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We're very pleased indeed with our five newest publications, available soon from online booksellers. Learn all about them now on our homepage and watch this space for news of our launch reading toward the end of October.
Please join us at legendary Skylight Books in Hollywood for our traditional October launch reading. Our newest authors will be flying in from around the country to celebrate the release of their What Books titles on Saturday, October 15th at 5 pm.
What Books is proud to announce four new publications, due out this fall. No One Dies in Palmyra Ohio, a novel by Henry Elizabeth Christopher, Skeletal Lights from Afar, prose poems by Forrest Roth, Us Clumsy Gods, poems by Ash Good, and Only So Much, poems by Jan Wesley. Beautiful covers by Gronk, and extraordinary language inside. Watch these pages for their October release, along with announcements of readings at several Los Angeles venues.
We're very pleased to introduce our latest fabulous books. Watch for them in mid-October:
What Falls Away is Always; Writers Over 60 on Writing & Death, edited by Katharine Haake and Gail Wronsky Game, poetry by M.L. Williams Pyre, poetry by Maureen Alsop The Eight Mile Suspended Carnival, a novel by Rebecca Kuder We are so pleased to announce that our own Lynne Thompson, author of Start With a Small Guitar, has been named poet laureate of Los Angeles. Check out all the details here. Congratulations to Lynne on this very impressive and important appointment!
Here at What Books Press, after a long stretch of time editing and finalizing four fantastic new books for release this fall, 2021 (official announcement in the works), we're now ready to start thinking about 2022. To that end, we have opened our submittable page for both poetry and fiction. Please take a look at our home page on this site, along with our list of previously published books, and, if you think you have a ms. that fits, we'd love to see 20 pages of it at:
https://whatbookspress.submittable.com/submit chat with our new authors!AWP is entirely virtual this year, but if you have paid to attend, You'll be pleased to know that each of our four new authors is appearing online for conversation with readers and fans. Here is the schedule:
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