ODDITIES
is Kaylie Jones Books' e-first/print-on-demand line that focuses on unconventional, edgy, risk-taking novels that boldly defy the traditional forms and conventions of the literary novel.
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NEW & FORTHCOMING TITLES
THE KALEIDOSCOPE SISTERS
By Ronnie K. Stephens
Forthcoming: August 21, 2018
Fifteen-year-old Quinn faces an impossible decision in this quest of sisterhood and self-sacrifice. Learn more here.
DEATH OF A RAINMAKER
By Laurie Loewenstein
Forthcoming: October 2018
A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tenderness, and sorrowful authenticity. Learn more here.
THE UNDERDOG PARADE
By Michael Mihaley
Forthcoming: December 4, 2018
During the summer of the drought, a boy must decide if his neighbor’s ark is lunacy or a lifeline. Learn more here.
NEW AUTHORS
timothy brandoff
cornelius sky
BRANDOFF's forthcoming novel, CORNELIUS SKY, follows Connie, a doorman of a Fifth Avenue apartment building in 1974 New York. When he isn't writing, he operates a bus for New York City Transit.
LAUREL BRETT
The Schrödinger Girl
In the Spring of 1967 an uptight psychology professor escapes his despondency in a bookstore where he meets a mysterious girl. Trying to discover who she is threatens his sanity, and draws him into the heart of the turbulent sixties.
jaime manrique
LIKE THIS AFTERNOON FOREVER
JAIME MANRIQUE is a Colombian-born novelist, poet, essayist, and translator who has written both in English and Spanish, and whose work has been translated into fifteen languages.
MICHAEL MIHALEY
the underdog parade
MICHAEL is an ELA/Special Education teacher and lives in Stony Brook, NY, with his wife Jacqueline, two children, Maddy and Mikey, and his Kentucky mutt, Hazy.
Lauren J. Sharkey
INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER
LAUREN J. SHARKEY's debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER, follows the story of Rowan Kelly, a Korean American adoptee struggling to find her identity and love.
ronnie k stephens
the kaleidoscope sisters
RONNIE K. STEPHENS is a full-time educator and father of five. His debut novel, THE KALEIDOSCOPE SISTERS, is forthcoming August 21, 2018 from Oddities by Kaylie Jones Books.