The Butcher & The Butterfly – Cover Award & Reveiws
The book cover for The Butcher and The Butterfly made the first cut in the 2024 Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media Best Book Design for Fiction. We graciously thank the fabulous Emmy Lowe for the beautiful and appropriate cover art. Recent Reviews of The Butcher and the Butterfly have been positive: …The story of a […]
The Butcher and the Butterfly – BookTrib review
“The Butcher and the Butterfly” follows several lost souls looking for connection, reconciliation and purpose. “A butcher can hit… A butterfly can dance.” In the boxing world, there are either butchers or butterflies, as Bobby Raymond’s old trainer used to say. The Butcher and the Butterfly, as its title promises, balances the violent with the delicate, […]
Book Release and Art Show – The Butcher & the Butterfly
Join us on Saturday, January 11th from 6:00-9:00 PM at the Apothecary Ale House in Morgantown, WV for the official release and signing of the new book by Jim Antonini, THE BUTCHER AND THE BUTTERFLY. The event will also include art for sale created by the fabulous book cover artist, Emmy Lowe. What others are […]
The Butcher & The Butterfly Book Release
BOOK RELEASE PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT – Tentative Date & Location: January 11, 2025 at Apothecary Ale House, Morgantown, WV Join Jim Antonini (author) and Emmy Lowe (cover artist) for a book signing and a night of fun! Independent Book Review The Butcher and the Butterfly By Jim Antonini Genre: Literary Fiction / Sports Reviewed by Warren […]
Holiday Book Sale
Pump Fake Press needs to clear out book inventory this holiday season. HOLIDAY BOOK BUNDLES! Any 2 books = $30; Any 3 books = $40 at https://www.jimantonini.com BULLETS FOR SILVERWARE A gritty, murder-mystery thriller set in the backwoods of West Virginia. It was a finalist for the Appodlachia 2020 Best Appalachian Book of the Year. […]
New Book Alert – THE BUTCHER & THE BUTTERFLY is out
The Butcher and Butterfly is now available. The book release celebration and party will be held in January (details coming soon). Description: A wearied boxer turns his back on a chance at a world championship to search for his estranged brother in New Orleans. Trapped in a strained family relationship, a promising, young ballet dancer […]
The Hot Dog Diaries – the perfect holiday gift
Looking for an affordable and fun gift for the holidays! The Hot Dog Diaries is the perfect choice. Over the past eighty years, there have been too many beers and hot dogs consumed to count. But for all the beers poured and hot dogs prepared, there have been just as many laughs—probably more. With this […]
New Book Alert – THE BUTCHER & THE BUTTERFLY – coming soon
COMING IN NOVEMBER! THE BUTCHER AND THE BUTTERFLY BACKGROUND: I met the brilliant and eccentric painter Noel Rockmore in early 1990 at Johnny White’s, a since-closed, infamous French Quarter dive bar, on my first visit to New Orleans. We watched a boxing match together there one evening. We had a great time. He was quite […]
Searching for alternative book set in Appalachia?
BULLETS FOR SILVERWARE is a gritty, murder-mystery thriller set in the backwoods of West Virginia. WHAT IS IT ABOUT? A young pharmacist takes a job in a small rural town and is quickly introduced to a world of drugs, sex, guns, and deceit. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with the local ‘good-time girl’ and finds […]
The Hot Dog Diaries Book Release
In celebration of Gene’s Beer Garden’s 80th Birthday, a book about the bar has been released – The Hot Dog Diaries: Stories from Morgantown’s Oldest and Most Beloved Bar. It has been an eventful month since the book’s release. There was a very successful book release party at Gene’s on June 8th. An unbelievable 106 […]