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As a peer-reviewed better-business-accredited publishing house—founded in Ames, Iowa, in 2005—we serve creative writers and their readers with superbly designed books in all available formats (ebook, paperback, hardcover, casewrap, and audio). Our books are available locally, worldwide online, and in brick-and-mortar stores as well as directly through us.
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Recently Published (or Forthcoming) at Culicidae Press
Announcing the Young Adult Hero Series by Kris Abel-Helwig
All three books in the Hero series are available worldwide now…
Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb’s novel Traveling Light, a story of three women friends from California joining RAGBRAI in 1990. Addie, a hard-driving saleswoman, has not been back to her home state since a painful exit thirty years ago. Mag shares Addie’s Iowa heritage, but has none of her self-confidence. She’s haunted by a recurring dream that leaves her fearing for her sanity. Claire, a native Californian, is a college professor with an analytical view of the world, a passion for houses, and a penchant for flighty men.
Ten thousand strong, RAGBRAI is a traveling international city. Riding the blue highways and camping in small towns along the route, the friends confront rough terrain, inclement weather, their own physical limitations, and major life issues. In the process, they learn from one another, from the past, and from the land.
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For us publishing means to make public, to share with the world what you, as author, have created over many months, moons, and sometimes, years. Unlike most publishers, we think of the relationship with you as a partnership in which both of us are equal collaborators who want to share ideas and stories widely, while benefitting equally.
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Authors Laverne Merritt-Gordon and Beau Grosscup, who wrote Tell Them What You Want, give a lecture about what it means to grow up black in a mostly white Ohio town.
Fern Kupfer, author of Leaving Long Island and Other Departures, reads from her book during an author event at Iowa State University.
Rachel Longstaff, author of In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back, gives an interview about her book.
View the animated book trailer created by graphic artist Tyler Gonigam for Eric Walker Williams’ YA novel The Summer of Weird Harold.
