A Daughter’s Memoir of Failed Rescues

Haunting, beautiful, this is a story of love and loss told by Kimball Converse Pier, Ph.D., a depth psychologist and psychotherapist, whose childhood was shadowed and brightened by a mother’s wild life and maybe more even by that mother’s wild love of life. Read more about this new memoir, just...

Focused, Guided, Professional Workshops for Writers by Lucky Bat Books

Develop Your Professional Writing Career Learn today’s tools. Use them. Write like a professional. Be a professional and build a Professional Writing Career. Learn from the Pros at Lucky Bat Books. Want to dive deep into exploration...

2 Books. 1 Subject. 2 Authors. 2 Fierce Stories. And Victories.

“He got the job. He got the girl. He got the diagnosis. Son of a…” — The Half Book by Dan Duffy tells his story, full of unexpected humor, love and victory in his battle with testicular cancer.  “You are weak; you are weary, and your spirit is broken. Your opponent is stronger than...

Dan Duffy

The Half Book. He got the job. He got the girl. He got the diagnosis. Son of a… Dan Duffy was twenty-nine when he heard the worst three words imaginable: “you have cancer.” Testicular. Stage three. His life became equal parts fear and anger, with a dash of stupidity for flavor. From systematically...

Short-listed for IBPA Award: Kim Headlee’s King Arthur’s Sister in Washington’s Court

King Arthur’s Sister in Washington’s Court by Kim Iverson Headlee. Written as though by the old master himself, King Arthur’s Sister in Washington’s Court by Mark Twain as channeled by Kim Iverson Headlee offers laughs, love, and a candid look at American society, popular culture, politics,...

Award-Winning Author and Journalist Michael J. Totten Joins Lucky Bat Books

Welcome, Michael J. Totten! The team at Lucky Bat Books is thrilled to announce that editor, book marketer, journalist and writer Michael Totten is onboard as managing editor. He’s working with fiction and nonfiction writers, putting his prodigious talents and skills to use in today’s publishing...

For the Children’s Sake by N.M. Cedeño Now Available!

We at Lucky Bat Books are excited to announce that we have published For the Children’s Sake, an explosive near-future mystery, the second novel from the author of All in Her Head, mystery writer N.M. Cedeño! The children are quarantined. Their touch is deadly. Their advocate is dead, and they want...

See You at the NW Book Festival? We Hope So!

Love books? Love writing? Love meeting authors? Curious about how Lucky Bat Books chooses its authors and publishes books? Let’s talk. — Drop by the 7th Annual NW Book Festival on Saturday, July 25, from 11 to 5 pm. Meet Lucky Bat Books managing editors Dayle Dermatis and Sarah Hoggatt. Ask...

Ben Garrido

Author of The Blackguard The first of Ben Garrido’s three novels about broken identity, The Blackguard follows young engineer Marcus Hunyadi as he tries to separate Nevada’s ancient and isolated town of Enclave from its immense natural resources, protect a child of tainted blood, and attain the power...

See Us At The Portland Book Fest

Are you in or near Portland? Love books? Drop by the 6th Annual NW Book Festival on Saturday, July 26, from 11 to 5 pm. Lucky Bat Books will be there, along with two of our fiction writers, J.S. Anderson, author of Book of Hours: The Beguilement of Brother Alphaios, and Richard Sessions, author of...