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In the spirit: Pachebel Canon in D Performed on Original Instruments

In the spirit: Pachebel Canon in D Original Instruments

Cover Reveal: Dependent by Brenda Corey Dunne

Cover Reveal: Dependent by Brenda Corey Dunne




About Dependent:
When 45-year-old Ellen Michaels loses her husband to a tragic military accident, she is left in a world of gray. For 25 years her life has been dictated by the ubiquitous They—the military establishment that has included her like chattel with John’s worldly goods—his Dependents, Furniture, and Effects. They—who have stolen her hopes, her dreams and her innocence, and now in mere months will take away the roof over her head. Ellen is...

Furmity: a part of a traditional Celtic Meal, or England's Oldest National Dish...

Today, as I contemplate tomorrow's delicious Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow (that I don't have to cook) I recalled this description of furmity, a prominent element in Thomas Hardy's novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge. Basically, it's a coarse porridge....boil whatever is in your cupboard and toss in some dried fruit if you have any. Then, if you're like Mr. Henchard, wink at the toothless old lady selling it and she'll lace it with ale....

Furmity





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Cover Reveal: New Sight by Jo Schneider

Jolly Fish Press Acquires Jo Schneider's NEW SIGHTPROVO, UT—Jolly Fish Press (JFP) has successfully acquired Jo Ann Schneider's debut novel, New Sight, an action-packed YA urban fantasy with a broad appeal to adult audiences.
After succumbing to the sudden and terrifying urge to rip people's eyes out of their sockets, sixteen-year-old Lysandra Blake finds herself tied down in a psych ward, convinced she's crazy. The doctors have no answers, and Lys is ready to give up when the m...

Cover Reveal: The Joey Parker Movement: Against All Odds by Joey Parker

June 12, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kirk Cunningham, Head Publicist: (801) 380-4503 | kirk@jollyfishpress.com
Jolly Fish Press to Acquire First Non-Fiction Title, Officially Opening Its Doors to Non-Fiction SubmissionsPROVO, UT—Jolly Fish Press (JFP) is officially opening its doors to non-fiction submissions. The excitement surrounding this announcement can only be heightened by JFP's first non-fiction acquisition—The Joey Parker Movement: Against All Odds, Joey Parker's motiv...

Cover Reveal: Fires of Man by Dan Levinson

In a world where a gifted few can manipulate reality with their minds, two great nations—Calchis and Orion—employ these psionic powers in a covert war for global superiority. In the heart of Calchis, a young psion named Aaron is kidnapped and forcibly conscripted into the Calchan army. To the north, in the capital, a dastardly plan is hatched to decimate Orion, to be carried out by the ruthless operative known only as “Agent.” Meanwhile, across the vast desert that separates the two warring s...

Cover Reveal: Confessions of the Very First Zombie Slayer (That I know of) by F.J.R. Titchenell

 About the story:  Confessions of the Very First Zombie Slayer (That I Know of)
The world is Cassie Fremont’s playground. Her face is on the cover of every newspaper, she has no homework, no curfew, and no credit limit, and she spends her days traveling the country with her friends, including a boy who would flirt with death just to turn her head. Life is just about perfect—except that those newspaper headlines are about her bludgeoning her crush to death with a paintball gun, she has...

Cover Reveal: Confessions of the Very First Zombie Slayer (That I know of) by F.J.R. Twitchnell

 About the story:  Confessions of the Very First Zombie Slayer (That I Know of)
The world is Cassie Fremont’s playground. Her face is on the cover of every newspaper, she has no homework, no curfew, and no credit limit, and she spends her days traveling the country with her friends, including a boy who would flirt with death just to turn her head. Life is just about perfect—except that those newspaper headlines are about her bludgeoning her crush to death with a paintball gun, she has...

Citadels of Fire: Cover Reveal

 Another stunning cover by Jolly Fish Press...



In a world where power is paid for in blood, no one ever aspires to more than what they were born to, and danger hides in plain sight, Inga, a maid in the imperial Russian palace, must find the courage to break the oppressive chains she’s been bound with since birth.Inga’s life in sixteenth century Russia is bleak until a man she crossed paths with as a child returns to the Kremlin. Taras is convinced his mother’s death when he was a boy was...