About WOW Press
Writing our World Press, established in 2004, is an independently owned, Chicago-based publishing company specializing in
biography, non-fiction, fiction, and children's and women's literature.
Writing our World Press was founded by literacy advocate, former presidential diarist, journalist, and newspaper publisher
Janis F. Kearney.
Writing our World Press publishes one-three titles per year.
Writing our World Press is not currently taking new authors. Interested authors may, however, submit questions to
janis@writingourworldpress.com.
Writing our World Press is a member of Independent Publishers of America.
Writing our World Press relaunched it's new site in June, 2006. Click on the link to see the original home page of the relaunch.
About WOW Press' Founder
Janis F. Kearney, a native of the southeast Arkansas delta, is a writer, lecturer and oral historian who served as personal diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton and was publisher of the award-winning Arkansas State Press Newspaper, formerly owned by civil rights legend Daisy Gatson Bates, of the 1957 Central High Crisis.
WOW! Press Featured Books
Something to Write Home About: Memories from a Presidential Diarist
By Janis F. Kearney Janis F. Kearney, author of Cotton Field of Dreams is completing a sequel to her memoir that begins in 1987, with her role as publisher of Daisy and L.C. Bates‘ newspaper. The book also includes her years as presidential diarist, and is interspersed with more memories about her life as a member of the Kearney family -- cotton sharecroppers in the Arkansas delta. Read excerpt |
 Once Upon a Time, there was a Girl: A Murder at Mobile Bay
By Janis F. Kearney Janis F. Kearney debuts her first fiction; a murder mystery based on an actual southern race murder. In this riveting story, Kearney paints a portrait of a small Alabama town, the “good” people who believed race was no longer a problem, and the innocent victim whose death proved them wrong. Read excerpt |
Excerpt: Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton, from Hope to Harlem
By Janis F. Kearney A book that “had to be written, and needs to be read...” President William Jefferson Clinton spent most of his youth in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, located almost halfway between the state capital, where he would spend the balance of his adult life, and his birthplace, Hope, Arkansas. It was 1953 when <<read more...>> |
Excerpt: Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir
By Janis F. Kearney Until I was seven, my life pretty much mirrored that of other poor children I knew. In 1960, things changed dramatically when I was inducted into the world of Daddy’s cotton field. At seven, I became one more field hand, responsible for helping my father produce his yearly cotton crops. Like my siblings, I entered into an unwritten 10-year service contract that ended when a child graduated from high school and went on to college or <<read more...>> |
Foreword: Quiet Guys Can Do Great Things, TooBy Frank K. Ross, as told to Janis F. Kearney When he first set foot on American soil in 1951, Frank K. Ross was a wide-eyed 7-year-old, dazzled by his first airplane ride and the cars, lights and snow of New York. He didn't quite know what to make of it. It was certainly a strange new world, far different from the small towns and sugar fields of his native St. Kitts. But, armed with strong West Indian <<read more...>> |
Excerpt: Black Classical Musicians in PhiladelphiaBy Elaine Mack …There I was living on my own at 18th and Bainbridge. I can distinctly remember running down to the store and buying my breakfast of chocolate milk and donuts because I had the independence to do these things. My mom was fully supportive, but she would break down and cry while eating dinner, because all of a sudden I wasn’t at the dinner table any longer, and I was her first child. There was a moment of understanding where she knew she had to cut the ties, <<read more...>> |