Circuit Breaker Books

PDX based hybrid publisher specializing in fiction, memoir, and CNF. We support diversity in publishing. Tweets by Vinnie and Jessie “Shockingly Good Stories”

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All you fidgety writers out there! What activity do you do when writing to satisfy your need to move?

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Happy news! The cover for @ohiowa89's "Everyone Worth Knowing" is a finalist for the @HofferAward's da Vinci Eye award honoring "superior cover artwork." Have you read this well-dressed book yet?

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Our staff loves to serve our local Portland literary community. For example, our own @vinniek co-facilitates this fantastic LGBTQ+ reading series at @literaryarts.

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We love seeing our local #WritingCommunity members support one another the way @WritersAmplify team does. If you're not following them yet, you should.

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Read on to learn why Amplify Writers seeks to support the career development of marginalized writers and what we're learning about the needs of writers in our community.

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Thanks to Midwest Book Review for their lovely coverage of Allison’s Gambit.

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Our design and production manager, @vinniek, loves to collect picture books that aren't written for kids (like "Go the F**k to Sleep"). Do you have any you can recommend for his collection?

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Our design and production manager, @vinniek, is working on a memoir and wants recommendations for good writing music. What do you recommend?

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Just another day in the life of a parent in publishing.

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We are accepting manuscripts for genre fiction right now.

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“All in all, a powerful and moving book.”
-Dr. J on Amazon about Douglas Green’s A Dog of Many Names

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“You want to be a big boy, huh,” said his dad, throwing a punch at his son. Farris ducked, but the second one caught him on the chin and sent him sprawling to the ground.”
@ohiowa89’s EVERYONE WORTH KNOWING

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Meet the publisher:
Jessie Glenn is the head of marketing at Circuit Breaker.

Jessie started MindBuck Media Book Publicity in 2005 and is a writer as well.

Jessie has had essays published in NYT, WaPo, Salon and other outlets.

Learn more: https://t.co/rVFncgED3S

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Some of the stories in @ohiowa89’s Everyone Worth Knowing:
-A remarried man dreams of his dead wife.
-A widowed preacher seeks out guilt and inspiration in a brothel.
-A man who refuses to wear a mask in the spring of 2020
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We’re accepting fiction and memoirs for submission.

Go here to check out our submission policy:
https://t.co/Rt0oeukPN7

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Meet the author:
Alicia Dill served 6 years in the army as a soldier and globally published print journalist.

She’s originally from Missouri.

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What’s your favorite short story collection?

Circuit Breaker author @ohiowa89’s short story collection EVERYONE WORTH KNOWING is out now.

https://t.co/keMv5DScr5

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Check out Alicia Dill’s interview on Brook Reading Podcast.

“Alicia talks about the bonds amongst veterans, the importance of knowing facts from fiction, and the feeling of meeting a “unicorn in the wild”.”

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Circuit Breaker author @ohiowa89 was a literature professor for years at George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Any other professor turned authors out there?

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