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We are a partner publisher connecting readers and writers over good stories.
We publish and sell a growing list: Anthology • Fiction • Gardening • How to • Narrative reporting • Memoir • Narrative nonfiction • Poetry • and more
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Soups, Stews & Stories
An Investigative Reporter's Global Quest to Nourish the Soul
Andrew Schneider gathered recipes from exotic and everyday places in bringing back his Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. His wife and co-author, Kathleen Best, left, reads choice excerpts at a Book Release party on Jan. 29 at National Park Seminary in Silver Spring, Md. Read about it on our blog or just buy the book and your roux will be rich and your sauces the talk of your 'hood.
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'From Boredom to Terror'
Fire at the Stymie Club
Stories from the Mississippi River to Chesapeake Bay
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Syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, author of Sherman's Lagoon, on Feb. 1 told a Captain Salem Avery Museum luncheon crowd about global sailing and live-aboard exploits featured in A Family Afloat, the book he wrote when he returned. Read our interview with Toomey
A Survivor Returns
Sixty-seven years after the worst sailing disaster on Chesapeake Bay, John Ferguson returned to tell his story for release of Deadly Gamble: The Wreck of Schooner Levin J Marvel. Our coverage.
Hulbert Footner Revival
A century ago, Hulbert Footner was a writing machine — when not tearing around the mud tracks of southern Maryland in his Buick or paddling the Patuxent River near Solomons, where the Canadian-born, internationally acclaimed author settled.
In a stunningly prolific career, Footner wrote more than 60 books, primarily in the adventure and detective fiction genres. He was also turning out magazine articles and writing serially for newspapers when editors had the sense to print fiction. Late in life, Footner produced deeply researched and thoroughly readable histories of southern Maryland's people and its waters.
One of those books, Rivers of the Eastern Shore, a compelling account of the early history and culture of a storied land, was recently re-released by Schiffer Books and is available at the Calvert County Historical Society.
The Calvert County Historical Society opened a Hulbert Footner Room at Linden, its nearly 200 year-old, Italianate headquarters, on Church Street in Prince Frederick.Visitors can absorb Footner’s history in a setting complete with writing desk, his typewriter, and memorabilia donated by his grandchildren. Hulbert Footner books can be bought, too. Read New Bay Books coverage.
Miles With Moxie XI
Doug Kamholz spent a year treating us and his Midwestern followers to fine writing about his search for travel gems. For the finale in his series, Doug extols the joys of home with some of the wisdom he has gained along the way. He treats us herein to holiday verse for the ages from the works of Dylan Thomas.
Our Books
A Little About Us
What’s a writer without a reader but a voice calling out in the wilderness?
What’s a reader without a writer?
There is no such thing. Uniting writers and readers over good stories (poems, too) is the mission of New Bay Books, a new publishing house for Chesapeake Country. To that mission, my New Bay Books partner (and husband) William Lambrecht and I bring more than a quarter century of experience.
The mission inspired us to join with son Alex Knoll to create New Bay Times newspaper back in 1993 and to sustain a journalism enterprise for twenty-seven buffeting years. New Bay Times continues as Bay Weekly, now under the ownership of Chesapeake Bay Media. The mission — finding, developing, editing, publishing and distributing good stories for good reading — continues with New Bay Books.
What does our mission mean for you?
To readers, New Bay Books brings good books …
To writers, New Bay Books brings opportunity ...