Akashic Books imprint: 303 books

"Light Bulb" by Nancy Pickard was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa Scottoline "Kansas City, famous for its jazz, its barbecue, and its shady history, provides the venue for this solid addition to Akashic's acclaimed...

"Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force." --Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World in Light "Durbin's debut volume sizzles...Throughout...

Set amidst the outsider worlds of present-day downtown New York, 1990s Los Angeles, and 1940s Mexico City, Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a love-blindness shared between a father and a son. Born a bouncing baby girl named Francisca Cruz, Frank Cruz is now a post-punk thirty-year-old who has...

“Derek McCormack has written a mini-masterpiece that keeps swelling with invention long after you’ve put it down.”-Guy Maddin, filmmaker class="MsoNormal">“A hilarious, strange and altogether ghoulish little freak show of a book . . . A book like The Show that Smells…demonstrates...

The editor, Chris Abani, is an award-winning novelist and poet (PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize, and a Guggenheim Award) Through...

Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push. Very strong fiction debut. Akashic's promotion will have a strong social media component Strong candidate for B&N Discover Program. Promote to a general literary audience, but also to African American and Carirbbean-themed media venues.

First printing of 20,000 The debut novel from Michael Imperioli, a well-known and respected actor, best known for his role of "Christopher" on The Sopranos. Imperioli is also very well-connected in the theater and literary worlds, having launched his own theatre company, appeared...

Journey to Spain with “stories that tap into history, politics and culture to cast a cloak of horror and humor on the city’s distinctive neighborhoods” (The Miami Herald).   For some, Barcelona is a European enchantress of nouveau architecture, fusion tapas, and fine cava. To others, it’s...

New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series into a single e-book edition: Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin, Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block, Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan, Queens Noir, edited by Robert Knightly, and Staten Island Noir, edited by Patricia Smith.

Nelson George is one of the foremost black-music critics and historian, so this book, like its prequel (The Plot Against Hip Hop) has much to draw in hip-hop and R&B enthusiasts. This book is a sequel to Nelson George's acclaimed 2011 murder mystery The Plot Against Hip Hop. This...

10,000-copy first printing (and we expect to sell many more) Akashic is in its 8th printing (over 20,000 copies) of "South of the Pumphouse" by Les Claypool, the lead singer of Primus. This book should sell even better, as it is much more what the average fan would be interested in. The...

QUESTION FOR CBSD (especially Bill Mockler): should we consider doing a 1,000-copy hardcover run? Editor Tom Franklin is one of the most prestigious authors associated with Mississippi. His work is equally appreciated in the literary and crime-fiction worlds. Mississippi Noir will be...

"Oates's introduction to Akashic's noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book . . . Poems by C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, and others--plus photos by Gerald Slota--enhance this distinguished entry." --Publishers...

-All new stories (none have been published previously). -Akashic's strong reputation with mystery stores. -First-ever anthology of Brooklyn crime fiction.