We wanted to let you know that we are ceasing publication of The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden & Victorian Studies. This decision comes after a great deal of deliberation. We started our little magazine in 2004, with six issues a year, and have published a grand total of 30! Quite an accomplishment, we think.
We believe at PearTree Press that interest in the Lizzie Borden case has moved away from the print magazine article format and resides firmly in long-form, book-length, and more in-depth studies. The recent successes of Michael Thomas Brimbau’s novel Lizzie Borden: The Girl with the Pansy Pin (2013), Sherry Chapman’s Lizzie Borden: Resurrections: A history of the people surrounding the Borden case before, during, and after the trial (2014), and Alfred Lima’s A River and Its City: The influence of the Quequechan River on the development of Fall River, Massachusetts, being three cases in point.
We are going to focus our publishing on books relating to true crime, Fall River History, fiction, poetry collections, and The Literary Hatchet, a magazine of contemporary short fiction, poetry, prose, interviews, and reviews by writers from around the world. Subjects range from mystery, murder, macabre, horror, monsters, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night.
