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2010 Townsend Prize for Fiction

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

2010 Townsend Prize for Fiction from Jeff McCord on Vimeo.

The winner of the 2010 Townsend Prize for Fiction was announced on April 22, 2010 at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, GA.

The Townsend Prize for Fiction, named for famed Atlanta Magazine founder and editor Jim Townsend, is Georgia’s oldest and most prestigious literary award, presented biennially to the Georgia writer who is judged by an independent panel to have produced the most outstanding work of fiction during the past two calendar years. Recipients have included Alice Walker, Ferroll Sams, Ha Jin, and Terry Kay. GPC and The Chattahoochee Review have been the custodians of the award since 1997.

The finalists for this year’s award are as follows:

James Braziel, Snakeskin Road (Bantam Books)
Phillip DePoy, The King James Conspiracy (St. Martin’s Press)
Tom Edwards, Blue Jesus (Academy Chicago)
Amanda Gable, The Confederate General Rides North (Scribner)
Joshilyn Jackson, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (Grand Central)
Sang Pak, Wait Until Twilight (Harper)
Kathryn Stockett, The Help (Putnam)
Bailey White, Nothing with Strings (Scribner)
Susan Rebecca White, Bound South (Touchstone)
Philip Lee Williams, The Campfire Boys (Mercer)

You can read more about the Townsend Prize for Fiction here.

Susan Rebecca White Speaks about Her New Novel, A Soft Place to Land

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Susan Rebecca White Discusses Her New Novel, A Soft Place to Land from Jeff McCord on Vimeo.

Author Susan Rebecca White speaks about her new novel, “A Soft Place to Land,” about two half-sisters who are separated after their parents are killed in a plane crash. Her first novel, “Bound South” was published in February of 2009. Read more about the book here.

National Poetry Month Day 11 – Susan Rebecca White Reads “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Susan Rebecca White Reads “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver from Jeff McCord on Vimeo.

Bound To Be Read Books continues its National Poetry Month Celebration with author Susan Rebecca White reading “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver. Susan is the author of the novels Bound South and A Soft Place to Land. Check back every day in April 2010 for a new video of a local author, poet, customer, or staff member reading a poem. For more information, please visit BoundToBeReadBooks.com.

Susan Gregg Gilmore Discusses How She Came to Write “Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen”

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Susan Gregg Gilmore Discusses “Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen” from Jeff McCord on Vimeo.

Susan Gregg Gilmore speaks about how she came to write her novel Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen (Three Rivers Press, 2009, 304 pp., pbk., reg. $14.00).

Ruth’s Righteous Brownies Giveaway

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Susan Rebecca White, author of the bestselling Bound South (Simon & Schuster, 2009, 368 pp., pbk., new $14.99), is hosting a contest in honor of Mother’s Day on her blog. The prize is her mother’s (the aforementioned Righteous Ruth) brownies. Susan will overnight the chocolate-y prize to the winner. Read the details by clicking here.

If you haven’t heard about this future Southern classic, read what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had to say about Susan’s debut novel:

“Like its characters, Bound South comes dressed in innocence and comedy, a series of hilarious and poignant stories told in gossipy backyard-fence style. But underneath, its concerns are far more serious…”

By turns hilarious and poignant, the lives of three vibrant and unique Southern women–a proper Atlanta matron, her rebellious teenage daughter, and their housekeeper’s young daughter–intersect in unexpected and extraordinary ways in this richly compelling debut novel of family, friendship, and folly.

Susan Rebecca White was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She is agraduate of Brown University and holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from Hollins University. Now at work on her second novel, she lives with her husband in Atlanta.

Check out our Bound South jigsaw puzzle on our blog by clicking here.

Bound South Puzzle

Friday, April 24th, 2009





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Meet Author Zachary Steele

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Author Zachary Steele

Author Zachary Steele

Former bookstore owner, fantasy league baseball aficionado, sometimes-chef, blatant animal lover and fan of all things cheese Zachary Steele’s debut novel, Anointed: The Passion of Timmy Christ, CEO (Mercury Retrograde Press, 2009, 340 pp., pbk.), is a hilarious, satirical romp through a world in which the religion has become a huge, profitable business in need of an overturning.

(Publishers Weekly liked it and basically said the exact same thing.)

“Wait”, you may be saying to yourself, “the BUSINESS of religion? This sounds strikingly like real life.”

Indeed, we say to you, indeed.

That’s why Steele’s book event at East Atlanta Village’s Bound To Be Read bookstore on April 23rd at 7:30 PM will find him in conversation with a fellow reader, fellow ponderer/questioner and fellow animal-lover who also happens to be a beloved, brilliant local award-winning folk-singer- Wayne Fishell, of the wayne fishell experiment. Their topics of conversation will range from Anointed’s deep, controversial and far-reaching themes of the corporation modern religious practice has become, how to market a book and what it’s like being a first-time novelist to, in fact, the best sorts of cheeses to pair with other foods. It will, indeed, be a night of a round table. Possibly incorporating an actual round table.

Both Wayne and Zachary are hilarious, offensive, witty and opinionated on their own, so this evening is certain to be informative and incendiary for anyone interested in writing, religion, or, of course, cheese. They might even duet on a rousing rendition of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, so bring your rotten tomatoes, your communion wine and your ukuleles.

Zachary Steele in conversation with Wayne Fishell of the wayne fishell experiment, April 23rd at 7:30 PM at Bound To Be Read Books, 481 Flat Shoals Ave, Atlanta, GA 30316.
(404) 522-0877.

Visit Steele’s blog, “The Further Promotion Of Me” at http://zacharysteele.wordpress.com/, and interact with characters from Anointed at www.thechristcorporation.com. Wayne Fishell is online at www.ofishell.com.