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Women Write the Rockies Presents “The Waves: A Feminist Retrospective”

January 16th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Blog, Fiction, Poetry, Press, Rebecca Snow | Leave A Comment »

Women Write the Rockies Presents “The Waves: A Feminist Retrospective”

Two Conundrum Press authors will take part in a poetry and fiction reading—“The Waves: A Feminist Retrospective”—presented by Women Write the Rockies today at Wolverine Farm Letterpress and Publick House. The reading will take place today (Jan. 16) from 7 to 9 p.m., at 316 Willow Street, Fort Collins. Rebecca Snow, author of Glassmusic, and […]

Reading Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories…Seventeen Years Later

December 11th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Blog, Fiction | Leave A Comment »

Reading Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories…Seventeen Years Later

Annie Proulx is perhaps most famous for her 1997 short story, Brokeback Mountain, made into the Oscar-winning 2005 film of the same name. What many people don’t remember is that it is embedded in a three-volume set of short stories, The Wyoming Stories about nineteenth and twentieth century cowboys and frontiersmen. The Stories are grim, […]

The Western Lonesome Society

July 3rd, 2015  |  by  |  published in Fiction, New Releases, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »

The Western Lonesome Society

Now available everywhere fine books are sold! IndieBound Tattered Cover Bookstore Powells City of Books Amazon Read a sample chapter here. Evoking the Western drama of Cormac McCarthy, the family sensibility of Kent Haruf, and the wacky, magical humor of Christopher Moore, McBrearty displays his storytelling prowess and wit in his debut novel. In this hilarious, […]

The Antichrist of Kokomo County

July 2nd, 2015  |  by  |  published in David Skinner, Fiction, New Releases | Leave A Comment »

The Antichrist of Kokomo County

A Novel by David Skinner Available October 2015 (actual street date November 9, 2015) Click here to preorder. WHAT IF YOUR SON WERE THE ANTICHRIST? Frankie Horvath is not happy. He’s almost forty. He’s fat. His wife is dead. He designs forks for a living. And his son? Well, he might just be the Antichrist—which is […]

Peter Anderson awarded the Bennett Fellowship

June 22nd, 2015  |  by  |  published in Blog, Fiction, Peter Anderson, Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »

Peter Anderson awarded the Bennett Fellowship

     On June 1st, author Peter Anderson released First Church of the Higher Elevations with Conundrum Press and before the upcoming academic year will be driving cross country to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire with his wife, his two daughters, his fifteen-year-old dog, and, “only because [his] lovely wife insists on it,” two cats.     […]

Doug Worgul: Writing the Conundrum

June 5th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Blog, Doug Worgul, Fiction | Leave A Comment »

Doug Worgul: Writing the Conundrum

Doug Worgul - novelist, journalist, and barbeque connoisseur - tells us all about his inspirations and his love of beautiful writing and shares his excitement at giving his book “an honest shot at finding an audience.” His premier novel, Thin Blue Smoke, was released June 1st and can be purchased at the Conundrum Press bookstore […]

Thin Blue Smoke: A Novel About Music, Food, and Love

June 2nd, 2015  |  by  |  published in Doug Worgul, Fiction, New Releases | Leave A Comment »

Thin Blue Smoke: A Novel About Music, Food, and Love

Click here to purchase. by Doug Worgul LaVerne Williams is a ruined ex-big league ballplayer and ex-felon with an attitude problem and a barbecue joint to run. Ferguson Glen is an Episcopal priest and fading literary star with a drinking problem and a past he’s running from. A.B. Clayton and Sammy Merzeti are two lost […]

A Night at the Y

September 24th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Authors, Book Categories, Fiction, Robert Garner McBrearty | Leave A Comment »

A Night at the Y

Click here to purchase. Wild, funny, touching, and full of crackling dialogue, Robert Garner McBrearty’s stories turn the intensity of life up a notch, creating a heightened reality that is both hilarious and heartbreakingly real. His characters struggle to hold onto work, love, and sanity, and wrestle with the choice of whether to be responsible […]

Glassmusic

September 15th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Fiction, Rebecca Snow | Leave A Comment »

Glassmusic

Click here to purchase. In the serene fjordlands of Norway in the early twentieth century, Ingrid has led a blissful childhood until, through no choice of her own, she becomes holder of her family’s secrets. Her father, a blind preacher who ministers through sacred music played on glassware, increasingly relies on Ingrid to see for […]

Let the Birds Drink in Peace

September 23rd, 2013  |  by  |  published in Fiction, Robert Garner McBrearty | 3 Comments »

Let the Birds Drink in Peace

Click here to purchase. Each of Robert Garner McBrearty’s stories has its own sensibility, but what his characters share is a desire to know how best to live when confronted by unforeseeable chance. Here readers will meet budding writers, ailing professors, reluctant gunslingers, and kidnapped kids; they grapple with conflicts of conscience and the mysteries […]

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