We received the following missive from Derek White’s fineCalamari Press. He asked that this fish story be cast “far and wide”; we’re happy to oblige.

Calamari Press is proud to announce the release of “The Singing Fish” by Peter Markus. You can get your fresh copy, still twitching from the printers, from Calamari Press.

You may have read or heard his signature fish tales of mud, brothers, moons and rivers in places like 3rd Bed, Post Road, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, New Orleans Review, Third Coast, Massachusetts Review, 5_Trope, Failbetter, Taint, Elimae, Pindeldyboz, La Petite Zine and DIAGRAM. But no more catch and release, this one is a keeper! Get your copy now for $10, straight from the source using paypal and save on postage, or wait til the Singing Fish is stocked in Powell’s and other fine independent bookstores.

Praise for The Singing Fish:

Peter Markus’ gorgeously spare, riverine fables of brotherly sweetness and violence are hypnotic, haunting, and sublime.
- GARY LUTZ, author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive

There is an obsessive quality about Peter Markus’ writing that I am obsessed with and a musicality that I cannot get out of my head. The fish are singing and Peter Markus is too.
–MICHAEL KIMBALL, author of The Way the Family Got Away and How Much of Us There Was

And if you are in the Chicago area, be sure to check out his reading at Danny’s Tavern on May 11th at 7:30.

Please cast this information far and wide!