Recent Books
NEW Saving a Songbird is a collection of short stories with a twist: they are nonfiction, perhaps best classified as creative nonfiction. The writer constructed the tales by using techniques of traditional short story writers. Each story tells of the narrator’s dealings with unusual people he knew, many in various Venezuelan villages, others in towns in Texas. Several of the stories have won first place in national contests. from Slough Press Cover painting by Tommy Humphrey NEW Tiger, Tiger Now Available from Most of the stories in this collection have been published in journals and anthologies, and some have won awards. Cover painting by Eric Beverly. press release for Tiger, Tiger Searching for Rama's Spear from Slough Press A modern Nancy Drew type of mystery set in the deep East Texas forests, a novel featuring ● teenager Brooke Singh who must solve the mystery of a who stole an ancient ruby ● a cat named Dao that rides in a backback ● two helpful sidekicks ● a trickster crow and a pet racoon that is no pet ● a gypsy king ● some dangerous backwoodsmen artwork by Amy Ness From Slough Press : The Big Thicket will take you through a family saga that reaches from Marie Laveau in the New Orleans of 1835 to the riverboats of East Texas in the 1870s. This is a tale of people in the wildest part of the American frontier, the Big Thicket, where law is sometimes only a rumor. There is Venna who has the reputation of roaming the Thicket at night as a wolf and witching rain out of the stars. There’s Lucius Simmons, an ex-slave and the woman he loves who struggle to find a preacher willing to marry a mixed race couple. There’s Tim Coke who discovers some disturbing family secrets and who must challenge friends and family to prevent a hanging. This story will keep you turning pages and will leave you with much to ponder. Big Thicket Photographs by Bruce Jefferson |     |
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