Book and/or short story trailers are, by their nature, very weird things. Trying to convey a mood or feeling of a piece that does its best conveying in a completely different medium in a short amount of time is a recipe for clumsy and awkward “filmmaking”. AV Cub just came out with a pretty good one:

But most of them are really, really, ridiculously, embarrassingly bad:

Reason I bring this up is cause we’re gonna be posting some trailers of our own up here some time next week and I want to make this solemn promise to you, dear Annalemma disciple, that we will try our damnedest to make our trailers as interesting and non-embarrassing as possible. Keep your peepers pealed.

Thanks HTMLGIANT.

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We got the new issue from the printer yesterday and it looks fantastic! We still have to assemble the letterpress piece over the weekend before we start shipping. More details on that and the issue itself next week. Pre-order is available now! Go do it!

Head on over to our print store where you’ll find Issue Five available for pre-sale.

We’re also pleased to announce that this issue will feature a limited edition letterpress piece by Danny Jones as part of his series “Dawn of Man” appearing in this issue. Only 750 of these pieces will be pressed before the plates are destroyed. So reserve yours today!

We’re giving away a FREE SUBSCRIPTION  on Twitter. How do you win?

1. Go here and then follow us.

2. Throw up a tweet with a hashtag #Annalemma.

3. Chillax.

I’m going to pick someone at random at the end of the week. If you’ve already got a subscription then you’re not qualified for entry, sorry. Tweet it up!

So we were all set to print at the beginning of the week when I get a call from Jen saying that the trim size is too big. The printers contacted her saying that we were a quarter of an inch over what we were quoted and they couldn’t do it without switching machines and ordering new paper and ultimately costing thousands of dollars more. “That’s bullshit,” I said, and decided to call the printers. As I was dialing I remembered that we had, in fact, changed the print size two issues ago because of this same cost issue and I’m such a fucking idiotic simplton that I just plum forgot what size my own magazine was and gave Jen the wrong size from the get-go. Sound confusing? It is.

Nevertheless, Jen sighed, shook her head, silently cursed my unborn children and got to work re-formatting the entire magazine. And did it in one night. So we’re going to go out tonight and I’m going to buy her new buns because she worked hers clean off this week.

Oh, and this is the cover. It’s from Danny Jones’s series Dawn of Man which appears in the mag. And it’s the sexiest cover we’ve ever had the opportunity to print.

Thank you Jen and Danny and everyone else involved for being way more professional than me.

Old Chicago bud Chris Bower has adapted a story he wrote for our very first (and currently out of print) issue into a short play that will start its run this weekend. Go check it out if you live in the area and enjoy turbulent relationships and mysterious fish!

Dear friend and issue five contributor Bryan “Bear” Soderlind recently uploaded a cache of photo gold. He exhaustively covered the 32nd Annual Orlando Gala. For decades it has been considered the social event of the season not because everyone dresses their best and looks fantastic, but because of all the scandalicious activities that take place there.

Check out the facebook album.

Speaking of facebooks, don’t forget to add yourself to the Annalema page while you’re there!

We tried to send it off last night, guys, we really did. May have celebrated too early cause redwine and curry got the best of us, making it too hard to comprehend how to make a PDF. Hopefully sending off today. Been a surreal couple of weeks putting this thing together. Jen and I have worked ourselves to the bone trying to make this thing good. Well, Jen mostly. I just sat back and offered my uninformed opinion most of the time, to which she would swat down like a beach volleyball player attacking a high and slow serve. It’s for the best though. Jen has made this thing the best issue yet. Without a doubt.