Kitsune Books Publications

Poets Mary Jane Ryals and Michael Trammel will read from their new works.

December 6, 2008, at 7:00  p.m.

UrbanThink! Bookstore
625 East Central Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32801
Tel: 407-650-8004

What’s hot in the publishing world right now? Memoirs!

Publisher Anne Petty and author Ellen Ashdown will speak on memoirs to a writing class for seniors at the Pepper Institute on the Florida State University campus, October 15, 11:00 a.m.

Discussion is expected to range from organizing ideas and stimulating memory to issues of craft, such as how to structure descriptive scenes, write dialogue, interweave dialogue with action, and most important, how to “muse” (determine voice).

The Peeramid Book Club of Tallahassee, FL has chosen Mary Jane Ryals’ poetry collection, The Moving Waters, as its October selection.

Congrats, MJ!

It’s coming in December………..!

Ellen Ashdown, author of LIVING BY THE DEAD - A MEMOIR, signs stacks of books sold after the September 6 launch party!

The launch party for Ellen Ashdown’s memoir, Living by the Dead, had a great turnout! Thanks to everyone who came to share the wine, cheese, fruit, and great conversation as we SOLD OUT of the books we brought to the event. Ellen’s book has appealed to many sectors of readers, from people who have some connection to Roselawn Cemetary in Tallahassee, FL to those who are interested in cemetary headstone art and history, to people who have lost loved ones to cancer and can relate personally to Ellen’s moving story.

Photo by Bill Petty.

Anyone in the Tallahassee, FL vicinity is invited to the launch party for Ellen Ashdown’s new literary memoir, Living by the Dead.

Ellen will be signing books, and we’ll have wine and light refreshments.

TIME: Saturday, Sept. 6, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

WHERE: Chez Pierre Restaurant on the veranda, Tallahassee, FL

“Life and death in a cemetery: This is a charming, brave, and funny book, with a sad heart.” —Bailey White, NPR commentator, Sleeping at the Starlite Motel, Mama Makes Up Her Mind, Quite a Year for Plums

“This book about a cemetery seduces with delight—by turns moving, funny, bitter, inventive, melancholy, playful—until it delivers its last wrenching blow.”—Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction, Raw Silk, Cutting Stone, Opening Nights, and forthcoming Bridge of Sand

LIVING BY THE DEAD, coming Sept. 1, 2008!

Kitsune Books is pleased to announce that prolific, award-winning writer Randall Silvis has signed with us for the publication of his literary novel Hangtime. Check back with us for more details in the near future!

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter Randall Silvis is the author of numerous books of fiction. A Senior Fulbright Fellow and Thurber House writer-in-residence, his many awards include the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, three National Playwrights Showcase Awards, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been translated into eight languages. Also a prolific short story writer and essayist, Randall Silvis has taught creative writing at numerous universities and conferences throughout the United States. He lives and works in western Pennsylvania and is an associate professor in Chatham University’s innovative MFA in Creative Writing Program.

It’s coming….

Look for it at Hook’s Journal.

Who’s Hook? Look for her in Jesus Swept, James Protzman’s laugh-out-loud, cryin’ inside novel of salvation lost and gained and lost again in the paradise sands of Myrtle Beach, North Carolina.

Coming December 1, 2008, just in time for Christmas!