Category: Books
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Creativity Makes a Great Gift!
Creativity Makes a Great Gift! Looking for something different to give to friends who appreciate interesting and creative gifts? Then consider a subscription to Manifest (zine). Each issue is packed full of writing, photography, and artwork, along with bits and pieces of creative whatnot and a curated Spotify playlist. Layered with colors, textures, meanings (and…
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Holiday Newsletter: Happy Jólabókaflóðið!
In Iceland, books are exchanged for Christmas, and the tradition is to spend the holidays reading and drinking hot chocolate. Known as Jólabókaflóðið, or the “Yule Book Flood,” this tradition dates back to the early 1940s, when paper was one of the few commodities not rationed during the war, and books became the ideal gift…
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Broken Pencil Reviews MANIFEST (zine)
Broken Pencil is THE magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. So you know how thrilled I was to see MANIFEST (zine) reviewed in a recent issue. Big shout out to Scott Bryson for his review that concludes: “It’s clear a lot of effort went into this little booklet. Payne’s focus on physical quality…
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MANIFEST (zine) – A Quarantine Zine: Order Your Copy Today!
Manifest (zine) #5 – Refuge This special “quarantine zine” features the words and images and thoughts within which we found REFUGE last year. The literal and figurative reflections, the comforting quotes and laugh-out-loud memes that kept us breathing all those long months, and helped us regain our sea legs when it seemed like the worst was…
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Fall Reading from Three Chairs Publishing
Fall is the perfect time to reconnect with the quieter side of nature, to step back into the woods and take a deep breath, to watch how everything gracefully shifts into the next chapter. It’s a time to take stock, to slow down, to gather yourself for the colder months ahead. It’s time to read……
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See you at the ONE LOVE: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE NEW AGE FESTIVAL
See you at the ONE LOVE: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE NEW AGE FESTIVAL Please come visit SEVEN SISTERS ARTS and THREE CHAIRS PUBLISHING at the ONE LOVE: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE NEW AGE FESTIVAL on Sunday, August 15. The festival will take place from from 10am – 5pm inside and on the grounds of Avant…
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The Latest News
Back in the early 90s, I created a newsletter called The Latest News as a way to keep in touch with college friends and family. It had essays, quotes, photos, bits and pieces of personal news. I didn’t know it was a “zine” until I read about the zine phenomenon and learned about Mike Gunderloy…
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What is the force that moves us? Perhaps it’s music?
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MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
Issue #1, DIVINE INTERVENTION What is the force that moves us? Changes us? Propels us with such acceleration that we hardly recognize ourselves. Is it grief, heartbreak, indignation? Or joy, courage, determination? Perhaps it is DIVINE INTERVENTION — masked for our benefit as demon or angel or a hurried white rabbit who intrigues us just…
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Every body wants to be a cat…sing along!
Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the CAT LADY CONFESSIONS issue, I explore all things cat, with songs by artists like Dee-Lite, Peggy Polk, Psapp, Alexis Saski, Lee Ann Womak, and Janet Jackson. It’s purr-fect! Take a listen now!
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MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
Issue #2, CAT LADY CONFESSIONSPoor Cat Lady. She always gets a bum rap. No one ever makes fun of Ernest Hemingway, whose Key West home was filled with cats — and he of a certain age. His strapping action figure includes a typewriter and a shotgun. Cat Lady? She gets six cats, bed head, and…
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Do you remember the time…you fell in love with a Spotify playlist?
Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the IT’S ABOUT TIME issue, I had fun playing off the themes of time, time travel, and sci-f. It features an eclectic set of songs by artists like Styx, Michael Jackson,Imagine Dragons, Lana Del Rey, Green Day,…
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