New Mystery Imprint Calling for MSS

Lawrence Walsh and Suella Walsh, Managing Editors of Sleuth’s Inc., the new mystery imprint of Goldminds Publications (Nashville,Tennessee), are seeking writers for a mystery novel series scheduled to be launched during the summer of 2012.

Writers are wanted to create stories for an existing cast of characters.

For more information, contact the Walshes at <landswalsh@kc.rr.com>.

Short Story Contest Accepting Entries

David Bright, editor of the online GeminiMagazine has announced the third annual Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest. The Grand Prize is $1,000. Second place wins $100 and there will also be three honorable mentions.

Content, style, genre and length are unrestricted. The five finalists will be published online in the June 2012 issue of Gemini.

The entry [...]

Military Writers of America Honor Arkansas Author Elizabeth Foster

Elizabeth Carroll Foster

Author Elizabeth Carroll Foster, Arkansas native and member of the Hot Springs Village Writers’ Club, was honored by the Military Writers of America in their Dispatches publication as Author of the Month for December for her memoir, Follow Me: The Life and Adventures of a Military Family.

The National Association of Professional Women, [...]

Maddox Stops Preaching to the Choir

BottomlineEnglish.com is a barebones site that explains only the minimum of rules necessary to avoid the most common errors that can still create a negative reaction in potential customers or blog [...]

Book Launch for "Blacklisted"

Lela Davidson signs one of hundreds of copies of her new book on July 12, 2011

Wearing red heels like those pictured on the cover of Blacklisted from the PTA, Lela Davidson stood at a round-topped table in the bar of the Aloft Hotel in Rogers on July 12, signing an endless offering [...]

The Cemetery Club Published by Manos and Burgess

A murdered man hidden in a cemetery brush pile, and the legend of buried gold and desperate men who will stop at nothing to find the treasure are not what Darcy Campbell expected when she returned to her hometown of Levi, Oklahoma. But this murder is only the first, and although [...]

NW Arkansas Author Scores Awards at OWFI

Lela Davidson

Arkansas writer Lela Davidson came in second among 27 entries at the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. “Write Now” Conference, held May 5-7 in Oklahoma City.

Davidson’s entry in the How To/Technical Article category was an article aimed at new mothers looking to increase breast milk production. Davidson also received an Honorable Mention from among [...]

Chicken Soup Book Signing April 30

Rhonda Franz and Lela Davidson will be at Barnes and Noble on April 30 to sign copies of the latest Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

Northwest Arkansas writers Lela Davidson and Rhonda Franz will be Barnes and Noble in Fayetteville at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, to sign copies of the new Chicken [...]

Arkansas Updates 1937 Media Shield Law

New avenues of publication have led to the updating of the 1937 Arkansas shield law that protects the right of reporters and publishers to protect their sources.

The 1937 law, Section 1 of Arkansas Code P 16-85-510 originally defined the media as: newspaper, periodical, or radio station. The new language acknowledges the internet:

Before any editor, reporter, [...]

Hot Off the Press!

Proud Arkansas authors Rhonda Franz and Lela Davidson with their most recent publications.