Blog
On Native-owned publishing, the Kemush Cycle, and how mythic, land-rooted work from the American West reaches readers.
How a Native-owned press publishes origin stories responsibly: telling its own nation's material, honoring the stories of others, and treating consent as relationship.
Why a small Native-owned press builds place-based iOS games alongside its books, and how a game can carry an ecology or an origin cycle to a new reader.
Why publishing the twelve Modoc origin myths as one continuous cycle is an editorial stance, and what gets lost when myth reaches print in pieces.
What "land-rooted, mythic fiction of the American West" means as an editorial stance, and why place and Indigenous memory are the through-line at Basalt Sea Press.
Basalt Sea Press is a Native-owned publisher of Indigenous stories, focused on Klamath and Modoc history told by their own people.
Basalt Sea Press announces The Confession of John Rollin Ridge, a forthcoming book on the 19th-century Cherokee writer, due fall 2026.
Basalt Sea Press is a Native-owned literary house rooted in the Klamath Basin. Here is what it publishes, and why ownership is the point.
How Spirals of Kemush pairs a text-only paperback with a fully illustrated iOS app, and why the two formats serve the same material in genuinely different ways.