Today,
POD-dy Mouth is closing shop. Known as "Girl," she has sifted through thousands of print-on-demand and self-published titles over the past two years, literally searching for the needles in the haystack.
More than a few writers have gone from obscurity and garnered critical acclaim because of her blog. We do not know who Girl is, only that she is a writer who has taken interest in quality manuscripts that for one reason or another ended up going POD. On the right side of her blog is a list of about 65 needles she pulled from the haystack of self-publishing.
Bill Deasy, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Henry Baum, and N. Frank Daniels. These are fellow writers I would not have heard of had it not been for Girl's hard work.
And more than this, she has brought many of us together. We have had readings in New York, we have formed collectives and publishing houses, magazines and blogs. In short, we have created a literary movement on our own terms. In the soon to be released anthology, FALLING FROM THE SKY (see below), you will be introduced to a wide-range of underground fiction. And you will also find some Needles as well.
