Remembering Woodland Press, LLC

07/18/2025

Remembering a great book event. Woodland Press Author and UFOlogist Kyle Lovern is shown at a book signing at Book Notes at Pikeville, Kentucky, around 2013.

07/13/2025

Remembering June 12, 2014 —

It was such a nice day to be at Huntington Mall Books-A-Million with award-winning authors Cat Pleska, Frank Larnerd, and F. Keith Davis. We were honored to meet and talk with a variety of interesting bookstore customers; and, of course, it's always a pleasure to be invited to Books-A-Million stores within the state's borders.

It was a great day to spend with friends, both old and new.

07/11/2025

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07/11/2025

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In the 1700s, teens were accused of being… addicted to novels.
Not alcohol. Not gambling.
Reading.
Across Europe, a strange fear gripped adults. Young people were devouring novels at a pace never seen before. They read at the dinner table, in bed, even while walking through the streets.
This wasn’t seen as a harmless hobby.
It was called “reading fever” or “book addiction.”
Some claimed it would rot their minds.
Others worried it would damage morals, ruin posture, or lead to dangerous daydreaming. Fiction was accused of causing everything from laziness to madness.
Moralists and educators sounded the alarm.
Pamphlets warned parents. Schools debated limits.
It wasn’t just what teens were reading — it was who was writing it.
Books like Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) or Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) stirred emotion, imagination, and independence.
They were often written by or for women — a major threat to the era’s social order.
But despite the panic, teens kept reading.
And quietly, something revolutionary was happening.
This “reading mania” helped fuel mass literacy, gave rise to the modern novel, and encouraged generations to explore new ideas through story.
The so-called crisis?
It laid the foundation for modern literature as we know it.
Funny how things change.
Today, we beg kids to pick up a book.
Had you ever heard about the 1700s reading panic?
What do you think society would say if teens got “addicted” to books again?

04/09/2025

This volume, "West Virginia Tough Boys," is an intimate peek into Appalachian politics and the 1960 presidential primary campaign. Straightforward true stories are told of political tomfoolery, vote-buying, and eventual victory for Senator John F. Kennedy in the challenging Mountain State primary election—one often cited as the most vital primary for Kennedy's run for the Whitehouse.

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04/09/2025

This title is the first release under our new imprint, Guyan Ridge Publishing. For the FIRST time, “The Secret Life and Brutal Death of Mamie Thurman” is now available as an ebook at Apple Books, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Amazon Kindle. The book contains all the details from the original Mountain State bestseller, along with newly discovered additions and up-to-date revisions.

* AMAZON KINDLE: https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Brutal-Death-Mamie-Thurman-ebook/dp/B0BZJPV6Q6
* BARNES & NOBLE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secret-life-and-brutal-death-of-mamie-thurman-keith-davis/1005008662?ean=2940185757338
* Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-secret-life-and-brutal-death-of-mamie-thurman/id6446249330

02/19/2025

LOOKING BACK: Woodland Press authors Michael Knost and Frank Larnerd appeared at Borders Express at the Charleston Town Center on Feb. 19, 2011. What a great book event it became.

02/02/2025

Books, books, books, and more books ....

01/25/2025

Looking Back at January 25, 2013: Exceptional Woodland Press author Anne Black Gray, a West Virginia native who now lives in Los Angeles, California, is shown signing a copy of her bestselling book, "The Devil's Son: Cap Hatfield and the End of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud."

This photograph was taken at The Gallery in Parkersburg, WV, during her summertime book tour across the Mountain State and eastern Kentucky. This fascinating book about Cap Hatfield was an immediate national bestseller, being released two weeks before the “Hatfields & McCoys” History channel miniseries aired. The book charted in Amazon's Top 100.

FEUD TRIVIA: Anne Black Gray's grandfather, a Logan County judge, was a close friend to Cap Hatfield. Cap often came to her grandfather's City of Logan home to visit, and would oftentimes bring gifts for the children when he came—sometimes baby rabbits or baby ducks. All the children, including Anne's mother, called him "Uncle Cap." It wasn't until Anne was an adult that she discovered that "Uncle Cap" was actually CAP HATFIELD, arguably the most violent participant in the Hatfield and McCoy feud. This eventually led Anne to research the entire life of Cap Hatfield; and her book, "The Devil's Son," is the result of that study.

01/25/2025

01/25/2025

Looking back to June, 2012:

Woodland Press authors having way too much fun!!! Left to right, New York Times Bestselling Author Geoffrey Cameron Fuller, Best Selling Regional Author Brian J. Hatcher, Bram Stoker Award Winner Michael Knost, and Best Selling Regional Author Jessie Grayson are all exceptional writers and wonderful folks! They joined together for a mammoth book event in June 2012, at WalMart at Quincy, WV.

Check out their Woodland Press titles:

🔵 FULL BONE MOON — Geoffrey Cameron Fuller
🔵 STORIES FROM THE HEARTH —Brian J. Hatcher
🔵 RETURN OF THE MOTHMAN— Michael Knost
🔵 SHADOWS AND MOUNTAINS — Jessie Grayson
🔵 STORIES FROM THE HEARTH —Brian J. Hatcher