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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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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From now until Sunday, January 24th, 2010, (or until we run out of local inventory), Casperian Books will donate its portion of the proceeds from any book sales through this website to Doctors Without Borders.

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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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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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Terence Hawkins, whose novel “The Rage of Achilles” we are publishing this fall, will be attending the SPF Expo 2009 on Saturday July 18, 2009, and Sunday July 19, 2009, from 12:00pm - 6:00pm at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221 representing Casperian Books.
Terence will have sample copies […]

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Yes, yes, I’m a few days late drawing a name out of the hat, my only excuse being that I hosted a rather grand party over the past weekend and spent a few days cooking (and then a couple of more days “recovering” by polishing off the opened bottles of wine so they wouldn’t go […]

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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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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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Chris Owen will be attending the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida, from April 22nd to April 25th. Book signing for the general public will be taking place on Saturday, April 25th. Full details can be found here, so check it out if you’re in the Orlando area.

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We’re all set up to start drop-shipping international orders from our printer’s UK facility! In many cases, the shipping rates for our customers will be much more reasonable than they were before as well! For full details, please visit this page, which explains the process.
A massive shout-out to my partner and future husband who takes […]

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