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Backstage Passnew
With almost three decades of experience producing the annual spectacle, Ken Ehrlich provides a collection of stories sure to please any avid viewer of award shows in his book “At the Grammys: Behind the Scenes at Music’s Biggest Night.”
Metro Spirit |
Jason Sumerau |
04-27-2008 |
Nonfiction
Truly a Pleasurenew
From the first page of “Earthly Pleasures,” the new novel from Karen Neches, readers will find the opportunity to laugh, cry, and go on an all out ride through a wonderful narrative.
A former columnist for the Augusta Chronicle, a co-author of one novel, and the sole voice of the Bottom Dollar Girl series, Karen Neches is a voice readers with an ear for intricate plots have to hear. Otherwise known as Karin Gillespie, this founder of the virtual tour The Girlfriend Circuit who travels the Southeast with the Dixie Divas provides an animated unconventional love story in her latest composition.
Metro Spirit |
Jason Sumerau |
04-27-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: fiction, Education, Life, The Beatles, God, Earthly Pleasures, fun, love, chick lit, chick-lit, angel, heaven, Karen Gillespie, Karen Neches, life lessons, Fiction Reviews
Finding Meaning in the Oldest Storynew
It’s a terrible struggle, becoming human, but this is exactly what Actors Scene Unseen attempts in a rejuvenation of one of the world’s oldest stories in “Gilgamesh: A Verse Play.”
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa and former Executive Director of Inverse Theater Chad Garcia reinvent the ageless epic in an audio experience. The work of the two reminds contemporary listeners of the pains necessary in the search for meaning between man and the supernatural.
Metro Spirit |
Jason Sumerau |
04-27-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: fiction, Poetry, Drama, Pulitzer Prize, theater, book, epic, stage, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh: A Verse Play, meter, play, rhyme, Theatre, Yusef Komunyakaa, Fiction Reviews
Sparkling Waters of Characternew
“It almost seemed like a dream, a long dream but a good one” states Marshall B. Allen, Jr. in his second collection of stories about Newton Fiveash, Jr, “Newt in the World of Tarzan” takes the reader on a splendid joyride among the flavorful characters of the Sparklin’ Waters Park in Okena, Florida, and in so doing, highlights the life of a man in a time gone by.
Metro Spirit |
Jason Sumerau |
04-27-2008 |
Nonfiction
Young Statesman Guiding Today’s Youthnew
With wonderful illustrations and poignant storytelling, the acclaimed Young Patriots Series offers a fascinating look at one of the more interesting Founding Fathers of the United States of America. An architect of the Constitution, the first Secretary of the Treasury, and a participant in a legendary political duel, Alexander Hamilton is a captivating historical figure.
Metro Spirit |
Jason Sumerau |
04-27-2008 |
Fiction
Get Craftynew
Sandhills Writers Conference focuses aspiring authors on the craft and discipline required to achieve their goals of getting a book published.
Metro Spirit |
Stacey Hudson |
03-12-2008 |
Books
Reviewing a Life with Spiritnew
Zanger is a noted basket weaver who has published instructional books and over fifty patterns for weaving.
Metro Spirit |
Jason E Sumerau |
03-12-2008 |
Fiction
A New Book from an Old Friendnew
Even after four successful books -- a trilogy of Bottom Dollar Girls novels and a collaboration with the Sweet Potato Queens -- Karin Gillespie got a flat rejection when she pitched her new book to her agent and her publisher.
Metro Spirit |
Stacey Hudson |
02-27-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Earthly Pleasures, Karin Gillespie
What a Bunch of Charactersnew
In the Metro Spirit's first ever short story contest, we had almost 80 entries. Not bad. Even better? Some of you out there can actually write.
Metro Spirit |
Rhonda Jones |
02-27-2008 |
Original Work
Funny Book Man!new
Mark Schiff gathers hundreds of America's top comics who share tales from the roads.
Metro Spirit |
Erika Bolin |
07-11-2007 |
Nonfiction
Dollar Daze
Elderly ladies caught comically by cupid's arrow in Augusta author's third Cayboo Creek caper.
Metro Spirit |
Stacey Hudson |
07-05-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Karin Gillespie, Dollar Daze
New Book Whispers from the Past
We have all felt, at some point in our lives, the drawing; the subtle voice of the past that whispers in our ear and draws us back to a simpler place and time -- this prophetic voice echoes throughout Memory's Keep.
Metro Spirit |
Tillman Russell |
07-05-2007 |
Fiction