Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

2017 Ernest Gains Award Winner, Ladee Hubbard

2017 Ernest Gains Award Winner, Ladee Hubbard

Baton Rouge Area FoundationPublished: 08 November 2017 BATON ROUGE, La. – New Orleans writer Ladee Hubbard’s novel, “The Talented Ribkins,” has been named winner of the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Now in its 11th year, the Gaines Award is a...

OpenStax Textbooks Now Accessible Via Digital Bookstores

OpenStax Textbooks Now Accessible Via Digital Bookstores

HOUSTON -- (Nov. 10, 2017) -- Rice University-based publisher OpenStax announced today that its textbooks are now available through VitalSource and RedShelf, the digital textbook providers for the majority of campus bookstores in the U.S. Colleges and universities...

The Indie Bestseller List

The Indie Bestseller List

Published Wednesday, November 8, 2017 (for the sales week ended Sunday, November 5, 2017). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States.

Library of America Announces New Editorial Director

Library of America Announces New Editorial Director

Library of America, publisher of the award-winning series that has been called “the most important book-publishing project in the nation’s history” (Newsweek) and “the de facto canon of American literature” (New York Times), has hired industry veteran John Kulka as editorial director. 

Author, screenwriter Jonathan W. Stokes to visit Dallas

Author, screenwriter Jonathan W. Stokes to visit Dallas

Author and screenwriter Jonathan W. Stokes will visit the Dallas area on Wednesday, November 14 for a launch of the second book in his Goonies-style adventure series for middle grade readers, Addison Cooke and the Tomb of the Khan. 

Call for Entries: 2018 Saroyan International Writing Prize

Call for Entries: 2018 Saroyan International Writing Prize

Submissions are now being accepted for the 8th William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, the award recognizes newly published works of fiction and nonfiction with a...

Frostwing by Richard A. Knaak

Frostwing by Richard A. Knaak

  Frostwing By Richard A. Knaak Buy This Book via Amazon.com Permuted Press | 368 pages | ISBN 9781682613856 | November 2017 Grigori Nicolau thought that he could escape the gargoyle haunting him for centuries . . . only to discover that the creature called...

THE “VEDDY” FORMAL DINNER PARTY: SOME HARROWING HINTS

THE “VEDDY” FORMAL DINNER PARTY: SOME HARROWING HINTS

“‘The ‘Veddy’ Formal Dinner Party’ is a satirical piece I wrote that was originally published in 1977 in Washington Dossier, the society magazine for the nation’s capital from 1975-1991 run by my wife and eldest son. Every page in the magazine reveals a different...