Where hath the year gone? And why haven’t I been blogging about Dixiana (or anything)? Answers await. But first, a little story about today, 10/23.

It’s a long year ahead of Mind Harvest Press book releases and roll-outs, but for local readers here in Columbia, SC, the first Dixiana signing and discussion comes this week.

Dear Allyson: It’s that grim anniversary again. I was up before the dawn today thinking of you, and of how there are no more dawns and dusks where you are, which is not with us here on the blue rock.

This year marks a full decade of teaching various writing workshops at Midlands Tech here in Columbia. This fine personal milestone will be added to my bio from here to the far, dusty corners of my internet author presence.

Need a signed book, either for yourself or as a holiday gift? Lots of opportunities over the next few weeks here in the midlands of South Carolina.

Always a friend to my writing career and other endeavors, this week longtime local alt weekly Free Times printed a few kind words about my small publishing company and our first release from another author.

In 1986, I burned with desire but didn’t know if I could be a writer. Without feedback on my adolescent attempts at storytelling, I was shouting into a well. And while I dreamed of being a great novelist, I was also obsessed with movies, and thought it might be easier to become a screenwriter than […]

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Time again for an infrequent, overdue, full-meal report about this novelist’s various unpublished manuscripts.

A whirlwind of upcoming book signing opportunities, along with awards news.

That’s right, yours truly has been nominated as the Jasper Project’s Literary Artist of the Year Award for 2017!