Iowa Literature News (United States)

Author, James T. Carpenter, is pleased to announce his book, Hanged for the Few. This novel touches on the topics of religious intolerance, legalistic religions and the nature of God and salvation.

Where the Bones Rest: A Summer with Black Hawk is a new novel set during the Black Hawk War. The Book tells the true stories of a young Sauk mother, a frontier doctor, and a teenage settler during that fateful summer of 1832.

Although everyone "fails at love" sometimes, few have failed as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Debut author Andrew Shaffer's GREAT PHILOSOPHERS WHO FAILED AT LOVE examines the disastrous love lives of the most influential Western thinkers.

Readers who haven’t previously been fans of historical fiction will be after reading this book. Those who enjoy this genre are in for a treat as Hammon Falls delivers....

V.K. Sansone has released seven books since December and most were written for children

Jerry Browning is one of the most talented wordsmiths of our time. His newly released collection of poetry, Emotionography.net, may be the finest volume of American poetry since Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass".

Writers of fiction and non-fiction based in or about alternative spiritualities now have a new opportunity to publish their work. Jupiter Gardens Press, a division of Jupiter Gardens, is now open for submissions.

While the fan letters Laura Ingalls Wilder received have been carefully saved, many of her responses are unknown, tucked away safely by their lucky recipients. One loyal fan is launching a campaign to make sure they aren't lost forever.