Jack Walker Press

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Corners: Voices on Change

Corners: Voices On Change Corners: Voices on Change” is a collection of stories about adaptation, about passing through a critical juncture, and gaining a fresh perspective. The book is comprised of 25 stories by writers who are confronted with a major turning point in life. They face physical difficulties, marital strife, failing relationships and deal …

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Celebrating soft launch of ‘Corners: Voices on Change’ with a free eBook

Twenty-four authors will have you cheering, crying, and cussing about the difficult/miraculous journey of navigating change.  Corners: Voices on Change is offered as a free eBook until 6/4. Want to know more about the essays and authors?  One sentence isn’t a summary; its a tease. Karen Ackland can’t go home again, if home is a …

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Soft ebook launch of ‘Corners: Voices on Change’

Corners: Voices on Change is scheduled for ebook release on May 3oth.  Why the divided launch? We want you to be able to read these amazing personal stories as soon as possible. And we need your help obtain recommendations and book reviews.  We’d like to have some posted reviews and emailed recommendations before we publish the …

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Help a writer: write a blurb

If someone asks you to write a blurb for a book, it’s a compliment. It wasn’t easy for them you ask you.  No one wants to impose. Writers need blurbs. Your opinion and recommendation have been deemed valuable. A blurb is a bylined recommendation. It can be long or short, and even if it is …

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Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone: The Legend of Lake Isa

Make a family trip to Yellowstone even more fun.  Build anticipation for that some-day trip to Yellowstone.  Read Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone for fun, adventure, and learning.  Kids see actual pictures of Yellowstone–cartoonized as they read the fun adventure. Parents can download paper puppets of the the main characters for fun play-along as you read …

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Peek at our next book cover for ‘Corners: Voices on Change’

Corners: Voices on Change will have a soft launch as an e-book very soon.  Then the paperback will be available at online sellers and in bookstores. Find stories of moving through small and big changes. People get hurt, change religions, get lost, get left, gain insight,  get fired, find out they were wrong.  They see …

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The subtle and big promise of literary nonfiction

We are thinking about titling our new anthology of literary nonfiction, which collects essays with the theme of transformation and inclusion.  Some of the changes are big–death; some are impactful in less obvious ways–a shift in how we see the racial divides expressed in our family.  This is a literary collection, and we need to …

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Update on our anthologies about transitions and exclusion

We thought we had lost our mind. Well, perhaps we had, but we finally found a reason for our altered state. Our submission manager (Green Submissions) had updated software and some of our online submission files came up empty–even though they had been read and scored and some had some preliminary editorial tweaks. Apparently, some …

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Happy Holidays: Free Children’s Books from Jack Walker Press

Children with new or old E-readers get a free gift from Jack Walker Press.  Free ebooks.  No E-eader?–Read the books with free kindle readers for ipad or computer. This holiday season, enjoy books with children.   Read to Children! 1. Children who read often and widely get better at it. After all, practice makes perfect …

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