December 25th, 2008 / 7:44 pm
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Ryan Call
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Secret Santa Results and Thank You
Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Secret Santa Gift Exchange for Indie Lit. One hundred and forty people took part in the exchange, and if everyone followed our suggested $15-$25 gift range, I feel like saying that we exchanged around somewhere between $2,100 and $3,500 worth of gifts – so that is exciting, I think, for everyone. Also, several participants kindly donated their own work to others, as did editors of various presses, which is another fine way to spread word about new writing.
Below I’ve posted the Santa pairs and the gifts that I know were sent, and as far as I can tell, everyone played fair – for those who haven’t emailed me what you purchased, please let us know what you sent/received in the comments. Please email me if you have had any trouble with the exchange, but keep in mind that some gifts may arrive after today, some are subscriptions that will also take time to kick in, etc. Pretty soon we’ll have an HTMLGIANT sort of marketplace to trade gifts around if you’d like.
Also, if you still haven’t received your gift and don’t want to know because you’re waiting for the surprise, be aware that spoilers come after the break.
Thanks again to everyone who participated; I think this was good fun.
| Secret Santa | Gift Recipient | Gift Purchased for Recipient |
| Aaron Burch | Reb Livingston | |
| Aaron Burch | Mike Lindgren | |
| Aaron Gilbreath | Shya Scanlon | Subscription to Black Warrior Review |
| Adam Coates | Alan Trotter | Something from this http://www.timetravelopps.co.uk/ |
| Adam Peterson | Gene Morgan | Creation Myths by Mathias Svalina (New Michigan Press), As in Every Deafness by Graham Foust (Flood Editions), Michael Martone by Michael Martone (FC2) |
| Adam Robinson | DanielLichtenberg | |
| Aden Pennington | Eva Gordon | |
| Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz | Michael Kimball | Where are the Rebels? by Joseph Ridgewell, The Happy Birthday Book; Disillusionment You Can Buy by Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz, Tapping Ashes in the Dark by Rob Plath |
| Alan Trotter | Crispin Best | |
| Alicia Pernell | Molly Gaudry | Moths Mail the House by Michael Kriesel, For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed… by Hosho McCreesh, and “The President, a criminal and a chimpanzee walk into a bar….” by justin.barrett; artwork by David Woodson (Sunnyoutside) |
| Amanda Nazario | Daniel Bailey | Lost Positives by John Cotrona, Echo Detained by Joshua Cochran, Reticent by Jesse Weston, [sic] 1 and 2, Jesus totebag, and Your Holiday Gift by Amanda Nazario |
| Amanda Oaks | William Walsh | Fossil Fuels by Jessica Dawson and Breaking it Down by Rusty Barnes |
| Ana-Maria Medina | Erica Barmash | |
| April Choi | Noah Falck | |
| Bernadette Geyer | Josh Kleinberg | The Possibility of Music by Stephen-Paul Martin, FC2 |
| Blake Butler | Claire Donato | Nylund the Sarcographer and Fog&Car |
| Brad Green | Blake Butler | A few books from Open Letter Press |
| Bryan Coffelt | Christy Call | All Over But The Shouting by Kesey |
| Camille Bernstein | Amanda Nazario | Handmade journal from Magpie Molly |
| Cari Luna | Brad Green | Subscription to One Story |
| Carolyn Kellogg | Mike Young | |
| Chelsea Martin | Chris Williams | J&L Illustrated #2 and Don’t Wake Up It’s Just Me by Mike Young |
| Chris Higgs | Cari Luna | Shane Jone’s Lightboxes |
| Chris Williams | Zach Dodson | 2008 Chapbook Series Subscription form NMP/DIAGRAM |
| Christian Ochoa | Mercedes Castillo Hanvey | |
| Christy Call | Signe Cluiss | BobOrManOnBoat, BestofTheWeb |
| Claire Donato | Bernadette Geyer | Ceci n’est pas Keith Ceci n’est pas Rosmarie by Keith & Rosemarie Waldrop and Out of Light by Joe Massey |
| Cliff Garstang | Lydia Gwyn | Temporary People by Steve Gillis and BobOrManOnBoat by Peter Markus |
| Crispin Best | Matthew Savoca | Yippee Magazine, The Origin of Paranoia as a Heated Mole Suit. |
| Cynthia Arrieu-King | Kevin Watson | |
| Cynthia Shannon | Grant Barber | Subscription to BOMB |
| Dan Wickett | Ryan Call | Two books of poetry |
| Daniel Bailey | Shann Palmer | |
| DanielLichtenberg | Lily Hoang | Two Issues of 14Hills |
| Darby Larson | Mairead Case | |
| Darcie Dennigan | Rozalia Jovanovic | Copper Nickel, film by Aaron Balkan |
| Dave Housley | Scott Sanford | |
| Dave Madden | Peter Cole | |
| David Barringer | Shellie Zacharia | |
| David Gutowski | Tobias Carrol | |
| David | Bryan Coffelt | Brick, Unsaid, The Poet Assassinated, by Guillaume Apollinaire. |
| David McNamara | Dave Housely | Wee Hour Martydom by Jason Tandon, For All These Wretched, Beautiful, And Insignificant Things by Hosho McCreesh, and And the weary Are At Rest by Andrew Taylor |
| Eileen Tabios | Jereme Dean | Astronomy Orgonon by Mark Lamoureux, The Hay(na)ku Anthology VOL II – Meritage Press, and Fragile Replacements by William Allegrezza |
| EJ Van Lanen | Leslie Miller | Subscription to One Story |
| Emily Pullen | Lakin Khan | Mopus by Oisin Curran |
| Emily Tedrowe | Monica Welker | A Stranger Among Us edited by Stacy Bierlein OV Books |
| Erica Barmash | Ken Baumann | Black Flies by Shannon Burke |
| Erik Johnson | Lana Ayers | The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Kerouac & Burroughs, Grove Press |
| Eva Gordon | Gregg Barrios | |
| Gallagher Lawson | Sidebrow Editors | 5month subscription to ml Press |
| Gena Abelkop | James Schiller | stranger things happen by kelly link, comic by brazillianoir, issue 5 of finery |
| Gene Morgan | Cynthia Shannon | 6month subscription to ml press |
| Giancarlo DiTrapano | Paula Rockwell | Venus Drive, The First Hurt, Actual Air from Open City |
| Grant Barber | Rachel Cantor | Eleganceofthe Hedghog and White by ben zucker |
| Gregg Barrios | Giancarlo DiTrapano | mint edition of Tracy Letts’ play August: Osage County |
| Gwen Dawson | Mary Agner | Zach Dodson’s boring and Paris Review Fall2008 |
| JA Tyler | Dan Wickett | Lightboxes, The Origin of Paranoia as a Heated Mole Suit, I Will Unfold You With My Hairy Hands, one year subscription to The Cupboard |
| Jackie Corley | David | |
| James Schiller | Rachel Mallino | |
| James Yeh | Gena Abelkop | Subscription to Hobart, debut issue of Gigantic |
| Jamie Gaughran-Perez | David Gutowski | |
| Jeff Parker | Ronnie Scott | Subscription to Hobart (w/ Mary Miller minibook) |
| Jensen Whelan | Jerry Allison | Subscription to Hobart and Quick Fiction |
| Jereme Dean | Jensen Whelan | Down and Out on Murder Mile, Digging the Vein, Songs from the Shooting Gallery by Tony O’Neill |
| Jeremy Schmall | Christian Ochoa | Agriculture Reader #2, issue of ForkliftOhio, 1 drawering. |
| Jeremy Spencer | Emily Pullen | |
| Jerry Allison | Scott Esposito | |
| Jessica Bomarito | Melissa Walker | |
| Jodi Chromey | Matt Bell | All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison and My Sister’s Continent by Gina Frangello |
| John Lingan | Rachel Maizes | |
| Josh Kleinberg | Aaron Burch | Temporary People by Gillis and BobOrManOnBoat by Markus |
| Josh Maday | Gwen Dawson | Publishing Genius Press: all PDF chaps (except ric royer’s) all the books, and Light Boxes |
| Juliette Kelley | Aden Pennington | |
| Justin Sirois | Michelle Panik | Secondary Sound by Justin S., Verb Sap by Magus Magnus, There Were One and It Was Two audioCD |
| Katie Colvin | Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz | |
| Kelli Agodon | Nick Antosca | Subscription to Crab Creek Review and Sign by David Mutschlecner (Ahsahta Press) and small broadside |
| Ken Baumann | Josh Maday | Midnight Picnic, lifetime Subscription to NO COLONY |
| Kevin Watson | Shawn Rohrbach | |
| Kim Gek Lin Short | Jamie Gaughran-Perez | Cadaver Dogs by Loudon, Mosquito by Lemon |
| Kimberly Wong | zara | |
| Lakin Khan | Leigh Stein | Subscription to One Story |
| Lana Ayers | Justin Sirois | Subscription to Crab Creek Review |
| Leigh Stein | Sara Kearns | Oneiromance by Kathleen Rooney |
| Leslie Miller | Matt Kirkpatrick | Dear Everybody by Kimball |
| Lily Hoang | EJ Van Lanen | |
| Lincoln Michel | Camille Bernstein | Subscription to Fence |
| Lydia Gwyn | Amanda Oaks | |
| Mairead Case | April Choi | Book of Changes: A collection of Interviews by Kristine McKenna (Fantagraphics) |
| Mark Maxwell | Cynthia Arrieu-King | Every Way Oakly by Steve McCaffrey |
| Mary Agner | Jeremy Spencer | Murmuration of Starlings by York and Star-Spangled Banner by Duhamel |
| Matt Bell | David Barringer | Keyhole #5 and 1 Year Subscription |
| Matt Debenedictis | Aaron Gilbreath | How the Broken Lead the Blind, Caketrain06, Subscription to Quick Fiction |
| Matt Kirkpatrick | Juliette Kelley | |
| Matthew Savoca | Adam Coates | 3 month subscription to ml Press |
| Melissa Walker | Cliff Garstang | |
| Mercedes Castillo Hanvey | Dave Madden | |
| Michael Harrison | Chris Higgs | Dzanc Books novelist bundle |
| Michael Kimball | Emily Tedrowe | In the Devil’s Territory, In a Bear’s Eye, Bob, or Man On Boat |
| Michelle Panik | Kelli Agodon | Subscription to Hobart, The Sicily Papers, Best New Poets 2008 |
| Mike Lindgren | Erik Johnson | |
| Mike Young | Jodi Chromey | |
| Molly Gaudry | Eileen Tabios | Carla Harryman’s Adorno’s Noise from Essay Press and Thomas Glave’s Whose Song? And Other Stories from City Lights Books |
| Monica Welker | Adam Peterson | |
| Nick Antosca | Mark Maxwell | Stephen Dixon’s I |
| Noah Falck | Lincoln Michel | 3 Handheld Edition Chaps and Measuring Tape Chap |
| Paula Rockwell | Matt Debenedictis | |
| Peter Cole | Chelsea Martin | |
| Rachel Cantor | Roberta Romero | Unending Rooms by Daniel Chacon and Things that Pass For Love by Allison Amend |
| Rachel Maizes | Jessica Bomarito | Subscription to Missouri Review |
| Rachel Mallino | Stephen Berger | Subscription to Tilt Press Chapbook series (5chaps to be released by Feb 09) |
| Reb Livingston | Ana-Maria Medina | |
| Rion Amilcar Scott | Susan Rich | 3 year subscription to Bellevue Literary Review |
| Roberta Romero | Aaron Burch | Dawn by Phil Elverum |
| Ronnie Scott | Kimberly Wong | Torpedo #3 |
| Rozalia Jovanovic | Carolyn Kellogg | Two issues of Wolphin |
| Ryan Call | Alicia Pernell | Forklift, Ohio Number 12, Summer 2003, 6×6 13, Spring 2007 from Ugly Duckling Presse, Tuesday; An Art Project, Second Issue, Fall 2007, Oh Baby by Kim Chinquee, Subscription to 6×6 |
| Sara Kearns | David McNamara | |
| Scott Esposito | Gallagher Lawson | The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian |
| Scott Sanford | Rion Amilcar Scott | Interpreter of Maladies, Click, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans |
| Shann Palmer | James Yeh | Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s Shy Green Fields |
| Shawn Rohrbach | John Lingan | A copy of his (Rohrbach’s) novel |
| Shellie Zacharia | Michael Harrison | Subscription to Keyhole |
| Shya Scanlon | Jeremy Schmall | Two year Subscription to JUBILAT |
| Sidebrow Editors | Adam Robinson | |
| Signe Cluiss | Katie Colvin | Vacation by DebOUnferth, Wolf at the Door by Travis Jeppesen and The Condemned by Noah Cicero |
| Stephen Berger | Kim Gek Lin Short | The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris |
| Susan Rich | Jackie Corley | |
| Suzy Devere | Darby Larson | Where are the Rebels by Joseph Ridgwell, Pet Milk Project, Tapping Ashes in the Dark by Rob Plath |
| Tobias Carrol | Darcie Dennigan | boring by Zach Plague and Yeti #6 and THE2NDHAND |
| William Walsh | Suzy Devere | Without Wax by William Walsh |
| Zach Dodson | JA Tyler | Sons of Rapture and boring boring boring boring boring boring boring |
| Zara | Jeff Parker | Subscription to Fence |
| Miette Elm | Lorraine Martindale | Locos by Felipe Alfau (Dalkey Archive) |
| Lorraine Martindale | Timmy Waldron | |
| Timmy Waldron | Meagan Bass | |
| Meagan Bass | Miette Elm | Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno |
| JRT | Rachel Maizes | Stefan Kiesbye or Joyelle McSweeney and Subscription to Barrelhouse or Hobart, throw in some mp3s, be awesome |
| Catherine Lacey | Kevin O’Neill | Chris Killen’s The Bird Room |
| Kevin O’Neill | Catherine Lacey | |
| Didi Menendez | JRT |
Tags: gifts, Secret Santa
Thank you for putting this all together. One day I had nothing to read. The emotion to describe my feeling was frustration. It spread like a rash all over my body, but then I received a great gift of words in the mail.
Thank you for putting this all together. One day I had nothing to read. The emotion to describe my feeling was frustration. It spread like a rash all over my body, but then I received a great gift of words in the mail.
Thank you for organizing this, and thanks to my secret santa for Lightboxes. Very much looking forward to reading it when it pubs.
Thank you for organizing this, and thanks to my secret santa for Lightboxes. Very much looking forward to reading it when it pubs.
Thank you so much to Ryan for putting this together & my secret santa, Rachel! I am already reading Things that Pass for Love, and love it!. I am so busy with school and everything I read is related to school, it is such a beautiful gift to have literature that helps to open my world. Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!
Thank you so much to Ryan for putting this together & my secret santa, Rachel! I am already reading Things that Pass for Love, and love it!. I am so busy with school and everything I read is related to school, it is such a beautiful gift to have literature that helps to open my world. Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!
Thanks again Blake! & great list of books here, too. Happy holidays, all–c.
Thanks again Blake! & great list of books here, too. Happy holidays, all–c.
Thanks again for organizing this; it is great on so many levels. Thanks to my no-longer-Secret-Santa: you seem to have pitched a tent in my brain; what killer selections. Cheers to you, and happy new year!
Thanks again for organizing this; it is great on so many levels. Thanks to my no-longer-Secret-Santa: you seem to have pitched a tent in my brain; what killer selections. Cheers to you, and happy new year!
expensive magic has been fun. I look forward to future exchanges. m. christmas holiday to all.
expensive magic has been fun. I look forward to future exchanges. m. christmas holiday to all.
Erica: Thanks so much for Black Flies. I look forward to reading it.
Erica: Thanks so much for Black Flies. I look forward to reading it.
Ken: You’re welcome!
Ken: You’re welcome!
Aaron cheers to you, and happy new year. Glad to have aided in a mind tent.
Aaron cheers to you, and happy new year. Glad to have aided in a mind tent.
Thank you, Aimee. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, independent publishers.
Thank you, Aimee. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, independent publishers.
Is the Cari above the same Cari that subscribed me to One Story?
Thanks so much!
Is the Cari above the same Cari that subscribed me to One Story?
Thanks so much!
Hey, Brad,
Yep. The same Cari. I get a cheap little thrill when that One Story envelope turns up in my own mailbox every few weeks. (Then again, I’m home with a toddler all day, so I take my cheap little thrills where I can get them these days.) The quality of the work is usually quite good. Enjoy it!
Cari
Hey, Brad,
Yep. The same Cari. I get a cheap little thrill when that One Story envelope turns up in my own mailbox every few weeks. (Then again, I’m home with a toddler all day, so I take my cheap little thrills where I can get them these days.) The quality of the work is usually quite good. Enjoy it!
Cari
Hey, Michael K.–
Thanks for the excellent Dzanc books! They look very cool – can’t wait to read ’em.
Emily T.
Hey, Michael K.–
Thanks for the excellent Dzanc books! They look very cool – can’t wait to read ’em.
Emily T.
Yay, Roberta! I’m so glad you like it! Wasn’t this fun?
Grant Barber, you rock! Thanks for Elegance, WHICH I’VE BEEN WANTING TO READ! Really. What fun!
Rachel
Thank you for the subscription to hobart, what an excellent surprise! To my recipient, fear not, mailed the package today (better late than never I say!)
Xo
Thank you for the subscription to hobart, what an excellent surprise! To my recipient, fear not, mailed the package today (better late than never I say!)
Xo
Thank you Ryan — sorry I didn’t get a chance to update you sooner — the holidays kept me busy. My secret santa sent me:
INCREDIBLY CHANGE-BOTS by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf)
THE THREE PARADOXES by Paul Hornschemeier (Fantagraphics)
wrapped in Maker’s Mark boozy giftwrap
Thank you Ryan — sorry I didn’t get a chance to update you sooner — the holidays kept me busy. My secret santa sent me:
INCREDIBLY CHANGE-BOTS by Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf)
THE THREE PARADOXES by Paul Hornschemeier (Fantagraphics)
wrapped in Maker’s Mark boozy giftwrap
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Thanks, Ryan for your organizational wizardry…and thanks, Ellen for Mopus! it’s intriguing and I can’t wait to get to it. and I love the inventive packaging. In fact I posted a pix of it on my blog! I see some one else, Cari, is a One Story fan, too. I always love seeing their envelope in the mail.
Ho ho ho, to all!
Thanks, Ryan for your organizational wizardry…and thanks, Ellen for Mopus! it’s intriguing and I can’t wait to get to it. and I love the inventive packaging. In fact I posted a pix of it on my blog! I see some one else, Cari, is a One Story fan, too. I always love seeing their envelope in the mail.
Ho ho ho, to all!
yes thank you ryan.
i sent ryan what i ordered but guess he already posted this first?
jensen,
you should be expecting 3 books
Down and Out on Murder Mile
Digging th Vein
Songs from the Shooting Gallery
all from Tony Oneill.
yes thank you ryan.
i sent ryan what i ordered but guess he already posted this first?
jensen,
you should be expecting 3 books
Down and Out on Murder Mile
Digging th Vein
Songs from the Shooting Gallery
all from Tony Oneill.
fun times
fun times
Thanks, Alicia!
Thanks, Alicia!
dear gina, sorry i misspelled your name on your subscription to hobart. as you can read above, it was the spelling that was given to me. before sending your gift i googled you out of curiosity and found the “correct” spelling but reasoned that if i was somehow wrong there, i would have only myself to blame, as opposed to someone else. when in doubt, etc.
dear shann, i am not home right now so i have not started reading your gift, but i am looking forward to reading it when i get back, thank you very much.
dear gina, sorry i misspelled your name on your subscription to hobart. as you can read above, it was the spelling that was given to me. before sending your gift i googled you out of curiosity and found the “correct” spelling but reasoned that if i was somehow wrong there, i would have only myself to blame, as opposed to someone else. when in doubt, etc.
dear shann, i am not home right now so i have not started reading your gift, but i am looking forward to reading it when i get back, thank you very much.
I received this from here: http://www.amazon.com/My-Untimely-Death-Adam-Peterson/dp/0980109817/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230557174&sr=1-1
I received this from here: http://www.amazon.com/My-Untimely-Death-Adam-Peterson/dp/0980109817/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230557174&sr=1-1
I received a copy of ‘Surreal South’ an anthology of short fiction and poetry. excellent choice and i am enjoying a lot. Thanks for putting this together, a lot of fun. Maybe I was a bad boy last year, but this was the only gift I got this Christmas! (LOL)
I received a copy of ‘Surreal South’ an anthology of short fiction and poetry. excellent choice and i am enjoying a lot. Thanks for putting this together, a lot of fun. Maybe I was a bad boy last year, but this was the only gift I got this Christmas! (LOL)
haven’t gotten anything from my secret santa yet . . .
haven’t gotten anything from my secret santa yet . . .
Erica – you are not alone. I didn’t receive a gift from my secret santa either. I guess she was busy reading 2666.
I feel like the kid who waited all night for Santa to arrive and found out that he didn’t even make a pit stop at my place.
Oh well, it’s better to give than receive.
Maybe next year if I behave myself.
Erica – you are not alone. I didn’t receive a gift from my secret santa either. I guess she was busy reading 2666.
I feel like the kid who waited all night for Santa to arrive and found out that he didn’t even make a pit stop at my place.
Oh well, it’s better to give than receive.
Maybe next year if I behave myself.
I even left out milk and cookies, and carrots for the reindeer, and still got zilch, nothing, not even a lump of coal. Sniff.
I even left out milk and cookies, and carrots for the reindeer, and still got zilch, nothing, not even a lump of coal. Sniff.
I sent a pack of books from indie publishers, including Dzanc & Europa, to Mike Young. And Stop Smiling magazine’s Men of Letters 3-pack is on its way.
I sent a pack of books from indie publishers, including Dzanc & Europa, to Mike Young. And Stop Smiling magazine’s Men of Letters 3-pack is on its way.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day!