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). […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find Jessica D. Thompson’s first full-length poetry collection entitled, “Daybreak and Deep,” (Kelsay Books, 2022). “Daybreak and Deep” was a finalist in the American Book Fest Best Books of 2022 for Narrative Poetry. “Daybreak and Deep” was also a finalist […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer is a story of American life in the 20th century. It’s the story of a young woman from an immigrant community who came of age just as women got the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? HER EYES WERE ON THE STARS: NANCY GRACE ROMAN, “MOTHER OF HUBBLE” SPACE TELESCOPE This picture book biography tells the story of how a young star lover overcame odds to become an astronomer and eventually become Chief of Astronomy at NASA. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My newest release, The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown (University Press of Kentucky, 2023), tells a unique story amongst the many that the sport of horse racing contains: the story of sire and son […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Next to the big bowl of delicious candy on my table, visitors will find my recent historical novel Cradles of the Reich, the story of three very different German women who meet at a Nazi baby breeding home at the start of […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table, Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find The Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health. The book is a resource for everyone, although it features information specific to […]
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? Time Traveling Through Yellowstone National Park: The Adventures of Bubba Jones is the 5th book in my middle grade national park book series. A family with legendary time travel skills explores Yellowstone National Park to solve a mystery and along the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Front and center on my table will be A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson, my first children’s picture book. The book tells the story of Ellis Wilson, the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance painter who grew up in Mayfield in far […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find on my table all three books in the Magic Pen Adventure series! In each book, a different middle schooler obtains a magic pen that makes everything they draw become real! In Monster Problems, sixth grader Brad […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Festival visitors will find these books of interest: All three books focus on life in Appalachia, the efforts to survive, the role of family and moonshining, and the strength of the people. a. Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (2023)– the […]