2003 News Archive

Harbor House makes literary history
with popular talk radio program

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Harbor House, the Augusta-based book publishing company, is
making literary history this summer with one of the most listened-to “book talk”
radio programs in the nation.

Peach State Public Radio’s Cover-to-Cover show, hosted by St. John Flynn, will profile two Harbor House authors in May and June. Two Rivers, authored by retired Augusta schoolteacher Naomi Williams, will be broadcast Sunday, May 25 at 8 p.m. The Lazard Legacy by Dr. William Rawlings Jr. of Sandersville will be broadcast Sunday, June 29 at 8 p.m.

Publisher E. Randall Floyd said it is a “fantastic honor” to have three of his company’s titles featured on the popular radio show, almost back-to-back.

“Cover-to-Cover is the most prestigious book review program in Georgia and one of the best in the nation,” he said. “To have three of our titles selected to be profiled this summer is a rare and special honor. I don’t know of any other publisher, whether in New York or Atlanta, who has ever scored this big.”

Floyd’s own recent Civil War novel, Deep in the Heart, which originally aired two years ago, was re-broadcast two months ago to coincide with Public Television’s re-release of the Ken Burns Civil War series.

Competition among publishers to have their books and authors featured on Cover-to-Cover is fierce, Floyd said, adding that host St. John Flynn’s criteria for selecting titles is “awesome".