Books On Line

We would like to announce that we finally have our book list on line at our site (at http://www.insolentlad.com/apbooks.html ) with images, brief blurbs and 'buy' buttons. All eight current titles are up --- more to come, of course!

More information on Arachis Press, including submission standards and the like, should appear soon-ish, both at the site and here. Plans for our new magazine, too.

EPUB Delay

Just a mention that the epub version of THE SONG OF THE SWORD will be delayed a bit before appearing at various outlets around the internet (Barnes and Noble, etc). It is available, however, from our own store.

There was a glitch in attaching the 'cover' to the text, which was apparently no fault of ours, though we should have noticed it in our downloaded 'proof' copy. Anyway, we have revised and republished and the new version appears to be properly done so we expect it to show up everywhere soon.

The Song of the Sword Official Release

Today is the official release of THE SONG OF THE SWORD, the fantasy novel by Stephen Brooke and the first book of the Donzalo's Destiny series. Now available in print, epub and PDF at our 'spotlight' store, and ready for your seasonal shopping!

The epub version is also available through Barnes & Noble and Apple. Incidentally, we do NOT do Kindle and generally try to avoid dealing with Amazon altogether.

Also, we have taken care of a few small problems that arose in the printing of the poetry chapbook, RETELLINGS, so the print version is ready to order.

Song of the Sword Trailer

We've put together a book trailer for the release of the new fantasy novel by Stephen Brooke, THE SONG OF THE SWORD. Yes, Stephen wrote the song. And yes, Stephen sings the song.

Song of the Sword

Just for the fun of it, a blurb for the upcoming publication of THE SONG OF THE SWORD. Currently in rewrites and edit, expected to be available in time for Christmas shopping!

New Catalog, September 2013

The new and updated of our books is now available: http://insolentlad.com/files/apcat2013sep.pdf

All the titles are available at our store in print, and most as PDF and EPUB as well. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Anniversary

I just realized that this is the tenth anniversary of Arachis Press. In a sense, anyway — I self-published my first chapbook of poetry, ‘Pieces of the Moon,’ in 2003. At that time, I styled myself ‘Nihil Crocodile Press’ and continued to do so until I put out my second book, the YA novel ‘The Middle of Nowhere,’ some eight years later!

That first edition was not only self-published but also self-printed. A laser printer, good paper stock, and a long stapler are really all one needs to put out a quite decent-looking product. Distribution, however, is another matter which is why I switched to printing and selling through Lulu for the second edition in 2005.

So I’ll celebrate. Yay! Okay, that’s taken care of. Now back to business!

I’m working up a new catalog, reflecting the release of the latest book, ‘Retellings,’ and will have it on the site shortly. It might be time I adjusted some prices anyway and maybe even put out some revised editions (too many mistakes in both ‘Pieces of the Moon’ and ‘Dreamwinds.’).

And, of course, I continue to make attempts at more books. As I mentioned a while back, I’m open to working with other authors, but I do have projects of my own in progress. Maybe I’ll finally get that fantasy novel finished.

That would be ‘The Song of the Sword.’ I have decided to retain that title for the first ‘book’ of ‘Donzalo’s Destiny,’ which should consist of two novella-length parts. The first of which is long finished and well-polished — I considered releasing it on its own as a 22,000 word ebook but think I will wait.

Here is a mock-up of a possible cover. I like simple and (I hope) classy presentations.