“Langsfeld’s writing hits like a brushfire: sparks that seem harmless quickly burn you alive. It is searing and direct and quite possibly a perfect voice for our world.” —Dane Bahr, author of Stag This emotionally charged Western noir explores a small rural Colorado town in a state of crisis at the height of winter. Tom […]| Book – Counterpoint Press
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We’re excited to announce the books we’ll be publishing in the next couple of years*. These were chosen from the open submission period we had this year. It was an enlightening way to discover several new writers that we didn’t know about and to plan ahead for an exciting future of projects. Out of over […]| Future Tense Books
A Record of Shelford Parva was written and illustrated by village grandee Fanny Wale in the early 20th century. It was the first dedicated history book of Little Shelford.| Galileo Publishers
A beautiful collage painting by local artist Frances (‘Frankie’) Richardson.| Galileo Publishers
IOPN is thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of Decoding Cultural Literacy: Rhetorically Analyzing Everyday Media for Professional Writers by Kandice Fowlkes. Fowlkes’s work provides writers with guidelines for how to research, break down, and develop cultural literacy for a… Continue reading “Forthcoming from IOPN: Decoding Cultural Literacy: Rhetorically Analyzing Everyday Media for Professional Writers”…| Illinois Open Publishing Network
IOPN is excited to announce the upcoming publication of The Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays by La Tanya L. Reese Rogers and Tanya E. Walker. Rogers and Walker’s publication analyzes five plays by contemporary Black female playwrights through the theoretical framework of the “Black female Motherhood Aesthetic,” which foregrounds the experiences of Black mothers and motherhood in modern America. | Illinois Open Publishing Network
It was a far cry from Communist China to the peaceful village on the South Downs, but for a self-confessed murderer, keeping his agonised diary, it could buy no peace. But then, who was the writer of the diary? And why had there been so many incidents around the mill pond? This is one of ...| Galileo Publishers
Firestarter is part true-crime mystery, part historical investigation. Set in the early 19th century, it is the tale of a farm worker who gains notoriety for setting multiple fires on farms in a village near to Cambridge. It is also the story of how that village determines to rid itself of a man whose actions ...| Galileo Publishers
A DARK ALCHEMY pervades this atmospheric tale of ambition, magic and Victorian intrigue.| Galileo Publishers
IOPN is thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of Beyond NOLA: Exploring Zora Neale Hurston in Bogalusa, Louisiana’s Magic City by Sondra Bickham Washington, Assistant Professor of American Literature at Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. Washington’s work examines… Continue reading “Forthcoming from IOPN: Beyond NOLA: Exploring Zora Neale Hurston in Bogalusa Louisiana’s Magic City”…| Illinois Open Publishing Network
IOPN is excited to announce the upcoming publication of Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, an independent researcher and retired Library of Congress librarian. Her project was inspired by her desire to… Continue reading “Forthcoming from IOPN: Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era”…| Illinois Open Publishing Network
Book cover for “Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen.”IOPN is excited to announce the publication of Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen: Social Networks of Rejected Applicants by Hai In Jo. This publication began with researching archival materials in the Cherokee Freedman Collection at Texas A&M’s Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, and grew into a project that sought to examine and highlight the racial marginalization of Black residents in the Cherokee census rolls. | Illinois Open Publishing Network
When a body is discovered at a stadium used by a college athletics squad, Darac cedes leadership of an ongoing case to investigate. Who is the victim? Why were they killed? Who could have performed such a brutal act? As the list of suspects grows and the earlier case continues to frustrate Darac’s second-in-command, Roland Granot, a mysterious sighting sets in train a series of events which threatens to strike at the very heart of Darac’s world.| Galileo Publishers
thing Like the Sun Nothing Like the Sun opens with a young WS (as he is known throughout the novel) at home in Stratford-upon-Avon. WS is desperate to escape the confines of a domestic life which he finds to be highly distracting. He hears ‘the world, the wide world crying and calling like a cat ...| Galileo Publishers
Anthony Burgess’s novel is an Anglo-Russian comedy, which takes us into the heart of the Cold War world of mutual love-hate and incomprehension. Pro-Russians, anti-Russians even Russians themselves will find plenty here to be delighted and outraged by. To Leningrad sail Paul Hussey, an antique dealer from Sussex, and his American wife Belinda. Paul is ...| Galileo Publishers
As a doctor in a military hospital in Haguenau, near Strasbourg,Alfred Döblin witnessed the chaotic two weeks between the Kaiser’s abdication and the evacuation of Germans from Alsace, when everyone – military and civilian, high official to lowly cleaning lady – had to negotiate a game without rules as the old (Prussian) order broke down ...| Galileo Publishers
There is one word missing from the text of this extraordinary book by novelist and playwright Jonathan Smith. Parkinson’s. The fact that the author never mentions the word is significant. His writing is without a trace of self-pity and is yet a work that penetrates to the core of what happens when the body no ...| Galileo Publishers
The latest in our FORTHCOMING series of excerpts from new and recent books: But in 1961, basketball coaches had yet to become gods. His office was only a little larger than a janitor’s closet.| Another Chicago Magazine