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Atticus Books Wins Four IPPY Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2012                       ATTICUS BOOKS SWEEPS IPPY REGIONAL AWARDS WITH FOUR GOLD MEDAL WINS IN LITERARY FICTION   Nazareth, North Dakota by Tommy Zurhellen The Snow Whale by John Minichillo The Great Lenore by J.M. Tohline Tracks: A Novel in Stories by [...]

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Atticus Books Signs 826michigan Founder Steven Gillis

DZANC PUBLISHER AND 826MICHIGAN FOUNDER EMBRACES THE EXTRAORDINARY IN 15 NEW STORIES   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2012   PRAISE FOR THE LAW OF STRINGS “[T]his story collection hooked me from story one and continued to captivate to the end. Expert dialog and movement and resolution in each piece…This is a book you could [...]

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Atticus Books Signs 27-Year-Old Writer Colin Winnette

YOUNG WRITERS WITH PRETERNATURAL TALENT ENERGIZE PUBLISHING 27-Year-Old Writer Signs with Atticus Books    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 29, 2012   KENSINGTON, MD — If the literary world had a pin-up calendar, the 27- year-old Colin Winnette would grace its pages. The former American Short Fiction “Mr. January” joins the Atticus roster as the independent [...]

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Film Director’s Fall From Grace in Nazi Germany Is the Focus of Debut Novel by German-American Writer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Publication Date: April 17, 2012 Kino by Jürgen Fauth “Kino is a fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time. It is the story of a woman who becomes obsessed with her grandfather, a visionary film director, [and] the powerful bindings of family, the sweet, dark loam of loss, and the high-voltage [...]

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Riots and Broken Bones Inspire a Gritty Debut Story Collection

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On sale February 29, 2012   Three Ways of the Saw by Matt Mullins   ADVANCED PRAISE FOR THREE WAYS OF THE SAW “There’s a brooding, raw, rustbelt, jazzy, Motown energy that informs the sensibility and sound of this writer, fuels his prose, and gathers this collection into a compelling whole.” – [...]

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Duffy Escapes, Insanity Ensues

Publisher and Editor Threaten Defamation Suit, Author Chortles (Off the Record) KENSINGTON, MD — Cyrus Duffleman, a fictitious creation and the main character of the novel, Fight for Your Long Day, has literally escaped the pages of his book and has become a suspiciously untraceable troll on Facebook, Twitter, and other Internet social networking sites, according [...]

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D.C. Area Publishing House Fights Divisive Rhetoric with Nonpartisan Candor

KENSINGTON, MD — Frustrated by disconnected and myopic blog posts, Facebook comments, and tweets flung daily across the web, Atticus Books is uniting conversation in one place with Six Degrees Left, a series of frank discussions centered on a rotating theme of hot-­button topics across a wide spectrum of disciplines. October’s inaugural Six Degrees Left discussion [...]

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Novelist Takes Inspiration for Sequel from the Wild Midwest

  “A large-hearted book about the everpresent fundamental human verities written with empathy, force, and verve.” – Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and The Signal “Richly imagined and so very poignant this novel [is] something special.” – Robert Olmstead, author of Coal Black Horse and Far Bright Star KENSINGTON, MD — The messiah is on tour. A [...]

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