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March 2008 Look for Distant Karma in Winter 2009! Presently, the press is readying several memoirs for publication and a cookbook. November 2006 All That Matters  edited by Peggy Rambach was featured in the Boston Globe this month as well as other regional newspapers. Bringint this book to print has been a joint effort of numerous individuals. We, here at The Paper Journey feel blessed to have been a part of the process. Here's the link: www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/19/memoirs_of_illness/ Robert Wallace's novella Holding Time is in pre-media and will be released in January. The book is about a wife lovingly and humorously adjusting to life with her Alzheimer-impaired husband. The Paper Journey will announce its nominations for The Pushcart Prize on November 30. September 2006 The Paper Journey is pleased to announce the publication of two books of memoir edited by Peggy Rambach, All That Matters and Seeds of Lotus. August 2006 The Paper Journey is pleased to announce the release of Blink: Flash Fiction Before You Can Bat an Eye.  This is and awesome selection of short fiction written by some of the world's up and coming writers. May 2006 The Paper Journey is pleased to announce the publication of  North Carolina poet and artist Ladianne Mandel's  book of poetry Play Them Bones. April 2006 The Paper Journey is pleased to announce the publication of  Canadian Poet and Playwright Pam Calabrese MacLean's  book of poetry Twenty-four Names for Mother.  North Carolina poet .   February 2006 Blink's front cover has been designed by Domenico F. Lio, a Canadian-born architect, industrial and graphic designer living in New York City.  The back cover has not yet been decided.  Look for the cover Friday evening along with story selections. Choices for winning BLINK entries was extremely challenging this year. We hope to have the  list up by the weekend. Authors whose submissions have been accepted for publication will be contacted by email, sent contracts, and the usual stuff hopefully by February 10.  Those who were not selected will not be contacted. The Paper Journey has awarded its International Wisteria Prize to Canadian Poet and Playwright Pam Calabrese MacLean for her book of poetry Twenty-four Names for Mother.  North Carolina poet and artist Ladianne Mandel was awarded the North Carolina Wisteria Prize for her book of poetry Play Them Bones.  The Paper Journey Press will publish both MacLean's and Mandel's book Spring 2006.  Congratulations to both of these fantastic poets.  They were two among many phenomenal submissions. Robert Wallace is still hard at work on on his as-yet un-named novella to be published this summer.   November 2005 Win Neagle read "Rain Delay" a chapter from his newest novel Full Count at the open microphone event at the North Carolina Writer's Network held in Asheville this past weekend (Nov. 4-6).  The crowd loved it!  Also at the conference was Sean Murphy, author of The Hope Valley Hubcap King and The Time of New Weather.  His newest book The Finished Man has just been released and is in bookstores now.  I took a class with Sean; and I have to say if writers have an opportunity to take his on-line classes or month-long retreat--DO IT.  Contact him at http://www.murphyzen.com/.  Of course, one cannot leave out Susan Orlean, the extraordinary author of The Orchid Thief  which later became the inspiration for the movie Adaptation.   Orlean was the keynote speaker for the conference.  Frankly she's just a beautiful person--approachable and very down to earth.  Most of us staying at the hotel had the opportunity to meet her mother, mother-in-law, father-in-law and lovely sister-in-law as well as her husband and baby.  I was amused on Sunday morning to see Susan running after the toddler while her husband "played  golf."  Some things never change.  Also in attendance was Pam Cable, one of our writers for Original Sin.  She's been included in a new collection called Southern Fried Women.  Pick it up or order it from Amazon.  Join the NC Writer's Network.  They put on a great show. October 2005 Our recent reading at Blue Fin's Bistro in Wake Forest was a huge success.  We gave away numerous door prizes so everyone went away happy.  There was even a bidding war over framed print #25/200 of "The Lady in Red Hat Getting Ready for Church" after a patron didn't want their spouse to know they had been out having a blast!  Next stop:  North Carolina Writer's Network Fall Conference in Asheville.  Win will be in attendance. July 2005 Come out and celebrate the launch of Win Neagle's second novel Full Count ISBN 0-9701726-8-0  at Quail Ridge Books, Thursday August 4 at 7 p.m. at 3522 Wade Ave., Raleigh, NC.  The book has only been out a day and the press has already received its first threatening phone call.  Full Count is sure to unleash a torrent of either criticism or praise due to it's subject matter.  The book is dark comedy about a love triangle involving a professional baseball player, a bi-sexual artist and his gun-toting girlfriend.  Talk about life imitating art: an explosive ending will leave you speechless Call for Submissions:  Blink: Flash Fiction Before You Can Bat an Eye.  From the folks who invented the Flash Fiction Anthology . . . we seek new, original Flash fiction for our Fourth Annual Short Story Competition.  See our mention in 2005 Novel and Short Story Writer's Digest.  The theme is pretty open:  What can happen in the blink of an eye?  Should you stop for the broke-down car its flashers beckoning?  What transpires in the intermittent milliseconds of darkness when the half-lit hotel sign flickers "Vacancy." Help our Independent Press.  In support of the arts, Dick Larsen has agreed to donate 100 Signed and Numbered, limited edition prints of his oil on canvas  "Lady in Red Hat Getting Ready for Church."  (Prints are of the actual painting--not modified cover) Limited number available for purchase beginning August 5! Prints available on a first come, first served basis.  You may reserve your print by emailing us at ladyinred@thepaperjourney.com  June 2005 Triangle writer Robert Wallace won the New Talent Novella competition sponsored by the Paper Journey Press.  Wallace, a social worker from Durham, rollicking tale about a husband and father with Alzheimer's will be published by the press next year. March 2005 Triangle writers Kitty Lynn, Robert Wallace and Dorettee Snover will read from their stories recently published in Original Sin:The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost at the following locations:  March 4 at 7 p.m. Market Street Books, Southern Village, Chapel Hill; March 16 at 7 p.m. C'est si Bon Cooling School, 1002 Brace Lane, Chapel Hill, 919-942-6550.  The book contains forty-nine stories by established and up-and-coming writers.  Melding art with craft, the book also features artwork from artists and photographers from around the nation. February 2005 Triangle Writing Trio Kitty Lynn, Robert Wallace and Dorettee Snover will read from their stories recently published in Original Sin:The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost at the following locations: Feb. 12 at 11 a.m. at McIntyres Bookstore, Fearrington Village Center, Chapel Hill, 919-542-3030; Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5400 New Hope Commons, Durham, 919-489-3012;. Feb. 23 at Branch's Book Store, 2435 Elliott Rd. Chapel Hill, 919-968-9110. The book contains forty-nine stories by established and up-and-coming writers.  Melding art with craft, the book also features artwork from artists and photographers from around the nation. January 2005 Writers Kitty Lynn, Robert Wallace and Dorette Snover whose stories appeared in Original Sin:The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost will read at the Regulator Book Store on January 25 at 7 p.m., 720 Ninth St. Durham, 919-286-2700.  The book contains forty-nine stories by established and up-and-coming writers.  Melding art with craft, the book also features artwork from artists and photographers from around the nation. Smoke and Gravity: The Reader's Club Edition will be go on Sale February 15 by The Paper Journey Press.  North Carolina poet Fred Chappell describes the book as "Keenly quizzical...a breath of tipsy oxygen." Full Count by Win Neagle will be published by the Paper Journey Press late spring 2005. October 2004 Original Sin:The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost will be released on November 1 by The Paper Journey Press.  The book contains forty-nine stories by established and up-and-coming writers.  Melding art with craft, the book also features artwork from artists and photographers from around the nation. September 2004 As You May Never See Us Again: The Civil War Letters of George and Walter Battle, 4th North Carolina Infantry was released this month by Scuppernong Press, the non-fiction and poetry division of Sojourner Publishing, Inc. Visit thescuppernongpress.com for more information. The cover for Original Sin has been finalized and the book is being readied for print.  The book has begun receiving some notice by several newspapers around the country. July 2004 Dear Eagle: The Civil War Correspondence of Stephen H. Bogardus Jr. to the Poughkeepsie Daily Journal was released this month by Scuppernong Press, the non-fiction and poetry division of Sojourner Publishing, Inc. Win Neagle, author of Smoke and Gravity, has chosen The Paper Journey to publish his newest novella, Full Count, the sometimes comical, sometimes heady journey of a professional baseball star coming to terms with his sexuality in the sometimes homophobic culture of professional sports.  An excerpt from the book will appear this month in The Raleigh News and Observer. June 2004 Winners for this year's literary competition have been announced. Forty-nine stories from among the hundreds of excellent entries will be featured in the upcoming Original Sin: The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost.  That's a little Southern slang for those who aren't familiar with the idiom.  The competition included the awarding of several cash grants and inclusion in the short story collection.  This time around we plan to include interior photos to introduce each section. February 2004:  Which sin will win?  This year's literary competition is called Original Sin: The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost.  That's a little Southern slang for those who aren't familiar with the idiom.  The competition will include the awarding of several cash grants and inclusion in the short story collection.  This time around we plan to include interior photos to introduce each section and a cover photo competition.   January 2004:  The fine ladies of Women Behaving Badly are off and running. Writers are being interviewed across the globe about their inclusion in this book.  WBB is now available through Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com.  However, we'd like to encourage you to order through our website (which will lead you directly to Amazon.com,) as you will be supporting our small press with a percentage of the sale that we will get through our associate program with Amazon.   December 2003:  At long last, Women Behaving Badly is at press. We look forward to the first crates to appear at the office; we have many author's copies, and author's presales to send out. Once the book is post press, it will be available through The Paper Journey Press sales page, through Amazon.com, and through Barnes&Noble.com.  However, we'd like to encourag you to order through our website (which will lead you directly to Amazon.com, as you will be supporting our small press with a percentage of the sale that we will get through our associate program with Amazon. July 2003:  We are saddened by the sudden death of Racing Home author Ellen Devlin, who passed away this month in Chapel Hill. Ellen was the author of the brilliant, heartbreaking story, "The End of Hemingway." Stories have been chosen for Women Behaving Badly and we're on our way with editing, proofreading, typesetting and cover design. Three remarkable stories have won cash prizes.  The Paper Journey Press took part once again in "The Festival for the Eno River" over the Fourth of July Weekend on the Spoken Word Stage. Racing Home authors Ed Devany and Kitty Lynn read new stories, and editor Sharlene Baker read stories from the upcoming Women Behaving Badly.  March 2003: Women Behaving Badly: The Press announces plans for a new collection and is seeking submissions. This time, it will be Fifty Flash Fiction Stories. Wanda G. Wade has bounded on board with a brain for business and energy to spare. Look for big changes coming up at the press!   The wheels are beginning to turn already for our next short story collection, which will be 13 stories and one cash prize: Original Sin: The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost. Which Sin ... Will Win? If you'd like to be contacted when the information on this contest is ready, leave a blank email here. Photography Contest!  Original Sin: The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost will have a Book Cover Photo contests. This is the first time we've run such a contest, and we're looking forward to the talent we'll find.  If you'd like to be contacted when the information on this contest is ready, leave a blank email here.

 

Older news Premier Civil War historian Brian C. Pohanka has given his compliments to Joel Craig's Dear Eagle, a collection of the Civil War correspondence of Stephen H. Bogardus, Jr. With Joel's persistence, and some genealogy networking, he has managed to recently track down the New York man's gravestone  in Colorado. Several Racing Home authors are taking the stage at the Festival for the Eno to help raise money to preserve Durham's natural gem in the city:  Dates of the Festival are July 4th,  6th and 7th, 2002 with RH readers most likely appearing on the last 2 days.  Keep your eyes open for: Heather Dune Macadam, Kim Church, Diana Renfro, Anne Barnhill, Robert Wallace, Valerie Nieman, Kitty Lynn and Editor Sharlene Baker. Former Editor Sharlene Baker was a panel member at the "Documenting The American South" Symposium held at the University of North Carolina March 1st. She will be discussing her use of the DAS site in her upcoming civil war narrative books. The Raleigh News and Observer alerted its readers in its Sunday book page that Racing Home: New Stories By Award-Winning North Carolina Writers was available in bookstores. The reading at The Regulator Bookshop in Durham on November 12th, 2001 was a blast. Kitty Lynn,  Kim Church, Diana Renfro, Robert Wallace and editor Sharlene Baker attended, and afterward, fielded questions and took part in discussions. Photo page here. The Press introduced Racing Home to several hundred writers at the vendor's section at the North Carolina Writers Fall Conference in  Charlotte. We were positioned next to Coastal Carolina Press, a non-profit independent bookstore with a fascinating and varied collection of seaside books... well worth checking out the link! Smoke and Gravity's Win Neagle had a short story, "Paint" published in the Raleigh News and Observer January 23rd. His story "Unnoticed" was recently published in "The World's Best Shortest Stories" (QPB), and Smoke and Gravity has been optioned by OLY films.