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Letter 3: Thank you
Letter 3: Thank youBy Alex Ramos Hello, Welcome to Sunstroke Press’ newsletter. We’re delighted to announce that our inaugural release, Diaries of a Wet Bird by Sophia Cutino, is out. It’s available for purchase over on our online store. It shouldn’t take more than a few days to ship out from our little studio in New York, but we do only have one person preparing mail, so we appreciate any patience you could extend as we work through orders. If you have received your copy, we’d love to know what you think! Send us an email or tag us in an Instagram story or post. We also want to offer a big, warm thank you to everyone who attended our release party for Diaries of a Wet Bird in Brooklyn last month. Thank you to Cherry On Top for hosting us and pouring delicious wine all night, to Rambler Magazine for collaborating with us on the event and to our artists, Juno Roome, Roísín McKeown and Angelina Zaphyria, for offering their time and talent. Regardless of whether you dropped by just to say hello and pick up a book, or stayed all night to enjoy the performances, we are so grateful. The turnout for the event was overwhelming and not what we expected at all. In fact, we struggled planning for the event just a week shy of it happening; we had to switch dates, coordinate performers and accommodate last minute equipment requests… I threw in an electric guitar cable in my suitcase — filled to the brim with layers and winter wools — just in case we needed it. Birdy reassured me that “there has got to be a working cable in New York City,” and yeah, there was. Again, thank you very much for joining us. By the way, the release party was the first time Birdy (Sunstroke Press' Managing Director) and I (Alex) had met in real life, after a whopping five years of online creative partnership. Can you believe that? Check us out in the photos below. With gratitude, (The photos above are by Rio-Dean Martin. Yes, the bag by the window was mine and I was doing a bad job of watching it all night. Thanks for not stealing it.) Praise for Diaries of a Wet BirdWe are delighted by the reviews we've received on the book so far. Here's two that we feel really capture Sophia's work and our direction with the book. These would not exist without the magic of our resident publicity whiz (read: that means Publicity Director, so contact her if you want ARC's in the future) — Turi. Dazed: These dreamy photos document one woman’s bicoastal coming of age by Madeleine PollardDanny's Photobook Corner via TikTokIn Our OrbitIn Our Orbit is Sunstroke Press’ recommendations section. This is just a snapshot of stuff we like right now, whether that’s an old movie or a new poem. Each link directly gets you to where you can listen, watch, purchase or learn more about the recommendation. Enjoy! If you enjoyed reading this newsletter and want to support what we do, find out how on our website. ☀ |
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