What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Stealing, a novel set in the 1950s and compared to To Kill a Mockingbird and the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by the New York Times. When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, selected by Booklist as one of the […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table visitors will find my debut novel, Welcome, Caller, which follows a sarcastic trans bartender named Malcolm and his ragtag group of friends. Malcolm forms a crush on an anonymous radio show host—unaware that this host may or may not […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Language of Kin was just published on July 11, 2023. This novel deals with a fundamental ethical conflict between two zookeepers, Kate and Marc, over how to help a young, terrified chimpanzee acclimate to the (fictional) Dayton, OH, zoo. Eve had […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’LL STOP THE WORLD is my debut novel, about a modern teen who finds himself inexplicably whisked back to the year 1985, one week before the mysterious deaths of his grandparents. There, he teams up with an ‘80s teen to attempt to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find Mama Said, my debut collection of linked short stories published by West Virginia University Press, displayed proudly on my table–along with a few treats. Mama Said is set in Louisville, Kentucky amid the tail end of the crack epidemic […]
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? 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? 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? 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? 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 […]