Category: Archive
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My Mission with The Press
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When I am posed with the question of what brought me to the University of North Georgia Press one word seems to do the trick; metamorphosis. There is something extraordinarily beautiful about the transformation of the written word, the knowledge that style and tone can impart, and the clarity that…
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Link-N-Blogs: December 13, 2013
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”–J. R. R. Tolkien 14 Must-have Tolkien Books: In honor of today’s release of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Huffington Post gives us this list of must-have Tolkien books. Judge Tosses Booksellers’…
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Link-N-Blogs: December 6, 2013
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher…
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The Unfortunate Numbers
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Disclaimer: The opinions below do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the University Press of North Georgia College. They belong solely to the author. There are no guidelines or dos and don’ts for writing about what three hundred years of euphemisms and a whole academic/political machinery still can’t quite figure…
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Holiday Hours
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In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, the University Press of North Georgia will have shortened hours on Monday and Tuesday, 9am-4pm. We will be closing Wednesday. Our offices will reopen for normal business hours (8:00am-5:30pm) starting Monday, December 2. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Chancellor on UPNG Textbook
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“In an effort to reduce the cost of textbooks for students, the University Press of North Georgia, with the University System of Georgia, has published a new, open-source electronic history textbook that can save students nearly $100 each without sacrificing rich and fully sourced content.”–University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank…
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Visiting Author Rundown
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The Visiting Author book signing on November 8th was a wild success, as over 80 people packed into Dahlonega Starbuck’s lounge to hear the poetry. Each of our visiting authors read several of their works, some in English, some in Spanish as Dr. Gordon E. McNeer read his translations. …
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Graphic Fidelity
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Always read the numbers behind a graph because sometimes the best intentions can make for one skewed visual. Recently, when I was meandering through the publishing blogs, I came across an article by Charlene Brusso, arguing that women authors are underrepresented in Science Fiction–or, as people prone to brevity call…