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From a Single Seed: Fourteen Years of Grain Valley Publishing

An independent press in Wichita started in 2012 with one novel. In 2025 its audio drama of The Real Education of TJ Crowley won the Audie Award for Young Adult and an IPPY gold medal among the Outstanding Books of the Year.

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John Wright opens the drama with the news

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Sheila Brown Kinnard voices a role inspired by her mother

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Dani Martineck is thirteen years old for nine hours

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Audie Winner ‘TJ Crowley’ Approved for Thespys Competition Nationwide

The Audie Award-winning The Real Education of TJ Crowley joins EdTA's Thespys Approved Materials List, clearing Thespians in every state to compete with the free Redline Scenes cuttings.

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Dion Graham was the first name on the cast list

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Most Coming-of-Age Novels Have the Same Engine (First Person Narrative)

Collider ranked the ten best coming-of-age books ever written. Three of the top four are told in first person, and that is not a coincidence. What the genre runs on, and what happens when you can hear it.

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