On the 10th anniversary of its creation, the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction (www.williemorrisaward.org) is pleased to announce Last Ride to Graceland (Gallery Books) by Kim Wright the recipient of its 2016 literary award. Wright was honored at a ceremony at...
GRAND PRIZE WINNER: The Red Sandals by Jing Li Presented: February 2017 Jing Li is originally from China, where she was a high school English teacher before she came to the United States in 1989 and earned her Master's degree/ Education in 1990. After twenty years as...
2017 William Faulkner Literary Contest Winner First Place, Novels – Julie Carrick Dalton The Poacher’s Code Presentation: December 2017 at William Faulkner Society's Annual Gala A FEW THINGS ABOUT ME 1) I have four kids, three chickens, two dogs, and one husband. And...
The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one evening’s performance. In the dance between comic and audience, with barbs...
Meet Random House debut author Imbolo Mbue, the winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award, recognized as America’s largest peer-juried prize for fiction. Her debut novel BEHOLD THE DREAMERS earned her a $15,000 prize in April 2017. BEHOLD THE DREAMERS relates the...
Lightning Source LLC, part of Ingram Content Group (“Ingram”), is expanding its “Global Connect” print-on-demand (POD) and distribution network to Spain through an alliance with PodiPrint, one of the largest media publishing and distribution groups in Spain. "We are...
A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel that portrays what happens when a family is quarantined together over the holidays—and when keeping secrets is no longer an option… It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one...
Memoir continues as a hot seller for the main body of book buyers in America: women. For the first six months of 2017, BookScan reported sales growth in the category Biography/Autobiography/Memoir—up 8% over sales figures for the same period in 2016. This is good news...
How I Lost You, Jenny Blackhurst, Emily Bestler Books – A woman without a memory struggles to discover the truth about her past and her identity in this cerebral and dark thriller reminiscent of works by bestselling authors S.J. Watson and Ruth Ware.
The Complete Photo Manual (Revised Edition), Weldon Owen – Today’s cameras are more powerful and easy to use than ever—and thanks to The Complete Photo Manual Revised Edition, picture-perfect photos are just a shutter’s click away!
