EMP

03/25/2025

It was a good run, but it has occurred to me that I possess none of the social skills neccisary to be a publisher. I don’t play well with others - my idea of networking is getting a room full of total strangers to find a common bond in hating me - and failed to build any following. I like making books, and the finished product pleased my aesthetic. It’s been a slow slide to surrender, and today I raise the white flag, officially. This isn’t a funeral; more like a resignation letter, a sign on the door saying “perminantly closed - retired to The Poconos” or divorce papers. It seems only fitting that all of the previous needs to be put in writing.

01/24/2025

Dear EMP Authors:

Your Royalties this year for 33 sales against 20 returns is Negative 74 dollars.

Please remind your readers that buying a book and then returning it costs you more money than not buying it all all, and because of their "Amazon Hack", you will have to have to sell your ass on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike to pay for it.

Send a message to learn more

05/22/2024

I have fallen deep into the pit of directionless commercialism (also known as the great circle jerk of anti networking corner clerk diversity, where I map a network of corner stores, get to know their worker's schedules, and ensure I never buy booze more than twice-a-week from any one individual still possessing a future.... Minah at the Beverage Warehouse on Main being the exception, as anyone who escapes the slums of Nairobi is too familiar with my level of total resignation to be fooled, and they always round down to 6 dollars when I buy 2 tallboys Rhinegeist Truth IPA) ...

I have few skills, but principally, I read books and have a lot of opinions about them.

It's the editing process, only I don't have to fix anything.

I'm looking to form a network of drunks who can review each others books on Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, and the online retailer of our choices.

I'm way past selling out... the irony of small presses is we have to find a way to get our words out the larger world, and I refuse to put poems on Instagram, or make fu***ng memes, so I guess I'll trade my reviews of your books for mine.

I figure if we can get a solid 10 of us, we can unionize, and make damn sure there are at least a couple positive reviews on the good books out of the deluge

05/22/2024

Yo... who thinks there isn't enough classy erotica around, and wants to read and review some? (See that last post. I'll send you a digital review copy on the gratis)

05/04/2024

Now For Sale

subpace, a collection of kinky tales and stories, dares to explore the deepest, darkest desires of the human psyche.from the power dynamics of dominance and submission to the tantalizing allure of kleptomania and the raw exposure of exhibitionism, each story is sensually crafted in a...

03/23/2024

Coming Soon

subspace

Short Stories by Stuart Stromin

subpace, a collection of kinky tales and stories, dares to explore the deepest, darkest desires of the human psyche.

from the power dynamics of dominance and submission to the tantalizing allure of kleptomania and the raw exposure of exhibitionism, each story is sensually crafted in a high literary style.

encounter characters who surrender to their most forbidden fantasies and fetishes, who pursue gratification at any expense, and who venture into uncharted realms of passion, yearning, and redemption.

sometimes playful, sometimes poetic, always provocative, subspace embarks on a journey where kink intertwines with romance in a rich tapestry of tales which defy convention, and keep you begging for more.

12/07/2023

NOW FOR SALE:

the dis / sonance

by kym cunningham

This project begins at the subtext of body-a before and after of mutual grammars-or the assumption of what constitutes other. It is a question of how we narrate accumulation: each word bearing a hundred (thousand) behind it. Which is to say consider what lodges here (or remains unburied). Is whiteness my ghost or machine? What means make fantasy material-a thickening of specter. Maybe that's where you come in. Open the door, untangle our roots: see what bleeds at the feet. Tell me how we might yet breathe fire under water.

This project begins at the subtext of body-a before and after of mutual grammars-or the assumption of what constitutes other. It is a question of...

10/27/2023

Coming soon:

the dis / sonance by Kym Cunningham

09/01/2023

NOW FOR SALE

gRIfTeRs aLMAnAc By MaCKenZie ThORnE

quiet grey mornings all but whirring window units singing lonesome cowboy song lightning bugs spread out across the field bouncing like na**lm...

07/21/2023

NOW FOR SALE:

PHRENOLOGY by C.S. Matthews

(Coming packaged with "Princess Lessons" by Jade Shapiro... very late for PRIDE)

they measure millimeters of bone

to tell us who we are

where we come from

the curve of my incisors

my orbital sockets

hold pools of blue

despite their shape

I am a mixed thing

with an under bite hiding

the gap in my teeth

I broke the extra bone in my foot,

feet whose ancestors were removed

by hands whose decedents counterfeit art

in styles that were stolen

I am a mixed thing

who dreams in a language

I'm learning to speak

from a tongue that was colonized at birth...

how will you measure me?

"Phrenology" by C.S. Matthews and "Princess Lessons" by Jade Schapiro PHRENOLOGY: they measure millimeters of bone to tell us...

06/20/2023

Coming Soon: Phrenology by C.S. Matthews

06/17/2023

Get on your knees and pray to a God you don't even believe in for Jason Ryberg ... If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't know about love... True story

06/12/2023

now for sale:

PRINCESS LESSONS by Jade Schapiro

In these meditations on gender emergencies, "the unresting castles of a canceled past" situate an eruption of girly consumerist effluvia. Whether filling a private jet with "clouds of smoked crack" or refusing to give up on a Teen Mom "pretty enough to get away with anything," this is a trans femininity insistent on its own survival.

In these meditations on gender emergencies, "the unresting castles of a canceled past" situate an eruption of girly consumerist effluvia....