reflections
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On writing The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?
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I have some pretty big Sheer-Spite-adjacent news: I (Lee, who runs Sheer Spite) have a book coming out, and I’m not publishing it myself??? The book is called The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard? and it is…
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running an in-person zine distro
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Sheer Spite isn’t my first time running a zine-selling operation: from about 2012 to 2016, I ran a couple of zine racks in person in Ottawa, where I was living. I got started running a distro when I went to…
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on doing a giant mess of stuff as opposed to one streamlined thing
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So Sheer Spite does kind of a whole bunch of stuff. Here’s a list of types of things Sheer Spite sells: Print and digital zines that I (Lee, the sole person running this operation) wrote and published Print and digital…
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on sliding scale zine pricing, and the economics of running a tiny press
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Pricing creative work is notoriously difficult. I find it especially so for zines. In running Sheer Spite, two things that are important to me are supporting people in making some money from their creative work, and making beautiful and important…
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Five things zine fairs do that I love
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about zine fairs (and book fairs, small press fairs, and other places where people stand behind a table and sell you little booklets). I’ve tabled at, I think, about 10 events this year, with a couple…
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what I learned from my zine tour
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I spent most of the spring in Europe doing a ~*~ zine business tour ~*~, which is kind of a wild thing to be able to do! I sold about a thousand zines, made amazing pals, ate great food, saw…
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sheer spite press: the first year
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I consider the moment of Sheer Spite Press’ birth (or… conception??) to have been on September 6, 2023. I had been looking into arts grants, and realizing how differently self-published works are treated in comparison to work that’s put out…