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Grace Cavalieri’s Other Voices, Other Lives is an important and necessary collection.

– Linda Pastan, Insomia

Elizabeth Hazen’s dazzling first collection, Chaos Theories, seamlessly merges science with lyricism.

– Charlotte Pence, The Kenyon Review

Voltaire. Nietzsche. Kerouac. Peabody. Alan Squire Publishing did it right. The Peabody Reader is a top-notch production.

–– Nathan Leslie, The Pedestal Magazine

In Roughnecks, Patterson paints an unforgettable picture of characters wrestling with their own gruff but complicated souls.

– James Mathews, Last Known Position

The Last Girl by Rose Solari casts the spell of a held piano note on a dark key.

– Jim Daniels, Rowing Inland

Billy Christmas is a book destined to be battered, much thumbed, read and read again until its pages come loose. Pritchard is here to stay.

— James Clark, former Sunday Times journalist

A Secret Woman is sneaky serious in a way I particularly like. A very promising fiction debut.

– Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner

Like a good absinthe, That Paris Year surrounds the reader in a cloud of voluptuous recollection.

– Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Dead Love

Bermuda Shorts is about life — the whimsy of it, the losses that come with it. It’s a vision that deserves to be shared.

– Greg Wyshynski, ESPN.com

It is our belief at ASP that you should be able to lend a good book to a friend, who could lend it to another friend, and, should it ever be returned, you should bloody well be able to read it yet again.

–James J. Patterson, co-founder of ASP

Thanks for Alan Squire Publishing. Keep the beautiful books coming.

– Ethelbert Miller, Poet & Activist

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April 23: National Poetry Month, Featured Poet #4: Richard Peabody

April 23, 2018

For National Poetry Month, we are featuring a poet a week from our list, discussing a favorite poem from her or his ASP collection, accompanied by a special half-price sale on the featured poet’s books if ordered directly from us. This week’s poet is Richard Peabody, whose career-spanning collection, The Richard Peabody Reader, was the […]

April 16: National Poetry Month, Featured Poet #3: Grace Cavalieri

April 16, 2018

There’s a real author and an implied author behind every book. The real author of Other Voices, Other Lives is just me, in Annapolis, with my cat, sitting in p.j.s watching trash TV. The implied author is a feminist, creator of women’s stories, somewhat irreverent, sassy, sexy, restorer of characters in history, experimenter with language […]

April 9, 2018: National Poetry Month, Featured Poet #2: Liz Hazen

April 9, 2018

For National Poetry Month, we are featuring a poet a week from our list, discussing a favorite poem from her or his ASP collection, accompanied by a special half-price sale on the featured poet’s books if ordered directly from us. This week’s poet is Elizabeth Hazen, whose brilliant debut collection, Chaos Theories, is on sale […]

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A little about us...

Alan Squire Publishing is an independent literary press founded in 2010 to publish books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that are beautifully written and beautifully made, with the avid reader and book-lover in mind. We are committed to bringing to the public books of great merit that deserve a wide readership, and to forging a new model of collaboration with other independent presses here and abroad.

Our collaborators on various projects include Left Coast Writers in San Francisco, California, Chris Andrews Publications, Ltd., in Oxford, England, and the Santa Fe Writers Project, now based in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2014, ASP officially became an imprint of SFWP.

All ASP titles are distributed internationally by Independent Publishers Group (IPG), the original independent book distributor in the United States. For orders of multiple copes, visit them here: http://www.ipgbook.com/

And we love book clubs, independent bookstores, and all other means of getting our books into the right hands! If you have any problems with your orders, or want to discuss alternative or charitable discounts, please contact us directly at alansquirepublishing@gmail.com, or call us at 301-530-2896.