Thorncraft Publishing is the home of great stories, the ones that make you think more about the world where you live, the ones that cause you to reflect on our history, that inspire you with powerful characters and settings, the ones that call you to change your life, and that encourage us to continue telling our stories.
We publish the work of women authors in fiction. We also publish the yoga book series, BreatheYourOMBalance® which features poetry, nonfiction, and fiction by all genders. At Thorncraft Publishing, we're trying to create a positive impact and promote positive changes within our community, so we publish the community brochure, The Clarksville/Montgomery County African American Legacy Trail. We've organized many literary events in books, theatre, and more.
Visit the individual pages for our authors and books. Read some of our stories and let us know what you enjoyed, what caused you to think in a different way, and what you'd like to read from us in the future. Give our books a review on bookseller sites and on Goodreads. We love hearing from our readers!
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Order your copy of BreatheYourOMBalance: Yoga and Relationships (2021) signed by Sarah Michelle, the Introductory Author, contributor, and cover model of volume three of our yoga book.
Sarah Michelle is joined by over twenty contributors for a compilation of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry that explores how our yoga practice changes and challenges, supports and heals our relationships.
Read more about the BreatheYourOMBalance® Series here.
SEE A LIST OF ALL PAST & PRESENT CONTRIBUTORS HERE
Each week, 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.
New Writing Prompt Style for 2021
The Nudge is going back in time. This year, we will offer writing prompts based on or inspired by history. Get ready to dabble for the week in some other time and place, or dig in and research the finer details of an era. Maybe you write poems inspired by our prompts, or spend time on a longer work of historical fiction that weaves in and out of human history, or perhaps something in between is on your itinerary. Above all, have fun in our time machine--you never know where we'll go and what we'll choose to explore next week!
Nudge #147
Time Travel: Jewelry, Family Heirloom, Any Place, Any Time
Go to any time and place, but allow jewelry to transport you there. Jewelry is often endowed with magical properties, for good or ill, or some combination in between. It can also offer a mystery component. For this Nudge, write a historical flashback scene or a poem or essay based on a piece of jewelry that is a family heirloom or an antique.
Some inspiration: the young adult mystery novel based on Frida Kahlo and the missing peacock ring, Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes; the mythological "ancient" world and quest for the ring in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien; and the necklace in the poem "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore and many more examples in poetry.