Publisher Gavin Grant writes to let us know that, “Just in time for Black Friday/Cyber Monday or any other day of the week, we’re excited and proud to announce the launch of our first electronic magazine subscription on WeightlessBooks.com—which we expect to be the first of many. The first subscription is for four issues of the ‘zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (there are usually 2 issues/year) which will go out to subscribers as soon as they emerge hot from the virtual presses of Small Beer Press. The subscriptions are available in PDF, epub, mobi, and lit formats and begins with the current issue, No. 26—the paper edition is mailing now—and runs through issue 29. Subscribers manage their subscription renewals and extensions on the site.”
Paper subscriptions to the zine are $20 (US/Canada) and $34 (international). The regular price of the esubscription will be $11.99, “but to celebrate our first subscription and get things going with a bang we’re offering it for $9.95.” For more information, or to subscribe, see this page.
Contents of issue #26 (dated December 2010) include:
Fiction:
“The Cruel Ship’s Captain” by Harvey Welles and Philip Raines
“Elite Institute for the Study of Arc Welders’ Flash Fever” by Patty Houston
“Sleep” by Carlea Holl-Jensen
“The Other Realms Were Built With Trash” by Rahul Kanakia
“Alice: a Fantasia” by Veronica Schanoes
“Absence of Water” by Sean Melican
“Three Hats” by Jenny Terpsichore Abeles
“Death’s Shed” by J.M. McDermott
Nonfiction:
“Reasoning about the Body” by Ted Chiang
“Dear Aunt Gwenda” by Gwenda Bond
The Patient Writers
Poetry:
“Thirst”; “The Way to the Sea”; “Spit Out the Seeds”; “The Seamstress”; “Poor summer, she doesn’t know she’s dying” by Lindsay Vella
“Dueling Trilogies” by Darrell Schweitzer
The cover art is “Broken Stick” by Sarah Goldstein.