Craig’s books

600 HOURS OF EDWARD

“Funny and quirky, Lancaster’s compulsively readable debut has a heart as big as the Montana sky.” | Gregg Olsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep Dark

“With shades of Flowers for Algernon, author Craig Lancaster doesn’t just give life to Edward Stanton’s world; he gives life to the reader’s world.” | T.L. Hines, author of Faces in the Fire and Waking Lazarus

“600 Hours of Edward has some laugh-out-loud moments, some tender moments, and an ending that will probably bring you to tears.” | Sue Hart, PEN Award winner for syndicated fiction and 2007 WILLA Award winner for creative non-fiction

“Edward Stanton’s struggle to escape his self-imposed isolation makes for absorbing reading in this elegantly written debut novel.” | Carol Buchanan, 2009 Spur Award winner for God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana

2009 Montana Honor Book

2010 High Plains Book Award winner for best first book

WHERE TO FIND IT

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Trade paperback and Kindle

ISBN: 978-1612184104

Suggested retail price: $14.95 in print

  

THE SUMMER SON

Mitch Quillen is in trouble.

His marriage is a wreck. His career is sliding sideways. And his estranged father, Jim, just called his house … and said nothing. Then called again and again.

Compelled by his wife to go to his father, Mitch embarks on a journey not only in the present, through his own tangled life, but also through his memories, to a summer nearly thirty years gone that continues to haunt him, to the time and place to which he traces a lifetime of losses.

The Summer Son is an examination of two lives and the secrets they hold, and the power those secrets possess over two men who are separated by a generation and their own history. But it’s more than that: It’s about the things we see, and the ones right in front of us that we miss.

2010 Utah Book Award finalist for fiction

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

“Lancaster has crafted a novel that offers readers the most valuable gift any work of fiction can offer: an authentic emotional experience. The Summer Son will grip you with its pathos and insight, propel you mercilessly forward with its tension and suspense, and then wow you with an ending you won’t see coming. And when the experience is over, The Summer Son will stick with you.” | Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here and All About Lulu

“Craig Lancaster’s magnificent novel, The Summer Son, travels straight into the realm of broken hearts and hurt souls only to discover miraculous things at the core of each of us: grace and love. This is one of those rare novels that will live from generation to generation, offering sunlight to those who think the human race lives only in a stormcloud.” | Richard S. Wheeler, author of Snowbound and a five-time Spur Award winner

“The Summer Son made me laugh, made me feel, and even made me love a scoundrel.” | Kristen Tsetsi, author of Pretty Much True …

“A powerful, poignant journey through past and present. Part family saga, part mystery, The Summer Son will grab you and not let go.” | R.J. Keller, author of Waiting for Spring

“In this novel of power, psychological insight, suspense, and healing, Lancaster takes the reader on Mitch Quillen’s search with courage and emotional honesty. Moving and unforgettable!” | Carol Buchanan, Spur Award-winning author of God’s Thunderbolt and Gold Under Ice.

WHERE TO FIND IT

Your local bookstore (either in stock or by order), Amazon.com

BOOK DETAILS

Pages: 308

Format: Trade paperback and Kindle

ISBN: 978-1935597247

Retail price: $13.95 in print, $7.99 in e-book

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QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE ART OF DEPARTURE

A collection of ten short stories–some previously published, some not–that return to the terrain of Craig’s home state of Montana. These short works of fiction take on the notion of separation, be it from comfort zones, from ideas, from people, from security, from the mortal coil. A basketball coach caught between his team, his family and the rabid partisans in his town. A traveling salesman consigned to a late-night bus ride and a confrontation with what he’s made of his life. A prison inmate stripped of everything but self-righteousness. A teenage runaway. Mismatched lovers. All are players in Craig’s first collection of short fiction. These stories delve into farms and cities, into love and despair, into what drives us and what scares us, peeling back the layers of humanity with every page.

2012 gold medal winner, West-Mountain fiction, Independent Publishers Book Awards

BOOK DETAILS

Pages: 248

Formats: Trade paperback and e-book

ISBN: 978-0-9827822-5-5

Retail price: $14 in print, $1.99 in e-book

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