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Muses Walk gets recommendation

To celebrate being nominated by The Alliance for Independent Authors for their 'Top Website for Self-Publishers' award, Sabotage Reviews has selected for recommendation eight self-published works from the website's not inconsiderable archives. Alongside among others an artisan book from Kate Tempest and a chapbook with responses to the work of Ginsberg, I was very happy to see that Muses Walk was one of the publications recommended.

Thanks to editor Claire Trévien for her attention to the book. And congratulations to Sabotage Reviews - a vibrant, innovative and wholly necessary reviews journal.

Over half of all copies of Muses Walk have now gone. Some are still available for 8 Euro. As the number of remaining copies diminishes, the price will go up...

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