BOOK REVIEWERS WANTED! FREE eBook edition of author and outdoorsman Todd Bruce's Nine Passes: Fly Fishing through the Past and Present of the High Sierra (published February 2015 by Black Swift Press) in exchange for an honest review. Nine Passes, Todd Bruce’s deeply personal account of his 300-mile backpacking expedition through the Sierra Nevada, is informed by [...]
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NEW RELEASE: “Moonchild” by Author Ewa Zwonarz
Zwonarz's coming-of-age tale functions on multiple levels: vision quest, family saga, spiritual memoir, paranormal mystery. Rich and sensuous descriptions of nature and the inner life, give the storyline a velvety lushness, which is deftly blended with page-turning suspense. If Nancy Drew and Rumi would have had a love-child, and raised her in the land of Oz, she might have looked [...]
Featured in this month’s ‘Local Artist Spotlight’!
It's not every day you're flipping through the local newspaper and come across a feature on yourself! I was happy to find that a poem of mine was published in this month's issue of Los Gatos This Week. I was less happy to have my face plastered onto the page as well, but, hey. They've published [...]
BOOK PROMO: B. K. Jones’ ‘Indian Paintbrush’
The past never stays the past. . . . Keith Hale returns to his small West Texas hometown when his best friend from school, Andy, is murdered. Keith and his wife, Karen, decide to stay a few days after Andy's funeral to support Andy's widow, Laney. The three of them soon realize that Andy's murder [...]
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 [...]
CAPTURING CALIFORNIA’S COAST: SANTA CRUZ POET LAUNCHES DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION
“Alive with style and filled with beautiful, nostalgic imagery. Bruce’s free verse poetry is rich with detail, and her evocative language will stay with you long after reading this collection. Deeply introspective and profoundly insightful, each poem displays great thematic range and literary sensibility.” - J. Rodriguez, Film Producer and Artist “Haunting and provocative while [...]
POETRY: ‘The Weight of Snow’ Available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and OmniLit
‘The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems’ by B. L. Bruce
NEW RELEASE: ‘The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems’ (Black Swift Press, 2014) Available on Amazon
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems B. L. Bruce Black Swift Press, 2014 ISBN (eBook): 978-0-9914503-0-5 ISBN (Trade Paperback): 978-0-9914503-1-2 Paperback: $8.99 eBook: $2.99 In The Weight of Snow, author B. L. Bruce explores the many plights of the human species, from the mysteries of the heart and the inescapability [...]