Kashallan Press

 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 ...

 November is a time of year when people start thinking ahead to the holiday season and planning for gifts. Ebooks are very practical gifts! There's no wrapping paper to wrap properly or recycle afterwards. With ebooks on phones and tablets and computers, there's always something good to read right at hand. There are ebooks on every topic and to suit every reader's taste. The downloads happen right away, so there's no waiting for delivery. There are many online vendors and even Bookshop.org which will let you buy books and ebooks online with that purchase going through a local bookstore that you choose.   Author Celu Amberstone and Kashallan Press are making plans for a small press book event with other authors and publishers. On Saturday, November 22 we'll all be promoting our ebooks on social media with the hashtag #EBookGifts. It's a good time to talk about the books you are reading, and the ones you are giving as presents. Look on social media for ...

It's great to be part of the Spooky Stories event on Kobo in October. During this month, look for Refugees And Other Stories , Celu Amberstone's collection, to be available as a 99 cent ebook. This is the book we've been promoting this fall to college and university students of literature, telling them to look at their course readings and ask the professor about Indigenous writing -- and then give them a copy of Refugees And Other Stories . Looking at the promo image above, the photo of the cave seemed very appropriate because CAVES are featured in several of these stories!

 Glad to report that titles from Kashallan Press are proving to be popular during Smashwords sale in July! Find them all at books2read.com/amberstone , click on cover images, and use the Smashwords links for the sale prices. Blessings of the Blood , and its sequel Deepening the Power , are trending among books on Religion and Spirituality, particularly in the categories Healing/prayer & spiritual and Spirituality/celtic. Three of Celu Amberstone's books are trending in the category Cultural Interest, which is an exciting fact to report. And they're not from one series, but are the first books from her series Tales of Tasimu and Tales of the Kashallans , and Celu's collection of stories Refugees And Other Stories . But it's the novel The Dream-Chosen that is our BOOK OF THE SUMMER during this July sale. The Dream-Chosen , first in the series Tales of the Kashallans , is trending not only among thousands of science fiction and fantasy titles. It's trending among...