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New Author, Sharon Mabry
We are honored to introduce a new author and novel scheduled for release later this year. Sharon Mabry, APSU Professor of Music, will release her first novel, The Postmaster’s Daughter, with Thorncraft Publishing.
When a marriage proposal brings together two families in East Tennessee, the wealthy and powerful Cantrells and the hardworking and respected Putnams, everyone is shocked by a sudden murder that halts the union. Sharon Mabry’s first novel, The Postmaster’s Daughter, is a literary fiction performance that shows Mabry’s ear for character details and her ability to weave a murder plot that keeps the reader’s interest on the stage of the novel. The Postmaster’s Daughter not only leads you into the working kitchen and tastes of cinnamon buns made by Viege Putnam, but it also takes you for a ride in Jack Cantrell’s ‘29 Model J Duesenberg Phaeton. Mabry arranges each scene and action with precision.
Prior to novel-writing, Mabry, who is an award-winning mezzo-soprano soloist and recording artist, premiered works by more than forty composers and made nine critically acclaimed recordings. She was a featured writer for the NATS Journal of Singing. Her book reviews and featured articles on women composers have appeared in several major music journals. She is the author of two books about music, Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music (Oxford University Press, 2002, 2009) and The Performing Life: A Singer’s Guide to Survival (Scarecrow Press, Rowman and Littlefield, 2012).
Mabry holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Florida State University, the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from George Peabody College/Vanderbilt University, and a performance certificate from the prestigious Franz-Schubert-Institut in Austria.
In addition to her concert career, Mabry established a long tenure as professor of music at Austin Peay State University, where she received the university’s highest award for creativity (the Richard M. Hawkins Award) and for teaching (the Distinguished Professor Award).
Sharon Mabry is an East Tennessee native, having grown up in Newport, Tennessee. She currently lives in Clarksville, TN. The Postmaster’s Daughter is her first novel (Forthcoming 2022).
Sharon Mabry, author of The Postmaster's Daughter (Forthcoming 2022)
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New Author for BreatheYourOMBalance volume 4
Laura Rose Schwartz
We are pleased to introduce Laura Rose Schwartz, Introductory Author and Contributor for volume four of our yoga book series, BreatheYourOmBalance.
Laura Rose Schwartz is a yoga teacher and entrepreneur living in Southern California. Her life has been a winding path, as she believes that taking the big leaps in life - despite uncertainty and fear - can lead to the greatest contentment. She’s been a health educator, a big law lawyer, a yoga teacher, a studio owner, and now runs an online fitness platform. All the twists and turns have challenged her and shown her the power of courage and vulnerability. Yoga and writing have given her tools, to help with feeling strong (physically and mentally), which enable her to stay in the moment rather than focus on potential outcomes or expectations, and to be happy and grateful for all the incredible things she has in her life.
Find Laura Rose on Instagram as @laurarosemoves and @laurasmovementlab
Submission Period Opens March 1, 2002.
Guidelines for Volume Four Here
Read more about the BreatheYourOMBalance series here.
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Book Two in The Family Medicine Wheel Series: Ripe for the Pickin' takes readers on a road trip with Robin, her music, and old secrets. The Family Medicine Wheel series weaves together Southern family tall tales, plant lore, and songwriting.
ADVANCED PRAISE: “It’s been a few years since we saw these characters in the first of Shana Thornton’s Poke Sallet stories. This time, as I read the opening pages, I feel like I’m running down a country road holding onto the tailgate of a friend’s pickup, and that friend is Thornton herself. The thought occurs to me that I should not have got out of the pickup in the first place, and would be wise to hang on, to follow wherever she takes me. The story is several stories: a road trip, a food and herb meditation, a hymn to Tennessee, an earth spiritual. There’s the continuation of a treasure hunt, and poetry, and song lyrics, all spanning several generations, at times passing over the threshold from this world to earlier worlds. It’s worth reading, and worth reading twice.”—BARRY KITTERMAN, award winning author of FROM THE SAN JOAQUIN: Stories
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THE NUDGE WRITING PROMPTS
Each month, we'll give you a new writing prompt here on our home page. Our past writing prompts, over 100 of them, are located at The Nudge. They'll be catalogued from the home page to The Nudge page every week but will not contain our special edition prompts. You can sign up to receive special writing prompts in our newsletter below.
Writing Prompt Style for 2022
The Nudge weekly writing prompt will vary in theme and style for 2022. No set format. No set style. Spend one month on each topic/theme.
Nudge #156 & 157, May-June 2022
May: Missed opportunities. Give your character an experience in which they realize that they missed an opportunity, one that they will never get back. Allow them a scene of grief for the awareness of the loss in their lives.
June: A photo booth scene. Or maybe you write a whole story that centers around a photo booth. This photo booth could be an "old style" photo booth of various sorts, or it could a modern photo booth with a computer connected to it that allows you to change backgrounds and records the footage of the photo booth during a wedding reception or some other modern extravaganza. Be creative about where you place your photo booths and what happens inside of them.
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