Award-winning novelist Rick Skwiot's critically acclaimed account of a rustically charming yet fateful childhood Christmas, with a family and a nation on the brink of unsettling change and loss of innocence. It takes us to an America that was simpler, safer and in some ways more free. In it we see not only how far we have come but also how much we have lost. Learn more at www.christmas-at-long-lake.com.

Rick Skwiot's earthy, funny and self-effacing chronicle of his heathen days south of the border. With little money and few prospects the troubled freelance writer takes off to Mexico to find himself. Instead he discovers fast-living, amoral, yet spiritually grounded Mexicans who infect him with a soulful lust for life.

Hemingway First Novel Award winner. The sensual mystery of a son's compulsive search for his father's bones-a quest that draws him into an exotic Mexican underworld of sex, mysticism, drugs and sudden violence. Vibrant yet darkly poignant, this gritty tale exposes the simmering passions-fired by jealousy, vengeance, lust and greed-when Anglo and Hispanic cultures clash.

Finalist for the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. A funny and moving portrait of a Mexican town plagued by expatriate gringos, licentious locals, and corrupt officials. Their seeming disparate lives weave a vibrant, exotic and sexy tapestry of life and death, longing and love, faithlessness and truth set against a backdrop of an indifferently received murder of a young artist.

Hemingway reincarnate, Havana, and hurricanes enliven this romantic island tale of love and redemption. Former bestselling author Con Martens finds himself down, out, and in the bottom of a bottle. Stalked by a jealous lover and a propensity for trouble, Con needs an intervention. And intervention he gets in the form of the young Ernest Hemingway, an angel emissary sent from Writer's Heaven to help Con get back on track.