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Vol. 3 Collector’s Edition Preview: “Sleeping Bears,” by Zach Powers

The Conium Review Vol. 3 Collector’s Edition drops on November 30th.  Here’s another taste of the contents.  Zach Powers’s novella, “Sleeping Bears,” is a 40-page chap printed on 24-lb. ivory paper with a 65-lb black cover.  This is just one of eight pieces in our collector’s edition box set.

If you don’t feel like splurging on the collector’s edition, remember that The Conium Review Vol. 3 is available as a paperback edition too!

Sleeping Bears 1
Sleeping Bears 3
Sleeping Bears 2

An early peak at the Collector’s Edition

Earlier this year, we announced some changes at The Conium Review. One major item is the shift from biannual to annual publication. However, we’re putting out two versions of the annual.  We’re doing a standard paperback, but we’re also doing a fancier, pricier, badassier collector’s edition.

The collector’s edition will be a box set that includes broadsides, little chaps, etcetera. It’ll contain all the stories from the standard issue, but presented in a unique, handmade, format. This is a book lover’s book. All the handmade artifacts will be housed inside a wooden box, shaped like a book, (yeah, the wooden box even has a faux spine!), perfectly sized to fit on your bookshelf.

We still can’t show a mock-up, because this isn’t a standard book. But this post provides your first taste. The first shipment of collector’s edition boxes arrived today.  Here’s the giddy first look into the first box:

Box full of boxes

And in case you’re not impressed with bubble wrap and crinkly brown paper, here are two of ’em out of the box:

Close-up of wooden boxes

Cool, eh?  These look naked now, but we’ll get the journal’s title across the front and spine, and we can’t wait to fill the boxes with stories.  Pre-orders go on sale in mid-October.  We’ll still offer a paperback edition.  But if you dig The Conium Review, you might want to get a snazzy collector’s edition. More pics and ordering details later as these things come together.