At AWP I got to meet with Kathleen and Abby of Rose Metal Press, who publish amazing, beautiful, and unique hybrid-genre books like these:
They also say super-smart things about the importance of indie-publishing, like this short essay, “On Being Indie,” at The Next Best Book Blog:
Compared to trade publishers, we have more creative freedom because we are independent and a nonprofit and can publish and encourage the kind of writing that we see as ground-breaking and innovative rather than focusing heavily on the marketability and projected sales numbers of any given project. We obviously want our books to sell, but the quality of the work takes precedence in our process of choosing what we’ll publish.
So you can imagine how thrilled I am that they are publishing my book, Liliane’s Balcony, in fall 2013. They wrote up a juicy description of the book to preview their upcoming publications:
Liliane’s Balcony is a novella-in-flash that takes place at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Built for Pittsburgh merchants E.J. and Liliane Kaufmann in 1935, the house is as much a character as it is a setting. One September night in 1952, Liliane Kaufmann—tired of her husband’s infidelities with a woman named Stoops—overdoses on pain pills in her bedroom. From there, Liliane’s Balcony alternates Mrs. Kaufmann’s mostly true story with the fictional narratives of four modern-day tourists who arrive at the historic home in the midst of their own personal crises, all of which culminate on Mrs. Kaufmann’s over-sized, cantilevered balcony. With its ghosts, motorcycles, portraits, Vikings, and failed relationships, Liliane’s Balcony is as dizzying and intricately beautiful as the structure in which it is set.
Here’s a link to the opening chapter published at Talking Writing:http://talkingwriting.com/?p=640
Frank Lloyd Wright was on my mind because of the book and because I was in Chicago, where he’s kind of hard to avoid. On Sunday, after I had my final coffee-with-a-friend and before I drove back to South Bend, I visited FLW’s home and studio in Oak Park. Here are a few of the like 50 pictures I took. They’re kind of crappy because I used my iPhone and was often rushing to take pics before other tourists got in my frame, and they’re in reverse order so just pretend you’re walking backward through the tour.
Wright's Oak Park house and studio, 1889-1909.
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Love the ceiling lights throughout the house.
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Secretary's desk in the studio office.
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Waiting room to the studio. And also a talking room where they could lay out plans on the table and shut the studio door and discuss the PLANS.
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Side of studio.
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Model of the Robie House.
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Center of studio with hint of the vaulted ceiling. Amazing.
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Yep. Apparently the second floor was originally supported by the chains, but current building codes won't allow it.
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First view of studio. Robie model on left. The desks straight ahead are the ones in earlier photo. Light shining down from upper level windows.
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The children's play room! (There were 6 kids.) Windows on both sides. Grand piano wedged into the wall on the left side of image.
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More awesome ceiling lights. These are in the dining room, which was pretty small and typical of the time.
Living room. Bay window seating.
For Wright, the hearth is always the center of the house and family.
ph.d. in creative writing 
Gorgeous photos, but we want more AWP pics!
Thanks Kelcey! We’re so excited to be publishing you, too! And awesome photos of Frank Lloyd Wright’s house! What a fun, post-AWP adventure!