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The brand new book BUFFALO DREAMS (under the imprint BLUE INDIANS COLLECTIVE) by Jaga'de, and new editions of Sleeps with Knives by Trace Hentz are out!     John Christian Hopkins will be publishing a collection of his humorous columns for the Westerly Sun newspaper in 2020.                     NEW 2020 TITLE:    Crockett's Gold    To read a preview of Sleep with Knives:  here

This blog post by Nicholas C. Rossis in Publishing has a series explaining the history of publishing. Also watch the movie THE WIFE with Glenn Close to get an idea of the male dominated industry.... Trace

We did publish Two Worlds: Lost Children (Second Edition) on KOBO in Canada in 2017. These are our current stats (July 2019): #200 in Nonfiction , History , Americas , North America #331 in Nonfiction , History , Canada #4093 in Biography & Memoir , Historical

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hentz releases new creative non-fiction

Charles Grolla's Ojibwe name is Ogimaagiizhig (Boss of the Sky) and he is of the Adik (Caribou) clan or totem.  He is an enrolled member of the Bois Forte reservation in Minnesota and was raised mainly on the Red Lake reservation in Minnesota.  While growing up in the Bikwaakwaang (West End) area of the Red Lake reservation, Charles became a contending player of Ojibwe style moccasin game before the age of 14.  Charles graduated from Red Lake High School and completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Ojibwe Language at Bemidji State University.  Retiring after 17 years of service from the Red Lake Police Department, first as a police officer then as a conservation officer, he started a new career and is currently a teacher at Cass Lake – Bena High School where he teaches Ojibwe language, culture, and moccasin game.

Sleeps With Knives: Has It Hit You Yet + special essay: EBOOK out today https://t.co/rc04hBdDdw via @amazon @StonePony33 — Trace kalala Hentz (@StonePony33) October 5, 2019 LISTEN TO A NEW INTERVIEW new ebook and paperback

John Christian Hopkins, a member of the Rhode Island Narragansett Indian Tribe, is a descendant of King Ninigret, patriarch of the tribe’s last hereditary royal family. Hopkins is a career journalist who has worked at newspapers across the U.S. and has been a nationally syndicated columnist for Gannett News Service. He and his wife Sararesa live on her Navajo reservation in Arizona.

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HER LATEST BOOK: Mental Midgets | Musqonocihte  

This makes too much sense... too much OVER THE TOP marketing and 1 million new books a year - this has obviously tanked our author's book sales. And you know what? We here at Blue Indians will continue, as we have since 2011... we will NOT stop. I have a short book out now. And plan more.   Trace THIS is the most important commentary on publishing I have EVER read.↓ A Writer’s Choice to Be Borderline Invisible Small presses and editions remind us that that we’re free to stay below the radar in an age of self-promotion. John Yau

Graywolf Press   is one of many independent presses that have found their place in the shadow of bigger publishing houses. In the past few years, Graywolf has released some of the most groundbreaking American nonfiction. Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, which won the 2015 National Books Critics Circle award, complicated notions of sexuality and desire with tender, cutting prose. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric conveyed a sense of exhaustion of American racial harassment and violence that resonated with many readers. The Argonauts and Citizen are each less than 160 pages long. They’re built from fragments and vignettes that don’t so much combine genres—personal essay, critical theory, poetry, and photography—as they put them into a blender and shred them. Both play with method and perspective to offer insight into crucial subjects: One explores what it’s like to love a fluidly gendered person, the other grieves the continued killings of black citizens...