Casperian Books Blog

Flooding Granite got an honorable mention in the Guide to Outdoor Literature’s Best Books of 2011 and Marina Melee has been nominated in the Underground Book Reviews’ Summer Reading List Contest. Please take a minute to vote for it if you are so inclined!

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Lots of activity these past few days! alt.punk has got a lot of shout-outs for the Best of 2011, including from Ben Tanzer at TNBBC’s The Next Best Book Blog, the folks at The Word Zombie, DK at Banners of Death, and the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, which also called out The Rage […]

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There’s a new interview with Bridget Bufford up at the KBIA website and alt.punk has been named as one of the Top 10 Indie Picks of 2011 by Lori Hettler at the BookPage blog.

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There is a new interview with Lavinia Ludlow up at Monkeybicycle.

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There’s a very thorough interview with Lavinia Ludlow up at Big Other and a new review of alt.punk is up at TNBBC’s The Next Best Book Blog.
The Bloomington Alternative meanwhile, recently revisited and reviewed Ian Woollen’s Hoosier Life & Casualty.
And, finally, Jimmy Gleacher, author of Silly Little Rich Girl, has a new book coming out […]

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If you buy a copy of Enter Oblivion through our website during the month of April, you will automatically be entered in a contest to win a copy of Manna Francis’ latest book, For Certain Values of Family*. We’ll be drawing a name randomly out of the hat on May 1st. US residents only.
*If you […]

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Earlier this month, Terence was interviewed for Connecticut Public Radio on the Faith Middleton Show. The interview can be listened to online.

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Casperian Books is pleased to announce the release of Lavinia Ludlow’s debut novel, alt.punk:
Hazel is a middle-class hypochondriac doing (over)time as a manager at Safeway, the only place that would hire her with an MBA from a state school. She hates her boyfriend, her family, and her life.
Otis is a guiltless weirdo who still has […]

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Spring releases kick off today with the release of the long-awaited next installment in Manna Francis’ Administration series, For Certain Values of Family. Book 7 contains the novel Family Values and two further short stories set in the near-future dystopia of New London.
On March 1st, we’ll be following that up with Lavinia Ludlow’s debut novel, […]

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We are currently trying to fill the spring 2012 list (and possibly add to the fall 2011 list) and would particularly like to see submissions in the following categories:
- Any kind of regional interest fiction (all genres)
- Gay (all genres)
Please be sure to follow our submission guidelines!

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There’s a very thorough interview with Tom Mahony about Imperfect Solitude in the Boston Literary Magazine and a positive review at The Waterman’s Library.

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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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Our Memorial Day Sale to celebrate our fourth anniversary is now live! All titles currently in stock are discounted for US orders while supplies last!

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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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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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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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We would like to thank everyone who bought books through our website this week, as well as those authors who added their royalties on those sales to our donation. We’ve tallied up the results and rounded the total up a bit to a nice round number, which has been transferred to Doctors Without Borders.

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Gary Clites and Paul Bens have both asked us to donate their portion of the receipts for any books sold through our website this week to Doctors Without Borders as well. Thank you to both of them!

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