Firehouse Publications

11/27/2025

The Fox, The Falcon, & the Serpent: https://amzn.to/4pnsJOa

In the shadows of Edo-era Japan, a young girl named Chiyo grows beneath the weight of a serpent’s crime—her mother’s death disguised as misfortune, her father’s honor erased by whispers. But the snake that struck her family still coils in silk nearby… waiting to strike again.

By day, Chiyo becomes the perfect courtesan in the House of Snow—graceful, obedient, unseen.
By night, she becomes something far more dangerous: a silent blade, trained in fortified venom, deception, and patience by her father’s own hand.

As Chiyo navigates a world of samurai politics, brothel intrigue, corrupt detectives, forbidden love, and murderous secrets, she discovers a truth more devastating than she imagined. The woman who owns her life may also be the one who destroyed it.

To reclaim her family’s honor, Chiyo must unravel a network of blackmail, illusions, and hidden identities—and face the serpent behind it all. But justice in Edo walks with quiet feet… and sometimes wears the mask of a fox.

Perfect for readers who are fans of:
Japanese historical fiction
Strong female protagonists
Samurai revenge stories
Myth-infused thrillers
Asian folklore
Vengeance and redemption arcs
Dark, atmospheric coming-of-age tales

06/27/2024

My new e-book on Japan Travel is now available on Amazon. ;-)
I believe you can read it for free if you have an Amazon account.

This book isn’t your average travel guide—If you’re an “influencer” or looking for your next social media viral moment, DO NOT buy this book. It’s designed specifically for the savvy traveler diving into Japan for the first time. We’re all about soaking up the culture without breaking ...

07/10/2023

Our first travel-based ebook.

Pilgrim-Age To Rome: A travel guide for adult children and their aging parents of faith

02/02/2023

NCMA now has our books available at their bookstore! We hope to join the pop up events and share some of the original artwork from the book series.

11/26/2021

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Check out all of the amazing designs that Posters4ArtEd has created for your Zazzle products. Make one-of-a-kind gifts with these designs!

09/28/2021

New book! The Art & Literacy Workbook

A new resource from www.firehousepublications.com available on Amazon as well.

09/13/2021

NEW BOOK AVAILABLE TODAY!

Literacy is a critical skill for students. Many schools and districts have implemented initiatives to incorporate literacy skills across the curriculum for the benefit of their students. Often, testing performance is tied to school funding. When budgets are cut, art is usually the first program to be removed. However, art is also one of the few classes that students are excited to attend, and we can leverage that interest to motivate students to write about their work, sharing their creative visions. Reading, reflecting, writing, critiquing, and editing can seamlessly be incorporated into art classes. My own students outperform their peers regularly on written assessments because we do these exercises regularly in art. When the administration sees this, my program's future is secure, and funding increases.

This book contains these resources with rights to copy:
Literacy Rubric
Pre-Project Writing*
Mid-Project Peer Review*
Project Reflections & Critique
Principle & Element Worksheets
Dada Written Project
Compare & Contrast Assignments
Video Notes
Artist Statements*
Letter to a Famous Artist*
Art News Stories*
Art Breakdown* (Who, What, Where, When, & Why)
Art Makes Sense* (Sight, Touch, Smell, Taste, Sound)
Ekphrastic Poem* (Writing poems about artwork)
The Story of Art* (Write a story as if the art was an illustration)
Classical Poetry Explorations
Art Quotes Explorations
Research Assignments
*This book does incorporate compiled content from several other books from Firehouse Publications. Items with an asterisk (*) are unique to this book.

Art & Literacy Workbook: Worksheets to reinforce literacy skills in art

07/22/2021

This is how our workbooks were intended to be used.

Our workbooks are intended for Choice-Based art classes, where projects can be personalized by students to a high degree. Though this may not be a good pairi...

07/13/2021

We are doing our last update to "The Art Student's Workbook" and will transition to a new title in 2022. "The Workbook For Art Students." It will be a bit longer, include space for independent projects, and will include more sketching pages and links to video resources we have been creating.

01/04/2021

I have shared quite a few new resources on my blog and have just added many of them to my books; "The Art Student's Workbook" (Teacher & Student Editions) My "Advanced Art Workbook" (Teacher & Student Editions) and "Art Assessments."

Over Covid distance learning, I created a lot of new tutorials and resources, so I added many links to those in the workbooks so that supplemental resources could be pulled up as well.

If you have used any of my resources, I'd appreciate it if you post a review for them on Amazon. It's the best thank you possible!

A quick way to find them is to click on any book cover on the publishing website, pictures link directly to their Amazon page.

www.firehousepublications.com

​​Covid-19 Limited Copyright Permissions Granted: As author, and a teacher also facing the Covid-19 Pandemic, I wanted to let you know Firehouse Publications is giving teachers permission to...

01/02/2021

Big updates coming this week to our most popular books.

Art Student's Workbook (Both)
Advanced Art Workbook (Both)
Art Assessments.

For the workbooks, the main improvement are many links to videos and lesson samples to make teaching easier with lots of extra free resources! More lessons too, and updated quotes.

This may mean our books appear to be out of print on Amazon for a bit while they update, but it should take only a few days.