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January 14, 2025
Final Illustrations for Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House is happy to announce that the electronic version of Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials has been updated with the chapter heading illustrations. These illustrations were created by Julia K. Keffer of Bus Stop Art Show. The artwork is also collected in the Bus Stop Art Show gallery at the PPPH.

 

January 4, 2025
A Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries
In June of 2016, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House began a survey of books cataloguing mythical beasts and fantastic creatures. The idea was to provide one example from each book, which represented the kind of text and graphics used to describe the creatures collected therein. There was explicitly no attempt at critical review. Variations in style as well as in production targets are an essential part of the appeal of the collection. At the time, we regarded A Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries as an ambitious title. In 2025, it is our plan to add a new entry to the survey on the first Saturday of each month. Today, January 4, 2025, we add the 348th volume. A link to the index of the survey is here.

 

January 1, 2025
2024: The Year in Review at the Poison Pie Publishing House
In the year 2024, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House produced exactly one book. Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials, a post-existential musical score generated through a non-idiomatic, improvisational creative process, was serially published on a daily basis in 2024 on the blog of the Poison Pie Publishing House. The score is illustrated by Julia K. Keffer of Bus Stop Art Show (). Drafts of the artwork are posted in a gallery while we await the original artwork to be sent for scanning, pending the completion of the final piece for December. Hebeloma's Lament in a Dozen Denials recounts the adventure of Europe, one of the maidens offered to the minotaur by King Minos, immediately after she escaped from the labyrinth.

Also in 2024, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House generated a few music reviews. In doing so, we hope only to spread the word about hidden musical gems from the cultural margin. We shared a handful of quotes that struck us. We continued our on-going monthly update of A Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries. We continued to engage in our guilty pleasure of rendering characters and scenes from books into shrinky dink form, creating a mobile of the chapter headings from Hebeloma's Clockwise Cadenza (2023) as well as sundry images from other authors and illustrators.

The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House is no longer setting annual goals. However, the daily blog will continue, with the intention of engaging in non-idiomatic improvisation. This work will take the form of a musical score and is titled, Hebeloma's Psalm of Absolution (2025).

To our readers, we, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House, thank you for your interest and support and we look forward to another mutually creative and unpredictable year.