Whew! The judges for the Atlanta Writers Club 2016 Writing Contest were busy this year doing the difficult job of choosing three winners out of a field of 104 entries, about double the club’s usual 60 to 62. But choose they did. Sandra Hood took the Terry Kay Prize for Fiction for her short story […]
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The Pocket Wife is Dana Catrell, who feels she is slowly going crazy. Celia, Dana’s friend and neighbor, has been murdered, and Dana suspects that she is the killer. Published by HarperCollins and launching on March 17, The Pocket Wife is Susan Crawford’s first novel, and it’s a humdinger. It follows the stories of Dana […]
Looking for a publisher for that book you just finished writing? Deeds Publishing is right here in metro Atlanta. Bob Babcock, founder and CEO, started publishing books as a hobby, primarily for people he knew, as well as his own. The business really began to flourish the past couple of years, however, and last week […]
Valerie Joan Connors’ latest novel, Shadow of a Smile, is about a woman discovering her mother’s hidden past. Recently published by Deeds Publishing, Shadow of a Smile takes its name from Johnny Mercer’s “The Shadow of Your Smile,” a song that helped launch Anastasia Springfield’s brief singing career. Anastasia is 30-year-old Meredith Springfield’s mother, and […]
What do Karen Joy Fowler, Ron Rash, US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, Barbara Brown Taylor, Joyce Carol Oates, Thrity Umrigar, Pat Conroy, and scores of others have in common? They all participated in the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival this past weekend. The festival claims to be the largest independent book festival in the country. That […]
With a nod to Shakespeare, the question is whether to be in a critique, or writers, group or not. Personally, I find them helpful. I’m in one with three other women who are writing novels and one woman who writes non-fiction. I am profoundly grateful to these talented writers and insatiable readers for their advice […]
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