Anecdotes Cover Reveal

What if you're the kind of kid who sticks a maxi pad to her bedroom wall and calls it art? Then you might be the kind of adult who writes a book like Anecdotes.

Feb 3

Hello friends,

I’m really excited to share the cover of my debut story collection Anecdotes which will be published by Book*hug in September 2023.

Send My Love to Anyone was originally created because I had terrible writer’s block in 2020-2021.

Showing up for Send My Love to Anyone allowed me to show up for my own writing, and now Anecdotes has a cover and can be pre-ordered!

Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler. A maxi pad with decorative blue flowers is taped to a yellow wall with masking tape. — Designed and Edited by Malcolm Sutton | Book*hug 2023

I haven’t had a solo book out since 2015, and I feel like a brand new writer on this front.

The cover was illustrated and designed by Malcolm Sutton who also edited the book.

It’s a maxi pad on the cover, so, yes, there will be blood and periods, but also flashers, creepy professors, parks that hate hippies, climate grief, and the end of the world.

To my knowledge, the maxi pad had never graced the cover of a book of short stories before, so I’m happy we’ve given the humble pad it’s due!

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Pre-order Anecdotes

Anecdotes can be pre-ordered at your favourite local bookstore in Canada and the US.

Consider requesting Anecdotes at your local library!

In Canada writers get paid when books are taken out from libraries through the Public Lending Rights Program.

Read my post in Send My Love to Anyone about why preorders are important.

About Anecdotes

Anecdotes
Short Stories
Book*hug Press
September 19, 2023

With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse.

Absurdist flash fictions in “The Boy is Dead” depict characters such as a park that hates hippies, squirrels, and unhappy parents; a woman lamenting a stolen laptop the day the world ends; and birds slamming into glass buildings.

“This Isn’t a Conversation” shares one-liners from overheard conversations, found texts, diary entries and random thoughts: many are responses to the absurdity and pain of the current political and environmental climate.

“We’re Not Here to Talk About Aliens” gathers autofictions that follow a young protagonist from childhood to early 20s, through the murky undercurrent of potential violence amidst sexual awakening; from first periods to flashers; sticker books to maxi pad art; acid trips to blackouts; creepy professors to close calls.

In “The Dream House,” The Past and The Future are personified as various incarnations in relationships to one another (lovers, a parent and child, siblings, friends), all engaged in ongoing conflict.

These varied, immersive works bristle with truth in the face of unprecedented change. They are playful forms for serious times.

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