Bronzeville Books

In LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, crime fiction powerhouse Nikki Dolson drops thirteen stories exploring the many different ways to loveand just as many ways to end up dead. The collection starts with "Georgie Ann", a tale of kept spouses, betrayal, fake friends, and oh, so much blood. Dolson doesn’t pump the breaks before throwing the reader into the ring in "Take the Hit", where Kendra must go back into the boxing ring and throw a fight if she hopes to fulfill her dream... of having a family. "Sunrise" takes us to the desert to die. But not before unwinding the lost loves, regrets, and complicated relationships all plaguing one family, as two cousins try to decide whether they’ll let their beloved Uncle join his late first wife. Dolson wraps up with "Our Man Julian", about a washed-up actor who is cultivating a wild San Diego garden, and a lifetime of loneliness and regret. Hit with the reality that he will die soon with no savings and nothing to offer the daughters he loves but barely sees, he plans an outrageous kamikaze mission. But can a man who’s survived it all really turn off that survival instinct? LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR will keep your heart pumping fast, right up until it’s broken.

Criminal Element recently posted the cover reveal for HARD TIMES by Les Edgerton. Not only did they reveal this beautiful cover, they posted a new excerpt on their website. Check it out here: https://buff.ly/2JsYtTC

Readers will cheer on Elliot as he tries, despite his cynicism, to do the right thing against almost impossible odds. Fans of socially conscious crime fiction will want to check Gardner out.- Publishers Weekly ACE BOON COON is a story that will stay with you forever. Available Now.

Bronzeville Books is an independent publisher focused on elevating voices and stories that have long been underrepresented and need to be told. Bronzeville Books breaks down dividers, whether that's in genre, mediums, or representations of characters to be inclusive and disruptive. Publishing books for teens and adults in a variety of formats and genres, Bronzeville Books unites readers and writers through outstanding stories like these.

LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR is a profound collection. Nikki Dolson is a crime powerhouse writer that leaves everything on the page. Make sure you add this novel to your TBR list!

SPANISH MOSS & FURTHER is a double feature novella that focuses on a darker side of crime fiction. E.A. Cook shines a light on societal wrongs while sharing the impact of family ties. For sale on December 8th. Stay tuned for some excerpts!

ACE BOON COON is a fictional novel that develops actions, conversations, and allyship that is needed to secure a just society. A must read for this time.

In Depression-era, rural East Texas, third-grader Amelia Laxault wins an arithmetic prize and her father, believing that no man will want to marry a smart-aleck, pulls her out of school to work in their sugar cane fields. At 14, she falls for new neighbor Billy Kliber, but her father disapproves and insists she instead marry Arnold Critchin, a local boy who assaulted her on their first date. When Arnold’s alcohol-fueled brutality devastates their growing family, his ineptitude with crops destroys their farm, and his poorly run moonshine business lands him in prison, Amelia struggles to feed her four children as the Depression worsens, all the while being haunted by both unsettling dreams of a man with a machete and a secret from her past. HARD TIMES on sale December 8th.

You’re like the water. Terrible and beautiful and necessary. LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR delivers thirteen tales that will leave you frighteningly heartbroken. Nikki Dolson shows a side of love that will leave one terrified.

Meet one of our incredible authors, E.A Cook. His new book, SPANISH MOSS & FURTHER, will be on sale December 8th, 2020. Add it to your calendar, you don’t want to miss it!

Les Edgerton has a way with words. His writing style, story-telling skills, and profound plot will you leave wanting more. Make sure you pre-order HARD TIMES.

Between a liquor outlet which clearly didn’t discriminate, and a defunct furniture store offering easy credit in a past life, was the storefront office of the Near Westside Improvement Association, which wasn’t on the West side at all, but where the South side Negro bourgeoise touched colored poverty, apparently for longer than it could stand. Award- winning author, Danny Gardner doesn’t hold back in his newest book, ACE BOON COON. We follow the life of Elliot Caprice as he’s caught between two worldsblack and white, good and bad.

He swears he’ll find you. He’ll kill you. LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR delivers thirteen stories centered on black women from different backgrounds. These stories address themes of love, class, death, race, gender, betrayal and much more. Once you’ve started, you won’t put it down.