K. Page Brooke Passes

With sorrow, we must announce the passing of Mary Katherine Page Brooke, the subject of our retrospective book, 'The Art of K. Page Brooke.' We are, however, pleased that we were able to publish the book while she was still with us and able to enjoy looking through it.

Rest in peace, Mary, and be sure to set up your easel and paint some landscapes of Heaven.

New Catalog

The March 2013 catalog of books from The Arachis Press is now available for download. It contains information on all six of our current titles.

http://insolentlad.com/files/apcat2013mar.pdf

K. Page Brooke News

We are finalizing 'The Art of K. Page Brooke' and do expect it to be available by the end of January. With this sort of project, we are definitely taking our time. In the mean time, we have put a page at our site with some of the art that will be in the book. In higher resolution, of course! That may be found at: www.insolentlad.com/kpagebrooke.html

This book is essentially a labor of love for us and also an opportunity to expand our catalog. It will class us up a bit! ;)

In the Works

New books are coming. Really! Our publishing schedule had to be put on hold for a while, due to other demands on our time and resources, but we do hope to have two new titles available soon.

The first of these is a new direction for us: an art book. It will be a retrospective of the life work of painter K. Page Brooke. Photography is going on right now and we should have the final product assembled soon. The book will be made available in print – full color, of course – but also we will probably offer it as a PDF. If the logistics can be worked out, possibly that latter version will be a free download.

 a mockup of the cover for our K. Page Brooke retrospective

The second will be a children’s picture book, titled ‘Awful Alvin.’ It is likely that the illustrations will be black and white pen drawings (text and artwork both by Stephen Brooke), but color remains a possibility. We’ll have to see how that goes.

Will either be available before the end of the year? Maybe not, but expect them soon after. There will be more to follow in 2013, naturally!

The Well-Dressed Mouse

The cover art from 'A MOUSE IS IN THE HOUSE' by Stephen Brooke is available on tees (and other stuff) from the Insolent Lad Emporium. Wouldn't your kid look cute in this? For that matter, wouldn't YOU?

The book, of course, remains on sale at our Arachis Press Spotlight store.