Pastures of the Empty Page brings together fellow writers to honor Larry McMurtry and his impact on American letters.
Jay McCoy
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? POE Prophecies is an exciting new take on the works of Edgar Allan Poe that will interest young readers and those who are young-at-heart. Poe Prophecies: The Raven kicks off the adventures of 12-year-old POE Academy student, Aidan Grey, as he […]
His third book, Once These Hills begins in 1898 on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky and follows Lydia King from her discovery of an ancient, preserved body, through love and marriage, to her attempts to reverse the curse of the bog body.
On Rising Ground provides a richly-researched account of a Confederate foot soldier drawn from the thirty surviving letters he wrote to his wife Martha.
Greg Howard, Elizabeth Kilcoyne, and Helene Dunbar discuss their latest books with fellow author Ashley Blooms.
Of Fathers & Gods opens a window into the most primal elements of the human condition and shows us how, try as we might, we can never fully escape the bonds of parent and child.
In Not Far from Freedom, a formerly enslaved great-grandmother in mid-1950s Kentucky shares stories of cross-generational survival, striving, determination, and forgiveness as her great-granddaughter garners knowledge, strength, and understanding to chart her future and find a new way to move forward.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In 2023 I was pleased to publish two books. The Ancient Tradition of Angels (Bear & Co), which is a departure from, or an expansion to, my work on ancient Egypt. The other new book is the newly reprinted and expanded Awakening […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The main book I’ll be promoting will be The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight, which I edited. I will also have copies of two collections of my poems: Advice to a Young Poet and Folly. Whom do you […]
No Better Time is a story of the 6888 Postal Directory Battalion, a unit comprised entirely of women of color and the only unit of its type to serve in Europe during WWII.
In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton, helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Dear Vampire: Vampires are real, right? No? You’re about to enter the world of vampires—REAL vampires. These animals are out for blo-o-o-o-od. Your blo-o-o-o-od. Watch out! They’re everywhere. Don’t open this book if you’re a scaredy-cat. A wise, witty, and […]