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Emeritus professor of Landscape Architecture at Kansas State University from 1984-1921, Timothy Keane has been writing poetry for fifty years, both traditional forms and “cowboy poetry.” He loves how the perspective of poetry plays with the perspective of science and believes both are essential to a more complete understanding of place.  Order from IngramSpark or bluecedarpress.com  February 1 Reginald D Jarrell, Finding Myron: an adopted son’s search for his birth father A Black man adopted by extended family and raised in a loving home is haunted by questions about the birth father that no one will tell him about. A haunting memoir about the power of DNA connection and the persistent need to know your roots. Jarrell’s story will be helpful for adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, as well as youth groups and classes in congregations and social studies classes. Retail Price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-16-1 (paper) & 978-1-958728-17-8 (ebook) LCCN: 2023949737  March 1 G. C. Eick, Where is Ana Amara? [an international thriller] When a Syrian journalist disappears from the London home she shares with her British partner while investigating the treatment of asylum seekers by Britain’s Ultra Party, her partner seeks help from four renegade Members of Parliament and the community of Syrian immigrants. Their search for Ana leads them to an international adoption network, Britain’s retired chemical weapons facility, and a runaway Saudi princess and provokes an international scandal. Retail price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-18-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-19-2 (ebook) LCCN: 2024930300  March 15 Aida Dziho-Sator, For Me, the War Begins in an Elevator (poems) Aida Dziho-Sator was a child when the Bosnian War began in 1992. She has since become an internationally traveled professor of English Literature who somehow manages to also write exquisite poetry while teaching, applying for travel grants, and raising two children. Her poems are about relationships, memory, being a woman, and internal and external wars. They are truthful, powerful, and even funny. Retail Price: $15.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-21-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-20-8 (ebook) LCCN: 2024930887  April 30 The Death Project: An Anthology for the Living 36 authors from different ethnicities and religions reflect in prose and poetry on losing loved ones and finding a way forward. Includes information on how different religions handle death and how people have coped with deaths from war, from police violence, suicide, murder, AIDS, dementia, illness. Perspectives include a mortician, a New Age spiritualist, a police officer, and women and men from around the world. New edition with added material. A book for congregations, funeral homes, and all those living with loss. Profits from will go to international health care workers. Retail price: $15.99 ISBNs 978-1-958728-22-2 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming  June 1 Paul Lamb, Parent Imperfect (a novel) Pressed by Kelly, newly married Curt and Kelly agree to adopt a child. But Kelly struggles with depression and memories of his family’s abusive rejection of him because he is gay and Curt is uncertain if he can love their unusual son. With the help of Curt’s parents, they work at it, sustained by the cabin in the Ozarks that has for generations been a lodestone for all of the men in Curt’s family. Can they be a family? Can the cabin’s magic include two outsiders, Kelly and their son Clarkson? A moving story of loving and making family in the Twenty-First Century. The sequel to One-Match Fire (2022). Retail price: $19.99 ISBNs 978-1-958728-24-6 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming  June 15 The Love Book: Collected Shorts on Love
Selected poetry, short stories, and memoirs about different kinds of love and loving for your favorite persons. These pieces were selected by judges from a contest held by Blue Cedar Press in 2024. Retail Price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-26-0 (paper) & 978-1-958728-27-7 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming  You have almost one more month (till March 1) to enter your best writing on love to Blue Cedar Press's contest for inclusion in The Love Book, publication date June 15. Entries may be memoir, short story, or poetry and guidelines are at bluecedarpress.com.
BCP has six books coming out between now and mid-June 2024. Blue Cedar Press announces a contest for memoir pieces or short stories or poems about LOVE in all its forms. Details at bluecedarpress.com and in the flyer posted here. A book with winning submissions will be published May 1st 2024 and the best entry in each category, selected by our independent judges, will be awarded a cash prize.  Wichita's indie press, Blue Cedar Press, has published 5 books in 2022, 4 by Kansas authors. Order from bluecedarpress.com, B&N online, or your favorite bookstore.  31 Days (Nights): Memoir of Living Black in America by Reginald D. Jarrell (Jarrell’s work as a TV and print news reporter and columnist, a university assistant professor, an attorney, and a janitor—and his experiences living across the Midwest, in California, D.C., and Mississippi inform his short, memorable essays.) ISBN: 978-1-7369112-7-3 (paper) ISBN: 978-1-7369112-8-0 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2022930901  Dark Crossings, a novel by Gretchen Eick (Prose Writer of 2021 for the Kansas Authors Club, author of 2 histories and 5 novels)--2nd in her Crossings series Richard and Keisha by 2019 are parents of two teens, professors living happily together until everything changes with an act of random violence, plunging their family into disfunction and despair. Extended family may not be enough to pull them through their grief. But DNA discovery of another branch of the family tree may at least distract them and lead them into the darkness of Philadelphia's attack on the MOVE community and another family murder. Aug. '22 ISBN: 978-1-958728-01-7 (paper) $20 ISBN: 978-1-958728-00-0 (ebook) $6.99 Library of Congress LCCN: 2022940932  Maybe Crossings, a novel by Gretchen Eick (Prose Writer of 2021 for the Kansas Authors Club, author of 2 histories and 5 novels)--1st in her Crossings series--2nd edition with a study guide Black and white young people meet in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 to register voters and form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party forging relationships that resume in 2003 through a series of coincidences that bring them and their children together. A novel about families lost and found, social change fought for and glimpsed, and generational differences that test understandings of commitment. Sept. '22 ISBN: 9781958728024 (paper) $18 ISBN: 978-1-958728-05-5 (epub) $5.99 LCCN: 2022945367  One-Match Fire, a novel by Paul Lamb (Paul Lamb's stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including The Adroit Journal, Aethlon, Foliate Oak, MOON Magazine, Halfway Down the Stairs, Magnolia Review (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), Little Patuxent Review, Platte Valley Review, and others.) For David the cabin evoked memories of his father. For his son it was family and sanctuary. All that was wrong was fixable when they were at the cabin. But would this weekend change everything? A story of fathers and sons and the work of loving despite profound differences.) Oct. '22 ISBN: 978-1-958728-04-8 (paper) $20 ISBN: 978-1-958728-03-1 (ebook) $6.99 LCCN: 2022945368 Why Does She Always Talk About Her Husband? poems by David Romanda (David Romanda is the author of I’m Sick of Pale Blue Skies, a limited-edition chapbook, and the broken bird feeder, a full collection. His work has been included in Best Canadian Poetry and published in 27 journals. Romanda lives in Kawasaki City, Japan.) This is minimalist poetry at its finest—quick, punchy, and deceptively spare. These are offbeat rebel-playful poems that beg to be read aloud and shared with others.) Coming Nov. '22
ISBN: 978-1-958728-06-2 (paper) $10 ISBN: 978-1-958728-07-9 (ebook) $4.99 LCCN: 2022947139  Julie A. Sellers, District 1 Member of Kansas Authors Club Julie A. Sellers (D1) will soon have a collection of her poems published by Blue Cedar Press of Wichita, Kan. Sellers’s chapbook, Kindred Verse, was inspired by Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 1908 novel, Anne of Green Gables. Sellers was named the 2020 Prose Writer of the Year by the Kansas Authors Club and is excited to have her poetry recognized as well. “Like Anne, I was often deemed impractical or scatterbrained, and my literary aspirations were mocked. But with Anne, I now knew I was not alone. If Anne existed and continued to exist in print after all those years, others must have identified with her, too, I reasoned, and I knew exactly who those people were: my kindred spirits,” says Sellers in the book’s preface. “If a piece of literature could so succinctly portray who we were, then I, too, intended to share my own writing with the world.” Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, Professor Emerita and founder of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island, said the poems are transformative and illustrate why the novel is a classic. “Julie Sellers shares a lifetime reader’s pilgrimage to real and imagined places and moments, reflecting on her younger selves,” Epperly said. “Wise and gently playful, these beautiful pieces also celebrate a timeless nostalgia.” Sellers and the publisher collaborated with Jay Wallace, assistant professor in Benedictine College’s Department of Art & Architecture, on the book design. “Jay understood my vision perfectly,” Sellers said. “He captured the sensibilities of the pieces in the book and cover design and brought them to life.” The book’s launch is set for June 15, 2021, and Sellers will hold readings for interested groups following that. For more information, follow the author at https://www.facebook.com/julieasellersauthor.  Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired by Anne of Green Gables, by Julie A. Sellers, released June 15, 2021, Blue Cedar Press (Wichita, Kansas) |
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