Awful Alvin Announced

Arachis Press officially announces a release date of August 1, 2015 for the new book of poetry for children, AWFUL ALVIN AND OTHER PECULIAR POEMS. This volume of witty pieces for a younger audience includes 28 pen and ink illustrations by the author.

To be available both in print and ebook editions.

Coast of Spears Video Trailer

We put together a  'slide-show' style video trailer for the new COAST OF SPEARS novel by Stephen Brooke. The novel, a 'fantasy adventure,' is available now in print and ebook at Arachis Press, rolling out elsewhere over the next couple months (which is why the 'official' release date is July 1).

A Mouse Goes Everywhere

We have just given final approval to the revision of Stephen Brooke's children's picture book, A MOUSE IS IN THE HOUSE, for distribution to all booksellers (Amazon, B&N, your local bookstore). If all goes well (hey, it does sometimes), it will be available everywhere in six to eight weeks.

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Also, this coming week the finalized versions of the new adventure novel, COAST OF SPEARS,  will be sent to the printer. Although the 'official' release date is July 1, the ebook versions  should be available directly almost immediately. It will take longer for it to show up elsewhere --- the print edition may not make it to places like Amazon for a couple months, alas!

The Mouse Runs Free

In keeping with our intention to eventually get most of our books into wider distribution, a new edition of Stephen Brooke's children's picture book, A MOUSE IS IN THE HOUSE, has been sent off to our printer and should soon show up at book retailers everywhere, including Amazon. Watch for it online or order from your local bookstore!

And, of course, it remains available directly from us at the Arachis Press. Next comes the release of COAST OF SPEARS, and then we'll see about getting more revised books out.

Coast of Spears To Be Released

July 1 has been named as the official release date of Stephen Brooke's new fantasy adventure novel, COAST OF SPEARS. Look for it at book retailers or our own Arachis Press web site!

Donzalo and More

We have nearly completed the revisions of our entire catalog, and should have all the new editions  up by the end of this month. The intention was then to work up a combined edition of 'Donzalo's Destiny,' including a hardcover version. However, this plan has been abandoned, at least for now.

This, in part, is because the 740 page, 206,000 words, plus illustrations, was a bit much. Best to keep the saga in its four separate books and move on to new projects. But we will attempt to edit those four books and get them into wider distribution (i.e. at B&N, Amazon, etc) along side our  ebook editions.

Indeed, we hope to do this with most of our print books, in time. We have always been leery of this approach because it adds unnecessary expense as the books pass through the hands of a middleman. We would rather you, the readers, save the money as we keep our prices down.

The first book we will attempt to submit to distribution will be Stephen Brooke's third poetry collection, RETELLINGS. If it works out well, more titles will join it. This will require varying amounts of reformatting, both internal and to the covers, to meet the requirements of the vendors. And all new titles will be set up with this in mind.

Or we may just keep on as we have!

More Revised Versions

Since our last post, we have two more  revised versions of our books ready and on sale. These are the YA novel, THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, and the poetry collection, PIECES OF THE MOON (the first book we published, a decade ago).

We are in the process of getting the revised editions of our second poetry chapbook, DREAMWINDS, uploaded and available. Expect them in the next few days (though it takes longer to get the new ebook versions to all the retailers). Then we start on the first of the Donzalo novels, THE SONG OF THE SWORD. We hope to have all the Donzalo's Destiny titles revised and ready well before the end of this year, followed by the release of a print version (maybe a hardcover too?) containing all four books.

Also keep an eye out for the new fantasy adventure from Stephen Brooke, COAST OF SPEARS, which we hope to release this summer. But we all know about how plans are subject to change!

A mockup of a possible cover.