Peter Miles Fulfills His Writing Dream after Retirement
The inspiration to write began when he was younger but it took about half a century later before Xlibris author Peter Miles decided to bring his dream to fruition. The retired professor has published his short story collection Nandroth and sci-fi novel Eye of the Beholder through Xlibris. Eye of the Beholder was said to interweave the […] READ MORE |
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Juvenile Xlibris Author Wins 3rd Walt Whitman Award
Xlibris author Isabelle Scott is set to accept her third Walt Whitman Young Poets Award this year. The grade school scholar and former Long Island regional Spelling Bee champion turned Xlibris author published her first poetry book – Isabelle’s Muse: Poems of a Grade School Scholar last year and has since then garnered literary praises. She […] READ MORE |
Xlibris Celebrates Poetry Month, Launches Flash Fiction Contest
Nearly two decades ago, the largest membership-based nonprofit organization Academy of American Poets founded April as the National Poetry Month. The celebration is considered the world’s largest, with “schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in culture.” The 1996-inaugurated event was inspired by other national celebrations, including Black History Month in February […] READ MORE |
Xlibris Author Sylvia Harvie Inspires with Her Novel on Domestic Abuse
Xlibris author Sylvia Harvie writes about a touchy subject often swept under the rug in her first novel titled Move Forward self-published through Xlibris last year. Perhaps equal parts fictional and self-help, the book narrates the story of the protagonist Susan Anderson who suffers from domestic violence, flees from the abuser, and finally moves on. […] READ MORE |
Xlibris Author J.D. Mallinson Wins the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Award
Xlibris author J.D. Mallinson’s curiosity about life is captured through his self-published poetry collection The Sycamore Seed, published by subscription. Like a wind-blown, spinning sycamore seed, the former educator has let nature take its course, as he pursued and expressed his fondness for the craft. He previously won second prize at the BBC Home Thoughts […] READ MORE |