How many people can a person love? On the final day of their honeymoon in San Francisco, where they’ve just had their first threesome, John and Beth Hempel board a plane in awkward silence, headed for their new home in Bozeman, Montana. Also in Bozeman: Beth’s best friend, the stoic, carefree Rebekah Fleckman, with whom both John and Beth are in love.  As John and Beth’s marriage gets off to a rocky start haunted by past tragedies and present failures, Rebekah enters her long-delayed final year of college. And while navigating a world of Wiccan sex magick, online media, and partially anatomized laboratory animals, all three struggle to come to terms with what they are, where they’re going, and who they want to be.

The Dissection of Vertebrates

Literature & Fiction

Mihalik, Shawn

Literary

Asymmetrical Press

For nearly ten years, young Oliver has begrudgingly accepted his position as the flute player of the peaceful village of Drommar-a responsibility thrust upon him after the previous flute player, and Oliver's best friend, drowned in a tragic childhood accident. Now on the cusp of adulthood, a mysterious young woman enters Oliver's life, and he begins to question the nature of his world and the importance of his place in it.

The Flute Player

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

In the world of the casual American chain restaurant, brand-changing day signifies the start of something new—new menu items are rolled out, logos are redesigned, service procedures are updated, and old uniforms are traded for hipper, darker, flashier styles. But for employees at The Grill in Youngstown, Ohio—including twenty-something server Scott Pelletier and forty-something general manager Geoffrey McCree—brand-changing day might be when everything changes. Forever.

Brand-Changing Day: A Novel

Ever wish you could travel back in time and give advice to your 18-year-old self? Well, these 12 writers did just that. Sort of. ADVICE TO MY 18-YEAR-OLD SELF is a collection of 12 letters from a dozen different writers, ages 20 to 58, who give advice to their younger adulthood-approaching selves. Contributions from: James Gummer, Colin Wright, Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus, Robert Isaac Brown, Colin Wright, Robyn Devine, Shawn Mihalik, Chase Night, Josh Wagner, Meg Wolfe, Samuel Engelen, and Markus Almond.

Advice to My 18-Year-Old Self

Wright, Colin

Wagner, Josh

Night, Chase

Almond, Markus

Wolfe, Meg

Brown, Robert Isaac

Devine, Robyn

Engelen, Samuel

Gummer, James

When you’re born, you have no expectations. But if you were capable of having expectations, it would be reasonable to assume you would be held by your mother for more than eleven seconds; that after your cord was cut, you’d be wrapped in a blanket and then placed in the arms of your father; that you would see the woman who gave birth to you again sometime after you left that room. Melissa Lynn Gilpatrick gets none of these things. Instead, she’s born into a world full of midwestern religious values, a world of pornstars, a world of particle physicists and Broadway playwrights, a world of terrorism and technology and natural disasters. In PARTICLES, Shawn Mihalik, author of Brand-Changing Day and The Flute Player, pulls us gently from our own reality before thrusting us violently into a deep, uncomfortable, and often hilarious exploration of the loneliness of existence and the connections we make as human beings in the first decades of the 21st Century.

Particles: A Novel

We started Asymmetrical for a laundry list of reasons, but all those reasons point back to one underlying goal: Adding Value. If Asymmetrical has a single objective, that's it. We know that if we add enough value to enough people through Asymmetrical, then we'll be able to raise the tide of Independent Publishing, not just our own work, but Indie Publishing as a whole. That way everyone benefits; a rising tide lifts all boats.  Adding Value is the reason we've put together this Guide. We want to prove to you that you needn't worship at the altar of the old guard, that you needn't "submit" to anyone. You can successfully publish on your own, soup to nuts, controlling every morsel of the Process.  The present day is the most exciting time in history to be an Author. No longer are you beholden to the gatekeepers; no longer must you compromise your art. For the first time in publishing history, you are in control. We know this first hand. The Authors of this Guide aren't some hacks who just write about writing. Nope. Rather, when we weren't happy with the publishing landscape, we took matters into our own hands; we refused to wait for someone else's permission to publish our work.  And guess what: we've been successful. We've published over 30 Books (nonfiction, fiction, and memoirs), several of which have been bestsellers; we've toured internationally; and we've established audiences larger than most Traditionally Published Authors.  But that's because we're not just Authors, and neither are you.  Over the course of is Guide, we’ll show you, based on our own experience as successful Independent Authors, how to publish an Indie Book.  This book includes six chapters:   1. How to Write a Book 2. How to Edit and Proofread Your Book 3. How to Create a Book Cover, Author Bio, and Synopsis for Your Book 4. How to Format Your Book for Print, Ebook, and Audiobook 5. How to Distribute Your Book via Various Sales Channel 6. How to Successfully Promote Your Book to an Audience

How to Publish an Indie Book: An Asymmetrical Guide

Reference

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Press, Asymmetrical

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