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Luna Press, publisher of Dalt’s books, is offering FREE SHIPPING on all orders placed before December 31. This is a great opportunity to share Dalt’s titles – including French Quarter Fables, The Riddles of Existence, Spiritual Gifts, and the forthcoming Lonely Voyagers – with friends and family around the country for the holidays!

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Lonely Voyagers
Illustrations by Simon Blake
Text by Dalt Wonk

Hardcover, 10 x 12 1/2 inches, 56 pages
26 images
Published by Luna Press, 2019

“Word and image combine seamlessly to bring to life a fantastic world. An alluring journey. A beautiful sense of bewilderment.”
— David Gordon Green

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Listen to Dalt read from French Quarter Fables

“New Orleans publishing company launches books of art, short stories” 

Susan Larson, The New Orleans Advocate, January 7, 2019

Like many good ideas in New Orleans, Luna Press began over drinks on a French Quarter balcony. Photographer Josephine Sacabo and her husband, writer Dalt Wonk, recalled a visit with Mexican guests, during which discussion turned to founding a publishing company.

“But what we would call it?” Wonk asked.

“One of the women pointed up at the moonlit sky and said, ‘La Luna,’ ” Sacabo remembered. A fitting name and serendipitous beginning for the publisher of such dreamy books as “Nocturnes,” with Sacabo’s moonstruck images and Wonk’s distinctive poems. And with that book, Wonk added, “We knew we could do it.”

[Read more…] about Dalt Wonk and Luna Press profiled in “The New Orleans Advocate”

“On Ursulines Street, a haven for a pair of French Quarter artists to write, create images, dream”

R. Stephanie Bruno, The New Orleans Advocate, December 27, 2018

When Dalt Wonk and Josephine Sacabo moved back to America from France in 1973, they chose to settle in the city that would cause the least culture shock. That was New Orleans and, specifically, the French Quarter.

“The Quarter was a wonderful place to live in the early 1970s,” Wonk said. “There were writers and artists and musicians, a creative scene, because it was a cheap place to live. Rents were as little as $10 a night to $100 a month. It was the most European of American cities, and it’s why Josephine and I have been so happy.”

[Read more…] about Dalt’s French Quarter home featured in “The New Orleans Advocate”

Author Dalt Wonk’s Spiritual Gifts.

Karl Lengel, WWNO, November 29, 2018

“The French Quarter has been a cultural crossroads of the world for centuries. Its streets, alleys and buildings have provided a background for multitudes of stories, both fiction and non-fiction, that have chronicled the passages of time, lives and spirits. New Orleans’ writer Dalt Wonk, a French Quarter icon, has lived there most of his life and offers a brand new volume of stories that reflect the neighborhood’s unique charm, appropriately titled, Spiritual Gifts: French Quarter Short Stories. WWNO’s Karl Lengel sat down with Dalt to talk about the book.”

Click here to listen to the interview.

“Our 2018 Book Recommendations” by Chris Turner-Neal

Country Roads Magazine, December 2018

“One of the most important skills any person can develop is to eavesdrop well. If you can gaze vacantly at a paperback while skimming the conversations around you like radio stations, you’ll seldom have a dull flight. (The paperback is essential; the last thing you want to have happen is that someone you’re trying to eavesdrop on actually addresses you.) If you can master this feat, the world is your Scheherazade; prison stints, miscarriages, failed loves, alcoholic binges, dramatic resignations, ashtray-throwing breakups, and any other human drama you can imagine will be described within eight feet of you if you but look nonthreatening and hide behind a novel.

[Read more…] about Spiritual Gifts featured in Country Roads Magazine

Please join us for a launch party and book signing celebrating Luna Press’s Fall 2018 releases, including Dalt’s new collection of French Quarter short stories, Spiritual Gifts. Refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Luna Press Fall Book Launch and Signing
Saturday, December 8, 2018, 4 – 7 pm
Nadine Blake
1036 Royal St., New Orleans, LA 70116

 

Please join author Dalt Wonk and illustrator Simon Gunning for a book signing of Spiritual Gifts.

Wednesday, November 28, 6 – 7:30 pm
Garden District Book Shop
(The Rink Shopping Center)
2727 Prytania Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

 

Luna Press is excited to be exhibiting at the Louisiana Book Festival again this year, where Dalt’s new book Spiritual Gifts, will be for sale. Don’t miss this wonderful celebration of all things literary!

Saturday, November 10, 2018, 9 am – 4 pm
Capitol Park, Downtown Baton Rouge
701 North 4th Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Click here for more information

 

Dalt is honored to be participating in the 2017 Louisiana Book Festival as a Featured Author. He will be presenting his latest book, The Laughing Lady, with a book signing to follow.

Saturday, October 28
701 North 4th Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Presentation: 3:15-4:45 pm
State Library, 5th Floor
Booksigning: 4-4:45 pm
Bookseller Tent on the Festival Ground
Click here for more information

 

Dalt will discuss his latest book, The Laughing Lady, with three other local authors of children’s books at Jefferson Parish Library. Dalt, along with Yvonne Perret, Bob Bruce and David Cuthbert, will discuss the processes and the unique challenges of writing literature for children. The event is free and open to the public. Copies of The Laughing Lady will be for sale. Hope to see you there!

September 14, 7pm
Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library
4747 West Napoleon Blvd, Metairie, LA 70001

We are excited to announce The Laughing Lady — a fantasy adventure for children 6-12 years old with original music written and recorded in New Orleans. Check it out.

Dalt Wonk will be signing books at The Art of Giving at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Tuesday, December 6, 5pm.