2008 Southern Kentucky Book Festival features Virginia Boyd and Mitch Albom

If you are within hollerin' distance of Bowling Green, KY this week-end, be sure to stop in to the Southern Kentucky Book Festival and have your funny bone tickled by Virginia Boyd. The author of One Fell Swoop will be signing books all day and will also be on a panel called Case Solved!: Murder, Mayhem & Mysteries at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. It's not just what she says, but how she says it that makes me want her to keep going every time I hear her tell a story.

Not that her book is one laugh after another, there's a bit more to it...On a hot August afternoon in 1977, Regina Clayton caught her husband with his secretary. She sent him to his Maker with the help of a Colt .45, then sent herself as well.

Everyone in Riley, North Carolina, knows the story. Everyone in Riley has a story of their own. And that, of course, is the real story.

Because in a town like Riley, the past lives close to the present and the future. And everything can change in one fell swoop.

Get her to tell you about her next novel -- I've been dying to read it (no pun intended) since she talked about it at Southern Festival of Books last fall.

The line-up of authors for this year looks terrific and includes Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie, among many other fine literary voices.