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House of Vlad Press

18 days

LEASING by @dt_robbins is OUT NOW! “Wild, sharp, and hilarious…” - @ChelseaHodson / “…a feat of hypnosis...” - @Aaron__Burch / “…a buck wild novel...” - @kevinrmaloney / “…an incredible ride...” - @lexicola / “Scatological, nihilistic, and absurd…” - @kylerseibel GET IT!

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

1 year

Meet VLAD MAG, the new lit journal from House of Vlad Press 😋 Issue one, edited by @brianalanellis , is available to read now at: Issue two will be edited by @JillianLuft (visit the site for submission guidelines) Please SHARE and ENJOY!

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2 years

I hope this tweet finds you in another dimension where everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

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@HouseofVlad

2 years

Highly recommend using “poet voice” when ordering Pizza Hut over the phone.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

Writing is cool 'cause you can be both a has-been and a never-was at the same time.

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House of Vlad Press

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11 months

Meet VLAD MAG #2 : HOT SLOBS (guest-edited by @JillianLuft )! Please SHARE and ENJOY! Issue #3 submissions are OPEN NOW (visit the site for guidelines)!

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

The amount of lowkey psychopaths I've met through indie lit is astounding ❤ thank you

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

Tweeting this random picture of Bukowski lifting weights to make people mad.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

I see you poets dumping on Rupi for how she reads her poems like y'all reading your shit isn't just as cringe lol whatever

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Dropping the first House of Vlad title of 2021 Beyoncé style... Have Amazon Prime? Get HORROR VACUI, the new book by @formermissNJ , by Thursday, January 9, which is Shy's birthday! Paperback/e-book available now at ! Cover art by @sampinkisalive

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Hey, it's my responsibility as a complete idiot to continue the thankless hard work it takes in bringing you marginalized books that make very little money & get very little attention all while my mental health diminishes & my personal life falls apart, kapeesh?

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Picturing Hemingway at a Buffalo Wild Wings, drunk and refusing to wear a mask (or a shirt).

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

7 months

Super stoked to announce that SCUMBAG SUMMER, the debut by @JillianLuft (out 6/20), is now available as a SIGNED PRE-ORDER! Promises to be the most anticipated book of the summer! Premium merchandise bundles are also available! Catch her at @treefortfest !

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

1 year

Proud to announce another upcoming title, coming out fall 2023: VIOLENT CANDY: Stories by Tex Gresham 🍭

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House of Vlad Press

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2 years

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

This was the worst year of my life but I still managed to bring y'all some of the tastiest indie lit there is, so please bow down to me. Bow down to your sad, broken indie lit Messiah.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Ariel Pink and John Maus headed to DC

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

1 year

It's ok to get outsiders into books, especially in wild, clever ways. Make your own rules. You don't have to appeal to the academic, stuck-up, gatekeeping haters. And you don't gotta be rich. You can do this in places smaller than NY or LA. Literature should be fun and welcoming.

sophia 🥀👼🏻

@sophianjune

1 year

for nylon’s annual It Girl issue, i wrote about Literary It Girls & the exaltation of the book launch ft. the coolest, smartest writers who are changing the book world 🖤

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Quick shout-out to everyone listlessly going through the motions of an old dream.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

HOT LIT TIP: The people who give writing advice on Twitter are drunk.

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

The job of a writer is to publicly ridicule David Foster Wallace like he's Ronald McDonald.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

10 months

PRE-ORDERS END MONDAY, GET 'EM IN... // @C4GBooks

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

I dunno, does this look "dangerously NPR-friendly"?

Morbid Books

@morbidbooks

3 years

@Adam_C_Smith @AmpSulphate @apocpartypress @HouseofVlad @apocpartypress Not really into heavy metal but appreciate the spirit. @houseofvlad Aesthetics look dangerously NPR-friendly but would give them a try.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

The Girl with the Wawa Soft Pretzel Tattoo

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

Top 5 Writers I'd Like to See on An Episode of Hot Ones [retweet and share your own picks]: 1. Ottessa Moshfegh 2. Scott McClanahan 3. Elizabeth Ellen 4. Samantha Irby 5. Dave Eggers

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

PRO LIT TIP: Just combine all of your shitty exes into one evil character so that it will confuse them if or when they finally read your scathing, autobiographical anger novel.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

I guess be thankful you still possess the one thing that consistently keeps you going in life: spite.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

RIP Legend ❤

New York Tyrant Magazine

@NewYorkTyrant

4 years

With great sorrow, and on behalf of his grieving husband and family, Tyrant Books confirms the death of our founder and publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano 💔

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

The new web site is up, so now you can easily browse and purchase the HOV catalog without getting distracted by tumblr porn 🎉

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

2 years

Pupils dilated, we are House of Vlad Press 😳

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

The only writers retreat worth a damn is the one where we all take molly and go see Criss Angel live in Vegas.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

The next two titles, I HATE YOU, PLEASE READ ME by @postitbreakup and BODY HIGH by @JonJonlindsey , are dropping early next year, and we have PDF copies for writers interested in reviewing them for blogs and journals, so slide into our dm's with your credentials and contact info!

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

If you have issues with a person's past behaviour, is it better to confront them privately about your feelings, or would you rather just publicly drag them and the people they're associated with through the one-sided hate-o-sphere that is social media? Yes, asking for a friend.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

8 months

Meet VLAD MAG #3 : BAD VIBES (guest-edited by KRIS HALL)! Please SHARE and ENJOY! Issue #4 submissions, guest-edited by @Teaweave , are OPEN NOW (visit the site for guidelines)!

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

We thank you for all the love and support in 2021 ❤️ It was a hard year and I'm sorry our website is shit, but stay tuned...

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

HOV has a domain now () that basically directs you to a tumblr page (LOL). Downgraded the big cartel site to where only selected titles & pre-orders will be sold. All titles can be purchased through this new address via links to either Amazon or Bookshop.😘

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Cover reveal for Noah Cicero's WILD KINGDOM: An Autobiographical Poetry Adventure by Noah Cicero (House of Vlad, 2021) ⭐ Advance PDF copies are available for press-related things. So slide into our DMs, eh?

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

6 years

By age 35, you should still not be able to tell whether you're a good writer or a bad writer.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

People talk about their novel a lot, which seems annoying, yes, but sometimes it's the only thing they got going in their life, with how consuming it is, so maybe we should let people have that, I dunno.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

Mourning in solidarity today for all of our goth exes who either read or pretended to read Anne Rice.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Everyone has a book in them, or at least several annoying tweets.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

I'm baffled whenever someone wants me to publish their book because I still use Tumblr as a website lol

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

The best minds of our generation are in a to-be-read pile.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Hi can I get 200 automatic likes thanx 😎

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

HOT LIT TIP: Picturing writers being really high on whippets when they tweet writing advice makes it all a little less cringe.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

“Body High is explosive. An anti-glamour anthem of grief and restitution.” @saderotica , author of Nudes ( @hobartpulp ) // MAY 1 //

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

No use stressing out about being a great writer these days, because there aren't even any great people around.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Chris Pratt to voice David Foster Wallace in Pixar's Consider Mr. Lobster.

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

Writers, I highly recommend reading The Elements of Style because it teaches you to clarify text by simply, and properly, substituting awkward phrases like "knelt on" with just "murdered."

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

I snort drugs off of every book I publish for good luck, which usually doesn't work, but still.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

A Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel where the protagonist has health insurance, a loving relationship, a fulfilling career, no drug or alcohol dependency, and had a positive upbringing.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

MTV True Life: I always found it shameful and embarrassing to tell strangers irl that I publish indie lit books in my spare time so now I just tell them I go on twitter a lot which garners the same reaction without having to explain what publishing indie lit books even means lol

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Joyce Carol Oates is trying to dunk on auto fiction...as if she didn't enjoy Herbie: Fully Loaded like the rest us did...whatever, Joyce!

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

It's a Wonderful Life is the worst Twilight Zone episode ever.

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

If I blurb your book, you have to like every single one of my tweets forever.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

7 months

0 6 / 2 0 / 2 4 #scumbagsummer 💔 #houseofvladpress

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

Writers are so lonely and narcissistic that their interviews are generally a long-winded, insufferable cry for help, but it's chill.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Indie publishing consists of pretty much years and years of "please buy my books, writer person I may or may not know" tweets.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

"Show us your writing process with one image."

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

2 years

You can now PRE-ORDER a signed, limited-edish copy of the new @brianalanellis hardcover! 200 pages, 27 classick short stories, 50 grrrreat poems & over 30 pages of rad bonus stuff that's mostly never been collected in book form! Out in September! 🔥 🔥

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Online Too Much

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

“ @JonJonLindsey is the new gleefully heartbreaking voice of California’s broken world... [Body High] unfolds in rioting prose that bursts into crazed poetry around every curve...” - @gariellelutz . author of Worsted ( @hobartpulp ) //

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

Advice for writers: publish a zine or upload your shit to Amazon or Ingram and just shut the fuck up 😘

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

For sale: votes, never counted.

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

BODY HIGH by @JonJonLindsey (out May 1) and NOAH CICERO'S WILD KINGDOM (out April 14) are both up for PRE-ORDER at // HORROR VACUI by @formermissNJ and I HATE YOU, PLEASE READ ME by @postitbreakup are both OUT NOW!

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

Why do writers think having a Kirkus review is so great? Those idiots can't even spell the word "Circus."

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

9 months

Don't know how other presses work but anyone new to indie lit, or old to indie lit, can always message me for a free House of Vlad PDF sampler... No fear, no worries, my pleasure ❤️

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

Show of hands: Am I the only indie lit publisher with a drug problem?

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

Twitter is just people writing yelp reviews about their own lives.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Ask yourself, "Am I an indie book press, or am I a problematic shit-talker on the internet," or both?

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

I'm high on coke which means I get to mess with all HOV authors on twitter, if I feel like it.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

5 years

Dear God, please grant me the strength to promote/finish editing the books I thought were a good idea to publish in those all too brief instances where I felt super motivated and the pointlessness of existence held less weight.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Most author interviews are like blah blah blah book blah blah blah writing craft blah blah blah *fart sound* blah blah blah

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Currently suffering from an undiagnosed form of brain damage where I can no longer read nor respond to unsolicited pdf manuscripts.

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

House of Vlad has only given one book advance and it was because the author was living out of a car at the time.

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@HouseofVlad

6 years

Poets complaining about other poets reading poems off of cell phones = poetry only read off rolls of toilet paper, from now on, to absorb poet tears.

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

Who's your favorite problematic author?

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

A Portrait of the Scam Artist as a Young Fuccboi

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@HouseofVlad

7 months

Thank you @kevinsampsell for stocking some of that House of Vlad Press good-good at @Powells ❤️ Got a rad store? Grab some whole sale from @asterism_books ✌️

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

NOAH CICERO'S WILD KINGDOM by NOAH CICERO is OUT TODAY! “Cicero’s practical language couches a deep and searching spiritually...” — @believermag Paperback/ebook:

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Just imagined GG Allin updating his cell phone plan at a T-Mobile, and smiled.

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

Suspicious of writers who never share anything embarrassing or manic or sad about themselves on social media and will just post about the academic literary prizes they won and/or whatever "short list" their book made that week, LIKE WHAT ARE YOU HIDING??

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

*AC/DC vocals* For those about to get into problematic literature / We salute you

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

The End of the Tour is just Planes, Trains & Automobiles for people with MFA degrees, change my mind.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

9 months

Meet VLAD MAG: HOT SLOBS contributor @1virginmartini 🥵 Read her story, THE TWO-HEADED CALF, at

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@HouseofVlad

2 years

There's never been a writer on Hot Ones, or even RuPaul's Drag Race, so seriously, what's even the point of what we do?

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

3 years

Wishing each and every one of you the best on your fucked up journey 😘

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

9 months

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉Meet VLAD MAG: HOT SLOBS contributor @saderotica , author of Animals Eat Each Other, Nudes ( @hobartpulp ), Gag Reflex ( @CLASHBooks ) and Deliver Me ( @unnamedpress ), and @witchcraftmag editor 🥵 Read her poem, NIGHTCRAWLER, at

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

6 years

But have you tried aspiring to NOT be a writer?

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@HouseofVlad

4 years

Writers be like, "I know a place," and then slide into your inbox with an unedited, 500-page manuscript of experimentally formated poetry and flash fiction pieces they want you to publish.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

4 years

TASTY DEAL! Order/Pre-order any book by @formermissNJ , @postitbreakup , @JonJonLindsey or Noah Cicero on now & receive via the e-mail on your invoice a PDF of the HOV Super Sampler (w/ the No Frills Sampler #1 & the yet-to-be-released No Frills Sampler #2 )!

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Did it hurt, when nothing got you out of bed today besides the fear of homelessness?

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

I will answer any questions about writing and publishing but I won't/can't give you any hope.

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House of Vlad Press

@HouseofVlad

5 years

Thanks again @NPR for not including on your little list any of the books I both lovingly & painstakingly edit & publish from the bedroom where I share cold pizza with my cat & wait for death, which reminds me: 30% off using promo code HOV30 at houseofvlad dot bigcartel dot com 😉

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@HouseofVlad

7 months

Deserves a repress, @Bud_Smith hit me up...

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

It's the year 2021 and we as a species are renegotiating the artistic merits of Limp Bizkit.

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@HouseofVlad

3 years

Maybe you're born with it, maybe it's that you sometimes disagree with people you actually agree with just to make them angry because self-assured people are mostly annoying.

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@HouseofVlad

1 year

Must be manic and unwell today because I woke up and immediately considered starting an online literary journal.

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@HouseofVlad

6 years

Shout-out to all the relatives who don't create anything besides babies and who never even really read books but are so quick to offer unsolicited advice on how to make money in the publishing world.

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@HouseofVlad

5 years

Bars are not for book reading. They're for other things. Like crying, for example.

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