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Kaylie Jones Books, an imprint of Akashic Books, is a cooperative of dedicated, emerging and established writers. The list of brilliant novels unable to find homes within the mainstream is growing every day. It is our hope to publish books that bravely address serious issues—historical or contemporary—relevant to society today. Authors with us: Laurie Loewenstein, Justin Kassab, Barbara J. Taylor, Jason Carney, Nina Solomon, Matt McGevna, J. Patrick Redmond, and others to come.
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Inconvenient Daughter
"Lauren J. Sharkey's masterfully plotted portrait of Rowan, a smart and willful young woman in wild rebellion against the life she's been handed, is so raw and honest, written with such passion and heart, you turn the pages rooting for her to love herself as much as the reader and her indomitable ad...
Congratulations to both of our giveaway winners: Paige and Lynne! They will both receive a copy of Laurel Brett's The Shrodinger Girl. Thank you for your support and stay tuned for more giveaways!
We are delighted to share more good news for The Schrodinger Girl: A novel.
amazingstories.com has chosen the book as one of their Science Fiction books to look for in January.
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Akashic Books
Some new releases for the new year
Enter for a chance to win your own copy of The Shrödinger Girl by Laurel Brett!
Like our page and tag a friend in the comments below. Contest ends Midnight EST, 1/25.
The Schrodinger Girl: A novel was chosen by Three To Read this week by Bookstr on Instagram!
Congratulations, Laurel Brett.
A few photos from last night's book launch at NYU Bookstore.
The questions from the audience and the discussion that followed were fascinating, and timely. A wonderful night.
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The Schrodinger Girl: A novel
A fascinating interview with Laurel Brett, author of THE SCHRODINGER GIRL.
In these troubled times, Brett’s exploration of the Sixties and women’s roles in American society could not be more timely.
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The Schrodinger Girl: A novel
A psychology professor encounters a teenage girl who exists as multiple incarnations, each living in a separate reality.
Congratulations to Laurel Brett, author of The Schrodinger Girl: A novel, which appeared on CrimeReads’s “The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020: Part I!”
Brett is launching her novel tonight at NYU Bookstores, 726 Broadway, New York, NY from 6-8 pm! We hope to see you there!
As a new decade dawns, it’s time to bring you our biggest preview ever! From new voices to old favorites, series to standalones, lush gothics to minimalist noirs, contemporary thrillers to hi…
Join us tomorrow for Laurel Brett’s launch of
The Schrodinger Girl: A novel! Be transported into the 1960’s, where Garrett is determined to solve the mystery of the ever-elusive Daphne. Brett will read from her novel at NYU Bookstores and sign copies following the reading.
We had the good fortune to see Johnny Temple, publisher of Akashic Books, at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing residency. And he had the latest Akashic catalog. And look what we found!
Lauren J. Sharkey
Inconvenient Daughter
What’s your writing process?
Laurel Brett wrote The Schrodinger Girl: A novel in a linear process that set her up to write the next day!
Laurel Brett's The Schrodinger Girl: A novel hit shelves today! Praised by Kirkus Reviews and Publisher's Weekly, this debut novel is not one to miss!
Find your copy on the Akashic Books website to start reading today.
Praised by Kirkus Reviews, Laurel Brett’s The Schrodinger Girl: A novel is available tomorrow!
Laurel Brett’s The Schrodinger Girl: A novel
contains elements of magical realism. Brett says, “I think that authors who gravitate toward magical realism see the world that way—the uncanny existing cheek-by-jowl with the quotidian.”
Laurel Brett’s The Schrodinger Girl: A novel can be paired with music! Since her novel is set in the 60’s, Brett was inspired by music of the time period. Head over to our story to be inspired by some of Brett’s favorite tunes!
A nice ending to the year: the wonderful Jaime Manrique’s novel Like This Afternoon Forever was chosen as one of the best Thriller/Fantasy novels of 2019 by The Advocate.
From noir mystery to fantastical worlds, these LGBTQ novels enchanted us.
Who inspires you to write?
For Laurel Brett, The Schrodinger Girl: A novel
took inspirations from many of her favorite writers, their processes, and their ability to weave nuance into their work.
Heartiest congratulations to Lauren J. Sharkey on this extraordinarily good news!
The Rumpus is including her novel Inconvenient Daughter in their 2020 What to Read list, and as a book club selection.
Inconvenient Daughter
Books releasing in the first half of 2020 that we can’t wait to read!
New scientific evidence suggests Garrett Adams may have stumbled on hidden laws of the quantum universe in the novel THE SHRODINGER GIRL, by Laurel Brett. Or is he crazy? Find out for yourself. Available for preorder. At your local bookseller or delivered to your door 1/7/20.
Theory explains bizarre observations made in quantum mechanics.
The Schrodinger Girl: A novel
The Schrodinger Girl spotted at The Tattered Cover in Denver on the new arrivals cart! Find a copy at your local bookstore through Indiebound and preorder now to get your copy on January 7th!
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781617757297
Setting plays such an important role in Laurel Brett’s The Schrodinger Girl: A novel and it works because she lived it. Brett said, “Some may feel the history is heavy-handed, but it was very important to me to include... I knew about World War II from my dad, who was born in 1921. I didn’t specifically know anyone born in 1930, like Garrett, but I knew who he was. His story led me to small research projects, like the play history of the Yankees for the season he talked about. I also did research from almanacs about weather conditions.”
It’s BEATLEMANIA! The Beatles hit the stage in the 1960’s, capturing the hearts of music lovers around the globe. Thus, it’s only fitting that Laurel Brett’s The Schrodinger Girl: A novel involves an ode to “the band that changed the world.”
Praised by Publishers Weekly, Brett’s debut novel is not one to miss!
In The Schrodinger Girl: A novel, Garrett Adams, an uptight behavioral psychology professor who refuses to embrace the 1960’s, is in a slump. The dispirited rats in his latest experiment aren’t yielding results, and his beloved Yankees are losing. As he sits at a New York City bar watching the Yanks strike out, he knows he needs a change.
At a Columbus Circle bookstore he meets a young woman, Daphne, who draws him into the turbulent and exciting world of Vietnam War protest politics and the music of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. He starts to emerge from the numbness and grief over his father’s death in WWII.
When Daphne evolves into four separate versions of herself, Garrett’s life becomes complicated as he devotes himself to answering questions about character and destiny raised by her iterations. His obsession threatens to upend his relationship with Caroline, a beautiful art historian, destroy his teaching job, and dissolve his friendship with his old pal Jerry.
The Daphnes seem to exist in separate realities that challenge the laws of physics and call into question everything Garrett thought he knew. He must decide what is vision what is science, and what is delusion.
We sat down with Laurel Brett to learn about her inspiration for The Schrodinger Girl: A novel.
Schrödinger’s cat in his box is both alive and dead until the box is opened, and his state of being is revealed. Brett says, “A Schrödinger person is someone connected to a higher level of consciousness that ushers in a new way of thinking.”
Congratulations to Margaret Yelton, the winner of our #GivingTuesday book bundle!
Our very own Patty Smith has a flash essay in the wonderdul Hippocampus Magazine and Books
Congratulations, Patty!
My mother looks at me funny, as if I’ve just spoken French, as if I’m asking her to prepare chocolate ganache or créme brulée...
There’s just one month until Laurel Brett’s The Schrödinger Girl hits shelves!
The Schrodinger Girl: A novel explores the distortions that arise when the world is seen through one eye—the male perspective.
In honor of #GivingTuesday (12/3) we are giving away this KJB book bundle to two winners!
To enter: Comment below with the Cause or Non-Profit you’re donating to.
Staff Picks:
• Allison - WildAid & Greenpeace International
• Kaylie & Danie - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention & Planned Parenthood
• Michael - Doctors Without Borders/
Contest ends 12/10, Midnight EST. 1 Winner from FB & 1 Winner from IG will be chosen. Closed to international.
Bundle includes:
💚 THE SCHRÖDINGER GIRL (1/7/20) by Laurel Brett
🇨🇴 LIKE THIS AFTERNOON FOREVER (6/4/19) by Jaime Manrique
🚪CORNELIUS SKY (8/6/19) by Timothy Brandoff
Good luck & thanks for giving back!📚
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✨The annual Akashic Books BLACK FRIDAY SALE is on!✨
From now through Cyber Monday, take 50% OFF our catalog* when you order directly through our website!
Use code: BF2019 at checkout to save! 📚📚📚
*certain bundles/limited edition packages are excluded; see our website: http://www.akashicbooks.com/black-friday-2019/ for full details.
Wow! Check out the review from Publishers Weekly for Laurel Brett’s The Schrödinger Girl! 💚
Available 1/7/20
Brett’s psychedelic and nostalgic debut centers on a professor in the late 1960s and the unraveling of his life. Behavioral psychology professor Garrett Adams has become uninspired by his job; after h
The Schrodinger Girl: A novel
Have tea with The Schrodinger Girl out January 7th!
Preorder now!
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https://www.amazon.com/Schr%C3%B6dinger-Girl-Laurel-Brett-ebook/dp/B07S1GTPM8
Coming your way soon! And don’t forget to support indie all the way, lest our indispensable outside-the-box thinkers be drowned out by the mainstream zeitgeist.
Return to the Sixties by preordering your copy of The Schrodinger Girl now to have the 60s delivered to your door on January 7th!
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Lauren Stahl’s mystery, The Devil’s Song, now available in Italian!
Congratulations Lauren.
Due efferati omicidi, le cui vittime sono entrambe donne, conducono l’avvocatessa Kate Magda a rivivere un incubo. Quando aveva cinque anni, infatti, aveva scoperto che Ron Wells , il patrigno di sua cugina Tess, abusava della bambina. Colto in flagrante e preda di una cieca follia, l’uomo aveva cercato di seppellirle vive entrambe. Il caso presenta numerose coincidenze con quell’episodio che Kate aveva vissuto da bambina. Entrambe le vittime hanno i capelli rossi, esattamente come lei e sua cugina, e vengono ritrovate in tombe improvvisate. Le indagini indirizzano Kate verso piste confuse e incerte che la obbligheranno ad affrontare il suo tremendo passato per scoprire il colpevole.
Look what arrived today! 10 pristine copies of The Schrödinger Girl by Laurel Brett! 💚💕 We’ll be rotating these into our book giveaways!
Don’t forget you can pre-order your copy on IndieBound. Available 1/7/20.
Absolutely delighted for @Susan Mailer, Northampton House Press, and the reviewer, Nicole DePolo, who is a brilliant thinker and was a student many years ago at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing.
We highly recommend Hippocampus Magazine and Books as a top-notch venue for Creative Non-Fiction.
Heartiest congratulations to all.
In her first memoir, Susan Mailer shines brightly as she presents vignettes of her own formative moments alongside valuable glimpses into the life and times of her father Norman.
Congratulations to our International Day of the Girl Giveaway winner, Mark McKeever! ✨
Yeah, Laurie Loewenstein!
Talk about lucky! First, I received a copy of this incredible book as a contender for this year’s Great Group Reads List for the Women’s National Book Association. Then, after falling in love with …
“Girls with dreams become women with vision.” Today (10/11) is International Day of the Girl and we are giving away this book bundle to celebrate:
In THE YEAR OF NEEDY GIRLS, two young women battle prejudicial hostility while struggling to make their way in an intolerant world
Besides Earth, females are also overtaking the sky in FLYING JENNY, with the protagonists staring down the sexist mechanisms of the time
THE DEVIL’S SONG tells the story of a damaged woman coming to terms with her PTSD and making a success of her life
In ALL WAITING IS LONG, two sisters must choose between duty and desire and risk losing their marriages and each other
THE ANGER MERIDIAN is an adult daughter's attempt to reconcile the appearance of her prosperous and successful family with the harsh reality of a life built on a series of lies
For a chance to win:
1. Follow our Page
2. Tag a Friend in the comments below
Contest ends Midnight EST, 10/25. Good luck!
Patty Smith
Theasa Tuohy
Lauren Stahl
Barb Taylor
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Timothy Brandoff's #CorneliusSky is featured in Poets & Writers Magazine, as one of their 5 Over 50 selections.
Poets & Writers Magazine is a fantastic resource for writers, and we highly recommend it to our readers.
In our fourth annual installment of this series, five debut authors over the age of fifty—Julie Langsdorf, Valencia Robin, Timothy Brandoff, Margaret Renkl, and Peter Kaldheim—share excerpts from their first books.
Support your local independent bookstore and our wonderful Laurel Brett by pre-ordering THE SCHRÖDINGER GIRL through IndieBound ✨ Forthcoming 1/7/20!
"This absorbing novel vividly mines the physics and psychology of reality, and the reader's reward is a moving story of love and loss."--Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available Man
✨ Congratulations to our latest Kaylie Jones Books giveaway winner! ✨
More good news for our Kaylie Jones Books authors!
View more about this event at Fall for the Book 2019
THE SCHRÖDINGER GIRL (forthcoming 1/7/20) by Laurel Brett has been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews! Congrats Laurel! ✨
Happy 1st Book Birthday to Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker! What a year it's been! 🥳
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Congratulations to Margaret Yelton, the winner of our #GivingTuesday book bundle!
Congratulations to our International Day of the Girl Giveaway winner, Mark McKeever! ✨
✨ Congratulations to our latest Kaylie Jones Books giveaway winner! ✨
Congratulations to our Giveaway Winner Angela Sanford and thank you to everyone who entered! We have another book giveaway coming up this Sunday in honor of BANNED BOOKS WEEK. 📚
Wow! We had so many entries for our BOOK LOVERS GIVEAWAY. This is how we choose the winner. Thank you to our intern Charlie 🐾 for picking out a name and Congratulations to Jimette Ross! ✨ Don’t miss our next giveaway starting the week of September 8th in honor of INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY for another chance to win a fantastic bundle of KJB books!
We’re live at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Salon Reading to hear Laurie Loewenstein, Kaylie Jones - Author Page, Beverly Donofrio, Ronnie K. Stephens, and Philip Brady read!
Oh this? This is just our amazing and resilient leader Kaylie Jones - Author Page busting a move with the one and only Laurie Loewenstein. At KJB, we know how to get down! 💃💃💃
We’re at The Mysterious Bookshop to kick off Laurie Loewenstein’s latest mystery, DEATH OF A RAINMAKER!
Raise your hand if you’re counting down the days till the NY Launch: Death of a Rainmaker! Come down to The Mysterious Bookshop on October 5th to meet, chat with, and celebrate Laurie Loewenstein! Preorder DEATH OF A RAINMAKER here: http://bit.ly/DeathOfARainmaker
Author Theasa Tuohy stops by the 2018 Arts in Harmony Festival to read from her novel, FLYING JENNY.
We are thrilled to be at The Ballroom at Sauced with Kaylie Jones - Author Page and Theasa Tuohy!
Theasa Tuohy delievered an amazing reading of her novel, FLYING JENNY, available on May 1! Special thanks to the Jefferson Market Library for their help with NY Launch: Flying Jenny!
We’re excited to explore what myths this panel of memoir and fiction writers confronted in their work, and methods they've used to overcome the wall of resistance they've encountered from both family and society. Panelists: Kaylie Jones, Laurie Cannady, J Patrick Redmond, Sue William Silverman, Xu Xi
We’re here with KJB Collective author Patty Smith.
#TFW: you hear Lauren Stahl’s #TheDevilsSong is back in stock on Amazon.com. Get yours before they sell out again! Buy it here: http://bit.ly/GetTDSnow
Lauren Stahl reads from her debut novel, THE DEVIL’S SONG!
ICYMI: Stacey Lender Author was interviewed by Alyssa Julya Smith and Baker Machado on CheddarTV last week to discuss the inspiration behind Lender's debut novel, CITY MOUSE! Check out the interview here, and pick up a copy of CITY MOUSE today: http://bit.ly/CityMouseNovel
We've been talking a lot about Stacey Lender Author's debut novel, CITY MOUSE, and now we'd like to acknowledge the one thing all of our authors have in common: Kaylie Jones. Kaylie is a mentor, a cheerleader, an advocate, and most importantly, a friend. Her unrelenting faith in her writers is what makes moments like this possible. Thank you, Kaylie!
Listen to Stacey Lender Author read an excerpt from her debut novel CITY MOUSE! If you're not able to get down to Book Culture on Columbus, definitely pick up a copy ASAP!
We're live at Book Culture on Columbus with Stacey Lender Author talking about her debut novel CITY MOUSE.
A Conversation on Writing at FSW
A Conversation on Writing at FSW
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