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Search for the Signet ebook will be free on Amazon on Friday November 28th. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNKX7B75
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Call for Submissions: Trifles: a Quarterly for Devotees of Sherlock Holmes will be coming in 2026. Trifles will be a compilation of stories, essays, puzzles, trivia, humor, and art. Trifles will be accepting submissions through December 31, 2025. More details: foolscap-quill.com/trifles.html
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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"Violence does, in truth recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." Sherlock Holmes
"Violence does, in truth recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." Sherlock Holmes
September 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Get tickets for the York (UK) launch of The Wandspringer. 💙📚 🪐📚 #timetravel #middlegrade
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September 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Ordering the paperback proof for Spectral Promises.
Spectral Promises: Orion Labauve Novel 2 by LL Blacke Cover shows a dark skinned young man with curly black hair with a white lock near his right temple. His eyes are golden. He is wearing a black leather jacket. He is surrounded by purple, gold, red and silver floating spheres. In the middle distance there is a woman with red hair looking away. In the background are colored lights.
September 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Search for the Signet - Orion Labauve was born to wield magic
September 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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York Literature Festival @yorklitfest.bsky.social will be featuring Robert C. Edgar's The Wandspringer in its Autumn Fest on October 23rd at York Explore, York, UK.
York Literature Festival presents Autumn Fest. Shows several book covers and pictures of authors. Sponsored by Fox Lane Books, The Portal Bookshop and York St John University.
September 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The Wandspringer is a middle grade time travel adventure available from Bookshop.org and many other booksellers worldwide. #kidlit #timetravel #scifi #middlegrade 📚💙#booksky 🪐📚
Image shows book cover of The Wandspringer by Robert C. Edgar which has artwork featuring a person wearing a big coat and a red beret in front of a tower. Near the bottom are blue cars with red wheels. Next to the book cover is a golden seal that says Middle Grade Time Travel Adventure. Below that it says: Ellie's father has disappeared. Her uncle is doing strange things in his cellar. A new teacher has taken over classes at school. Then Ellie discovers how all these things are connected.
September 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Stop by Barbara's Desert Cafe for some coffee & pinon pie and help solve the mystery of the theft of the falling man petroglyphs. Available from Bookshop.org , Amazon.com and many other booksellers worldwide. ☕💀📚 #booksky 💙📚
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Wandspringer is a German word that means "wall jumper." It is used to refer to some spiders. In this book "The Wandspringer" is a spy who helps people cross the Berlin Wall.
August 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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"Search for the Signet" is the first of the tales of the adventures of Orion Labauve, the Spirit Speaker. The sequel "Spectral Promises" is being prepared for publication. Don't miss this series! #magic #ghosts #adventure #magicalrealism 📚🪐
Book cover for Search for the Signet, An Orion Labauve Novel Magic Ghosts Adventure background of cover shows Orion Labauve forming a magic sphere before an old Southern mansion
August 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Wandspringer - Ellie must travel through time to East Berlin to save her father. #middlegrade #scifi #kidlit #timetravel 🪐📚
August 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"Barbara’s Desert Cafe book signing and short reading were a lot of fun this evening at Back of Beyond Books in Moab."
Author Kevin Jones at Back of Beyond Bootstore in Moab, Utah. "Barbara’s Desert Cafe book signing and short reading were a lot of fun this evening at Back of Beyond Books in Moab."
August 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Fiction?
August 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Barbara's Desert Cafe

"No one but Kevin Jones could have written this alternatively rollicking, tender, hilarious, fascinating, and compassionate book -- with recipes" Steven Trimble.

Available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and many other booksellers worldwide via Ingram.
Quirk Fun Summer Read - image of cover of Barbara's Desert Cafe - "No one but Kevin Jones could have written this alternatively rollicking, tender, hilarious, fascinating, and compassionate book -- with recipes" quote from Steven Trimble. Image of Kevin T. Jones with gray hair and beard wearing a hat and sunglasses. Available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, Kobo, and many other booksellers worldwide via Ingram.
August 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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"In the four volumes of her Consulting Detective series - beginning with The Crack in the Lens- Cypser chronicles the early life of Sherlock Holmes while weaving in many of the untold adventures mentioned in the Conan Doyle canon." Steve Steinbock, Jury Box, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Spring 2025
"In the four volumes of her Consulting Detective series - beginning with The Crack in the Lens - Cypser chronicles the early life of Sherlock Holmes while weaving in many of the untold adventures mentioned in the Conan Doyle canon." Steve Steinbock, The Jury Box, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine March/April 2025
August 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Kevin T. Jones, author of Barbara's Desert Cafe, will be signing books at Back of Beyond Books, Moab, Utah on August 16 from 5 pm to 7 pm.
Kevin T. Jones, author of Barbara's Desert Cafe, will be signing books at Back of Beyond Books, Moab, Utah on August 16 from 5 pm to 7 pm.
August 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Next two books coming: The Wandspringer and Search for the Signet.
Book cover for The Wandspringer by Robert C. Edgar. Cover features a person wearing a long coat and beret in front of a narrow tower with a row of 1960s East German cars at the bottom Book cover for Search for the Signet, an Orion Labauve novel by LL Blacke. A young man with black curly hair with a streak of white, wearing jeans and a purple jacket is holding a magic sphere. Behind him is an old Southern mansion.
August 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Sneak peak at another book coming out this summer:
The Wandspringer
July 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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The paperback version of Barbara's Desert Cafe is currently ranked 21st (lower right corner) under Cultural, Ethnic and Regional Humor on Amazon.
June 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Barbara's Desert Cafe -> Quirky Fun Summer Read
Cover of Barbara's Desert Cafe by Kevin T. Jones with illustrations by Carel P. Brest van Kampen which includes a multicolor Native American design. A sunburst has the words Barbara's Desert Cafe Quirky Fun Summer Read inside it. There is a QR code in the lower right side of the image.
June 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Author received his first copies of Barbara's Desert Cafe.
Aren't they pretty?
June 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Currently ranked # 98 LGBTQ+ Humor on Amazon while still in pre-order. Only 9 days until release. www.amazon.com/Barbaras-Des...
June 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Barbara's Desert Cafe pre-sale orders are open for ebooks at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Kobo. Paperbacks can be pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble. Full release June 26.

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Book cover of Barbara's Desert Cafe by Kevin T. Jones has a yello background with a Southwestern design with red, blue, green and yellow elements. In the center is a pronghorn skull with a falling man petroglyph below it. To the right and left are red suns on green background with curving strokes descending from them which suggest mountains, water, fire and lightning.
June 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM