Monday Creek Publishing Digest: George H. Wood, Author

  October 2026

Featured Author

George H. Wood

www.georgehwood.com

The King of Clemens is a richly observed portrait of a small Appalachian town where memory, myth, and everyday life braid together in unexpected ways. George Wood's debut novel moves with the rhythm of real recollection-jumping decades, doubling back, revealing the quiet truths people carry and the secrets they try to outrun. In Clemens, North Carolina, change presses in from every direction, stirring up generational conflict, old wounds, and the fragile bonds that hold a community together. Wood writes with a craftsman's precision and a storyteller's heart, capturing everything from boot making and fishing to the slow erosion of a long marriage and the ache of Alzheimer's. What emerges is a tale that feels both intimate and expansive-a book that, as one reviewer noted, "contains multitudes." At its core lies a universal question: What does it cost to find a place we can truly call home?

About the Author

George H. Wood lives in the small Appalachian village of Amesville, Ohio (population 183 at most recent count). There, with his wife Marcia Burchby, he helped raise his sons Michael and John. Much of the inspiration for his writing comes from his neighbors. An educator, George has been a teacher, college professor, high school principal, and school superintendent. He has two books on school change, Schools that Work and Time to Learn, both published by Dutton. His short stories have appeared in Flash Fiction Online and Reckon Review.

Cover Art & Design by Keith Wilde

Keith Wilde is a muralist and illustrator with a studio in the Village of Amesville, Ohio, where he enjoys helping others transform their inspiration into public treasures, large and small.

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