New release from Sibylline Press! Fiction | Trade Paper: 9798897400263 • $20 | Epub: 9798897400270 • $9.99 Song of the Selkie A Novel by Claire R. McDougall Some Secrets Only the Sea Can Fathom In the old Scottish tale of the Selkie, a seal woman slips from the sea at night, sheds her skin, and dances on the shore. A man, bewitched by her beauty, steals her skin and forces her to remain on land. But the Selkie’s heart belongs to the ocean, and no captivity can quiet her longing. In Song of...
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A Note About Bringing Diane Leslie’s Final Novel to Readers Sibylline Press is honored to publish Diane Leslie’s The Critic at Rest. Diane passed away shortly before the book’s publication, but not before completing the final revisions, seeing the cover, and knowing that her novel was on its way into the world. Her son, Dana Huffman, worked closely with Diane during the book’s final stages, helping her bring the manuscript to completion as Parkinson’s increasingly limited her ability to work...
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The Liberation of Jane Carter: A Novel by Carol Hoenig She was taught to endure. Her daughter teaches her to dream. In the early 1900s, fifteen-year-old Jane Carter is forced from the harsh mining settlements of Upstate New York into a marriage her family believes will save her from poverty and danger. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a different kind of hardship. While her husband dreams of expanding his farm, Jane is expected to bear children who will become little more than unpaid...
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September is already underway, but there’s still plenty happening at Sibyl Writing Craft. Whether you want to bring more creativity to your teaching, sharpen your dialogue, transform lived experience into compelling memoir, get your book onto bookstore and library shelves, or simply make more room for your writing, the second half of September offers plenty of ways to keep moving forward. SEE THE FULL LIST OF FALL WORKSHOPS Here’s what’s coming up: This Wednesday! Reserve your spot today!...
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Whalespeak: A Novel by Liz Collins Told from above and below the ocean's surface... When forty-one humpback whales mysteriously strand themselves on the New Jersey coast, Gaelic singer and long-distance swimmer Sloane Murphy recognizes one of them immediately. The scar above his eye belongs to a whale she has known since surviving a devastating boating accident years before. As he struggles to stay alive, Sloane realizes he is trying to communicate a desperate warning—and she is the only...
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New release from Sibylline Press! Fiction: Dystopian | Trade Paper: 9798897400249 • $22 | Epub: 9798897400256 • $9.99 Ink Honey Blossom A Novel by Liza Losada Her Captivity is Their Salvation Fifteen-year-old Ink has spent years imprisoned inside the Nectar House, where her suffering helps keep men alive. Eight hundred years ago, the Blight Plague nearly wiped out the male population. Now only a powerful hallucinogen harvested from the golden Sonagachi tree can slow the incurable disease. But...
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Radiant as the Stars: A Novel by Elaine Elinson On the Brink of Revolution, One Young Woman Risks Everything At a time when thousands of Jews are fleeing the violence of Tsarist Russia for America, twenty-year-old Anna Reader makes a dangerous choice: she goes back. Returning to the Ukrainian shtetl her family escaped six years earlier, Anna joins her cousin Chava in the Jewish Labor Bund, a growing movement fighting oppression on the eve of revolution. But the home she remembers has changed....
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Iona: A Veil of Time Novel by Claire R. McDougall Maggie thought she understood the paths time could take. She was wrong. Drawn once more into 8th-century Scotland, Maggie finds herself caught in a struggle between the rising Christian Church and the ancient traditions of the Picts. Reunited with Fergus and his now-grown daughter, she soon discovers this journey through time holds an even greater surprise. For the first time, Maggie is pulled not only into the past, but into an alternate...
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New release from Sibylline Press! MYSTERY | Trade Paper: 9798897400225 • $20 | Epub: 9798897400232 • $9.99 Sisters at an Exhibition A Zara and Lilly Mystery by Claudia Hagadus Long Introducing two very different sister sleuths Zara, lawyerly and just a little cynical, teams up with her big sister, Lilly, when a possible Caravaggio sketch and its curator both go missing from a San Francisco museum. Lilly’s never met a man—or a scam—she didn’t at least wink at. Meticulous Zara discovers that a...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read