about us
Axiom’s list focuses on popular culture and fiction. Our nonfiction titles examine the fun, quirky, and entertaining aspects of everyday life in the twenty-first century — from Twitter to cannabis, from sibling relations to candy.
Our fiction is fresh and innovative, but always accessible and entertaining.
We employ all the tools of the digital world in our publishing program. Our books are produced as e-books as well as printed. We produce text-only versions for readers, but also multi-media editions — with photos, footage and sound — for home computers and mobile devices.
Our web site will carry dedicated pages for each of our books including written excerpts, e-trailers featuring live footage overlaid with spoken readings, ‘look-inside’ features to show interior spreads, and many other elements to display book pages to their fullest potential.
recently published
SIGHTSEEING is the very best of award-nominated author
Andrew Smith’s short fiction. All previously published in acclaimed literary journals, each story is masterfully told,
vividly peopled, and evocatively located.
Featuring protagonists such as:
A country policeman in an agonizing
dilemma over a friend’s possible guilt
A homemaker and her nostalgia
for romance in a shadowy ballroom
A sex worker’s disturbing self-discovery
in the light of a client’s needs
A tourist who divulges an astonishing
revelation about herself to a complete stranger
A war survivor in hallucinatory delirium
concerning her marriage
and much more
ISBN 978-0-9864962-4-0
next up
Karen Mulhallen’s In Memory is a recapturing and celebration of the departed. Of joyful and poignant moments together in hospitals in Canada, in care homes for the aged in England, in walking in the English south Downs, in rainforests, and underwater in the Great Barrier Reef, and on horseback in Australia, and in the simple task of picking berries on a rural Ontario farm.
This is the most personal of Mulhallen’s twenty-five published books as these poems engage directly with the individuals, with friends and with family whom each poem celebrates. The poet travels through time and space, descending to the dream world and journeying to the land of the dead, interacting with those who are now beyond.
Publishing February 2023
ISBN 978-0-9864962-6-4
c0ming soon
Evil Sister Stories
“Sisters Sisters / There were never such devoted sisters…”
So the old song goes. But if your sisters are anything like those of our contributors, devotion only goes so far. Then there’s jealousy, back stabbing, boyfriend stealing, not to mention, downright, hate.
We've amassed a mess of downright awful stories of sisterly rivalry which tell the incredible lengths some sisters have gone to in order to derail their sibling’s dreams and plans.
A brother equivalent is also in the works.
Beyond Us: An Illustrated History of the Afterlife
“When we were kids, we always used to say, ‘OK, whoever dies first, get a message through, all right?’ I haven’t had a message from John yet. So I don’t know. Maybe you do live on, but there’s no postal service.” Paul McCartney
The Sweetest Book You’ll Ever Read
The world’s favourite confectionaries
An illustrated history of the candy and sweets that we all know and love.
The Best Short Story Tweets Ever
Ever since Hemingway wrote his short short story “For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Used” people have been trying to write shorter and shorter stories. The restricted character count of Twitter has produced some brilliant efforts. Here the very best are anthologised.
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