What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Girl: short story, poetry, song and recipes tell the story of a young girl as she navigates themes of self worth, identity, trauma and resilience Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Readers […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I am a # 1 NYT bestselling author of 35 published books, the majority of which are written from the viewpoint of the dogs. My most recent, Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog describes the wacky life of Clancy, a yellow Labrador […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Publishers Weekly says: “Buchanan debuts with the folksy story of a curmudgeonly woman in 1950s Paducah, Ky….Along with the brisk pacing and knotty protagonist, Buchanan adds plenty of homespun details (nasty weather visits Paducah ‘like a disagreeable aunt’). This slice of […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? WHEN JASMINE BLOOMS is inspired by Abigail Alcott, the influence behind Marmee of Little Women, about a mother who suffers a tragedy. In her lowest of lows, she wonders “what if” and wakes up in that reality. My eleven novels explore intimate […]
Lark Ascending is a riveting story of survival and hope, set in the not-too-distant future, about a young man forced to flee the United States and seek refuge across the Atlantic. As fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a refugee boat headed […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Echo Her Lovely Bones shares the stories of eight women who have lived in a house during its two-hundred-year history. The novel is a series of stories written by the women and left in the attic of the house. Their stories […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors to my table will find my debut novel, Go As A River. An international bestseller translated into thirty languages and optioned for film, Go As A River is the heartbreaking story of a young woman whose life is changed forever […]
. R.J Jacobs has practiced as a psychologist since 2003. A foreboding new dark academia thriller of deception and suspense, This is How We End Things follows the unraveling of a close group of students as they contend with what it means to lie, and be lied to.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Intermission is the story of a popular, multiracial girl group, the Diamonds, who reluctantly consider reuniting for a twentieth anniversary tour, despite vows never to speak again. Each has their own memory of who did what to whom, and that memory has […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My novel, Traces, is a retelling of the Daniel Boone saga through the eyes of his wife, Rebecca, and their two oldest daughters, Susannah and Jemima. Boone biographer, Robert Morgan wrote that Traces, “rescues Rebecca Boone and her daughters from the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My book is Daughters of Muscadine, a loosely linked collection of stories set in rural Georgia. Each story stands on its own, but when read together they form a book of stories that deal with themes related to loneliness, estrangement, race, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Kudzu Queen In 1941, James T. Cullowee, the Kudzu King, arrives in Cooper County, NC to spread the gospel of kudzu—claiming it will improve the soil, feed cattle, even cure headaches. When Mr. Cullowee organizes a kudzu festival, complete with a […]