Kitsune Books Publications

“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!

Leonard Nash, Florida Book Awards Silver Medal Winner for You Can’t Get There from Here, will be a Fiction presenter at the Florida Gulf Coast University’s Sanibel Island Writers Conference, November 6 - 9, 2008. Website.

Mary Jane Ryals, Florida Big Bend Poet Laureate and author of The Moving Waters, will be a poetry presenter at the Amelia Island Book Festival, October 3 - 5, 2008. Website.

Mary Jane Ryals’ poetry collection, The Moving Waters, has scored some very complimentary reviews lately!

Look up her book on Amazon.com to see the 5-star review posted by Midwest Book Review, and go to the Florida Book Review site for Kristin Kovacic’s insightful, glowing review:
www.floridabookreview.com

Silver medalist Leonard Nash attended the awards banquet hosted by the Florida Library Association, where he received the Silver Medal for General Fiction for his short story collection, You Can’t Get There from Here.

Leonard Nash read from his award-winning collection, You Can’t Get There from Here, with poet Nina Romano at south Florida bookstore, Murder on the Beach.

Mary Jane Ryals’ new poetry collection was launched in style on March 8, at Word Traffic Books bookstore in Tallahassee, FL. Ryals read from The Moving Waters, enthusiastically assisted by the Black Dog Java Girls poetry group, and the Spheres jazz band.

Photos are here: www.kitsunebooks.com/events.html

Leonard Nash’s short story collection, You Can’t Get There from Here, has just won the Silver Medal for General Fiction in the 2007 Florida Book Awards.

The competition, an annual awards program that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous year, is coordinated by the Florida State University Program in American & Florida Studies and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book, the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Florida Historical Society, the Florida Humanities Council, the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, the Florida Library Association, “Just Read, Florida!,” the Governor’s Family Literacy Initiative, the Florida Association for Media in Education, the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Friends of the Florida State University Libraries, and the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.

Press Release from Kitsune Books:

At Word Traffic Books bookstore in Tallahassee, Florida, on Saturday, March 8, 4:00, Mary Jane Ryals (newly selected Florida Big Bend Poet Laureate) will read from her new poetry collection, The Moving Waters.

We’ll have wine & cheese, and a poetry performance from the Black Dog Java Girls, in addition to Ryals reading from her new work. If you’re in the North Florida area, contact Word Traffic Books, wordtraffic@yahoo.com, for details.

Advance reviews of Ryals’s new collection have been enthusiastic:

“It’s said that Jefferson knew the world because he knew better his little plot at Monticello, and the same is true of The Moving Waters, this magnificent atlas that goes everywhere—Spain, France, Mexico, Vietnam—yet begins and ends in the Florida Panhandle, that is to say, in the poet’s heart.”

—David Kirby, National Book Award Finalist and Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for Poetry, The House on Boulevard Street

“Sensual and exotic, Mary Jane Ryals delves into the mythology of ancestry, what we have, what we pass on, what it means to be foreign, even to the self. The Moving Waters has the heft and breadth of a long and stunning career bound in an edition of collected poems, which makes it an especially graceful debut.”

—Julianna Baggott, Lizzie Borden in Love; Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees

Review copies of The Moving Waters are available upon request, from www.kitsunebooks.com.