Upcoming Books

I May or May Not Love You

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Steve Semken

ISBN 978194850152 | $19.99 | 136p | gatefold paper “I want you to step easily into me and feel comfortable and calm, though storms may be going on, and touch the reachable in ways your mind will recount in perfect detail days and ages later. I do not want you to be afraid or puzzled […]

The Art of Disobedience

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Steve Semken

The Art of Disobedience: Essays on Form, Fiction, and Influence. The best art is always disobedient. The creative works that move us, compel us, provoke us, haunt us, and transform us—the works that matter most to us and that we cherish—break the rules in significant ways. Certainly, characters act out, act up, transgress, and misbehave. […]

Tallgrass Conversations

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Steve Semken

Coming Soon … Poetic, beautiful, meditative, and informative. Through short writings and photographs, enter a conversation to inspire new understandings of the Midwestern tallgrass prairie …Read more… […]

The Great Gamble

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Steve Semken

The Great Gamble: At What Price? A Thriller Novel. David L. Bluder $19.95, paper w/gatefold 380p, Isbn 9781948509138 Coming March, 2020 Pre-order now for a signed copy when the book comes out in March, 2020. An odd-couple of FBI agents embark on a classified operation into the gambling battlefield which is bleeding into the corrupt […]

Clubfoot

Posted on October 29, 2019 by Steve Semken

Clubfoot: The Quest for a Better Life for Millions of Children tells the little-known story of the world’s most common skeletal birth defect and development of a revolutionary […]

The Way of Nile C. Kinnick, Jr.

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Steve Semken

… The Way of Nile C. Kinnick Jr.: Insights, Images, and Stories of Iowa’s 1939 Heisman Trophy Winner. 2018 marks the hundredth anniversary of one of Iowa’s most notable native sons. Read more… […]

Lost Soliloquies

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Steve Semken

K. L. Cook | ISBN 9781948509121 | 88p | $16.95 | Poetry I await the muse, which has come thus far in the form of odd profundities, half-baked theories, lost soliloquies, and promises of greater fluency— assuming I’m reading the signs rightly and not just hopefully. “Located in the tradition of the dramatic monologue, Lost […]

Marrying Kind

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Steve Semken

K. L. Cook | ISBN 9781948509114 | 302p | $21.95 | Short Stories In his fourth book of fiction, award winning novelist and short story writer K. L. Cook explores marriage—not only to people, but to places and vocations—and how our lives are shaped by both the ideal and reality of lifelong commitments. A bride […]

Country Views

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Steve Semken

Fresh and far-ranging, these timely commentaries illuminate an important paradox: how, as the population living on the land plummets, the popularity of agrarianism rises anew. […]

Deep Midwest

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Steve Semken

A deep dive into the Midwest experience through thought-provoking poems, recollections, essays, and vivid stories. Pondering nature and neighbors, bars and commutes […]

Around the World in Eighty Movies

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Steve Semken

In a highly imaginative blend of film locations, memories, and colorful travel essays, Robin Holabird offers an extensive and entertaining exploration of film locations far and wide, close to home […]

A Certain Arc

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Steve Semken

A Certain Arc follows Hamilton through a university career where he encounters and participates in the culture of writers and writing. Beginning with “Hometown,” which portrays his origins, […]

Voices After Evelyn

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Steve Semken

… Voices after Evelyn seeks not so much to dig up a cold case—the 1953 disappearance of La Crosse, Wisconsin, babysitter Evelyn Hartley—as reopen its heart. A fugue of voices …“Read more… […]

Road To Waubeek: Discovering Jay. G. Sigmund

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Steve Semken

… At the crossroads of two cultural icons exists Jay G. Sigmund, born in Waubeek, Iowa. As the Regionalist movement was in full swing guess who had an enormous influence on well-known artist… Read more… […]