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Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail:
Chasing the Big West

This is a special, limited edition hardback with music CD of songs recorded by Michael Martin Murphey. Can you help us reach our goal of 400 preorders before the launch date?

Wild West Women Collage by Bob Boze Bell

pen and ink drawing of a rider on a horse from the shoulders up. The rider wears a windblown hat and has fringes on his ponch like a vaquero type of cowboy.

Preorder Now! With status bar and illustrations borrowed from all over the page.

The Green Mage and Windkeep

Here be dragons! Yes, and wizardry

Check out our first fantasy series! All three volumes available in paperback, ebook, AND audiobook.

The Green Mage first book in the Talon Trilogy by Michael Simms with cover art by Andrew Dunn. Cover shows a young woman with short hair going nose to nose with a fierce-looking dragon.

Volume One in the Talon Trilogy by Michael Simms

Windkeep by Michael Simms, book two in the Talon Trilogy. Coming January 2024. Cover art by Andrew Dunn shows a flying dragon setting fire to a castle.

Windkeep: The Talon Trilogy Volume Two

Front cover of the second book in the Talon Trilogy, Windkeep, by Michael Simms.

The Blessed Isle: Volume Three of The Talon Trilogy by Michael Simms. Front cover shows Queen Tessia with a glowing blade raised while The Green Mage, Norbert, stands behind her with a glowing staff ready to do battle.

The Blessed Isle: The Talon Trilogy Volume Three

Front cover of the third book in the Talon Trilogy, The Blessed Isle, by Michael Simms

Madville-Fall-2024

Autumn Offerings

We have a trio of titles on offer at Madville this fall. Historical fiction, My Youth and Early Deaths by Allen Stein; absurdist near-future fiction by Steve Putnam, The Academy of Reality; and Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen.

Front cover of My Youth and Early Deaths by Allen Stein. Text is on what appears to be a handkerchief with crocheted lace corners. Thhe background image is from Mulberry Street in about 1900. It's sepia toned.

My Youth and Early Deaths

a historical novel set in 1898 NYC by Allen Stein

The Academy of Reality by Steve Putnam. The cover shows multi-colored misaligned letters on a sheet of paper which itself is on a stack of drawings and plans. Also on this top sheet is an illustration of a brightly colored pigeon, like the kind that live in big cities.

The Academy of Reality

a near-future absurdist novel by Steve Putnam

Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen, with a PREFACE BY WILLY BRAUN OF RECKLESS KELLY edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper

Wild Wind: Poems and Stories

Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen edited by Sandra and Ron Cooper

July 2024

July 2024 Novels

We have novels to delight all sorts of readers this month:
* The Monosexual by Dean Monti – absurdist, love-sick, sunburned adventure.
* The Lakes of Southern Hollow by Steve Yates – Three teens in Springfield, Missouri come of age in the run up to COVID. Music, sex, drugs, neurodivergent heroism… It’s all there.
* The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men: Human Bondage in the After-market of War – a historical fiction by Rod Davis with hints of Catch 22. This novel explores the underbelly of the American military complex during the Vietnam War. Set in South Korea.

The Monosexual, a novel by Dean Monti. The cover is on a beige, worn looking background with red lettering for the title and author name and blue lettering for a novel. A pattern of red, pink, and blue blobs in the center is meant to represent sushi.

an absurdist novel by Dean Monti

Cover for THE LAKES OF SOUTHERN HOLLOW by Steve Yates. Background image is in gray tones with a young woman's face. She could be dead or asleep. The text is runs along he right margin and looks like water in light blue tones.

The Lakes of Southern Hollow

a coming of age story
by Steve Yates

Cover image for THE LIFE OF KIM AND THE BEHAVIOR OF MEN: Human Bondage in the After-market of war, a novel by Rod Davis. The red and white letters are superimposed over picture of a sloping street flanked by tile-roofed buildings on the outskirts of Seoul. South Korea. A young woman, apparently naked, faces away from the camera, looking down the street. We can only see her head and shoulders.

The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men

Human Bondage in the After-market of War A Novel by Rod Davis

Madville publishes approximately 24 titles per year, and all submissions are carefully selected. When we are open for submissions of any sort, you will find out about it here.

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Madville’s 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Madville’s 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations

By Sarah / November 30, 2024

Time for the 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations. Our editors weighed in and these are their favorites.

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Frankfurter Buchmesse 24

Frankfurter Buchmesse 24

By kpdavis / October 20, 2024

We went to Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s largest book fair, and gathering of publishing companies and agents.

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Help Appalachia

Help Appalachia

By kpdavis / September 29, 2024

This Help Appalachia post came when Kim had just returned from a trip to the very area hit by Hurricane...

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Midwest Book Review likes The Monosexual

Midwest Book Review likes The Monosexual

By kpdavis / July 14, 2024

We have a new review of The Monosexual by Midwest Book Review. (Have we mentioned Midwest Book Review lately? We...

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Arthur Smith Poetry Prize (2025)

Arthur Smith Poetry Prize (2025)

By kpdavis / May 23, 2024

The Arthur Smith Poetry Prize will open again for submissions on June 1, 2025. We find it hard to believe...

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Wild Wind – we know who’s in

Wild Wind – we know who’s in

By kpdavis / March 21, 2024

Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron...

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London Book Fair 2024

London Book Fair 2024

By kpdavis / March 21, 2024

Six Madville Books went to the London Book Fair Our friends, Jade and Wilnona, the "And I Thought Ladies," took...

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Appalachian Studies Conference

Appalachian Studies Conference

By kpdavis / March 19, 2024

Our Madville poets did a fabulous job of representing us at the 47th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference The theme was,...

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2023 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize Winners

2023 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize Winners

By Brandy Miller / February 22, 2024

Madville is pleased to announce that linda ravenswood‘s poetry collection, a poem is a house, is the winner of our...

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AWP24 came early

AWP24 came early

By kpdavis / February 18, 2024

We had a smaller showing at this year's AWP conference. Kim didn't attend, having begun her college career in Missouri,...

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