INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY

Wanting to support Lemuria Books in March 2020 as the shutdowns began, I ordered a couple of books through their website and drove to pick them up. Following their instructions,…

ROCKIN’ THE CRADLE

Happy February! It's so good to leave 2020 behind, and it's great to be just weeks away from the arrival of Cradle in the Oak, the debut novel by new Dogwood…

MAKING LEMONADE

MAKING LEMONADE Nobody I know wants to go through another 2020, but I remain blessed to work with some wonderful, resourceful people. Case in point: a Randy Pierce in-person book…

IT’S HERE!

IT'S HERE! I'm normally not a fan of unloading and breaking down palettes of books (it makes my back hurt). But I've never been as glad to see a delivery…

WELCOME ABOARD!

It's great to welcome my friend Candace Cox Wheeler to the Dogwood Press team! We'll launch her wonderful debut novel, Cradle in the Oak, next April. Set in the early twentieth…

SILVER LININGS

I hope this new month gets off to a great start for you, and I hope June is a little bit better than May for you and your family and…

KEEPING IT LIGHT

There’s little I can add to the conversation everyone’s having right now about COVID-19, other than echoing those who believe that now is a good time to be as kind…

THE ROARING TWENTIES

Happy new year! Happy new decade! There's a lot for me to be happy about as we open 2020. All of us on the Dogwood Press team are honored that…

MISSY

Here's a big announcement: Randy Pierce has a new novel coming next summer. It's called Missy. I've had the privilege of publishing Magnolia Mud in 2014 and The Peter Bay in 2016 (as well as…

LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE

So you're saying, "What's with the title of your blog post? What did I ever do to you?" Don't misunderstand--I'm not telling you to calm down or take yourself less…