Joe Biel

RT @Microcosmmm: It happens all the time. One of our distributed pubs got in touch, horrified and terrified that MacMillan had just pubbed…

I am “invited” to meet about 50 times per day. Someday, I want to do a performance project where I take every meeting proposed to me for one month and write about the results. "Excuse me, I have another meeting."

Obsessed with book distribution? Want all the answers? Check out this podcast deep dive I did about it with @ibpa https://t.co/GMoSoAKWse

If novels contain emotional truths, what is the resistance to showing those emotional truths as the cover’s value proposition? this is my first serious question ever posed on Twitter.

Sunday is my favorite holiday because I unsubscribe from three newsletters that I never signed up for in the first place. I figure this is about the same rate that I am added to new ones.

Another Monday, another 50 loan offers.

The best part of going to Texas are instructions that include “No more than eight guests.” and “Do not park cars on the grass.” You start to get a sense of what goes on there.

Best thing about T-REX is it gets the forage instinct in the brain pumping: panning for gold but also have to periodically be like “HOLY SHIT. NOBODY WOULD EVER BELIEVE THIS BOOK ACTUALLY EXISTS.” And then you see so many unreal books that it stops registering. #scavengerhunt

RT @Microcosmmm: Happy podcast day, everybody! Up now: New Bookstore Solidarity Project ep featuring Paul MacKay of @kingsbookstore. A dee…

I'm putting together a talk about the pieces and mechanics of book distribution and how to form cooperatives for the @CLMPorg and I'd like to have one more literary press to talk for a few minutes about why this idea is appealing to them (no experience needed). Takers?

RT @CasieDodd: For those interested in the Casie Dodd deep cuts (maybe three of you beyond my own relatives), I wrote this essay about cats…

if it helps, the guy digging through the dumpster next door just shouted “FUCK THIS DAY”

Ten years ago, someone hung a caulk gun on the tree in front of our house. This morning it was gone.

Happy square root of 176,400. Celebrate with your abacus.

When a spammer asks you for a meeting, just offer your hourly rate. I figure if they accept, it's as good a use of my time as any other. And far more entertaining.

A ding-a-ling ripped some fence posts out to break into my bike shed and stole a single wheel that works on exactly two bikes. But the world rules because the guy who works at the bike shop next door had a spare version of that exact wheel, which he offered to give me. #mutualaid