The Boston Comics Roundtable published its latest anthology, Inbound #5: The Food Issue. I don’t have a story in here, but I am an editor of the series and handle all the marketing and distribution. We worked long and hard on this one. Like Inbound #4, it’s a perfect bound book with this amazing cover by Ellen Crenshaw and design by Shelli Paroline. We chose to keep the retail price down at $12, even though it’s 176 pages (32 pages longer than Inbound #4, also $12). That was a tough choice, but we’re in it to disseminate the books to the public and not to make a profit. As long as we can keep our heads above water and pull in enough revenue to continue publishing, we’re doing our job right.

Creating a sales and distribution network for Inbound has been one of the most education experiences of my adult life. The Boston Comics Roundtable is fortunate enough to have a small army of volunteers only too happy to do their part. We’re never short of a willing pair of arms to deliver books to far flung comic shops and book stores across the New England area and well beyond. Maybe someday I’ll write a long, boring book about it.

You can buy the book directly from the BCR website or at almost any Boston area comic shop or independently owned bookstore, including favorites like Million Year Picnic, Hub Comics, Comicopia, and Harvard Book Store.