Why Broken Keys?
- Broken Keys Publishing
- 10 hours ago
- 3 min read
Why Broken Keys Publishing? About That.
The Keys are meant in the sense of piano keys (the quintessential instrument for musical composition), or typewriter keys (the physical tool for creative writing).
But more importantly, the Broken aspect isn't used so much in the sense of abandoned disrepair, inferior non-functionality, but in the sense of the Japanese art of Kintsugi, rebuilding broken pottery into something more beautiful than the original. Reassembled, its breakage mended with a lacquered mixture of gold; its composite pieces becoming something superior than the sum of its parts.
At Broken Keys Publishing we understand the journey of a published book is from something incorporeal and ethereal that only initially exists in the writer's imagination and heart, to a final book on a bookshelf.
The sum of this journey's parts are the author's creativity, the technical experience of layout, formatting, editing, and design, the craftsmanship of printers, the artistic eye of illustrators and photographers, the discipline and crucial soft skills of models, the mechanical minds of AI's, marketing and media promotion, to the retail bookshops, and ultimately, morphing back into its incorporeal and ethereal form in a reader's mind.
We believe the creation, production, and manufacturing of a book is a grand orchestration of creativity, talents, and skillsets, honed into a symphony by the skillful oversight of a maestro.
We believe it is, literally, a journey from the metaphysical into the realms of reality and back again, and we are happy, humbled, and ecstatic to accompany authors on this odyssey!
2025 ~ 10 ~ 50 ~ 100
I have to admit, this last one crept up on me and completely caught me off guard!
2025 has already been a record breaking year in terms of published titles.
2025 has been quite the year for Broken Keys Publishing & Press!
With 7 titles released so far and another 9 due to be released in late 2025, this has been a bumper year, bringing our total releases to a whopping 16 titles!!
2025 marks our 10th anniversary. The release of Diavian Gunner's New Horizon: Darkness Dawns will mark our 50th paperback published! But just as exciting, Broken Keys Publishing & Press has surpassed 100 published titles! (Paperback, eBooks, audiobooks, and hardcovers).
New and upcoming titles from Broken Keys Publishing & Press
to look for in the not-too-distant future!
New Horizon: Darkness Dawns, by Diavian Gunner
A Plum Hollow Coven Story, Awakening, by Anna Blauveldt
Galdrabók: A Plum Hollow Coven Story, Book 2, by Anna Blauveldt
The Tao of Fey, by Sharleen A. McCorrister
How We See: The Brain Colouring and Learning Book, Volume 3, by Dr. Maria Zamfir & Dr. Marion Van Horn
Draelys Penti: A Captain Jake Foundling Adventure, Book 2, by Frank Rambeau
Requiem, (book 3 of the Tales of a Death Doula Trilogy) by Sharleen A. McCorrister
Explorons nos sens : la vue: Livre de coloriage et d'apprentissage du cerveau - volume 3, by Dr. Maria Zamfir & Dr. Marion Van Horn
Exhumed Ottawa: What Lies Beneath, BKP Anthology
Earlier released titles from 2025 include
From Rocking Horse to Rocking Chair, by Ian Henderson
Intersections: From the Land of Dreams, Volume 3, by Frank Rambeau
Whispers of the Forked Tongue, (book 7 of the Balancing Reality Octology), by Allysina Shinestone
Every Day is Forgotten, by Michael Adubato
SATIR's Journey: A Captain Jake Foundling Adventure, (book 1), by Frank Rambeau
Life is an Adventure, by Ian Henderson
Silent Ripples, by Jagjeet Sharma
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