kissandtell:

Ok, look.  I was a backer.  It was worth every goddamn cent… and these days I don’t have very many so take that as you will.  In the meantime, though… do yourselves a favor and get a copy, either by following the lovely Meaghano’s instructions above and/or begging/borrowing/stealing one somewhere.

Because it was like reading my own goddamn diary.  Sometimes painful.  Sometimes exhilarating.  A healthy dose of embarrassment/retrospective facepalming.  Giggles, sex, and train wrecks.  In a word: awesome.

- M

You heard the woman!

(Source: comingandcrying)

Dear Internet,

Back in—gulp—FEBRUARY we were in the middle of Kickstartering and raising money and had little to no idea of the realities of the post office, or, to be fair, the realities of how wonderful making a book and talking to you would be. But back in February as we were asking you for money we felt a little weird about it, when we thought about it too much. What we wanted was for people who wanted the book to have the book. We may have said “needed” as in, “we need this book,” because when making something from nothing, telling yourself, “this needs to exist,” is often the only reassurance that offers real consolation. Sometimes people who want or need a book are not the same people who are shooting off thirty dollars through the Internet (a practice my mother still finds dangerous), which is no fun but luckily there are people on the Internet with lots of money who will help you out because they are Good or they just really have so much money they don’t care. EITHER WAY WE WIN.

So what I’m saying is way back in February we asked the backers to pay a little more to send someone else a book for free and they did, because they are generally The Best and with them we can do all the things.

Thanks to those people we are sending 40 free books to people, and they didn’t even have to retweet anything or submit content or like our facebook album or whatever inanity that I am hesitant to criticize because tomorrow we might figure that is probably a great idea and write a story about it on Mashable.

This whole thing started with a Late Night Email I got from a fellow Tumblr-er:

Meaghano, I may have only contributed what looks to be $1, but as my account was already negative $3.25 I will receive a whopping $35 overdraft fee. It was worth every cent!

You guys.

Write us a letter if you want one of these books that internet strangers paid us money to make in a factory in Iceland and that have been sitting in Melissa’s living room for months now and we will be so sad when they’re gone (they’re almost gone!). That way we’ll have your mailing address and some semblance of real life-ness and you’ll have taken the time to write and we’ll be so happy when we open our lonely, sad mailbox.

See, since we are a real business and shit we have this official-seeming PO Box which is kind of like having an office. It costs a ridiculous amount of money and the people who work there are incorrigible, but in a funny way. The man always asks me if I can even reach our mail, and the other man writes his own science fiction books in a notebook and is fake-surly in that way where he’s surly until you push him a little and he loses it completely. My favorite kind.

Anyway send us a letter there and we will send you a book. Until the books run out. I hope if you need the book it gets to you.

Our address is this:

Glass Houses Press

353 3rd Ave

Suite 105

New York, NY 10010

(this C&C glamour shot was brought to you by the talents of miiitch bartlett!)

gotagirlcrush:

Got a girl crush on: COMING & CRYING Edited by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell / Made possible by Kickstarter

My copy of Coming & Crying came! And I cried!

We need to publish another book, just of these. Or something. Something!

okwhatnow:

You have no idea how awesome it was to find this in my mailbox today :) I have been so looking forward to reading this. It may very well be the most beautiful book I own. I mean, just look at it!! Gotta run. I have some reading to do :)

hooray! round two of books is making its way out into the world. I’ll be sending round three this week so #stragglers and #overdrafters and #paypalaftermidoctober, hang tight.

littledidiknow:

Look what i got in the mail!  i’d almost forgotten that i ordered it, it was so long ago.

(Yes, your post-Kickstarter orders are starting to arrive!)

lbourgon:

Coming & Crying has gone international, ladies and gents! Welcome to Canada, your neighbour to the North. Also, thanks. We need this book to keep us warm/happy/inspired/etc.

True story: once the books started arriving in Canada, the heavens split in two and then we got laid. (INCENTIVE.)

queershoulder:

I found my contributor’s copy of Coming & Crying in my garage* today!

I am so proud to be in this book. So proud of Melissa & Meagan for making it happen.

Coming & Crying is the only place that my piece “Bambino” is published. You might have heard me read from it at: The writing workshop I lead at Toni Amato’s in April, NOLOSE in June, Perverts Put Out in July, or the Femme Conference in August. So if you are one of the folks who approached me wanting a copy of the piece — now you can get one! :)

*Context: Apparently my neighbors got it delivered to their house, and instead of calling or texting me to let me know they had my mail, they put it in the garage that we all share for storage & laundry. Like, I found it today on someone’s old end table, while juggling a laundry basket on my hip. Kinda annoying, but hey! Surprize book! :)

carmenrios:

“it was simply making out on a cruise ship. it was simply me sitting with my head in my hands on a deck chair before i finally was able to pick myself up and head back to my room.”

Monsterbeard 

This morning we got two messages that backers’ books had only just arrived in Wisconsin and others parts continental. There is still hope, and possibly, inconsistent machine reading at the USPS.