Book Signing, Classic Car Show and Art Festival Fill Free Weekend on Dauphin Island
A book signing, classic car show and nature art festival bring free family fun to Dauphin Island over an early June weekend.
Mobile Author Kat Kennedy Explores the Gritty Side of Southern Life in Debut Collection
Mobile-area author Kat Kennedy released her debut fiction collection, Flamingo Funeral and Tales from the Land of Tea Cakes and Whiskey, in December 2012. The book combines the novella Flamingo…
Mobile Author Jeannie Holmes Brings Vampire Cops to the Deep South in New Novel ‘Blood Law’
Mobile author Jeannie Holmes released her debut novel, “Blood Law,” on July 6, blending two of her longtime interests — vampires and law enforcement — into a crime story set…
Naturalist E. O. Wilson Returns to South Alabama for Two Book Events on “Anthill”
Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson returned to the region where his scientific career began this week for two public appearances tied to his latest book, a novel…
Mobile Author Watt Key Set to Publish “Dirt Road Home,” a Follow-Up to “Alabama Moon,” This Summer
Mobile novelist Watt Key has a new book on the way. Dirt Road Home, a companion novel to his debut, Alabama Moon, is scheduled for release this summer from publisher…
After Years of Reporting and Rewriting, Curran’s Siegelman Book Heads for Mobile Shelves
Mobile reporter Eddie Curran said his long-awaited book on covering Gov. Don Siegelman's administration is finished and will reach bookstores within weeks, with the first signings planned in Mobile and…
Mobile Novelist Thomas Lakeman on His New FBI Thriller and Updating Dracula for the Stage
Mobile author and playwright Thomas Lakeman has released “Broken Wing,” the third installment in his series of FBI thrillers following special agents Mike Yeager and Peggy Weaver, set in post-Katrina…
Fairhope Novelist Karen Bonvillain Debuts Gulf Coast Mystery “Who Was Benny Looter”
Baldwin County writer Karen Bonvillain has published her debut novel, “Who Was Benny Looter,” a mystery that opens with a body uncovered on the sand in Gulf Shores and follows…
Mobile Author Elizabeth Parker Collects the City’s Ghost Stories in “Haunted Mobile”
Mobile writer Elizabeth Parker has spent years tracking down the city’s ghost stories, and this fall her research is being published in a single volume, “Haunted Mobile,” through The History…
A Mobile Businessman’s Book Reopened a Long Fight Over a Family Trucking Company
Tommy Fulton scheduled a signing in Magnolia Springs for 'An Act of Congress,' his account of the succession battle that put his family's Finch Companies in court against a future…