Does the thought of public speaking raise your blood pressure? Are the moments leading up to having to speak in front of a crowd feel like you're approaching a mad mob ready to send you off to the guillotine? Have you ever wished public speaking could be (should be!) easier and less stressful?Public speaking is a part of our lives whether we like it or not. It's a common fear that can have extraordinary effects on ...

What if the key to captivating any audience isn't perfect delivery or dazzling slides—but the stories you tell?Every great speech, presentation, or pitch starts with one thing: a story that sticks. Whether you're standing on a stage, leading a meeting, or making your case in a conversation, the ability to craft and deliver meaningful stories is the secret to turning words into connection, inspiration, and action.But here's the good news: storytelling isn't a gift reserved f...

River Hymnal offers rivers as connective tissue binding Louisiana, Washington, and Florida together. Poems are set in all these locales, and their landscapes shape and contain different permeations of the poet’s life and sensibilities. The book’s themes of discovery and loss, progress and regress, future and past, are all rivers that the poems alchemize into a confluence of water that currents the poet continually around the next bend in his life and memory.

Embark on a whirlwind adventure with the Graceville Detectives Club, where faith, friendship, and mystery await!In the charming town of Graceville, young detectives embark on an adventure led by spirited eleven-year-old Samantha. Alongside her friends Jack, Emma, and Noah, they form the Graceville Detectives Club. When a mysterious letter beckons them to solve the disappearance of a cherished painting depicting Jesus' crucifixion, they uncover a web of deceit threatening their comm...

Gulf is one part ode and one part elegy to Smith’s Louisiana. It is a book that, all at once, questions, praises, and eulegizes its muse. Smith’s poetry works to elevate people, places, and things that are often looked over as unpoetic. Trailers, pickups, catfish, menial labor thread through Gulf. But ultimately, the book revolves around family and home. It moves back and forth between innocence and experience, the idyllic and tragic. In Gulf, the past shapes the...

Death can be anywhere, even at the airport. Tom and Liza are waiting for their flight home when it becomes clear something is terribly wrong: Where are the other passengers? Where are the members of staff? And what is that ominous noise coming from the bathroom?Death at the Airport is a short horror story about zombies. There is swearing, there is gore and of course there is death!A Short Horror Story

One day Steve woke up, opened his eyes and calmly got out of bed. His mind was clear and out of nowhere he knew what he was going to do that day: he was going to kill his father, Dave.This is a thriller about a seemingly ordinary boy and his hateful relationship with his father.