Book Description
Racing Home’s stories are as remarkable as its authors, who have won over 80 literary awards between them, reminding us that North Carolina really is “The State of the Arts.”

From the Inside Flap
"The Old North State is world-famous for producing writers. It is a mystery and a source of pride that we bring up so many, like tobacco plants from the soil... [and] our state-wide flood of words continues to gush, in this cell-phoned, jet-planed, faxed, sonogrammed, internetted, CD-ROMed, gigabyte age. Whether we're drinking cappucino or moonshine, eating caviar or chitlins, it seems the central itch, that desire to get it down, to get it down right, to write, continues on, propelled by I-don't-know-what, but it continues to gnaw at our souls and keep us writing. We North Carolinians continue to pick up the pen -- or turn on the computer -- and communicate. Can I get an Amen? "No doubt we'll be hearing a great deal from these storytellers." Randall Kenan

About the Author
Editor Sharlene Baker founded The Paper Journey Press in 2000 in Durham, North Carolina, with its motto: "Dedicated to The American Fictional Dream". She is the author of a novel "Finding Signs" (Knopf, Warner) and co-author of the movie "Love Always" (Legacy Releasing). She has taught Screenwriting at Duke University, Creative Writing for the University of North Carolina (where she authored two distance-learning courses)and numerous courses for Duke's Department of Continuing Education and other venues.