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No Better Time

What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?

No Better Time +photos of family members who served during WWII

Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?

Anyone interested in American history especially women who may not know the origins of women’s service in the armed forces (WACS were among the first!)

Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?

This story was inspired by the experience of Dorothy Turner Johnson, my mother’s cousin, who served with the 6888 and was the best storyteller ever!

Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to the most? If you’ve participated before – what was your favorite experience at the Festival? 

This is not my first Kentucky Book Festival. I was invited to participate when my first book came out, DANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE ROOF, and I had an amazing experience. I met writers who became friends and mentors (i.e. Lynn Hightower, James Alexander Thom among others) and was overwhelmed by the friendly atmosphere.



About the Author

A graduate of the University of Louisville living in northern Kentucky, Sheila Williams is the author of seven novels, one of which was adapted for the Netflix film Juanita, and is the librettist for Fierce, an opera commissioned by the Cincinnati Opera. Her latest novel, inspired by the author’s second cousin who served in World War II as a member of the WACs, No Better Time is a story of the 6888 Postal Directory Battalion, a unit comprised entirely of women of color and the only unit of its type to serve in Europe during WWII. 

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