Just Accepted for Publication: Forthcoming Books for 2022

TiLu Press, LLC is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of HEARTLAND: POEMS FROM THE HEART, a collection of poems by Lura Newland. In the works for some time, our resident poet Tim Kavi, has often told us that there were other poets in his family. (We believed him, even before we saw this evidence!) Kavi states that his mother, his grandmother, great grandfather, and great-great-grandfather all wrote poetry as a pastime and means of creative expression. In particular, he has noted on his blog that his grandmother was a huge inspiration to the poet when he was just a wee lad. Tim Kavi has selected 35 poems to be part of this collection, which we think is very readable. Lura Newland, (born in 1900), wrote poetry from the time she was a little girl on a Missouri homestead, along the trail in Nebraska (Chimney Rock), and finally, after settling in the Pacific Northwest in 1942. During the war years in particular, she wrote moving poems about loss, and later, she wrote poems about home, hearth, the simple life of gardening and farming, and of her deep love for family. We are proud to publish this collection by Tim Kavi's grandmother, along with front matter by her grandson, and other family members paying homage to this wonderful woman who passed away in 1986.  Scheduled publication date: February 2022.

Lura Newland c. 1945

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Coming in April 2023 !

TiLu Press, LLC is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of HOW TO F**K THINGS UP, an erratic and irreverent satire of life's entanglements and "needless dramas" by Brother X. The book discusses various annoyng and difficult situations from the world of social relations, relationships, and dealings marked by failure. This is followed by vignettes about how to do the opposite through remedies, reparations, or, how to avoid the situations to begin with! The book is actually positive when it points out that it really takes a lot of work to actually "mess" things up beyond any sense of repair. The book is a humorous and good-hearted work that will make you laugh while giving you advice for self-improvement, and while such skills would negate the title of the book, it encourages those who think they have failed, to get up, shake the dust off, and keep on trying. Brother X is a world traveler who tries to look at life with a sense of humor, self-acceptance, and laughter. (We can't wait to see his forthcoming novel: THE BURNING BUSH, which we made him promise we've got first dibs at!)  Scheduled publication date: April 2023. (Rescheduled publication date at the author's request).

~~ND