Welcome to Brass Window Books

Brass Window Books is a small Maine publishing house dedicated to publishing unique new books that push the boundaries of mind, matter, and myth. We plan to open for business later this year, but here is a taste of what we will soon be offering:

Prayers for Nothing: "When myth incarnates in the waking world," the result can be a revelation. Explore the philosophy of Mythorealism, a new vision for the modern world- as sharp and flexible as tempered steel; as insightful as poetry. Poems and essays by CS Thompson.

The Red Dance: by Lani Thompson, the first novel in the epic fantasy saga Of Faegild and Other Dreams.

"Every so often a fantasy comes along that's so much at the cutting edge, that's so unbelievably individual, that's so much what fantasy literature ought to be all about -- that's so just plain out-and-out good, in other words -- that it's virtually impossible to review. This short novel -- probably no more than 25-30,000 words -- is a prime example. Somewhere within the confines of a mythology and pantheon that seem to bear no clear relation to any existing ones, various characters from lofty to lowly enact ventures whose purpose is not immediately clear to the reader rooted in our reality... All of these events are described in the most vibrant manner possible. Paragraph after paragraph stuns the inner senses. The temptation to read the text slowly out loud, even if only to an empty room, is almost irresistible. The vividness of the coloration of Thompson's prose really must be experienced to be believed. The Red Dance is a small but superbly shaped jewel, but it's not one you can appreciate with just a glance: you have to study it, touch it, feel it, experience it." (Review by John Grant, Commissioning Editor of Paper Tiger, the world's leading publisher of fantasy/sf art books, Editor of the e-zine The Paper Snarl, US Reviews Editor of Infinity Plus and Consultant Editor to BeWrite. Full review available here.

Mandarin Empire: by C.S. Thompson. A series of dialogues set in the Mandarin Empire, a fictional interstellar civilization not dissimilar to classical China. The Mandarin Empire and its Tene Dynasty are intended as a venue in which interesting conversations can occur- a place where people care about art and poetry, magic and religion, and discuss such topics with pleasure.

A Little Place of Forgetting: by C.S. Thompson. A Little Place of Forgetting is the darkest epic fantasy ever written. It begins in the dungeon beneath a castle. The main character is a prisoner who has been left in the dungeon to starve. He has no idea who he is or why he is in the dungeon. He is surrounded by the skeletons of former prisoners, and he becomes convinced that they are talking to him. Through a series of vignettes, these skeletons tell him their stories and help him solve the riddle of his own identity and their mutual fate. Or are all these conversations only the hallucinations brought on by his slow starvation? Who is he? Why was he thrown in the dungeon? And who is the strange character who appears in every one of the skeletons' stories?