Inkwater Press is proud to announce our 2012–2013 catalog is fresh off the press! Click here to view our catalog online!
Bookstores, Libraries, and other retail outlets can contact us for a free copy. Phone 503.968.6777 or email info@inkwaterpress.com.
K.B. Dixon’s latest book The Photo Album received yet another great review. This time from Sam Sattler of BookChase.blogspot.com. Sattler concluded at the end of the review, “That is exactly the kind of understated humor that I enjoy.” To read the entire review click here.
Another Inkwater author, another Inkwater win!
This time we’re celebrating Michael Scott Curnes’ book For the Love of Mother, which just recently won the San Francisco Green Book Award for Fiction.
The Green Book Festival is an annual literary competition that honors books that contribute to greater understanding, respect for and positive action on the changing worldwide environment. A panel of judges determined this year’s winners based on the overall writing style and presentation of the work along with the potential of the work to enhance understanding of the environment and its issues. Last year’s winner in the Green Book Festival fiction category was Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.
Earlier this month, For the Love of Mother was also named an award winning finalist in the International Book Awards competition in the environmental fiction category.
Fore more on Michael’s book, please see our bookstore. Also, Michael will be interviewed live on CBC Radio Daybreak North on Wednesday morning at 6:40 during the Written Word segment. If you aren’t in the North and want to tune in on the web, follow the link and select British Columbia and then Prince George.
Lastly, Michael will be conducting a book signing at the Prince Rupert Writes Writers’ Group in the basement of City Hall at 7pm.
We are excited to announce the month of February, Spirit Unbroken – The Two Sides of Love will be airing on Comcast channels in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area. It was originally recorded in Portland, Oregon on a local series promoting authors and their books called Author’s Forum. Dr. Veronica Esaqui gives a delightful inside peek into the mystical, private people of Japan and asks some very insightful questions about overcoming tragedies and relishing happiness.
Times and channels are as follows:
9:30 PM February 8 on Access 2
6:30 PM February 11 on Access 2
11:00 AM February 17 on Access 2
9:00 AM March 1 on Access 2
Access 2 is Comcast 57 and Frontier 27
Rick and Alice Garlock will be signing their memoir Spirit Unbroken; The Two Sides of Love at Clackamas Town Center on December 18th from 11 AM to 7 PM. 20% of all proceeds will go to the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
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Sonia and Alexandre Poussin, whose work details their amazing 39-month trek from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sea of Galilee, are currently touring the nation of South Africa to promote their Africa Trek documentary film and to launch the new, South African edition of Africa Trek. Inkwater Press was proud and excited to publish the North American edition of Africa Trek last year and to offer the public television series Africa Trek as a DVD set as well. The new edition is published by Jacana Media in South Africa.
Inkwater Press announces with diabolical glee the publication of Barry Smith’s Only Milo, a twisted and darkly funny thriller about the publishing industry.
All his life, 62-year-old Milo has been overlooked and underestimated, despite the twelve brilliant manuscripts stockpiled in his closet. Fed up with being a nobody, he emerges from his retirement to become an unseen force in the literary world, covertly publishing his novels in another author’s name.
Milo’s illicit ghostwriting leads him down a path fraught with deception, forgery, theft, and murder. In a world of egotistical, no-talent authors and duplicitous, back-stabbing publishers, he becomes determined to get what he deserves.
“Milo was narcissistic and unpleasant with a strong sense of entitlement. That being said, he was so deliciously unstable that I really enjoyed reading his thoughts,” says the book review website Devourer of Books.
With dark, scathing humor, Barry Smith‘s debut novel holds a grim mirror up to authors, publishers, the media, American mass culture, and, ultimately, itself as it delves into the shadowy side of both the publishing industry and human nature.
Smith, a finance professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, says it was the routine bloodbaths he watched on television that inspired him to write Only Milo.
“I have had TiVo for the last couple of years, and I’ve been watching more CSI, NCIS, and Criminal Minds than ever before. Last fall it really hit me that anyone watching this set of shows witnesses six to ten ‘murders’ every week,” Smith said.
“Watching those shows makes murder seem a fairly normal human activity.”
Inkwater Press is wickedly delighted to announce the impending publication of the literary noir Only Milo, by first-time author Barry Smith. Advance copies of the book, along with the author himself, will be available this weekend at BookExpo America, booth 4841.
In Only Milo, scheduled for publication in September, Milo is a seemingly unexceptional retiree who enjoys SPAM Reuben sandwiches and makes more on Social Security than he did delivering the Thrifty Nickel. But everything changes when an opportunistic moment turns him into an unseen force in the literary world-not to mention a killer.
Barry Smith, a University of Pennsylvania alum, is available for interviews, readings, and book signings. For more information, please contact Nicole@inkwaterpress.com or visit the Only Milo website.
Portland, OR — February 10, 2009: Career diversification is a term that’s creating an online buzz across the globe. It’s a thoroughly modern concept: follow your diverse interests, and learn how to turn them into complementary careers. Career advisors are increasingly recommending that individuals expand their professional horizons by following their passions.
Hanford Yang could be the poster child for career diversification. Already a well-respected architect who has taught and lectured at the nation’s top architecture schools, Mr. Yang’s debut collection of poetry, titled Endless Threats, was recently published by Inkwater Press. Mr. Yang’s poetry beautifully combines an architect’s sense of structure with the awareness of a poet. For instance, in “Lost,” Mr. Yang writes,
A surreal calm sustains the city.
The buildings stand with
Unabashed dignity and perverse pride.
Beneath a blackness of rain
Flowers quiver on the wet ground.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and M.I.T., Mr. Yang has won multiple awards for his architecture designs. He has lectured and exhibited his works around the world. Mr. Yang’s interest in poetry is rooted in his work; he began writing poetry as a way to understand the true meaning of “being poetic” in architecture.
Mr. Yang is available for interviews by telephone or in person, depending on location. Endless Threats is available through major online retailers including Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, and InkwaterBooks.com. For more information, or to arrange an interview, please contact Colleen Welch at Colleen@InkwaterPress.com or 503-968-6777.
About the publisher
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Inkwater Press has published more than 400 titles, including fiction and nonfiction, poetry and children’s books. Inkwater Press is a division of First Books, which was founded in 1988. The company is committed to a sustainable future, printing on recycled paper and using no animal-based products.
Happy holiday gifts for Rick and Alice Garlock included learning that their book Spirit Unbroken:The Two Sides of Love has received an Honorable Mention in the 2008 DIY Book Festival in the Biography/Autobiography category. The Garlocks have been invited to attend the 2009 DIY Convention: Do It Yourself in Film, Music & Books award ceremony honoring them and the other competition winners in February.
In Spirit Unbroken, Rick and Alice contrasted the story of Alice’s demeaning, abusive childhood with her successful search as an adult for a loving maternal family in Japan. Letting Inkwater Press know of this award, Rick and Alice said, “As always, we are forever humbled with the privilege of telling our story, and eternally grateful to Inkwater for all your support!”
