Escape to Create, Seaside, Florida It was October of 2009 and I was in my favorite place on earth, Seaside,…
by Robert Khayat My friend Neil White, owner and director at The Nautilus Publishing Company in Oxford, Mississippi, has just…
Memphis author Angela Howard’s memoir SIN CHILD releases on March 31—one week from today, from Austin McCauley Publishers. It’s an…
Lifting One Another Up My favorite author Pat Conroy called himself a “blurb slut,” and was known for writing blurbs…
In just over two months, Southern Writers on Writing will be released by University Press of Mississippi. This is my…
Did you know that the practice of using blurbs (quotes by other authors to help promote one’s book) dates to…
“No matter what is wrong with you, a sausage biscuit will make you feel a whole lot better.”—Lee Smith’s mother…
Oxford Writes is a new organization in Oxford, Mississippi. Their “mission statement” which appears on their web site says: We…
The second annual MidSouth Book Festival took place September 9-13 at Playhouse on the Square and Circuit Playhouse in midtown…
I’m excited about the launch of Katrina Mississippi: Voices From Ground Zero, (Triton/Nautilus Press, 2015) by my friend NancyKay Wessman.…