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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I See Lincoln’s Underpants features many notable people from the past, and the times their underwear made history along the way. Winner of a 2023 IPPY Gold Medal, this book is a both educational and delightful for middle grade readers and […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Just. Like. You. is a joyful celebration of individuality and diversity. Follow a class of students throughout the day from morning to night and discover what makes each of them unique: from different talents, abilities, and body sizes, to ethnicities, religions, gender […]
Kentucky writers with new memoirs gathered on Main Stage to discuss their writing process. Paul Patton, Erin Keane, Richard Taylor, Don Lane and John Boel were in conversation with writer Nana Lampton to get to the heart of these books.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, you’ll see three sci-fi books for young adults: UNREGISTERED, UNAFRAID, and UNDONE. Together, they’re a series called Children of the Uprising, a dystopian story of a little band of outsiders who take on an oppressive and controlling government. You’ll also see […]
We appreciate our volunteers and want to learn more about them. We asked Lucie MacDonald to answer several questions. 1. Please tell us something about yourself. Retired, former Joseph-Beth Bookseller. Also, worked circulation at the Lexington Herald-Leader and wrote book reviews. Last ten working years were spent as an adjunct instructor […]
We appreciate our volunteers and want to learn more about them. We asked Beth Barton to answer several questions. 1. Please tell us something about yourself. This is my second year volunteering at the KBF. I am a Kentuckian by birth (Glasgow), but I have lived in North Carolina […]
YOU are fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others during the mid-1800s. Will you escape to freedom? And will you help others escape as part of the Underground Railroad’s network of freedom fighters? Step back in time to face the challenges and decisions that real […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find a newly published biography of Kentucky activist, politician, and attorney Gatewood Galbraith, Gatewood: Kentucky’s Uncommon Man. Throughout his political career, regional and national media outlets focused on the policy ideas and public acts that made Gatewood a cultural fixture: […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will get to see Winning Tools: 3 Leadership Principles that Build Purpose, Respect and Success – a #1 Amazon Best Seller and my first book. Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? I […]