Small press based in Ipswich, Queensland, mainly dedicated to publishing the work of founder Lachlan J McDougall with a selection of other work from across the globe
Electric Boy Scout:: Guerrilla Typewriter is a largely non-fiction book dealing with the pressures on Control and the possibility of using art and literature as methods of social resistance. Part essays, part interview, part stories, and part something else, this book takes you on a trip to the future and beyond.
Get a copy of the book from Amazon here or email lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com to order direct from the publisher
File Folders: Painting in Ephemera is a brand new book of art featuring stunning paintings from a personal collection made during 2022. A great way to bring home a thrilling series, you can get copies of the book from Amazon here or email lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com to order a copy direct from the publisher.
This month we’ve got two brand new pamphlets to love and enjoy.
First up, we have Questions I Didn’t Know I’d Asked by the incomparable Mona Mehas. This chapbook of poetry inspired by Tarot and Oracle will knock your socks off with its intimate magic. Download a copy of the pamphlet below.
Secondly, we have The Poets Have the Floor, a thrilling extended prose poem told across three columns to whet your appetite for the fare of Lachlan J McDougall. Download a copy of the pamphlet below and see what you think!
The largely non-fiction book from Lachlan J McDougall, Electric Boy Scout:: Guerrilla Typewriter, is comin out in June and pre-orders for the print book are now open.
The book deals with language and symbol and how we can manipulate these to bring about a social artistic revolution and end the influence of Control in our day to day lives. Let’s see what the Amazon blurb has to say.
The future is now and there’s nothing left but the recordings. This book is a program for taking on the world at large. A step by step guide to bringing about the revolution from within. You may try to fight the change, but when the Scouts come calling, there’s nothing else you can do.
A deconstruction of the role of language and a prescient dissection of the modern Control virus, Electric Boy Scout is full of helpful and practical tips for circumventing the Control narrative and substituting your own. Learn to take control of your life. Learn the limits of what you are doing and how to push them ever further. Learn a few tricks from the master at work.
You can pre-order the book by emailing lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com with your order details and a print copy will be sent to you soon after release date in June. Or, to get the book sooner (as well as getting a limited collector’s edition), reach out and see if any of the limited proof copies are still available. In addition to your proof copy, LJMcD Communications will send you a free pdf of the book so you can get reading straight away.
So, get in touch and order your proof copy, or pre-order a print copy today!
A sort of scattered set of musings on language and symbol mixed with a thrilling collection of illustrations, this book is a short, wandering piece that reads like a knowledgeable ramble. Burroughs certainly has a point, but he refuses to make it, allowing it to grow organically out of abstract, dreamlike prose.
The illustrations are just gorgeous and Robert F Gale has done a fantastic job bringing the strange prose to life. Without the illustrations, this book would not work. With them, it is lifted to a high plain of fancy and wonder.
It is not Burroughs best book, and certainly not his clearest, but it is an interesting little addition to the cannon. For a collector like me, it is a must, but if you’re looking only for content, you can find these thoughts better expressed in other books. Still though, it is a fascinating excursion.
My latest free pamphlet for 2023 is now available!
A Report from Elm Street Number 23 is a wild experiment in text and narrative—part cut-up text, part experimental scifi, it reads a bit like Burroughs in the sixties but with a more modern environmental bent.
The print edition of this little zine is limited to 50 signed and numbered copies with very few editions remaining at time of writing. If you’d like one of these limited handmade zines, email lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com with your request and postal details and you will be put on the mailing list.
For those of you who might have missed out on a print copy, don’t worry—you can simply download the pdf below!
Enjoy this free offering and if you like it, don’t forget to pay it forward and buy one of the great books I have on offer. You can find links to all released books here or read the catalogue of books being put out by LJMcD Communications in 2023 right here.
And keep an eye out for The Poets Have the Floor, the next of my free zines coming out in May!
Well, it’s that time again—the last Saturday of the month—and it’s time for the monthly update of everything going on at LJMcD Communications.
Let’s start with the brand new art book and photographic series Twelve Photographs of Silence. These insomniac photographs are designed to capture the sleepless lack of early morning and are a lovely little collection. You can purchase the folio book of the series here or view the series here
Next up is the fabulous Nagasaki Blues, my brand new cut-up novel and the first in the Hypernovel Trilogy. This book is a wild ride through to the end of the world and back and just has to be read to be believed. Get a copy right here
For either of these books, you can also order signed copies direct from LJMcD Communications by emailing lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com with your order details and I will sign and send out as soon as possible.
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That’s all the releases for February, but let’s take a look at what’s coming up in March.
A Pocketful of Scars by Laird Lee Kirk will be released in early March. This book of delightfully human poetry is a real treat and you won’t want to miss it. Pre-orders open, just email lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com with your order details.
My second free pamphlet for the year, A Report from Elm Street Number 23, will be going out next month in a limited signed and numbered run of fifty copies. A free pdf will also be uploaded to the website, but to get your hands on one of the print copies, just email lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com with your postal details.
Shimmied Christmas Jimmy, the Rat Fink of the Chimney is a brand new chapbook in the c22 open editions series. This long poem will be made available as a free pdf here and on the c22 website with an option to buy print copies if you like the work.
You can also have a look at the entire non-McDougall publishing schedule for LJMcD Communications here
My latest novel Nagasaki Blues has just been released!
This wild cut-up science fiction novel is a thrilling ride through a world on its last legs. The crab planet invasion is in full swing and EarthSphere is in danger of burning out to a dry husk. Only the academy stands in the way of total destruction, and perhaps they are not all they seem…
Or, if you’d like a signed copy (or just don’t feel like giving money to Amazon), email me at lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com and I can arrange to have a copy sent to you.
The first review for my upcoming novel Nagasaki Blues is now in!
Have a read of the very positive take below.
Ever wake up feeling like fungus and the faded grey flesh falling around the ankles? Nagasaki Blues is non-linear narrative with ambiguous plot line. Takes place in EarthSphere. Operatives are Traveler Philly, the Architecture Kid, Director Massimo. Travel back and forth in space time. Move from now to 1910 to Panic of 1873 and back to present. Chicago, New York City, Salzburg. Nagasaki Blues is science fiction horror documentary. An invasion of Crab People. And always, the sinister specter of Total Control looms in the background orgone fuzz of soft machines.
The cut-up method is used. Burroughs and Gysin referenced heavily. You would think that when a writer wears his influences on his sleeves like that he’ll crash and burn in a sea of imitation. Not the case here. Words flow like drugs from an uncorked meth lab. There’s a madness that’s palpable visceral. You’re in the hands of a writer a very capable writer a writer infected with the word virus sick with the textual virus. McDougall is a reporter working the end times beat from a downtown automat waiting on a human fix.
The text is impressionistic, disjointed, hypnotic, passing neatly through the blood brain barrier, trance-like, disrupting, finally, demonic possession of the word virus. I highly recommend this book.
—Andrew Arnett
The book is out now! You can order a copy from Amazon here or, for a signed copy (or if you don’t want to give money to Amazon), you can order a copy direct through me by emailing lachlan.mcdougall@gmail.com with your order details.
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