Blue Denim Press Inc: 18 books

Sometimes funny, tearful, serious or all three, these stories give the reader little chance to recover, as they change from contemporary to the historic, love to war, personal to public, offering a pot-pourri of the author’s work. Culled from the treasury of Brian Mullally’s collection...

Shane Joseph revisits his favourite haunt: the in-between world of the immigrant, where the past is unresolved and the present is incomplete. His characters are damaged, trying to make sense out of their lives, often having to journey back in time and place to find answers. Bandu bilks tourists...

After a silence of twenty years, Jimmy receives an unexpected letter from his old friend and nemesis, George, inviting him on a trek along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Arriving in Lima, Jimmy finds the ailing George as mercurial as ever. They begin their odyssey, catching up on the intervening...

Hill Spirits Anthology introduces a sampling of the diverse range of writers and writing styles found in the Spirit of the Hills Writers Group. In Hill Spirits, you’ll find amusing slice-of-life stories, scary tales to share around the campfire and, in a quiet moment, poems for reflection.

The death of a young woman, Sydney Brewin, in the small town of Newton, Ontario occurs during a federal by-election. And this death has eerie similarities to a suspected murder, decades before, of a darkly charismatic, artistically gifted young woman named Annelie Danziger. Chief among the...

Tómas Harvey is an engineering student living on a small, impoverished island in Ecuador. He is conscripted into military service in the border war with Peru where he is convinced he will die a senseless death. His father, a renowned British travel writer, is accused of embezzling government...

Past, Present and Future: through short stories, poetry and illustration Hill Spirits II reminds us of our mortality, immortality and every moment in between. Hill Spirits II is the second anthology to showcase the diverse range of writers and writing styles found in the Spirit of the Hills...

Martin James is a true Canadian. Born overseas, he is beset by trials and tribulations while growing up. Against the odds, he escapes from his violence-wracked homeland only to find everything he holds dear in North America jeopardized as he tries to keep his personal and professional life intact....

We All Become Stories speaks to us because it reveals “aging” as not something that happens just to older people, but as a lifelong evolution – a journey of self-discovery open to everyone.  Through their stories, conversations with them, and her own poetry, Ann Elizabeth Carson illuminates...

Hill Spirits III is the third anthology to showcase the Spirit of the Hills Writers’ Group. Celebrating Canada’s 150th, it’s rooted in Northumberland County. Stories, poetry, memoir and non-fiction provide great reading for everyone. Contributors  Kim Aubrey Hope Bergeron Christopher...

What Are You REALLY Hungry For? Could you be both overfed and undernourished? Do you look healthy on the outside but feel bankrupt on the inside? For a moment, forget about the scale…Instead, how are the quality of your sleep, your mood and your energy levels? And, what about your digestion…?...

Murder, attempted murder, sexual abuse, kidnapping, missing persons, vengeance, revenge, suicide, gambling, explosions, vehicular mishaps, indignity to a dead body, even love occur in these thirteen stories. Like all life’s happenings, they affect the characters–women, men and children–in their...

The Alphabet Stones is about three families, one of them supernatural, and how they intertwine—with each other and with the land, a moody eastern Ontario of communes, music festivals and cedar swamps; stony farms and muddy rivers. This is a story about enchantment—how the land enchants us, how...

Greed, desire, ambition, loss, illness, death, and the driving quest to find purpose in a meaningless world.—this literary collection tempts your palate with a multitude of themes and subjects, each more daring than the last. The characters in these 13 stories are wading through no man's land, wanting...