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Books by Nancy Slavin’s Bed

  Bill Girsch design Nancy Slavin is a long-time English literature, creative and composition writing instructor at the smallest community college in Oregon, as well as an educator for a non-profit...

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Books by Jim Landwehr’s Bed

Bill Girsch design Jim Landwehr enjoys writing creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. His first book, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir was published by eLectio Publishing in June. His...

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Books by Nicole C. Kear’s Bed

Bill Girsch design Nicole C. Kear is the author of the memoir Now I See You (St. Martin’s Press), chosen as a Must-Read by Amazon, Glamour, Martha Stewart Living, Redbook, and Marie Claire among...

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Books by Pam Jenoff’s Bed

Bill Girsch design Pam Jenoff is the internationally bestselling author of The Kommandant’s Girl and several other novels. Her latest novel, The Winter Guest, was released on August 26. Pam was a...

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Books by Kate Gray’s Bed

Bill Girsch design A rower for years, Kate Gray coached crew and taught in an East Coast boarding school at the start of her teaching career. Now after more than twenty years teaching at a community...

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Books by John Vanderslice’s Bed

Bill Girsch design John Vanderslice teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Arkansas. His stories, poems, essays, and plays have appeared in a variety of journals, including Seattle...

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Only THE BEST Will Do!

Design by Bill Girsch Incredibly, Best of Books by the Bed #2 is even more spectacular than #1! As blurber (see more buzz here) William Souder says, “Can there really be a sequel to a book of the...

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Books by Felicia Mitchell’s Bed

Felicia Mitchell grew up in South Carolina and North Carolina and then lived in Georgia and Texas before moving to rural southwestern Virginia in 1987 to teach at Emory & Henry College. In addition...

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Books by Clifford Garstang’s Bed

Clifford Garstang is the editor of Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, a new anthology from Press 53. He won the 2013 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction for his novel in...

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Books by Andrea Miles’ Bed

Andrea Miles is a graduate of the Master’s of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, Trespassers, debuted this week and we ran an excerpt. Originally...

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We Have Winners!

In the first drawing of our month-long Great Grateful Book Giveaway, the lucky recipients of Best of Books by the Bed #2: What Writers Are Reading Before Lights Out are Lori L. Lake (entered by Elisa...

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Books by Therése Halscheid’s Bed

Frozen Latitudes, Therése Halscheid‘s new book of poems has just been released by Press 53. Her other collections are Uncommon Geography, Without Home, and Powertalk. She received a Greatest Hits...

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The Great Grateful Book Giveaway

Discerning readers of all species choose BEST OF BOOKS BY THE BED #2 With a Nice Twist! In this month of thanks giving, as a token of our gratitude to our readers, we thought it would be fun to offer a...

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Books by Judy Strick’s Bed

Judy Strick is a native of Southern California. She holds an MFA from Otis Art Institute, and in a former lifetime was a fine artist and then a toy designer. She studied screenwriting at AFI and...

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A Dandy Doodle from JC Wall

Discerning readers of all species choose BEST OF BOOKS BY THE BED #2 Short version of a long story: Four years ago when I stumbled clumsily into social media and web-goddessing to promote We Wanted to...

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Books by Mel Ryane’s Bed

Following a distinguished career as a classically trained actor onstage and in film and television, Mel Ryane has found a new artistic home in the written word with her memoir, Teaching Will: What...

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Books by Stefanie Gunning’s Bed

Stefanie Paige Gunning is a Creative Director at MRY in New York City. She blogs at Working Without a Net and is currently at work on her first novel. She tweets rather a lot. I do not remember...

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Books by Ilana Masad’s Bed

Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American writer, reader, editor and (somewhat predictably) cat-lover. She is a columnist for McSweeney’s, has published her fiction and non-fiction in a variety of venues...

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We’re Virtually in Wisconsin!

Christi Craig invited us over to her blog today to chat about Best of Books by The Bed #2 and other stimulating stuff. Come see!

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Books by Polly Dugan’s Bed

Polly Dugan is the award-winning author of So Much a Part of You, which writer Alan Heathcock said “announces the arrival of a potent and fresh new voice” in fiction. Her second book, The Sweetheart...

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