Inkwater Press: 51 books

Where the Clouds Meet the Water follows the historical journey of the German Ecuadorian widower Ernst Contag and his four young children from their home in the South American Andes to Nazi Germany in 1942. Blacklisted as an enemy alien Ernst Contag and his children are forcibly repatriated to the country...

Five years back from Vietnam, Jim Nielsen travels to The Bahamas with two companions to renew his forgotten passion for fishing. But the passion Jim had not forgotten, a wealthy girl he once had an affair with, arrives on the island shortly after. Still in love with the now-married Inez, Jim realizes that the marlin tournament could be his only chance to win her back.

Surviving New Zealand in characteristic Eastern European style, while helplessly falling in love with the ‘Land of the Thousand Rainbows’, the ‘Most Beautiful Rainy Hell’, the ‘Land of Relentless Biscuit Eaters’ - Aotearoa, the ‘Last Eden on Earth’.I never perceived our life in New Zealand...

Richard Katzev’s latest collection of essays contrasts the differences between a passive and active way of life. On the passive end of the continuum he discusses the life of an observer, a reader who befriends characters in the books he reads, and those perfect moments in a person’s life that arrive...

No one will light the way for you; you will have to find it yourself. Stop trying to save me; I dont need your help! Sarah to her mother age fifteen.Late one night Lara Brown is roused from sleep uncertain if she is dreaming or if her mother senses have set off an alarm. Reality slaps her awake and she...

In 1988 Riley Travis is a young graduate student at Cornell University. A letter from her past takes her back to Brooklyn in 1976, the year of the American Bicentennial, when she was an imaginative, stage-struck twelve-year-old going on thirteen. A time when there were no computers, cell phones or malls...

This book is about two different sensations of oneness that occasionally engulf us. One is often correlated with Oriental culture, the other with the Western worldview. "Oriental oneness" is a mystical perception of wholeness, which entices us to merge with an infinite void while annulling the self....

Three crazy, fun-loving Hispanic women (Tres Señoritas Locas) who had big dreams of making a better life for themselves. The first, with her irrepressible sense of humor, struggled mightily with some very wise and very foolish choices along the way. The second, with her beauty and charm, showed great...

A woman's quest takes her across the globe on an inspirational adventure that most only dare to dream about. In answering her call, Jan believes the Universe provides signs and guidance in following her path. She embarks on a spiritual and environmental journey, studying endangered animals: jaguars in...

K.B. Dixon's work has been described as original, clever, pithy, lyrical, insightful, gonzo, and laugh-out-loud funny. His new novel, A Painter's Life, is a characteristically mischievous oddity. A mix of biographical scraps, journal entries, review excerpts, and interviews, it is an intimate and introspective...

“Haircut today. Another half-hour with Beth, the stylist, telling me tales of her sullen daughter, Phoebe, and her incontinent Chihuahua, Norman (a depressed and depressing little rescue dog who sleeps curled up in a mouse-colored bed near the shampoo station). Another half-hour of struggling to make...

As a rule I have a tendency to be in favor of moderation except when it comes to temperature. Sixty degrees, like it is today, is roughly speaking the climatic equivalent of the middle way. Its blandlike modesty. Its probably my least favorite temperature. Its neither stimulating nor stupefying. Its...

Maybe between the two of us we can trick me into being honest with you. A collage of notes written in a sixth-floor men's room, The Sum of His Syndromes is the story of a slightly disturbed young drudge who has found himself at a personal and professional crossroads. There is a job he doesn't want, a...

"The clichés of beauty are irresistible. It is usually (although I have to concede not always) some sort of affectation to pretend otherwise." A quirky catalogue of imaginary photographs K. B. Dixon's new novel, The Photo Album, is an idiosyncratic mix of character study and meditation-a glimpse into...