Publications

This site carries you through a personal tour of the offerings, one by one. To skip the tour and see the Small's Clone catalog directly, visit our storefront at Lulu.com. The Small's Clone catalog is always growing, so be sure to check back here frequently for updates!

Click on the links or on the images below to order and learn more.

To get started, put on some music if you like. This is a piece called "Prelude."

The best place to start, without a doubt, is Deseret Series. This collection of six pamphlets by four different authors was designed to be a welcome into the world to Small's Clone Press. They run the gamut of genres from science and theology to fiction and personal essay. Together, though, they form a good picture of the imagination that the Press aspires to. Best of all: they're free. Each of the pamphlets can be downloaded in .pdf format from Lulu. In fact, our hope is that you will consider printing them off and distributing them in the fashion of the old-fashioned pamphleteers.

We got so excited about how these pamphlets turned out that we decided to turn Deseret Series into a collectors' edition hardcover book. This attractive volume includes an exclusive introduction to the series by Nathan Schneider, which discusses a little-known Mormon alphabet and the self-understanding of Small's Clone Press.

Our next stop on the tour is Drawing at a Distance. It is a how-to book (learning how to draw), a philosophical treatise (on the meaning of distance), and a travelogue (about a trip through France, Tunisia, Spain, and Nevada) all rolled into one. Faced with the sometimes shattering loneliness of travel, the author meets the humanity of the strangers around him by resolving to learn how to draw their faces. In doing he experiences the tensions between his own world and theirs, between philosophical speculation and plain communication. The end, as it had to do, brings him closer to home than he ever expected. This, and all the rest of our catalog currently, is by Nathan Schneider.

With Sunspots we delve into the strange world and childhood of Darwin and Debbie Atlas, of Las Vegas. In this short collage, image and text conspire together in the work of world-building. The story tells of the time when Darwin first begins to suspect that Debbie is going to leave home, after which he will set off to find her. Here, though, there is none of that: only a sensuous time of waiting, wondering, and wanting. Doing things one doesn't understand and making things nobody needs, a good portion of the book takes place when both characters might be asleep.

The journey of Darwin and Debbie continues with How to Worship. Beset even more by premonitions of Debbie's departure, Darwin works to build inventions that might stave off the end of the world. Feeling stuck at every turn, he begins to worship. What ensues is an unusual discussion about the meaning and motivation of religious worship, bound by the limits of desperation and inexpressibility. Toward the end, miracles come into play. Every page of this little book is illustrated, following a sequence of photographs taken during an arial approach to the city of Las Vegas, which is as much a character in the story as any of the people.

So did you like the music? Regardless, try something a little different with our first musical release, The Novice. In a unique blend of folk music, century-and-a-half-old hymns, and chanted harmony, these songs explore the minutiae and the grandeur of life in the early 21st century. Love is crossed with war at a distance and science fiction with old time religion, all to make a strange breed of music that only our epoch could create.

What's next? Well that begins with you. Small's Clone Press prides itself on an open end. We welcome you to send us writing, ideas, and inventions that together we can promulgate. Contact the Press to begin the conversation!