Welcome to VEP's smashing new website!
Welcome to the newly improved Vintage Entity Press website! As you can see we have changed our look—thanks to web designers Dariusz and Kamil—and have included sections with up-to-date information about our authors, books, a newsletter, consultations and a resource page. Additionally, VEP will offer specials on our products, which is a great opportunity to stock up on your VE Press titles!
I also want to take this opportunity to welcome three new extraordinary authors to the press, Pamela Sneed, Raymond Berry, and Curu Necos-Bloice.
Pamela is a poet, performer, writer and actress based in New York City. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, published by Henry Holt (1998.) Sneed has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Source, Time Out, VIBE, Karl Lagerfeld's "Off The Record," and on the cover of New York Magazine. You can purchase a limited edition of her new book KONG And Other Works for $21.99 (includes postage and handling.) The official version of the book will be available mid-March.
Raymond is a native Chicagoan and received an MFA in creative writing from Chicago State University. His publication credits include the anthology To Be Left with the Body by AIDS Project Los Angeles (2008) and the literary journal Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas. He currently lectures at the City Colleges of Chicago. His first book of poems, Diagnosis, critically examines the individual and collective silence involving HIV/AIDS infection among gay men of African ancestry. Diagnosis continues a tradition of resistance, transformation, and transcendence. Diagnosis will be published June 2009.
Curu is a writer and visual artist who has been living in Harlem, New York for more than fifteen years. His strives in his work to challenge the taken for granted. His first novella, Anacaona's Garden, is an fascinating narrative of a young man's struggle with sexual and racial identity as well as ethnic prejudice in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and New York City. When this naïve Dominican becomes obsessed with a Haitian immigrant, he is immediately and repeatedly drawn into surrealist episodes from his repressed tropical past. Anacaona's Garden will be published in the September 2009.
Our monthly newsletter will feature information about our authors, books, readings, seminars, and events, calls for submissions, and resources for readers, writers, editors and publishers. We offer consultations for writers who seek advice or feedback on a variety of issues regarding publishing. Our new resource section contains a list of professional services from the publishing community. Contact us directly if you would like your business to be featured on our site at info@vepress.com. And make sure you visit us monthly to see what specials we have available.
Look forward to a new edition of Carry the Word, co-published by RedBone Press, which will feature more interviews, an updated small publishers resource list, advertising opportunities for publishers and writers, and of course, more books! A must-have for booksellers, librarians, academics, community-based organizations, book clubs and readers interested in black LGBTQ books and authors. All proceeds from sales of Carry the Word will benefit Fire & Ink, Inc, supporter and advocate for SGL writers of African descent. For more information about Fire & Ink, and their upcoming Cotillion conference, October 8-11, 2009 in Austin, Texas, click here!
Explore the books of Vintage Entity Press, where our success is due to the wonderful company that we keep!
Steven G. Fullwood
Founder and Publisher
January 18, 2009