SMILE, HON receives shout-out in THE URBANITE

Cara Ober praises Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! No. 14 in the latest issue of The Urbanite:

"[L]ocal authors, familiar settings, and wildly different perspectives...Learn Baltimore's secrets right from the source."

Read the complete post here.

SMILE, HON: Tony Pann is a fan!

During the cutaway from my segment discussing Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! on this morning's WBAL-TV broadcast, meteorologist Tony Pann had this to say of the zine:

"I've read [Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!], and you get a flavor of what Maryland is all about. It's really cool...I highly recommend that you check it out."

But don't just take his word for it - find out for yourself at the Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! No. 14 release party beginning at 6:00 p.m. this Friday, September 23, under the CityLit tent at the 2011 Baltimore Book Festival!

SMILE, HON editor to make TV appearance

BALTIMORE, Md. - Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! editor, publisher and contributing writer William P. Tandy will appear on WBAL-TV (NBC) Thursday, September 22, as part of a live segment promoting the 2011 Baltimore Book Festival (September 23-25). The segment is slated to air at 6:12 a.m.

In related news, Tandy hosts a release party for the latest issue of the long-running zine from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Friday, September 23, under the CityLit tent at the Book Festival. This free event will include contributor readings, live music by Rahne Alexander (The Degenerettes, The Oops) and free beer courtesy of the Brewer's Art. Tandy returns to the Book Fest on Sunday, September 25, where he will join Davida Gypsy Breier (Xerography Debt, Rigor Mortis) from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. under the Visual Voices tent to discuss the world of independent publishing with Festival-goers. For more information, e-mail wpt@eightstonepress.com.

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Bodine to promote new book at Baltimore Book Festival

BALTIMORE, Md. - Jennifer Bodine - daughter of legendary Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine and proprietor of www.AAubreyBodine.com - will be on hand to promote the October 2011 release of her latest book, Bodine's City: The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine (ISBN: 9780764338441), September 23-25 at the 2011 Baltimore Book Festival. Bodine will be in the Schiffer Books booth all day, for all three days of the Festival.

"Most of these 154 images were shot on assignment and within a four-mile radius of where he lived or worked," says Bodine, who previously published another collection of her father's work, Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country (ISBN: 9780870335624). But while "the subject of these pictures is exclusively Baltimore," Bodine notes that Bodine's City - which includes "award-winning pictures, popular images and ones that have not been seen since the one day they ran in the newspaper" - is "not a Baltimore picture book."

"The reason these photos transcend their geographical bounds is that Bodine’s subject matter varied wildly, demonstrating the versatility of Bodine as an artist," she explains. Though generally defined as a Pictorialist, her father was "much more than one defining label. He photographed people, animals, buildings, harsh weather conditions, textures, geometric patterns, maritime images and city scapes."

The elder Bodine shot feature photography for the Baltimore Sunday Sun from 1927 until his death in 1970. Throughout his career, Bodine published books, wrote articles, judged salon competitions, won awards from all over the world, corresponded with other photographers around the globe and lectured along the Eastern Seaboard, all while holding down a full-time job for a major city newspaper. His work continues to appear regularly in a variety of publications, including the award-winning zine, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!.

Offering reprints, gift cards and more, AAubreyBodine.com allows visitors to peruse the site's nearly 4,000 photographs individually or by selecting from 250 distinct categories.

For more information regarding review copies, personal appearances and other inquiries, e-mail Jennifer Bodine at jbb@aaubreybodine.com, or call 1-800-556-7226.

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SMILE, HON kicks off Baltimore Book Festival

BALTIMORE, Md. – Kick off the 2011 Baltimore Book Festival in true “Bawlmer” style with a release party marking the publication of Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! No. 14, beginning at 6:00 p.m., Friday, September 23, 2011, under the CityLit Tent, by the Washington Monument in Mt. Vernon (come early for the 5:30 p.m. CityLit Literary Happy Hour). This free event will include a coterie of contributors reading their work, including:

- Rahne Alexander

- Rafael Alvarez

- Ian Hochberg

- Earl Crown

- E. Doyle-Gillespie

- JD Buckner

- Dean Bartoli Smith

- Susan Beverly

- Leonard Kinsey

- Davida Gypsy Breier

Smile, Hon Editor William P. Tandy hosts the event. Plus, enjoy live music from Rahne Alexander (The Degenerettes, The Oops)! And be sure to stop by the merch table for copies of Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! No. 14, back issues and more.

For more information about this and other CityLit events, visit here; or, go here for a complete guide to the 2011 Baltimore Book Festival.

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From the harbor to the hills, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! collects the tales of those on whom Mobtown has left her indelible mark. Polished, professional essays; barroom sermons delivered from the sanctity of a favorite stool; the poet’s fleeting sentiment, captured in both word and snapshot – Smile, Hon offers a slice of Baltimore as told by Baltimore, presented with the time-honored DIY accessibility of a limited-run, handcrafted zine. A two-time Utne Reader Independent Press Award nominee, Smile, Hon has also been dubbed “Best Zine” by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004). In spring 2011, Eight-Stone Press published a special “hon” edition, exploring the term’s significance in Baltimore’s identity, past and present; other theme issues have tackled such topics as waste, rats, scars, tattoos, crime and transit.

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! is an Eight-Stone Press production and is distributed by Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA); Cyclops Books (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Publishing (Bloomington, IN, and Portland, OR); Quimby's (Chicago, IL); Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD); and Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD). For more information, contact:

William P. Tandy, Editor

Eight-Stone Press

P.O. Box 11064

Baltimore, MD 21212

E-mail: wpt@eightstonepress.com

Website: http://www.eightstonepress.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wptandy

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/eightstonepress

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Eight-Stone Press publishes SMILE, HON, YOU'RE IN BALTIMORE! No. 14

BALTIMORE, Md. – Painted screens, Winter dreams and death in Little Italy ink the pages of Smile, Hon, You’re in Baltimore! No. 14, the latest installment in the award-winning series published by Eight-Stone Press.

In this expanded, 68-page issue, Rahne Alexander leads “a horticulture;” Earl Crown gets caught with his hand in the piranha tank; Fernando Quijano III prays in the temple of the moon; Lisa Wiseman takes it off; and Dan Reed recalls his first murder, plus a whole lot more. Contributors include:

- Rahne Alexander

- Rafael Alvarez

- Susan Beverly

- Davida Gypsy Breier

- JD Buckner

- Jenny Campbell

- Caryn Coyle

- Earl Crown

- E. Doyle-Gillespie

- Matthew Falk

- S.J. Ferrandi

- Julie Fisher

- Martha Gatewood

- Sharon Goldner

- Heck

- Alex Hewett

- Ian Hochberg

- Bill Hughes

- Alex Koplow

- Sommer Marsden

- Fernando Quijano III

- Benn Ray

- Dan Reed

- Timmy Reed

- Steve Roberts

- Rosalia Scalia

- Jena Shlock

- Stacy Spaulding

- Honora Sully

- William P. Tandy

- Matthew C. Terzi

- Lisa Wiseman

From the harbor to the hills, Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! collects the tales of those on whom Mobtown has left her indelible mark. Polished, professional essays; barroom sermons delivered from the sanctity of a favorite stool; the poet's fleeting sentiment, captured in both word and snapshot – Smile, Hon offers a slice of Baltimore as told by Baltimore, presented with the time-honored DIY accessibility of a limited-run, handcrafted zine. A two-time Utne Reader Independent Press Award nominee, Smile, Hon has also been dubbed "Best Zine" by Baltimore Magazine (2008) and Baltimore City Paper (2004). In spring 2011, Eight-Stone Press published a special “hon” edition, exploring the term’s significance in Baltimore’s identity, past and present; other theme issues have tackled such topics as waste, rats, scars, tattoos, crime and transit.

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! is an Eight-Stone Press production and is distributed by Atomic Books (Baltimore, MD); City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA); Cyclops Books (Baltimore, MD); Microcosm Publishing (Bloomington, IN, and Portland, OR); Quimby's (Chicago, IL); Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD); and Ukazoo Books (Towson, MD). For more information, contact:

William P. Tandy, Editor

Eight-Stone Press

P.O. Box 11064

Baltimore, MD 21212

E-mail: wpt@eightstonepress.com

Website: http://www.eightstonepress.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wptandy

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/eightstonepress

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UPDATE: Smile, Hon No. 14 is printed...

Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! No. 14 - the latest issue in the long-running series from Eight-Stone Press - has just returned from the printer. Contributor / distro / press copies will go out in the mail within the next few days...