What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? You will find a copy of my first and only book to date, Exiled- the Climax and Surrender of Jimmy Stokley by Bill Luxon. This first-hand account follows the beginning of the Exiles, a local rock-n-roll band and its decades-long climb to […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Common Wealth of Kentucky Project was written and produced by Beth Pride and Kentucky artist Kelly Brewer. It is a time capsule of the inspirational and powerful journey across the state, painting Kentuckians from life and recording and telling their […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Tula Pendleton: The Life and Work of a Forgotten Southern Writer is the story of a woman born in a Kentucky village in 1872 who became a successful short story writer in the 1910s. But tragically, as Tula’s career blossomed, her husband became […]
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 people faced […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My new crime novel, The End of the Road, is a stand-alone thriller set in and around Columbus, Ohio, that follows a young woman named Penny as she hunts the villain who shot and left her boyfriend for dead. My novels, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (Ferris and Ferris Books, 2023). My new book tells the story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran […]
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 people […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find my novel What the Jaguar Told Her, a magical realist tale set in Atlanta in 2001. It’s about a thirteen-year-old girl named Jade who comes to terms with her Mexican-American identity with help from Itztli, an elderly jaguar-storyteller. In […]