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New Releases

SMOTHERED – A Whipped and Sipped Mystery

$20.99

Book cover for Day After The Waste Land by Will Averill, illustrated by Kent Smith

Day After The Waste Land by Will Averill, Illustrated by Kent Smith

Price range: $29.99 through $44.99

BATTERED – A Whipped and Sipped Mystery

$19.99

Book cover for Oodle Doodle by Mary Frances Spade, illustrated by Jerri Kemble

Oodle Doodle

Price range: $23.99 through $31.99

Coming Soon

Amity Literary Prize: Books by Winners and Finalists

Julie Ann Baker Brin’s “The Sigh and
Flutter” is the Winner of The Amity
Literary Prize 2024.

The Amity Literary Prize is an award honoring authors of unpublished non-fiction, fiction, YA, collections of short fiction, and poetry collections.
The 2025 Prize Winner is Kathleen Kaska for “Death Without Dignity”
The 2024 Prize Winner is Julie Ann Baker Brin for “The Sigh and Flutter”
The 2023 Prize Winner is Chad V Broughman for “The Fall of Bellwether”

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The Amity Literary Prize Finalists
Bruce Rolfe, Syzygetic Journey, 2025
Thaddeus Duggon, A Record of Change, 2023
Beth Gullley, Frog Joy, 2023
Debra Irisk, Life Moments, 2023
J.A. McGovern, Words Left Unspoken, 2023

The Sigh and Flutter

By day, JULIE ANN BAKER BRIN works in broadcasting: not behind a mic, but behind red tape. By night, she prefers to use the other brain hemisphere. She’s an award-winning Kansas Authors Club member. JulieBrin.org showcases her works from 105 Meadowlark Reader, Flying Ketchup’s Night Forest, WSU’s Mikrokosmos and more.

By Julie Ann Baker Brin

$19.99 – $29.99

Book cover for The Fall of Bellwether by Chad V. Broughman

The Fall of Bellwether

Chad V. Broughman’s “The Fall of Bellwether” is a multiple prize winner! Winner of The Hawthorne Prize 2024. Winner of The American Writing Award for Best Historical Fiction. Read their review.
The Hawthorne Prize is an elite writing award founded by AmericanWritingAwards.com in honor of renowned American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.

By Chad V. Broughman

$24.99 – $39.99

Mystery and Detective Series Specials

The Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series

COZY Detective Series highlightS the 1950s; laugh-out-loud humor and a cast of zany characters!
What is it like reading a Sydney Lockhart Mystery? Picture; if you will; Carl Hiaasen writing a classic film noir featuring the zany; red-haired reporter Sydney Lockhart who somehow gets herself into more tight situations than Lucille Ball did in a whole season of I Love Lucy.

$109.95

The Harry Przewalski Mystery Series

Paleontologist turned private investigator Harry Przewalski excavates the dirty underbelly of people’s lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect.

$74.77

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Anamcara Press publishes writers with powerful voices and supports original works and art. Born on the banks of the Kansas River in historic Lawrence, Kansas, Anamcara Press publishes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Our goal is to serve community and the planet, and create a bridge with words. We offer a literary prize, The Amity Award, and publish an online magazine called, The Write Bridge, where we urge readers to “mind the gap.”

Anamcara Press currently accepts unagented submissions. Please include a cover letter with your submission with a description of your book, and explain why you think your book is a good fit for Anamcara Press. For more information, please contact Maureen (Micki) Carroll.

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