Author: Margaret Evans

Cassandra King offers wisdom and laughs in The Same Sweet Girls’ Guide to Life. In her new book The Same Sweet Girls’ Guide To Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle, best-selling author and Beaufort resident Cassandra King writes, “My mother spent the formative years of my life trying to shape me into a proper lady, a Southern belle. I cannot tell you how miserably she failed…”

Author Carl T. Smith returns to the Lowcountry and brings Sam Larkin with him.                                                                  By Mark ShafferGardner knew what he would order before he walked through the door. With no celebrity chef and being in Covington, South Carolina, he had been surprised on his first visit to the establishment to find the best Steak au Poivre he had ever tasted. In all the times he had eaten at Emily’s since, it was the only entree he had ever ordered, and he was looking forward to it.- Excerpted from “Matthew’s Island” by Carl T. Smith    Carl T. Smith sits at a window seat in the bar at Emily’s in downtown Beaufort signing books as fast as he can. A queue of fans – some of them old friends – pull books from a table piled high and line up to have them signed.

With his latest novel A Southern Girl, John Warley sets a high standard for Pat Conroy’s new Story River Books imprint.                                       By Margaret Evans, EditorLast week, I had the pleasure of spending some time on our office porch with Beaufort writer John Warley. John’s new novel A Southern Girl was selected by Pat Conroy as the inaugural publication from his new fiction imprint with USC Press, Story River Books.    “It’s a love story in the best, most inclusive sense,” says USCP’s director Jonathan Haupt, who tells me the initial response to the novel has exceeded all expectations.