Plain View Press

11/05/2025

A new book out today, a fascinating memoir by Ute Carson, who has lived a long, adventurous life! Check it out!

Time Did It, a Family Saga, tells the true story of Ute Carson and her aristocratic family, whose lives, land, status and fortune were lost as they escaped N**i Europe. Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast in Köslin, Pomerania. Providing a different perspe....

10/27/2022

Latest book release: Standing in the Shadows of Freedom presents the poetic work of Nicole Lanier Montez, highlighting current emotional and social issues.

Standing in the Shadows of Freedom: poems

02/16/2022

Plain View Press Author Maria Wells Debuts Poetry Book Images in the Clouds
Austin, Texas, 14 Feb 2022 – After a career in academia, Maria Wells of Austin, Texas presents her poems and art in her first poetry book, Images in the Clouds: reading the sky, published by Plain View Press and hitting bookstores everywhere on February 14, 2022..

With 60 poems and 10 color photos and art, Images in the Clouds carries the reader forward and back in time, to inner and outer worlds. Taken from Wells’ treasure trunk of a life of adventure and world travel, some verses share memories of places and people, while some delight with pure fantasy and imagination.

A Fulbright Scholar and Doctoral graduate from the University of Pisa, Maria Xenia Wells Zevelechi spent her academic career at the University of Texas at Austin. After retiring, she embraced poetry when a friend’s painting inspired her first poem, “Memories in Silver,” written in Paris at a meeting of Poets and Writers. A member of the Austin Poetry Society, she gives readings in Austin, Paris and Greece. With two daughters, five grandchildren and the memory of a loving husband, she lives in Austin, Texas.

Images in the Clouds: reading the sky, ISBN 9781632100948, can be purchased on Amazon.com, or in bulk by contacting the publisher.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1632100940/

With 60 poems and 10 color photos and art, Images in the Clouds: reading the sky by Maria Wells carries the reader forward and back in time, to inner and outer worlds. Taken from the treasure trunk of Wells’ life of adventure and world travel, some verses share memories of places and people, whil....

02/15/2022

New Crime Thriller Blink Factor by Steve Barry Combines Science and Mystery
Austin, Texas, 02 Sept, 2021 – Plain View Press announces the new release of Blink Factor, a crime thriller by Steve Barry, to bookstores and Amazon on September 2, 2021.

With two identities, artist David Asher can forever capture what he sees in the blink of an eye. As he tries to solve the mystery of his abusive father, his father hunts him down, and he faces the looming threat of the Manhattan Crime Boss and the wrath of inquisitive FBI and CIA operatives.

Born in Manhattan, Steve Barry studied painting at Boston University, the Boston Museum School and the Art Students League of New York. He left an early career in advertising on Madison Avenue for the Southwest and worked as Creative Director for the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper Gaining recognition as a painter, he taught art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before moving to Texas with his wife. Always attracted to the creative process, Blink Factor is his first novel.

Copies of Blink Factor (ISBN: 978-1632100917) can be purchased on Amazon or in quantity from Plain View Press.

Manhattan,1964: No one suspects David Greenberg is also David Asher, the successful artist who, in the blink of an eye, can forever capture what he sees. Believing his father is Mob connected, he searches for evidence to put him away. But soon, rogue agents of the government discover David's secr...

01/24/2021

Plain View Press announces the publication of At the Edge of the Cliff: poems, by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, hitting bookstores and Amazon on January 25, 2021. At her poetic peak, Shapiro experiments with visual form and edgy content to disrupt fundamental givens and generate transformative experiences. Word drawings in At the Edge of the Cliff go beyond mere words, touching extremes of feeling that jar the subconscious and make each poem an experiment, leading a beautiful and challenging climb to the edge.

At the Edge of the Cliff: poems

09/24/2020

Please join the Livestream Virtual Reading by Catherine A. Hamilton from her book, Victoria's War:

September 24, 2020 at 7:00pm to 8:00pm PACIFIC time
That's 10 pm Eastern, 9 pm Central, and 8 pm Mountain time

HOSTED BY: Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland Oregon

“Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Catherine Hamilton for a livestream reading from her novel, Victoria's War.”

Click link and to register to attend:
https://www.annieblooms.com/event/livestream-reading-catherine-hamilton-victorias-war



HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

Victoria's War is a work of historical fiction about 19-year-old Victoria Darski, a Polish Catholic woman sold into slavery during the N**i occupation of Europe, and Etta Tod, the 20-year-old deaf daughter of a German baker who buys Victoria. Poland, 1939: Eager to study literature at the University...

08/20/2020

Ute Carson Book Launch Sept 4, 2020 at 7 pm CDT
Join us via Zoom to celebrate the launch of Ute Carson’s Gypsy Spirit, a lifelong collection of published short stories, flash stories, essays, commentaries, and memoir. The event is sponsored by Malvern Books in Austin Texas.

Join us via Zoom to celebrate the launch of Ute Carson’s Gypsy Spirit, a lifelong collection of published short stories, flash stories, essays, commentaries, and memoir. Gypsy Spirit is an ex…

07/01/2020

Plain View Press announces the timely release of The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems by Jack Coulehan, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 1, 2020. The Talking Cure highlights physician Jack Coulehan’s poetic career, exploring the poetry of tenderness and steadiness in medical practice—observing moments, healing gestures, and internal response that reveal the worth of the individual and an ethic of compassion. A virtual book launch reading, hosted by The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, will take place on Wednesday, July 17 at 6:30 PM EDT.

A physician by trade, poet-author Coulehan uses poetry to reflect and express the trials and triumphs of keeping the body well and of facing death. The Talking Cure contains new poems plus selections from six previous books. The poems look beyond the difficulties of physical existence to see the worth and holiness of the individual with directness, passion, and humor. They show an ethic of compassionate solidarity between patient and doctor, person and family, the individual and the community. Copies of The Talking Cure, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-078-8) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-079-5), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.

An Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Jack Coulehan was formerly director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Bursting with Danger and Music (Plain View Press, 2012). A medical educator, his medical writing includes essays on clinical trials, medical ethics, and humanities, and an award-winning textbook, The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice. Information about all his books can be found on Jack Coulehan’s website, jackcoulehan.com.

https://plainviewpress.com/2020/06/23/the-talking-cure-by-medical-poet-jack-coulehan-released/

07/01/2020

Plain View Press announces the release of Coming To Be: A Novel by Rebecca Thaddeus, hitting bookstores and Amazon on June 30, 2020.

In Coming To Be by Rebecca Thaddeus, a devastating blow forces Carly to reconcile her past, with the help of her best friends. Remembering the music and sexual revolution of the 70’s, she re-examines past assumptions and life with a bipolar husband, only to discover the inexplicable joy of Plato’s “coming to be.”

With a doctorate in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rebecca Thaddeus taught at Loyola University, the University of Illinois in Chicago, and Ferris State University for a total of 38 years. With a propensity for historical fiction, her first novel, One Amber Bead (2011), was set during World War II. My Mother’s Daughter (2019) was set in early 19th Century Mississippi. Her third novel, Coming To Be (2020), recreates the era of the sixties. Her books and blog posts can be found at oneamberblog.blogspot.com.

Copies of Coming To Be, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-074-0) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-075-7), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
https://plainviewpress.com/2020/06/23/coming-to-be-release/

06/30/2020

Plain View Press announces the publication of the historical fiction novel Victoria’s War by Catherine A. Hamilton, hitting bookstores and Amazon on June 2, 2020. Inspired by events lost in World War II history, the book gives voice to the courageous Polish women kidnapped into real-life slave labor operation during the N**i occupation of Poland.

Victoria’s War, a historical fiction novel by Catherine A. Hamilton, tells the story of Polish teenager Victoria Darski, who was sold into slavery during the N**i occupation of Europe, and the deaf daughter of the German baker who bought her.

Copies of Victoria’s War, paperback (ISBN: 9781632100689) or ebook (ISBN: 9781632100696), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.

Victoria’s War is the debut novel from author Catherine A. Hamilton, who actively publishes and blogs at catherineahamilton.com. Of Polish descent, Hamilton has articles and poems published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Oregonian, the Catholic Sentinel, the Dziennik Związkowy, and the Polish American Journal. She authored the chapter about Katherine Graczyk in Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the N**i Occupation, edited by Richard C. Lukas. She is available for public events and book club interaction.
https://plainviewpress.com/2020/05/26/victorias-war-by-catherine-a-hamilton-unveils-polish-slavery-by-nazis-in-wwii/

Victoria’s War, a historical fiction novel by Catherine A. Hamilton, tells the story of Polish teenager Victoria Darski, who was sold into slavery during the N**i occupation of Europe, and the deaf daughter of the German baker who bought her.