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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 10d

EDITOR’S PICK @publisherswkly.bsky.social #BookLife named PINEVILLE TRACE an Editor’s Pick! Learn more at wesblake.com. #PublishersWeekly #EditorsPick #BookReview #SouthernLit #AppalachianLit #Novella #NovellaInFlash #Cats #PinevilleTrace

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 1d

Indianapolis Readers! I’ll be signing copies of PINEVILLE TRACE at the Proof: Midwest Lit Fest in Indianapolis at the Harrison Center on Sat. Oct. 11 from 10 - 11:30 am. Hope to see you! #booksigning #PinevilleTrace

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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll be at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on Sun. Oct. 19! Come hear Robert Inman and I chat on Sun. at 1 pm. Robert studied under one of my favorite writers—Barry Hannah! Book signing after!

#SouthernFestivalOfBooks #SouthernFiction @parnassusbooks.bsky.social

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 7d

Bloomington Readers! Join @klagodzki.bsky.social & I at Morgenstern Books as we discuss Pineville Trace and Controlled Conversations. Both novels feature characters on the run, escaping to realize freedom. What are they running from and toward, and why does it matter? 💙📚 #authors

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 8d

Another pic from Kentucky Native Cafe’s #LastMondayReadingSeries last night!

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks so much to the kind folks at Michler’s Florist and KY Native Cafe for their hospitality and for creating this awesome reading series, community, and place. And thanks to everyone who joined us tonight! I had a great time reading, listening to Jan LaPerle’s poetry, and talking with everyone.

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 10d

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 13d

So happy to share that Publisher’s Weekly’s Booklife just named PINEVILLE TRACE an Editor’s Pick! They wrote such an insightful review, too. The review will appear in the new Publisher’s Weekly.

Read the review, here: booklife.com/category/fic...

#bookreview #publishersweekly #editorspick 💙📚🐈

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 15d

Had an awesome time talking with Jacinda Townsend about her new book TRIGGER WARNING tonight. If you missed us, you can get signed copies of TRIGGER WARNING & PINEVILLE TRACE at Carmichael’s bookstore. Her new book is so good. Check it out. #booksigning #appalachianfiction

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 15d

TODAY in Louisville:

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 17d

Save the date, and please feel free to share! Jan LaPerle and I will be reading at the always incredible Last Monday Reading Series at KY Native Cafe on Mon. Sep. 29 at 8 pm. This is such an amazing place and such a cool reading series. Hope to see you there! #reading #lexingtonky

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 18d

Good times today at A Likely Story Bookstore for the Midway Fall Festival signing PINEVILLE TRACE. If you missed me today, you can still get signed copies at A Likely Story in Midway! #midwayfallfestival #booksigning #southernfiction #appalachianlit #PinevilleTrace

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 25d

Louisville! Come hang out with us on Sep. 23 at Carmichael’s Bookstore! Jacinda Townsend grew up in Bowling Green and calls Trigger Warning her love letter to Louisville. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jacinda-to....

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 28d

Loved the conversation and reading tonight with Julie Hensley at Coffeetree Books in Morehead, KY! Get signed copies of Five Oaks and Pineville Trace at @coffeetreebooks ! It was great to be back in the town I lived in years ago.

Thanks to everyone who hung out with us tonight! 💙📚

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Sep 6

Back when we lived in Morehead, Kentucky in the 1980s! I’ll be back there with Julie Hensley talking about our new books at CoffeeTree Books thisTuesday at 5pm! #moreheadky #booksigning #appalachianlit #southernfiction #pinevilletrace #fiveoaks

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · Sep 5

#Bloomington #Indiana
@wesblake.bsky.social is coming to town on Oct 10! Join us at Morgenstern’s at 6 pm. Plenty of notice, so no excuses :-)
#booksky

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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking forward!

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today is the one-year birthday of PINEVILLE TRACE! This is the copy I’ve read from at events at bookstores, libraries, bars, and book festival panels across my home state of Kentucky, and well beyond. I’m thankful to every person who has supported this book along the way. Thank you! 💙📚

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Sep 2

Summer!

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Sep 2

Good times at the Estill County Public Library Book Festival today! Had fun hanging out with readers and other writers. And I got a chance to lead a session and have a good conversation about paths to publication.

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’ll have a session on Paths to Publication at the Estill County Public Library Book Festival this Saturday, Aug. 30 from 3–3:45 pm in Makerspace. If you’re a writer looking to find a good home for your stories, poems, essays, or book, this might be helpful! Join us!

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Aug 29

Join us at the Estill County Public Library Book Festival on Aug. 30, from 12-4 pm! The festival will feature Kentucky authors that the public will get to meet, purchase signed books from, and hear speak about their writing journey. #bookfestival #kentuckywriters

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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Aug 23

Had a blast at the Gathering of Authors at the Paul Sawyier Public Library talking to readers and other writers! Above with my table mates @browneallover.bsky.social & @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social front of books by @joshaboldt.bsky.social . Thanks to Diane and everyone at the library!

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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks to @thekentuckybookstore for supporting fiction written by Kentucky writers! If you haven’t checked them out yet in downtown Lawrenceburg, you should! Such a cool spot. And really nice folks. It’s cool to see PINEVILLE TRACE hanging out with Wendell Berry! #kentuckywriters 💙📚

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks to Meg and @odysseybks.bsky.social for choosing PINEVILE TRACE as a staff pick! A few months back, @thebackoftheline.bsky.social and I had a great talk there about the book, novellas, and nature. It’s a cool bookstore.

#staffpick #independentbookstore #indiebooks #southernfiction

Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · Aug 11

Discover the profound truths that come with finding one's self and facing our histories with authors Julie Hensley and Wes Blake on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 5:00 p.m.

RSVP on Facebook: conta.cc/3Iz4Sez

#coffeetreebooks #MoreheadKY #coffeetreebookstore #bluegrasswritersstudio