Congratulations, Pat!
How did the dog become man’s best friend? Celebrated anthropologist Pat Shipman unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species in Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs just released Harvard Press. You can read more about the book and buy it at McIntyre’s Books in Pittsboro […]
Congratulations, Sandra!
Sandra Fischer has released Every Day is Christmas, a book of Christmas stories for everyone – some true, some imagined – and all beautifully illustrated by Becky Guinn. Her illustrations painted with her mechanical hand bring life to the stories. You can order the book on Amazon or directly from Sandra. Or better yet, if […]
Nancy Williard
WMO: Why do you write? NW: I remember sitting in a treehouse at ten singing songs and telling myself stories. I cannot remember not writing. WMO: What themes and ideas do you like to explore? NW: I seem to write a lot about trauma. In my fiction I often have young “coming of age” […]
Why, oh why, was my manuscript rejected?
Last month’s Slush Pile was another inspiring, interesting, and informative session, filled with praise for work well done and suggestions to make work better. Noah Stetzer (Associate Director, Bull City Press), Tracy Crow (Tracy Crow Literary Agency), and Ty Stumpf (Poet and Humanities Chair, Central Carolina Community College), would have continued to read many […]
Congratulations, Stella!
Stella Fosse (aka Jody Savage) launched her new book, Brilliant Charming Bastard, on October 29 to rave reviews! Check them out here. And, pick up your copy at McTyre’s Books in Pittsboro.
So, you want to self-publish your manuscript—
Self-publishing with Graham Bird So, you want to self-publish your manuscript—easy peasy, right? Well, maybe. It all depends on what you want to be when you grow up. That is the question Graham Bird, asks all his marketing clients. Graham is asking what you want to and why. The answers he says will prevent […]
Book Launch: Brilliant Charming Bastard
Congratulations to Stella Fosse (aka Jody Savage) on the publication of her latest book! Chapel Hill, North Carolina September 30, 2021 Baubo Books Announces Publication of Brilliant Charming Bastard by Stella Fosse Getting Rich is the Best Revenge Publication Date: 29th October 2021 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-950227-06-8 Cover Price: $12.99 eBook ISBN: 978-195-0227-07-5 […]
Writing Is An Adventure
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) began in 1999 as a way to encourage twenty-one would-be novel writers to complete a manuscript in a month’s time. Fifty thousand words was set as the goal because Chris Baty, the founder, determined that was the length of the shortest novel on his bookshelf—Huxley’s Brave New Word. NaNoAriMO quickly […]
Congratulations, Sandra!
Sandra Fisher’s “Fine” won our 2021 One-Syllable Ulta Flash Fiction contest. To read her story, click on the Ultra Flash Fiction heading, above.
2021 One Syllable Winner: “Fine” by Sandra Fischer
The call she knew would come came. He’s gone, they said. Died in his sleep. Tears fell, some for joy that he was free. She could let him go at last. In a sense, he’d been gone for six long years since they first heard why his speech was mixed and strange. The words […]