Give the Gift of E this Holiday Season with Akashic and Open Road!

Take advantage of gifting ebooks this holiday season with Akashic Books and Open Road Media!

The Jesus Lizard Book Limited Edition Preorder!

The wait is over. The Jesus Lizard Book is here! Although the publication date isn’t until March, we’re pleased to be offering a special LIMITED preorder package!

Indie Bookstore Spotlight: Seattle Mystery Bookshop

Welcome to Akashic in Good Company! This week, take a walk through Seattle Mystery Bookshop, our criminally good friends from the West Coast!

Kaylie Jones Books Featured in Shelf Awareness!

Shelf Awareness featured Kaylie Jones Books, which will launch in early 2014 with Laurie Loewenstein’s Unmentionables!

“Fresh Air” by Laurie Loewenstein

They stood off to one side of the excited throng who were cheering and holding up hand-lettered signs as the TrailWays Bus pulled into the church parking lot. Val chewed at the skin around her nails. When she saw Mark watching her, a tight smile crossed her face.

“It’ll be okay?” Her eyebrows raised in question. “He’ll be a good kid. Right? The Fresh Air people wouldn’t send him if, you know, he had problems . . .”

“City of Dead Souls” by Agee Sasso

When I got to the top of the stairs, he pushed his hulking shoulders from the wall and pointed backward at the sign on my door. I made up the half step I’d lost at the sight.

“You him?” he said . . .

“The Boy on the Box” by GG Burrows

There’s lights on the ceiling, big white circles, each one brighter than beach sun, but you can’t blink or squint when they’re taking your picture . . .

Stephanie Stio: On the Paz Prize for Poetry and Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales/Collateral

Stephanie Stio discusses the creation of the Paz Prize for Poetry and the selection of the prize’s inaugural winner, Dinapiera Di Donato’s Colaterales/Collateral.

“No Time Like the Past” by Matthew Sharpe

There’s no time like the past, Steven thought as he entered his time machine. He found himself in the maternity ward of a small rural hospital at 8 am on April 16, 1971—the day he was to be born . . .