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MARY CELESTE PRESS publishes authors from all around the world. Books have an ISBN and can be bought through Amazon.com The CEO of Mary Celeste Press is Matthew Ward, who has run Skive Magazine for 5 years and who has been publishing books and magazines for 8 years.

 
   

March 2010

The Magical Publishing Pen by M. Stefan Strozier
The printed book is $14.95, the Kindle version is $4.00.

The collected stories of M. Stefan Strozier vary widely in theme and yet the protagonist is always a male of a certain age. As arranged here, the stories represent a chronological arc of a man's life from boyhood to adulthood. Stylistically, the stories show an arc too, as a story about a young man was written when the author was a young man, and a story about an older man was written when the author was older, for example. Magical Realism, framed stories, humor, satire, action, different points-of-view, and crisp dialog pervade the stories. This collection is a portrait of an artist as a young to mid-aged man.


Latest Reviews:

New @ 6 March 2010 - From – Joseph Hart, writer...
This book of stories is short and it reads fast. I think it would be better read in as close to one sitting as possible in order to keep the feel of the whole experience. The feel of the stories ties them together.
     The author of these stories wrote a book of poems called Schizophrenia Poems- this gives an indication of the nature some of the stories, though not all. And it's best exemplified I thought in the first story, 'The Farm'.
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New @ 6 March 2010 - From – Louis Phillips, writer...
Tired of the anemic, navel-gazing, midlife crisis stories that dominate so many literary journals these days? Well, then you should read some of the crazy-laced, fevered, and volatile stories that make up M. Stefan Strozier's first collection – The Magical Publishing Pen.
     The stories have strong currents of feeling through them and some contain a bitterness that is hard to chew upon. But these stories will be difficult to forget...
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