Secrets now available!!
Uxann is a country girl whose home is the next best thing to paradise. There are plums, guanabanas, and sugar apples ripe for the picking. There is Seyeh, the father she loves with perfect devotion. And there is Keah, the best friend who scandalizes and thrills her with delectably wicked gossip. But Uxann is fast becoming a woman, while Keah has forsaken their old games for the kind that should only be played by grown-ups. And, in due time, Seyeh himself will betray his daughter with a finality that transforms Secrets from a Caribbean fable into a shattering novel of forbidden knowledge and its consequences.
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Crazy Loves: A Six-Pack now available!!
Vibrant, intriguing, moving, and ironic, this short story collection boldly explores the complexities of feelings that we characterize as love. It also offers another showcase for James’ talent to inhabit and depict his characters’ unexpected points of view.
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Mooch, The Meek now available!!
Original Science Fiction in the truest sense, Mooch is a provocative novel about exploitation that draws on the magical promise of DNA science when combined with the mystical practices of Yoruba-based Ifà.
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Set in the early 19th century and reminiscent of the grand storytelling of Alexandre Dumas, “Web of Freedom” recounts the adventures of prince M’nalo Fanta Bembo, who escapes from a slave ship that has transported him from his native Africa. Living alone on a remote Caribbean island and surviving on his wits and hunting skills, he is captured by native forest people who see him as a sacred creature.
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The award winning stories that make up “CITY LIVES–a Six-Pack” provide gritty examples of the travail that common folks encounter as they manage surviving in a big city, in this case The Big Apple.
"Beautiful, violent, and compelling stories—the beauty often unexpected and raw."
- From Whitney Otto, author of “How To Make an American Quilt”
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"The Sorcerer's Drum" is a thrilling coming-of-age novel set in North and West Africa at the turn of the nineteenth-century. With fancinating details of exotic practices and mores, this novel is imaginative, layered and wise.
"James's prose combines island lilt with saavy minimalism..." - The New Yorker
"A warm and gifted raconteur"
- New York Times
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Kelvin Christopher James is the critically-acclaimed author of two novels, Secrets (Villard and Vintage) and Fling with a Demon Lover (HarperCollins), as well as a short story collection, Jumping Ship (Villard). He has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Literature.
Reach out to Kelvin at: yokelvinc@kelvinchristopherjames.com





