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  • “Turn Back Before Baghdad” Cover Reveal!

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    The long-awaited, new edition of Laurence Jolidon’s novel, Turn Back Before Baghdad, will be launching on April 8, 2017. To tie you over until then, here’s the beautiful cover of this highly anticipated wartime novel.  

  • Upcoming Release: Turn Back Before Baghdad!

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    Turn Back Before Baghdad travels back in time to a quarter century ago to the morning of January 12, 1991. There was a scramble by the news outlets to reach their Eastern Saudi Arabia stationed reporters, because it happened, war was inevitably coming, and Saddam Hussein was refusing to surrender…

  • Happy Birthday Langston Hughes!

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    When I was in second grade, I fell in love with a poet. This was the first time I remember truly being in awe of words and their power, and I carried around his maroon book for a solid couple of months. It was The Dream Keeper and other Poems…

  • Celebrating Chinese Authors!

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    With the start of the Chinese New Year, we at the Press are focusing a few notable Chinese and Chinese-American authors, their accomplishments, and their contributions to the literary world.   Maxine Hong Kingston Born and raised in Stockton, California, Kingston is a first-generation Chinese-American writer who has written critically-acclaimed…

  • Lewis Carroll: Literary Genius

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    Lewis Carroll, or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was born January 27, 1832 in Cheshire, England. Charles suffered socially due to a speech impediment but excelled academically. Later, he became a talented mathematician, and even taught with Christ Church, Oxford for over twenty-five years. He also published several books about geometry, algebra,…

  • The Forgotten American Who Went: Arthur Guy Empey

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    Many are familiar with war-themed novels like The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), but few have ever heard of Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey.  Arthur Guy Empey and his first book Over the Top (1917) redefined war literature. Over the…

  • Happy Birthday, Robert Burns!

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    Robert Burns (1759-1796) was a man known by many names, including, but not limited to, Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, and the Ploughman Poet. He was a poet by trade, though his word’s effects were not bound to the literary community. Burns was regarded as the National Poet of…

  • Cassidy Webber: My Journey to Publishing

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    Hello, everyone! My name is Cassidy Webber, and I’m an English: Writing and Publication major here at the University of North Georgia. It is an absolute pleasure to have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the publishing industry. Books and literature have surrounded me since I was very…