Writing Adventure

International award-winning author George T. Arnold, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University where he taught news and feature writing, language skills, ethics, and law for 36 years. He worked full-time for seven years as a newspaper reporter to finance bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Marshall, and he has a doctorate in journalism and mass communications from Ohio University.

Wyandotte Bound, his first western published by Speaking Volumes, won first place in the Laramie division for best western fiction in the Chanticleer 2021 International Book Awards competition. The seventh edition of his textbook/resource book, Media Writer’s Handbook, a Guide to Common Writing and Editing Problems, won the first place Gold Medal in the Readers’ Favorite 2021 International Book Awards competition in the non-fiction/education division. The book has been purchased at more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.

He has written several other books, including Old Mrs. Kimble’s Mansion, and his latest book, The Heart Beneath the Badge, also published by Speaking Volumes.