Cover art, photograph by Vin Casey

Patri Collins, author of Eden's Apple.

Cover art for Beyond Grimm: A Bechstein Sampler. Art by Maylis Rath, Oldenburg Germany.

Cune Press books

Fiction by new writers-----------
Glow in the Dark
by Lisa Teasley
A startlingly edgy, seductive debut collection of short stores, travels from New York to Northern California, Mexico, Los Angeles and Paris, dropping us dead center into the lives of those whose extreme behavior has led them to the threshold of significant transition.

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The Second Coming of Curly Red
by Jody Seay
The Liar's Club meets Fried Green Tomatoes in this story about what hatred can destroy and love rebuild. 
     Seventy-year-old Texan, Jimmy Heron, shattered by the violent death of his wife, takes to the road as he tries to outrun his pain.  When he is befriended by Cory Miller and Leigh O'Brien, a lesbian couple living in Reliance, Oregon, the possibilities for a renewed life open up.

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Eden's Apple
by Patri Collins
Eden is a conservative California town that believes in the flag, apple pie, and fighting wars. What happens when the Gulf War begins and a younger generation asserts itself?

Patri Collins is an incredibly talented young writer with other novels on the way. Read Eden's Apple and "participate" in the early work of a writer who ultimately will be a literary presence. Collins is from the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently based in Seattle.

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Beyond Grimm: A Bechstein Sampler
by Lynn Kohner
Fairytales without the sugar coating--
a new translation from the German.

Kohner is a quirky, unpredictable, utterly brilliant independent scholar. The heart of this book is her "Notes" which spin intellectual webs that only the fairytales themselves can elucidate.  
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Coming Soon
Africa! Africa!
by Frederic Hunter
A collection of stories by a master storyteller. Frederic Hunter has earned his living as a Hollywood screenwriter. His credits include shows such as Murder She Wrote. Hunter's first love, however, is Africa where he served as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Now he is releasing the first volume in his Africa trilogy.

The initial volume of stories will be followed by a novel, The Uttermost Parts of the Earth. The final volume is a memoir titled A Year at the Edge of the Jungle.

Volume one of Hunter's trilogy is currently in production. To be notified when this book is published send us email: africa@cunepress.com