Bob Harris’ THE INTERNATIONAL BANK OF BOB was selected as one of the ten Best Books of 2014 by China Times, announced at a ceremony in Taipei on January 10, 2015. Bob spoke to the audience through a video he made.

Carol Wall, author of MISTER OWITA’S GUIDE TO GARDENING and cherished mother, wife and teacher has passed away at age 63. See more here…

Ron Rash’s story collection SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE receives a Booklist Starred Review (November 15, 2015)

Ron Rash speaks about his new story collection SOMETHING RICH AND STRANGE and his writing life with Kerri Miller of Minnesota Public Radio. See here a great interview…

The movie based on Ron Rash’s novel THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, called a coming-of-age thriller, starring Jeremy Irvine is planned for distribution by Millennium Entertainment in February 2015. See more here…

Pat Conroy, a former point guard on the Citadel’s basketball team (class of 1967) and an avid fan of the sport will be honored in November 2014 by his alma mater when he is inducted as an honorary member of The Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame… See Post and Courier (SC) report on this here…

Laura Lane McNeal’s DOLLBABY has received the following recognition in its first week of July 2014 publication: Okra number one pick, Indie Next Pick, Library Reads top ten pick, A “must read book of the week” by New York Post

Laura Lane McNeal’s DOLLBABY is one of Library Journal Best of Summer Debut Novels of 2014

For “the love of words” as Pat Conroy says… we would like to share with you some of the most interesting, unusual, beautiful bookstores of the world and we hope the link here will stay active forever… Click to the site please!

Laura Lane McNeal’s DOLLBABY has received the following recognition in its first week of July 2014 publication: Okra number one pick, Indie Next Pick, Library Reads top ten pick, A “must read book of the week” by New York Post

Laura Lane McNeal’s DOLLBABY receives a Library Journal Starred Review (July 1, 2014)

Kimberly McCreight’s RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA is one of the five finalists for 2014 EDGAR AWARD in the best first novel by an American author category. See this here…

Publishers Marketplace – March 14, 2014 – Film rights – Kimberly McCreight’s forthcoming first YA speculative fiction trilogy THE OUTLIERS, to Lionsgate, with Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman at Mandeville Films and Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea at Pacific Standard producing, by Shari Smiley at Resolution, on behalf of Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Kimberly McCreight’s RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA has hit the New York Times bestseller list at #11  shortly after its December 2013 paperback publication (January 19, 2014)

Margaret Wrinkle’s WASH has been selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of ten best novels of 2013… see the article here…

Margaret Wrinkle’s WASH won the  2013 Flaherty-Dunnan Award for best debut novel of the year from The Center for Fiction in New York today December 11, 2013.  Click here for the great web page…

Peter Troy’s MAY THE ROAD RAISE UP TO MEET YOU has been selected to receive the Michael Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction (2013) awarded annually by Gettysburg College. More information on the prize can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/3338-michael-shaara-prize-for-civil-war-fiction. Peter’s acceptance speech is on his blog here… http://peter-troy.blogspot.com/

Kirkus Reviews selected three novels by our authors for their list of the Best Fiction of 2013. The titles are: THE NIGHT OF THE COMET by George Bishop, THE SALINGER CONTRACT by Adam Langer and NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY by Ron Rash

Roland Merullo’s VATICAN WALTZ is #3 in a list of TOP 10 titles selected by librarians for November 2013

Pat Conroy’s THE DEATH OF SANTINI is number 3 on the Indie list for November 3 week, number 4 on The New York Times bestseller list for the week of November 17, 2013, number 7 for the week of November 24, 2013