Red Giant Books - Independent Publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry

Terry White’s newest work collects stories published within the past decade in various online and print journals. The stories range from personal reflections of growing up in Ashtabula, Ohio through fictionalized characters at various points of absurdity or crisis in their lives to pieces of flash fiction designed to capture a defining moment in a character’s life.  He gives us a range of finely wrought characters in situations both horrifying and enlightening.  His courage to tackle the broader themes of the human condition is palpable.  Praise for White’s other work includes this, by Richard H. A. Blum, The Mexican Assassin & Cornelius, Bishop of Antioch “In Haftmann’s Rules, it is more than a murdering novel . . . [It is] Dostoevsky on murderers’ cell block.  Most die, but that is God’s solution, and he is incognito.  The loneliness is so poignant, pervasive that the thump of bodies hitting the floor is its secondary sound.”        

Nelson Munroe carries a shipment he should have never agreed to take.  Swinging between paranoia and desperation he convinces himself that completing the delivery circuit will provide redemption and the possibility of a new start for his stalled life.  How could he know what awaits him once he hits his destination?   A pack of dogs acting as guides to his deconstruction, a man burrowed in a hole who gives him a chance of escape, a destitute and luckless rock duo, a captain of an ore barge who might give him his last, best chance for a purposeful life, a faded beauty, a queen of the dispossessed, who gives him shelter, and his lost connection who takes a dim and murderous view of his ineptitude. Cactus Jack has stumbled back into town, looking to put down roots, to find a sense of permanence and the healing of old wounds, after decades of following his enormous appetites and passions.  He buys an abandoned house in the rotted core of the city and soon a family of runaways, outcasts and his one enduring love form around his grandiose and cockeyed vision.  Nothing will stand in the way of Jack’s last great act, not…

Ray  finds himself in a house full of cats and memories of his life with his ex-wife Cecilia.   With the help of the only friend still speaking to him, Frog, he crafts a unlikely plan for redemption and the heart of the only woman he has ever loved.  Spiked with verbal exchanges covering the gamut of movies, music, art and literature, the novel follows Ray and Frog’s adventures as Ray accepts his past mistakes, propelled forward by the slimmest of hopes for a second chance.

Hello. This is the future. See our spaceships. See our moving sidewalks and silent cars. See our tallest, shiniest building and the bright blue sky that teeters upon its point. Thus begins Grant Bailie’s fourth book, TomorrowLand, a collection of interwoven stories and drawings that offer a vision of the future that is, by turns, dystopian, nostalgic, whimsical, surreal, and morose. With a cast of characters that include mad scientists, disenchanted time travelers, and robots falling from space, Bailie creates a dream like world that is at once familiar and unlike anything you have seen before.