12/18/2025
Dear authors and friends of Calumet Editions, LLC
Here’s a picture of some CE staff and authors at the 2025 Twin Cities Book Festival on November 8th.
Calumet Editions had a fine, productive 2025, launching 28 titles, the last out of the chute being “Greetings from Bullhead Country”—brilliant Minnesota poems by Scott Vetch, preceded by:
A Place to Be: Vignettes From a Life — JK Cheema
Albert Park — Susan Koefod
Be the Mentor Who Mattered — Colleen Stanley
Black Dirt, Bright Stars — Will Weaver
Damn Near Perfect Cocktails — Doug Berdie
Das Grab in der Ferne — Gary Heyn (German translation by Johannes Strohschank)
Drawing Influence — Robin Schwartzman
Echoes of a Global Life — Kathy Gamble
Escapes and Other Stories — Susan Koefod
James Madison’s Religion — Stephen Vicchio
John Ross — Gary Lindberg
Limbo: The History of an Idea or Place — Stephen Vicchio
Little Rex: A Night at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery — Gary Porter
Mein Beirut — Cathy Sultan (German translation by Johannes Strohschank)
The Mount — Gary Lindberg
My Father Against the N***s — Steven E. Mayer
The New Buffalo — Gary Lindberg
Phoenixbirds — Jane Dickerson
Pivotal Moments — Jill Konrath
Return of the Manitous — Robert Saxton
Ring of Lions — Cass Dalglish
Seeing God in Many Mirrors — Gary Lindberg
Street Brotherhood — A.D. Metcalfe
Thunderbirds — Michael Barnes
Tilt-a-Whirl — Scott Vetsch
The Unspoken — Gary Lindberg
Where You Come From Is Gone — Christopher Johnston
Consider reading and reviewing these titles on Goodreads, or Amazon.com if you’re not yet a CE author.
Our titles were well received during awards season—wins and nominations across several categories—and we showed up in the real world, too: book fairs, conversations and hand-to-hand bookselling, including RAINTAXI’s wonderfully successful Twin Cities Book Festival at its smart new location in the Saint Paul Union Depot. We were proud to sponsor the event, share tables with Afton Press, and watch our attending authors sell a lot of books and have a great time doing so. We also gave away 500 free books—because sometimes the best marketing is a good book in someone’s hands.
We canceled our holiday party due to a snowstorm, but we will try to host a gathering in the new year where authors—new & established—and vendors can rub shoulders in person.
Our publishing model—launched in 2014, the first of its kind at the time—continues to go from strength to strength in an ever-changing (and often frustrating) publishing climate.
2026:
We’ll attend the London Book Fair, March 10-12 to present selected titles to foreign publishers, and launch the first novel in a high-octane trilogy by teenage Lithuanian/British author Adrijus Kveda.
Our books will also be represented throughout the year at rights shows in New York, Beijing, Frankfurt, and Guadalajara.
And, as promised, we’re undertaking a complete rebuild of our website—state-of-the-art, with the explicit goal of giving our authors more visibility and hopefully sell more books.
We already have over 20 new titles slated for 2026, so if you have a new project in the works, please contact us soon. We’re expanding our publishing program, and we’d like to consider your next book for inclusion. Soft deadline: January 31.
Our offices will be closed on December 24-26, and January 1-2.
On behalf of Gary, Josh, Blake, Georgia, Emily, Rick and Susan, I wish you all the most pleasant of season’s greetings, and here’s hoping that everyone involved with the Calumet Editions enterprise prospers in the new year!
Warmly,
Ian Graham Leask
Publisher
6800 France Ave S, Suite 370
Edina MN 55435
(c) 612-481-8296
[email protected]
