Publications

(In reverse order of publication)

Poured Out (2024)
by Keeley Bruner

In this collection of poems, Keeley Bruner offers divine sips of the flavors of motherhood. She calls on her experience as the mother of three and as a post-partum doula to transport the reader into sense-rich mothering moments of love, fear, joy, doubt, and serenity. Any mother, experienced or new, will find herself nodding in recognition at the intimate revelations contained in this book.

Nik Clancy and the Scorpion - Sticky Ones #5 (2024)
by M. Kate Allen

Nik and his family have just moved to Phoenix, home to dry heat, prickly plants, and bugs straight out of nightmares. Everyone back in Greenville knew him, but only his parents and his dogs know him here.

The house next door is barely visible, its secrets hidden by layers and layers of bamboo. Nik's curiosity grows by the minute, but he hesitates. Will he be brave enough to face what lies within?

Evi Wald and the Black Forest - Sticky Ones #4 (2023)
by M. Kate Allen

When Evi Wald was a young girl, she learned the art of shepherding from her mother by day and listened to her mother's fairy tales at night. Now she shepherds her own flock with the help of her dogs, Bric and Brac.

But strange sights and sounds are coming from the Black Forest near her hut, and she's beginning to wonder if there is more to her mother's fairy tales than she once thought...

Dreaming Along the Laurel (2022)
by Jason Bruner and Keeley Bruner

From the back cover:

...But dreaming, like play, suspends us in time, and maybe here we touch something common with childhood, the magic of opening categories and questions, bits from you, or me, or somewhere else. And maybe you never find out, maybe no one knows.

"Maybe it's all a dream. These are pieces of dreams, things said, heard, and perhaps misremembered from a space that's not quite one thing. How could it ever be?

Jasmine Lin and the Dollhouse - Sticky Ones #3 (2022)
by M. Kate Allen

Third grade is over and Jasmine Lin has just finished building a dollhouse all by herself. She's excited for summer to begin.

The day after she finishes her dollhouse, however, she discovers her dollhouse at the end of Arcadia Lane. It's not just her dollhouse-it's human-sized.

How did it get there? Who built it? And what will she find inside?

Memory Stands Still (2nd edition) - (2021)
by M. Kate Allen

Angela Bridges is preparing to enter Cleveland's first bi-annual urban development contest. When memories of the past collide with the present, how will she shape her future and the future of her beloved city?

This edition features an afterword by M. Kate Allen and discussion questions.

Michelle Lobos and the Labyrinth - Sticky Ones #2 (2021)
by M. Kate Allen

Michelle Lobos is thrilled to be at summer camp at last, even though Terry Groulx just won't leave her alone.

In a moment of solitude, however, she discovers something shocking about the labyrinth on the floor of the camp lodge. Later on, the mystery of the labyrinth deepens. Is what her mother told her about labyrinths true?

Does she have the courage to find out?

Crystal Winters and the Haunted Mansion - Sticky Ones #1 (2021)
by M. Kate Allen

Crystal Winters has always stood out among the other kids, sporting blue hair, a razor-sharp mind, and a craving for adventure. On her tenth birthday, her parents give her permission to ride her bike beyond their immediate neighborhood. She rides far and finds a spooky mansion abandoned in the woods. Will she dare to cross the threshold and explore what lies within?

Playing Gauche (2020)
by M. Kate Allen

Medley Blunt is a former Little Leaguer playing for the first time on an all-girls softball team, and she's got some things to learn. Going from the star of her state championship-winning baseball team to barely making the starting lineup of her softball team, her world has turned topsy turvy. Add to that the revelation that her adoptive parents are having a baby the old-fashioned way. Who is she if not a star ball player? Who is she if not an only child? What are her roots, and who is she, really?

Alt-Ctrl (2019)
by Rebecca Freeman

In a post-climate collapse world, the only way to survive is to be lucky enough to live in one of the domed cities, run by international corporation PlanetRescue. As a high level engineer working for PlanetRescue’s cyber security division WorldSec, Finn has unique insight into the Collapse and the dangers of the Badlands outside of the dome. But she soon finds out that there is more to history than what’s she’s learnt, and that PlanetRescue is not the force for good they claim to be. Revolution is brewing from within the City and outside in the Badlands, and it seems that Finn has an integral role to play in it.

Thean Psalter (2018)
by M. Kate Allen

The Thean Psalter is a feminist, feminine prayer book based on the Book of Psalms. The psalms are organized into morning and evening prayer over thirty days so that the entire book can be prayed individually or communally over the course of a month. The Thean Psalter cultivates an intersectional thealogical approach and serves as a resource for those who seek to pray using feminine images of the Divine in a feminine voice. Theanism, from which "Thean" is derived, finds its roots in the Greek word, "Thea," which means "Goddess."

Memory Stands Still (2015)
by M. Kate Allen

Angela Bridges is preparing to enter Cleveland's first bi-annual urban development contest. When memories of the past collide with the present, how will she shape her future and the future of her beloved city?