BOO! Something from Keven McQueen that's definitely a TREAT and not a TRICK!
* I will be signing copies of
"Forgotten Tales of Kentucky" and "Kentucky Book of the Dead" at Ward
Hall, an antebellum mansion in Georgetown, Oct. 29, 8:00-10:30.
* I will be signing copies of "Forgotten Tales of Kentucky" and "Kentucky Book of the Dead" at Barnes and Noble in Lexington on Oct. 31 between 1:00-3:00.
Two new books on the way.... more details soon!
New Link and Blogs!
BOOK RECOMMENDATION FROM OL' KEVVY!
If you like true crime, I must recommend "The Love Pirate and the Bandit's Son" (New York: Union Square Press) by Laura James, to be released in May. Ms. James is a true crime historian and proprietor of the CLEWS true crime website. "Love Pirate" is about the Jazz Age murder of Zeo Zoe Wilkins, whose career of sex and larceny would teach modern celebrities and gold diggers a thing or two. She was heinously murdered in her Kansas City home in 1924, and Ms. James provides a compelling argument that the murderer was none other than Jesse James's son.
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GOOD NEWS-A-RAMA!
History Press, publishers of Keven's books "Kentucky Book of the Dead" and "Forgotten Tales of Kentucky," will be publishing his eighth and ninth books in 2009! One is a still untitled Indiana-based true crime collection and the other will be "Forgotten Tales of Indiana." These will be his first books that are not about Kentucky.
In other news: Keven will have a biographical entry in the 2010 edition of "Whos Who in America." Yes, THE "Whos Who." No, he didnt have to pay a fee to be included.
Keven has written a short piece on White Hall, Madison County home
of emancipationist Cassius M. Clay, for the Kentucky Artisan Heritage
Trails website's blog:
http://kyartisanheritagetrails.blogspot.com/2009/01/words-from-kentucky-author-keven.html
Keven's biography of the 19th-century journalistic hoaxer Joe
Mulhattan has not been published (yet), but Mulhattan's fame is slowly
spreading. Some of Keven's Mulhattan research is being quoted on three
websites. Check out the following:
W. J. Elvin's excellent Literary Fraud and Folly website: http://litfraud.blogspot.com/
Professional hoaxer Joey Skaggs's website, Pranks.com:
http://pranks.com/2009/02/20/literateye-author-keven-mcqueen-recalls-a-master-prankster-of-yesteryear/#more-5456
Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Joseph_Mulhattan/
My chapter on Live-forever Jones from "Offbeat Kentuckians" has been adapted at the Weird Universe website, one author of which is Chuck Shepherd, the guy behind News of the Weird!
You can meet Ol' Kevvy in person at three upcoming book signings!
2008 Book Signings have been moved to the ARCHIVE.
Would you like to hear the interview Keven did with WEKU/National Public Radio on August 22, 2008?
KEVEN RETURNS TO LOUISVILLE TELEVISION!
On Halloween, Keven will make a return appearance on WAVE-3 TV in
Louisville at 9:30 a.m. to discuss "The Kentucky Book of the Dead" and
its follow-up, "Forgotten Tales of Kentucky."
"CRUELLY MURDERED" TO BE RELEASED VERY SOON!
"Cruelly Murdered," the long-waited sequel to "Murder in Old
Kentucky,"will be published by the Jesse Stuart Foundation on October
1. Watch this website for links!
EARLY RELEASE FOR "FORGOTTEN TALES OF KENTUCKY!"
"Forgotten Tales of Kentucky," the follow-up to "The Kentucky Book
of the Dead," is coming out on September 29, 2008, rather than in 2009
as I had anticipated. See Amazon.com link below!