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.
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Please join us for a very special Sunday evening at Skylight Books in Hollywood for the annual What Books launch reading. This year Carolie Parker, Sarah Maclay and Holaday Mason will read selections from their just-released collections. More information at Skylight's calendar page.
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 The annual AWP conference is always a great mix of readings, panels, a small press book fair, and general literary buzz. This year the conference comes to LA, to the Convention Center, and of course What Books Press is participating. If you're an attendee, please come check out our table, meet some of our authors, and buy one of our beautiful books! At the same time we'll be involved in two nearby readings that are open to the public. First up is poetry, and six of our fine poets will be reading, along with four poets from Fordham University's Poets Out Loud. Details in the first poster below.  Then, on Friday night, April 1st, join us at our favorite downtown crêperie to hear five What Books authors read from their most recent works of prose:  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!
 What Books is pleased to announce the publication of Annette Leddy's first novel, Earth Still, forthcoming in October, 2015. Click here for details.  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.
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