!["Book All The Teachers: An Irreverent Ride Through Middle School" is a humorous look at some of the highlights and low points of a Spokane-area public school teacher's career. The book provides insights into how the local education system has changed over the years, the joys and trials of teaching seventh-graders and many other subjects that should provide fascinating reading for local parents.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/hash/7f/cb/7fcbbf560b39bd5be1874df71febb948.jpg?itok=S4KKDBjf ""Book All The Teachers: An Irreverent Ride Through Middle School" is a humorous look at some of the highlights and low points of a Spokane-area public school teacher's career. The book provides insights into how the local education system has changed over the years, the joys and trials of teaching seventh-graders and many other subjects that should provide fascinating reading for local parents."){kind=small}
![Rancher, western author and poet Dawn Nelson blends action and romance in "Wanted Dead or Alive", the story of how a hunt for a giant cougar in western Washington brings two people together.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/hash/fd/42/fd4206fd6795d593cd0d002c07a13256.jpg?itok=0vnGuUcN "Rancher, western author and poet Dawn Nelson blends action and romance in "Wanted Dead or Alive", the story of how a hunt for a giant cougar in western Washington brings two people together."){kind=small}
![R.B. Scott is a journalist who worked on several national magazines and helped launch People. Scott's novel "Closing Circles" explores love, loss and what it is like growing up in the Mormon church, among many other fascinating aspects of his protagonist's life.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/1d/45/1361676994_8817_closing_circles_large%20distorted.jpg?itok=_WhXmxv5 "R.B. Scott is a journalist who worked on several national magazines and helped launch People. Scott's novel "Closing Circles" explores love, loss and what it is like growing up in the Mormon church, among many other fascinating aspects of his protagonist's life.")
People don't have to go to New York to find great authors. There is a very talented community of writers in the Spokane area. Several of them have had their books published by Gray Dog Press.
Gray Dog Press is an independent publisher based in Spokane that has provided a home for many talented writers from the Northwest. They mostly publish nonfiction books such as "Not One Drop of Blood: The Human Side of Prison Versus Probation" by John Heffernan or "Tobacco Root Trail Guide" by Teresa Hammel. They have also published a diverse range of fiction from many different genres.
Gray Dog Press publishes everything from books on Spokane's history, to urban fantasy, to Dawn Nelson's incredibly popular western romance novels, to the crime fiction of Frank Zafiro. They are also home to local author T. Dawn Richard's May List mystery series. There is something for practically every reader in their catalog.
According to their website, "... because we are a small press we are able to devote lots of attention and energy to each book that goes out. We love seeing submissions from all over, but do have a bit of a soft spot for Northwest writers and subject matter. Can you blame us? This place is incredible."
![R.B. Scott is a journalist who worked on several national magazines and helped launch People. Scott's novel "Closing Circles" explores love, loss and what it is like growing up in the Mormon church, among many other fascinating aspects of his protagonist's life.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/profile_large/hash/1d/45/1361676994_8817_closing_circles_large%20distorted.jpg?itok=Ekm61cED "R.B. Scott is a journalist who worked on several national magazines and helped launch People. Scott's novel "Closing Circles" explores love, loss and what it is like growing up in the Mormon church, among many other fascinating aspects of his protagonist's life.")
![Rancher, western author and poet Dawn Nelson blends action and romance in "Wanted Dead or Alive", the story of how a hunt for a giant cougar in western Washington brings two people together.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/profile_large/hash/b7/6c/b76ccfcf666be0676d112c284ecc9050.jpg?itok=AFp26G18 "Rancher, western author and poet Dawn Nelson blends action and romance in "Wanted Dead or Alive", the story of how a hunt for a giant cougar in western Washington brings two people together.")
!["Book All The Teachers: An Irreverent Ride Through Middle School" is a humorous look at some of the highlights and low points of a Spokane-area public school teacher's career. The book provides insights into how the local education system has changed over the years, the joys and trials of teaching seventh-graders and many other subjects that should provide fascinating reading for local parents.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/profile_large/hash/c3/6d/c36d171350646c3e56381ef774776211.jpg?itok=vYc6-uYG ""Book All The Teachers: An Irreverent Ride Through Middle School" is a humorous look at some of the highlights and low points of a Spokane-area public school teacher's career. The book provides insights into how the local education system has changed over the years, the joys and trials of teaching seventh-graders and many other subjects that should provide fascinating reading for local parents.")
!["Burning Paradise" by Terry Hughes is tightly plotted, and often surprisingly funny, suspense novel about an arson investigator and his efforts to catch Smoke, a serial arsonist terrorizing the fictional city Santa Marta, California with some help from the colorful locals.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/profile_large/hash/a3/6b/1361676821_6740_Burning-Paradise%20cropped.jpg?itok=eajy8IJM ""Burning Paradise" by Terry Hughes is tightly plotted, and often surprisingly funny, suspense novel about an arson investigator and his efforts to catch Smoke, a serial arsonist terrorizing the fictional city Santa Marta, California with some help from the colorful locals.")
!["And Every Man Has to Die" by Frank Zafiro is the fourth novel in his popular River City crime fiction series. River City is a slightly fictionalized version of Spokane. In this book, a Russian mobster is running amok and trying to carve out a criminal empire in the Inland Northwest.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/profile_large/hash/c5/50/1361676821_9248_every%20man%20has%20to%20die%20squished.jpg?itok=9CPR4Cjw ""And Every Man Has to Die" by Frank Zafiro is the fourth novel in his popular River City crime fiction series. River City is a slightly fictionalized version of Spokane. In this book, a Russian mobster is running amok and trying to carve out a criminal empire in the Inland Northwest.")
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