Books In Progress

The 2017 poetry collection, 'Sunshine Land,' has largely been assembled in terms of choosing pieces and getting them into proper order. This includes much of the formatting for the print edition. EPUB and PDF versions in time; there is no great hurry as the release date will be in April. This book contains poems from different times in my career. Some are songs. Several are about Florida, hence the title.

I am also churning away on a novel, almost certainly to be titled 'The Complete Breath.' This would be 'contemporary realism' and a sequel to 'Asanas.' Not that it needed one; 'Asanas' holds up perfectly well as a stand-alone work. Still fairly early in the process and just short of 20,000 words at the moment. I'll try to keep an update going here.

And I am going to use this blog more for that sort of thing. I fully intend to finally divest myself entirely of any involvement with Meta. I've already left Instagram and Threads, and Face Book is going to follow. Soon. I've never felt it a particular good place to promote myself and prefer to concentrate on Mastodon, Tumblr, Bluesky, Word Press, and even here (Not that Google is perfect and doesn't live up to its promise not to be 'evil' anymore.  But Meta truly is evil.).

I may show you some covers for the new books in a while but that will do for now! 

Storm Stone is Released

Today, June 28, the new Qala fantasy novella is released. Available in print at our Arachis Press store (https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brooke/storm-stone/paperback/product-je2eykk.html) or both print and free ebook editions may be found at arachispress.com

Storm Stone Release

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.'

Night Rains Release

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.

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.