At this writing, we are one week out from the release of 'Storm Stone,' my new fantasy novella. Official release date is June 28 2026 and links to both the print and free ebook editions may be found at Arachis Press (arachispress.com). This is a tale of Qala, the eventual Pirate Queen, when she is a young and rising pirate. That would be somewhat before she appears in 'The Eyes of the Wind' but perhaps a decade after 'The Sword and the City.'
Today we release Stephen Brooke's latest poetry collection, Night Rains. Here's a direct link to the print edition at the retail shop:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brooke/night-rains/paperback/product-95wp5rj.html
Or visit Arachis Press (arachispress.com) for both the print and the free ebook editions.
The new collection of poetry from Stephen Brooke, NIGHT RAINS, will be officially released on April 21, 2026. This is both the writer's birthday and appropriate to 'National Poetry Month.' We have attempted to release collections on this date the past couple years. Here's the official blurb:
To linger in forbidden gardens,
dream beneath the black rose tree,
to play the tunes for fairy dances
through all night’s eternity,
I seek those distant ebon towers,
stark beside a shadowed sea
where misted perfumes of the darkness
rise in writhing ecstasy.
Visit lands both real and imagined — though who is to say which is which? — in Stephen Brooke’s collection of poems, NIGHT RAINS.
And here is the cover:
I have decided to move most of my material to one Creative Commons license or another. This does not actually change much, in that I was already giving the ebooks away. It should make their copyright status clearer. I'll probably do something similar with my music, if I get back to recording or publishing it.
All the sites and blogs to which I am connected already have CC notices on them. I'll get to the books as I can, but the two I should be releasing in the next couple months will contain Creative Commons license notices. Those are, incidentally, a poetry collection, Night Winds, and a new hardcover edition of Donzalo's Destiny.
We have chosen the poems (seventy-nine of them) and are working on the layout and formatting of the next Stephen Brooke poetry collection, to be titled NIGHT RAINS. As in years past, we have an April 21 release date (SB's birthday) set. More information when we have some.
I've added a short story, 'Bells and Whistles,' to my archive. This is a little piece featuring Ted 'Shaper' Carrol, protagonist of the Cully Beach crime-and-surfing novels. Introspective with little action, but a little back-story for anyone interested.
Read it at https://storiesofstephenbrooke.blogspot.com/2025/06/bells-and-whistles.html
My new poetry collection, THE MOON AND THE SEA, will be officially released tomorrow, April 21 2025 (which also happens to be my birthday). Available from Arachis Press (arachispress.com) as print or free ebooks.
