Be sure to stop by table T1235 at the AWP convention and check out our three excellent new titles plus some past favorites. March 7th to 10th, at the Tampa Convention Center.
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Please join us at Skylight Books on Sunday, October 15th, at 5pm, for an important event: Gail Wronsky will read from her brand new poetry collection, Imperfect Pastorals, a 2017 publication of What Books Press.
Joining Gail will be Katharine Haake, reading from her collection of parables, just-released by Gold Line Press, Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld. Also reading will be Chuck Rosenthal, debuting You Can Fly - A Sequel to the Peter Pan Tales, from Whitepoint Press. For details please see Skylight Book's announcement page. We are in the midst of preparing three outstanding new titles for 2017, and one of them has already received very positive attention: Gary Oldman is a Building You Must Walk Through, by Forrest Roth, turns out to be one of the "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2017," according to the review blog Big Other. What Books says thank you to this very useful site, and check out all of Big Other's anticipations here.
What Books Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new poetry books and one new book of short stories. Check out the details at the following links:
Mirage Industries, by Carolie Parker The "She" Series: A Venice Correspondence, by Holaday Mason & Sarah Maclay The Mysterious Islands and Other Stories, by A.W. Deannuntis Laurie Blauner, author of It Looks Worse Than I Am, a fine collection of poetry published by What Books in 2014, has just won the 2015 Leapfrog Fiction Contest for her novel The Solace of Monsters. Details here. Congratulations, Laurie!
 We are equally pleased to announce the publication of Rich Ives' new collection of short stories, also forthcoming in October, 2015. Click here for details.  Also on the way
this fall: Rosenthal & Wronsky's latest - a collection of Flash Noir Fiction, with illustrations by Gronk. Click here for details. We are very pleased to announce that our four new titles for 2014 are in the ink-and-paper pipeline and due to arrive at your favorite bookstore and/or booksite any day. Thanks to Laurie Blauner, Rebbecca Brown, A.W. DeAnnuntis, and Patty Seyburn for their gifts of wonderful prose and poetry. And the literary world is taking note already! A.W. DeAnnuntis' The Final Death of Rock-and-Roll has already been singled out by Foreword Reviews as one of eight noteworthy story collections of the season. Check out the details and ordering info for all the books in this site's catalogue area.
The International Latino Book Awards were given out in Las Vegas last weekend, and Ramon Garcia's book on the photographer Ricardo Valverde was awarded second prize in both the Best Non-Fiction Book category and the best First Non-Fiction Book category. Great news for a What Books author! You can see all the finalists here.
Foreword Reviews, a magazine dedicated to reviewing and promoting books from independent presses, has voted Rod Val Moore's book Brittle Star as their favorite science fiction novel of 2013. Check out the good news at their site.
Ballard writer Laurie Blauner still finding truth in her imagination
Laurie Blauner had a smile in her voice as much as on her face. She wanted to talk poetry—my poetry, her poetry—and prose and the combination of the two that her work has become. Her enthusiasm for literature—for words, characters, sounds, meaning—was as transparent and contagious as laughter. - from the Ballard News-Tribune Read the rest of the story here. |
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