news from sheer spite press
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new book: Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke, by Alyssa Favreau
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In the quiet days over the turning of the year, a new book was born! While biking to work one summer morning, Alyssa Favreau gets in an accident, has a stroke, and suffers severe brain damage. After losing consciousness, she spends the next month floating between wakefulness and surreal dreams. As she emerges back into…
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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 Dépanneur Le Pickup in Montreal, when I was living in Ottawa. It’s a little corner…
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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 zines that other people wrote, and that Sheer Spite edits, designs, publishes, and distributes Print…
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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 work accessible. There is, to some extent, a tension between those, and sliding scale pricing…
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sheer spite’s fall/winter 2025 releases!
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I am exceptionally proud to announce a great lineup of new work for sheer spite’s fall/winter season! The U.S. store will be here soon– I know I’ve been saying that for a while, but zines are at the warehouse, and I just need our shipping partner to launch the store. I hope to be able…
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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 more coming up before the year is through. Tabling at zine fairs brings in a…