Casperian Books Blog

The first review for on of our fall releases is in! Click here to read a review of ‘Nada at the Mystery*File

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Curt Smith’s novel Sound + Noise just received an excellent writeup in a French academic magazine, which was a very nice surprise indeed. It should be worth mentioning at this point also, that Curt Smith has pledged to donate his royalties from sales of his new novel, Truth or Something Like It through the Casperian […]

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Reviews of The Gravedigger are up at Small Press Reviews and Full of Crow, and Curt Smith will be reading from Truth or Something Like It this Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Rosemont College outside Philly.

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Curtis Smith’s Truth or Something Like It has a review up at Small Press Reviews here.
We’re also very pleased to report that Gary Clites’ Seneca Wood placed first in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll Thriller category, while Paul G. Bens’ Kelland came in third in the Mystery category. Congratulations, Gary and Paul!

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Kelland has been nominated for Dark Scribe Magazine’s Black Quill Awards! Click here to see the full list of nominees and register to vote! Also check out the glowing review of Kelland and the interview with Paul G. Bens in that publication.
Curtis Smith’s Sound+Noise has a very nice writeup in the Harrisburg Magazine.

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Terence Hawkins has guest blogs up at historical-fiction.com, Historical Boys, and Writerly So, an extract of The Rage of Achilles at The Historical Novel Review, and a review of The Rage of Achilles at 300spartanswarriors.com’s blog.
Sybil Baker has an interview up at the Dames of Dialogue blog and an editorial in the Writers in the […]

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The Life Plan has a new review out in Midwest Book Review (fifth one down), and Sybil Baker herself is one of the featured writers in the Chattanooga CityScope’s A Passion for Writing article.

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A review of Kelland just went up on the Dark Discoveries Magazine blog.

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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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Curt Smith has a guest blog titled On Trances and Other Gifts up at Flash Fiction.net.
And Paul G Bens and Kelland keep on making the rounds, most recently with a very flattering review at Edge, an interview at Small Press Reviews.

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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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Sybil Baker will be reading from The Life Plan Wednesday, July 1st, at 5 p.m. at Page After Page Bookstore, 111 So Water Street, Elizabeth City, NC 27909. And for all the budding authors out there, you should check out Sybil’s Sybil Baker’s Book Tour Disaster Stories guest blog at RobinHemley.com.
In the meantime, Gary Clites’ […]

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There is a very nice review of Sound + Noise in Gud Magazine.

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There’s a review of Sound + Noise and an accompanying interview with Curtis Smith in the current issue of ShowcasePA!. Click here to download a pdf of the relevant pages.

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Paul Elwork has a guest blog about The Tea House up at Skepchick: Critical Thinking at its Finest, so check it out!

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One dedicated reader wrote a very detailed review each of Mind Fuck and Quid Pro Quo, NewPages posted their review of Sound + Noise, and M. J. Rose wrote a ringing endorsement of The Tea House.

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While from a sales perspective, this time of year is what in German one would call “Saure Gurken Zeit” (lit. pickle time–the black hole during the summer when absolutely nothing is happening), we’re starting to ramp up for fall.
So far, three fall release dates are confirmed and another is pending:
Curtis Smith’s Sound + Noise will […]

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Without Wax has a very nice review in the Boston Phoenix here, and there’s a feature with an author interview of William Walsh in the Providence Phoenix here.

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There’s a new review of Without Wax at Gently Read Literature, and Jeff Vande Zande has written a review of End Credits.
In other news, while I have been sitting on the SO’s couch here in South London, banging away at Casperian Books business and making a serious dent in the to-do list (two books uploaded […]

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There’s a rather excellent critical essay about Curtis Smith’s Sound + Noise, which is being released in September, at Prick of the Spindle.
In other news, Friday’s e-mail from Dad (who’s taken over doing a lot of the link gathering and other web-based stuff): “In other news, slack US paperback sales are attributed to a […]

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