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By C4 Staff, on April 18th, 2012 As some of the more observant of you may have noticed, we quietly added a podcast section to the site a couple months back. This is because, for some crazy reason, we galoots at Chamber Four decided to sit around and record ourselves talk about books.
 The third episode is live today, and if you’re brave enough, you can give it a listen; braver, you can hear all three. Episodes of The Page Count are available (for free of course) on iTunes here, if you hit the subscribe button, you’ll get a new episisode every month, plus a few bonus episodes, like the upcoming book/movie club (not-sucky name suggestions welcome) on The Age of Dragons, which is a B-movie fantasy interpretation of Moby Dick. You can even click the handy star rater and judge us on the spot. If you hate iTunes, there is a direct RSS feed here.
We’ve had a lot of fun making these, and we hope you enjoy them. There are still plenty of kinks to work out. It won’t take you long to discover we don’t have any sound engineers amongst us. We’re also still trying to gauge just how much beer consumption is acceptable while recording a podcast. But we do talk a whole lot about books, and it’s going a little smoother with each successive episode. We hope you’ll join us.
For more information and detailed show notes about each episode, check out http://chamberfour.com/podcast/
By C4 Staff, on February 9th, 2012 Got an iPad? Want some awesome awesome stuff for free?
Super fancy iBooks 2 special editions of our first two issues are now available in the iTunes App Store, specially optimized for iPad multitouch controls. These editions have all the same great writing and poetry plus the original visual art that was previously web-only. And they’re still free.
Issue #1 iPad edition
Issue #2 iPad edition
If you don’t have an iPad, never fear, you can still download the ebook editions to any other readers for free here, or see the snazzy, full-color online editions that include the visual art here.
Both issues, along with the awesome Chamber Four Fiction Anthology are still available in paperback editions from The Harvard Bookstore.
By C4 Staff, on November 11th, 2011  If you haven’t read it yet, you don’t know just how awesome our second issue is. The paperback edition of our latest release is now available in high quality print on demand from the Harvard Bookstore. Order one today for only $12 and you can be holding it in your hands early next week. Get it here.
Or, if you don’t want to wait or pay, you can still get the ebook edition completely free in a variety of formats, there’s also our fancy-pants online edition, complete with a full color visual art gallery not included in the book releases.
By C4 Staff, on November 2nd, 2011 After months of work, we’re happy to finally release the second issue of our lit mag, C4. This issue features all new stories, poems, essays, and art from a wide range of talented minds.
You can read more about it, and download the ebook (in a variety of non-DRM formats to fit every ereader) for free, over on our new Digital Press page. You’ll find Issue #1 and the awesome Chamber Four Fiction Anthology over there as well, also for free.
If you want to skip straight to the fancy online edition, which also includes a section of original visual art, click here.
And if paper books are still more your thing, you can order the paperback edition very soon from the Harvard Bookstore and be reading in the next day.
Enjoy! If you have any questions, or just want to give us some feedback, we’d love to heard from you: info@chamberfour.com.
By C4 Staff, on October 4th, 2011 [On occasion some of the spam we get is too good not to share. So this column is where we do just that. Follow it here.]
 We get a fair amount of spam in our comments. Most of it is banal, trying to sell SEO services with awkward, Google-translated text. But we get occasional gems. Here are the 10 best so far, presented in no particular order and without further comment. For many (see the “dingo skin” entries) your guess is as good as any as to what they are translating and why. Read them out loud as poetry, it makes the whole thing even better.
Enjoy! (Heads up, the last one is PG-13.)
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By C4 Staff, on May 20th, 2011 Official C4: Issue #2 Call for Submissions
 Issue #1 is probably the best thing you'll ever read (until you find your own writing in Issue #2) After the success of our first issue, we’re excited for what’s to come in Issue #2 of our new literary magazine C4. We’re currently looking for more fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art, and almost anything else you might like to submit. As with the previous issue we’ll be publishing accepted pieces in a variety of formats: on a dedicated page, in an ebook available through several major ebookstores, and as a paperback version available from the Harvard Bookstore.
Issue #2 is planned for a fall launch, so we’re looking for submissions ASAP, and we’re giving special consideration to pieces submitted before July 1.
Read complete submission guidelines at ChamberFour.com/submit, then send us your stuff! You can either email it to us at submissions@chamberfour.com or you can submit through our Submishmash page.
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And hey, while we’re at it: in addition to our first issue, we also put together a pretty slick collection of some of the best fiction from around the web in 2009/2010. The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology is still available as a free ebook, or as a paperback.
By C4 Staff, on March 16th, 2011 
Here at C4 we’re proud of how we’ve remained clear of cluttery ads. We’re still glad we didn’t jump on the Amazon Affiliate bandwagon when the Kindle first launched. But while our dedication to Chamber Four makes us happy, it certainly doesn’t make us rich.
In fact, it’s pretty expensive to run a website. Now that we’re doing a digital press too, we need a little help. We’ve decided to partner up with Powell’s Books from Portland, OR. Powell’s sells new and used books at fair prices (though we wish their ebooks were a little cheaper). They are an indie bookstore that has done a lot for itself on the internet. They also clearly love books over there. We think Powell’s and C4 have a lot in common.
So from now on you’ll see links to Powell’s from our reviews and a few other places on the site. We hope you’ll click them, and buy books from them. Every time you do part of that purchase goes toward keeping Chamber Four up and running. We’ve even set up our own “bookshelves” over there, so you can see whole lists of books reviewed by C4 available for sale.
We aren’t going to beat you over the head trying to shill books. We won’t even know who visits them and who doesn’t. But we hope you will, and in doing so help two independent, book-loving entities at once.
Here are the first two bookshelves we’ve set up:
Best Books of 2010
Deserted Isle Books
By C4 Staff, on February 17th, 2011  Today, we’re happy to announce the release of Issue #1 of our biannual lit mag, C4.
If you head on over to our C4 Lit Mag companion website, you can see the online version, which includes short stories, poems, nonfiction, and visual art.
The new mag is also available as a free ebook in a variety of DRM-free formats. You can download it here, or from the links just below. Super-awesome paperback copies are also available from the Harvard Book Store. They are only $12 and the bookstore’s offering free shipping through February.
We’re proud of Issue #1 and we hope you enjoy it. Happy reading.
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By C4 Staff, on November 24th, 2010 We’re taking the rest of the week off, but before we go, we’re posting the first story from our forthcoming lit mag, C4. It’s “Comforts of Home,” by Anne Leigh Parrish, find it here.
We’re still taking submissions for the first issue, due out this winter. Go here for details. We’re also still working on a new site with a more lit mag-type design scheme; once that’s done, this and every other piece from the magazine will be posted there. And we’ll be doing an ebook and a print-on-demand edition of the magazine, much like we did with our anthology.
Pieces submitted by Dec. 1st (one week from today) will be given special attention for the first issue, but we accept submissions all the time.
Happy Thanksgiving!
By C4 Staff, on November 15th, 2010  Win a free paperback copy of The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology! Just comment on this post or any other post this week! To celebrate our Best Books of 2010 series, which starts today, we’re giving away a free paperback copy of The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology. Just comment on any post on Chamber Four this week, reply or retweet us on Twitter, or comment or like any of our Facebook posts. You’ll get an entry for the first two comments, retweets, and likes you make per post, so don’t be shy. This contest ends Friday (11/19/10) at midnight.
We’ll be posting reminders all week, so we’re including a brief description of a story from the anthology with each post. You can find all the descriptions as we post them through this link.
About our Best Books of 2010 feature: you can find all our favorite books of the year in one easy-to-browse page, which will be updated every Monday for the next month. If you need more gift ideas, try our Best Books of 2009 page, or our Special Features page.
And, if you don’t win the contest, you can buy a paperback copy of the anthology at the Harvard Book Store, and you can always download the ebook for free. Good luck!
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