2Rise Publishing

02/22/2023

2Rise Publishing censors nothing.
( suggestions, we'll make - but, that's why you hire us )

Only censorship should be censored.

Books by Roald Dahl are being edited to remove words that could be deemed offensive. Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

01/10/2022

PILAR RAMIREZ AND THE ESCAPE FROM ZAFA DROPS IN JUST 50 DAYS!!!!

After two years of writing, revision, and imagining, my Middle-Grade debut is less than 2 months away!! I wanted to share the first blurb we received from Primo/OG/Hero !!

Pilar wouldn't be what and who she is without the Shadowshaper Cypher and so much else from Daniel's mind!

OK wow, 50 days. So much is about to change, I have no idea what's going to happen this year— but I can't wait to see!

09/28/2021

Two cult authors both wrote about human nature – and the horrors that technology can unleash. Dorian Lynskey explores the parallel lives of the writers whose work still resonates.

09/24/2021

Virginia Woolf once mused, “I believe that all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite,” and it makes me think about the old black woman who sat in the virtual corner of my family. I s…

09/12/2021

Derek Walcott, ca. 2012. Photograph Jorge Mejía Peralta   I went to visit Derek Walcott on his home island of St. Lucia in mid-June, 1985. St. Lucia is one of the four Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean, a small mountainous island that faces the Atlantic Ocean on one side and th.....

08/17/2021

In the period spanning 2005 and 2015—ages eight to eighteen—those around me could observe sudden and seemingly patternless changes in my behavior from week to week. The changes manifested via dress…

07/06/2021

I pray to God Prince was dead by the time he hit the floor. I pray Prince wasn’t cognizant, even for a mite of a moment, that he was dying alone in a nondescript elevator, in a Wonder Bread suburb …

07/05/2021

If we are hoping to communicate something—anything—nothing is more important than clarity. The dangers of not being clear are obvious. Is that driver approaching the intersection signaling right or…

05/06/2021

While I have been known to violently roll my eyes at the news of a child getting a book deal because of their parents’ relentless Twitter promotion (preschoolers should not have side hustles!…

04/29/2021

Are you ready for Poetry & the Creative Mind tomorrow, 4/29? Tune in at 7:30 p.m. EDT for a singular celebration of 25 years of , available one night only. Featuring a star-studded lineup of leaders from across the arts & culture. Virtual & free! RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-the-creative-mind-virtual-gala-supporting-national-poetry-month-registration-138838474615?aff=Site

04/23/2021

Featured image: “Saint Augustine Working in His Study,” Sandro Botticelli, c. 1492. The future St. Augustine’s account of his mentor Bishop Anselm’s reading habits, written during the 4th century o…

02/04/2021

A children’s book editor and a writer look at what’s changed, and what hasn’t, since the 1995 publication of a groundbreaking 'Village Voice' article on the lack of diversity in book publishing.

02/01/2021

Tamara de Lempicka’s stylish life and art contain a radical strain of proto-feminism that attracts celebrities and auction attendees alike.