WITH APOLOGIES TO ROBERT FROST…

No, Randy Pierce won't be stopping by woods on a snowy evening...but he'll be stopping by bookstores, libraries, festivals, conferences and more to sign copies of Magnolia Mud this spring!…

WATCH YOUR STEP!

Yes, watch your step...because there's plenty of mud straight ahead. As in Magnolia Mud, the great new novel from Randy Pierce. Here's the book cover:Artwork by graphic designer par excellence…

YOUR BEST FRIEND ON A COLD, WINTRY DAY

Okay, it isn't quite winter yet. In fact, Thanksgiving, as of this writing, is two days away. But it sure feels like winter in the Magnolia State! And is there…

NEW AUTHOR ON BOARD…

One thing the new year will bring is a new addition to the Dogwood Press team, and that's Randy Pierce, the Mississippi Supreme Court Justice and the author of Pain…

KIDS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS

I was invited to speak at the Young Writer's Conference at Northwest Rankin High School in Brandon, MS, last week. So was John Floyd, and a writer from The Clarion…

BACK THE TRUCK UP TO THE DOOR

Know what's very exciting and a little bit scary? Watching the ginormous delivery truck pull up with a shipment of books Dogwood Press is publishing. The trucking company almost always…

PREPARE TO BE DECEIVED…

Gosh, I'm excited about the new John M. Floyd collection of stories, Deception. Talk about a cool cover...Deception, the latest from the Derringer-Award winning short story master, is loaded with 30 tales of…

TIS THE SEASON!

I made one of my favorite book trips yesterday: to Starkville, Mississippi, for the annual Christmas Open House at The Book Mart. It's my hometown bookstore and managed by my…

FILL ‘ER UP!

I launched my new Oakdale suspense novel, Last Chance Texaco, at The Book Mart in Starkville, Mississippi, on September 27 and at Lemuria in Jackson on October 6. Had a…

WHAT ARE YOU READING?

I was asked yesterday what I was reading. Well, I just finished an old Lee Child novel called Tripwire. It's an early volume of child's fantastic, long-running Jack Reacher series.…