What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Readers will find my most recent title Wicked Little Things, which is a spooky and queer Young Adult novel about a recently out teenager who discovers he is a witch and joins a coven to hunt down a serial killer. […]
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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? Going Through It, my new book, the 40th of my ‘career’ published around my 80th birthday. First book was published in 1966. This adds about a third beyond two previous collections reprinted in its pages. One thinks one progresses and so this […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The three crime books from my Cain City Series. The latest, Bad Men Will Come, centers on Ephraim, a single father struggling to stay afloat, on the brink of losing his factory job. When a mysterious man emerges from the wilderness with […]
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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South deals with the interaction between slaves who escaped to Federal lines and Northerners (civilian volunteers and Military officials) who worked with them. This involved obtaining necessities and working toward revising […]
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). […]
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 […]