2Rise Publishing

02/22/2023

2Rise Publishing censors nothing.
( suggestions, we'll make - but, that's why you hire us )

Only censorship should be censored.

Books by Roald Dahl are being edited to remove words that could be deemed offensive. Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

01/10/2022

PILAR RAMIREZ AND THE ESCAPE FROM ZAFA DROPS IN JUST 50 DAYS!!!!

After two years of writing, revision, and imagining, my Middle-Grade debut is less than 2 months away!! I wanted to share the first blurb we received from Primo/OG/Hero !!

Pilar wouldn't be what and who she is without the Shadowshaper Cypher and so much else from Daniel's mind!

OK wow, 50 days. So much is about to change, I have no idea what's going to happen this year— but I can't wait to see!

12/31/2021

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has vetoed New York's library e-book bill. While the goal of this bill is laudable, unfortunately, copyright protection provides the author of the work with the exclusive right to their works. Because the provisions of this bill are preempted by federal copyright law,....

11/02/2021

MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib talks about his new position at the independent press, the relationship between writer and editor, and the abundant talents of the Black literary community.

09/28/2021

Two cult authors both wrote about human nature – and the horrors that technology can unleash. Dorian Lynskey explores the parallel lives of the writers whose work still resonates.

09/27/2021

“Femme fatale” is a French term meaning, literally, “deadly woman.” In my view, a femme fatale is a woman who has gone through hell. Perhaps she harbors a secret pain or experienced a traumatic chi…

09/24/2021

Virginia Woolf once mused, “I believe that all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite,” and it makes me think about the old black woman who sat in the virtual corner of my family. I s…

09/12/2021

Derek Walcott, ca. 2012. Photograph Jorge Mejía Peralta   I went to visit Derek Walcott on his home island of St. Lucia in mid-June, 1985. St. Lucia is one of the four Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean, a small mountainous island that faces the Atlantic Ocean on one side and th.....

08/17/2021

In the period spanning 2005 and 2015—ages eight to eighteen—those around me could observe sudden and seemingly patternless changes in my behavior from week to week. The changes manifested via dress…

08/02/2021

“You know it’s finished when you can’t do anything more to it, though it’s never exactly the way you want it,” James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924, told ‘The Paris Review’ in his 1984 Art of Fiction interview. Read more: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2994/the-art-of-fiction-no-78-james-baldwin