Author, artist, critic, journalist and Arthur veteran Trinie Dalton has a tasty new book out. Sized to fit in a large back pocket, wrapped in a delicious front/back cover by Matt Greene, Sweet Tomb features the short stories “Sweet Tomb,” “Green,” Accessing the Vein,” “Gardeners Anonymous,” Killer Pair,” “Best Cake Ever” and “Death Wish.” 104 pages of high-quality Dalton for only 7 bucks.

Sweet Tomb is published by Madras Press—a new, non-profit publisher of individually bound short stories and novellas, with a mission to donate all proceeds to charitable organizations chosen by the authors. Proceeds from Sweet Tomb are going to the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants, a non-profit California native plant nursery, seed source, bookstore, and education center, open to the public year round. Learn more at theodorepayne.org

Sweet Tomb is available from http://www.madraspress.com/bookstore

and also at a few independent bookstores, listed at http://www.madraspress.com/locations

Trinie Dalton archive: http://sweettomb.com/