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JoJo’s Transformation: A Free Prequel to Under the August Sky

Before John Johanssen ever set foot in Emerald Valley as the man readers meet in Under the August Sky, he was a shy, insecure young adult everyone had once called "Fat JoJo," and who was carrying four years of high school humiliation onto a college campus three...

Faith, Scars, and the Road Home: An Author Interview

What do you do when the people who were supposed to show you God were the ones who hurt you most? That's the question that beats at the heart of Heather Tekavec's debut historical fiction novel, Good Road to Follow, and that hearbeat is the reason readers will...

Bayou, Boots & Belief: Inside the Heart of Blue Jean Bayou

On the surface, Blue Jean Bayou by Janis Jakes is a slow-burn contemporary romance, but it doesn't take long to notice the richness behind the genre. It's a story about the wounds we carry from early loss, the identities we build to survive them, and the grace that...
To Be-ware or not To Be-ware: Large Publisher, Small Press

To Be-ware or not To Be-ware: Large Publisher, Small Press

This week seems to be the week to blog about small presses, and seeing so many posts brought something to my mind. I’ve always considered Pelican Book Group to be a small press—as I’m sure most people do—but what exactly makes a small press a small press? Is it the size of its catalogue, number of employees, the benefits and drawbacks of being published by said press, or is it strictly the annual revenue generated (and is any of that good or bad)? As I pondered these things, I decided to do a comparison of what large publishers do and what this small press (Pelican Book Group) does.

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