What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? You will find Gay Poems for Red States at my table. It is a book of story poems that came into being primarily as a response to homophobia, transphobia, and erasure at a rural Kentucky high school but that speaks to the […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? This is the first book written about John Paul Merton, Thomas Merton’s younger brother. Neither scholar nor saint, the life of John Paul Merton illustrates there is more than one way to live a meaningful and holy life. His was a quietly […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, readers will find two new picture books, THE VOICE IN THE HOLLOW and LITTLE RED. A review of THE VOICE IN THE HOLLOW frames the book quite well: ★ “Hillenbrand at his best. . . . Hillenbrand’s snowy […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table, Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find copies of my book, TRAVIS DAVENTHORPE FOR THE WIN! It’s my debut graphic novel, and the first in an epic four-book series! I’ll also have stickers, sketch cards, and plenty of high fives […]
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 […]
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? All of my books are a celebration and motivation for Kentucky’s beautiful outdoors! If you’re looking for an easy walk in the woods, a heart-thumping hike atop a mountain ridge or simply a wander through a public garden, I have lots […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? hopefully theyll find my three full length poetry collections, Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023) – collectively a loose trilogy of poems in conversation […]
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? Coal Man’s Son (Finishing Line Press) – The catalog description calls it “a gothic coal-camp mad / sacred fever-dream that remythologizes the origins of both God and Man, and what came between them.” That sounds about right. New Covenant Bound (University […]
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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? FLIPPIN’ SKATERS (2023). This is Teresa’s latest release, and is a YA contemporary novel about self-love in the face of online bullying. After a photo of Aspen goes viral and destroys her reputation, she copes by reinventing herself as a fierce, gravity-defying […]