Of the more than 200 authors, artists and photographers on hand Saturday for the 28th Kentucky Book Fair at the Frankfort Convention Center – from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – several are from Frankfort.
They and their works include:
>Gene Burch, Russ Hatter and Nicky Hughes, “Frankfort: Yesterday and Today.” The book documents change in Frankfort by comparing images from long ago to today.
While some comparisons reveal improvements, others reveal losses to the community. The book combines images of the past with what is now in the same location to provide a means of comparison. Burch is a photographer and Hatter and Hughes are writers.
>Michael Embry, “A Confidential Man.” It’s a new novel in which a sports columnist hears some information he wishes he didn’t know. Embry is the author of seven books and has worked in the media field for more than 30 years.
>Jonathan Greene and wife Dobree Adams will bring a series of eight limited edition broadsides, ready to frame, that feature a poem by Greene and accompanying photography by Adams. They have forged a multi-faceted collaboration of vision and voice.
>Charles Hudson, “The Packhorseman.” The book is set in April 1735 where 20-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whisky and a set of Shakespeare’s plays, arrives in Charles Town, S.C. With dimming employment opportunities he seizes the one option still open for him and takes a job as a frontier packhorseman.
It’s Hudson’s first work of historical fiction.
>Sallie Clay Lanham, Mary Nash Cox and Becky Darnell Bolton, “Portrait of Early Families in Frankfort/Before 1860.” The book features family histories, portraits and photographs of the Frankfort community. Profiles of the Franklin County neighborhoods that were the center of the farming communities outside the city are also included.
>Carrie Lantz, “Drawing Closer to the Father’s Heart.” The author takes a verse-by-verse journey through the Lord’s Prayer, seeking to broaden readers’ understanding of scripture and its relevance to modern-day life.
>Laura Emberton Owens, “Thank You for Blue Horses: Lessons I Have Learned From My Children.” In her first book, Owens gives the reader a new perspective looking at life’s inevitable moments through a parent’s eye.
It helps readers see that catastrophes turn into inconveniences, little things become precious and big things become priceless.
>Chuck Queen, “The Good News According to Jesus.” The book will challenge, inspire and broaden the reader, resulting in a deeper and richer understanding of Jesus. Queen’s writing encourages a Christian to transform this world into God’s new world.
>Virginia Smith returns to the Book Fair with three new books: “Scent of Murder,” “Murder at Eagle Summit,” and “Age Before Beauty,” book 2 in the Sister-to-Sister series. The latter will appeal to women who enjoy humorous and heartwarming contemporary inspirational novels. The former offer inspirational romantic intrigue and suspense at its best.
>Roger Snell, “Root for the Cubs: Charlie Root and the 1929 Chicago Cubs.” The compelling biography offers more than a baseball story. It’s a family love story and a history of 1929 Chicago where the Cubs and Al Capone competed for headlines.
>Richard Taylor, “Rail Splitter/Sonnets on the Life of Abraham Lincoln.” It’s a collection of sonnets based on the life of the 16th president, a Kentucky native. Taylor is a former Kentucky poet laureate and a retired Kentucky State University professor who now teaches at Transylvania University.