What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America’s Legendary Racehorse Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Lovers of stories about hidden histories as well as horses, particularly racehorses, may be interested in […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Eleanor Robson Belmont, a Theatrical Life The woman who named the great racehorse Man o’ War was a brilliant stage actress with Kentucky connections and an independent spirit. She moved in fast circles, defining her own life with a fierce intelligence […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Creepy Kentucky is the follow-up to The Kentucky Book of the Dead, but with all-new material. It includes many documented stories about ghosts, strange deaths, body snatchers, people who predicted their own deaths, premature burials, and much more. Kentucky Book of the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table you will find my very first book, We All Count, along with posters and stickers that go along with the book. At my table you will of course find me, the author, but you will also find the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll be signing my latest book Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey, which is a brief biography of one of America’s first Black superstar athletes. Murphy was born enslaved in Bourbon County and lived most of his life […]
Stephen B. Bright is the author of The Fear of Too Much Justice, an examination of injustices occurring in criminal courts today and a practical look at how they can be corrected. He will be joined on stage with CNN’s Poppy Harlow for this discussion.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My debut title, The Memory Index, and its sequel, The Recall Paradox! My duology takes place in a reimagined 1980s, where hyper memory loss afflicts mankind, and the quartet of heroes—led by the brave, empathetic Freya Izquierdo—must unlock the mystery of Memory […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? When a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball, a young lady takes on the decidedly improper role of detective in this action-packed debut comedy of manners and murder. A Most Agreeable Murder follows Beatrice Steele, a Regency-era young lady who is […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? They will find my debut novel, “The Hunt for the Peggy C: A World War II Maritime Thriller,” which I like to describe as Casablanca meets Das Boot. It’s about an American smuggler’s struggle to rescue a Jewish family on his rusty […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My debut novel False Riches. Bookmarks and postcards. Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Readers who are looking for an intriguing story about the people who love horses and deal with […]
When a Molotov cocktail was lobbed over the security fence at my TV station during the protests of 2020 and a ball of fire exploded under a vehicle, I hoped it wasn’t mine. Not because I cared about my car. I cared about my fishing gear inside, and as soon as […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll have brand-new paperbacks of my People Magazine pick The Next Thing You Know available for the first time ever at KBF, plus popular backlist titles and an exclusive giveaway relating to my forthcoming novel, The Last Caretaker (coming December 1). […]