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.
The Monosexual

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

June 2024
JUNE 2024
Award-winning poetry & prose

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.

Tasting Flight
The Lesser Madonnas
The Lesser Madonnas: Linked stories by A. Rooney. Book cover shows a stylized, hotel in shadow on a blue background with streetlights in the distance. The sign above an orange-lit door reads "Bell-Care Motel" the light behind the "O" has burned out. The lit doorway seems the only warm place around, but a shadowy figure stands just outside the door.
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front cover of Tasting Flight: poems by Yiskah Rosenfeld. With a gray-blue panel on the left and a panel on the right showing silk from a Japanese Noh costume. The prominent feature is an egret with a long blue bill. Below that is a swirly water pattern, willow branches and fish.
May 2024
MAY 2024
Spring slides into Summer

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.

Fantastic Imaginary Creatures
Dust Storms May Exist
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Dust Storms May Exist: Poems by Ben Groner III. Cover shows a bright colored painting of a desert with blue sky, pink, orange, and purple hills in the distance and a straight road made of converging grey lines.
The title, Fantastic Imaginary Creatures is woven through the pen-shaped protuberances on a little red clay man/gremlin sort of fellow. He's rather adorable in bright red and green with big white teeth. He looks more like he's smiling than growling, and possibly reaching out for a hug. At the bottom, it says, An Anthology of Contemporary Prose Poems edited by Gerry LaFemina
March 2023
March 2024
Two poetry collections

For the month of March, we offer the work of two beloved Appalachian poets, Jim Minick with The Intimacy of Spoons, and Darnell Arnoult with Incantations.

The Intimacy of Spoons
Incantations
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2 book covers: Jim Minick's THE INTIMACY OF SPOONS, and Darnell Arnoult's INCANTATIONS
After Camus
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After Camus

This novel is getting attention everywhere it goes! We’re proud to share the lastest from reviewers you may know…

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After Camus, Midwest Book Review quote.Image shows the cover with Midwest Book Review quote.
Murray Weiss Catalyst Literary
Pull quote from the NY Journal of Books review of Jay Neugeboren's novel, AFTER CAMUS
February 2024 Titles
Madville’s first Fantasy Series
The Talon Trilogy

Windkeep, book 2 in Michael Simms’ fantasy series The Talon Trilogy about Tessia the Dragon Queen. Launched February 2024, and amid magical adventures, the characters we came to know and love in The Green Mage become embroiled in issues that involve governance, and what social structures serve.

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The Talon Trilogy: Volume Three, The Blessed Isle by Michael Simms coming February 2025. Cover shows a warior woman with a glowing sword in a dark landscaped. She is followed by a mage with a glowing gem in his staff.
Michael Simms, The Talon Trilogy, The Green Mage, First Chronicle of Tessia the Dragon Queen. Cover, painted in shades of green shows a close up of a woman with short hair and a dragon nose to nose.
Michael Simms The Talon Trilogy, Windkeep, Volume Two. The image shows a dark blue and black background with the sihlouette of a castle, fires burning on its turrets, being attached by an enormous fire-breathing dragon, also in sihlouette in front of a full moon.
Coming 2/25
January 2024
Madville Poetry
3 poetry collections for January 2024

The Pendulum Moves Off by Theodore Haddin, a poem is a house by linda ravenswood, and The Book of Failures by Neil Shepard.

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The Book of Failures: poems by Neil Shepard. This is a predominantly dark blue/gray colored cover with a sinking dinghy in and a haze of stars and cattails.
The Pendulum Moves Off: poems by Theodore Haddin. The cover shows a detail from "The Sower" an 1888 painting by Vincent Van Gogh, with the predominant color being gold from the setting sun. The human figure sowing seed forms vertical lines reflected by a heavily pruned Almond tree in the painting. lines of color represent the seed and the rows in the plowed field.
Out now!
a poem is a house by linda ravenswood, winner of the 2022 Arthur Smith Prize in poetry. Beige cover shows a hand drawn house. the lettering is done by hand.
Fall Titles
Madville Publishing
Fall 2023 Titles

Everybody Here Is Kin by BettyJoyce Nash, Ring of Earth by William Woolfitt, Pa’l Otro Lado by Juan Ochoa, and “The Truth” by Sam Pickering.

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Pa'l Otro Lado and other tales of bad hombres & nasty women by Juan Ochoa. Black cover with beige lettering and a woodblock figure wading into water in his boxer shorts
"The Truth" by Sam Pickering shows a painting of a man sitting beneath a tree with colorful leaves and flowers on the ground around him. The man is wearing a hat with a feather and playing a flute. He has on Dungarees and boots with ankles crossed at the knees.
Everybody Here is Kin by BettyJoyce Nash. Cover is a watercolor painting of children on a beach framed by driftwood. The colors are muted blue for sea and sky and sandy browns for the beach. Two children with dark hair play on the sand while a taller girl wades into the water. Painting by Gentry Lessman
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Ring of Earth: Stories by William Woolfitt shows a girl standing on a chair on a hillside field of wildflowers with mountains in the distance. The girl is doing something to try and mend a large amber bubble that is floating in front of her.


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Midwest Book Review likes The Monosexual

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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 (2024)

     Arthur Smith Poetry Prize (2024)

By kpdavis / May 23, 2024
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By kpdavis / March 21, 2024
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London Book Fair 2024

London Book Fair 2024

By kpdavis / March 21, 2024
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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
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AWP24 came early

By kpdavis / February 18, 2024
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Notes on Madville Publishing’s 2023 Fall Fundraiser

Notes on Madville Publishing’s 2023 Fall Fundraiser

By Sarah / December 13, 2023
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Sticks & Bricks: Stories from the Wrong Side of the Tracks

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By kpdavis / October 13, 2023
So many people have been patiently waiting for news of the selection progress with Sticks & Bricks. At last, the...
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Southern Festival of Books 2023

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By kpdavis / October 13, 2023
We will be attending the Southern Festival of Books in 2023 It is in Nashville again this year, and we...
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