| New Country/Pop Album Complete from Jeffery Deaver & Clay Stafford |
The story centers around a young country/pop star who encounters a stalker along the way. The music on the album is co-written and produced by Clay. The complete album was released internationally for download on May 29, 2012. Physical CDs were released June 12, 2012 in conjunction with the release of the novel. Download a FREE full version of "Your Shadow" by completing the form below. For more information, check out our "XO The Album" website. |
Clay Stafford is delighted to announce "XO The Album," a country/pop music collaboration between bestselling literary authors Jeffery Deaver and himself upon Deaver's upcoming book, "XO".
| KILLER NASHVILLE 2013 |
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The Clay Stafford-founded mystery, thriller, and suspense 
According to Internet sources, the Killer Nashville | Stafford's Children's Classics Adapations a Million-Plus Bestseller |
 Stafford goes beyond the million mark. Stafford’s retelling of “Huckleberry Finn,” “The Wind in the Willows,” “White Fang,” and “Swiss Family Robinson” have collectively sold over 1.5 million copies, have themselves appeared onscreen in the feature film “Must Love Dogs,” and have been translated into at least two foreign languages (Polish and Russian). Released in everything from traditional hardcover to faux leather to paperback, each book has illustrations (many color) on every page opening. The books are available from Big Box retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Sam’s Club, and Costco. |
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STAFFORD’S HOLOCAUST / CIVIL RIGHTS "MIRACLES" DOCUMENTARY HARROWING
When filmmaker Clay Stafford set out to make a simple film about one woman's efforts to change the world one child at a time, he had no idea the reception it would receive. Set to premiere at a Franklin, Tennessee theater on April 18, 2013 in the hometown where the story takes place, the theater sold out nearly immediately. Another screening was scheduled. And now another. WAKM says it is "a thrilling and inspirational story." Williamson Herald calls it "harrowing." The Tennessean declares it "miraculous."
"One of the Miracles" is the personal story of Inge Meyring Smith, a Holocaust survivor and American Civil Rights early–education pioneer who became the light of learning for thousands of children in the American South. She survived yellow benches, the Nazis who killed her family, American prejudice, the Ku Klux Klan, and the march for racial equality.
During the German Holocaust, Inge's Jewish family barely escaped with their lives. Having only $15 in the family's pocket when they arrived in the U.S., Inge's family swore to survive. She moved to Tennessee. She had barely lived through yellow benches in Germany and what she saw in the South was segregated water fountains. "It was ignorance more than prejudice," she said, but she had seen from the extermination of her own family where prejudice and ignorance unchecked could lead. Hand–picked by the Kennedy/Johnson administration to help them develop a new national preschool education program called Head Start, Smith – a woman and a Jew – went South at peril again to her own life. Through her international efforts via independent school associations, out of her passion to reach children in unreachable parts of the U.S. as well as at her own backdoor, untold thousands of children have been inspired to learn through her efforts and those she has influenced over the past 70 years.
What's going to happen next with the film? Stafford doesn't know. "We've been humbled at the response. To us, it was clearly a story that needed to be told and recorded, but we never could have anticipated the response. As a result, we've had interest from several television distributors, but no final decision has yet been made." Like Inge, this film may have a life of its own. For more on this project please go to http://www.oneofthemiracles.com.
Encore presentation of "One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story" on April 27, 2013 at the Franklin Theatre
"One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story" will have an encore presentation on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 7:00 PM to coinside with the Franklin Main Street Festival. If you missed out on the premiere, now is your chance to see Inge's story and how one woman has touched the lives of thousands.
If you would like to purchase tickets for "One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story" they are available from the historic Franklin Theatre located in downtown Franklin.
One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story" April 18, 2013 premiere is SOLD OUT!
New Feature Documentary To Premiere At the historic Franklin Theatre on April 18, 2013
"One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story", a new feature-length documentary by Clay Stafford, is complete. An Official Selection at the Utopia Film Festival in Greenbelt, Maryland, the film received rave reviews and an enthusiastic audience welcome. The story is simple and straightforward and told through a series of studio interviews with Smith and those who personally knew (or know) her: A young German Jew is nearly killed by the forces of Adolf Hitler. She escapes (with the help of Americans) with her mother and father from Dresden, Germany to the United States. Her extended family left behind in Germany is annihilated. She finishes school in the U.S., works on Wall Street, but finds her real love is education. She moves south with her husband, an American soldier she met during the War. In the midst of the Civil Rights movement, the voice against the prejudice she endured in Germany is ignited. She is chosen to help develop Presidents Kennedy and Johnson’s Head Start program in the Appalachians and Deep South and goes on to become a respected international voice for early childhood education and independent institutions of learning. For more on this project please go to http://www.oneofthemiracles.com.
If you would like to purchase tickets for "One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story" they are available from the historic Franklin Theatre located in downtown Franklin.
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