Our first pop-up bookstore occurred this fall, on the ground floor of the Refinery Hotel. The store sold books all day, and in the evening hosted a wine party, with readings by Granville Wyche Burgess and Steven S. Drachman, and a tribute to Alan N. Levy. More of these things to come!
Brooklyn, NY, August 2019 — Chickadee Prince Books, a young Brooklyn small press that publishes acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books of all genres, is very pleased to announce that it will debut its “pop-up” bookstore for one day, on Thursday, September 19, 2019.
The store will be located at 63 W 38th St, in Manhattan’s Refinery Hotel. The store will be open all day, selling books published by Chickadee Prince, as well as other small presses, and at 6 pm, the store will sponsor a reception at which CPB authors Steven S. Drachman and Granville Wyche Burgess will read from and sign their latest novels.
Other CPB writers will be on hand to sign books and meet patrons, including Mark Laporta, author of the space opera, Probability Shadow, and Donna Levin, whose contemporary fiction Amazon-bestseller, There’s More Than One Way Home features characters on the autism spectrum. CPB is publishing five new titles in the Spring to Fall 2019 season.
Emmy-nominated Granville Wyche Burgess’s musical, Conrack, played to sold-out audiences at Ford’s Theater, and his new novel, The Last At-Bat of Shoeless Joe, imagines Shoeless Joe Jackson, the outfielder disgraced in the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, living in Greenville, South Carolina, and finding redemption in his twilight. New York Post baseball columnist Ken Davidoff calls Joe “a gripping story that is both illuminating and emotional… Great for baseball fans, and even true-crime enthusiasts,” and Booklist writes, “Burgess has a genuine affinity for small-town southern life and portrays Jackson as a complex man who stunted himself emotionally in the aftermath of his banishment … Intriguing!”
Steven S. Drachman’s historical fantasy series, The Strange and Astounding Memoirs of Watt O’Hugh the Third, is set in the old West, New York City and China at the end of the 19th century; Watt O’Hugh and the Innocent Dead, which ties up the trilogy, finds the eponymous hero traveling from the 6th level of Hell to 
fashionable Sharon Springs, New York and lawless Yuma, Arizona, as he battles a Utopian enemy and a brewing new Civil War. Kirkus Reviews named the first novel, The Ghosts of Watt O’Hugh, to its list of the best books of the year in 2011, raving, “Fast-paced, energetic and fun; a dime novel for modern intellectuals”; the Boston Phoenix called Ghosts, a “rip-snorting, mind boggling novel,” and Nicolle Wallace, New York Times best-selling author and host of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House”, calls herself “an instant fan.”
In September, Chickadee Prince will publish Bloomsbury’s Late Rose, by Pen Pearson, a great new novel about the neglected Edwardian poet, Charlotte Mew.
In addition to publishing the novel, Chickadee Prince Books is further promoting Mew’s poetry in Audere Magazine, the CPB webzine, as well as on the publisher’s website: you can read more poetry by Charlotte Mew here.
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New York, NY, February 2019 — Chickadee Prince Books is proud to announce the publication, in September, of Bloomsbury’s Late Rose, a novel that rediscovers Charlotte Mew, a brilliant but overlooked English poet of the late 19th– and early 20th-centuries. Pen Pearson is the perfect writer to tackle the job: a professor at Northern State University, and an accomplished poet in her own right (her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including New Writing and The Working Poet, and she has published two books of her own poems), Pearson has captured Mew’s poetic voice and the tragic personal circumstances against which she struggled, and she has also richly imagined the place and period in which Mew lived: London during the Edwardian era.
Bloomsbury’s Late Rose has already picked up significant pre-publication acclaim. According to Kirkus 
Reviews Rose “evokes the works of Edith Wharton and other writers from the period…. In Mew’s story, Pearson not only uncovers central questions of first-wave feminism, but also finds an opportunity to resurrect an intriguing and worthwhile real-life poet for posterity. A rich, enjoyable historical novel with compelling themes,” and Penguin-Random House author Susan Breen writes, “This beautiful story transported me to a different era. Charlotte Mew is a haunting heroine: brave, talented and tormented. I loved her, and I loved this novel.”
In addition to publishing the novel, Chickadee Prince Books is further promoting Mew’s poetry in Audere Magazine, the CPB webzine, as well as on the publisher’s website, at https://chickadeeprince.com/more-poems-by-charlotte-mew.
About the Publisher: Chickadee Prince Books is a young Brooklyn small press, which publishes only acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, of all genres. CPB is the publisher of the acclaimed new space opera, Probability Shadow by Mark Laporta, and The Last At-Bat of Shoeless Joe, the new sports novel by Emmy-nominated, Amazon bestselling author, Granville Wyche Burgess, among many others.
Bloomsbury’s Late Rose by Pen Pearson |
| Historical Fiction / | $14.99 US/ 19.99 CAN Paperback, $6.99 Kindle
Release: September 1, 2019 | ISBN 978-1732913943 |Distributor: Ingram and Kindle
Alan N. Levy’s new geo-political thriller, The Tenth Plague, imagines what the future would be like with a nuclear Iran. We love it, and now, so does Kirkus Reviews, which has the following to say about this great book:
“A political thriller that imagines a world brought to the brink of nuclear war by an Iranian plot to attack Israel and the United States…. Debut author Levy sets the story in 2028, a world that’s seen a brutal reprisal of the 9/11 attacks on America, ceaseless turmoil in the Middle East, and a bellicose Russia, still led by a ruthless Vladimir Putin. The prose is clear and crisp, and the action is relentless, fueled by a combination of brooding cynicism and the imminent prospect of catastrophe. Overall, this is a bombastic and cinematic thriller … A fleet and dramatic … tale of global conflict.”
You can read the entire review here. The novel is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and your local bookstore.
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For more information:
Publicity@ChickadeePrince.com
917-854-6073
THE LAST AT-BAT OF SHOELESS JOE, NEW NOVEL
BY CONRACK PLAYWRIGHT, GRANVILLE WYCHE BURGESS
TO BE PUBLISHED MAY 1, 2019
New York, NY, December 2018 – In 1982, author and playwright Granville Wyche Burgess was nominated for an Emmy award; in 1987, his stage musical, Conrack, played to sold out audiences at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC, and it is still regularly performed throughout the United States; earlier in 2018, his literary Amish novel, Stone in the Crick, went to #3 on the Amazon Christian bestseller list. Now Chickadee Prince Books is proud to announce that it will publish Burgess’s latest novel, THE LAST AT-BAT OF SHOELESS JOE, in May 2019.
An inspiring fictional tale, the novel imagines Shoeless Joe Jackson, the outfielder disgraced in the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, 
living in Greenville, South Carolina, and finding that sports history has one more twist in store for him.
Timed to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of the scandal, Shoeless Joe has already picked up significant pre-publication acclaim. Raymond Arsenault, the author of Arthur Ashe, A Life, among many other books, raves, “[Jackson] is now the subject of a remarkable new novel by Granville Wyche Burgess. With a grand slam plot wrapped in lyrical and whimsical prose, Burgess gives us the grit and glory of old time baseball, poignantly reviving the spirit of a fallen hero,” and New York Times-bestselling author Peter Golenbeck writes, “In Granville Wyche Burgess’ new novel, Shoeless Joe Jackson of Black Sox fame comes alive in a most ingenious way. He becomes involved in a struggle between good and evil, and in the end you root for him to become the hero he might have become had dark forces not ended his baseball career. If you love baseball, you’ll love this book.”
Says fellow CPB author Steven S. Drachman, “We certainly expect that the anniversary of the Black Sox scandal will garner a great deal of attention in 2019, and Granville’s novel, just by reason of its sheer big-hearted excellence, can be a large part of that attention.”
About the Publisher: Chickadee Prince Books is a young Brooklyn small press, which publishes only acclaimed fiction and non-fiction. CPB is the publisher of the acclaimed new space opera, Probability Shadow by Mark Laporta, and the Amazon bestseller, There’s More Than One Way Home by Donna Levin, among many others. CPB will publish five new titles in the Spring to Fall 2019 season.
The Last At-Bat of Shoeless Joe by Granville Wyche Burgess |
| Contemporary / Historical Fiction | $12.99 Paperback, $6.99 Kindle
Release: May 1, 2019 | ISBN 978-1-7329139-1-2 |Distributor: Ingram and Kindle
CPB author Mark Laporta has a great new novel coming out in October 2018, entitled Probability Shadow. This week, Publishers Weekly had the following to say: Laporta’s “first venture into adult SF [is a] tale of a well-intentioned alien ambassador. Several species, including humans and androids, refuse to cooperate even against a mutual threat. Ambassador Ungent of Grashard understands that they have little reason to trust one another, but it falls to him and Shol, his streetwise ward, to unite them as part of an unorthodox strategy for survival against an ancient enemy who would enslave them…. [T]he characters are solid and appealing, the time-displaced enemy is a constant looming shadow, and the common mistrust and its deadly consequences are frustratingly believable. Laporta’s strength is weaving those plots into a complexity that isn’t confusing, particularly when the species (including humans) are manipulated into damaging themselves. This is a good series opener for speculative readers who like tangled story lines in which solved problems reveal even greater challenges.”
Furthermore, his last book, The Changing Hearts of Ixdahan Daherek, hit #21 on Amazon’s YA Aliens besteller list. Congrats to our latest critically acclaimed, bestselling author.
We couldn’t be more proud of Stone in the Crick, which hit the Amazon bestseller list last week! Congrats to Granville, and please check out the book, and its sequel.
Chickadee Prince Books now has a great online webzine called Audere Magazine.
In the first issue, Alon Preiss looks at science’s efforts to prolong human life and comes to a typically contrarian conclusion; Mark Laporta brings us a new time travel story; Ed Rucker talks about a criminal justice system that locks up the poor; California driver Donna Levin tries to survive as a pedestrian for a day; and Granville Wyche Burgess remembers Pat Conroy.
More to come. See you soon!
New York, NY, December 2017 – Mark Laporta’s YA SF trilogy, The Changing Hearts of Ixdahan Daherek has been acclaimed both in the mainstream press — Kirkus Reviews called the first outing a “fabulous read” and “an irresistible blend of wonky science and heartfelt storytelling,” Foreword called it “entertaining and fun,” and nationally syndicated radio host Patzi Gil proclaimed it “a wonderful, wonderful read … very, very beautifully written” — as 
well as the SF blogosphere, where Jodi Scaife of Fanbase Press wrote, “I absolutely adored the depth of Laporta’s world building … the characters within the pages will stay with you after the last pages are turned” and Tay LaRoi of Cheap Reads named Ixdahan to the list Top 10 List for 2016, raving, “In case you haven’t noticed, I adore these books. The wonderful characters, the outlandish conflicts, the strange worlds and aliens, all of it.”
Now this accomplished YA novelist branches out with his first adult space opera, in the first novel of a new series destined to win him new fans and acclaim. Probability Shadow leads you into a new universe, where a critical mineral shortage pits imperious humans against scheming androids, skulking symbiotes and a moralistic caucus of sentient crustaceans. Yet as their battles rage, an ancient evil re-emerges — and foretells the end of all sentient life.
About the Publisher: Chickadee Prince Books is a young Brooklyn small press, which publishes only acclaimed fiction and non-fiction. CPB is the publisher of the Watt O’Hugh historical sf/fantasy series and the Amazon bestseller, There’s More Than One Way Home by Donna Levin. CPB will publish three new titles in Fall 2018.
Probability Shadow by Mark Laporta |
| Science Fiction | $12.99 Paperback, $5.99 Kindle
Release: October 1, 2018 | 978-0999756928 |Distributor: Ingram and Kindle
