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We want to see how far The Marigold has spread!Enter now to win ONE ECW Horror Book Prize Pack valued at $100 which includes a signed copy of The Marigold by Andrew Sullivan, three additional ECW books, and four exclusive posters made for The Marigold book tour. To enter: 1. Post a photo of The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan in the wild (such as in a bookstore, a library, or your own copy if you have one) on your Instagram grid or on Twitter.2. Use the hashtag #TheMarigoldGrows in your caption or Tweet. Tag @ecwpress and @afsulli. **If you have a...
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I first met Mendelson Joe when he and his then-girlfriend, Georgia Watterson, came over to our place for dinner. Must have been mid-’80s or so. Joe wasn’t a big socializer and Georgia taught with me at Centennial. She always wanted to know how I felt about something. They were an unusual couple, both interested in painting and sculpture, and in Big Ideas. My next memory is that Joe sent me a memoir called A Man and His Penis. I read it, with interest and curiosity, and told him I very much liked his story, but his writing was shit. Turns out...
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It’s that time of year! Whoever is on your list this season, we have the perfect gift. This year we’re offering 30% off of all the books included in the gift guide! Keep reading to get the discount codes for each grouping of books. This also applies to audiobooks and ebooks— which have no shipping fees or wait times! For the person who runs your book club, gives advice based on what your favourite authors say, and loves to annotate their books Use the discount code HOLIDAYBOOKCLUB at checkout for 30% off of the books in this stack. As Little As...
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Publicity Contact: Claire Pokorchak, Publicity Manager, ECW Press claire@ecwpress.com ECW Press has announced a fall 2023 publication date for investigative journalist and author Irvin Muchnick’s book Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Youth Football Conditioning. The public health harm of football has been widely explored in recent years mostly in relation to traumatic head injury — including in Muchnick’s own 2015 ECW Press book Concussion Inc.: The End of Football as We Know It. His new book tackles this important subject at another level, with shocking new research on how several American amateur, and often...
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ECW Press is proud to announce the results of our Best New Speculative Novel Contest, as judged by editors Jen R. Albert and Terese Mason Pierre. With over 170 entries to the contest, it was a difficult decision; there was so much great work to choose from. In the end, we’re so pleased to reveal that the winner of the contest was Toronto-based author Andrew Wilmot with their novel Withered. In this speculative horror novel, non-binary student Ellis moves with their mother to the disquieting town of Black Stone after reaching a low point with their mental health only to...