Coastal Alabama Authors Check In A couple of weeks ago I did a post with entries from three authors who…
What, and How Are They Doing? For the past two weeks I’ve posted entries from 13 authors who contributed essays…
Nonfiction 23: Fiction 20 This is my third year to compile an end-of-year list of the books I read during…
Lifting One Another Up My favorite author Pat Conroy called himself a “blurb slut,” and was known for writing blurbs…
Last week I shared some sneak previews from a new anthology I edited, SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING, coming from University…
Last Thursday night I had the wonderful blessing of hearing Corey Mesler read from his latest poetry collection, Among the…
On August 19 I was on two panels at the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival. I moderated one panel, “Her Story,”…
April is National Poetry Month, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite poetry collections by contemporary (mostly southern)…
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Pat Conroy’s death (March 4, 2016). Pat was my favorite author. I read…
I just finished reading what will probably be the last book I read in 2016. Book number 27 (I’ll publish…