Say Yes Quickly Books

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At Say Yes Quickly Books, Russell Martin publishes select manuscripts in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and/or audiobook formats for clients whose projects have exceptional merit. Authors retain all rights and one hundred percent of income and pay a single fee prior to publication. They rave about the:

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The Essential Russell Martin
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 110,020. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2024 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections, Fiction » Literary collections » American / General
The Essential Russell Martin is a collection of work by the internationally renowned writer. Collected here are three excerpts from novels and a novella, five articles, and excerpts from seven narrative nonfiction books—all of them published between the years 1983 and 2022. This is an important retrospective collection of some of the very finest work by one of America's most celebrated writers.
Threads of Grace
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 45,310. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2024 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Parenting » Childhood development, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drug Dependence
Author Eliza Richards's youngest son—bright, brimming with life, and remarkably charismatic—cannot escape addiction's hold. Despite her son's repeated relapses and apparent determination to destroy his life, his mother never gives up on him—despite often being encouraged to do so. He lives on a chaotic, treacherous, and sometimes tragic knife edge until, somehow, he becomes determined to change.
The Color Orange
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 104,310. Language: English. Published: August 10, 2023 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation, Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Football & rugby » American football, Nonfiction » History » North America » USA
The Denver Broncos' 1986-1987 season was an extraordinary one—the first year in which Hall-of-Fame quarterback John Elway won the NFL's MVP award, the season that finally ended the team's decades-long laughingstock legacy, the year Elway's heroics helped forever secure the team in the hearts of fans throughout "Broncos Country." Back in print at last, this is sports writing at its very best.
Matters Gray and White
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 114,270. Language: English. Published: August 5, 2023 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Medicine » Health care delivery, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Medicine » Neurology, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Medicine » Physician & Patient
A fascinating picture of the brain and its diseases, a moving account of human courage, and a revealing insight into the practice of modern medicine, Matters Gray and Whitecience writing at its very best.
Out of Silence
In a book that captures the whole universe of language, Russell Martin probes this most profound and complex human trait but never abandons his central concern, always circling back to the troubling question of his speechless nephew. Investigating the mystery of what went wrong and why, he spins a tale of detection, unearthing disturbing truths and reaching surprising conclusions.
Beautiful Islands
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 83,820. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2023 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Historical » General
Russell Martin's novel is narrated by a decent man struggling to define his place in the cosmos. As Beautiful Islands begins in 1985, Jack Healy has just returned from a successful space shuttle mission. But his marriage has come undone. Back on earth, Healy undertakes a different but equally difficult journey that beckons him toward a kind of tentative understanding.
The Sorrow of Archaeology
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 78,910. Language: English. Originally Published: February 19, 2023 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit
The Sorrow of Archaeology is an always lyrical novel whose characters grapple with the deepest human questions: How can we know who we really are? What is best for us? How do we construct satisfying narratives of our own lives out of the broken materials fate hands us? Set near Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado, it is a novel rich with emotional, medical, archaeological, and cultural truths.
A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 136,250. Language: English. Published: March 1, 2023 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Green living, Nonfiction » History » North America, Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Amateur naturalist » Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts
In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought about the environmental movement we know today. A Story That Stands Like A  Dam is a winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize.
Picasso's War
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 73,700. Language: English. Published: February 15, 2023 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Art history » Modern (late 19th Century–1945), Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Fine art » European
Weaving themes of conflict and redemption, doom and transcendence, Russell Martin follows Picasso's masterwork Guernica from its creation through its journey across decades. Picasso's War is a book that delivers an unforgettable portrait of an artistic genius whose visionary rendering of the terrible wounds of war still resonates profoundly today.
Daily Bread
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 31,060. Language: English. Originally Published: January 1, 2022 by Say Yes Quickly Books. Categories: Fiction
Tommy Dumont is a remarkable character, and his story is one of courage and the meaning friendship, tragedy and redemption. "Martin is, first and foremost, a consummate storyteller," says Kirkus Reviews. Daily Bread is a novella that will capture your heart and linger in your memory.

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