Night Rains

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:

The book will be available from Arachis Press (arachispress.com) in print or as free ebooks.

Creative Commons

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. 

Night Rains Coming

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.

Bells

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 

The Moon and the Sea Release

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.

 

Revised Editions

New editions of my fantasy novels 'Stones in the Sea' and 'The City and the Sword' are now available for purchase. The changes were mostly proofreading related, tidying things up. In print or as free ebooks from Arachis Press (arachispress.com).

2025

Although I can not absolutely promise it (I could drop over tomorrow, after all), I expect to release two books in the first half of 2025. One will be a poetry collection, to be titled The Moon and the Sea. The past couple years I attempted to release a poetry book on my birthday (April 21) but I may be more flexible about the release date this year. There will be cover reveals and so on over the coming weeks (or months). I am at the formatting stage at time moment; must have them in the best order and so on.

The other book will be the third Jack Mack science fiction novel, written under the Oliver Davis Pike pen name. This book will be titled 'Dim Distant Stars' and continue the  adventures of Jack McFee. More on that as we go, as well.

Beyond these two? I'm sure to write something. Maybe get busy recording too. We'll let you know.