We’re pleased to announce the publication of The Second Book of Old Mermaids Tales, a book 11 years in the making! Here’s the back cover copy: The Old Sea still calls to the Old Mermaids, but their adventures in the
We’re excited to announce the publication of the latest Old Mermaids book, just in time for holiday gift giving. Join Kim Antieau and the Old Mermaids for their annual celebration of all things wild and marvelous with 13 days of
Church of the Old Mermaids celebrates its fifteenth birthday with a brand new edition of this beloved novel. A glorious celebration of life, love, friendship, and the power to change, Church of the Old Mermaids challenges us to find the
Green Snake Publishing is proud to announce the publication of Mario Writes a Poem a Day for a Year and So Can You. This project turned out to be Mario’s pandemic baby. He started it before the pandemic, but much
We’re trying something new this time out. We don’t send out many newsletters, usually about once a year, so we don’t use the interface enough for it to be comfortable. So we just put the newsletter in a pdf this
“I am so excited to announce that The Old Mermaids Wisdom Cards are now available for sale along with three different choices of guidebooks. I have wanted to do a tarot deck based on my novel Church of the Old Mermaids for years,
We’re excited to announce the publication of the latest Old Mermaids book, just in time for holiday gift giving. Join Kim Antieau and the Old Mermaids for their annual celebration of all things wild and marvelous with13 days of beauty,
It’s that time of year again. Time to stock up on the Old Mermaids Sanctuary Calendar. The 2022 edition again features an extraordinary photo by Kim each month, highlighting the beautiful animals, plants, and landscapes of the Sonoran desert and
Check out Mario’s latest short story, the chilling tale of a monastery with a long history of doing good but which also harbors a decidedly not-so-good secret. Here’s the blurb: Abbot Francis and the brothers of the monastery prepare to
More than ten years in the making, and just in time for summer reading, Green Snake Publishing has just released the complete Whackadoodle Times trilogy, all 668 pages, in one volume. Here are the complete adventures of Brooke McMurphy, the
Kim has distilled the best parts of her popular online school (The Old Mermaids Mystery School) and created this book. Now it’s all at your pace, exactly when and how you want to dive into these mysteries. Here’s the blurb
Brooke McMurphy’s infamous and bawdy adventures come to a conclusion in this poignant and funny third book in the Whackadoodle Times series. From the cover: Disasters both natural and unnatural plague Brooke during the week she must deliver the script
A step-by-step guide to constructing a replica of the Chartres labyrinth in own backyard. With detailed diagrams, instructive photos, and easy to follow directions. Everything you need to create a sacred space you will return to again and again. Labyrinths
The enigmatic Mario Milosevic has out a new enigmatic book. And we are grateful. We are sure you will be amazed, mystified, baffled, and/or giggly by the end of it. Here is how we attempt to describe Mostly Invisible on
Unfinished is the worst kind of business, and newly minted ex-cop Katie Kelly can do without the reminders of a shocking crime from 30 summers ago. Katie’s return to Beauty Falls triggers a round of soul-searching and painful memories of
Kim Antieau has created an imaginative and inspiring workbook to go with Answering the Creative Call. From the cover: MOST OF US hear the call to create. We write, cook, paint, make music, garden, or pursue some other creative endeavor.
The Old Mermaids Oracle guidebook which was originally only available to novices of The Old Mermaids Mystery School is now available to all. This small guidebook is for your use once you make your own set of oracles. Or you can use
Kim Antieau’s brilliant short stories have dazzled readers for decades. As bestselling writer Charles de Lint once wrote, Kim’s prose is always “evocative, even in the grittiest of her stories. I believe in her characters so readily that sometimes I
We’re pleased to announce the publication of Mario Milosevic’s new novel, Splitting, inspired by his experiences growing up in a mining town in Canada. From the cover: Northern Ontario in the mid-1950s: a wilderness landscape where miners in the tiny
We are delighted to announce the publication of The Salmon Mysteries Workbook: Reimagining the Eleusinian Mysteries. Ever since Kim Antieau wrote The Salmon Mysteries, she has wanted to put out a workbook. At long last, here it is! It has
Crime knows no bounds. Past, future, present, all host wrongdoers of every stripe. Mario Milosevic spins 15 yarns of crimes dire and humorous, cosmic and ordinary. Imagine the moon stolen—in three different ways. Consider the nice old man in the
Kim Antieau dazzles readers with stunning tales of our world in novels like The Jigsaw Woman and The Gaia Websters. She does it again with Queendom: Feast of the Saints, an epic saga of empire and family brought to the
Church of the Old Mermaids, one of GSP’s favorite books, is now an audiobook, narrated by the fabulous Elinor Bell. We hope you’ll check it out. (It’s also available through audible.com and itunes as well as amazon.)
Acclaimed poet and novelist Mario Milosevic offers 100 sharp tales of employment—each exactly 100 words long. Sometimes shocking, sometimes poignant, but always enlightening and entertaining, these narratives bare the souls of laborers doing what they have to do to make
THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. IT BECOME THE FIRST PART OF KILLING BEAUTY. An impulsive ex-cop with her share of troubles, Katie Kelly retreats to Beauty Falls, the small Pacific Northwest town where she spent her summers as a
From the cover: Following the success of her megahit film Beauty and the Zombie, Hollywood screenwriter Brooke McMurphy’s life once again spirals out of control. In the course of 48 hours, she’s involved in a robbery, juggles multiple blackmailers, gets
Green Snake Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Kim Antieau’s new nonfiction book: Certified: Learning to Repair Myself and the World in the Emerald City. In the spring of 2010, Kim decided to go back to school to acquire
Green Snake Publishing is excited to announce the publication of Answering the Creative Call, Kim Antieau’s wonderful new guide to cultivating the creative life. Part memoir, part how-to, all motivation, this book on creativity is more than a decade in the
We’ve changed the cover on this one, too! When the old sea dries up, the Old Mermaids find themselves washed up on the new desert. These tales of the Old Mermaids remind us of the beauty all around us, even on those
Serena Blue lives for one thing: to spend time with her boyfriend. She can’t stand the stories of the Old Mermaids her mother constantly tells, and she suspects her own family’s sanity when she learns her grandmother believes she once lived as a
Sara O’Broin loves life in her Irish village. But when an ancient curse decrees she must be a fish wife to a man she does not love, she risks everything—including her own life—on a perilous ocean journey to the New
Myla Alvarez, novice, walks into the Sonoran desert near Tucson, Arizona, and begins telling stories about the Old Mermaids who were washed ashore onto the New Desert when the Old Sea dried up. In this mystical new world, they lived,
Claypot Dreamstance wanders the streets of Portland, Oregon, drawing chalk portraits on walls and sidewalks. His only question: Why did God take away his young daughter? A broken man in a cruel world, Claypot lives in crippling grief, on the
We’ve reissued The Salmon Mysteries, and it has a great new cover with artwork by the amazing Joanna Powell Cobert. Demeter’s search for Persephone, her daughter lost in the underworld, inspired the Eleusinian Mysteries, a nine day celebration so powerful and
We are pleased as punch to publish Mario Milosevic’s quirky and moving novel: The Coma Monologues. You can read what Mario says about his novel and an excerpt here. Here’s a summary of the novel: Gary Hawken—husband, father, civil engineer, and
We are pleased to be publishing new stories by Mario Milosevic. (You can always see updates on his stories here.) We are also putting some of them in print as well as e-books. This new evocative and moving story is
In a desolate future 300 years after The Fall, Gloria Stone manages to carve out a good life for herself as her town’s healer. But when sinister forces ally against her, she must use every skill at her disposal
Follow the everyday adventures of coffee shop owners Terrastina and Mazolli and their precocious twin daughters. Laugh and cry alongside them as they manage their business and cope with the eccentric members of their small town community. A sweet story
Dr. Frankenstein’s monster has a daughter. Her name is Emily. She talks to the Weather, stops Fire, and possesses healing hands. Emily and her father move out West where even freaks of science or nature can make a life and
We are pleased to announce the publication of Kim Antieau’s collection of essays in Under the Tucson Moon: Nine Winters in the Sonoran Desert. For years, Kim delighted readers of her blog Furious Spinner before closing up shop there and continuing
Mario says: “I wanted to put together a book of my poems and started going through the ones I had written up to then, looking for good ones that would go together. It didn’t take long to see that I
Barbie’s retirement. A weeping Bigfoot. Gambling fairies. Love sick giants. All this and more in a book of poems exploring the fantastic side of life. This is where Mario let his imagination really run free. Unhindered by conventional notions of
Love is that sobering and paradoxical state of being in which one’s own happiness depends upon the welfare of another. Mario’s third volume of poetry examines love in its many guises: familial, romantic, and Platonic. This is probably the most
The Rift. From the cover: Maggie lives on the edge of Tucson where she edits technical manuals and creates medicine from desert plants…until one morning when she hears her dead dog barking, a stranger shows up in her driveway, and
We love The Old Mermaids Book of Days and Nights—filled with quotes, one for every day of the year—so much that we decided to make a companion for it: a BIG sumptuous luxurious “a year and a day” journal. This
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the reprint of Ruby’s Imagine which was originally published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was inspired by what happened during Hurricane Katrina. Kim researched the event for nearly a year before
We are so happy, elated, ecstatic, and happy (did I say) to announce the publication of The Old Mermaids Book of Days and Nights! We found 365 quotes—one for every day of the year—from the Old Mermaids novels (and from
We are pleased to announce the publication of Kim Antieau’s new novel, The Desert Siren: a novel of the borderlands. Consuelo Johnson yearned for a soul-filled life but settled for life on the family’s ranch in the Arizona borderlands. She
Whackadoodle Times: Set in California near Hollywood, Antieau’s funny and poignant novel is a tale of our times. From the cover: Brooke McMurphy is having one helluva week. Brooke’s well-constructed dysfunctional life in Hollywood begins to unravel when a homeless woman
We are happy to announce the publication of Kim Antieau’s Butch: A Bent Western. This novel is a particular favorite of Kim’s. She started it several years ago and picked it up again last fall and finished it. She says
We are tickled (and laughing out loud) to announce Green Snake Publishing’s first book of cartoons by Kim Antieau: Fun With Vic and Jane. Jane wants to save the world; Vic does not. Jane doesn’t understand men; Vic is man’s
We are pleased to announce the publication of Kim Antieau‘s new novel, Jewelweed Station. When her beloved parents die in a carriage accident near their plantation in Virginia, 17-year-old Callie Carter comes home from France to discover her loathsome aunt
We are pleased to announce the publication of Kim Antieau’s Tales Fabulous and Fairy, a collection of some of her most loved stories. This is from the cover: Enter the enchanting and exotic world of Kim Antieau’s imagination in these
We are tickled to announce the publication of a joint venture by Green Snake Publishing authors Kim Antieau and Mario Milosevic. They’ve wanted to collaborate for years, and they decided this collection was a good way to start. Inside this
Green Snake Publishing is tickled to announce the publication of Mario Milosevic’s extraordinary short-short story collection Miniatures. Mario is a master of flash fiction and the weird and wonderful. In Miniatures, the reader will find the weird and wonderful in
Green Snake Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Kim Antieau’s novel Swans in Winter. This is from the cover: India Lake’s soul mate just might be Benjamin Swan, the mysterious photographer taking pictures of her beloved swans at
Scientists in the Altai in Siberia uncover the 2,500 year old frozen mummy of a tattooed priestess. This mummy has the same genetic material as American archaeologist Ursula Smith whose mother disappeared in Siberia 30 years earlier. Ursula travels from
Mario Milosevic’s provocative new teen novel, Kyle’s War, is now available in print and for e-readers. Mario always has a fresh perspective on just about everything; this time he tackles the effects of government repression on a young boy: In
Happy autumnal equinox! We’ve got a present for you: Mario Milosevic’s new and unconventional novel, The Doctor and the Clown. There’s an ice storm. Two passengers are stranded on a bus: a doctor who lost his passion for medicine long
An affordable and bound version of An Old Mermaid Journal is now available on Amazon. Here’s the description from the Amazon page: “This journal may or may not be based on the original journal of one or more of the
This brilliant and original tale relates one extraordinary woman’s fantastic and universal journey of self-discovery. Keelie is created from the bodies of three different women to be a plaything for her doctor. Not satisfied with the life given to her,
Some people are born with a birthmark, but everyone has a deathmark, eventually. 16-year-old Michael and his mother have been running from the Shadow Woman for as long as Michael can remember. Every time they begin to settle in somewhere,
Jeanne Les Flambeaux is the underachiever in her very accomplished restaurateur family. No one ever expected her to amount anything, so she hasn’t. When her lover, Johnny, steals the family jewels, Jeanne must find him and the jewels before her
The always surprising Mario Milosevic recently offered us a marvelous coming-of-age fantasy novel called The Last Giant. We snapped it up immediately and put it into production and we are now ready to bring it to our readers through our
Mario Milosevic has wanted to write a story about Flatland for years. He’s made several attempts, but has come up short each time. In his re-issued essay “Why I Still Have Not Written My Flatland Story” he details his experiences
Lois Tilton, who does the short fiction reviews at Locus, singled out Mario Milosevic’s short story “The Untied States of America” as one of the best of the year. The story originally appeared in the British magazine Interzone, which is
We’ve now got three of Kim Antieau’s Entanglements available for downloading to your e-devices or onto your computer. “Briar Rose” first appeared in the World Fantasy Award winning anthology Metahorror. It also appeared in The Year’s Best Horror Stories: 21, Daughters of
“Briar Rose,” our first Kim Antieau e-book, is now available for the kindle, the nook, and most other e-readers through Smashwords. Click on the “Entanglements” tab above. More from Kim coming soon.
Click the Conditional Realities tab to see our first ebook offerings, short stories by a terrific writer named Mario Milosevic.