At WordFire Press we’ve released my own backlist as well as the works by many authors I admire. I can’t tell you how pleased and excited I am to announce that we’re releasing the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Allen Drury, whose classic political novel ADVISE AND CONSENT is one of the best-selling novels  of all time. Drury was one of the premiere 20th Century authors of political fiction, and his works have been unavailable for many years, due to rights complications after his death in 1998.

That problem is now solved.

For the “opening salvo” of Drury works, WordFire Press will release three of Drury’s best works, ADVISE AND CONSENT, MARK COFFIN U.S.S., and DECISION, epic novels centered around the Senate and the Supreme Court, respectively.  Upon its initial release, ADVISE AND CONSENT was a major #1 bestseller, with one of the longest runs in the top spot on the New York Times ever.  It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 and became a successful Broadway play.  It was made into an acclaimed 1962 film starring Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, and Burgess Meredith. Over the course of 1962 to 1975, Drury published five sequels to ADVISE AND CONSENT in an epic story about the people and intrigue of turbulent Washington politics.

MARK COFFIN, U.S.S. is the story of a young and talented Senator’s rise and fall and partial redemption, a vivid insider’s portrait of Washington politics.  DECISION is a gripping novel about the deterioration of the criminal justice system and the mysterious, powerful body at its core—the Supreme Court of the United States.

In the overall publication plan, WFP just released the first three novels and will publish the rest of the sequence throughout the 2014 election season.  In addition to numerous political dramas, Drury’s works include a two-volume historical epic set in ancient Egypt, a thriller about the politics of space exploration, a multi-volume fictional memoir of his generation, non-fiction books about the Senate, the Nixon White House, and an in-depth investigation of Apartheid South Africa.  Over the next several years, WordFire Press will release the complete works of this 20th Century master.

Drury was hailed as a conservative writer in his time, insightful and thought provoking, and today his works are as relevant as when they were first published, to be celebrated by readers of all political stripes. The books are available in print and on Kindle; in the next several days they will be out in all eBook formats.

A 1939 graduate of Stanford University, Allen Drury wrote for and became editor of two local California newspapers. While visiting Washington, DC, in 1943 he was hired by the United Press (UPI) and covered the Senate during the latter half of World War II. After the war he wrote for other prominent publications before joining the New York Times’ Washington Bureau, where he worked through most of the 1950s. After the success of ADVISE AND CONSENT, he left journalism to write full time. He published twenty novels and five works of non-fiction, many of them best sellers.  For more information see the WordFire Press Allen Drury page.

WordFire Press was formed by award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, primarily as a vehicle to reissue their own works, but the publishing house has expanded to more than 100 titles, featuring the works of Dune author Frank Herbert, award-winning comics writer Mike Baron, New York Times bestseller Brian Herbert, multiple award winner Brad R. Torgersen, and others.