Quill Hawk Publishing

11/20/2025

Quill Hawk Publishing is thrilled to welcome Warren “Scott” Barger to the family!

Scott Barger's debut history book, “We Want a Band!” is an insightful glimpse into Oklahoma’s musical history, musicians, and town bands from around 1880 to 1940.

Scott never envisioned writing a book until he attended a New Horizons community band concert in 2023, where his brother, Cliff, was playing. Barger came away wondering whether community bands were really very good or more like Mayberry’s band from The Andy Griffith Show. After a bit of research, it became evident there was a fabulous archive of information, but no books about community/town bands in Oklahoma. The story of these musicians was fading with time. Scott became the wholehearted storyteller of this great history. He has a background in music, playing trombone, bass guitar, and, at one time, bagpipes. He won the John Philip Sousa Award in high school, has performed live, and recorded with several bands.

When not digging through history, he enjoys reading, painting, golf, spending time with family, and keeping his mind sharp by playing Warhammer 40K locally and in tournaments. Barger holds a degree in Theology and is a member of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Norman.

His father, David Barger, a great musician and band director, helped formulate his love of music, even taking bagpipe lessons together. David encouraged Scott to write this book, but died early in 2025 before its completion. This work is dedicated to him.

11/20/2025

Thank you, Dacia Cunningham and Tulsa Community College, for inviting me to speak with your Creative Writing Club as part of the Writer's Series! We covered a broad spectrum of writing and publishing topics, so listen in if you're a writer who is always seeking to learn and improve your craft.

Here’s a teaser!

Watch the full program here

https://guides.library.tulsacc.edu/writing/TCCwritersseries

11/18/2025

The 2025 Global Peace & Legacy Awards Gala celebrated 30 years of US-Vietnam diplomatic relations. This event in Santa Monica was vibrant and honored the work of so many volunteers working together to bring dignity, humanity, and aid to the people of Vietnam. Through and her unwavering dedication with the .village.foundation the community came together to advocate for peace, love, and healing. was proud to be a sponsor in support of the foundation’s work.

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11/18/2025

What a wonderful global peace & legacy awards gala hosted by and .village.foundation in

Here’s a highlights reel from

was proud to sponsor the event and be the official publisher for the upcoming book “THE BAMBOO CAN BEND BUT NOT BREAK” celebrating 40 years of service. Coming Spring 2026!

11/18/2025

A wonderful evening celebrating and fundraising for Global Village Foundation!

11/09/2025

Congratulations to Books by Terry Godfrey with the release of his newest historical western novella, The Little Gun!

Jedidiah is a little man with a fast gun pursuing outlaws who killed his sister. Armed with his father’s knife, a C**t pistol, and a relentless will, the boy they mocked as “Little Gun” sets out on a quest for justice. What begins as a struggle for survival turns into a one-person war across the untamed West. Along the way, Jedidiah crosses paths with legends—Buffalo Bill Cody, Billy the Kid, and Wyatt Earp—but his true mission never wavers: hunt down the men who destroyed his family.

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A western about a little man with a fast gun pursuing outlaws who killed his sister. Armed with his father’s knife, a C**t pistol, and a relentless will, the boy they mocked as “Little Gun” sets out on a quest for justice. What begins as a struggle for survival turns into a one-person war acro...

11/07/2025

Our author’s new book is precious! Jaqup Dotter is available for author visits and signings!

11/07/2025

See you Saturday, Oklahoma!

Coming November 8th! Annual Fall Peace Fest!See you there!

11/06/2025

Please welcome Devaki Ananda Murch to the QHP family!

Devaki Murch never set out to become an archivist. As a child, she dreamed of being a librarian—carefully organizing her books with a self-made Dewey Decimal System and handwritten catalog cards. That early love of order and detail eventually led to a career as a Tradeshow and Conference Director, where systems, processes, and attention to detail were her superpower.

Operation Babylift has been the common thread running through Devaki’s life since she arrived in the United States. As one of the children aboard the first flight—the C-5A Galaxy that crashed during the evacuation from Vietnam in April 1975—she grew up hearing her story told by others: through newspaper headlines, documentaries, and books.

Over time, with the support of her family, she began to gather these fragments, weaving them into a fuller, more personal narrative—one that moved beyond the media version to a story rooted in individual connections, complex relationships, and the essence of humanity.

But "Invisible Threads: Stories Connected by Operation Babylift" is not her story alone. It is a story about all of us—about individual histories bound by a shared past. It carries the intertwined legacies of adoptees, caregivers, veterans, volunteers, and families who lived through the war and the layered realities of adoption, identity, and belonging.

Today, Devaki’s work has become a mission: to preserve and protect this history by creating a comprehensive archival collection that will be housed in an accessible public repository. In collaboration with Friends for All Children and a growing network of adoptees and organizations, she now works to reunite adoptees with their personal records—individually, privately, and with deep respect. Each meeting is held in person, allowing time, space, and care for adoptees to encounter their histories on their own terms.

Yet this project extends beyond adoptees. It encompasses everyone connected by Operation Babylift and the broader story of the Vietnam War. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Invisible Threads offers a reflection on what it means to belong—to a country, to a community, to one another. It honors the veterans who have carried these memories quietly for decades, many of whom are only now finding the courage to share what they witnessed.

This is not a single story. It is a collective act of remembering—a history that, at last, is finding its way home.

11/05/2025

We want to thank the many authors who’ve published with us or leveraged our services. Together, we are a family and a mighty tribe: creative, brilliant, talented, and brave, always uplifting and amplifying... always hustling.

It is an honor to bring their stories and works to life!

With gratitude,
Amy M. Le, CEO of Quill Hawk Publishing

11/03/2025

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Writers, beware the em dash epidemic! Shelley Malicote Stutchman exposes the 10 dead giveaways that your prose might sound too AI.

Shelley Malicote-Stutchman humorously explores how certain words and phrases have become dead giveaways of AI-generated writing. As more authors use AI tools, she warns that overreliance on these patterns risks stripping writing of its authentic human voice.

She begins by addressing a serious issue—writers being falsely accused of using AI—and emphasizes that human creativity is what teaches AI in the first place. Get ready for a countdown of the Top 10 “AI giveaway” words and phrases!