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Fallen Bros Press is a family-owned and operated press which was conceived as an outlet for the work of those creative writers descended from Dr. William A. Meis, Sr., a.k.a. Doc Doggerel, but currently publishes the creative spirits in all families. Dr. Meis spent his life as a dentist, but in his private time, he wrote fascinating, off-the wall, entertaining, political, social and philosophical limericks—humorous, ethereal commentary on the world and people he observed in his everyday life. He continued to write until his death on June 13th, 2010, at 93. Although he was often published in regional newspapers under the rubric “Meis’s Pieces,” he enjoyed the process of writing with little concern about whether he became known or not. He simply loved to write.
“It doesn’t hurt to toot your own horn
’cause treading the boards on the stage of life
means you’ll be encountering occasional strife
so calling upon ego when feeling flat
Well, you really need not be a Freud of that.”
-Dr. William A. Meis
Recent Publications
Deja Vu by Mary Hardcastle (New Adult Fiction)
Cory is living out her 20’s in Chicago haunted by the past. Her anxious mind leads her into a dangerous encounter that sends her back through time to a period she is clueless about—post Revolution and pre-Civil War America. Her determination to return to the 21st Century lands her on a flatboat traveling down the Mississippi River with a rugged young man she barely knows. She hopes to find ancestors in New Orleans and doesn’t realize she is heading for disaster. Her contemporary views clash with 19th Century ambitions and she experiences first hand the violent and faulty foundation her country is laying. When she discovers that love can erase time and heal tragedy, she is faced with an impossible choice—to stay in a turbulent era when she knows the outcome or return to an America in chaos. ISBN-13: 978-0997672862 Fallen Bros Press, 260 pages $12.99
This title is now under contract with NineStar Press. Coming 2021
The four Burd siblings head to Mexico to heal and regroup after the death of their mother. Midlife crises are revealed. At the age of forty-seven, M wonders if she is too old to transition to the man she has been hiding inside her. Augie has a perfect gay family with a loving husband and an adorable bi-racial son. And yet, something is missing. The charismatic Lio has squandered his marriage and relationship with his daughter in favor of a hedonistic lifestyle. The youngest sibling, AJ, is married to a man emboldened by the election of a fascist bully as president. It takes a kidnapping to shake them out of their self-absorption, sending them on new journeys in search of that illusive thing we call happiness.
The Triple by Mary Harcastle (New Adult Fiction)
Run away and join the circus of the 1930’s and get lost in the story of a young woman who searches for her soul and for the one man who truly knows her heart. Sepia, a young trapeze artist, performs amazing feats in the air, but is like a frightened bird on the ground. When she and her abusive father join a new show, she meets Anastasia, the Queen of Circus, and her son, Cole, a handsome but reckless gigolo. As Cole triggers Sepia’s desire for love, the triple back somersault on the flying trapeze becomes her path to stardom and independence. But a terrible accident and the discovery of a dark past thrust her from the only life she has ever known into the gangster underworld of Chicago. Only instinct and strength can save her as she chooses people, both good and evil, who can aid her road to redemption. ISBN-13: 978-0692594131 Fallen Bros Press 346 pages $12.55
The Innocents by William A. Meis, Jr. (Mystery/Religion)
This first book in the Peter Paderewski S. J. Mystery Series, tells the story of what happens when Paderewski discovers an abandoned, apparently dead, baby on his doorstep. When it turns out that the baby is, in fact, miraculously alive, Paderewski attempts to do the right thing and find the baby’s parents, but his investigation takes him down a twisted, winding trail of murder, terror and betrayal haunted by Satanic threats, his Church’s past scandals, and Paderewski’s own personal demons. ISBN-13: 978-0615976631 Fallen Bros Press 282 pages $12.95
Deluge by Vincent Meis (Fiction)
When a young white man in high school, becomes involved with a black football star, the relationship leads to disastrous results in a small town in Mississippi. It is the early 1980’s and racism and homophobia are very much alive. In Book One of the novel, Byron struggles with revenge, redemption, and the sexuality that always seems to lead to pain. In Book Two, a young black man wonders about the mystery surrounding the uncle he never knew. Lamar struggles to navigate the minefields of black youth in our society, complicated by the fact that he is a Katrina refugee in Oakland and must deal with his own fluid sexuality. The story is revealed through the two characters, one white, one black, one rich, one poor. Their lives and families become entwined, and ultimately new families are formed. The experiences of the characters reflect the issues surrounding race and sexuality in the last thirty years in the U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-9976728-0-0 Fallen Bros Press 423 pages
Masques by Stefany Anne Golberg (Literary Collections/Essays)
A collection of highly readable selected literary essays from the writer and artist Stefany Anne Golberg on our perceptions of reality and artifice.
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