07/01/2025
The universal desire to be heard inspires us to bring stories, poetry, opinions, adventures, experiences and most importantly, imaginations to light.
The power to influence, entertain, move or otherwise inspire is a fascinating experience.
This is what we do.
As a quiet global indie publisher, we offer only the crème de la crème of portal escapes.
Our curated literary works include everything from heirloom recipes, award-winning children's authors, sci-fi, fantasy, young adult, detective gumshoe novellas, suspense thrillers, high seas adventures, and exquisite autobiographies, which truly add value to the literary world, and your home library.
This is our passion—our labor of love.
Mainstream publishing paradigms have shifted. Gatekeepers no longer hold the keys to the kingdom.
We enlivened the process and are blessed with the rarest of discoveries.
We're in the business of . No matter your genre, if we recommend a book, you best believe expanding your reading enjoyment is not only our passion, it's our duty.
Our authors do the heavy lifting. All we do is put a bow on it. We're not into the "polishing" business. We encourage raw, honest, unique and jaw-dropping stories that will profounfly touch you.
Whether we crack your funny bone or destroy your fragile sense humanity, we endeavor to bring you work that truly matters.
All of our vaulted works are available to be optioned for theatrical releases.
You are the final arbitrator.
In the coming year, we will present a truly magnificent and refreshing lost manuscript; heirloom recipes; compiled limericks; ideas for an enlightened, better world—a better self; award-winning and nominated children’s books & novellas on par with Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain, J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, Jeff Kinney, Dav Pilkey, etc; romance novels; dictated war stories, YA, and so on.
Pick your poison, carefully.
For those "worms" who ferociously consume the written word as a life blood, as sustenance for your soul, treat yourself to Kodel Empire's publishing a la carte buffet, {aka} The Kodel Group, LLC (TKG).
First up, (JULY 2025) in the crème de la crème taste of literature is:
SAILOR EYES
(The Lost Manuscript)
by Alexander Hackett
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This is a beautifully written, refreshing novel written in the bygone era of Hemingway.
The backstory of this novel is amazing! Close your eyes and imagine for a moment, this author's voice, long before the internet, cable television, smart phones, AI, or social media influencers.
Sailor Eyes is a pure literary treasure.
Written by Alexander Hackett, circa 1953 as a gentle, affectionate, fictional account of life on the Cape outside Boston, Massachusetts, USA in the 1850s.
The original manuscript was typed on an actual typewriter, a manual typewriter, if you can imagine, and first published in its original form including strikeouts, margin notes, etc., under the title, Sailor Eyes (The Lost Manuscript), published by the Kodel Group, LLC.
This is that 'original' manuscript (reformatted) into a 6 x 9" paperback.
Not one word was changed. Not one punctuation mark, added. Not one sentence reworked.
The Publisher wanted the work to stand on its own merits without modern-day slush pile editors, copy editors, and especially content editors, monkeying around. This is a pristine masterpiece.
SUMMARY
Sailor Eyes follows the lives of an aristocrat ship builder, his debutante daughter, rugged and brave ship captains, widows, and a young, well-mannered gentleman, who has sailor eyes.
Courting story lines are weaved into this charming tale of land, sea, saltly breezes, and wishful, longing hearts.
BACKSTORY
The unpublished manuscript was passed down for generations and eventually forgotten in the seaman's trunk, stored in an attic for decades, aging with cobwebs and coastal breezes, until it arrived without ceremony, at the passing of the late author's wife.
The grandson, William Turrell, wished to honor his grandfather's work, who had passed in 1971, by asking a small indie publisher in Oregon, Steve William Laible, The Kodel Group, LLC, to publish the manuscript as was originally intended.
Much to the delight of purists, both the original double-spaced manuscript (8.5 x 11") complete with strikeouts and margin notes, etc., and this reformatted 6 x 9" paperback novel, have been published, exactly as the late author indeed, intended.
Unfortunately, the original MS had to be scanned, making it near impractical as an e-Book. The massive file size (102+MB) is rather beyond download capacity, but available. An audiobook may be forthcoming ...
Both, Collectible First Editions.
Treat yourself, or someone special.
BUY BOTH - Enjoy Both
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