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Writers League of Texas Contest Deadline Extended

Writers League of Texas Contest Deadline Extended

The 2024  Writer's League of Texas Manuscript Contest, has extended the submissions deadline from July 1 to  July 15, 2024. Have you been working hard on an unpublished manuscript that’s finally ready to see the light of day? Are you looking for some constructive...

Author Tracy K. Smith Wins Harold Washington Literary Award

Author Tracy K. Smith Wins Harold Washington Literary Award

Smith headlines Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Fest    (Chicago) May 30, 2024—Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has been named the recipient of Chicago’s 2024 Harold Washington Literary Award. She will accept this prestigious award on...

Romance Writers File for Bankruptcy

Romance Writers File for Bankruptcy

Romance Writers of America filed for bankruptcy in Houston on Wednesday, May 31, 2024, citing declining membership and payment agreements with hotels to host its annual conference. According to the filing, RWA membership has declined from approximately 10,000 members...

Shanghai by Joseph Kanon

Shanghai by Joseph Kanon

Shanghai, Joseph Kanon, Scribner – In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting yet: pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business.

When the Sea Came Alive by Garrett M. Graff

When the Sea Came Alive by Garrett M. Graff

When the Sea Came Alive, Garrett M. Graff, Avid Reader Press – From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day

The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

The Return of Ellie Black, Emiko Jean, Simon & Schuster – It’s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she’s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls.