We have just launched 2LP NEWS, a place where we’re posting news items of interest about the people who work so hard to bring to you 2Leaf Press, as well as newsworthy items in the publishing field. If you have some news or information you’d like posted on 2LP News, please send it to editor@2leafpress.org.
Vagabond Beaumont, a filmmaker, artist, author and photographer, has been a great asset to our organization, whether he is filming, producing and directing our promotional videos, creating fabulous press photos of our authors or designing a couple of great book covers for 2Leaf Press, notably for Abiodun Oyewole and Dylcia Pagan. But first and foremost, […]
EDWARD NAWOTKA || PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES Today’s feature story “Going Small to Make it Big” looks at some of the advantages of small press publishing, which can include increased personal attention, more flexible program, higher priority for marketing within the house, and the ability to have more direct influence on the publishing process. Yet, there are […]
FRANCINE FIALKOFF || LIBRARY JOURNAL My favorite comment on the merger of Penguin and Random House was in an Op Ed in the New York Times. “[M]aybe Random Penguin, as a few wags have suggested, would have been a more apt name.” (The name was widely tweeted and depicted as well.) I can see the image […]
POETRY FOUNDATION || HARRIET STAFF As in any whodunit mystery, readers have been left to wonder who is kicking Amazon’s virtual behind when it comes to bargains on small press samplings? the Guardian’s response: small press publishers are the ones giving better discounts on small press titles than Amazon. Yes, the word on the street is: buy your small press […]
I am writing to ask you to support 2Leaf Press. We were supposed to receive a nice chunk of money to help pay our operational costs a couple of weeks ago. Everything was set to go but at the twelfth hour, the money was withdrawn. This has put us in an incredible bind, because the […]
MACHETERO, the six-time internationally awarded debut feature film by 2Leaf Press team member, Vagabond Beaumont, will have it’s DIY theatrical release for a limited one-week theatrical run in New York City, beginning Wednesday, June 12th, through Tuesday, June 19th, at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City’s Loisada (Lower East Side). Written […]
Check out Tony Medina’s book video on his forthcoming book, Broke Baroque: TONY MEDINA IS BROKE by Vagabond Beaumont. Please post on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word.
Lisa Sánchez González, a 2Leaf Press author, is set to appear at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies,Centro at Hunter College/CUNY in East Harlem on April 24th to promote Belpré Book.
Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez publishes groundbreaking bilingual poetry collection, ¡Hey Yo / Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry, A Bilingual Edition October 26th.
If you submit manuscripts to publishers or agents, you’ve probably come across the demand that you use standard manuscript format.” As an editor, I can tell you that queries and manuscript submissions (unfortunately) come in all shapes, sizes, fonts and (I’m not making this up) colors, making it a pain to sift through them. Sometimes […]
2Leaf Press is looking for a few good writers to publish some great books.