918studio press to release Another Life in December
DAVENPORT, IOWA—918studio press, a literary press in Davenport, is preparing for its first 2016 release with local author, Tom McKay’s, short novel, Another Life, a story that explores what happens when the cute girl you had a crush on in high school returns to your life as your son’s future mother-in-law. Another Life, with cover art by Ingrid Kallick, will be introduced with a launch party hosted by Midwest Writing Center at the Rock Island Public Library from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7th. Tom will read from the book and answer audience questions at 7 p.m. Refreshments will also be served at this free event open to the public.
918studio press will be celebrating its next release in February, 2017, with Mike Bayles’ literary collage piece, Breakfast at the Good Hope Home, which follows a son visiting the nursing home where his father is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. 918studio press, a selective subsidized publisher, is open to submissions of poetry collections (chapbook or full length) or prose (non-fiction or fiction, short story collections or novels) with strong geographic ties. View their submission guidelines at http://918studiopress.com/
Tom McKay is an historian and museum consultant who lives in his hometown of Hampton, Illinois. His debut novel, West Fork, was published by East Hall Press at Augustana College in 2014. His short stories have appeared in the Wapsipinicon Almanac, Vermont Ink, Downstate Story, the Wisconsin River Valley Journal, the Book Rack Newsletter, and the Out Loud Anthology series of the Midwest Writing Center.
To learn more about Tom, visit his website at http://west-fork.com/author.
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