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David Memmott’s long narrative poem, “Where the Yellow Brick Road Turns West,” was selected as a finalist for the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award in the Western poem category. Memmott’s poem was published in his collection, Giving It Away, which as published in 2009 by Wordcraft of Oregon.
The poem has also been published as an e-chapbook by World Voices and can be read on the Web del Sol literary locus website at: http://chapbooks.webdelsol.com/worldvoices/memmott/memmott.html
Information on Giving It Away and other books published by La Grande’s literary small press, Wordcraft of Oregon, can be found on their website: http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com
WGEO just added a FREE barcode generator to the "Links" page, so check it out! Special thanks to Terry Burton of the United Kingdom.
Author Chuck "Charlie MacNeil" Buchanan has released his second traditional cowboy western, Tyler's Law : The Deputies Book 2, published by Author House Publishing. (update Feb, 2009)
Author Kerry Jones has a new book, THE STONE'S RELEASE, second in her Quinguard Immortal romance series. Read the review from Manic Readers below.
"THE STONE'S RELEASE continues Ms. Jones' Quinguard series. This was a magical book, in all of the best ways. The romance is sweet and touching, the story is fantastic, and the characters are compelling. Ash was a wonderful, loving alpha male and Bailey struck just the right notes as a woman determined to save those she loves in the face of the inexplicable. The plot was full of twists and turns and the outcome was heart-warming. It is always a thrill to discover a new author of this caliber and I will be going out immediately to find the other books that Ms. Jones has written. I highly recommend this book for all lovers of paranormal romance or fantasy!"
Manic Readers
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Nancy Garhan Attebury now has a new website! We can provide a similar, free site to our member authors on request. (March 20)
Dave Memmott published "Disciples of Paradox," a poem dedicated to Stephen Hawking, online with the Strange Horizons, a weekly, web-based magazine of speculative fiction.
Kerry Jones was featured in a front page article about Black Lyon Publishing in the Baker City Herald on January 14th.
New books by Clair Button (Coyote Staircase), Chuck Buchanan (Complications), and Roberta Marlow (The Copperfield Affair) were featured in a great review published in the January issue of Oregon Trail Ruralite magazine.
Richard Mack now has a website set up as a subdomain of WGEO. We can provide a similar free site for our other authors on request. Contact Clair Button.
Joe Knotts just published a new children's mystery novel, The Case of the Stolen Twins - click the link or see our Publications page.
Debby Schoeningh recently gave an advance review of Clair Button's newest novel, Coyote Staircase. Read her first impressions at this link.
Wordcraft of Oregon has added an on-line store feature to their website, enabling direct purchase of a number of the books listed on this site in the "Publications" page. (9/7/07)
Clair Button's newest novel, Coyote Staircase, was given a glowing review in the East Oregonian (Pendleton) newspaper on July 15, 2007. Read the review at this link.
Debby Schoeningh, editor of The Record-Courier, received second place for "Best Local Column" in the annual Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association Better Newspaper Contest, awarded July 13 at the annual ONPA convention in Salem.
Schoeningh submitted three of her "Country Side" columns, which included "The Bleeping Bleep Bleep", "Food To Motivate, Exercise To Compensate", and "The Unsuspecting City Slicker."
Misha Nogha has a new book of poetry out, Magpies and Tigers, published in paperback with Wordcraft of Oregon. See this title at the Wordcraft link or on our publications page.
Kerry Jones has a brand new paranormal romance novel Cast In Stone available now in PDF e-book format and paperback.
Joe Knotts has a new children's mystery, The Mystery of the Small Tower available through Lulu.com as of July, 2007.
Glenda Carter and Vietnam War veteran Steve Nolley were featured in a June 18,2007 article in the Roseburg News-Review when Glenda visited Steve to discuss his war experience with Glenda's deceased husband, Bruce. It was another part of her continued journey of healing and evidence that every part of her struggle is still current and pertinent to thousands of people dealing with the emotional effects of war.
Member-Author Richard Mack has a new book out as of June 2007. Quail Song is a romantic fiction novel set in modern eastern Oregon. We will be adding information about this book to our site soon.
Kerry Jones has recently brought two of her own titles under her own publishing company, Black Lyon Publishing. New You-Tube book trailers (a new marketing innovation) are posted at links Orion in the Winter Sky and at Loved Enough