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Heart of a Man, a book anthology of men's writings showing men, will be published by Vineyards Press in 2019.

Our call for submissions elicited 500 from around the world. Fourteen of those will be in the anthology. Others whose works are currently slated to be included are John Updike, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Tim O'Brien, Julius Lester, and John Crawford.

I have my first talk with a lawyer, ... with The Lawyer, which turns a page in this story.

A remembrance of pioneering banjo-man Bill Keith

A blog about notorious mando-man, Frank Wakefield.

On my 21st birthday, in 1966, Dionne Warwick came to play Penn State University.

A blog about Bob Dylan's effect on the American folk music scene.

Someone challenged me to blog every chapter in my book, Acoustic Stories. Said I couldn’t do it. That’s a motivator right there. The book’s first chapter is about playing bass with Peter, Paul & Mary.

A big turn in the road for my anthology, Passions of a Man. I handed the manuscript, all 100,000 words of it, to an editor for a read-through. To this point, only my wife and I have read the book.

I asked this editor, I'll call her S.B., to read the manuscript and tell me if the book delivers on its Introduction, which promises that women will better understand Who Men Are after reading the book. So, a big project off my desk and onto another's for evaluation, a critical evaluation. A big turning point in the book's life.

A blog on the travails of rejecting submissions, and how to deal with rejection slips.

Nov 7, 2014 blog by Bill Amatneek at VineyardsPress.com
A recent draft of the Full Title Page, a 2-page spread featuring a Eugene Karlin ink drawing that will appear here and on book’s front cover