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Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me, by Karen Swallow Prior
ISBN 978-0692014547, softcover, $15.00
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ISBN: 978-0984553198 $15.00 paperback. Available through Ingram, Amazon, B&N Nook. Press release here.
The Novelist. A novella by L.L. Barkat.
Follow copywriter and poet, Laura, as she tries to figure out how to write a novel to meet Megan Willow’s challenge: a book by September.
Megan has a thriving tea business and does everything in a big way. To her, the idea of writing a novel in a matter of months is beyond simple. All you need is the will, and you’ll find the way.
Laura delves into her own past, as she tries to bring a novel into the present. To tutor her efforts, she culls wisdom and hope from greats such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mary Shelley, and medieval story-weaver Murasaki (whose real name has been lost to history, because she was a woman).
Can Laura write a novel by September? She might not even make a cup of tea by midnight. So who’s to say.
About L.L. Barkat
A former advertising copywriter and art director, L.L. Barkat is currently Managing Editor of Tweetspeak Poetry, the makers of Every Day Poems and WordCandy.me. She has two spiritual memoirs, a book of poetry, and an award-winning book called Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing. Rumors was twice named a Best Book of 2011
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The Novelist is a pleasurable escape into the known and unknown world of Laura’s inner journey. Barkat’s ability to weave poetry into prose makes it impossible not to sink into her beautiful writing. It’s one of those rare books you’ll finish but leave on the nightstand.
—Darrelyn Saloom, co-author of My Call to the Ring: A Memoir of A Girl Who Yearns to Box
Picked for Oprah’s Summer Reading List!
“A powerful saga of love and survival.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) • ISBN-13: 978-0-9845531-7-4, $14.95, softcover • copies available now at Ingram. Also Available Now on Amazon
Visit the author, Deborah Henry.
Words about The Whipping Club
“The prose of The Whipping Club is gripping, and almost poetic in its emotional depth, while the research is concise and accurate, and the story haunting…The Whipping Club holds the promise of a long and meaningful career for Deborah Henry as a serious writer. Bravo!”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Set in 1960′s Ireland, Henry’s riveting debut novel explores the far-reaching effects of a single decision.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Deborah Henry’s eloquent, magnificently designed novel . . . A story that will draw out every straw of emotion in your soul. This is the best novel I have read in three years.”
—Herald de Paris
“Henry weaves multilayered themes of prejudice, corruption and redemption with an authentic voice and swift, seamless dialogue. Her prose is engaging, and light poetic touches add immediacy. Echoing the painful lessons of the Jewish Holocaust, Henry’s tale reveals what happens when good people remain silent. A powerful saga of love and survival.”
—Kirkus, starred review
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2011, Englewood Review of Books & Hearts and Minds Books
ISBN-13: 978-0984553167, $15.00 softcover • copies available now at Ingram, or with deeper discounts than Ingram is setting—through T. S. Poetry Press (contact us for ordering information). Also Available Now on Amazon
An Annie Dillard-style writing book that follows the writer’s life as much as her philosophy about creativity and writing.
Aspiring and accomplished writers will find a place to breathe, in both the memoir-stories and tips that seamlessly address major aspects of creative life—from inspiration to individual voice; from helpful habits, networking and publishing, to reasons we create and write.
Says the first chapter, “There are so many things standing in my way this morning, I can hardly begin. Yet I’ve heard there are rumors of water. Maybe that is enough.” And apparently it is.
Words About Rumors of Water
A few brave writers pull back the curtain to show us their creative process. Annie Dillard did this. So did Hemingway. Now L.L. Barkat has given us a thoroughly modern analysis of writing. Practical, yes, but also a gentle uncovering of the art of being a writer.
—Gordon Atkinson, author of Turtles All the Way Down
The real beauty of this book is the truth it teaches slant: good and beautiful and honest writing comes from a life that pursues the same. This is not just a book about writing well, it’s a book about living well.
—Leslie Leyland Fields, author of Surviving the Island of Grace and The Spirit of Food, and columnist for Christianity Today
Delicate Machinery Suspended. Poetry by Anne M. Doe Overstreet. Anne has been published in Asheville Poetry Review (for which she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize) and Nimrod (pending). Her work has also appeared in Talking River Review, DMQ Review, and the Mendon-Honeoye Sentinel. She spends her time in the Seattle area as a freelance editor and runs a small gardening business.
Words About Delicate Machinery Suspended
To love well is to offer one’s full attention. To serve others is often a matter of drawing their attention to the beauties—broken, wounded, suggestive, profound—that visit us endlessly. Ann Overstreet loves well, and she serves well; she is the witness of the dawn, and of our desired awakening.
— Scott Cairns, author of Compass of Affection
These poems shimmer with gossamer lightness but also possess the strength and sinews of hard-won wisdom and what Henry James called felt life.
— Gregory Wolfe, Editor at Image Journal and author of Beauty Will Save the World
A new poetry collection from Maureen Doallas of Writing Without Paper. Doallas is a features writer, editor, and poet. She also owns an art-licensing business, Transformational Threads.
Contingency Plans. David K. Wheeler is a musician, essayist, and poet. He has an album called There, There and his writing has appeared at TheHighCalling.org, BurnsideWriters Collective, and in The Pacific Northwest Reader, an essay collection from Harper/Delphinium. David lives in Seattle, Washington. You can find him at DaveWritesRight or follow him on Twitter @daviewheeler
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Barbies at Communion. Marcus Goodyear is Senior Editor of TheHighCalling.org and poetry columnist for Books and Culture. You can find him at GoodWordEditing or follow him on twitter @mdgoodyear
Words about Barbies at Communion
Marcus Goodyear’s poems are portable, easily carried in the mind, tightly compressed and deceptively simple, like a capacious tent folded into a package you can tuck in your backpack.
— John Wilson, Editor, Books & Culture
A new zip-lock bag for Christian poetry holding gustiness and bravado.
— Diane Glancy, author The Reason for Crows
From Barbies to tea bags and credit cards, from broken pipes to communion wafers and mowing dead grass, Marcus Goodyear moves us through our world. His juxtapositions of the conventionally sacred and profane reveal to us the falsness of our conventions. Where the vision is large, all is sacred.
— John Leax, author Tabloid News
God in the Yard: Spiritual Practice for the Rest of Us. A 12-week course in discovery and playing towards God.
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Words About God in the Yard
L.L. Barkat invites us to chase spirituality in much the same way a child chases the tail of a kite…by finding the beautiful balance between what’s just beyond reach and what’s entirely ours for the taking. Her words are full of hope, joy, wonder— our fingers touch the edge of pages and our hearts cross the borders of eternity. And, really, where else could such a journey begin but in our own yards?
— Holley Gerth, Senior Writer and Editorial Director, Dayspring, and Co-Founder InCourage
Mix Richard Foster and Annie Dillard in a blender, and you’ll pour out God In the Yard, a cool smoothie of hope on the topic of spiritual practice.
— Ginger Kolbaba, Editor, Christianity Today’s Kyria
Like punctuation in a sentence, this wonderful book puts a comma, perhaps a semi-colon, even a period in our lives. It causes us to pause, that we might discover and recover ourselves, God, others, and aspects of this amazing world in which we live. L.L. Barkat’s wise words move us more deeply into matters of consequence.
— David Naugle, professor of philosophy, Dallas Baptist University, and author of Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness (Eerdmans 2008).
This is a book of meeting. A thoughtful, intentional exploration of what it means to live out spiritual disciplines in a modern context, by a writer with a poet’s eye, arresting language and keen mind. If one is willing to do the practical exercises, these pages hold the possibility of even more than encounter. They offer the hope of real transformation.
— Ann Voskamp, author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (Zondervan, 2011)
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