Painted Veil Press is the publishing imprint for the re-release of David Joiner’s debut novel, Lotusland. Its re-release is scheduled for March 1, 2025, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War – what the Vietnamese refer to as the American War or the Resistance War against America – which is officially recognized as April 30, 1975. 

Painted Veil Press derives its name from the title of William Somerset Maugham’s 1925 novel The Painted Veil, which in turn is in reference to the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s sonnet Lift Not the Painted Veil (1824). 

If and when more titles become available on Painted Veil Press, announcements will appear here.