For Missouri Writers Guild attendees For those who attended my session at the Missouri Writers Guild Conference: Here you can review the webpages and links I discussed. Please note, the text of this talk below is geared to UPM’s presentation “How to Parse a Press,” which we make on the campuses of our eight supporting…

Originally posted on Fiction and History: from Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies I swear, Yates introduces characters so genuinely and fully, you’re stunned to discover they weren’t figures borrowed from history…. Yates can set a scene with the best of them, and capture the broad vistas of battle as ably as he evokes the…

A quick post to show the Morkan’s Quarry reading at the Missouri Literary Festival. My favorite comment comes at the end, when a listener says she was present at the Brentwood Library lecture in April and has since read the novel and gone on a tear of reading through histories and researching the Civil War…

5th annual Ozarks Studies Symposium set for Sept. 22-24 WEST PLAINS, Mo. – “Internal Conflict and Civil Wars: 1861-2011” is the theme of the fifth annual Ozarks Studies Symposium set for Sept. 22-24 at the West Plains Civic Center. The event celebrates the unique culture of the Ozarks by providing presentations and performances by representatives…

My wife, Tammy, has really gotten into cooking in the last two years. And now she’s comfortable enough that we do what I grew up doing on Sundays with my father: Making up new dishes without a net or recipe. This, which we made today… amazing! We enjoyed ours with hunks of manchego cheese and…

I think today (Wednesday, 4.21.2010) marks about the halfway point in a return trip to the Ozarks to bring Morkan’s Quarry to what I imagined to be its core audience. A summing up, then, is in order. Thursday morning (4.15.2010) at Ozarks Technical Community College, my longtime writing friend Michael Pulley and my former boss…

A Question and Answer with Steve Yates author of Morkan’s Quarry A novel of the Civil War from Moon City Press What is Morkan’s Quarry about? It’s a father and son story set in Springfield, Missouri, during the Civil War. Michael Morkan and his young son, Leighton, own the limestone quarry downtown, somewhat modeled after…

Around 11:10 a.m. Thursday, while I was helping a new online vendor to start selling University Press of Mississippi books, our rights manager dropped a package in a chair behind me. I knew what it was, but there was no way to get at it immediately. I had to help the kind Tennessean on the…

What I will say today at the Oxford Conference for the Book on a panel about the University Press of Mississippi celebrating its forty years of publishing Marketing After 40 Years Every so often marketing will hear the charge that “No one knows about this book!” Even for books that we have sold 15,000 copies…