Winner of a National Indie Excellence Award for Regional Fiction: WestWinner of a 2025 IPPY Independent Publisher Book Award: West-Pacific Best Regional FictionFinalist in the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for General FictionOne forest. One family. No easy side to choose.Don Karlsson has lived on his family’s Oregon homestead for most of his life. The timber on his land is ...

Winner of a National Indie Excellence Award for Regional Fiction: WestWinner of a 2025 IPPY Independent Publisher Book Award: West-Pacific Best Regional FictionFinalist in the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for General FictionOne forest. One family. No easy side to choose.Don Karlsson has lived on his family's Oregon homestead for most of his life. The timber on his land is ...

The band is back!Instead of playing in rundown bars, Uncle Joe's Band now sell out concert halls.Prior to a tour in Japan, a letter arrives claiming one of the band members, Ian, is the father of an unnamed young woman, who coincidentally is the member of another band, Stygian Teal. In the hopes of identifying Ian's daughter, Uncle Joe's Band attends a Stygian Teal concert. Much to their surprise, they find not one, but four Stygian Teal band members, any of which could be ...

A down-and-out band, a girl searching for her father, and Jerry's guitar.The members of Uncle Joe's Band have spent years playing any venue that will pay for their unintelligible metal band performances while their rock and roll lifestyle has left them with bad livers, multiple divorces, and living in a squalid house in Vallejo, California.Then one morning everything changes when an assertive twelve-year-old girl named Allison appears on their front porch and announces that...

In this mesmerizing compilation, fourteen authors weave clever tales of imagination and discovery, loss and redemption. Though each story is vastly different than the last, they all have one thing in common: a necklace.There's the Saint Christopher pendant a brilliant city engineer wears that will test his faith, a cryptic ring on a chain that holds a mother's dark secret, a sapphire necklace that bears magical power, a rose crystal medallion a young man gives away on New Year's Ev...