One of the great pleasures of working so closely with the independent publishing community is the opportunity to see so many translations and book projects written by foreign authors. Independent publishers like Open Letter, Two Lines... Read More

Woodland Dreams / Karen JamesonMarc Boutavant, illustrator / Chronicle Books / Hardcover $17.99 (32pp) / 978-1-4521-7063-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In this lush bedtime story, a gentle girl in a blue anorak,... Read More

To enter the novelist’s realm, writers must travel a path with countless forks, switchbacks, and deadends—a veritable maze leading to the glorious moment a finished manuscript is shipped off to a publisher. The editorial team at... Read More

As our planet continues to warm, historical weather patterns will change and many regions will be thrown into turmoil because of drought, flooding, variations in ocean currents, and other unforeseen effects. Consequently, in the years to... Read More

The Last American Hero / The Remarkable Life of John Glenn / Alice L. George / Chicago Review Press / Hardcover $30.00 (368pp) / 978-1-64160-213-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / John Glenn, a prominent representative of... Read More

It’s a sorry state of affairs when, in the case of the US healthcare system, you seek to purchase something critical to your good health from your local hospital and the sources for the charges are obscured. Can you think of any other... Read More

In the early to mid 1800s, much of the region now known as Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada was still a land of myth and rumor based on the not-so-reliable accounts of mountain men, trappers, and prospectors. But after the Civil... Read More

What You Could Have Won / Rachel Genn / And Other Stories / Softcover $15.95 (276pp) / 978-1-911508-86-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Rachel Genn’s novel What You Could Have Won explores love, fame, dependence, and... Read More