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#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: Suicidal Gods by C.M. Chapman

5/29/2020

For every Friday in May, we will promote and share one of our favorite fiction titles. We will use the hashtag #fictionfridays. This title will be on sale all day through our website, up to 50% off the print version. The ebook will also be discounted through Smashwords or Amazon’s Kindle program. This week we are promoting Suicidal Gods by C.M. Chapman.

Shop	About the Book Nestled in the old mountains, somewhere between creation and destruction, between truth and lies, between everywhere and nowhere, Dogleg Bend reveals its magic to residents and visitors alike, whose lives weave in and out of time like the river. These are their true stories.

#FictionFridays Book: BLOOD FIRE VAPOR SMOKE by Shann Ray

5/29/2020

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A cycle akin to the seasons of a life, Blood Fire Vapor Smoke asks questions of the ancient struggle between life and death amidst landscapes new and old. Does ultimate forgiveness answer to ultimate violence in the world? What is the nature of grace? Who determines the fates that move us? A collection of stories opening upon the inner world with the abandon and gravity involved in personal and collective responsibility, the book responds to the present age of enragement, and the collapsing binary of two hungers: violence and forgiveness.

Blood Fire Vapor Smoke considers the human myth of regeneration through violence, and the aftermath of loneliness, love, and yearning found in a more merciful expression of human existence. Violence is caught by love, and changed, transcended, and transformed into a yearning for restoration, atonement, and the fusion embodied in the true power of community, humility, and greater humanity. The characters in each of the four sections of this collection of stories and one long poem, pass through thresholds of knowledge and responsibility. Asking not what life owes them, but what they may receive from life, and in the end, just how they are responsible for life, those who people this collection cross into unforeseen places of mystery, mercy, and grace.

#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: Anne Leigh Parrish's THE AMENDMENT

5/22/2020

For every Friday in May, we will promote and share one of our favorite fiction titles. We will use the hashtag #fictionfridays. This title will be on sale all day through our website, up to 50% off the print version. The ebook will also be discounted through Smashwords or Amazon's Kindle program. This week we are promoting The Amendment by Anne Leigh Parrish.

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“Anne Leigh Parrish’s, The Amendment, is a beautifully written story about a new widow’s struggle to wrap her mind around her husband’s death by setting off on a cross-country journey in search of she knows not what. Parrish’s prose is eloquent yet crisp, moving the story along quickly. The Amendment is at times funny, quirky and endearingly touching. A delightful must-read, sure to take its place among today’s top literary fiction!”—Michelle Cox, author of The Henrietta and Inspector Howard Series.

#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: HECKLER by Jason Graff

5/15/2020

For every Friday in May, we will promote and share one of our favorite fiction titles. We will use the hashtag #fictionfridays. This title will be on sale all day through our website, up to 50% off the print version. The ebook will also be discounted through Smashwords or Amazon's Kindle program. This week we are promoting HECKLER by Jason Graff.

heckler by Jason Graff

$16.00

Three men seeking forgiveness pass through The Shelby Hotel as part of their painful journey. While the family that runs it must contend with ghosts who won’t leave.

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ISBN: 978-1-950730-11-7

Genre: Fiction

Publication Date: January 21, 2020

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About the Book
Three men seeking forgiveness pass through The Shelby Hotel as part of their painful journey. While the family that runs it must contend with ghosts who won’t leave.

#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: With All My Love, I Wait by Gloria Panzera

5/8/2020

For every Friday in May, we will promote and share one of our favorite fiction titles. We will use the hashtag #fictionfridays. This title will be on sale all day through our website, up to 50% off the print version. The ebook will also be discounted through Smashwords or Amazon's Kindle program. This week we are promoting With All My Love, I Wait by Gloria Panzera.

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In a remote village in Post-World War II Italy, Liliana is the best baker in town and life is looking up until the love her life, Raffaele, leaves seeking economic opportunity elsewhere. She promises to wait for him so she can finally leave the stone walls and stifling town of Gildone. After years of waiting and not hearing from him, Liliana marries Domenico, a strong and accomplished soldier.

After the couple experience a distancing, both physically and emotionally, Liliana discovers she is pregnant. She is forced to decide what to do: should she stay in her little town, or should she run off and forge a new path?

With All My Love, I Wait, follows three generations of women as their lives are forged, nurtured, and shattered.

#FictionFridays Book: THE VIGILANCE OF STARS by Patricia O'Donnell

5/1/2020

For every Friday in May, we will promote and share one of our favorite fiction titles. We will use the hashtag #fictionfridays. This title will be on sale all day through our website, up to 50% off the print version. The ebook will also be discounted through Smashwords or Amazon's Kindle program. This week we are promoting THE VIGILANCE OF STARS by Patricia O'Donnell.

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Four characters’ lives intertwine in this novel, spanning the 1950’s through the present. Kiya, a young hair stylist, is taken in by her former boyfriend’s mother as she struggles through a difficult pregnancy, and grief over her brother’s suicide. The book moves toward a confrontation with both life and death on an isolated island in rural Maine.

Massive Online Book Sale to Celebrate AWP

3/4/2020

AWP 2020 in Texas is hurting bad; authors and publishers are cancelling due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. For the many attendees that look forward to the Book Fair every year, we feel you.

All writers and lovers of books are hoarders of books. It's a fact. To know that many publishers will not be there is a total bummer.

We just couldn't let a virus get in the way of celebrating books from small presses and hard-working authors, so we are having a massive online book sale starting right now. You can find all of our books on sale (many are $5 off the regular list price) in our bookshop. Remember, shipping and taxes are included so this is a serious deal. All readers who purchase a book through our website during the sale will receive a promo code to download a free ebook from Smashwords (the book of your choice).

Promotions for ebooks have been activated through our distributor. You can find all of our books at Smashwords (and related partners) for 75% off. Some are even free. Because we love you. These discounts go from March 1-7.

All ebooks distributed on Amazon will either be free or range from 25-85% off and go from 3/4 through 3/8.

If you would like to support independent bookstores, we recommend that you head over to Indiebound and look for the book you want to purchase. We can't guarantee that all independent retailers will honor the sales prices, but we support your choice to buy a book from a non-Amazon entity. Of course, we guarantee that our print editions will be for sale through our site for the entirety of the AWP conference.

Thank you for your dedication to the burgeoning small press industry.

Amazing Book Sale During AWP 2019

3/27/2019

The Buzz

#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: Suicidal Gods by C.M. Chapman

#FictionFridays Book: BLOOD FIRE VAPOR SMOKE by Shann Ray

#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: Anne Leigh Parrish's THE AMENDMENT

#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: HECKLER by Jason Graff

heckler by Jason Graff

#FictionFridays Book Spotlight: With All My Love, I Wait by Gloria Panzera

#FictionFridays Book: THE VIGILANCE OF STARS by Patricia O'Donnell

Massive Online Book Sale to Celebrate AWP

Amazing Book Sale During AWP 2019

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