by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Mar 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
We’re excited to introduce you to first-time author, Walter Steele Allen, Jr. He has woven together a historical fiction novel about one of his ancestors that captures the adventures of daily life in Colonial Times. We promise you will want to read on as this...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jan 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Harrelson Press is excited to partner with CBF SC to collect and preserve the stories of women ministers, deacons, and lay leaders who have been challenging and leading by example in Baptist communities of faith. We want to collect the stories of these women and their...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jun 28, 2016 | content creation, Working Hard
Elisabeth and I often talk about the power of creating work (not to be confused with our conversations about the power of creative work) as a tenet of our lives. We have stepped into the unknown in establishing our businesses and pursuing our dreams to offer a...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Nov 7, 2015 | Book Review
I read this book upon a recommendation from another working woman. As she described it to me, she noted that Sandberg reflects that perhaps women aren’t getting the promotions and opportunities that they would like to because they are limiting themselves before...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Nov 5, 2015 | Book Review
It isn’t often that I get taken completely by surprise by a book, but it just happened as I was finishing Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel. To be fair, the main character in the book was also taken aback, so perhaps I was right where I should have been as the...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Sep 28, 2015 | publishing, writing process
My initial work with authors involved a second grade classroom that was a combination of eager writers and reluctant writers. As we got to know each other and has a predictable time for writing each day, those reluctant writers became less timid and those eager...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Aug 26, 2015 | Book Review, what I'm reading
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, accomplishes a great work in her book The Signature of All Things. For some one who has had a best seller like Eat, Pray, Love, the task of...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jul 28, 2015 | Book Review, what I'm reading
by Merianna Harrelson I tried to drag the last fifty pages of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd out because I simply didn’t want the book to end. I wanted to continue to follow the stories of Sarah and Handful as they wrestle with two types of slavery: one...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jul 24, 2015 | Book Review
by Molly McConnell I remember the media adoration and critical love when The Goldfinch was released (Donna Tartt’s latest novel and Pulitzer Prize Winner). I passed on the chance to read it, instead sticking to my Amazon list – you can’t tell I’m goal-oriented,...
by Merianna Neely Harrelson | Jul 14, 2015 | Book Review
by Molly McConnell This is not a book I would have picked up or known about had I not been reading through Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime- a stellar list. Different stories are woven together into a single narrative, each chapter chronicling a different...
