THE BOOKS
Striking Out
ISBN 978-1877946066
(This novel was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award)
Bennie Blake is a 17-year old misfit. Awkward with girls and feeling out of place among both rich and poor, he is locked in mortal combat with the morality of the 1950s, the mystery of female behavior, and the puzzle of where he /Hemingway wardbelongs. Can he find his own place in the world?
"Bought it for a friend. I had already read the book. Loved it!" ~Walter Scarborough
Atlanta Blues
ISBN 978-0966119923
A newspaper reporter and two cops search for a missing college coed. The search leads through the underbelly of urban Atlanta to murder and heartbreak.
Atlanta Blues was nominated for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, made the best-seller list in The (Columbia, S.C.) State, and was named in a year-end round-up of books as “One of The Three Best Novels of the Year (2004) by a Southern Writer — and maybe the best.”
"This novel will keep you awake nights: reading first, then thinking about it." ~Richard Layman
A Majority of One
ISBN 978-1463712624
When preachers in a Georgia town set out to ban some novels from the high school curriculum, only one person stands up to them: English teacher Anne Brady -- who soon finds herself a social outcast locked in a battle to save her job and reputation. By the time Anne's case spills into court from a heated schoolboard meeting, the mood of the county points toward a legal lynching or worse, as some of the more zealous defenders of the faith have drifted beyond the reach of law or reason. This novel is a powerful reminder that not all religious fanatics live in the Middle East. America has its own homegrown variety.
"This is one of the best novels I have ever read. Trerrific!" ~Gail Leverett Stelling
Six of One, Half Dozen of Another
ISBN 978-1466338265
Short stories and poems written over the course of a writer's career, with an afterword on their creation. Includes the award-winning story "R.I.P.," the groundbreaking story "Rebellion at Fugitive Flats," and the poem "A Reconsideration," the author's first published work.
"I haven't had this much fun reading a story ('R.I.P.') in a long time. In fact, I laughed until I cried. Then I read it again, and laughed until I cried again. Highly recommended." ~Mark Stevens