Muumuu House

is a new publisher of poetry, fiction, Twitter selections, gmail chats online & in print.

Muumuu House will publish 2 full-length, paperback, perfect-bound poetry-books in 2009.

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

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

Muumuu House authors receive 50% of profits and have creative control over their books' cover, layout, editing, blurbing techniques, font, [anything]. Muumuu House's archives currently contain new (to the internet) writing by R.B. Glaser (Butt Teen), Ellen Kennedy, Zachary German and 2 Gmail chats (posted with permission).

If while reading this post you've thought about linking Muumuu House on your "sidebar," but were 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 depressing feelings that "another thing has failed, in the world, what is permanent, is life meaningless, what difference does anything make" that 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.