Argive Press

10/15/2022

Stop by today from 10am-5pm book festival. Free for all!

10/15/2022

Stop by the Rain Taxi Review book festival today from 10am-5pm. We are booth #209.

10/04/2022

Since it is officially October we are counting down the days until the Rain Taxi Review Book Festival on October 15, 2022, at the Minnesota State Fair.

This will be our third year doing the festival and hope to see you there!

Click below for more information!
https://twincitiesbookfestival.com/

Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival is the annual Minnesota gathering for readers, writers, publishers, and purveyors of literature.

09/23/2022

Take a break from unicorns and dragons with an Argive Press book.

Link in bio to see our book selections.

09/15/2022

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09/15/2022

Check out our newest book on this list!

32 books based on 1 votes: A Matchbox Full of Pearls by Kamille Roach, Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury: A Novel by Kinley Bryan, The R**e of Persephone by...

09/08/2022

Our newest book is available on our website!

09/04/2022

Check out our print ad in ! Located in the variety section!

08/19/2022

Books are still available on our website! See link in bio!

08/11/2022

Check out our website to see our latest book!

07/20/2022

Our last staff member!

07/14/2022

Meet another staff member!

07/11/2022

Check out our website to see all of the books we sell.

07/07/2022

Here’s the first member of our awesome team!

06/24/2022

Link in bio to purchase!

04/21/2022

Delia Stanley, Foreword Clarion Reviews

“Between Fortitude and Folly is an informative, absorbing historical novel in which three adults who meet during wartime are endeared to one another…. Jack, a pool shark with an unromantic view of military life, expresses cynicism about the devastation caused by world governments…. As he’s caught in bombings and fire fights, Jack’s war experiences are detailed in violent terms, as well as in terms of how the human body and brain react to the realities of war. Later, his moody behavior and cryptic dreams reflect the resultant PTSD…. Margaret and Dorothy are beautiful, brainy, and tough. They interject dry wit into the serious tale.”

04/19/2022

Updated website has finally been finished! click the link to see all of the additions!

www.argivepress.com

Newest book as been added, but will not be ready to be delivered until the first week of May. but we are accepting pre-orders and will ship when they arrive.

Argive Press is a micropublishing company that offers a variety of books to customers in the US, Canada, and Mexico. We champion fiction that is outside of the confines of a big publishing company and specialize in Minnesota and Midwestern writers. Get in touch with us for more information.

04/08/2022

It's finally here! The registration is now open for The Homer and The Odyssey class at Edina Senior Center.
https://secure.rec1.com/MN/edina-mn/catalog?filter=c2VhcmNoPTIwMDk0NjA

Sign up by April 19th!

03/28/2022

Here is a little bit about what Argive Press stands for:

-We believe in good fiction speaks with a narrative voice custom-made for that specific story
-We believe dialog is a character. Accents and dialects reinforce a character in the reader’s mind
-We believe in truth beyond all things. Do not expect unicorns, dragons, cardboard characters that are models of political correctness, nor historical novels that reflect modern sensibilities.

03/24/2022

Another great review from :
“Between Fortitude and Folly is an informative, absorbing historical novel in which three adults who meet during wartime are endeared to one another.

In K. Partridge’s historical novel Between Fortitude and Folly, a Navy Reserve officer is caught in the middle of world-altering events.

Jack, a young officer in the Navy Reserve, was aiming for a desk job over seeing any military action. World War II, though, changed the course of his military career. Dorothy and Margaret are Australian signalwomen who meet Jack during their service. While the three grow from friends into a chosen family, fear and destruction from Japanese-led attacks threaten their lives.

To capture the period and the bevy of backgrounds, people’s conversations feature accents and slang terminology. The cast’s banter, especially between the signalwomen and Navy personnel, further reveals war’s grim unpredictability—though it’s marked by humor as well, which often seems to be their means of mitigating their fear.

As Jack and others are thrust into the center of history, they witness the leaking of war plan Rainbow 5, the bombings of Cavite Naval Station and Pearl Harbor, and the USS Pope tragedy. These are incorporated in clever ways, with the cast’s involvement in them humanizing each. Photographs of the naval ships mentioned complement this comprehensive record. However, the book’s inclusion of dense technical details sometimes impedes its momentum.

Working toward an unexpected and emotional conclusion, Between Fortitude and Folly is an informative, absorbing historical novel in which three adults who meet during wartime are endeared to one another.”

Book to be published soon.

03/21/2022

Class Registration opens up on April 1st!
Class will focus on Homer and The Odyssey.

03/03/2022

🎉🎉🎉BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!🎉🎉🎉

Our author, Stephen Partridge, will be teaching a Homer class at the Edina Community Center. Registration to open soon.

02/07/2022

Got the first review back for "Between Fortitude and Folly". Here is a snippet of the review, "Library collections strong in World War II stories will want to consider Between Fortitude and Folly a "must have" acquisition."-Diane Donovan.

Book will be released in March or April. Stay tuned for more details!

01/26/2022

Argive Press contracted with the Wehmann Models & Talent, Inc and Patrick Nau Photography - Fine Portraits & Pet Photographer, Minneapolis MN to shoot photos for the dustjacket of "Between Fortitude and Folly." Patrick has done photography for Argive Press since we published our first book in 2008. It was our first time working with the Wehmann agency, and it was a complete joy. The models were prompt, professional, delightful to work with, and charming. And of all the Twin Cities modeling agencies we queried, Wehmann was the only one who listened to our individual needs and worked out a plan that met our requirements.

10/22/2021

Had a great time at the Rain Taxi Review book fair! Can't wait to be back in 2022!

10/14/2021

Looking forward to being back at this Saturday! We are booth #407! Come stop by our booth. Special Giveaways this year with the purchase of two books!

Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival is the annual Minnesota gathering for readers, writers, publishers, and purveyors of literature.

10/07/2021

Getting the packing list ready for the on Saturday, October 16 at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds!

10/04/2021

Can't wait to be back at this amazing event!!!

Rain Taxi’s 21st annual Twin Cities Book Festival is a FREE hybrid event, with virtual events happening September 14 through October 14 and in-person events on Saturday, October 16 at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, featuring an all-day book fair, used books and records, and author events! More information at https://mspm.ag/2Y5qFDQ

03/18/2021

Some more interesting facts from our "Free-Non-Fiction" Section.

The earliest mention of a work of Homer was by Callinus, a poet who flourished about 650 B.C. The fact that he’s cited so early in history gives credence to his existence as a real person. On the other hand, the ancient Greeks knew no more about him than we do. There was period of time when any work of epic poetry (i.e., the Epic Cycle) was attributed to Homer, i.e., “Homeric” didn’t mean “by
Homer” but rather “epic poetry.” It wasn’t till the 4th century B.C. that it was assumed that Homer wrote the Iliad and Odyssey and not the other poems of the Epic Cycle as well. Homer was not literate himself. Rather, he was part of a centuries-old or even millennium-old oral tradition, in which the poems were both composed and delivered orally.

02/12/2021

Here's a look on how the cover art was chosen for the newest book, "When Cities Sink in Howling Ruin".
"I came across the artist, Rebecca Korth Fine Art at the Uptown Art Fair, and admired her work. From Rebecca's attention to detail with her paintings and use of inanimate objects drew me in to her booth. I bought a painting of hers, and after writing this book, thought of having her commission the artwork for the book cover."-Author K. Partridge