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Novel · 12 September 2026

Where the Heathen Rage

The baby was still alive when Hollis Koker found her stuffed inside a hollow log on the side of Little Black Mountain, screaming into the dark.

A fierce Southern novel about inheritance and redemption, the wages of faith and the cost of love, and the fragile, stubborn hope that survives when nearly everything else has been taken.

PublisherEast Nashville Press
ISBN9798994327050

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Stories · Available now

Hope Is a Hard Thing

Kitchens after everyone has gone to bed. Empty train platforms. Cheap motels off the interstate.

Quiet, intimate stories about the lives we build, the things we carry, and the moments that change us when no one is watching.

PublisherEast Nashville Press
ISBN9798994327036

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Novel · Available now

Cottonwood

In a small Texas town where cotton fields stretch farther than mercy, a boy watches the world he knows begin to crack.

A raw, deeply human novel about race, memory, and the slow, painful birth of conscience, told in a voice steeped in the heat, dust and moral weight of the American South. Winner of a Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book.

PublisherEast Nashville Press
ISBN9798994327043

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Illustrated, for children · Written and illustrated by hand

The Mockingbird Son

A mockingbird singing on a branch, and a girl in a wide hat listening.

An illustrated children's book, written and drawn by the author himself.

PublisherEast Nashville Press

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