Muumuu House

is a new publisher of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and gmail chats online and in print.

Muumuu House will publish two full-length, paperback, perfect bound poetry books in 2009.

SOMETIMES MY HEART PUSHES MY RIBS
by Ellen Kennedy (March 2009)

DURING MY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN I WANT TO HAVE A BIOGRAPHER PRESENT
by Brandon Scott Gorrell (June 2009)

To pre-order go to the Muumuu House store. Muumuu House authors will receive 50% of profits and have complete creative control over the cover, layout, editing, blurbing techniques, table of contents, font, and other things.

The Muumuu House archives contains new (to the internet) writing by R.B. Glaser, Ellen Kennedy, and Zachary German including Butt Teen. There are two gmail chats. Pages showing all the fiction, poetry, etc. can be accessed. Gmail chats have not been posted without both people's permission.

The Muumuu House Facebook Group can be joined.

If while reading this post you have been thinking about linking Muumuu House on your "sidebar," but felt uncertain, I would like to reassure you that you can link Muumuu House without feeling anxiety that in the future you will be deleting the link with small but pervasive feelings that "another thing has failed, in the world, what is permanent, is life meaningless, what difference does anything make" which might affect your mood and change your future interactions with people and people's projects, making you feel bad. I feel confident I will continue with Muumuu House indefinitely.

I also feel confident that books published by Muumuu House will be "promoted" and kept in-print for the rest of my life. I do not foresee myself publishing a book that I do not feel is like "a classic," something to lay in bed with in times of severe depression for purposes of consolation. I am excited to publish the two books described above. I also feel like I will "do whatever it takes" to have the books be high-quality in terms of paper and things. I feel like I would almost rather kill myself or hit myself a lot or something than "fail" and create situations and objects of disappointment for people (including myself, and those involved) in the world to encounter and think about and not feel excited about.

I also feel like it would be funny and exciting if after typing all that I give up 2-3 weeks from now or email Brandon in May 2009 that his book will be stapled together by an unpaid intern in an attractive, notebook-paper edition featuring photocopied pages. I don't think I will do that though. But I also don't think I would feel comfortable publishing anyone who (due to their worldview, level of sarcasm, and that their book has greater potential at other publishing houses) would feel really bad and sincerely angry, in the long-term, if their book was canceled or stapled or something. In conclusion I feel comfortable and life-affirming in many ways about Muumuu House and the future of Muumuu House.