by Rebecca LeBoeuf School library media specialist James E. McTeer II’s life changed after he won the South Carolina First Novel Prize competition for his adventure novel, “Minnow.” This led to an opportunity to publish “Minnow” with independent publisher Hub City Press, who co-sponsored the competition with The South Carolina…
By Rebecca LeBoeuf A writer of nonfiction science books for children and teenagers, Dr. Loree Griffin Burns covers topical issues such as ocean pollution as well as the natural world, including books about honey bees and the life cycle of butterflies. Her books have garnered many awards, including an IRA…
By Pamme Boutselis An award-winning author of the short-story collection “Forgetting English,” Midge Raymond’s latest book, the novel “My Last Continent,” debuts today. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, Poets & Writers and many other publications. Raymond has also…
by Pamme Boutselis Teresa Burns Murphy is the author of a novel, “The Secret to Flying” (TigerEye Publications, 2011). Her writing has been published in “Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction by Washington Area Women” (Paycock Press, 2012), Academic Exchange Quarterly, Dreamstreets, Gargoyle Magazine, Inquiry, The Science Teacher, Southern…
Award-winning playwright and author Dee Dee M. Scott, is also a screenwriter, publisher, producer and director. She is the author of the bestselling book, “My Husband’s Woman,” which she later adapted to the stage. A full list of her books can be found here. Have you always written? Yes. I…
by Pamme Boutselis J.W. Ocker is the award-winning author of three nonfiction books, “The New England Grimpendium,” “The New York Grimpendium” and, most recently, “Poe-Land,” an Edgar Award-winning personal travelogue of his yearlong journey to monuments, preserved sites and other artifacts related to Edgar Allan Poe. The book includes interviews…