Steve Yates / Fiction & History
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August 26, 2024
The Lakes of Southern Hollow: A Novel (Madville Publishing / July 2024) has a mighty full schedule this fall. I hope to see a ton of friends, old and new, and introduce her to you all. BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE Saturday, September 14 Panel and signing 1:30 p.m.“Mad about Madville”10th Annual Mississippi Book FestivalMississippi State Capitol, […]
Read the post ↗July 19, 2024
I have collaborated with five publishers on six published works of fiction. But I have never experienced the good fortune and comradery that is unfolding right now in Mississippi. Madville Publishing in Lake Dallas, Texas, has published Mississippians before. The beauty and subtlety of cover and interior design Madville created in February 2023 for Mississippi […]
Read the post ↗December 9, 2020
Sandy and Wayne: A Novella has arrived in many print forms. A published novella is a crazy, lucky thing in itself. Now with Southern Hollow Press, Sandy and Wayne is available as an ebook for the first time. It’s available from Kobo, and the Barnes & Noble NOOK. With Kobo from Rakuten you can set […]
Read the post ↗October 29, 2020
When Dock Street Press in Seattle sadly said it could no longer continue, my wife, Tammy, and I decided we would dare something new. Our anniversary, November 16, 2020, will be the new publication date for Sandy and Wayne: A Novella from Southern Hollow Press. This is the novella’s third time in print. New York […]
Read the post ↗December 22, 2017
This is my Uncle Bert Yates next to his 1952 Hudson Wasp, a car he rebuilt and drove for years. Bertram worked for Beechcraft and then Boeing in Wichita, Kansas. He was the fascinating and mysterious uncle who could never tell us cousins a word about what his work entailed. It was classified, top secret. […]
Read the post ↗September 20, 2017
Last year, September 2016, at the Ozarks Studies Symposium, this is what I said about “The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel.” We leave for West Plains Thursday, and Friday, September 22, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. we’ll see if I lived up to this challenge. The whole slate of presenters is at http://ozarksymposium.wp.missouristate.edu/Presenters.htm
Read the post ↗September 13, 2017
WHAT: Matthew Guinn and Steve Yates preview the 2018 Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration and introduce the theme, Southern Gothic WHERE: Natchez Brewing Company, 207 High Street, Natchez, Mississippi WHEN: Friday, October 13, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. BOOK SALES: Turning Pages Books & More, Natchez, http://turningpagesbooks.com/ Some starter culture: Being of the Ozarks, […]
Read the post ↗May 14, 2017
from the Clarion-Ledger / Hattiesburg American Mississippi Books Page Sunday, May 14, 2017 By Matthew Guinn SPECIAL TO THE USA TODAY NETWORK – MISSISSIPPI “Happy families are all alike,” Leo Tolstoy famously said, but “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” For the feuding Sheehys and Ormonds of Steve Yates’ The Legend of […]
Read the post ↗April 29, 2017
This made no sense to Hettienne. Strange? Saturn? How could anyone ever think that Emerald Park was scary, lonely, and strange? Here was where you ran and yelled like Indians, and no one on Earth could stop you. Here was where nine nobles strove to defend castle walls and never once were defeated. Here was […]
Read the post ↗February 5, 2017
The Legend of the Albino Farm Book Trailer from Steven B Yates on Vimeo.
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