Carrie Murphy’s ‘Meet the Lavenders’ now available for pre-order! + chapbook trailer

You can now pre-order Carrie Murphy’s Meet the Lavenders at the BoL etsy shop! Click here to order and read more about it. Your pre-order includes a handmade ‘I (heart) The Lavender’ brooch, so you can be the most stylin’ groupie of a fictional girl group that ever walked your town. Meet the Lavenders is illustrated by Rhani Lee Remedes and Susanna Troxler, with cover art by Remedes.

Yesterday we shot a trailer for Meet the Lavenders, starring the ever lovely Margaret! View the video below, featuring an excerpt from the chapbook and all that is lavender:

chapbook trailer for Carrie Murphy’s ‘Meet the Lavenders’ from Birds of Lace on Vimeo.

Coming ever-so soon: Carrie Murphy’s ‘Meet the Lavenders’

Carrie Murphy’s tale-through-poetry of a fictional ’60s girl group, Meet the Lavenders, is just about ready to be unleashed upon the world. Tomorrow will see the filming of an accompanying chapbook trailer, BoL’s very first, and a pre-order page should be up by tomorrow evening! ‘Til then, behold two of the illustrations for the chapbook by the wonderful Rhani Lee Remedes and Susanna Troxler, who’ve offered their talents to give us two different and dynamic takes on the lovely Lavenders themselves:

illustration by Rhani Lee Remedes

illustration by Susanna Troxler

Tidbits

Finery (#5) contributor Brooklyn Copeland wrote a lovely review of Adam Strauss’ Perhaps a Girl Elsewhere over at her blog. Thanks Brooklyn! You can purchase Perhaps a Girl Elsewhere here.

Soon I will be posting a call for submissions for Finery #8- finally!

You only have a week left to order Anna Joy Springer’s The Birdwisher at 30% off. Visit our etsy page to order & use the code “vicious” at checkout.

Next month will see the release of Kristina Marie Darling’s Footnotes to a History of the Victorian Novel, a limited-edition chapbook/broadside that makes use not only of elegant wordplay but also vintage wallpaper, tiny ornaments, an IBM Selctric II typewriter, soft pink paper and brightly colored thread. Shortly thereafter we will have two other brilliant releases to kick off summer, with Leon Baham’s spooky poetic essay based on The Outsiders, Ponyboy, Sigh and Carrie Murphy’s ode to ’60s girl groups, Meet the Lavenders, which will feature a cover and illustrations by Rhani Lee Remedes.