Hello friends! Despite the pandemic continuing to hamper many businesses we actually had a great summer. 1) Our friend Joan Baum reviewed Howard Owen's upcoming 11th Willie Black mystery, Monument, for NPR member station WSHU! Monument will be available in hardcover and ebook in November of this year. 2) Author of Mrs. Rossi's Dream (2019 Booklist Best New Book), Khanh Ha, has won the EastOver Press 2021 Prize for Fiction for his collection All the Rivers Flow into the Sea & Other Stories. Mrs. Rossi's Dream is available on this site and wherever you buy books! 3) Per our deal with Scribd, The Mask of Sanity by Jacob M. Appel...

Hello friends. Although we are still mourning the death of our founder, we are carrying on Marty's legacy of publishing great literature and creating a community of great indie writers. Here are some big things The Permanent Press has going on this summer! 1) Unnatural Resources by Mindy Uhrlaub was named an Honorable Mention in the General Fiction category of the 2021 San Francisco Book Festival! This gripping tale of survival in the Congo is available in hardcover and ebook. 2) We've made a deal with audiobook distributor Scribd to publish audiobooks of four of our best titles: The Mask of Sanity by Jacob...

Dear friends of The Permanent Press, Last month our co-founder and co-publisher Martin Shepard passed away from a sudden illness at the age of 86.  Marty’s passion for his work permeated every endeavor he took up, from psychiatry to real estate to politics to publishing. From the very start of The Permanent Press in 1978, what made a particular book of ours successful was Marty’s intense belief in its potential and its author, and his dogged promotion of it to anyone who would listen. His deftness in forming and sustaining genuine and meaningful relationships throughout the publishing industry has been...

Here are a couple things happening at TPP this month: 1) Mrs. Rossi's Dream author Khanh Ha was named the winner of the 2020 Orison Anthology Award for his short story "The Woman-Child."  2) Unnatural Resources by Mindy Uhrlaub received a stellar review in Library Journal! Get your hardcover copy today!

Some news from The Permanent Press! 1) Catch the virtual launch for Unnatural Resources by Mindy Uhrlaub on October 30th! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mindy-uhrlaubs-book-launch-party-tickets-124160444231 2) The sixth Josie Corsino Mystery by Connie Dial is now available in hardcover! Get The Snow Raven from our website or wherever books are sold. 3) The same for Ellen Marie Francisco's debut novel, Catastrophic Expectations: Sex, Love, and the Pursuit of Marriage!