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Stories
We started out as a publisher in 2010, creating comics and books with misappropriated office supplies. We’ve grown a little since then and have stories in bookstores, libraries, and comic shops around the world. Our goal is to grow the wider storytelling community in OKC.
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Bookshop
Our bookshop opened in 2016, focusing on highly curated fiction, nonfiction, comics, and poetry. We specialize in singular voices telling unexpected stories. Our Book Concierges are on hand and eager to match you with the story you never knew you’ve always wanted.
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Community
With over a decade in the industry as creators, publisher, and booksellers; we’ve picked up a few tricks and love sharing our knowledge with the next generation of (lowercase) literati. We endeavor to foster a sense of community with book clubs, workshops, and other creative-minded happenings that will help our city’s culture progress while supporting our creative class.
Our Story, In Brief
Literati Press launched as a publishing company in 2010, growing out into a traditional bookstore in 2016. We continue mentoring writers, illustrators, poets, and other storytellers while also finding ways to help elevate the state’s literary and comics community. Check out our in-house titles below.
There Once Was A Mouse
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This exciting new story from Literati Press is a lighthearted action/adventure thrill ride. Along the way Mouse meets new friends, faces new foes and must unravel a mystery to make it out alive. The story takes place, not in some fictional realm but, in our very own midwest. If you are native to this region it's very likely you have caught a glimpse of some of the characters featured in this book or perhaps just missed them hiding out of sight.
Beyond The Quantum
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Beyond the Quantum: An Existential Crisis in 5 Acts is 30 mind-expanding illustrations wrapped in a narrative that stares into the abyss and calls its bluff.
A genre-bending cult classic in the making, this collaboration brought together poet Angie LaPaglia and illustrator Dorshak Blok to examine a life not of our choosing.
Bloody Honey
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Herein lies the story of two friends, Ivan A. Alexander and Jingle Heimer S.V.S.
The bind-up of Dorshak Blok's stunning graphic novellas, debuting his dark, dense, and lushly illustrated storybooks for adults to the world.
The Black-Jack Demon
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The debut series by stunning new comics talent Nick Hermes, The Black-Jack Demon is a genre-busting Western, the tale of a boy bent on revenge crossing the West from the plains to the Rockies in pursuit of the stranger that murdered his father and destroyed the family mine.
We Promised Utopia
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We Promised Utopia seeks to answer that question in a thought-provoking, sci-fi epic that tackles the current climate crisis. Energy engineer Adrian Morales and geologist Robert Holman, co-creators of We Promised Utopia, are fascinated by the possibility of humans transforming the global economy to save civilization from climate change. During long car rides, they talked about technology, finance, and carbon capture; the seed was planted for We Promised Utopia. Under the exacting pen of writer Charles J. Martin, that seed grew into a sci-fi epic centered around charismatic idealist Isabel Bari and her development of the ECC (Equivalent Carbon Credit) to tie every element of the global economy to a carbon-based currency.
Aliengaged
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As an alien attack rampages the city, Garrett accepts that his time has finally come. It's the end of life as he knows it... as a single man, that is. Blinded by love, Garrett is blissfully unaware of his apocalyptic surroundings as he strolls through the mania to pop the question to his girlfriend, Claire. Meanwhile, Garrett's best friend, Morris, races through the city to save them both.
Rez Detectives
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This summer, Tasembo just wants to chill. But that's not an option when it's a scorching day on the Reservation and the Ice Cream Man is a no-show. In an attempt to impress his crush by solving the mystery, Tasembo joins forces with his neighbor, Nuseka, and his dog, Billy Jack, to take on their first case as the Rez Dog Detectives. With twists around every corner, this case won't crack itself, but when you combine Nuseka's brains, Billy Jack's loyalty, and Tasembo's . . . persistence , justice will be served. Cold, that is.
Silence
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The rock 'n' roll/mythology epic continues as past and present traumas of the crew onboard the Heart of Gold are revealed: Johanna discovers a tragic secret about Cherry, Meg's addiction is exposed, and Dinah finds a treasured record from her childhood. All the while, a supernatural ship pursues the Heart of Gold, pushing it deeper into Hades' Hexagon, where the crew encounters a lone stranger floating among wreckage.
Haunted, Beloved
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’Til death do us part . . . ? Following a fatal accident, a newly incorporeal lover makes an earnest attempt to reconnect with their widow. But will their paranormal meddling be for better or for worse?