Latest Releases
I’m Not Here:
Strange Relatives, a Stranger Boarding School, and the Saving Grace of Art and Love
A follow up to his first book, Paterson Boy, this story collection continues the memoir of Jerry Vis, a city kid from Paterson, New Jersey, as he is packed off to a strict, religious boarding school in the rural South of the 1950s.
Jerry is a fish out of water in a place as alien to him as the moon. The strange boarding school is definitely not to his liking nor his character. To complicate matters, his father, who had come in and out of focus in his life, dramatically emerges center stage, bringing a confusing mix of God, religion, and alcohol.
I’m Not Here gives rise to the question: Can art save you? The answer in this uplifting story collection is that maybe it can. That and a little love.
Formats: Paperback | eBook
Written on Water:
Characters and Mysteries from Maine’s Back of Beyond
Fishing guide and award-winning author Randy Spencer weaves a spell with quirky, colorful residents, fish-out-of-water tourists, native traditions, and a large helping of absolute wonder.
Written On Water is an extraordinary collection of tales about the part of Maine that truly is, as those who reside there call it, the “back of the beyond.” With its assemblage of quirky characters who live far off the beaten path, and consider fishing to be a sacred art, the beautiful, watery, down-east Grand Lake Stream (population 132) has been hallowed ground since the 1800s.
In poignant and frequently hilarious prose, award-winning author and master Maine guide, Randy Spencer, shares this insightful collection of colorful oral histories, teeming with drama, mysteries, and laugh-out-loud moments about eccentric and lovable individuals.
Formats: Paperback | eBook | Audiobook
The Beak in the Heart:
True Tales of Misfit Southern Women
Vivid, dramatic portraits of the author’s “misfit” female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a “proper Southern woman.”
The Beak in the Heart is a memoir of growing up “Southern.” Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of women who preceded her—misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In exploring the lives of her spirited female relatives, Entzminger—their educated, rebellious, and misfit twenty-first-century descendant—restores their voices and finds inspiration in their courage and integrity.
The Beak in the Heart speaks to all women, regardless of region of birth, who have felt that society has curbed their freedoms or silenced their voices.
Formats: Paperback | eBook | Audiobook
Recent Release
Hawkesmoor: A Novel of Vampire & Faerie
Vampires, Romance, and dark Celtic mysticism fuse and blaze in this epic tale set in New York City, Yorkshire, England — and time itself.
Robin Dashwood, a handsome and charming British vampire with long gone aristocratic connections, is about to be thrown into an epic adventure that will shine light upon the rise of the vampire.
A chance encounter in a Manhattan art gallery introduces him to the beautiful Lady Caroline DeBarry and reveals a vicious murder from Robin’s human past. In search of answers to this historical mystery, he returns home to England, and to Caroline who has captured his heart.
As Robin searches for the truth, he finds traces of a far more ancient and shrouded realm than even that of the vampire. This will shake the foundations of vampire lore and its brutal hierarchy, placing Lady Caroline in terrible danger and setting in motion events that will lead to a final bloody confrontation between a revenant army and humankind.
Hawkesmoor is the first book in a trilogy that will continue the eerie adventures of Robin Dashwood – a very British vampire.
Formats: Paperback | eBook | Audiobook
Coming Soon
January 2024
On the Hook
A Memoir of the Sea
Roberto Loiederman
June 2024
A Season for Wolves
A Mystery of the French Revolution
Anne Merino
March 2024
Boybands, By-laws, and Other Reasons I was Banned from the PTA
Amy Ferguson