Qala Novella

Qala the Pirate Queen appears in four of Stephen Brooke’s fantasy novels. She was introduced as a secondary character in ‘The Eyes of the Wind,’ in which she is still the leader of the pirates. ‘The Crocodile’s Son’ and ‘The Crocodile God’ chronicle her adventures in retirement as a member of the landed gentry (and the mother of a demigod). We turn to her childhood as a refugee in the decaying city of Tesra in ‘The City and the Sword,’ when she was known as Lellie. Later she took the name of the city as her own, becoming Tes the pirate captain before rising to the position of queen.

It is as Tes she appears in the novella ‘Storm Stone,’ to be released in about a month (June 28). This is a tale of her days as a young pirate on her way to the top. More info as we draw nearer the release date! All the books are available in print or as free ebooks at arachispress.com

 

Mission Delayed Release

The new science fiction novella, MISSION DELAYED, by Oliver Davis Pike is officially released to day, May 18 2026. The print edition may be purchased at:

 https://www.lulu.com/shop/oliver-davis-pike/mission-delayed/paperback/product-nvrr49v.html

Or go to arachispress.com for both print and free ebooks. 

Night Rains

Today we release Stephen Brooke's latest poetry collection, Night Rains. Here's a direct link to the print edition at the retail shop: 

https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brooke/night-rains/paperback/product-95wp5rj.html

Or visit Arachis Press (arachispress.com) for both the print and the free ebook editions.

Releases, Now and Later

April 21 2026 marks the release of Stephen Brooke's latest poetry collection, NIGHT RAINS. Here's the official blurb:

To linger in forbidden gardens,
  dream beneath the black rose tree,
to play the tunes for fairy dances
  through all night’s eternity,
I seek those distant ebon towers,
  stark beside a shadowed sea
where misted perfumes of the darkness
  rise in writhing ecstasy.

Visit lands both real and imagined — though who is to say which is which? —  in Stephen Brooke’s collection of poems, NIGHT RAINS.
 

 Available in both print and as free ebooks through our Arachis Press site (arachispress.com)

On May 18 we shall release the novella MISSION DELAYED, a Jack Mack science fiction story by Oliver Davis Pike, and on June 22, STORM STONE, a fantasy novella from Stephen Brooke. More on those as release dates approach.

Creative Commons

We have decided to move most of our material to Creative Commons licenses. As we were already allowing the free download of our ebooks, this will not have much actual effect. It just clears up the licensing a bit.

Stephen Brooke's poetry collection NIGHT RAINS remains on schedule for an April release and will be the first book with a CC notice in it. We also expect to have a new hardcover edition of Donzalo's Destiny available shortly, also under a CC license. Other books will have notices in them when we get to them.

Most of the sites and blogs connected to us already have Creative Commons notices up. 

Poetry 2026

We have chosen the poems (seventy-nine of them) and are working on the layout and formatting of the next Stephen Brooke poetry collection, to be titled NIGHT RAINS. An April release date is set. More information when we have some.

Blind Jump Now Available

Today, Oct 31 2025 is the official release date for Oliver Davis Pike's latest Jack Mack science fiction novel, Blind Jump. At the Arachis Press store or go to arachispress.com for both print and free ebooks.

https://www.lulu.com/shop/oliver-davis-pike/blind-jump/paperback/product-e7dg5mp.html