DIY Book Promo helps his fellow authors find readers without spending money based on lessons learned during his 30-year broadcasting career and a three-year campaign for his novel, Fiona's Guardians.
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Written with the acclaimed director of The Fugitive, Andrew Davis, Disturbing the Bones is a propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis.
By telling the story of the Electoral College’s origins, 237-year history, and surprising present-day operations, Distorting Democracy, her most recent book, shows how we ended up with this odd method for choosing our leader.
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Jon Reynolds Illuminating Nature: Chasing Light Across the Landscape An award-winning photographer based in the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati area, Jon Reynolds has been a full-time adult educator with Gateway Community and Technical College for over […]
From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
In Déjà Blue, he shares a behind-the-scenes look at his career in sportswriting, from his early years at the Huntington Herald-Dispatch (W.Va.) through over four decades covering the highs, and lows, of the Wildcats for the Lexington Herald-Leader including three national championships, nine Final Fours, and six head coaches.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? What a year! Three fun books to my name came out this year-the newest is the graphic novel of the hardest Bailey School Kids book to write (with Marcia T. Jones): Ghosts Don’t Eat Potato Chips. If that’s too scary, check out […]
Lots of children have pen pals but one little girl has a real-life dragon a Komodo dragon for a pen pal! When she and Komodo become pen pals, the wise-cracking dragon adds a generous helping of humor to letters that are chock full of accurate, interesting facts.
From the acclaimed author of the classics Shiloh and Other Stories and In Country comes a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life and her first love. Ann Workman is smart but naïve, a misfit who’s traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in the […]
In Dear Ann, she captures the excitement of youth and the nostalgia of age and relates how the consideration of the road not taken can illuminate, and perhaps overtake our present.
Seventeen-year-old Sam, the daughter of a New England heiress, has tried hard to fulfill her father's dying wish: "Take care of your mother for me." Not an easy job. When her impulsive, romance-writing mom announces her engagement to a man whose last heiress wife died under suspicious circumstances, Sam tries to dissuade her. But her […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll be at the festival with my 2023 novel EVERYBODY KNOWS (JackLeg Press), which Margaret Renkl (GRACELAND, AT LAST) calls “a laugh-out-loud post-apocalyptic satire—nothing less than a rowdy, music-besotted, whiskey-drenched tale of political shenanigans and Biblical flooding.” EVERYBODY KNOWS is also an […]