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Member Since: Aug. 18, 2011

Strange Violin Editions


Publisher info

Strange Violin Editions is a small independent publisher based in Washington, D.C. The press was founded with the mission of publishing edgy, unorthodox, and entertaining literary works relating to Mormonism, especially those that might otherwise fall through the cracks of the mainstream and Church-supported publishing communities.

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Website: http://strangeviolineditions.com
Twitter: StrViolin
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A Short Stay in Hell    by Steven L. Peck
Price: $2.99 USD. 27590 words. Published by Strange Violin Editions  on March 16, 2012. .
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.
A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel    by Therese Doucet
Price: $4.99 USD. 91610 words. Published by Strange Violin Editions  on August 18, 2011. .
The summer after her freshman year at all-Mormon Brigham Young University, Marguerite Farnsworth falls in love with philosophy by way of falling in love with an atheist philosophy student. Her search for Truth (with a capital T), God, the meaning of life, and a boyfriend leads her away from religious belief, but along the way she learns there are things even atheists can have faith in.


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