Author: SR Staley

SR Staley has one more than 11 literary awards for his fiction and nonfiction writing. He is on the full-time faculty of the College and Social Sciences and Public Policy at Florida State University as well as a film critic and research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. His award-winning Pirate of Panther Bay series (syppublishing.com) has won awards in historical fiction, mainstream & literary fiction, young adult fiction, and reached the finals in women's fiction. His most recent book is "The Beatles and Economics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Making of a Cultural Revolution" due out in April 2020 (Routledge).

Isabella sails into gold at the FAPA President’s Awards

Tortuga Bay continues to generate enthusiasm and accolades as 2016 moves into its final months….

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Why Florida is a great place to be as a writer

Tortuga Bay has been doing very well in the literary competition race this year in…

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Tortuga Bay advances in Royal Palm Literary Awards

I am really excited to announce that Tortuga Bay, the second book in the Pirate…

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Amazon links to “Unsafe On Any Campus?” are now live!

I am happy to report that the amazon.com links to Unsafe On Any Campus? are…

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Tracy Lawson’s “Ignite” piles on action, conspiracy and ideas

I have previously reviewed Tracy Lawson’s first and second books (Counteract and Resist) in her…

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Book release and public forum for “Unsafe On Any Campus?” event details

Unsafe On Any Campus? College Sexual Assault and What We Can Do About It will be…

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Unsafe on Any Campus? set for July 28th release

Unsafe on Any Campus? College Sexual Assault and What We Can Do About It is…

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Totuga Bay makes final round of FAPA President’s Awards!

Fresh off her success in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, where Tortuga Bay was a category…

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Unsafe on Any Campus? Available for pre-order!

Unsafe on Any Campus? College Sexual Assault, and What We Can Do About It is available…

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Dystopian literature and the reality of apocalypse

I recently spent some time at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. This is a transformative…

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