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To make matters worse, a day or so later, I received a very disheartening letter from Mary. I had begun to wonder about her after her letters had grown fewer in number and farther apart, which wouldn’t have bothered me so much if she hadn’t been the only consistent relationship in my life at the [...]

Recipient – 2009 SLPA Affiliate Scholarship

Butch Drury of Rivendell Books received this year’s affiliate scholarship to IBPA’s Publishing University, which took place right before BookExpo America in New York City, May 26-28. “The whole experience,” stated Butch, “was pretty intense, but very rewarding. In those 2½ days, I learned what will probably take me months to implement. ‘For we are [...]

A Different Kind of Sentinel by Sir E. J. Drury II A review Having survived the war in Vietnam, without physical injury to himself, the author “had nonetheless incurred the deeper wounds of a house divided against itself.” As a child, had not he experienced his real father’s schizophrenia and, later, his stepfather’s alcoholism as [...]