Joseph Bathanti and Mountain Wordsmiths

 The large group of writers who attended Mountain Wordsmiths Thursday morning had the pleasure of hearing Joseph Bathanti read and talk for about thirty minutes. Then he answered questions and had dialogue with those who were eager to talk to him about his poetry, his writing program, and his environmental views about mountaintop removal. 

One of the things I like best about Joseph is his casual demeanor and his genuine appreciation for his audience. We all felt we could speak up and join in the discussion. To purchase his latest book visit this link to LSU Press. His new book is Light at the Seams. Read more about it. You will want to own this book.

Carroll Taylor is the founder and leader of Mountain Wordsmiths and none of us knew it would be such a popular event for NCWN-West. Carroll's easy manner and casual ways make everyone feel comfortable. At this recent event, we had Ken Chamblee, noted poet, Pat Zick, author of novels, nonfiction, and now Netwest county Representative for Cherokee County in North Carolina. We had Jill Jennings from Florida sitting in with us as well as other writers from distant places. 

Part of the enjoyment of this online group is seeing the poets and writers from the far reaches of the NCWN-West region gather to visit and share their views and their writing. Mountain Wordsmiths has brought our Netwest writers closer than ever. I used to try to visit the distant counties and meet with reps and members, but COVID put a stop to that. However, we will not be stopped.

Carroll Taylor

Karen Holmes

Carroll's Mountain Wordsmiths and Karen Paul Holmes's Writers' Night Out are on Zoom and each month we are delighted to see local friends and writers and poets from across the country on our Zoom screen. 

Please feel free to join us for these events you can only find on Zoom. 

Contact Carroll at vibiaperpetua@gmail.com for Mountain Wordsmith's Zoom invitation. Contact Karen Paul Holmes at kpaulholmes AT protonmail DOT COM to receive your link for Writers' Night Out. You can ask Karen and Carroll to put you on their contact list and you will receive the announcement of the guests each month and the Zoom link.

If you have questions for me, Glenda Beall, about reading or attending, email glendabeall@msn.com. 

Support John C. Campbell Folk School - It supports you.

 About John C. Campbell Folk School

The Folk School transforms lives, bringing people together in a nurturing environment for experiences in learning and community life that spark self-discovery. Located in scenic Brasstown, North Carolina, the Folk School offers year-round weeklong and weekend classes for adults in craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography, and writing.

NCWN-West is proud that the folk school advertises with us on our website and our blog. Please help us spread the word about this great place to learn about ourselves, learn a craft or an art, and meet so many terrific people. The writing program is excellent. Check out the classes you will find there.

Distinguished Poet Joseph Bathanti to be Featured Reader for Mountain Wordsmiths

JOSEPH BATHANTI

Mountain Wordsmiths writers are honored to have as our featured reader the distinguished poet, author, and former Poet Laureate of NC, Joseph Bathanti on Thursday morning, June 23, at 10:30 via Zoom. 

The monthly gathering, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West, is continuing its online presence because local writers, as well as writers from other states and cities, are joining us each month on Zoom.

Bathanti is the author of ten books of poetry. 

His novel, East Liberty, won the 2001 Carolina Novel Award. His novel, Coventry, won the 2006 Novello Literary Award. His book of stories, The High Heart, won the 2006 Spokane Prize. They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists, 1971-1995, his book of nonfiction, was published in early 2007. The novel, The Life of the World to Come, was released by the University of South Carolina Press in late 2014. His more recent book of personal essays, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless, winner of the Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction, is from Mercer University Press. A new volume of poems, Light at the Seam, is forthcoming in 2022 from LSU Press. 

Bathanti is the McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Education & Writer-in-Residence of Appalachian State University’s Watauga Residential College in Boone, NC. He was named Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and received the 2016 North Carolina Award for Literature.

He served as the 2016 Charles George VA Medical Center Writer-in-Residence in Asheville, NC, and is the co-founder of the Medical Center’s Creative Writing Program. Bathanti lives in Vilas, NC, with his wife, Joan, and two children. He and his wife met while both were working with the VISTA program.

NCWN-West is continuing to stay in touch by using technology to share our writing. 

We will offer writing events and writing classes online until we can safely meet face-to-face again. Many writers are enjoying the convenience and flexibility of Zoom meetings because of the ability to join us from other locations.

Those wishing to attend Mountain Wordsmiths may contact Carroll Taylor at vibiaperpetua@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. We welcome those who would simply like to listen to the beauty of wordsmithing.

                                                                       

Carolina Mountains Literary Festival

The Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in Burnsville NC is back this year. 

September 8-10

Click on this link  https://cmlitfest.org/  and see who will be presenting. They are an impressive group.

For a number of years I have wanted to attend this event, but could not. As I read about this year's September literary festival, more than ever I wish I could be there.

If you live near Burnsville or can afford to go and stay all weekend, by all means, you should go. And if you do, please write an article about it that we can post here on our site for writers.

For Registration information visit this site.

https://cmlitfest.org/2022schedule/

Multi-Talented Carrol Taylor: Zoom Reading June 10, 7 pm

Writers' Night Out - June 10, 7 p.m. Reading + Discussion... + Open Mic  Carroll Taylor, multi-genre writer "When Sissie Stevenson reluctantly begins her fifth grade year at Slippery Branch Elementary School, she has lots of questions that need answers. How can she stop the class bully from picking on her cousin and best friend Spud McKenna?" —Chinaberry Summer, Young Adult Novel by Carroll Taylor NCWN-West invites you to join us via ZOOM (see link below).

Carroll S. Taylor is the author of two young adult novels, Chinaberry Summer and Chinaberry Summer: On the Other Side. Both books emphasize themes of generational storytelling and anti-bullying, interwoven with learning about reptiles and amphibians. Her children’s book, Feannag the Crow, teaches children about making friends and appreciating both their diversity and their unique talents. Her poetry has appeared in the Georgia Poetry Society’s Reach of Song, yourdailypoem.com, the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International online art gallery, Old Mountain Press, and the anthology Poems to Lift You Up and Make You Smile. In November 2021, Taylor and three other local Appalachian authors were honored by their illustrator with a mural featuring animals and characters from their children’s books. The mural was installed on the outside wall of Mountain Regional Library in Young Harris, GA, to encourage children to read. Taylor is also a member of Scribes On Stage, and she co-wrote and directed a one-act play about the history of Clay County, NC; Hayesville; and the Cherokee Trail of Tears. “Beneath the Sky and Waters” was performed onstage at the Peacock Performing Arts Theatre in April 2022. After teaching in high school and university settings for more than forty years, Taylor retired with her husband in Hiawassee, GA. To learn more about her, visit chinaberrysummer.com. Sign up for Open Mic: 3-4 minute max, poetry or prose (2 poems only, please) by emailing glendabeall@msn.com

Coffee With the Poets and Writers to Resume Monthly Meetings at Moss Memorial Library

Marcia Barnes, Renowned Poet and Writer, Will Speak

Coffee with the Poets and Writers (CWPW) will feature poet and writer Marcia Barnes on Wednesday, June 8 at 10:30 A.M. at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, N.C.

The event is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the presentation. Bring a poem or short prose piece to participate. CWPW is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network West (NCWN-West), which also includes writers in Towns, Union, Fannin, and Rabun Counties in Georgia.

Coffee with the Poets and Writers will meet every second Wednesday from June until December 2022. Masks are optional.

Marcia Barnes earned a Bachelor’s degree in fine art, with a concentration in drawing, from the University of South Florida, Tampa. She grew up in Washington State near Puget Sound and in sight of the mountains.

Barnes writes poetry and has authored three published books. Currently, she writes feature articles and reports on local news for the Clay County Progress. Barnes says that the degree she received did not lead to her earlier career, and that career did not cut a path to writing.

After a series of nondescript jobs, while finishing college and raising four children, she had a 20-year career in the commercial flooring industry. Working from an office in Tampa, she traveled west to Fort Worth, south to the Bahamas, north to Kentucky, and many places in between.

In March 2004, her husband’s engineering work moved the couple to middle Georgia. Barnes took a part-time job with a designer in Perry, then started writing and never stopped.

Two of her published books were written while living in Warner Robins, “The Little Book of Secret Family Recipes” and “Tobijah,” illustrated by Doreyl Ammons Cain. Barnes was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Children’s Book Category for “Tobijah” in 2017, by the Georgia Writers Association.

Barnes’ second children’s book, “A Day with Tobijah” was published in 2019, after a move to the North Georgia Mountains.

Her poetry has been published by Negative Capability Press, Poem, Slant and appeared in Poetry and Prose Anthologies published by Old Mountain Press.

Barnes says that she is still not completely sure how she got from there to here, but friends who write, and the North Carolina Writers Network, and the people she works with at Clay County Progress have been a huge help.

Barnes lives in Clay County, N.C., with her lively cat Celeste. For more information, contact Joan Howard, joanhoward121@gmail.com,

Brenda Kay Ledford's Poetry Published

 Brenda Kay Ledford's poems, "Ode to the Guitar," and "Soldier," appeared in "West End Poets Newsletter," June/July/August 2022

www.westendpoetsweekend.com

These poems are in memory of her brother, Harold, who was a veteran of the US Army and served in the Vietnam War.

Are Catherine Carter's poems oddball?

 The late poet Thomas Lux once called Catherine Carter’s poems “oddball”.

He wasn’t exactly wrong. And the sticker on her office door that reads, “I like poetry, long walks on the beach, and poking dead things with a stick” isn’t entirely a joke.   

Sign on Catherine’s office door

Catherine’s parents are a master gardener and an estuarine biologist, so she’s spent a lot of time poking dead things with sticks.  Her poems’ subjects include buzzards (the family totem), water-witching, an unexpected appearance by the Greek goddess Artemis to Appalachia, and an ode to the humble anus. 

That’s because Catherine’s writing tries to illuminate the immanence of what’s right in front of us all the time, especially in nonhuman nature.  Things don’t have to conform to human standards of prettiness or align with human values to be sacred, or to be marvelous.  That’s one reason the collection she’s currently completing, By Stone and Needle, centers around the figure of the witch. 

It’s a way to explore how the ideas of witchcraft and monstrosity are used to subdue women. It opens up some of the ways that women remain and become themselves in the fires of menopause. And it connects both of these to the burning of the earth in an era of accelerating global warming. While that may sound depressing, these are in fact poems of often fierce praise and rejoicing in the marvels all around us here and now. They’re poems of joy even in an era of profound injustice and ecological collapse. The poems locate hope in resistance and in praise.

These days, Catherine is a professor of English at Western Carolina University.  She lives with her husband Brian Gastle in Cullowhee, NC.  

On a good day, she can roll a whitewater kayak and re-queen a beehive.  On less good days, though, she collects stings, rock-rash, and multiple contusions.  She has served for the past six years as the Jackson County representative of NCWN-West where she has supported and encouraged writers and poets.

 By Stone and Needle, if her editors accept it, may arrive in fall 2025.  Catherine’s prior collections of poetry with LSU Press include The Memory of Gills (2006) The Swamp Monster at Home (2012), and Larvae of the Nearest Stars (2019); she has one chapbook with Jacar Press, Marks of the Witch.  

Catherine offers a variety of workshops and topics on both writing and teaching poetry, and she welcomes the opportunity to meet with students and adult writers. Visit her website to learn more.

"If you’re looking for someone to read at an event or bookstore, or participate in a literary festival, or run workshops at a retreat or writer’s event, please feel free to contact me," she says. "I can assure you that I respect the need for a poet to not only edify but entertain an audience."

 An Award-Winning Poet

Catherine Carter's poetry has won the North Carolina Literary Review’s James Applewhite Prize, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society’s Roanoke-Chowan Award, Jacar Press’ chapbook contest; it has also appeared in Orion, Poetry, Ecotone, RHINO, North American Review, Poetry South, Southern Humanities Review, Poetry South, Tar River Poetry, and Ploughshares, among others.

Books

You can purchase Catherine's books through your favorite independent bookstores. They are usually available at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC, which will also ship books to customers if you call and order them (828) 586-9499); and through LSU Press at https://lsupress.org/authors/detail/catherine-w-carter/

 

Catherine will be the featured guest for Coffee with the Poets and Writers, Moss Memorial Library, in Hayesville, NC on August 10, 10:30 AM. The meeting is open to the public. 

 

 

Distinguished Poet Kenneth Chamlee to be Featured Reader for Mountain Wordsmiths

Kenneth Chamlee

Mountain Wordsmiths is honored to have as our featured reader, distinguished poet Kenneth Chamlee, on Thursday morning, May 26, at 10:30 via Zoom. Our monthly gathering, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West, is continuing its online presence because local writers, as well as writers from other states and cities, are joining us each month on Zoom.

Chamlee is a 2022 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poems have appeared in The North Carolina Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, The Asheville Poetry Review, Ekphrasis, and many other journals, including several editions of Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina Poets. He has two contest-winning chapbooks, Absolute Faith (ByLine Press) and Logic of the Lost (Longleaf Press), and has done residencies with the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Hambidge Center.

Chamlee has received three Pushcart Prize nominations and in 2017 was a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize. An Emeritus Professor of English at Brevard College, NC, he was the first director of the Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, held annually in Brevard.  

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and teaches for the Great Smokies Writing Program of UNC-Asheville. His new collection of poems, If Not These Things, will be published in the fall of 2022. His poetic biography of 19th century American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, The Best Material for the Artist in the World, is forthcoming in 2023. Learn more about him at www.kennethchamlee.com and @kenchamlee on Twitter. 

NCWN-West is continuing to stay in touch by using technology to share our writing. We will offer writing events and writing classes online until we can safely meet face-to-face again. Many writers are enjoying the convenience and flexibility of Zoom meetings because of the ability to join us from other locations.

 Mountain Wordsmiths will continue its online presence. For those who enjoyed attending Coffee with the Poets and Writers which met at Moss Memorial Library, exciting news is coming soon!

Those wishing to attend Mountain Wordsmiths may contact Carroll Taylor at vibiaperpetua@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. We welcome those who would simply like to listen to the beauty of wordsmithing.

                                                                     

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Diane C. McPhail

Hi, Glenda.
My second novel, historical fiction, will be released on May 31, with a big launch in New Orleans. The book, THE SEAMSTRESS OF NEW ORLEANS, is a mystery set in 1900 in the early efforts toward women’s rights and equality.

Set against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe at the turn of the century, the acclaimed author’s mesmerizing historical novel tells of two strangers separated by background but bound by an unexpected secret—and of the strength and courage women draw from and inspire in each other.  GoodReads

“An undercurrent of New Orleans’s dark side propels the story, heightening the tension and supplying McPhail with a wealth of evocative details.” – Publishers Weekly

I am thrilled to write a review for this fantastic book! Most movies and books honestly do not really "get" New Orleans correct when they try to tell a story about this city. This author Diane C. McPhail has written a book that captures the essence of New Orleans. It also has wonderful friendships between women who want to support and lift other women to achieve.   GoodReads early reviewer

A dynamic first chapter sets the tone for this showcase of female friendship. Not everything is resolved, making the story all the more believable.   GoodReads early reviewer

Amazon is offering a free kindle “sneak peek”  at the moment. https://www.amazon.com/Seamstress-New-Orleans-Sneak-Peek-ebook/dp/B09RQBRB9C/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1NM1AK031LGTW&keywords=the+seamstress+of+new+orleans&qid=1651853000&sprefix=seamstress+of+%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-2

Celia Miles has published another Marcy Dehanne Grist Mill Mystery

 

Celia enthralls her readers and fans with her mystery novels. 

Read an interview with Celia Miles here.

Celia Miles, a native of western North Carolina, lives and writes from Asheville. 

She writes in various genres and her fiction—all women-oriented—reflects her interests in old grist mills and Neolithic sites around the world.

She attended Brevard and Berea Colleges and has graduate degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and IUP in Pennsylvania. She taught at Brevard College and retired from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College as an instructor.

Celia Miles, 

Three of Celia's clean and cozy mysteries feature intrepid Marcy Dehanne, an instructor turned grist mill consultant, who finds that old mills too often harbor a dead body: The Body at Wrapp's Mill; The Body at StarShine Mill; and, 2020, The Skeleton at the Old Painted Mill.

Now a new book follows Marcy Dehanne and it is set in a grist mill. I know we all want to see what is going to happen to Marcy now.
Learn more about Celia's books on her website: https://celiamiles.com/

Poet David Graham to be Featured at Writers’ Night Out on Zoom

Poet and editor David Graham will be the featured guest for Writers’ Night Out on Friday evening, May 13, at 7:00 PM. 

DAVID GRAHAM

This monthly event sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West is being held online because of continued COVID precautions. We hope to meet again in person in the near future. However, we are happy that not only local writers but those from other states and distant cities are joining us each month on Zoom.

Graham has seven collections of poetry, and the most recent is The Honey of Earth (Terrapin Books, 2019). He co-edited (with Tom Montag) the anthology Local News: Poetry About Small Towns, and, with Kate Sontag, the essay anthology After Confession: Poetry as Confession. He has been a faculty member several times at The Frost Place in Franconia New Hampshire, where he also served as Poet in Residence in 1996.

In 2016 he retired from teaching at Ripon College, where he also directed the Visiting Writers Series for twenty-eight years. Currently a contributing editor at the online journal Verse-Virtual, he also writes a column, “Poetic License.”

David was educated at Dartmouth College and The University of Massachusetts. He lives in Glens Falls, NY. To read more about Graham, visit his website at www.davidgrahampoet.com.

Everyone is invited to bring a poem or short prose piece to read at Open Mic. Time is limited to 3 – 4 minutes. Only two poems, please. Contact Glenda Beall at glendabeall@msn.com to be placed on the list for Open Mic. To receive the Zoom link, contact Glenda Beall also.

Brenda Kay Ledford's Essay Published

 

Brenda Kay Ledford's essay, "Harold, My Big Brother, A Tribute to Honor National Brother's Day," appeared on the website:  "Daily Inspired Life."

To view Ledford's story:  dailyinspiredlife.com/national-brothers-day-big-brother-harold

Mountain Wordsmiths to Celebrate National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, and Mountain Wordsmiths will celebrate the beauty and significance of poetry on Thursday morning, April 28, at 10:30 AM via Zoom.

Our monthly gathering sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West is continuing its online presence because local writers, as well as writers from other states and cities, are joining us each month on Zoom.

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Glenda Beall, NCWN-West Program Coordinator, will begin the meeting with a tribute to two late members who had a profound effect on area poets as well as poets across North Carolina and nationwide. Kathryn Stripling Byer was the first woman to be named Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2005-2009). 

Nancy Simpson founded NCWN-West, which provides support and connection for members of NCWN who live in Western North Carolina and in the Georgia counties which touch North Carolina.

Nancy Simpson

Byer and Simpson mentored countless poets, both beginners and seasoned poets alike. Beall will read a selection of their poems as a tribute to their lasting legacy. In lieu of Open Mic, during the program, all attendees are encouraged to read a favorite poem or one they have written.

NCWN-West is continuing to stay in touch by using technology to share our writing. We will offer writing events and writing classes online until we can safely meet face-to-face again. Many writers are enjoying the convenience and flexibility of Zoom meetings because of our ability to include poets and writers from other locations.

We welcome those who were regulars at Coffee with the Poets and Writers that met at Moss Memorial Library. Those wishing to attend Mountain Wordsmiths may contact Carroll Taylor at vibiaperpetua@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. We welcome those who would simply like to listen to the beauty of wordsmithing.

Written by Carroll S. Taylor

Have you visited JCCFS? Now is the time.

 My friends, if you have never been to the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC, you must put it on your calendar to spend time there.

The school began in the 1930s as a replica of Folk Schools in Denmark, Sweden, and other countries, but has grown tremendously since its birth when the natives of Clay and Cherokee County gave land and labor to build it. 

One of our NCWN members, Dr. Eugene Hirsch, who was from Pennsylvania, but owned a mountain cabin near Murphy, NC, was a poet as well as a renowned doctor. On one of his trips down south, Gene Hirsch spent a week taking a class at the folk school in Brasstown. Like most of us locals, he fell in love with the casual, friendly, and enthusiastic people there and continued to take classes, but he thought this would be a great place for a writing program. 

He talked to the director of the school and soon there were writing classes on the schedule. Our own Nancy Simpson served as Resident Writer and she brought some of the best poets, novelists, and nonfiction writers to the little town of Brasstown, a place they might never have heard of if not for the writing program at John Campbell. I am fortunate to have been a student there many times over the years and to have taught writing there. Some of my happiest times were at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and I met people who have become life-long friends.

This photograph is of one of the first classes I taught at JCCFS in 2008

I have never been able to put into words the feelings I had while attending and the feelings I had when I left. Your classmates or your students become like family as you share common interests such as weaving, painting, cooking, dancing, playing instruments, and writing. I am reading a memoir by Betty Brown, a fellow student I met in a writing class at John Campbell a decade ago. She is well known as a visual artist also. I find that she is an excellent writer. 

Below is the writing schedule for this year. I know most of these writers and some are long-time friends of mine. Make a pledge to yourself to spend a week or a weekend in a writing class with one of the fantastic writers who will be your instructor. You will stay in a comfortable cabin with other students. You will share meals from the dining room and you will attend gatherings outside now because of COVID. Visit their website and read the catalog. I promise you if you spend time there enjoying a craft of your choosing, making friends, and learning more about yourself, you will make memories that will be with you always.

For those of us who live in counties near the school, we can come home at night.  The tuition is half of the price paid by others.

Click on this link to see what is happening in the writing classes.

CLASSES WITH MEDIA CODES THAT CONTAIN WRITING

SUBJECT   INSTRUCTOR	CLASS TITLE	DATE
Writing Rosemary Royston	Creative Writing Across Genres	Sunday, May 8 - Saturday, May 14, 2022
Writing Annette Clapsaddle	The Body Keeps the Story	Sunday, June 12 - Saturday, Jun 18, 2022
Writing Pamela Duncan	Fiction Writing - Focus on Craft	Sunday, July 3 - Friday, Jul 8, 2022
Writing Dana Wildsmith	What's in Your Writing Folder?	Sunday, August 14 - Saturday, Aug 20, 2022
Writing Darnell Arnoult	Creative Nonfiction in a Flash	Friday, September 2 - Sunday, Sep 4, 2022
Writing Valerie Nieman	The Breath of Life: Discovering and Depicting Characters	Sunday, October 30 - Saturday, Nov 5, 2022
Writing Bobbie Pell	Poetry - The Wonders of Nature	Friday, November 18 - Sunday, Nov 20, 2022

Poetry books by Scott Owens Here

 Scott Owen's books are available in several places and because he appeared on Writers' Night Out on Zoom, you didn't get to see his books and buy his books that evening. 

Scott sent a listing of his new books and where you can purchase them. 

"So, all of the new books are either already available through Redhawk and Amazon or will be within the next year. The only one I mentioned that is not from Redhawk is "Their Shadows Trail Them Home," the prequel to "All In," which is available at Clemson University Press.

*"Shadows Trail Them Home," Clemson University Press, 2012, https://libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/shadows-trail-them-home-by-scott-owens-and-priscilla-campbell/

*"Sky Full of Stars and Dreaming," Redhawk Publications, 2021, https://www.amazon.com/Full-Stars-Dreaming-Scott-Owens/dp/1952485223

*"Worlds Enough: Poems for Children and A Few Grown-Ups," Redhawk Publications, To be published July 2022

*"Prepositional," Redhawk Publications, To be published November 2022

*"All In" (Sequel to "Shadows Trail Them Home"), Redhawk Publications, To be published April 2023

Most of my other books are still available through Main Street Rag, https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product-tag/scott-owens/ "

We have books to look forward to in the coming months, and if you don't have Scott's earlier books, you will want to order one today.