What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I will have three books at my table. I am a cross-genre writer (and reader!). You will find Intruder Alert, my early chapter book. Hunt for clues within the chapters to determine who the intruder is, and why is someone stealing […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History is a deeply researched memoir that traces my journey to confront the legacy of my grandfather’s work—from the familial to the environmental to the international—building nuclear weapons in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I travel […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) Finalist, 2022 Weatherford Award for Nonfiction, Berea College and Appalachian Studies Association Drawing from her work as the West Virginia State Folklorist, Emily Hilliard explores contemporary […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky in the War of 1812: The Governor, the Farmers and the Pig (History Press 2023) details just how instrumental in kickstarting, maintaining, fighting, ending, and negotiating the treaty Kentucky was. From Henry Clay’s War Hawks to his roll at the Treaty […]
Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? It is my belief that basketball fans will benefit from the book and enjoy hearing about my place in Transylvania basketball history, but I think anyone who enjoys reading memoirs will find this book a tremendous read. My co-author, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? What a year! Three fun books to my name came out this year-the newest is the graphic novel of the hardest Bailey School Kids book to write (with Marcia T. Jones): Ghosts Don’t Eat Potato Chips. If that’s too scary, check out […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll be at the festival with my 2023 novel EVERYBODY KNOWS (JackLeg Press), which Margaret Renkl (GRACELAND, AT LAST) calls “a laugh-out-loud post-apocalyptic satire—nothing less than a rowdy, music-besotted, whiskey-drenched tale of political shenanigans and Biblical flooding.” EVERYBODY KNOWS is also an […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, festival goers will find “Bogustan: An Adventure in Diplomatic Misunderstanding,” a comic novel which takes place in a fictional country, but is inspired by my real-life work overseas as an AntiCorruption Advisor at a U.S. Embassy. The book recounts […]
David Bell is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels for adults and young adults. Try Not to Breathe is a story about an ex-cop who sets out to find her missing sister and discovers the shocking truth about her family.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? A Play for Revenge – Lily Kimura returns to her hometown of Starlight Cove with her twelve-year-old daughter, fresh out of a divorce. She’s committed to starting over, starting with her role as theater manager at the Starlight Cove Playhouse. The playhouse […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Four of my five books will appear on my table but I also hope folks will stop by the register at Joseph Beth and preorder Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir which will be released in January 2024. 1. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My most recent release is called Children of Ragnarok, book 1 of Runestone Saga, a duology rooted in Norse mythology. A notorious coaster joins forces with a traveling musician and runecaster to navigate the dangerous world after the Last Battle. You’ll […]