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Jim Smith’s Sweeping Off the Plate Appears on WAVY-TV’s The Hampton Roads Show
From WAVY-TV's The Hampton Roads Show, "Reck on the Road" PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - There are so many great stories that revolve around the game of baseball, at every level here in Hampton Roads. And now there is a brand new book which is a collection of great local...
COVABIZ article: Köehler Books Enables Authors as an Independent Boutique Publisher
By Ryan Miller Photos by David Uhrin Köehler Books’ North End studio space in Virginia Beach, at the home of President and Publisher John Köehler, would make for an engrossing page-turner within itself. It’s teeming with stranger-than-fiction anomalies and...
Writing Advice: What an Editor Looks For, an Interview with Lynn Moon
by B. Lynn Goodwin, managing editor of Writer Advice When I submitted Never Too Late: From Wannabe to Wife at 62 to Koehler Books, www.koehlerbooks.com, the acquisitions editor who read it was Lynn Moon. She’d been a finalist in Writer Advice’s 2015 Flash Fiction...
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