Kashallan Press

 What fun! There's some cheerful discussion of Celu's series Tales of the Kashallans , now that all ten books have been released. Here is a quote from Jess Mahler on Bluesky: "I've read the first book in Tales of the Kashallans series, and it was ... wow! Mind blown. Never read anything like it before. Rest of the series is on my TBR list." With delight for Jess's enthusiasm, Kashallan Press set the first 6 titles in this series at 99cents each for an ebook for the next ten days, so Jess and friends of Jess would have plenty to read this summer.   

 During the Read An Ebook Week sale on Smashwords.com in March, the most popular series of books by Celu Amberstone is her series Tales of the Kashallans . It's a thrill to see readers getting the final two books in the series! Some readers just won't start a series until the final volume is released, and now there it is -- book #10, The Kashallan Legacy . Find the whole series on your favourite online vendors at books2read.com/amberstone !

  Delighted to say that Celu Amberstone's collection Refugees And Other Stories is trending at #69 among all Fiction on Smashwords during their Read An Ebook Week sale.  #69 out of hundreds of thousands of fiction titles! Find it now at books2read.com/refugees  

 Wow! At Kashallan Press, the most popular book of 2025 is Blessings of the Blood . It's no surprise, as this book is author Celu Amberstone's most popular book, most borrowed-and-talked-about book, and the one most-likely-to-have-somebody-photocopy-a-chapter. The enduring popularity of the original edition (which is still trading among used book dealers) is why Kashallan Press knew there was a need for our new edition. Ask for it at your public library: Blessings of the Blood is a book you want people to see on the shelves and find parts of it that speak to their own experiences.

This December, Kashallan Press is participating in Sales on Kobo, Apple, OverDrive, and Smashwords. These sales are excellent opportunities to get new reads on a platform that you prefer, or to fill your tablet or e-reader with affordable and absorbing reads! If price is a barrier, remind your public library that titles from Kashallan Press are discounted on OverDrive where libraries acquire titles for their collections, and then go look at the End-of-Year Sale on Smashwords.com . (Hint: all Kashallan Press titles are deeply discounted on Smashwords in December!) 

  Today we're promoting small press books with the hashtag #EBook Gifts. This is the time of year when people are thinking about presents for the holiday season. Books are always a good suggestion for gifts, and ebooks are even better. Want to find affordable gifts? Ebooks can often be much more affordable than paperbacks or hardcover books. Or maybe you're looking for presents that don't take up a lot of space. Hardcover books are hard to carry when travelling for the holidays, and collecting an entire series of paperback novels can take up a lot of room on a bookshelf! In that case, ebooks can be carried on your phone or tablet or laptop computer, or saved in your subscription to your favourite online vendor. If you're a fan of books but have mostly read what's available at news stands or at the front shelves of a bookstore, try looking for books from a small press. You might be amazed at the work of authors who are new-to-you; the cover art for small press books ...