Rock Dance is going out of print at the end of this month. We have a couple of copies left in stock here, so this is your last chance to buy the book!
New Review of Hoosier Life & Casualty
There’s a new review of Hoosier Life & Casualty up at the Books, Personally blog.
Flooding Granite by Tom Mahony
We are pleased to announce the release of Tom Mahony’s second novel, Flooding Granite.
Zack Pruitt is a river guide long on skill but short on nerve: he dropped out of college, quit his job, and abandoned his girlfriend and young son when things got tough.
Back in the Sierra Nevada, Zack signs on for a high-water river trip with three other guides and eleven clients. As the flotilla careens toward Gallows–a brutal rapid that’s always terrorized him–events spin out of control. A near-fatal accident coupled with a rush of snowmelt leave the guides and clients fighting for survival, and Zack discovers that for once running is not an option.
“River guide Zack Pruitt and his clients get more excitement than they bargained for in this gripping account of three days on the water battling nature, each other, and their own demons. Tightly wrought tension crests to life-threatening levels as Mahony takes readers on a ride filled with unexpected twists and turns. Flooding Granite offers nail-chomping suspense on every page.” –Robin Stratton, Boston Literary Magazine
“Tom Mahony knows how to tell a story and, as a scientist, understands the natural environment. In Flooding Granite, he demonstrates both of these skills with an intelligent action tale that grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let go. More than a man-battles-nature story, Flooding Granite is layered with a human element that will have you rooting for Zack and caring for him despite, and maybe because of, his flaws.” –Wayne Scheer, author of Revealing Moments
Click here to read the first chapter of Flooding Granite.
Flooding Granite Review
The first review of Flooding Granite is up at Small Press Reviews.
alt.punk comic!
Nathan Holic, the man behind the front cover of alt.punk, has done a comic of one section of the book. You can read it here at Smalldoggies Magazine.
Cemetery Bird
There’s a new writeup of Cemetery Bird in Vox Magazine.
New Review of alt.punk
There’s a new review of alt.punk up at Smalldoggies Magazine.
Announcing our Fall 2011 List
Fall releases kick off today with the release of Bridget Bufford’s second novel, Cemetery Bird, the story of Hotshot Jay Aubuchon who returns home to Missouri to help care for her autistic nephew after being injured in a forest fire.
On October 1st, we’ll be following that up with Tom Mahony’s new novel, Flooding Granite, in which a group of river guides takes a bunch of tourists on a whitewater rafting trip that soon turns to disaster.
Finally, on December 1st, we’ll be releasing Garrett Socol’s satire, Fame & Madness in America, which explores the nature of celebrity through a series of vignettes from the points of view of anyone even remotely associated with an accused murderess.
And yes, we’re skipping November this year because several members of the Casperian Books family will be halfway around the world for a family celebration and we don’t want those folks remaining in California to have to manage a new release all by themselves.
Reviews and such
There is a new review of Enter Oblivion and an interview with its author, C.M. Harris, up at the Top 2 Bottom Reviews website.
There is also a new review of Charles Dodd White’s Lambs of Men in the current Appalachian Heritage (login required).
Last but not least, Lavinia Ludlow’s alt.punk made the Dogzplots “10 Favorite Books I Read So Far This Year” list.
Marina Melee Review
There’s a new review of Marina Melee up at The Internet Review of Books.
New interview with Lavinia Ludlow
There is a new interview with Lavinia Ludlow up at Monkeybicycle.
Reviews and such
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 tomorrow: Paradise Rules.
Marina Melee by Lynne Hinkey
We are pleased to announce the release of Lynne Hinkey’s Marina Melee.
Freshly divorced for the third time and fired from his “allowance”-paying job in the family oil business by his father as a result, George Marshall is invited by his friends Ricky and Katie May to join them on a sailing trip around the Caribbean.
A few weeks later, George and his friends stumble upon the idyllic island of São Jorge, where they are welcomed by expat marina owner Tracker Doorn who extols the virtues of Caribbean living–not entirely without ulterior motives.
Determined to prove that he is more than a spoiled, womanizing, overage adolescent, George buys the marina to show his skeptical father and family that he has what it takes to achieve business success without their assistance and without having to work too hard.
At times raucous, at times touching, Marina Melee is a fun voyage to the Caribbean island of São Jorge, where living the easy life is hard work!
“Lynne is one talented, Calypso-kissed writer. The marine community of the Lesser Antilles will never be the same!” — Cap’n Fatty Goodlander, Editor-at-large of Cruising World magazine
“Fast-paced, rum-laced, but certainly not strait-laced–and you won’t be straight-faced as you turn the pages of this hilarious comic romp.” — Bob Sanchez, author of When Pigs Fly
Click here to read the prologue of Marina Melee.
New Reviews
There is a wonderful new review of alt.punk up at The Word Zombie, and another great new review of Hoosier Life & Casualty over at Think. Read. Talk.
Travel Writing Workshop with Sybil Baker
Sybil will be leading a travel writing workshop for the Georgia Writers Association at Kennesaw State University this coming Saturday, May 14th, in the Social Sciences Building #2036 from noon to 2 p.m.!
New Reviews, Interviews, and Events
There’s a new review of Enter Oblivion up at Reviews by Jessewave. An interview with Paperboy author Bob Thurber is at Mourning Goats. Paul Elwork talks a bit about how he went from Casperian Books author to a major publisher here, and heads up, if you’re in the Twin Cities area, C.M. Harris will be reading from Enter Oblivion on June 23rd, 2011, 7:30 p.m. at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis.
Phew! Busy news day!
Paperboy by Bob Thurber
We are pleased to announce the release of Bob Thurber’s Paperboy.
It’s 1969 and the entire nation is waiting for the United States to win the space race and put the first man on the moon. Meanwhile, fourteen-year-old Jack Fisher–malnourished and battered, abandoned by his father, neglected by his mother, manipulated by his older sister, harangued by his boss, and shortchanged by customers–is delivering newspapers in downtown Pawtucket and trying to keep his family from self-destructing completely.
As the whole world holds its breath to see what will become of the Apollo 11 astronauts, Jack clings to his daily mantra, “Things will get better.” But in this poignant debut novel by award-winning short story writer Bob Thurber, things do not get better; they get drastically worse, at space-age speed.
“Bob Thurber is a masterful wordsmith, driving you into the undiscovered corners of the heart with insight and courage.” – Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue
Paperboy is not a book, it’s a state of mind. Gritty, visceral, desperately urgent, and begging to be read, it is a novel that perfectly captures a dangerous and uncertain zeitgeist, the no man’s land that was really the no boy’s land of 1969.” – Vincent Carrella, author of The Serpent Box
Click here to read an extract from Paperboy.
New Review of Hoosier Life & Casualty
There’s a new review of Ian Woollen’s Hoosier Life & Casualty up at The Irregular Times.
New Review of Enter Oblivion
There’s a new review of Enter Oblivion up at Lavender Magazine.
New Review of alt.punk & Postal Rates Increase
There’s a new review of alt.punk up at Razorcake.
In other news, the USPS is still trying to figure out how not to lose money (and possibly failing miserably) and have increased their rates more or less across the board effective April 17th, so our shipping calculators have been updated accordingly. I’m sure one day they’ll figure out that nobody is using them anymore because their pricing is outrageous and their regulations arbitrary and contradictory at best–but obviously not today. International shipments still aren’t an option unless anyone is prepared to pay more than the cost of a book for that shipment–which we’re not really willing to entertain except by special request.