Scribes Valley Notes

Well, there we were, ready to jump on the BLOG wagon and do some regular postings. Seemed like a fairly simple thing to do. One thing we didn’t count on: finding the time to sit down and write the postings! We’ll try to do better in the future. A lot has happened since the last time. We’ve just released our new anthology of short story contest winners, entitled LIVE TO IMAGINE . And what an impressive list of authors! We’ve got famous authors, unknown-but-soon-to-be-famous authors, famous people who are becoming famous authors, just about any type of author you’d want. Francis W. Porretto (first place short story), Lenny Willoughby (second place short story), Jean B. Speights (first place poetry), JE (John) Moore, Karin Konoval, Alicia Davis, Edith Thornton, Ritch Brinkley, Tish Davidson, Gail Cauble Gurley, Elizabeth Appell, Carolyn Ann Aish, and Phillip Lynne all contribute their fantastic work to this anthology. An excerpt from the back cover: What could be more exciting than an ima

Well, we've done it. We've created a BLOG. Seems like everybody has one these days, so we've jumped on the bandwagon and we're out of the chute. First, a bit about Scribes Valley Publishing . We're a small, independent publisher started in 2003, and based in Knoxville, Tennessee. We were founded on the idea that most "big" publishing houses have lost sight of their original purpose: to produce great, entertaining works while giving exposure to writers who have something to say. Instead, they concentrate all efforts on large profit margins and handle only those authors with the best commercial demographics. If you didn't have a bestseller last year, they won't even look at you. Which leaves us to wonder how many writing geniuses have been left in the dust, their aspirations squelched, because they didn't have the right agent, didn't know the cousin of a friend who married the daughter of a publisher, or weren't given the encouragement to