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Upcoming release Spring 2011:
The Birth of Baseball: A Somewhat True Story of How Wal-de-Mar Wiggins Invented the Grand Ole Game!

Joggling Board Press is pleased to announce the upcoming release of our new children's book, "The Birth of Baseball: A Somewhat True Story of How Wal-de-Mar Wiggins Invented the Grand Ole Game!"

This colorful tale about a fanciful Lowcountry bird is authored and illustrated by former Baltimore Orioles World Series pitcher Wally Bunker and his wife Kathy, who team up on everything they create.

Author interviewed on The Early Show on CBS May 26!
(view video here)

Dead Weight has just been named as a winner in three national competitions!:

IPPY Gold Medal for Best True Crime (Independent Publishers)

Benjamin Franklin Award, first place for best work of historic fiction (Independent Book Publishers Association)

ForeWord Magazine medalist for Book of the Year.

Dead Weight is also a finalist for Best Novel of the Year by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance.

Check out Dead Weight

The Lonely Shadow
wins IPPY gold medal

The 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards has named The Lonely Shadow by Clay Rice the gold medal winner as Best Children’s Picture Book.

The Lonely Shadow was also awarded the 2009 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Medal in the category of Best First Book - Picture Book.

The Lonely Shadow brings together the timeless tradition of silhouette artistry and a story of friendship in a delightful book children and parents will want to experience again and again. A significant 21st-century folk artist, Clay Rice has taken silhouette art to a new level in his debut children’s book The Lonely Shadow. Pioneering beyond black-on-white tradition into an active and colorful world, Rice tells the story of a lonely shadow who is searching for a mate. The fun begins when the shadow discovers a perfect fit: a little boy lonely for a shadow.

Learn more about The Lonely Shadow

Just released!
Gullah Cuisine:
By Land and By Sea

Take a journey with Chef Charlotte Jenkins into her creative kitchen, and also into her life. Charlotte and her husband Frank grew up Gullah at a time when the Old Ways were giving way to the New Ways.

Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea is a tale of connection, sharing a world the Gullah built. It features a narrative by critically acclaimed author William P. Baldwin, photographs by Pulitzer-prize-nominee Mic Smith and art by beloved Gullah painter Jonathan Green.

The Lee Brothers call it "food nirvana" and Nathalie Dupree says this is a "must have" book! more



Dead Weight	Armageddon Conspiracy (A Brent Lucas Thriller)	The Lonely Shadow	Transfer of Grace (2nd edition)	Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Editor Robert J. Cox
IPPY Gold Medal for Best True Crime Benjamin Franklin Award, first place for best work of historic fiction (Independent Book Publishers Association) ForeWord Magazine medalist for Book of the Year. Finalist for Best Novel of the Year by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance	National Independent Publishers award (IPPY) for best mystery/suspense/ thriller novel of 2009 Nominated for best novel of 2009 by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA)	National first place Moonbeam award for best children’s picture book by a first-time author, 2009 National Independent Publishers award (IPPY) for best children's picture bookl of 2010	National gold design award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, 2007 Regional design award from the Advertising Federation, 2007, ADDY award National bronze award for best book of photography, Foreword Magazine, 2009	National silver award from Foreword Magazine for best book of political science, 2009 National silver award for best history book from the Independent Publishers (IPPY), 2009

Swallow Savannah (A South Carolina Story)	Reefer Moon	The Boathouse Tales and Recipes from a Southern Kitchen	On the Eve of the Charleston Renaissance: The George W. Johnson Photographs	Memorializing Robert E. Lee The Story of Lee Chapel
Silver award for best Southeast regional fiction from the Independent Publishers (IPPY), 2009 Nominee for best fiction award from SIBA, 2010	Nominee for best fiction award from SIBA, 2010	Winner ADDY design award	Winner ADDY design award	Winner ADDY design award

Batt Humphreys Wins Palmetto Book Award

Batt Humphreys is the 2010 recipient of the Palmetto Book Award bestowed by the South Carolina Center for the Book for excellence in writing. This is the fifth award debut novelist Batt Humphreys has received for his book Dead Weight, a true story of a murder, trial and hurricane in Charleston at the turn of the 20th century. Read the full article here.

The Unexpected Visitor featured at the Florence Regional Arts Alliance Gallery.

The Florence Regional Arts Alliance Gallery will open “Celebrating N.B. Baroody” from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 27. The 37-work exhibition features silver gelatin photography by the late Dr. Baroody and a special photograph of Baroody in his studio taken by Dewey Ervin. In addition, the launch of the recently published “Unexpected Visitor” will continue at the opening, and Baroody’s widow, Margaret, who wrote the narrative, will be on hand to sign copies of the book.

Just released! Gullah Cuisine By Land and By Sea.

Lee Brothers call it "food nirvana."

Nathalie Dupree says this is a "must have" book! more

Gullah Cuisine By Land and By Sea featured in the Post and Courier (Charleston, SC).

The recent Gullah Tribute Luncheon, witnessed the launch of the new cookbook Gullah Cuisine By Land and by Sea. The cookbook features Chef Charlotte Jenkins' recipes, Jonathan Green's artwork, William Baldwin's narrative and Mic Smith's photography. more info...

Charleston Magazine salutes Gullah Cuisine.

Two recent articles featuring Gullah Cuisine By Land and By Sea have appeared in Charleston Magazine. They can be read here and here.

AP Featured News publishes article about Dead Weight and the effort to pardon Daniel "Nealy" Duncan

"In Charleston, an author is trying to get officials to say a black man convicted of killing a white clothing store owner in 1911 was railroaded by police desperate to solve the crime..." Read the full article here.

Humours of Folly reviewed in the December issue of Shutterbug

Shutterbug says that The Humours of Folly "...vividily paint a joyous picture of carefree summer spent on this beloved stretch of warm sand." more...

Robert Cox made "an Illustrious Citizen of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires"

Ceremony recognizes Robert Cox for his of his journalistic heroism and integrity. more...

The Lonely Shadow awarded the 2009 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Medal.

Clay Rice's book, The Lonely Shadow, has been awarded the 2009 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Medal in the category of Best First Book - Picture Book.

The Humours of Folly's photographer Frank Melvin Braden and writer Ellie Maas Davis interviewed on Your Day radio magazine.

Host Dyana Daniels visits with Frank and Ellie to discuss their book The Humours of Folly. Click here to access the interview.

"Seeing Charleston" mentioned in USA Today.com article

Ron Rocz's book, "Seeing Charleston" is recommended to those planning on visiting Charleston, SC in this USA Today.com article. The article mentions that the book provides a "photogarpher's perspective" for those spending time "wandering the historic streets and alleys." more...

Praise for Joggling Board Press' Marjory Wentworth

Letter to the editor in the Post and Courier praises poetry column by Marjory Wentworth, poet laurette of South Carolina and acquisitions editor for Joggling Board Press. more...

Foreword Magazine awards “Dirty Secrets, Dirty Wars” the bronze medal for best political science book of the year

This is the second medal awarded to David Cox for his compelling book. It also earned the silver medal for best history book of the year by Independent Publishers.

Global Journalist editor calls Robert Cox the kind of journalist that the ‘Free World’ needs more of
“….In the past few days I have been reading Dirty Secrets, Dirty War: The Exile of Editor Robert J. Cox (Buenos Aires, Argenitna: 1976-1983). This is a book written by Cox’s son David. He writes about how his father edited an English language newspaper in Argentina during the time a junta of generals ruled. The dirty secrets were that in a supposed war with terrorists, the people of Argentina were the victims of their government.” more...

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From the www.christainbookpreviews.com review of The Unexpected Visitor.

The Unexpected Visitor, complied by N.B. Baroody and M.H. Baroody, is a collection of black and white photos mixed with appropriate quotes, Bible verses, and narration. N.B. Baroody contributed the photography, and his wife Margaret (M.H.) wrote much of the narrative. Throughout this collection of photos, the authors reveal pieces of their own story as a couple.” more...

From the Beaufort Gazette's review of Dead Weight.

"Humphreys.. sees to it that no moss clings to the Charleston murder story. He reveals it to be a Shakespearean love story for the accused.. And through a fictitious New York City reporter who falls in with a beautiful woman and a little hustler from the Jenkins Orphanage, the tale strays well beyond court transcripts. It's not every book that includes a torrid cemetery scene, but somehow it fits the flirtatious grande dame we still know and love as Charleston. The scenarios are as true to the Lowcountry as alligators sunning on rice dikes and the clearly defined racial boundaries that survived the Civil War."more...

From The Folly Current's review of The Humours of Folly

"The Humours of Folly is a brilliant work of photography and poetry, whose journey gives birth to smiles, laughter, revelation, and redemption. Every page is sprinkled with a magic that can rejuvenate the heart of anyone with a passion for this island. In a time where Folly Beach may seem to be stumbling in the dark for direction, Frank Melvin Braden and Ellie Maas Davis remind us with their enchanting images and prose that Folly is more than a zip code: it is a living, breathing creature whose life is chronicled in the seasons; whose charm is in her demand to color outside the lines. It is a reminder to step back, slow down and reach into the soul of Folly in order to reconnect it to our own"more...

From Charleston Mercury's review of Reefer Moon

"From his outpost on Daufuskie Island, a partially developed Lowcountry jewel, Roger Pinckney spins a tale about Sea Island tomatoes, pot smuggling, voodoo, lovemakin’ and the ancient pull of moonlight. His characters interact in a world where nature still holds the aces, but Pinckney is a not a traditional American naturalist. Pinckney’s natural world is in peril and it is up to human beings to stop other human beings from destroying it. Pinckney is a conservationist writer on many levels. It is not only the natural assets of coastal South Carolina and Georgia that Pinckney seeks to preserve, but also the wildness of man." more...

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