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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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Edward needs a place in the universe, but he wants an understanding of women. He stumbles into romance in high school, [...] -
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.
Foreword Reviews:…engages readers with a tone of sarcastic amusement that invites them [...]
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SELF-PUBLISHING SYMPOSIUM
February 2nd, 2010 | Posted by: Bonnie Kozek
I was asked by The New Podler Review of Books to participate in a symposium on self-publishing. Below are my answers to their questions on this hot topic issue in book publishing. You can read more about the symposium at: http://thenewpodlerreviews.blogspot.com/
NP: How does self-publishing differ from traditional publishing?
A pome by a guy who consistently flunked poetry
February 1st, 2010 | Posted by: Uncategorized
Of the many things that I was bad at in English classes, my lowest point was poetry. To this day, I still do not know why some stuff is poetry and some other stuff isn’t.
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January 18th, 2010 | Posted by: Philip Persinger
A very smart computer programmer tries to write the formula for love, in my first book, Do the Math: a novel of the inevitable. He’s working on an ancient piece of IBM iron in the basement of a freezing college campus building. Yet despite the many yards of [...]
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