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The only traditional publishing house in North Alabama! Offering passionate assistance and opportunity to new writers and using donations to boost advances.

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A tennis champion. A closet alcoholic. A story that smashes expectations.
Life Is Best Served Sober by Grant Rolley is raw, real, and roaringly funny.📚

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07.12.2025 04:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Thorn and the Rose | Obol House Author L.J. Henley delivers a stirring, psychologically rich exploration of identity, longing, and emotional reckoning. With lyrical prose and fearless honesty, The Thorn and the Rose captures what…

Some houses remember everything. The Thorn and the Rose is a Southern novel full of atmosphere and ache. [https://www.obolhouse.com/product-page/the-thorn-and-the-rose](www.obolhouse.com/product-page...) #GothicReads #AtmosphericFiction

07.12.2025 03:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Goodnight, writers. The story gets better when you rest. So do you.

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06.12.2025 04:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grant Rolley hit rock bottom—and then he climbed out with humor, grit, and a racket in hand.
Life Is Best Served Sober is a comeback story you won’t forget.

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06.12.2025 03:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Faye Rapoport DesPres doesn’t flinch from hard truths. But she also finds light. 🌿

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06.12.2025 01:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Thorn and the Rose | Obol House Author L.J. Henley delivers a stirring, psychologically rich exploration of identity, longing, and emotional reckoning. With lyrical prose and fearless honesty, The Thorn and the Rose captures what…

Dark, introspective, and utterly human—The Thorn and the Rose dares to ask what we lose when we silence our past. [https://www.obolhouse.com/product-page/the-thorn-and-the-rose](www.obolhouse.com/product-page...) #SelfDiscovery #LiteraryNovel

05.12.2025 23:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What book gave you the biggest emotional hangover?

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05.12.2025 19:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Great Get Out: How To Build The Life You Want|Hardcover JL spent decades surviving-surviving a violent childhood, surviving two disastrous marriages, surviving spiritual manipulation that hid behind a pulpit. What she hadn't learned was how to live. In…

Not all wounds are visible. The Great Get Out shines light on what’s hidden—and helps you heal what’s hurting.

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05.12.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rethink how you respond to pressure. I Lead Me is a leadership toolkit for real-world challenges.

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05.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sometimes short stories leave the longest impression.

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05.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good morning, #5amwritersclub. One word, then another. That’s how stories grow legs. Keep walking.

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05.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Goodnight, writers. Tomorrow is another chance to listen to your story.

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05.12.2025 04:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jimmy Wynn once hit a homer clean out of Crosley Field—onto the street where he grew up. Orange Crush.

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05.12.2025 03:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For fans of flash fiction, feel-good reads, and illustrated storytelling.

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05.12.2025 01:30 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Part sports memoir, part recovery journey, Life Is Best Served Sober is both laugh-out-loud funny and brutally real.

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04.12.2025 23:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s the weirdest compliment you’ve ever received about your writing?

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04.12.2025 19:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There are books you read and books you carry. This one belongs in the second category.

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04.12.2025 17:01 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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When everything looks perfect on the outside, fiction like The Thorn and the Rose reminds us of the truths we bury within.

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04.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's no age, faith, or background limit to who can be set free. JL Orr’s story opens the door.

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04.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good morning, #5amwritersclub! Even when you don’t feel like a writer, the page still believes in you. 📓

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04.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Goodnight, writers. Nothing you wrote today was wasted—not even the crossed-out parts.

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04.12.2025 04:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What if your second act was better than your first?
Grant Rolley serves up wit and wisdom in Life Is Best Served Sober.

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04.12.2025 03:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A journey into solitude, strength, and small joys. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of this deeply loved collection

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04.12.2025 01:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Thorn and the Rose is for readers who love stories with secrets, suspense, and stunning prose.

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03.12.2025 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s a phrase you’ve overused in your drafts—and only noticed embarrassingly late?😅

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03.12.2025 19:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Great Get Out: How To Build The Life You Want|Hardcover JL spent decades surviving-surviving a violent childhood, surviving two disastrous marriages, surviving spiritual manipulation that hid behind a pulpit. What she hadn't learned was how to live. In…

From bondage to boundaries, from silence to strength—The Great Get Out offers a path to wholeness.

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03.12.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Story-driven, actionable, and deeply honest—I Lead Me is the leadership book that helps you show up better every day.

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03.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Warm, witty, and just a little wild.

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03.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good morning, #5amwritersclub. The mind wanders at dawn. Let it wander onto the page.

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03.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Goodnight, writers. No matter how the words came—or didn’t—today still counts.

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03.12.2025 04:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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