Danforth
Review mentions Murder Slim Press and the SaFranko
novels. Here's his thoughts. March '08: ---The wait is over... and now there's two new books from MSP. First up is SK#4 - bigger and badder than ever. Second up is the Tommy Trantino chapbook: The Angel.
Running at over 40 pages, it's the central tale of the long out of print
classic: Lock The Lock. Click on the links to get to the SK shop, and grab your copies
now. February '08: ---The Danforth
Review's interview with Mark SaFranko is out now and ready to read. SaFranko
talks about Lounge Lizard and much more... January '08: ---Zsolt
Alapi's review of Lounge Lizard can be found
by clicking here. December '07: ---Lounge Lizard is out
now! Buy it via the MSP Shop and Ebay. November '07: ---Lounge Lizard will be
released on December 1st, 2007. It'll be available through Murder Slim, Ebay and Amazon Marketplace. October '07: ---The Mark SaFranko Homepage is now
available on Murderslim.com. It features exclusive news, links and details on
Mark SaFranko's career. September '07: ---Lounge Lizard is
with our printers... Lounge Lizard is pencilled in for an Pre-Christmas 2007 release. Here's the cover in
low-res, good people. August '07: ---Mark SaFranko's
The Favor is NOW AVAILABLE AND READY TO SHIP. It's his first novel - a
thriller - and was printed in 1987. Unless you scour Ebay
for a few years, this will be your only opportunity to get the book. All
copies bought through MSP are signed and numbered by Mark SaFranko. July '07: --- Tommy Trantino's
The Angel chapbook has been printed and will be released with SK#4
to tie in the Trantino interview. Here's a downloadable low-res .jpg of The
Angel's cover. June '07: ---Joe Matt is now on tour, check him out at ComicCon
and other locations. This has led to a delay in the Joe Matt interview,
shifting back SK#4 a couple of months. May '07: ---Still awaiting news from Harry
Crews for SK#4. Conducting the interview with Joe Matt (Peepshow)
this week. April '07: ---SK#2 is NOW FULLY AVAILABLE AND READY TO SHIP.
It comes in the new A5 book-sized format and features Joe R. Lansdale, Doug
Stanhope, Tony O'Neill and more. March '07: ---Savage Kick #3 has been reviewed by 3am Magazine. Here are their thoughts. February '07: ---Savage Kick talked to
3am Magazine about our publishing house. It's
the first interview we've done, and given the state of literary sites there
won't be many more. Click here to read what we had to say. January '07: ---Tommy Trantino
(Lock The Lock) will appear in SK#4, SK#6 and a MSP Chapbook "The
Angel." Lock The Lock is one of the few great, lost classics of
literature. If you can find a copy - and it's as rare as hen's teeth - buy
it. December '06: ---Steve Ely's "Thought
Crime" has been accepted into Savage Kick #4. So far the content
will include Ely, Joe Matt, Dan Fante, Megan Hall,
Tony O'Neill, and Richard White. SK#4 will be released in Spring 2007.
November '06: ---SK#3 is now FULLY
AVAILABLE TO BUY via the SK shop
page, and our Ebay listings. It comes in
a smaller A5 format but has more content than ever. As ever, it's limited to
100 copies, so grab yours soon... October '06: ---We're figuring it won't be
long until we make SK#3 ready to buy. 8 months in preparation and
through a broken printing press, apathetic repairmen, and poverty - it's
finally here. All previous SK buyers will be notified of the release. SK#3
includes Jim Goad, Mark SaFranko, Frank Baron,
Steve Hussy and Joe Matt. September '06: ---Dan Fante
will feature in Savage Kick #4 with three poems. Tony O'Neill will
feature in Savage Kick #4 with a new story, "Marooned". August '06: ---Over the next year, we'll be
selling the overstock from the Murder Slim Music shop on Ebay...
Click here for our Ebay shop.
There's only one copy of each cd, so grab it when
you can... there's a bunch of great rock 'n' roll, garage and punk from
Norton, Crypt, Sympathy For The Music Industry, Alternative Tentacles and
more. July '06: ---We now have the first batch of Steps IN STOCK AND READY TO SHIP.
These are available via the Buy Now buttons in the Steps Shop page. June '06: --- Henry Baum has reviewed Hating
Olivia on his website, along with Digging The Vein. Click here for the reviews. |
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May '06: --- E-mail submissions for Savage
Kick are now closed, except for those who have purchased Hating Olivia.
The hope is that these submittors will understand
the MSP style. HO buyers please read our guidelines thoroughly and then submit to the purchase
address. April '06:
---Frank Baron has been confirmed in SK#3 with "2 Days - 2
Nights". Right click and "save target
as" to read the sample. March '06:
---Here's a a sample of
the 12-page Jim Goad interview in SK#3.
Goad [Shit Magnet, Answer ME!, Redneck Manifesto] will
also feature with "Overture: Drowning In Shit". |
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