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Full Book Tour Schedule for THE LAKES OF SOUTHERN HOLLOW: A NOVEL
The Lakes of Southern Hollow: A Novel (Madville Publishing / July 2024) has a mighty full schedule this fall. I hope to see a ton of friends, old and new, and introduce her to you all. BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE Saturday, September 14 Panel and signing 1:30 p.m.“Mad about Madville”10th Annual Mississippi Book FestivalMississippi State Capitol,…
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Part of a Team: Madville Publishing releases three fictions by Mississippi writers in 2024
I have collaborated with five publishers on six published works of fiction. But I have never experienced the good fortune and comradery that is unfolding right now in Mississippi. Madville Publishing in Lake Dallas, Texas, has published Mississippians before. The beauty and subtlety of cover and interior design Madville created in February 2023 for Mississippi…
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Sandy and Wayne is also an ebook now
Sandy and Wayne: A Novella has arrived in many print forms. A published novella is a crazy, lucky thing in itself. Now with Southern Hollow Press, Sandy and Wayne is available as an ebook for the first time. It’s available from Kobo, and the Barnes & Noble NOOK. With Kobo from Rakuten you can set…
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Sandy and Wayne: A Novella, and an anniversary gift
When Dock Street Press in Seattle sadly said it could no longer continue, my wife, Tammy, and I decided we would dare something new. Our anniversary, November 16, 2020, will be the new publication date for Sandy and Wayne: A Novella from Southern Hollow Press. This is the novella’s third time in print. New York…
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Uncles, Aunties, Nieces, Nephews— Extended Family Drives “The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel”
This is my Uncle Bert Yates next to his 1952 Hudson Wasp, a car he rebuilt and drove for years. Bertram worked for Beechcraft and then Boeing in Wichita, Kansas. He was the fascinating and mysterious uncle who could never tell us cousins a word about what his work entailed. It was classified, top secret.…
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Why write “The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel”
Originally posted on Fiction and History: Why write The Legend of the Albino Farm from Steven B Yates on Vimeo. WEST PLAINS, Missouri — At the 2016 Ozarks Studies Symposium, Steve Yates, author of the forthcoming novel, The Legend of the Albino Farm, answers a surprise question from Matthew J. Hernando (“Faces Like Devils: The…
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Notes on a Southern Gothic: Books & Brews, Friday October 13, Natchez, Mississippi
WHAT: Matthew Guinn and Steve Yates preview the 2018 Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration and introduce the theme, Southern Gothic WHERE: Natchez Brewing Company, 207 High Street, Natchez, Mississippi WHEN: Friday, October 13, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. BOOK SALES: Turning Pages Books & More, Natchez, http://turningpagesbooks.com/ Some starter culture: Being of the Ozarks,…
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Legend, ruin, love dominate new novel
from the Clarion-Ledger / Hattiesburg American Mississippi Books Page Sunday, May 14, 2017 By Matthew Guinn SPECIAL TO THE USA TODAY NETWORK – MISSISSIPPI “Happy families are all alike,” Leo Tolstoy famously said, but “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” For the feuding Sheehys and Ormonds of Steve Yates’ The Legend of…
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“The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel” meets the Ozarks
This made no sense to Hettienne. Strange? Saturn? How could anyone ever think that Emerald Park was scary, lonely, and strange? Here was where you ran and yelled like Indians, and no one on Earth could stop you. Here was where nine nobles strove to defend castle walls and never once were defeated. Here was…
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The Book Trailer for “The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel”
The Legend of the Albino Farm Book Trailer from Steven B Yates on Vimeo.
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