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Dismantling the Inner School by David H. Albert is now available!We all want the best possible education for our children. But sometimes the images of school we hold in our minds limit us from acting fully upon that which, deep down, we already know. We will explore some of these images together, and increase our self-confidence in helping our kids and our family pursue our dreams and aspirations. Enjoy this latest book from David H. Albert: Father, husband, author, magazine columnist, itinerant storyteller, and speaker on issues of child-directed, family-centered learning.  Dismantling the Inner School$22.95 + S/H Tags: david h. albert, dismantling the inner school, homeschooling, unschooling
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Alice Assassin by Angela N. Hunt is now available for pre-order! In a cottage in Maryland, an assassin is coming home. In a yard outside a large white house, a little girl is following a white rabbit down a hole and into a land of wonder and mirrors. And in the halls of of a black intelligence organization, plans for a coup are being laid.
Unrelated incidents? Or events chained to each other in ways that no one can foresee?
Alice Vexin, Marine Recon sniper and spy, just thought she was coming home for good, her duty to her country coming to an end. Instead it’s time for one last trip down the rabbit hole to save a little girl and the future of a world that no one believes is Real, before events there, start something truly awful here...
Alice Assassin Pre-order $13.95 + S/H Tags: alice assassin, angela n. hunt, pre-orders
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The Tyranny of the Cubicle by Katie McCall is now available for pre-order! NB: I won't lie, folks, I had to fight Madam Editor for this one, as she wanted it for our BirthAction imprint and I basically pulled a Publisher Fiat and said, "IT'S MINE." “I live in the managerial age, in a world of “admin.” The greatest evil is not now down in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint, it is not down even in concentration camps and labor camps-- though in those we see its' final result-- but it is conceived and ordered, moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clean carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”
– C.S. LewisKatie McCall went from being a mother of two and professional midwife, to homeless single mother and convicted felon, at the whim of people she'd never met, who decided from within their cubicles that she needed to be punished. Let her cautionary tale show you how easy it is to fall victim to the tyrrany of the cubicle.  The Tyranny of the Cubicle Pre-order $14.95 + S/H
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Broken Rainbow, Book Three of Curse & Quanta: The Enchanter's Theorem by Angela N. Hunt is now available! Sabine Parsons is out for blood.
Unable to put herself back out into the Cold and escape the intelligence fraternity, she has lost too much, too fast, and all because of the Lodge of the Midnight Sun. Pressing forward with their demented plans for world destruction, what the Lodge doesn’t know is that they’ve pissed off the one person who might have a chance of stopping them, once and for all, if she’s willing to sacrifice the one thing she has left that is her very own.
Her life.
With Dream and waking prophecies fulfilling faster than anyone can deal with them, Sabine has to bend all of her skills and preternatural abilities to solve the riddle of the Grail tablets and her father’s final equations. Equations that are the key to both saving the World, and ending it. With her best friend, Ari Doran, at her side, she is now at the forefront of the clandestine war between the intelligence agencies of the world and the Lodge of the Midnight Sun.
And in the end, Sabine’s ultimate sacrifice may not prevail.
Broken Rainbow
$23.95 + S/H  Tags: angela n. hunt, broken rainbow, curse & quanta, interstitial, the enchanter's theorem
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Hey folks! February already? Where the hells has the year gone already? As you can imagine, we are *busting* our asses here at the press. On top of the 12x12 challenge that we are endeavoring to knock down, Madam Editor and family are sailing to Texas in five weeks, as Madam Editor's husband who I will just now dub Captain Awesome (Chuck fans represent!) has gotten a new job managing a rigging shop near Galveston Bay. Because...y'know...we weren't busy. :D It's been a bumpy start to the year, but I can say now without a shade of doubt that it's going to be an amazing year. The books we've got shaping up? Wonderful. * * * And one last thing. Today only, Matthew Hunt's The Messy Divorce of Faith & Belief is free for the Kindle and the Kindle app. You totally want to grab it now while you can. You don't need a Kindle. You can read it on your computer or phone with the app. Check it out! The Messy Divorce of Faith & BeliefTags: 12x12, kindle, madam editor, matthew hunt, the messy divorce of faith & belief
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The other day, the mighty Lois McMaster Bujold announced (on her MySpace page,really) that the next book in the Vorkosigan series will be published around November 6th. Being an insane huge fan of that series, I immediately 1) fell into fangirl swoon, 2) posted about it on my facebook page, so my friends could swoon right along with me. Now, you should know that Madam Publisher and I often speak to each other in a form of abbreviated Lois. We drop half-lines from her works, as a kind of code between us. We know her works so well, that that's our own cultural shorthand. For instance, Madam Publisher, in her writing, often visualizes scenes (especially setting and location, but sometimes fight scenes too) so intensely, that she does not actually write them down. She thinks she has. I've been editing her so long, I can recognize the signs, so my own acerbic marginalia reads, "Unpack, Miles!" Now, the true Lois geeks amongst you will have recognized that that was a double-layer Vorkosigan quote. And most of you will know *precisely* what I'm instructing Madam Publisher to do in her writing, there. You might even giggle about it, which is the desired outcome. With scenes of the hyperactive Miles in her head, she can toddle off, amused and inspired, to get the scenes out of her head and onto the page so the rest of us can share. Good writing is transporting. It is uplifting, thought-provoking. But it is also a touchpoint between people, a way to convey a wealth of meaning in a short burst of communication. It's the result of writing so thorough, and world-visualization so complete, that other people can step in and step out, enriched by possession of a whole other culture. What do you have to unpack today?
- Madam Editor Tags: cultural shorthand, lois mcmaster bujold, madam editor, miles vorkosigan
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Fatal Compulsions by LT Bentley is now available for pre-order!
Audry Sampson is a forensic psychologist with a gift for solving the hardest puzzles of dark human motivation. But when men are being murdered by complete strangers across the country, she is faced with a puzzle that refuses understanding. The murders seem simple, solved quickly and prosecuted cleanly, with no connection to each other... Except one thing:
The murderers have no idea why they killed their victims.
Only able to murmur, "He won't be able to hurt her now," their confusion pulls Audry into a mystery that refuses solving...
Until a new victim turns up...
If you're a fan of fast-paced, hard-hitting fiction that isn't afraid of dark subjects and dangerous questions, this full-length novel is for you.
 Fatal Compulsions Pre-order $19.95 + S/H Tags: crime, fatal compulsions, lt bentley, pre-orders
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Editors scare people.I blame school. Even though most of the authors I work with are full-grown adult people with jobs and lives and who pay taxes and all that noise, they still have this built-in cringe, as if the meanest English teacher in the world was breathing down their neck, ruler to hand for cracking over knuckles. Guys? I am not her. Let's make this clear; a book can be grammatically perfect, and be a lousy read. It can also be a fantastic read and have grammatical problems. I know for sure which one I'd rather read. So... story story story, OK? Think about your story. Tell your story. Take your Inner English Teacher, and lock it in a closet. Gag it if you have to. But ignore it until you get your story down. I'm pretty sure that J.R.R. didn't worry about split infinitives while he was trying to figure out how to get Frodo into Mordor. Having said that, it's my job to catch mistakes. I'm not gloating at you; any good polish job involves minor abrasive. And there are things that are neither mistakes nor errors, they're queries. A query means, "hey, let's talk about this... what do you think?" There is no right answer; it's *your* answer. In my world, editing is about having a conversation, in which I share bits of my perspective with you, and you, the author of the story, figure out which things I suggest make your story better. La. So let's converse...
- Madam EditorTags: editing, it's a conversation, madam editor
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Possibly as a result of our listing in Ralan.com, or maybe because of our appearance at LosCon38, or maybe for some reason I'm not even aware of, we seem to be getting submissions. I am so stoked.There's a hugely creative group of people out there, and you are writing some amazing things. My family has noticed this influx to the submissions pile. I keep disappearing into my computer at a moment's notice, and smiling, nodding, frowning, taking notes. "Whatcha reading, Mama?" they ask me. "Dragons," I reply. "Is it a happy story, or a sad one?" they ask. "Dramatic, this time" I answer them.Reading the incoming manuscripts is an endlessly fascinating activity. I obviously don't know the vast majority of people sending in submissions, and so I am forced to imagine who they are by what I can see of the shape of their imaginations. It's neat to walk around out in the world, imagining the books everyone's got inside of them, just waiting...
- Madam EditorTags: madam editor, submissions
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A well-known international food celebrity posted a diatribe recently, about how the culture of bestsellers (which she equated with junk food) created junk minds, and that the "classics" are better for everyone.This? Is the sound of me bashing my head into a wall. Repeatedly. The celebrity points out "According to Merriam Webster, a classic is “a work of enduring excellence”. Wikipedia defines classic as “something with a timeless quality.”OK, so by that definition, "Scooby-Doo" counts as a classic, having endured for 42 years. But I bet our celebrity doesn't think of it. She's talking about "great American classics by Theodore Dreiser, Rockwell Kent, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mayne Reid, James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jack London, O. Henry, Mark Twain and others." I hate, hate hate, the artificial, intellectually disingenuous division between "classic" and "not". As if being far removed from us in time makes a work somehow more profound. I can guarantee you, no one who's read, James Owen's "Drawing Down the Dragons", would make that distinction. People take meaning from all kinds of places. Madam Publisher and I speak shorthand to each other in quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold's books *all the time*. Both of us have found timeless meaning in those books, despite them being the despised bestseller paperbacks. Go ahead, I dare you, tell me that Bujold's writing hasn't spoken to some aspect of your life. In fact, I'll go a step further. Tell me that not a single book you've read in the last, say, ten years, has spoken to you. Yeah, I thought not. Good stories speak to you. They don't have to have aged to do so. - Madam Editor Tags: how the bestsellers killed the classics, madam editor
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Are you reading?What are you reading?Why are you reading it?Might I like to read it too?Great questions all, and questions that are the basis of our connection in literary joy. I honestly think that part of the reason that small indy bookstores started caving is that people stopped talking about books. If you're just going to drive up, buy a thing, and read it in private, without interacting with anyone about it, then it really doesn't matter where you bought it or where it was made or who wrote it or what they were feeling/thinking/doing while they wrote it.But books are rich conversation-starters. At the 6th Hunt Press Book & Art Party, we had a lot of great conversations not about the details of books, but about the mechanics of writing, of the creative process, tricks for breaking out of creative funk... the conversations were varied and enthusiastic and colorful and passionate and funny. We were all connected by the mechanics of books. We can't have a party like that every day (even though we'd love to!). But what we can do is keep using our social media outlets to carry on variations of those conversations virtually. Are you on Goodreads? Connect with us! Have you left a comment on Amazon about a book you've read? Do so! Got something to say about our stuff in particular? Leave a comment on the Hunt Press facebook wall, or tweet to us using @huntpress. Come on... talk to us...
- Madam EditorTags: book & art party, books, goodreads
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Broken Rainbow, Book Three of Curse & Quanta: The Enchanter's Theorem by Angela N. Hunt is now available for pre-order! Sabine Parsons is out for blood. Unable to put herself back out into the Cold and escape the intelligence fraternity, she has lost too much, too fast, and all because of the Lodge of the Midnight Sun. Pressing forward with their demented plans for world destruction, what the Lodge doesn’t know is that they’ve pissed off the one person who might have a chance of stopping them, once and for all, if she’s willing to sacrifice the one thing she has left that is her very own. Her life. With Dream and waking prophecies fulfilling faster than anyone can deal with them, Sabine has to bend all of her skills and preternatural abilities to solve the riddle of the Grail tablets and her father’s final equations. Equations that are the key to both saving the World, and ending it. With her best friend, Ari Doran, at her side, she is now at the forefront of the clandestine war between the intelligence agencies of the world and the Lodge of the Midnight Sun. And in the end, Sabine’s ultimate sacrifice may not prevail. Broken Rainbow Pre-order $19.95 + S/H Tags: angela n. hunt, broken rainbow, curse & quanta: the enchanter's theorem, pre-orders
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Or: Wherein Madam Publisher cackles like a maniac for proving she's not crazy... Okay, not as crazy as everyone thought... Okay, crazy, but yeah, moving on... Y'know how I keep insisting Print Isn't Dead, it's just changing? Go get yourself the latest copy of Wired. Got it? Good. Now look at Clive Thompson's article, A New Hope for Books. In it he discusses how POD is basically starting to crush traditional print publishing. In '09 to '10, new titles in trad only rose 5%. Guess how much they grew in POD/self-pub? 169%. 2.8 million unique titles. 2 point 8 million.Print is dead? In your dreams. *cackles like a maniac and goes back to publishing as fast as she can* - Madam Publisher Tags: let's talk numbers, printissonotdead, publishing mayhem, shall we?, withyourprintingpressoronit
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So... check this out... http://occupywriters.com/I want to encourage you, if you're any kind of author (and hello, it's NaNo, aren't you all authors right now?) to go sign in. Because this is about the power of the pen. A long time ago, an inspirational person I know told me, "the winners write the histories, and the losers write the songs." That's resonated for me since, oh I dunno, he told me. I think about the power of the pen, the whole mightier than the sword thing, and I think that sometimes, the strongest contribution we all can make to justice and rightness and the betterment of the whole damn world, is to witness, and to write. People operate on information, sure, but they operate more strongly on inspiration. And that is our job. Think about the works that made you wish for a better world. And then, do something about writing them. Find a movement, and do something. Really. - Madam Editor Tags: madam editor, occupy everywhere, occupy writers
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