Books published by Village Books

In the Kingdom of the Alphabet, ruled by the Kindly Queen Fun-to-Read, all the letters lived happily together as one large community. Everything seemed to be perfect, until one day a mean Prince from the far away Kingdom of Can't Read arrived.

Set in 1979, The Destiny of Salmon is the story of the unforgettable summer 16-year-old Peter Kristiansen spends as a crew member on his dad's commercial fishing boat in the dangerous waters of the Alaska Panhandle. Torn between his separated parents' different ways of life, his father's obsessive chase for a huge haul of salmon, and his own search for love, Peter thinks, "Maybe I would have run away, if I had some place to go. Or maybe Dad and I were running away together." At the heart of this tension-filled novel are a son and father, trying to figure each other out before it's too late.

The Blue Bottles Writers Studio, a group of four independent writers, share their creativity in this anthology made up of five sections: Creative Memoirs; Stories Inspired by a Photograph; Short Stories; Scribblings-timed, five-seven minute stories that must include five words generated by an internet random word generator; and The Newspaper Challenge, where each writer is challenged to come up with a story to go along with a headline.