Heartland Writers Guild, Inc.

HWG Members

Announce New Publications

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Carl Armstrong

Armstrong's lastest book, Briarwood's Window on Cape Girardeau's Regional History, is now available on Amazon. A Cape Girardeau resident and historian, Carl continues to share important historical information in his series of books.

Readers are treated to a colorful insight into the pioneer settlement of Cape Girardeau and southeast Missouri. The book features a color photographic tour of Briarwood Manor-a colonial structue situated high and eminent on the slope of Mount Tabor overlooking the city and the Mississippi River.

The interior of the house features a grand staircase as well as a fireplace added from the 1904 Worlds Fair in St. Louis.Briarwood Manor's history gives an insight into the circa 1900 development of education, roads, railroads, and drainage of swampland that lifted southeast Missouri inot the modern era.

Mary Heinsman Moves Forward with Five Successful Publications

Three of her writing projects were recently selected for  publication in Well Versed Literary Works, an annual  anthology published by the Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writer's Guild. The publications include a fiction short story, a flash fiction, and a poem.

She also had two pieces published in the HWG newsletter, The Journal. Heinsman credits her publication successes to a small group of HWG members. They agreed in October to send frequent, encouraging email messages to each other to help members of the small group continue to move forward with their writing projects.

Mary Rechenberg 

Rechenberg had an essay and a poem published in Well Versed Literary Works 2017.  The essay,"Looking Back in My Special Room," explores her antique room where every item in it is connected to her past from the 1940s through the 1960s.

She also had an article published in the Southeast Missourian TBY section of the Cape Girardeau newspaper. The article details a history of the 1905 Oak ridge railroad depot. 

Robert Vaughan

Robert Vaughan, the writer responsible for the creation of Heartland Writers Guild, continues his prolific writing career with and announcement of a new book following Thunder in the Whirlwind.

Terminal Event

An Antarctic research team discovers a perectly machined gold canister 2500 feet below the surface of the ice. There are strange and unrecognizable markings on the canister.

It is sent back to a research center in the U.S. where it is opened to reveal six human embryos. Even more shocking is the dicovery that the embryos are viable. Terminal Event  tells the intriguing story of who the embryos are, where they came from, and how they spent 100 million years waiting to be discovered.

Thunder in the Whirlwind.

When border tensions in South America reach a boiling point, the United States provides Columbia with military assistance to help in a struggle against rebels supported by neighboring Venezuela. The "police action" quickly escalates, and six captured Americans are publicly executed. The president, a disabled Vietnam veteran himself, commits troops to battle. 

The plot moves forward with the scope of a Tom Clancy adventure and the intrigue of a Nelson DeMille thriller. Thunder in the Whirlwind takes the reader behind tomorrow's headlines and paints an unforgettable inside portrait of the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. 

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John Fisher

Fisher's new book, Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the Lowlands, is now available. This book delves into how this transformation of the land became successful through the work of The Little River Drainage District. The book is available through McFarland Publishers, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.

He signed books at the Dunklin County Library in Kennett,Mo, on Saturday May 20, 2017.

 Carl Armstrong

 Armstrong continues to share Cape Girardeau, Missouri history and the history of the region. In his latest book, Elmwood's 1000 Year Dalhousie Castle Legacy, he shares an interwoven story of Scottish castle heritage in addition to British,US, French,and Indian history that took place in the Cape Girardeau area.The author hopes to bring an appreciation of the heritage and the landmarks of the area with this book.The book includes images from Cape Girardeau's Ramsay-Houck Pictorial Chronicles.The book is available at Amazon

Bible Acrostics Code Mysteries, Carl Armstrong's recent book, ties science to scripture. The book is co-written with Mark and Cathy Eaton.

Go with the authors on an exciting journey to the very frontiers of the convergence of cutting-edge science and scripture.

Explore with them how the twenty-two letter Hebrew alphabet serves as a pattern for DNA, fractals, and the seven hidden dimensions revealed in string theory and quantum mechanics.

https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Acrostic-Code-Mysteries-Linguistics/dp/1536844926/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474238671&sr=1-1&keywords=bible+acrostic+code+mysteries

Bill Hopkins

Bill Hopkins' latest book, Dishonest Corpse, is available on Amazon. The book, Volume 5 in the Judge Rosswell Carew Mystery Series, follows the case of a murder of a girl under the Mississippi River bridge on the waterfront of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. To learn more about this mystery that Rosswell and his wife Tina find themselves caught up in, go to

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