Deal of the Week, November 2

Current special, to be used at the Arachis Press Store at our distributor's site: Save 10% on orders of print books through Nov 6. Use promo code PRINTRUN10 at checkout.

The address of our Spotlight store is: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/arachis

Artificial Intelligence

We do not use AI in any form in our books. Not in the writing. Not in the editing. It’s not that we have any ethical or moral (or whatever) argument against it; we’ve simply never seen any use for it.

Oh, maybe it could be a researching aid. So we’ve heard. We haven’t tried it and most likely never will. We do recognize it is likely to see improvement, over time. We do recognize it can be useful in some fields (coding, medicine, and so on). Indeed, our Jack Mack science fiction stories by Oliver Davis Pike are full of useful AI, integrated into a thriving human society (but they do drop in bits about problems and drawbacks, as well).

That’s in our books. How about outside them? That means artwork — or we should probably say ‘illustration’ — for both book covers and promotional material. We don’t believe we have used (knowingly!) AI-generated illustrations in our advertising. We are not dead set against it but we do keep in mind that it is taking a job from an artist. In that we created our own artwork, we’re not sure whether taking work from ourselves is altogether a bad thing!

The same with the covers. We did work in background AI elements (essentially, some textures) in a couple. By no means did we allow it to generate the cover itself. Chances are, we’ll not do that again. Anything a robot can do, we can do better — so far. Honestly, the more we see of AI illustration, the less we like it. And how it looks is the most important thing. We’d rather use a solid color cover, with just title and author, than bad ‘art.’

Anyway, you can certainly trust us not to be using any AI-generated content in out books. And we never will.

Deal of the Week Oct 26

This is a big one! Twenty percent off.

Current special, to be used at the Arachis Press Store at our distributor's site: Save 20% on orders of print books through October 30. Use promo code EARLY20 at checkout.

The address of our Spotlight store is: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/arachispress 

Taking a Breath

Our likely next release will be the mainstream novel 'The Complete Breath' by Stephen Brooke. This is a sequel to his 'Asanas.' Far too early to name a release date but here is the probably front cover.

 

Deal of the Week, October 19

Current special, to be used at the Arachis Press Store at our distributor's site: Save 15% on orders of print books through Oct 23. Use promo code BOOKCLUB15 at checkout.

The address of our Spotlight store is: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/arachispress

Deal of the Week, October 5

Current special, to be used at the Arachis Press Store at our distributor's site: Save 15% on orders of print books through Fri Oct 9. Use promo code READMORE15 at checkout.

The address of our Spotlight store is: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/arachispress

Deal of the Week, September 28

 Current special, to be used at the Arachis Press Store at our distributor's site: Save 10% on orders of print books through October 2.

Use promo code BOOKBAG10 at checkout. 

The address of our Spotlight store is: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/arachispress

Deal of the Week, Sept 21

We have decided to begin announcing our deals as regular posts rather than on a separate page. Here's the latest:    

Current special, to be used at the Arachis Press Store at our distributor's site: Save 15% on orders of print books through September 25.

Use promo code PUBLISHER15 at checkout.

The address of our Spotlight store is: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/arachispress

 As ever, the ebooks are free at our site. 

Storm Stone Releasd

Today, June 28, the new Qala fantasy novella is released. Available in print at our Arachis Press store (https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brooke/storm-stone/paperback/product-je2eykk.html) or both print and free ebook editions may be found at arachispress.com

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.