Category: Books

  • MINI (zine): There’s No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy

    MINI (zine): There’s No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy

    Issue #1 – There’s No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy: 5 Things to Remember When You Walk in the Woods People love the nature preserve where I often walk. Who wouldn’t? Its wide, criss-crossing trails offer welcome views of the woods and ponds and wildlife. It’s easy to forget that the busiest highway on…

  • Now on Sale! Manifest (zine) #11: Great & Small

    Now on Sale! Manifest (zine) #11: Great & Small

    Issue #11, Great & Small All things bright and beautiful,All creatures great and small,All things wise and wonderful,The Lord God made them all. As we move among the creatures of this planet — every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth — one…

  • Lightning in a January Sky!

    Lightning in a January Sky!

    JANUARY 11Their eyes never lost touch.They sat and talked and laughed for hours.He reached for her hand as if he had done so every day since they last saw each other.That familiar feeling surprised them long into the night.They kissed.There was lightning in the January sky. It’s been more than 15 years since that fateful…

  • Creative Gift Ideas

    Creative Gift Ideas

    A Gift Subscription to MANIFEST (zine)is a one-of-a-kind gift idea for the holidays! It’s like sending a mini art installation that features interesting images and creative rabbit holes, quotes, poetry, a curated Spotify playlist. Layered with colors, textures, meanings (and music), the result is a thought-full, tactile journey with nooks and crannies to discover along…

  • Thank you.

    Thank you.

    This past year has been a whirlwind for my little publishing imprint, Three Chairs Publishing. In February, I published my fourth book, Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story. It kicked off with a warm welcome at the Guilford Art Center on Valentine’s weekend, and was featured by the Independent Book Review as part of “45…

  • NEW! LIMITED EDITION ISSUE of MANIFEST (zine)

    NEW! LIMITED EDITION ISSUE of MANIFEST (zine)

    Issue #10, The Lola Poems “I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats,” writes Eckhart Tolle in his book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being.…

  • Preview: Heroically Found

    Preview: Heroically Found

    Issue #9, Heroically Found 24-Page, Full-Color, 5 x 7 Booklet + Inserts and Curated Spotify Playlist, $8.00 or subscribe and get 4 issues for $25.00 You can pay through PayPal using a PayPal account or any standard credit card. If you prefer the old school approach, please send your check, made payable to Jen Payne,…

  • Now Available! Manifest (zine): Heroically Found

    Now Available! Manifest (zine): Heroically Found

    Issue #9, Heroically Found Taking its theme from the William Butler Yeats poem “A Crazed Girl,” HEROICALLY FOUND considers how we improvise as we go along “no matter what disaster occurred,” finding balance, like the crazed girl, in “her music, her poetry, dancing upon the shore.” Quoting from a variety of spiritual and creative sources,…

  • THE EXCHANGE: A Statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt

    THE EXCHANGE: A Statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt

    Three Chairs Publishing is psyched to be part of THE EXCHANGE, a statewide artist treasure hunt happening in Connecticut from now until November 1! CLICK HERE for an interactive map, GPS coordinates, and video clues from all of the artists! SomethingProjects is launching its first project, a statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt called THE EXCHANGE,…

  • 3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago!

    3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago!

    3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago! When I come back in my next life I want to be an artist AND I want to work at Quimby’s in Chicago. Quimby’s is an independently owned bookstore that sells independently-published and small press books, comics, zines and ephemera. They favor the unusual, the aberrant, the saucy and…

  • NOW ON SALE: MANIFEST (zine): Endemic

    NOW ON SALE: MANIFEST (zine): Endemic

    On May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. MANIFEST (zine): Endemic is a response that event. The proceeds from this issue will be donated to Sandy Hook Promise, a national nonprofit organization founded…

  • Zines I’ve read in 2022 (May)

    Originally posted on Echo Zines: Welcome to my monthly zine recommendations aka the list of zines I read in the past month! This time I found reading pleasure in publications about gardening, Star Trek, mental health, witchery, the pandemic, and more… Let’s start with Laura-Marie’s zines. She’s such a prolific writer, both for her zines…