SOKY Book Fest

Authors Attending

• DADEY, DEBBIE	• DAUGHERTY, RODNEY	• DAVIS, LINDA	• DAVIS, VIRGINIA C.
• DICKEY, ROBERT	• DOUGLASS, M. SCOTT

DEBBIE DADEY

Book Title: Trouble at Trident Academy

Book Description:

Trident Academy is at the bottom of the ocean and the students and teachers are merfolks. Three girls: Kiki, Shelly, and Echo become friends and do their best to cheer up the grumpy cafeteria worker. In the first book, Trouble at Trident Academy, Kiki and Shelly decide to try out for Shell Wars, a sports team and Echo wants to try out for the Tail Flippers. That back-fires when Echo ends up getting a black pot stuck on her tail. Shelly comes to the rescue by wrapping a beautiful sparkling cloth around the pot. When Shelly and Echo have an argument, they wonder if they'll ever be friends again.

Author Biography:

Author Debbie Dadey's passion is writing books for students labeled as reluctant readers. With ten series and forty-seven million copies of her 151 books in print, Debbie’s first series which she co-authored with Marcia Jones, The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, is one of Scholastic’s top three best-selling series. Her newest series, Mermaid Tales with Simon and Schuster, gives students a chance to enjoy a fun story while learning about the ocean and its inhabitants. Visit www.debbiedadey.com to find out more about Debbie and her books.

RODNEY DAUGHERTY

Book Title: Factors Unknown: The Tragedy That Put a Coach and Football on Trial

Book Description:

On a sultry August afternoon, as teams were practicing all across the nation, it proved too much for a young sophomore at Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Louisville, Ky. He gave his all and then collapsed, never to rise again. As the rumors spread, the accusations flowed and the din about the tragedy reached a fevered pitch. With the local newspaper’s persistence, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its prosecutors could wait no longer. For the first time ever they were going to bring criminal charges against a high school football coach for the death of a player. This is that story, the case of Coach David Jason Stinson and, ultimately, the sport of high school football, on trial.

Author Biography:

Rodney Daugherty was born, raised and has spent most of his life in the Louisville, Kentucky area. With years of experience as a player, coach and even co-owner of a semiprofessional football team, Daugherty could be described as an avid football enthusiast. He led the fundraising efforts to support Coach Jason Stinson, and was inspired to write his first book after witnessing the criminal case waged against his friend.

LINDA DAVIS

Book Title: Celtic Portal: Insula Sacra

Book Description:

Celtic Portal is a Young Adult Fantasy Fiction set between a virtual reality classroom of the future in Taos, NM and ancient Ireland.

Accompanied by a group of legendary creatures who have been unable to cross to the Otherworld since the Great Wobble, they must unravel a treacherous web of mysteries that will provide the keys for their
return home.

The race is on to restore balance to the world before it destroys itself. For every good there is an evil, but the scales are heavily weighted against success.

Celtic Portal: Insula Sacra is the first in a series of seven novels.

Author Biography:

In addition to being a writer, Linda is a freelance graphic designer, photographer and a business market development consultant. A science, history and archeology buff, Linda graduated from the University of
Florida and spends her free time volunteering on literacy project, teaching ESL and enhancing libraries in underfunded schools.

Since completing her novel Celtic Portal: Insula Sacra, she is currently working on the second and third books in the Celtic Portal Series as well as two other novels. Her Christian inspirational guide for young adults, Simple was released in 2010.

VIRGINIA C. DAVIS

Book Title: The Flowers on Apple Hill

Book Description:

Mix some old family journals with a determined nine-year-old girl and her feisty grandmother, then add a set of divorced parents, a generous dose of Kentucky history, along with an assortment of flowers, and a missing piece of gold for a mystery perfect for readers ages 9 years-old and up!

Nine-year-old Maggie doesn't realize that a visit to her grandmother's house is quickly going to turn into a search for gold. A big chunk of gold! At least that's what everyone thinks who has ever read the journals - those leather bound, tattered old books that her grandmother has been safeguarding since she interieted them from her mother. In fact, the journals date back to 1790 when Mary Margaret Wheatley wrote about her journey from Virginia to her new hom on Apple Hill Convinced that she can find the missing gold, Maggie discovers something unexpected - answers about her mother that may help to bring her parents back together again.

Author Biography:

Virginia C. Davis wrote her first book while an undergraduate student at Western Kentucky University. She currently serves as Director of the Hart County Chamber of Commerce, which provides her with plenty of opportunities to share her love of history, community and family with residents and visitors alike. What does she like best about her job? Helping people to discover that some of life’s best adventures can be found in their own hometown.

ROBERT DICKEY

Book Title: Greyhound to Vegas

Book Description:

It was an exciting trip for Hilda Reynolds Krause from a West Virginia lumber camp and bus stop cafe in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas "Strip." Through hard work, the modern businesswoman forged extraordinary success as a Kentucky entrepreneur before cashing in on the Havana casino scene in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s. Following the revolution, Hilda logged some memorable -- and successful -- encounters with Fidel Castro before her expulsion from Communist Cuba. Landing on her feet in Las Vegas, she was among the small group -- less than 10 -- which founded Caesars Palace. In 1974, the violent, bloody assassination which prematurely ended her life became one of Las Vegas's most sensational homicides. Meanwhile, in sharp contrast to her own career, Hilda's only child, Charles H. Reynolds, fashioned a sterling career as an outstanding trial lawyer, bank president and, crowning his achievements, a Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Author Biography:

Bowling Green, Kentucky native Robert Dickey attended Western Kentucky University and graduated from Centre College of Kentucky. After a Marine Corps hitch, he worked as a reporter and local news editor for the Park City Daily News in Bowling Green before graduating from Vanderbilt University School of Law and practicing law in Kentucky for 40 years. His nonfiction writing focuses on Kentucky subjects and personalities.

M. SCOTT DOUGLASS

Book Title: Hard to Love

Book Description:

There's a lot to love in M. Scott Douglass's new book of poems, Hard to Love. The language's vernacular precision--its unerring homage to who we are, what life is like, how time passes relentlessly as we cling frantically to it's bucking back--is wonderfully, wholly authentic. These wry poems are funny, tough and provocative. Douglass possesses a keen and irreverent eye, an ear pressed to the burning road, the heart and soul of a biker.

--Joseph Bathanti

Author Biography:

M. Scott Douglass was born in Pittsburgh, grew up there, in Wheeling, WV, but mostly in Erie, PA. He spent 20 years as a dental technician before founding Main Street Rag Publishing Company where he is now the publisher and managing editor. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and he was the recipient of a NC Arts & Science Emerging Artists Grant in 2001. His work has appeared in such places as The Asheville Poetry Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, and Southern Poetry Review (among others). He has a degree in Graphic Arts and has taught Graphic Arts & Graphic Design at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC where he lives with his wife. His design work has earned him two PICA Awards and was nominated for a 2010 Eric Hoffer Award.

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