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Newest acquisition: Pigeon Falls by Jeff Elzinga

We’re excited to announce we will publish Jeff Elzinga’s second novel, Pigeon Falls. Look for it in April 2025.

About the book

Pigeon Falls follows surveyor Tom Bishop and his small band of coworkers, a traveling crew of wind turbine builders, to an out-of-the-way corner of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area for one final project of the season before winter arrives. During their week amid this distinctive landscape, unforeseen challenges test the crew’s character and threaten to pry the team apart. Caught up in the ordeals are a pig farmer hell-bent on reversing generations of family failure, a young newly-wed resisting an abusive husband, and other local citizens living the quintessential life of folks in small-town America. Tom Bishop must also come to terms with his own undiagnosed health issues and whatever legacy a childless, divorced man can hope to leave behind someday. As Bishop says, after one particularly trying day, “The truest form of darkness, when you’re out in the middle of nowhere, is found not in the heavens but on earth.” In Pigeon Falls the disabling effects of hardship and greed are laid bare, yet in the end it is a story of solidarity, resilience, and hope.

Learn more about the author at his website: jeffelzinga.com

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The Distance Between Stars chosen as a finalist in Midwest Book Awards

The Distance Between Stars by Jeff Elzinga has been selected as a finalist in the Literary Fiction category of the 2020 Midwest Book Awards. Finalists are chosen from more than 240 entries from publishers all over the Midwest.

The Midwest Book Awards is one of the longest-running literary awards in the country celebrating excellence in independent publishing.

Stay tuned for the winners to be announced on June 26!

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Elzinga signs The Distance Between Stars

Observing Covid-19 safety, Jeff Elzinga met with interested readers at Literatus & Co. yesterday and personally inscribed copies of The Distance Between Stars. If you missed this event, you can still buy copies at the store. And, of course, you can always order from us. Use coupon code HAPPY until December 14 to save 10% on your order from Water’s Edge Press on Jeff’s book (and all of our books).

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Signed copies of The Distance Between Stars

Starting July 15, 2020, we are offering copies of The Distance Between Stars signed by the author, Jeff Elzinga.

Order yours today before our supply sells out. This offer is available only at Water’s Edge Press.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

The Distance between Stars, a story about DUTY, RACE, and national IDENTITY.

In an African country quickly sliding towards civil war, an American diplomat adrift in his personal life searches for an investigative reporter who has gone missing in the bush.