12 Willows Press

06/14/2026

It's live. "A Fickle Tide" is FREE on Kindle, today through Tuesday.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJFJNC34

Two crimes. One frozen island. A tide of secrets waiting to surface.
Start the Pyke Island Mystery Series for free this weekend. And if you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, Books Two and Three—"Granite and Bones" and "Black Veil, White Rose"—are now in KU and ready the moment you finish.

Download it, read it, and if it hooks you, an honest Amazon review helps more readers find their way to the island.

A Fickle Tide (A Pyke Island Mystery in Downeast Maine Book 1)

06/10/2026

Mark your calendars, mystery readers.

This Sunday through Tuesday, June 14-16, "A Fickle Tide" by Moe Claire will be FREE on Kindle.

Two crimes. One frozen island. A tide of secrets waiting to surface.

Book One of the Pyke Island Mystery Series drops you on a remote Downeast Maine island where the lobstering community keeps its secrets close and its strangers at arm's length. If you love atmospheric mysteries with a strong sense of place, this is your way in. Books Two and Three are waiting for you when you finish.

Three days only. We'll post the link when it goes live.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJFJNC34

BookMarks-Maine

06/10/2026

The June issue of "The Willow Leaf" went out today, and it starts in my garden: compost, earthworms, and this year's experiment, ground green crab from a local supplier. Invasive species turned into fertilizer. Maine figures things out.

Inside this issue: "Lady of the Waves," Sharon D. Sheltzer's debut novel, launched this week. "Ice's End" took the Gold at the IBPA Book Awards. "The Secret of the Catapus" won the 2026 Maine Literary Award for Young People's Literature. Plus summer events in Bangor, Waterville, and Blue Hill.

Not a subscriber yet? Sign up at 12willowspress.com, and the July issue comes straight to you.

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06/05/2026

"Ice's End" by Patrick Reilly just won the IBPA Book Award — Gold Winner, Fiction: Science Fiction & Fantasy.

The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards are among the most prestigious in independent publishing, and this one means a great deal to us. P. Finian Reilly wrote something original and genuinely powerful, and it's gratifying to see it recognized this way.

If you haven't read it yet, now's a good time. Enter the cold: https://12willowspress.com/ices-end/

06/03/2026

Two ships. Two timelines. One frozen end of the world.

The official trailer for "Ice's End" by P. Finian Reilly is live. Watch it here: https://12willowspress.com/ices-end/

"Ice's End is original and quietly powerful — a haunting excavation of the frozen past and the glittering, fractured future." — J.M. Ledgard, author of "Submergence"

Available now at 12willowspress.com

05/28/2026

Every mother has a rule she'll break. Hers was the phone. Now the water's rising, and he doesn't answer.

"Inland" by Kate Risse is available from 12 Willows Press—a propulsive, heartbreaking novel about a mother who crosses a flooded world to reach her son.

Order your copy today at 12willowspress.com.

05/26/2026

It doesn't growl. It listens. It already knows.

"A Moon in All Things" by Jennifer Comeau — a novel of ancient Ireland, wild magic, and a calling older than love. Set in 1820s western Ireland, where the old ways still speak to those who listen.

Available now at 12willowspress.com

05/25/2026

She was twelve years old when the wave took everything. Ten years later, she took it back. "Lady of the Waves" by Sharon D. Sheltzer — a coming of age love story set against the urgency of climate change. Publishing June 9, 2026. Pre-order now at 12willowspress.com — paperback 10% off.

05/25/2026

Heartbreaking.

A Florida panther sitting under the LAST remaining tree in a clear-cut wasteland should horrify every Floridian. This is what unchecked overdevelopment looks like.
Not “smart growth.”
Not “progress.”
Not “conservation.”
This is habitat destruction on an industrial scale, wiping out some of the last remaining land the nearly extinct Florida panther has left to survive.

Meanwhile, developers cash in.
Politicians take donations.
And Florida’s wildlife pays the price.

The Florida panther is one of the rarest animals in America. Experts have warned for years that sprawling mega developments, road expansion, and destruction of rural land are pushing them closer to extinction.

And once these ecosystems are gone… they are gone forever.

People move to Florida for the beauty, wildlife, open land, clean water, and natural environment not endless concrete, traffic, pollution, and bulldozed wilderness.

At what point do we finally say ENOUGH?
Please follow me and join the movement Alexander Cooke For Florida

https://secure.anedot.com/alex-cooke-for-congress/donate

🐾 Save Rural Florida
🐾 Protect Wildlife Corridors
🐾 Stop Reckless Sprawl
🐾 Hold Politicians Accountable

05/25/2026

She had nothing left. The horse had nowhere to go.

"The Loneliness of Horses" by Andrea Thalasinos is the story of two survivors who find each other across a fence on a cold Arizona morning — and what happens when neither one can walk away.

Available now at 12willowspress.com