Keven will be on a radio talk show in Louisville (WFPL 89.3 FM) from 1:00-2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 20. He is scheduled to mostly discuss his Indiana-based books, especially "Forgotten Tales of Indiana."
Keven will be signing copies of "Forgotten Tales of Indiana" and "Strange Tales
of Crime and Murder in Southern Indiana" at Destinations Booksellers in New
Albany, IN, on January 22, 2010, at 6:00.
Several members of Eastern Kentucky University's Department of English and Theater will sign copies of their books in Walnut Hall in the Keen Johnson building on campus. The event will be held on Thursday, December 3, between 5:00 and 6:30 p.m. Scheduled authors include James Keller, Linda Frost, Derek Nikitas, Salome Nnoromele, Keven McQueen, Charlotte Rich, Mason Smith, Marie Mitchell, Dorothy Sutton, Ordelle Hill, and Young Smith.
Click on the image above to see pictures from this booksigning!
As Professor Farnsworth says on Futurama, Good news, everyone! My two new books have just been released by History Press. Both are full of the familiar darkly comic material and obsessive research, and best of all, both are fully illustrated by my twin brother Kyle. (Whats that you say? You dont believe he really exists? Take my word for it, he does!) Southern Indiana True Crime Stories is a historical true crime book cut from the same cloth as Murder in Old Kentucky and Cruelly Murdered
The other new History Press book, Forgotten Tales of Indiana, contains
several elements found in my other books: there are true crime stories
as in Murder in Old Kentucky and Cruelly Murdered; accounts of monsters
and buried treasure as in Forgotten Tales of Kentucky; ghost stories as
in Kentucky Book of the Dead; short biographies of eccentrics as in the
Offbeat Kentuckians series; weird little real-life stories and graveyard
lore as in Book of the Dead and Forgotten Tales of Kentucky. Depending
on your point of view, its either an apotheosis or a self-parody.
You can purchase either book, or both of them--hey, why not get both of them? That's a great idea!--at this Amazon.com link: HERE . You also may have them specially ordered at your local Mom and Pop bookstore.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for more information on the books!
*NOTICE NEW TIME*
Keven's fans in northern Kentucky can meet him at a book signing at Border's in Crestview Hills, Kenton County, from 2:00 to 4:00 on November 21. The address is 2785 Dixie Highway, Crestview Hills.
SNEAK PREVIEW! Keven's two new books,"Strange Tales of Crime and Murder in Southern Indiana" and "Forgotten Tales of Indiana" are due to be released by History Press around mid-October. Here is an exclusive advance view of the covers!
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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.
Available from Amazon - Click Here
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!
