The wonderful Alison Krauss sings this lyric that has always haunted me: “You say it best when you say nothing at all.” That phrase sifted through my head as I read Mona Batchelor’s review of COPYBOY on her blog, “The Hiking Librarian.” Mona is a school librarian from...

COPYBOY, the sequel to PAPERBOY, is launching across the state of Tennessee in the coming weeks. Readers in West Tennessee have a chance to attend a book talk in Memphis where the story begins; East Tennessee readers can hear about the new book at my author talks in...

Librarians are an amazing lot. First, they are readers but then they parlay that love of the written word to others in their sphere. A book that is unread is just so much ink and paper (or possibly electronic blips on a screen.) Librarians and booksellers are the ones...