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05/22/2025

Join Mr. Bob Willcutt and Mr. Jeremy Popkin to learn The True History of Lexington on May 28, 6:30-7:30 pm.

03/06/2025

Join Acclaim Press author Rickie Zayne Ashby at the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Festival where you will be able to purchase a signed copy of his newest books, "Walton's Creek" Volumes I & II

Come and enjoy some good music and a silent auction including items such as: Fender guitar, cedar walking cane ( wood from Jerusalem Ridge),lap quilt, Wisconsin Basket of goodies, festival tickets, yummy baked goods, and more!!

10/25/2024

HOT OFF THE PRESS!! WONDERFUL CHILDREN’S BOOK- JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! Order your copy today at www.acclaimpress.com

Stand Tall Little Twig is a delightful story of Twig, a young sapling, who is planted in his forever home and grows into a tall, mighty oak tree. Through the years the reader sees Twig grow big and tall from season to season, while the birds perch among his leaves, deer eat his acorns, and a little boy swings from his branches. The story is brought to life by the beautiful watercolor imagery of Tammy Jennings. It is a wonderful tale of nature and discovery suitable for children of all ages.

About The Author
Mary Ann Featherston lives in the Cape Girardeau, Missouri area with her husband and miniature Australian shepherd. She and her husband have two sons, a daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren. Aside from writing, she enjoys traveling, music, cooking, reading, and spending time with family and friends. She loves coffee and chocolate.

07/27/2024

Exiting new book coming out later this year!

For the last seven years, Garry Warner has been greeting customers who visit the Walmart in Sikeston.

06/19/2024

The next great book from Acclaim Press! Available for presale now! www.acclaimpress.com

For better or worse, Walmart has become the crossroads of local America. And the guy directing the traffic at that crossroads is the ubiquitous, modern folk hero known as the Walmart Greeter. There is no greater greeter from that distinguished vocation than one Garry Warner. Having fervently fulfilled that role for years now, Garry has been observing, interviewing, noting, laughing and crying, all the while documenting the stories of some of his most interesting and intriguing guests, right there in the very entrance and aisles of the local Supercenter. From heartbreaking to inspiring, touching to aggravating, and from wacky to just plain weird, Garry has seen it all in America’s biggest retailer.

Now, for your enjoyment, and entertainment, he has compiled the collection of his very best stories that he has come across in the personable, folksy style that makes him excel at his position. All we can say is, “Attention Walmart shoppers, you are going to want one of these in your basket!

04/02/2024

Join author Curtis Copeland for a book signing and presentation of his book,
"Mildred Quit Hollering and other Ozark Folktales"

Saturday, April 6 11:00 a.m.
Newton County Library in Jasper Arkansas

Mildred, Quit Hollering! and Other Ozark Folktales is the last collection of folktales by celebrated Ozarks historian and storyteller, Vance Randolph. These folktales—nearly forty in all—represent some of the best stories assembled by Randolph over five decades of wandering the hills and hollers of the Missouri/Arkansas Ozark Mountains—a celebration of the life and humor enjoyed by folks in rural America and assembled during Randolph’s final years spent in a nursing home.
Now published nearly forty-four years after Randolph’s death, Mildred, Quit Hollering! includes the biographies of the men and women who originally passed each story along to Randolph, which makes for interesting reading in itself, plus additional commentary from Augustus Finch, the self-proclaimed “Reverend, Biblical Expositor and Eschatologist”, who presents an entire new collection of his own b***y tales.
The last compilation of “Mr. Ozark” himself, Mildred, Quit Hollering! is both a tribute to the late Vance Randolph, but also a reminder that people are still people wherever you go, and it’s okay to laugh at ourselves sometimes.

02/23/2024

02/23/2024

Happy Birthday to Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph! Last year, a new collection of Randolph's Ozark folktales, "Mildred, Quit Hollering!", was published by local author and historian Curtis Copeland. Curtis has graciously donated a portion of the proceeds of the first 250 books sold to JRBP. Order your copy today from Acclaim Press (see link in the comments below) or get a signed copy from Curtis himself at book signings on March 5 at the Boone County Library Harrison AR, or April 6 at the Newton County Library in Jasper!

📷: Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

02/21/2024

Author Rick Ashby at a book signing for the release of his newest book, "Walton's Creek Land of our Fathers".

Walton’s Creek: Land of Our Fathers is the fictional story of the Atlee and Caughill families as they live, love, and survive in the hills and hollers of Walton’s Creek, Kentucky.

The dialogue is this simple story is true to the dialect, vocabulary, and phrasings of the people of rural Western Kentucky in the early twentieth century. Volume One of a two-volume set, the narrative flows through time from the years 1913-1971.

Get your copy today at https://www.acclaimpress.com/books/waltons-creek-land-of-our-fathers/