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Welcome to Backword Books
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Backword Books is a collective of self-published authors. We’re not quite a literary press because all of us use different services to publish (Lightning Source, Lulu, iUniverse, and CreateSpace to name a few). In short, we’re a unique collective that has yet to be done on any large scale, using a medium that is losing [...]
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The American Book of the Dead by Henry Baum
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Eugene Myers is working on a novel about the end of the world. Meanwhile, he discovers his daughter doing porn online and his marriage is coming to an end. When he begins dreaming about people who turn out to be real, he begins to wonder if his novel is real as well. [...]
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Homefront by Kristen Tsetsi
A cab driving former English professor, an unpredictable alcoholic Vietnam veteran, an anti-war soldier, and a morbid mother in-law come together in this realistic, sensual, and darkly humorous semi-autobiographical tale of waiting through a war deployment.
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Read about Homefront in the Stars and Stripes and the Huffington Post.
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Threshold by Bonnie Kozek
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When a haunting past – which has left a couple of dead bodies in its wake – becomes a too painful predictor of the future, Honey McGuinness moves to Skid Row. She hires on at the local Salvation Mission – serving food to the homeless. For a while, things go pretty good: No one seems [...]
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Broken Bulbs by Eddie Wright
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Frank Fisher is nothing. He wants to be something. When a mysterious young woman named Bonnie offers assistance by injecting seeds of inspiration directly into his brain, Frank finds himself involved in a twisting mystery full of addiction, desperation and self-discovery. Broken Bulbs, a novella by Eddie Wright, tells the story of the lengths one [...]
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“Spam & Eggs: A Johnny Denovo Mystery” by Andrew Kent
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When a mysterious spam email lands in his in-box, Denovo already is a world-famous detective, known for his aura of invincibility and A-list clients. What’s hidden in the email sets in motion his newest case – of technological wizardry, Fabergé eggs, defense secrets, and rhyming couplets. Attempting to thwart a crime not-yet-committed and elude [...]
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The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks
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Edward, a young Minnesotan, is blessed with an abundance of “experience”–first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he’s tortured and groomed.
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Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller
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A recently divorced woman trudges out of one small, Maine town and into an even smaller one, hoping to escape her pain. Instead she finds herself surrounded by people who are trudging on, just like her. Waiting for things to get better. Waiting for spring.
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Do the Math by Philip Persinger
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DO THE MATH: a novel of the inevitable
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Math professor plus romance novelist equals a marriage of heart and mind. He is writing a theory of inevitability. She reunites lovers who have been separated for decades. Sadly for her, she does that once too often.
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Stay by Moriah Jovan
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At 12, Vanessa Whittaker defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric Cipriani from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She’d hoped for a “thank you” from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before she could grow up and grow curves, he left town.
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Fourteen years later, Vanessa is a celebrity chef at the [...]
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The Wendy House - a preview
July 25th, 2010 | Posted by: R.J. Keller
The updated release date for The Wendy House (the follow up to Waiting For Spring) is April 2011. I know that’s six months later than originally scheduled, but I want to make sure the book is absolutely the best it can be. I promise it will be worth the wait. In [...] READ MOREOn Comics and Sci-Fi
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In the tradition of Cheryl Anne Gardner’s What a Pod Peep Reads, here’s what I’ve been reading:
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The trajectory of underground comics is somewhat similar to that of self-publishing - something that no one took seriously, and now is given art exhibitions. From an interview with Dan Clowes:
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READ MORE“Slush Fatigue” Fatigue
June 24th, 2010 | Posted by: Henry Baum
I like this post I wrote at the Self-Publishing Review regarding Laura Miller’s post on Salon - her theory is that the onslaught of self-published books being released out into the wild will lead to “slush fatigue” and it will be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Does [...]
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