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?
Check out our first fantasy series! All three volumes available in paperback, ebook, AND audiobook.
Front cover of the second book in the Talon Trilogy, Windkeep, by Michael Simms.
Amanda Chimera by Mary B. Moore, (This was the winner of our 2024 Arthur Smith Prize for Poetry), O Lucky Day by Patricia Clark, and The Tears of Things by Catherine Hamrick.
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.
We have two titles from Mississippi authors to tell the region’s stories. Hurricane Baby, is a collection of linked short stories set in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina. Then R.J. Lee gives us historical fiction set during the Aids Crisis The Majestic Leo Marble.
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.
Yiskah Rosenfeld’s poetry collection, Tasting Flight was the runner up in the 2023 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. And A. Rooney’s heart wrenching story collection, The Lesser Madonnas is sure to become a favorite.
With Gerry La Femina’s prose poetry anthology, Fantastic Imaginary Creatures. Then think road trip and sample the poetry of a vibrant new voice out of Nashville, Ben Groner III with his Dust Storms May Exist.
Madville’s 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Frankfurter Buchmesse 24
Help Appalachia
Midwest Book Review likes The Monosexual
Arthur Smith Poetry Prize (2025)
Wild Wind – we know who’s in
London Book Fair 2024
Appalachian Studies Conference
2023 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize Winners
