“Laughing At Funerals provides us all with a text to read on the eve of the apocalypse.  It is a series of frenzies meant to be performed against the frenzy.  A rage before the serenity of nothing.” 
– Todd Moore

Epic Rites Press proudly re-visits Laughing At Funerals, the third full length poetry collection by David McLean.  The new press release features a self-review of Laughing At Funerals by David McLean, as well as reviews by Puma Perl, John Yamrus, Todd Moore, Gillian Prew and Misti Rainwater-Lites.  The new release can be uploaded here.

Anyone interested in purchasing a copy of McLean's phenomenal third collection, Laughing At Funerals, should do so from Small Press distribution here.

ERP is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Stumbles and Half Slips, the first novel by popular United Kingdom author Zack Wilson.

Order your advanced copy of Stumbles and Half Slips today!

ERP is excited and proud to introduce Memento Mori, a new quarterly arts and literary magazine edited by Wolfgang Carstens and Rob Plath.  

... where, even at its most simplistic definition, and for the most rooted and domestic of people, is a matter of ever-changing location in time and space: a sphere spinning ferociously on its axis whilst travelling a huge orbit in an always expanding universe; where as determined by position to other fixed points of the same nature is only a relative and partial where: the gracefully curving lines of latitude and longitude are the poetic licence of portraying a spherical object in two dimensions; the relative placement of the planets and the divisions that mark the passage of time: the measurement of a thing and the description of a thing, are not the thing itself: where is it that we live in this life?

... more details to follow.

One of the current ERP promotions is three ERP books for $50 - which includes shipping and handling.  Use the button below to place your order.  Be sure to enter your three ERP selections.  Everyone who takes advantage of the current promotion will be entered into a draw at the end of February to receive a complimentary subscription to Tree Killer Ink.  If you're already a subscriber, you can choose a friend or loved one to receive the subscription.

In an effort to better represent a brick and mortar book-buying experience, ERP has uploaded numerous "look inside" features that enable you to look inside an ERP book to help you decide whether or not it is the right book for you.  At present you can look inside An Age of Monsters by William Taylor Jr., Frostbitten by Mark Walton, Can't Stop Now! by John Yamrus, Blood and Greasepaint by Karl Koweski, Laughing At Funerals by David McLean, and Crudely Mistaken For Life by Wolfgang Carstens.  These "look inside" features are available inside the ERP bookstore here, or available for viewing at Scribd here.  More ERP titles will be added shortly.

I hope you enjoy this new feature - and more importantly, that it inspires you to shop Epic Rites Press.

Epic Rites Press will proudly wave its banner at the forthcoming AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs) annual conference and bookfair that will be happening February 29th - March 3rd in Chicago at the Hilton Chicago and Palmer House Hilton. Please stop by the Small Press Distribution booth as there will be ERP press releases and new ERP broadsides featuring the writing of John Yamrus and the artwork of Drew Johnson.  These limited edition broadsides  will be numbered and signed by John Yamrus - available for the first two hundred and fifty people to stop by the SPD booth.

More information about the AWP conference here.

Forthcoming from ERP include Stumbles and Half Slips, a novel by Zack Wilson; The Buddha Doesn't Live Here, poetry by James Darman; Swallowtude, a novel by Rob Plath; Bark, poetry by John Yamrus (featuring the artwork of Owen Glass) - as well as two children's books by Rob Plath and John Yamrus.  Rob Plath's Hearts For Brains will feature illustrations by the great David Arshawsky and John Yamrus' Phoebe and Ito will feature illustrations by Drew Johnson.  Exteriors by the fantastic Pablo Vision.

The next issue of Tree Killer Ink (2.3.12) will showcase new work by the legendary Dan Fante and feature exterior artwork by Yvette Sohl and the insanely talented Rob Plath.

Also, look for new full color broadsides featuring artwork by the great Henry Denander, Drew Johnson, Owen Glass, and others.

It may well be true that the world as we know it will come to abrupt end in 2012 - but until that super-volcano in Yellowstone National Park erupts and covers our planet in lava and ash, ERP will keep launching grenades into the abyss!

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