Books
Coming Soon: Sammy the Ball
The debut novel by multi-disciplinary artist Joe Cullen, Sammy the Ball is about a ball named Sammy who gains sentience and goes on the adventure that we know as existence. With all of its pain, joy, love, doubt, and ironic circumstances. In conversation with Alan Watts, Kurt Vonnegut, Norton Juster.
Check back soon for the Sammy Experience.
"North, To Hell! is a western gothic fever dream written with confidence and caliber. From shadows moving in the forest, to dire warnings carved on mineshaft walls, De Boer gives us a stylized story rich with mystery and rife with tension. Fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Nick Cutter will feel right at home."
- James Wade, two-time Spur Award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth
Oregon, 1906. Buck Appleyard has been hired as a Forest Guard for the newly-founded United States Forest Service. He's posted to a cabin in the Western Blue Mountain Forest Reserve. When the mushrooms begin to fruit with the springtime rainfall, Buck discovers there is something sinister lurking within the soils and spores.
"A keen snapshot of a band and a life in the Internet age, for all its interconnected nature, ennui, and self-awareness. Burke De Boer’s straightforward prose and sense of humor draw the reader forward for a captivating, infinitely relatable journey."
—Michael Chin, author of My Grandfather’s an Immigrant and So Is Yours, and Stories Wrestling Can Tell
Follow a glitch-rock band from the end of college in 2017, to the end of the world in 2020. With the self-taught ethos and underground pride which permeates Portland and the Pacific Northwest, Radio Macbeth found new ways to make music, and all the old ways to struggle.
"Jumps feet-first into the Western canon, bringing with it a fantastic and fresh character, Rosemary Cavanagh, to entertain new and old fans of the genre alike. Historical, authentic, with a twisted plot that speeds along like a locomotive out of control, this novel was hard to put down. Check it out. You won’t be disappointed."
-Larry D. Sweazy, two-time Spur award-winning author of The Broken Bow
Once a bounty hunter known as Lady Vengeance, now a payroll private eye, Rosemary is contracted by the newly-formed Forest Service to put an end to a decade-long range war in her old stomping grounds.
"Feels Like a young Steinbeck or echoes of Sometimes A Great Notion... Great characterization and description of the landscape."
-Jim Churchill-Dicks, poet, author of Wine-Dark Mother and the Trapper's Son
A son of the only Chinese family in a small mountain town, we follow Ram through his senior year, from fall football practice to graduation. In the narrative tradition of The Bluest Eye and The Last Picture Show, perspectives shift and narratives cross to show the impact one person has on a community, and the impact the community has on a person.