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).

The story in “Unsafe On Any Campus?”

Oddly, many people, including professional writers, don’t think of nonfiction books in terms of story….

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Is Katniss Everdeen a strong female character?

I have now seen all four Hunger Games movies and read all three books, and…

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Five take aways from the Royal Palm Literary Awards

St. Nic, Inc., my re-imagination of the Santa Claus myth through the lens of an…

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RPLA win raises visibility of little people in mainstream society

One of the more gratifying aspects of winning 2nd place in the Royal Palm Literary…

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Five expected and unexpected benefits from winning a literary award

By SR Staley St. Nic, Inc. was awarded second place in the 2015 Royal Palm…

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St. Nic, Inc. Takes Silver at Royal Palm Literary Awards

SR Staley St. Nic, Inc., my reality-based re-imagination of the Santa Claus myth, won 2nd…

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Will Tracy Lawson’s novels become this generation’s Ayn Rand substitute?

By SR Staley Resist, the second novel in Tracy Lawson’s Resistance Series, picks up right…

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Tortuga Bay launch set for Barnacle Bill’s restaurant

My newest novel, Tortuga Bay, will experience it’s official launch at Barnacle Bill’s seafood restaurant…

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Seven cool and fun things I experienced at this year’s Decatur Book Festival

I attended the 2015 Decatur Book Festival with my publisher, Southern Yellow Pine Publishing on September…

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Isabella set to take Decatur Book Festival by storm!

I will be launching Tortuga Bay, the sequel to The Pirate of Panther Bay, in…

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