“…there’s some good in this world //. And it’s worth fighting for.” -- Sam Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings “ …like amnesiacs in a ward on fire, we must…
Everyone talks about "the sophomore slump" but Candlemark & Gleam contributors apparently didn't receive this particular memo. Two sophomore Candlemark works received starred Publishers Weekly reviews in 2016: Drakon…
Those who’ve read A. M. Tuomala’s Drakon outline or synopsis have undoubtedly sussed out that, in addition to its remarkable novelistic attributes, it would also make a rousing movie: dragons…
[Click on the image twice to see it in high resolution] The first title published by Candlemark & Gleam was the remarkable sui generis fantasy Erekos by A. M.…
Big news, everyone! The IBPA has announced the finalists for the Ben Franklin Awards...and Erekos and Candlemark & Gleam are among them! We're finalists for Best First Book (Fiction) -…
Candlemark & Gleam books have been getting some great reviews in some pretty prestigious journals lately! First up, we have (re)Visions: Alice! In its December 2011 edition, Midwest Book Review…
As part of our commitment to going "back to the future of publishing," and based on the Mastermind's obsession with bookbinding, Candlemark & Gleam has been offering handbound editions through…
Congratulations to the immensely talented A.M. Tuomala, whose debut novel Erekos just earned a starred review from Publisher's Weekly! Debut author Tuomala poetically crafts a complex tale of war and…
We have a winner! The gods of random chance have rolled the dice, and the winner of our Erekos ARC giveaway is Brianna Smith! We'll be emailing you shortly to…
I just sent out a massive stack of ARCs for the print edition of Erekos by A.M. Tuomala at lunch today. The final book is going to be GORGEOUS, lemme…
