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The Body & The Soul is Award-Winning!
Recipient of the silver medal award from Bookfest
The Body & The Soul, the first book in the Daphne Winters Investigation series, has won the Bookfest award for Supernatural Thrillers in Fiction. We are honored and excited to share in this accomplishment.
Congratulations to author, Deirdre Hutchins, for this incredible achievement.
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About SJVP
San Joaquin Valley Press is a small family owned and operated business. Our products are all produced by members of our family. We receive queries from outside about publishing books, etc. I do not accept any unsolicited submissions, and the family oriented nature of the press is why.
I (Jack Lawson) started San Joaquin Valley Press in 2018 to publish my book Star Trek Genesis. I intended also to publish other books that I had written over the years, mostly science fiction and fantasy. My daughter, Deirdre Hutchins, had been writing ghost stories, and when she found out about SJVP, asked me if I would publish something of hers. We started with Voodoo in Savannah, and her output soon eclipsed mine.
So far, all we publish are books by the two of us, but we market other things of course. Eleazar (my son) has designed games which we market for him. Gabriela (another daughter of mine) published books under another (now defunct) label. We are selling the last few remaining copies of those. And our book of poetry is by Deirdre's daughter Graciela Hutchins. She published it privately, but we are providing an outlet for her.
We haven't brought anything new out for a while. This is because of illness and family pressures. Deirdre is working on a new Paranormal Investjigators League adventure, but it won't be ready for a while. (Deirdre hasn't stopped writing, but a full-time job and a large and very active family have slowed her down.) Keep watching this space.
All the books we publish are available as e-books on Amazon Kindle. Many of them are available as paperbacks on Amazon as well, but I recommend that you order paperbacks from the website because Amazon won't let me offer free shipping. At least for the present it's cheaper to order directly from me.
Also for collectors, all the books we sell on the website (including those we didn't publish, i.e. Gabriela's romance novels and Gracie's poetry) come to you signed by the author. And for buyers in the United States, merchandise ordered from the website comes to you postage free. (For foreign buyers, we can't offer free shipping, but we will give the most generous terms we can. E-mail us at info@sanjoaquinvalleypress.com to find out what shipping costs will be to you.)
Our authors are Deirdre Hutchins and Jack Lawson.
Find Deirdre's books on the Horror and Thriller page. Deirdre has three series going. The ongoing series are the Paranormal Investigators League series and the Daphne Winters Psychic Investigation series.
The PIL series is eight books strong now, seven adventures and the origin story. They are, in order, Voodoo in Savannah, A Hanging in Tucson, Suicide on Sunset, The Legend of Providence, Darkness in Denver, Spirits in Seattle, Creepy Doll in Detroit and The Origin Story.
The Daphne series is newer and contains only four titles as of this writing, the award-winning The Body and the Soul, Finding Maddy, Dropped Dead and Vanished.
Both these series are ongoing and Deirdre promises more adventures in both.
Deirdre's only series that is not ongoing is The Dark Prophecy trilogy. The Dark Prophecy is complete and not ongoing. (If you want to find out why, read the trilogy.)
If you're new to the PIL series and want to check it out, I suggest you try Voodoo in Savannah, the first of the series and still the most popular, although if one of the others sounds more up your alley, then by all means try that one. Then, to add to your collection, or to complete it, check out the bundles. If you like the one you decided to sample, get the rest in a 3-pack bundle and a couple of 2-pack bundles. If you want to go a little more slowly, get one 2-pack bundle, or even get another single title and then opt for a 3-pack bundle. Since there are eight PIL titles now, the cheapest way to get them all is to buy Voodoo in Savannah and another title (A Hanging in Tucson, maybe) in a 2-pack bundle, and then get the rest in two 3-pack bundles. There are all sorts of possibilities. In any case, a bundle is the cheapest way to fill out your collection. The Daphne books and the Dark Prophecy books are also available in a bundle.
Here's an example of how much bundling can save you. Individually the books in The Dark Prophecy trilogy would cost you $41.97. A 3-pack bundle runs $35.99. That's a savings of $5.98, or almost $2.00 per volume. That's the same with all 3-pack bundles. (The per/volume savings with 2-pack bundles is almost $1.50, not as much as with a 3-pack bundle, but still substantial.)
No matter how you do it, as a single title or in a bundle, all the books ordered through the website will be signed by the author.
Jack has seven novels, which you can find on the Science Fiction & Fantasy page. Jack's first six novels are in a '"The Worlds of" series, but the "series" designation is just a way to connect them all to Jack Lawson. They don't form a connected series--they have nothing to do with each other except the author, but if you think you might like more than one of them, they are available in bundles too.
His seventh novel, The Nehring Proect, is out now. it's not part of the Worlds series only because of its size. It'll keep you busy through many, many evenings. (You can read any two of the Worlds books in the same time.)
Jack's nonfiction book, Star Trek Genesis, is described on its own page. No bundle possibility on these last two, unfortunately. Sorry.
Eleazar Lawson's wargame, Battles for Prydain, is in stock. it was not available for a while, but it's back now, so feel free to order. Battles has proven to be extremely popular so we're glad to be able to offer it again. You'll find it on the Games and Wargames page. Currently, Battles for Prydain is a conventional cardboard and paper product only. Eleazar's Void Demon is primarily print-and-play, but there are some conventional options. (See the All Products page. And, unfortunately, these two are the only games we offer. Again, sorry.)
We still have romance novels by Gabriela Lawson, and poetry, Falling with Grace, by Graciela C. Hutchins.
All in-stock items are available for immediate shipping. And all of our books are available signed by the author at no extra cost when ordered through the website. And, remember, too, when you order through the website, shipping in the United States is always free. (Foreign customers, write for shipping cost.) <info@sanjoaquinvalleypress.com>
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