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Pulpwood Queens 2023 Girlfriend Weekend

The Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend 2023 on Amelia Island in Florida. Shows a sepia-toned woman on a moon with a brown background.

The Pulpwood Queens have always supported Madville authors and they did it again at their Girlfriend Weekend 2023 on Amelia Island, Florida. We had an absolute blast! What a party!

  • Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, edited by Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire, and featuring Robert Gwaltney and 53 other wonderful authors.
  • Tom Shachtman, with his Memoir of the Minotaur
  • Wondra Chang, with her novel, Sonju, and
  • Francine Rodriguez, with A Woman’s Story.
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Image is of Dolly herself in a long black sequined dress, very low cut. she looks lovely and shiny on a black background. Pensive.

The Pulpwood Queens have always supported Madville authors and they did it again at their Girlfriend Weekend 2023 on Amelia Island, Florida. We had an absolute blast! What a party!

  • Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, edited by Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire, and featuring Robert Gwaltney and 53 other wonderful authors.
  • Tom Shachtman, with his Memoir of the Minotaur
  • Wondra Chang, with her novel, Sonju, and
  • Francine Rodriguez, with A Woman’s Story.
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Image is of Dolly herself in a long black sequined dress, very low cut. she looks lovely and shiny on a black background. Pensive.

The Pulpwood Queens have always supported Madville authors and they did it again at their Girlfriend Weekend 2023 on Amelia Island, Florida. We had an absolute blast! What a party!

  • Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, edited by Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire, and featuring Robert Gwaltney and 53 other wonderful authors.
  • Tom Shachtman, with his Memoir of the Minotaur
  • Wondra Chang, with her novel, Sonju, and
  • Francine Rodriguez, with A Woman’s Story.
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Image is of Dolly herself in a long black sequined dress, very low cut. she looks lovely and shiny on a black background. Pensive.

The Pulpwood Queens have always supported Madville authors and they did it again at their Girlfriend Weekend 2023 on Amelia Island, Florida. We had an absolute blast! What a party!

  • Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, edited by Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire, and featuring Robert Gwaltney and 53 other wonderful authors.
  • Tom Shachtman, with his Memoir of the Minotaur
  • Wondra Chang, with her novel, Sonju, and
  • Francine Rodriguez, with A Woman’s Story.
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Image is of Dolly herself in a long black sequined dress, very low cut. she looks lovely and shiny on a black background. Pensive.

The Pulpwood Queens have always supported Madville authors and they did it again at their Girlfriend Weekend 2023 on Amelia Island, Florida. We had an absolute blast! What a party!

  • Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, edited by Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire, and featuring Robert Gwaltney and 53 other wonderful authors.
  • Tom Shachtman, with his Memoir of the Minotaur
  • Wondra Chang, with her novel, Sonju, and
  • Francine Rodriguez, with A Woman’s Story.
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Image is of Dolly herself in a long black sequined dress, very low cut. she looks lovely and shiny on a black background. Pensive.

The Pulpwood Queens have always supported Madville authors and they did it again at their Girlfriend Weekend 2023 on Amelia Island, Florida. We had an absolute blast! What a party!

  • Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, edited by Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire, and featuring Robert Gwaltney and 53 other wonderful authors.
  • Tom Shachtman, with his Memoir of the Minotaur
  • Wondra Chang, with her novel, Sonju, and
  • Francine Rodriguez, with A Woman’s Story.
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Image is of Dolly herself in a long black sequined dress, very low cut. she looks lovely and shiny on a black background. Pensive.
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank

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How did our books do in 2020? We looked at Amazon’s best seller’s rank for each of our titles.

We’ve been reviewing how our books fared in 2020, a different sort of difficult year. We were pleasantly surprised when we reviewed the different books’ Amazon rankings. We have some standouts:

Sisypha Larvata Prodeat by Jan Cole, translated by Angela Liu, and edited by Lorrie Lo

Read more about Sisypha Larvata Prodeat

A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being by Jeff Hardin

Screen capture of the Amazon.com bestsellers ranking for Jeff Hardin's A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being
read more about A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being

Some Notes You Hold by Rita Sims Quillen

Amazon.com's best sellers rank for Rita Sims Quillen's Some Notes You Hold taken at the end of 2020
Read more about Some Notes You Hold

The Memoir of the Minotaur by Tom Shachtman

Amazon's best sellers rank for Tom Shachtmas's The Memoir of the Minotaur. Image captured end of 2020
Read more about The Memoir of the Minotaur

Congratulations to all our authors on this list. Keep up the good work!

Audiobooks at Madville Publishing

Here is a list of our currently available Audiobooks, click the cover to be taken to each book’s Audible Page.
(We only list the one vendor here, but we are in the process of expanding our distribution capabilities for the audiobooks, so be sure to search your favorite audiobook vendor for our titles if Audible is not your first choice.):

Audiobook cover for The Blessed Isle: Volume Three in the Talon Trilogy by Michael Simms. The cover is in dark purple to black shades with bright white illuminating Tessia's sword and Norbert's staff. Tessia's arms are raised in a fighting stance ready for battle.
Audiobook cover for Windkeep: Volume Two in the Talon Trilogy by Michael Simms. The cover is in dark blue to black shades with bright dots of flame at the tops of turret towers circling a central tower where a dragon can be seen breathing fire on the central towers. You can see the tragon in sihlouette because there's a full moon behind her.
Audiobook cover for The Green Mage by Michael Simms ready by Benjamin Fife
Audiobook cover for THE CYCLONE RELEASE: A NOVEL OF SILICON VALLEY by Bruce Overby. The scene is a dark wet street at night with trees in an esplanade barely visible through streetlights shining in fog. There is a green overlay of 1990s style computer code.
Audiobook cover for Bicycles of the Gods: A Divine Comedy by Michael Simms read by Benjamin Fife. This cover shows a frescoed ceiling with three young boys on bicycles apprearing to come through the clouds in the middle on bicycles.
No Evil is Wide by Randall Watson, read by Nick Gilley
The Autobiography of Francis N. Stein: The Last Promethean by A. Rooney, read by Nick Gilley
Sonju written by Wondra Chang read by Laurie Carter Rose.
What a Wonderful World This Could Be, written by Lee Zacharias, read by Laurie Carter Rose
The Memoir of the Minotaur audiobook cover, written by Tom Shachtman, narrated by Charles Geddes

The Memoir of the Minotaur

Memoir of the Minotaur by Tom Shachtman - front cover shows the shadow of Asterion, the Minotaur in his labyrinth with a red silken cord leading to a distant light above. The book cover also shows two awards medallions

The Memoir of the Minotaur 

Memoir of the Minotaur by Tom Shachtman - front cover shows the shadow of Asterion, the Minotaur in his labyrinth with a red silken cord leading to a distant light above. The book cover also shows two awards medallions

American Fiction Awards Finalist medal awarded by AmericanBookFest.com

by Tom Shachtman

5½x8½ , 178 pp.
978-1-948692-38-0 paperback 18.95
978-1-948692-39-7 ebook 9.99
Fiction
September 2020

Also available from all online retailers, including:

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and Apple Books.

Audible-logoAlso available now on audio!

Cover art by Nick Gilley

The Memoir of the Minotaur is the posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently-deceased, 21st century fellow souls in Hades’ domain. This book is a satire for readers unafraid of a rollicking good tale involving anatomically-complex beings, unforgivable puns, the champion serial killer of all time, scantily-clad Greek maidens and youths, articulate tyrants, and feminist proto-history leavened with theological impertinence.

The Memoir of the Minotaur shares its form with other popular retellings of the monster narrative such as John Gardner’s Grendel, and the narrative voice has likenesses to the exuberance, bawdiness, and blasphemy of Salman Rushdie and John Barth. Packed with actions both big and small, while containing a breadth of complexity as it deals with themes of power, violence, sexuality, and the role of storytelling, its most endearing quality is the hilarity and absurdity of our classical values interacting with our animalistic cores. Ultimately, the book is riotous.

See what KIRKUS had to say:

KIRKUS Review of The Memoir of the Minotaur by Tom Sachtman

Tom Schachtman HeadshotTom Shachtman holds a B.S. in animal behavior, an M.F.A. in playwriting, and has a body of published and produced work that includes eighteen non-fiction books, such as The Day America Crashed, Rumspringa: To Be Or Not To Be Amish, and the latest, The Founding Fortunes; short novels, including Beachmaster and The Eagle’s Claw; books for children, such as Growing Up Masai; and documentaries for ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, the most recent being Absolute Zero and the Conquest Of Cold, a two-hour Nova based on his book of the same name. He has also collaborated on a dozen books, among them Whoever Fights Monsters (with Robert K. Ressler), considered the definitive study of serial killers.

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“A romping confessional riff on the classic tale, a portrait of the artist as a young bull. Shachtman’s rolicking prose weaves mythology into a gripping yarn and gives antiquity’s voiceless celebrity monster a soaring human heart.”

—Charles Graeber, NYT bestselling author of The Good Nurse and The Breakthrough.

“A fine read.  Exciting, entertaining, witty.  Even more, a rare experience.  Despite the blood and gore, the book resonates with wonder, and lingers in our minds for weeks afterward. Its conclusions are generous and thoughtful. A ‘classics’ challenge for readers that stuns us with its bravery and humor.  I loved it.”

—John Neufeld, author of international bestsellers Lisa, Bright and Dark, and Edgar Allen.  

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