Accendo Books, LLC

Accendo Books, LLC Accendo Books is a press located in Hammond, Louisiana. Accendo is Latin and means to inspire or kindle. Our goal is simple: Fine Books. Inspiring Ideas.

Founded in 2014, Accendo Books is a small press located in Hammond, Louisiana. Taken from the Latin, Accendo means to inspire, ignite or kindle. Both fiction and non-fiction will be published in print, electronic, and audio formats. Accendo is a micro-press with a focus on publishing the best books available in print, one book at a time, one author at a time. Dayne Sherman, author and professor, i

s the founding publisher, editor, and web lackey for Accendo Books, L.L.C. He founded the press to be a true Indie. He’s hardly solo. He has the help of dozens of friends and loved ones. He’s thinking of getting a Basset Hound to help guard the office.

06/10/2025

My adoption story. Couple of minor errors--example: that I am an English professor (would never take the job). I also emphatically read a disclaimer that I DO NOT speak for SELU.

My novel Zion is free Friday-Sunday. My gift to you. Please share. It's a Kindle ebook but you can read it on any comput...
02/14/2025

My novel Zion is free Friday-Sunday. My gift to you. Please share. It's a Kindle ebook but you can read it on any computer, tablet, or smart phone.

From Dayne Sherman, the critically-acclaimed author of Welcome to the Fallen Paradise, comes a gothic treatment of the American South: a hard-charging depiction of religion, family, friendship, deception, and evil. Zion is a mystery set in the rural South, the story of a war fought over the killi...

In celebration of Banned Books Week and the 20th anniversary of his 1st novel's publication, Dayne giving away Welcome t...
09/26/2024

In celebration of Banned Books Week and the 20th anniversary of his 1st novel's publication, Dayne giving away Welcome to the Fallen Paradise ebooks from Sept. 26-30. Totally free. If you would like a code for a free audio book download for either of his novels, let him know. Please share and thanks!

10th Anniversary Edition of Award-Winning Welcome to the Fallen Paradise: A Novel By Dayne Sherman Includes Reader’s Guide for Book Groups and Author Interview Booklist Magazine's "Hard-Boiled Gazetteer to Country Noir" - Louisiana Pick, 2012 Baxter Parish, Louisiana, is a bloody place where fami....

Happy Labor Day! The brutal story of my first job when I was 15 years old in Livingston Parish is free for two days. I h...
09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day! The brutal story of my first job when I was 15 years old in Livingston Parish is free for two days. I hope you enjoy it. "Fat Boy" was published in the Arkansas Review. Thanks for reading and sharing.

If David Sedaris and John Grisham collaborated on the comic memoir of a kid’s first job, and Quentin Tarantino rewrote it as a noir masterwork, then “Fat Boy” would be that memoir. This short memoir retells the surreal insanity of Dayne Sherman’s life at fifteen years of age, showing the jag...

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Hammond, LA

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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(985) 351-8811

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