CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Short Story Anthology

SUBMISSIONS WANTED FOR SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY!Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2014Tayen Lane Publishing is looking for short stories for its upcoming anthology.Submission Guidelines:Tayen Lane seeks short stories across all genres. All short stories must be original, unpublished fiction, double spaced, and less than 3,000 words in length. The stories submitted should in PDF format as an attachment to [...]

‘The Weight of Snow’ Receives Honorable Mention in the 2014 San Francisco Book Festival!

Celebrating the best books of the spring, the judges of San Francisco Book Festival reward The Weight of Snow with Honorable Mention in their 2014 contest!    Praise for The Weight of Snow "The poems in The Weight of Snow are heartfelt, skillfully written, and keenly observed fragments of the natural world and our lives there. Bravo." - [...]

POETRY: Excerpt from ‘The Weight of Snow’ (Black Swift Press, 2014)

CLIMBING NORTH MOUNTAIN IN SPRING Sonata of the mockingbirds from the high limbs of the poplar, the curtains shift; petals are loosened from the tangle of bougainvillea vine, are pulled to the earth in a brilliant snow of tangerine and magenta. I go north, the noise too unsettling, climb small Sugarloaf Mountain to wander through [...]

Poet Laureate Gary Young Praises ‘The Weight of Snow’

The poems in The Weight of Snow are heartfelt, skillfully written, and keenly observed fragments of the natural world and our lives there. Bravo.  - Gary Young, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County and Author of Pleasure, Braver Deeds, and No Other Life In The Weight of Snow, author B. L. Bruce explores the many plights of the [...]

ADVENTURE INWARD: Insightful Personal Reflections on the Nature of Risk with Author and Mountain Climber Jonathan Wunrow

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, March 25th, 2014—Author, climber, and extreme adventurer Jonathan Wunrow will release his second book, Adventure Inward: A Risk Taker’s Book of Quotes, on April 1, 2014 in the wake of his 2012 success, High Points: A Climber’s Guide to Central America, with Life is Twisted Press.After the author climbed the “Seven Summits” of [...]

NEW RELEASE: ‘Adventure Inward: A Risk Taker’s Book of Quotes’ by Climber, Adventurer, and Author Jonathan Wunrow

A wonderful book. Adventure Inward does a great job of explaining many existential issues concerning life, death, and one's purpose. - Avery Griffin, Author of The Demon RolmarAn excellent compilation of inspiring, humorous, and thought-provoking quotes sure to get anyone, no matter their hobbies, pastimes, or interests, thinking deeply about their world and what it means for [...]

POETRY: B.L. Bruce’s ‘The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems’

The poems in The Weight of Snow are heartfelt, skillfully written, and keenly observed fragments of the natural world and our lives there. Bravo.- Gary Young, Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, Author, Literature ProfessorThe Weight of Snow: New & Selected PoemsB. L. BruceBlack Swift Press, 2014ISBN (eBook): 978-0-9914503-0-5ISBN (Trade Paperback): 978-0-9914503-1-2Paperback: $8.99eBook: $2.99In The [...]