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Jay McCoy
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin delivers a gripping romance about two teens, a gut punch of a novel about mental health, loss, and discovering you are worthy of love.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? If you stop at my table, you will find my debut book of poetry, Grenadine and Other Love Affairs. This book is a love story, but probably not the one that you expect. Read it for the romance, but also for the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Stop my table for the Y2k vibes! My book, Doomsday Dani, is a middle grade novel set in the year 1999. Dani, the protagonist, has been obsessively preparing for the forecasted Y2K disaster and is confident that her hard work will […]
Cancer in Appalachia: A Collection of Youth-Told Stories is an anthology of powerful short stories and a few poems written by high school and undergraduate students who have leveraged their own lived experiences in Appalachian Kentucky and knowledge of cancer to convey fictional, yet highly realistic stories about the pain and disruptions that cancer causes […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My latest book, The Back Page, collects 12 years of back page essays that I’ve written for Kentucky Living magazine, a monthly publication of Kentucky Electric Cooperatives. Kentucky Living has the largest circulation of any print publication in Kentucky, and the essays […]
Buried Talents exposes the subtle forms of socialization that often go unnoticed but serve to pull women away from leadership - both within the church and in other male-dominated occupations. The first three chapters explore the areas in which socialization occurs: toy selection, chore assignments, media messages, teachers' expectations for student success, and identity development.
Lisa Haneberg, author of "Stiff Lizard" and a founding board member of the Lexington Writer’s Room, and Elaine Munsch, co-editor of "Mystery with a Splash of Bourbon" and member of the Derby Rotten Scoundrels writing group, will discuss what it takes to build a writing community with Lisa M. Miller, author of "The Heart of […]
When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Louisville Gambling Barons discusses Louisville when the city experienced the golden age of gambling between 1860 through 1885, thanks to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers by steamboat and later railroads. Entire city blocks were devoted to betting. Horse […]
Bringing Ben Home tells the story of Ben Spencer, a Black man wrongly convicted and sentenced to life before being freed after 34 years, a case which reveals how easy it is to convict an innocent person and how impossible it is to undo the mistake.