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Part of a Team: Madville Publishing releases three fictions by Mississippi writers in 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…
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Notes on a Southern Gothic: Books & Brews, Friday October 13, Natchez, Mississippi
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,…
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“The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel” meets the Ozarks
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…
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The State Historical Society of Missouri: An Afternoon of Fiction Set in the Missouri Ozarks
COLUMBIA, Missouri — July 18, 2015 2 – 4 p.m. Research Center–Columbia Join two authors with Missouri roots for readings from their latest projects, followed by a discussion on writing with topics ranging from choosing historical fiction to literary license and historical accuracy. Steve Wiegenstein will read highlights from This Old World, which was recently…
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Guest Post: Anything Can Happen at an Independent Bookstore
Guest Post: Anything Can Happen at an Independent Bookstore. ABOVE IS THE LINK TO A BLOG POST AT LEMURIA BOOKS’ BLOG. HERE’S THE TEXT (BUT IT IS WAY COOLER TO GO TO LEMURIA IN PERSON SATURDAY MAY 2) ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT AN INDEPENDENT BOOK STORE Saturday, May 2 is Independent Book store Day all…
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How research fires writing: wills, inventories, archives, photographs, and what I learned in Howard Bahr’s Research and Writing class
The conductor went back to his paperwork, and Artemus looked past him out the window where the woods, the moss, the houses—some of them on stilts now—passed in winter array, made soft and ephemeral in a light the color of old pearls. That sublime passage is Howard Bahr from his extraordinarily beautiful novel, Pelican Road.…
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Why the villain?
Why are the villains often so much more fun to write and so much more enjoyable to read about than our angels? Consider John Milton’s dilemma—the most exciting parts of his great epic poem, Paradise Lost, all involve Satan, the Fallen Angel. Look at Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. When the Duke of Bilgewater…
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What it has meant to be one of Curiosity’s Cats: a Yowl from St. Paul
I would love to quote feline jazz philosopher/poet Thomas O’Malley here, but I know how jealously his parent company guards his lyrics and wisdom, even though I doubt that alley cat was much of a company man at heart. At a sales reps’ meeting in New York City, the last of the December meetings I…
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Embracing what you are stuck with: the legacy of The Shepherd of the Hills
BOOK 1 I DREAM YOU In the story, it all happened in the Ozark Mountain country, many miles from what we of the city call civilization. In life, it has all happened many, many times before, in many, many places. The two trails lead afar. The story, so very old, is still in the telling.…
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