17 Jul 2017

Governor's office communications team update

By Laurel Patrick

The governor has made several changes to his communications staff, so I wanted to share the names and some background information with you:

13 Jul 2017

New Novel Explores Craft Food and Culinary Feuds in Dubuque and Galena

By Dean Klinkenberg

St. Louis, MO – July 7, 2017.

In Dean Klinkenberg’s compelling new novel, Double-Dealing in Dubuque, writer Frank Dodge gets a simple assignment that quickly turns complicated when a fire races through the Dubuque Convention Center, killing two people. Dodge suspects the city’s ambitious mayor of covering up the cause of the fire, so he swears to investigate until he discovers what really caused the tragedy.

12 Jul 2017

"Leon's Wall" Davenport author's latest novel just published

By Joan Mauch
Leon Donatello is in witness protection after betraying his mob boss to the feds. Socialite Tanya Miller, an expert marksman, has gone broke and, desperate to regain her former status, becomes a hitman hired to hunt down and assassinate Donatello. Jimmy Sanchez, an Oglala Lakota teenager lives in his car to avoid a vicious gang intent on recruiting him.
12 Jul 2017

Iowa publishing company launches 2018 Book Contest

By Sarah Purdy

Pella, IA – On August 1, the Write Place—a publishing and design business headquartered in Pella, Iowa—will begin accepting manuscripts from aspiring authors for its fourth biannual Write Place Book Contest. The grand-prize winner will be awarded free publication of his or her manuscript as a print book and e-book, complete with editing and cover design services provided by the Write Place team.

29 Jun 2017

NPR named the most trusted brand in News

By Jay Pearce
NPR has been named the 2017 Harris Poll EquiTrend News Service Brand of the Year. The EquiTrend Brand Study also showed NPR to be the Most Trusted Brand and the Most Loved Brand.
27 Jun 2017

Juvenile fiction book for new big brothers/sisters

By Michelle Aribi

Nancy Santiago announces release of ‘Baby Henry and Me’

27 Jun 2017

12-year-old Bettendorf Girl is a published illustrator

By Mary McNeil
(Bettendorf, Iowa) Katy Leigh Babcock a 12-year-old from Bettendorf and a Pleasant Valley Riverdale Heights student loves creating artwork and wants to become an artist.  Two years ago Katy was invited to illustrate an important story for the A Book by Me Holocaust series and she eagerly agreed to do so. A Book by Me books are true stories of Holocaust survivors written by students who have interviewed the story’s subject.  They are books written and illustrated by children for children.
23 Jun 2017

Blue Grass Iowa resident published in College Literary publication

By Michael Valerius Jr
Blue Grass Iowa resident Michael Valerius Jr. a Peru State College online student had three written pieces published in "Peru State College Writer's Guild Leaf Press: Special Sesquicentennial 
Edition." The publication covers student writings printed selections over the course of 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years.
 
Michael won 3rd place is "Poetry Category:2015-2016" is the poem "Little Brown Rocks", page 73.
23 Jun 2017

New Book Asserts Care of Widows as a Key Area of Church Worship

By Lindsey Gobel

Andy Mendonsa’s “Spiritual Widowhood” calls readers to help the widowed and fatherless

12 Jun 2017

Strike A Chord for WVIK

By Jay Pearce
Just like the news, wonderful music plays on WVIK for you every day. No days off, no vacations. You know what else doesn't take a day off?
Expenses.
WVIK's budget year is drawing to a close. Our top priority is to finish this fiscal year in a financially strong position so that the music can continue to inspire our days in the year ahead.

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