Posted by Nancy Simpson
Hello Fellow NCWN West Members and Friends. I have been working as the editor on Netwest’s forthcoming anthology for about one year now, with the work arriving in my mailbox from December 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. Getting a book published is a long process. Sometimes things move along like clockwork, but time stalled due to circumstances beyond our control. Still, I am happy to announce we are making progress and seeing our way clear to publish the anthology, titled Echoes Across the Blue Ridge: Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In fact, we have completed the proofreading process. The galley copy is being made at this time. We plan for publication in the new year.
An Introduction to Echoes Across the Blue Ridge has been written for us by Robert Morgan.Other North Carolina authors have endorsed the collection including Lee Smith, Ron Rash, and more comments are forthcoming.
These authors, who live within the Netwest area, were invited to contribute their work and they did so with generosity: Our Program Coordinator Kathryn Stripling Byer, Thomas Rain Crowe, Steven Harvey and Bettie M. Sellers. The anthology is dedicated to the memory of our Appalachian ballad poet Byron Herbert Reece.
Check the list below of other contributors who have work forthcoming in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge:
Ellen Andrews
Richard Argo
Glenda Barrett
Glenda Beall
Jo Carolyn Beebe
Janet Benway
Joan Thiel Blessing
Rachel T. Bronnum
John T. Campbell
Gary Carden
Nancy Sales Cash
James M. Cox
Paul Donovan
Robert Edward Fahey
Jayne Jaudon Ferrer
Debora Kinsland Foerst
Joyce Foster
Karen Gilfillan
Gerri Wolfe Grady
Lana Hendershott
Eugene Hirsch
Sam Hoffer
Karen Paul Holmes
Tom Hooker
Kitty Inman
Carl Iobst
George Ivey
Mary Michelle Brodine Keller
Eileen Lampe
Blanche Ledford
Brenda Kay Ledford
Susan Lefler
StarShield Lortie
John Malone
Gail Maye
Marshall McClung
Jennifer McGaha
Mary Lou McKillip
Dick Michener
Maren O. Mitchell
Janice Townley Moore
Clarence Lee Newton
Arnie Nielson
Nancy Purcell
Betty Jameron Reed
William V. Reynolds
Estelle Rice
Mary Ricketson
Judy Roney
Rosemary Royston
Peg Russell
Linda M. Smith
Susan Snowden
Dorothea Spiegel
Wendy Richard Tanner
Carole Richard Thompson
Shirley Uphouse
J.C. Walkup
Cecily Hamlin Wells
Eleanor Lambert Wilson
Charlotte Wolf
Jane J. Young
Congratulations to Philip Sampson of Young Harris, Georgia
whose photograph was chosen for the cover.
Congratulations to Katja Holmes for her cover and book design
and for formatting the galley manuscript .
MORE NEWS WILL COME . STAY POSTED.
6 comments:
I'm looking forward to this great anthology and so pleased to be included. It would not have happened had it not been for you Nancy. I know it's been a labor of love and you've done an excellent job. Thank you for everything.
Sam
Nancy:We contributors can never thank you enough for the mountain of work you have done on this anthology! The cover is beautiful, and I will be so proud to say, "One of my poems is in this". You are an amazing, beautiful woman, and I hate it that you've not been really well while doing all this work.
Enjoyed your elves--what a cute idea! Thank you, Carole T.
Can't wait to see it.
Nancy, I'm back to thank you again for the work you've done on the anthology and also to thank you for that fabulous Cheese Ball recipe you gave me last year for my blog. It was such a hit that I've featured it in my food column for the Cherokee Scout. I'm not sure what issue it will be in. Maybe next week, maybe the following - I send it in and they decide. Anyway, keep an eye out for it in the Scout.
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and the best in the new year.
Sam
Merry Christmas Sam, Thanks for thinking of my cheese ball. There are many variations, but once I started getting good comments, I knew I had found the Cheese Ball for me. I used to love to make them to give but now I am reduced to getting one made for Christmas Eve and one for New Year's Eve. I almost always make one for the CHRISTMAS IN POEMS AND STORIES gathering at the Moss Memorial Library each year, but this year, even though I did attend, I did not get my cheese balls made. I have tried to make on extra to leave with Mary Fonda and the book ladies there. They do so
much for us writers, looking up stuff and finding us the exact right book.
But, let me say, I am getting myself back on track. I'm getting stronger each day and will be back in the future with more cheese balls for sure.
Also, I plan to try your cheese logs.
I'll look for the article in the Cherokee Scout
Nancy,
Just dropping by to wish you and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I look forward to our book being published in 2010.
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