New Chapbooks Available

After seeking an artistic way to share my writing with more people, I’ve designed two handmade chapbooks that I’m excited to share with you all. They are now available to buy in my Etsy shop. Each book has a cardstock cover and is printed in small batches. Until the end of October, you can get 25% off when you order both chapbooks. Just use code OPENINGSALE at checkout.

Illuminations: Fantasy Stories by Valerie Lute

Enter the mirror world: whales grow feet and walk into Target, monks without heads perform bizarre rituals, and lovers are trapped in a prison of their own making. In each strange tale, we learn a little bit about our own world.

24 pages, contains two short stories and two prose poems: “A Natural History of Headless Society,” “Singing of Migration,” “Disjoined by Neptune’s Might,” and “Illuminations.”

Read a preview on Liquid Imagination.

Sprawl: Tales of Suburbia by Valerie Lute

Choose a spiral off the expressway, any one will do, into the land where neighborhoods bear names of the topography they replaced…Enter the Sprawl. In these four stories, we meet young people seeking connection and meaning within impersonal landscapes rampant with social inequality and alienation.

24 pages, contains four short stories: “Sprawl,” “Being Here,” “The Storm” and “Tough Guy.”

Read a preview on Literary Orphans.

Take advantage of the launch sale! Until the end of October, get 25% off when you order both books. To claim the discount, use code OPENINGSALE at checkout.

Browse the full collection and get your copies today at ValerieLutePress.

I hope that each of these little books can bring some beauty into your life. Thank you for supporting my writing and small press. Please help spread the word by sharing with fellow book lovers!