Astral Pipeline Books

07/04/2025

HAPPY 4th of JULY!
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Cheers to 5 years of
Astral Pipeline Books✨

06/27/2025

“All around her were the sounds of prison—the buzzing and slamming of gates, the tower bullhorn warning inmates to 'Stay off the fence!' The arguments spilling from the pavilions, the pounding basketballs, the distant drone of lawnmowers, the belch and static of radio traffic coming from the guard shack, even the mailroom lady’s flirty laughter... Miranda was aware of it all, in the geographic center of it all, but none of it touched her, absorbed as she was in this final reading of her motion for post-conviction relief.” --Excerpt from "The Law of Momentum"

Still haunted by the memory of her newborn’s screams trailing down a hospital hallway after being ripped from her arms, Miranda now turns her attention to the post-conviction legal process—her only hope of getting out prior to the end of the decade. But before she can apply the law, she must lea...

06/08/2025

“The tower rose from the center of the compound like a massive concrete fist. An armed silhouette paced the catwalk. She shivered, swallowed, willed herself forward. It was all so stark, so suffocating. The strip searching, the razor wire, the gun tower. Not a tree or flower in sight. Even the rec yard grass appeared to be eking out a brittle existence. The vibrant life and color of nature seemed to stop at the prison gate. She wondered if she could ever get used to it.” —Excerpt from "The Weight of Entanglement"

Weeks after giving birth to her son, Miranda McGuire is shipped off to the nation’s largest female prison complex to begin a ten-year sentence. Still suffering from the crippling effects of postpartum depression, she must acclimate to this harsh new world—a world with its own rules, its own lang...

04/29/2025

"AI offers us no individuality, no creativity, no genius, it merely scrapes all that has ever been published and gives us the most probable output. In doing so, it pillages all human culture and flattens it into sickly imitation. We use this tool to make decisions, we use it to prepare for dates, we use it to compose letters to lovers and grieve family members. Instead of expressing, imperfectly, with difficulty, what is in our heart, we let the machine spin out the same stale words. In vacating our own creativity, we become molded into the likeness of the algorithm, and all human expression threatens to become recursive, meaningless repetition." —Nathan Beacom

11/10/2024

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE
The Miranda Rights Series

Just finished the final book in a trilogy that examines the female journey through the criminal justice system. If you reside on the far left, you may be wondering what right a 50-year-old male has to tell such a story. You may think that only incarcerated females should write about incarcerated females. If your political home is on the far right, you may be wondering what pronoun I prefer. What my preferred gender is. We live in strange times. The truth is that I’m a writer. And it is the writer’s mission to imagine himself into the lives of others. To feel what they feel, to see what they see, to love and hate and fear as they do. I admit that I’m glad this series is over. I’ve been living in the head of this fictional girl for five years now. Sweating her legal deadlines, feeling her longing, dealing with her s**t. Nice to be back to just having my own 50-year-old dude problems . . . But there is a point to this rambling little soliloquy, and it’s not just “Look at me, I wrote a book!” If anyone out there has an incarcerated friend in any state, I’d like to send them the series, free. Just shoot me their info. Wishing you Momentum. —IV

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V8K1DG3

11/05/2024

If you’ve been waiting… it’s finally here!

10/22/2024

Last day for your free eBook! Promo ends at midnight PST.

October 18-22... you can download "The Weight of Entanglement" free in eBook format on Amazon from October 18-22 (promo ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time on the 22nd).

10/18/2024

October 18-22... you can download "The Weight of Entanglement" free in eBook format on Amazon from October 18-22 (promo ends at midnight Pacific Standard Time on the 22nd).

10/05/2024

Meet Miranda McGuire. English Lit major, aspiring novelist, and snowflake activist. To say that she was raised by her bipolar father would be inaccurate. If there was a caretaker in the McGuire household after her mother bolted for the West Coast, that title would most certainly belong to Miranda...

10/01/2024

Looking for a good book to read? Meet Miranda McGuire! Free eBook download on Amazon October 1-5.

Meet Miranda McGuire. English Lit major, aspiring novelist, and snowflake activist. To say that she was raised by her bipolar father would be inaccurate. If there was a caretaker in the McGuire household after her mother bolted for the West Coast, that title would most certainly belong to Miranda...

07/04/2024

Happy July 4th everyone! Have fun and stay safe out there. Enjoy all that beautiful sunshine☀️. Today is also the official 4th anniversary of Astral Pipeline Books! One of the best decisions we ever made💫. Thanks for hanging out with Us.

04/05/2024

If Malcolm Ivey has a birthday, it’s March 21, 2005... Find out why in his new book, now available on Amazon.

"Letters to the Universe: Essays on crime, craft, and the middle way, 2014-2023" by Malcolm Ivey

https://astralpipelinebooks.com/projects/letters-to-the-universe/