Casperian Books Blog

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of A. F. Rützy’s wryly comic and wonderfully weird debut, End Credits, a novel about life, death, and truth in advertising.
Its protagonist, Raymond Kessel, is dead. Or is he? Death, it seems, is not as advertised. Welcome to the Afterlife, the new and improved version, in which […]

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My mom is currently cavorting around New York City, trying to get acclimatized to a US time zone on her way here to visit for a month, with the result that Dad’s been bumming around the Internet a lot more than usual (I think). In the process, he’s turned up some rather nifty toys:
Aaron Shepard’s […]

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This weekend I found a letter in our PO Box from an inmate at an Oregon prison asking us to donate books to the prison library he’s trying to build.
Now, it’s not that we’re not in favor libraries in general (wherever they are), but I have an inkling, after reviewing the Oregon Dept. of […]

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There’s a passage in Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade where a publishing entrepreneur mutters, “I don’t know, authors wanting to be paid, good grief–” and storms off in a tizzy, which is a little how I feel whenever I start calculating royalty statements at the end of a quarter ;-)

So to make the next few weeks a […]

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The advance copy of Manna Francis’ Quid Pro Quo will be going to Cristin in Connecticut!

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