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Awards & Accolades For Our Books
- This New Mountain by Cate Macabe (As Told By AJ Jackson) is a finalist in the 2012 New Mexico Book Awards
- Rhythm of My Heart by Frances Fanning is a finalist in the 2012 New Mexico Book Awards
- Harriet Murphy: A Little Bit of Something by Janet K. Brennan was honored with "Reviewer's Choice" by the Small Press Bookwatch
- In the Language of Women by Charles Fishman was awarded the "Paterson Award for Literary Excellence"
- Hooked by Dr. Jamie Smolen, finished in 2nd Place in the Southwest Book Design & Production Award
News for Our Authors
Royalty statements have been emailed and posted to your individual accounts for sales thru December 31, 2012. Please make sure that we have your current mailing address. If your account balance is at least $10.00 (USD), your statement and check were mailed on Thursday, January 31, 2013.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contract Updates
Rita Mosiman, an art book by a talented singer, photographer, and writer has signed with JB Stillwater for her latest photo book. (Awaiting 2nd Hard Copy Proof)
Terri Muus a performance poet for a poetry book under our JB Stillwater Publishing imprint. (Awaiting 2nd Hard Copy Draft)
Katie Lente, a school teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (PDF Proof Out)
Linda Lucretia Shuler, a writer from San Antonio, Texas (Contract signed)
Shirley Jones & Jacquelyn Yznaga for "Spirits of the Jungle" which we previously published as an eBook only
Pending Contracts
Janet Yaeger, for her second children's book in the Matilda series (manuscript received)
Lynn Strongin an American ex-pat living in Canada for her latest book of short stories under our JB Stillwater Publishing imprint.
Tim Kreiter, for a second YA book
Titles Released in 2013
Serenity and Beauty - Rita Mosiman
As an avid hiker feeling a strong connection to the land and nature's artistry, I decided to create an art book, which will hopefully assuage the gloomy clouds of recent global economic woes. Nature is inspiring, soothing, exciting, and powerful. It helps us to remember that true beauty in life exists in the simplest of things, which reach every soul open to them if only we look, sense, and feel.
Over Exposed - Terri Muuss
In the pages that follow, Muuss brings us close to what we might describe as the secret war, the intimate war, which resides in closed rooms, in seemingly ordinary homes. Yet these poems are written, reader, with such delicacy, such concern for image, for pause, and purpose-for, in fact, beauty.
A City at Night - Michael E. Kushner
In a time-travel mystery, a person with a love of antiquities becomes involved in a murder investigation. The investigation, however, will lead him to much more than he could have ever bargained for.
Echoes of My Soul - Lisa Arnold
"Echoes of My Soul" is a powerful debut collection of poems from emerging poet Lisa Arnold. Lisa’s boldly written and vividly expressed poems explore faith, spirituality, fear, death, hope and redemption. The poems included in this captivating book are heart-wrenching and spiritually uplifting as well as fearlessly bold and intense. Lisa touches on various dark themes as well such as isolation, insanity, rage, loss of faith, longing, homelessness and death. "Echoes of My Soul" is a striking debut from a gifted and prolific poet that takes readers on a journey and allows readers to peek inside one woman’s heart and soul.
Tango Sunday - Janet K. Brennan
"Tango Sunday" is a collection of fictional short stories about life on the edge. In Janet Brennan's seventh book, she never fails to seduce the reader into realizing that life is not always as it seems to be. True to Janet Brennan's style and philosophy, she titillates the ready with good doses of revenge, ghosties, life in the spiritual world and death. Author Brennan aptly demonstrates in these dark and twilight zone tales that "Life simply is"
Titles Released in 2012
Something Like Life - Barbara Novack
In this neat and intelligent book of poetry "Something Like Life" author Barbara Novack describes the often subliminal messages that are sent to us every day in the beauty and sadness we often see around us in nature and human experience.
Anasazi Ruin - Jon Hovis
Anasazi Ruin follows the life of a young man as he grows up during the high point of life in Chaco Canyon in 1100 A.D. The story follows his life as he grows to follow in his father's footsteps and beyond as the life as he knows it is changing for the worse. Get an insight into pueblo life and culture as you read this intriguing book as it details the fall of the greatest empire to ever exist in this part of the world.
Spirits of the Jungle - Shirley Jones & Jacquelyn Yznaga
"Spirits of the Jungle" is a science fiction/fantasy set deep in the jungles of Central America. Cheryl, an archaeology student, two professors, and other archaeology students venture into the jungles of South America to excavate Mayan ruins. Their excavations discover lavish treasures, crystal caves and artifacts, but there is a frequent presence of rebel soldiers in a country where war is a daily occurrence with a brutality toward Mayan villagers.They eventually experience alien creatures and lights of an unknown source, not of this earth.
Art Effects - Connie Gotsch
After a painting disappears from the Mesa City Art Museum in New Mexico, and art objects vanish from galleries and restaurants around town, Shelby McCoy, an investigative reporter with the Mesa Vista Times, begins an investigation. Her fiancé, Benjamin Keith, suspects that Charlie Pearson has taken them, since he has a history of stealing to pay gambling debts. This final book by Connie Gotsch will keep you turning the pages.
This New Mountain - Cate Macabe
Like most private investigators AJ Jackson has more than one foot in the fire to make ends meet – driving a tow truck and serving legal documents for local law firms. But not every PI is a mother of four, a grandmother of ten, an ex-gun dealer and former mental patient, or a descendant of a great Choctaw chief. This is a memoir of Vinnie Ann "AJ" Jackson, a country girl with a go-to-hell attitude who must face her fears in order to keep her sanity and make a future for herself.
Diary of a Merchant Seaman - Andrew Shiston
Andrew shiston, a boy from the island of portland in the UK, discovers life on the sea when he is forced to make a life changing decision at the age of 15. This account was taken from Andrew's journals scribed during the 25 years he sailed the seven seas.
Orphan Thorns - Lynn Strongin
In this touching and often heart wrenching book, Lynn Strongin explores the beauty of the human soul and it's ability to rise above physical as well as psychological illness.
Rhythm of My Heart - Frances Fanning
Maritza is a young New Mexican woman whose life is turned upside down when she must leave her native desert land for the east coast. "Rhythm of My Heart" demonstrates how deep our roots go and how sometimes we cannot find happiness or fulfill our destiny until we return to those places of the heart.
Matilda's Upside Down Smile - Janet Yaeger
Matilda is misunderstood by her classmates, and the one thing she desires the most seems so difficult for her to attain - acceptance. Read how this little girl discovers the secret of oversoming this problem. The first in a series, geared for late pre-school through 5th grade, but certainly a lesson we carry on through all of our years.
We are proud to announce that this was the first children's book to be released by Casa de Snapdragon.
Titles Released in 2011
Holiday Word Gifts - Janet K. Brennan
that seems to be filled with chaos and busy schedules that we take the time to remember our holiday traditions and, for some, religious meaning for just what it is to celebrate the holidays. More and more we go into malls and shops only to find the same thing we find the rest of the year. Where are the decorations? Where are the lighted trees and beautiful menorrahs we have always seen and cherished? I realized that we really do not need any of those things to help us remain peaceful and joyful through what should be a holy and festive time of year, for the holidays are and will always be in our hearts. They are a part of the loving words that we speak to our God, families, and one another. I wanted to put together a holiday book that would feature writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. In this book, you will join my friends, some of the most talented artists in the world, in their gifts of word to you at this very special time of the year.
Hooked - Dr. Jamie Smolen
Buddy, a scrawny, introverted, pimple faced teen, can't resist the lure of the beautiful and seductive Sidney who offers him a pain pill...the way to instant fun and excitement, and for Buddy, a false sense of acceptance. He rapidly descends into the ugly and brutal world of prescription drug addiction. His only hope is to choose the sober path of recovery...not knowing that true happiness will be his greatest gift
Adventures of a Substitute Teacher - Tim Kreiter
"Adventures of a Substitute Teacher" gives readers a glimpse of the often amusing, frequently hilarious, and always entertaining happenings inside contemporary classrooms. These real life adventures are seen through the eyes of one who loves children, filtered through the imagination of one who relishes humor, and illustrated by the itchy fingers of one who enjoys cartooning. The stories are true, the names are false, and illustrations are exaggerations. A thoroughly delightful read!
A Thousand Doors - Matt Pasca
Poet Matt Pasca explores how personal suffering can be transformed into grace, as if through alchemy, when that grief can be shared with others. Using the Buddhist "Mustard Seed" parable as scaffolding, Pasca's work pays homage to Kisa Gotami's quest to save her son by finding a home where, impossibly, no suffering has befallen the inhabitants. Pasca's poems manuever deftly between the seemingly simple and mundane details of the world around us and the sublime world we often miss in the myopia of our pain. Just as Gotami comes to see her grief reflected in the eyes behind the doors upon which she desperately knocks, we too find our own sorrows and pleasures illumined by the light of Pasca's unflinching exploration and delicate crafting. In the end, A Thousand Doors testifies to the necessity of sharing our stories with courage and vulnerability, and how doing so can lead us further down the path of joy.
Dark Salt - Lynn Strongin
In this collection of late works by Lynn Strongin, we find that perfect balance of salt and water spiced with symbolism and metaphor that poet Strongin does so well. Jewish Temple offerings included salt and Jewish people still dip their bread in salt on the Sabbath as a remembrance of those sacrifices.
In the Language of Women - Charles Adés Fishman
In his second book from 
Casa de Snapdragon, Charles Adès Fishman focuses entirely on women - their memories, dreams, griefs, triumphs, and visions. In the Language of Women honors women's lives and frees the voices of those who have found it difficult, if not impossible, to address actions and events that have wounded and transformed them. It is also a book of fifty-two unforgettable poems in which the distinctive journeys of more than thirty women have been rescued from oblivion and brought to vivid life.
That Glorious Child, Fynn - Lynn Strongin
Lynn Strongin's book, "That Glorious Child, Flynn," is a cornucopia of stories about children 
north, south and Irish. The heartbeat is a special needs child, Fynn. In one sense he is one of the new indigo children, exceptionally gifted as well as otherworldly: smaller than other children, a mystical boy born with milk white curls which mysteriously turn black as coal in early childhood. It is also a love story between two women, Fynn's mother, Megan, who is haunted by her strange child, and Erika, born in post world war II Europe. Primarily, this book is an interwoven theme of how Fynn develops in his very specially imagined world. A poignant sub-theme is the friendship and love between the two women, Megan and Erika, expressed in a series of letters written to each other like bursts of star-fire. Open the pages of this book and fall into a tale that shows what happens to alter Fynn's fate and place in the world as he suffers through a violent event in his mother's life; indeed, a tragedy that alters the course of all their lives forever.
Titles Released in 2010
Silverton Gold - Jon Hovis
From the author of "Preacher" and "The Feather Gang" comes an historically accurate tale of a Pinkerton agent tracking stolen gold and outlaws in the high country of Colorado. This wonderful novel showcases life, danger, and mining in the wild west of the 1890s.
A Partial View Toward Nazareth - Kathryn Rantala
Kathryn presents five narratives in prose poetry that explore how the mind orders the universe, how we interpret past and present life experiences, especially relating to grief and loss, under the influence of art and architecture, music, natural history, other formal studies and pop culture--and vice versa.. A Partial View Toward Nazareth was released September 27, 2010 and is available at almost any book store.
Arrival - Mary Barnet
A beautiful book of poetry and contains amazing illustrations by Richard E. Schiff. Arrival was released June 7, 2010 and is available at almost any book store.
Storiana - Penelope Weiss
A book of short stories about life in New York City which was released in Paperback and is available in all online bookstores and most brick and mortar stores.
Gentle Tugs - Janet K. Brennan
Possibly Janet K. Brennan's finest book of poetry to date. Includes wonderful poems by Peggie Devan, Charles Adés Fishman, and Janet Yaeger and has been released in Paperback and is available in all online bookstores and most brick and mortar stores.
Titles Released in 2009
Water under Water - Charles Adés Fishman
Water under Water by Charles Adés Fishman has been released in Paperback and Kindle formats and is available in all online bookstores and most brick and mortar stores. This book is already being used as a textbook for creative writing classes at Farmingdale College in New York and we received a query from a college in Illinois to use it there as well.
The Making of Tibias Ivory - D. Allen Jenkins
D. Allen Jenkins' sequel The Making of Tibias Ivory: Through the Eyes of Innocence was released October 17, 2009 after a very successful pre-order period. It's available at most any online bookstores and is available for special order in almost any brick and mortar bookstore.
Spectral Freedom - Lynn Strongin
Lynn Strongin's newest book Spectral Freedom: Selected Poetry, Criticism, and Prose was released on August 21 and is available at all online bookstores. We were so impressed with this book that we submitted it to the Pulitzer Prize committee for a nomination.
The Poetry Cafe - John Newlin
California poet, John Newlin, presents a wonderful collection of his finest poetry.
Harriet Murphy - Janet K. Brennan
Janet K. Brennan introduces her first in a series of short stories revolving around life in the hills surrounding Lake Tahoe in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Selected as Reviewer's Choice by Small Press Bookwatch - March 2010