Casperian Books Blog

Our fall 2010 releases kick off today with Daniel Boyd’s ‘Nada, an action/adventure romp through Depression-era Mexico.
 
On November 1st, we’ll be following that up with the Lambs of Men by Charles Dodd White, in which a man returns from World War I to become a Marine Corps recruiter in his Appalachian hometown. 
Lastly, on December 1st, we’ll […]

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Who hasn’t dreamed of an unexpected inheritance from a long-lost relative?
Alonso Santina leads a comfortable life in the suburbs of New Jersey with a budding construction business, a new house, and a wife with a baby on the way. When he receives a letter from an attorney in Spain informing him of the death of […]

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Who is leading the rabble to victory?
Toreth shifted against the wall, trying to get comfortable. Between bruises and handcuffs, he didn’t have much success.
On the first day, in the first cell, the lights had been on, the water dispenser working, and the prisoner feeding schedule still running. Then the lights went out, and things had […]

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust…
What happens to us after we die? Does the soul live on? Is there a soul at all, or are we just electrical impulses walking upright? Poets and dreamers, prophets and madmen have failed to answer these questions. Maybe the only person who knows the answer is he who ushers […]

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Our spring releases kick off today with Curtis Smith’s Truth or Something Like It, a novel about a small-town schoolteacher thrust into the political limelight because of an accident.
On April 1st, we’ll be following that up with the The Gravedigger by Ilan Herman, a ghost story of sorts, in which the title character finds that […]

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Kelland won the Editor’s Choice Best Small Press Chill Award from Dark Scribe Magazine. Congratulations Paul!

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Well, now that the holidays are over, it’s time to focus on books again. Technically, we didn’t stop working over the holidays, of course, but we were taking it just a little bit easy, right until January 1st, when everybody got to help in the 12-hour year-end-close marathon with extra hair-pulling caused by the fact […]

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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
Just ask Elvis Scurvine. A brief joyride in a borrowed truck turns into a month-long rollercoaster with the woman he never wanted to meet. Her unorthodox views on health insurance, a failed jailbreak, a pair of Civil War reenactors, and a pharmaceutical experiment gone awry all add to […]

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Blood. Guts. Pride. Wrath.
The ancient clash of armies outside the walls of Troy is a cornerstone of Western literature. In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins brilliantly reimagines that titanic encounter. His stunningly original telling captures the brutality of the battlefield, the glory and the gore, in language that never relents.
Raw and compelling, The Rage […]

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Paul Bens will be signing Kelland on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at A Different Light Bookstore, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114. Full details at the A Different Light Bookstore blog.

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We are pleased to announce the release of the fifth book in the Administration Series, Quis Custodiet by Manna Francis. It is rather fitting, we think, that we somehow managed to schedule this release date for Banned Books Week ;-)
This volume contains the novella Quis Custodiet and seven short stories, following the careers of para-investigator […]

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Seneca Wood has made the Entertainment Weekly Must List!
OK, so it’s the extended online version, but still! Next stop: the cover of the Rolling Stone…just kidding ;-)

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Our fall releases kick off today with Paul G. Bens Jr.’s Kelland, a novel that spans genres as it weaves together the stories of four seemingly unrelated characters that are connected by a mysterious being called Kelland.
On October 1st, we’ll be following that up with the fifth installment in Manna Francis’ Administration series, Quis Custodiet. […]

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The fall release season is almost upon us, and we’re kicking off the positive press with a lengthy and detailed review of Kelland and interview with Paul G. Bens at Edge (warning: contains some spoilers!), and a shorter review at Lavender Magazine. More links to follow!

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Gary Clites currently has the following appearances scheduled in support of Seneca Wood:

June 13, 2-6 p.m. – Book Launch and Signing
The Comeback Bar and Grill, Owings, MD (410) 286-7333
June 27, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Book Signing
The Book Center, 15 North Centre Street, Cumberland, MD (301) 722-2284
July 11, 1 - 3 p.m. – Book […]

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Communiqué from the Mountain State Ecological Front:
Wood Garrett has a problem. A disgraced reporter hiding in the mountains of his native West Virginia, he finds his peaceful life shattered when someone who wants his land tries to frame him for murder to get it. Before he knows it, his friends have been drawn into the […]

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We are pleased to announce the release of the fourth book in the Administration Series, Control by Manna Francis.
This volume contains the novellas Control and Coming from America and six other short stories, continuing the lives, loves, and occasionally intricate problems of dedicated and opportunistic para-investigator Val Toreth and up-and-coming corporate Keir Warrick in the […]

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We’re going to start accepting international orders for Manna Francis’ new book, Control today.
To order Control for international delivery, please follow the instructions listed on this page. Please allow twenty-four hours for your quote to arrive (time differences and whatnot).

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We are pleased to announce the release of Silly Little Rich Girl by Jimmy Gleacher.
In Silly Little Rich Girl, Jimmy Gleacher introduces a fascinating and contradictory heroine. Privileged, famous, beautiful…Liza seems destined for a successful career on Wall Street until a series of events loosens her grip on reality and sends her on a cross-country […]

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Today, we are pleased to announce our spring 2009 lineup!
On March 1st, 2009, we released The Life Plan by Sybil Baker, which tells the story of patent attorney Kat, who is trying to save her marriage on a trip to Thailand.
On April 1st, 2009, we will be releasing Silly Little Rich Girl by Jimmy Gleacher, […]

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