Donald Bain

As mentioned on the Home Page, Hyphenates, Ltd. is now a book publisher. Our imprint Hyphenates Books will focus on bringing back some of my out-of-print books. But it will also publish an occasional novel or non-fiction book by other writers. The first book under the Hyphenates Books banner is a novel, Taking Tennessee to Hart by Joe Stockdale. Joe was my theater professor at Purdue University many years ago, and we've remained close friends. (He was also dean of the Theater and Film School at SUNY-Purchase NY for many more years). Joe has been deeply immersed in the life and works of the esteemed playwright, Tennessee Williams, and his novel, which was originally written and performed as a play, is a delightful, fanciful humorous crime story based upon a factual incident from Williams's life.

If Joe's name sounds familiar to you, perhaps it's because there's a picture of us with Joe Stockdale and his good friend, the actor James Earl Jones, on the bottom of the Events page.

For information about the novel, the author, and how to purchase Taking Tennessee to Hart please go to Hyphenates Books.

A note for our "Murder, She Wrote" fans. As you know the novels in the series are absent any four-letter words, sexual scenes, or graphic murders. Taking Tennessee to Hart has a few brief sexual encounters, and an unsavory character who is fond of expletives (he receives his delicious comeuppance later in the novel). Just so you know.

At this stage in our development, Hyphenates Books is not accepting submissions in any form from writers or agents.