Imagine you've walked into the Long Overdue bookstore, hot chocolate in hand. Heavy on the marshmallows. You made a list, checked it twice. Family members. Friends. A couple of co-workers. You're wandering the aisles with one mission in mind: Gift some great books. And not just any books. Not the "New York Times Best Books of 2025." Oh no. Anyone could do that. You're the discoverer. The taste setter. You find authors before they're household names. When it's your turn at boo

Speaking of stepping on the scale, three weeks ago, I packed two suitcases full of books for the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas. Brought down over 100 lbs of Long Overdue books, representing 24 of our 25 titles (we're currently sold out of Oh Mother How Funny).

The october newsletter... published in November... all about how when we're running behind, we don't really need more time, we need more help.

It's a strange feeling, feeling like a regular at a book festival. Three years ago, our Printers Row Lit Fest table looked like this:...

One week to go! This map below might be a little hard to read, but look for the Long Overdue tables: #171 and #172. Same general location...

"He's been checked out for a long time." 11 New Books? This time last year, we were at 17 published books. And that took us five years to...

These Are the Good Old Days: From Texas Book Festival to Long Overdue Book Back in November, I met Russ, an Austin, Texas resident, at...

Save the Date We'll have two exhibitor tables again. Table assignments and maps to come in a future newsletter. Our goal is to have 10...

Road to a 16 Seed: Win or Lose... a Tooth Keeping with our March tradition, here's a new chapter from my book-in-progress called "Road to...

Note - the illustration above is from Kate Buss's Long Overdue book titled The Book of Monsters from A to Z." The monster pictured here...

The wonderful illustration above is from Kate Buss in her Long Overdue book " Little Green Frond ." Highly recommend this book any time...

How old is Long Overdue? It can be measured in Santa Claus cartoons. The first one was December 2019. So, here we are, five years, 20+...

Last month, I sent the October newsletter on November 1st and put "September" in the subject line. Today, I'm sending November's five...

Halloween: You Know What That Means... We've got a new Hopper's Dell from T.C. Pendragon. This is a sequel to the original Hopper's Dell...

September Newsletter recapping Printers Row Lit Fest with authors of Safe Landing, Martin Blackbriar, Before You Sign, childrens books

Since this is the last newsletter before Printers Row Lit Fest, wanted to post a quick recap of all the festivities leading up to the...

As July comes to an end, we are now just 37 days away from Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary showcase in the...

Start of the Second Half I love the first draft. I love the moment I'm having right now, looking at a blank screen, kind of knowing what...

Long Overdue doesn't really have an anniversary. But, even if we did, the most significant date of each year would be May 25th. This...

New Long Overdue Author: Adam Hersh It's been an exciting month over here. We officially welcomed Adam Hersh into the Long Overdue...