Holly Goddard Jones
The home page of Holly Goddard Jones, author of the forthcoming short story collection GIRL TROUBLE from Harper Perennial.

October 2009: Girl Trouble Updates

                         

READINGS AND SIGNINGS

 

After events in Lexington, Louisville, Bowling Green, Nashville, and Durham, as well as appearances at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and the Southern Festival of Books, Holly will make three more tour stops this fall:


Thursday, October 22, 7:30 PM

Quail Ridge Books

3522 Wade Ave., Raleigh, NC 27607


Thursday, October 30, 2:00 PM

McIntyre's Fine Books

2000 Fearrington Village

Pittsboro, NC 27312


Saturday, November 07, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Kentucky Book Fair

Frankfort Convention Center

405 Mero Street

Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

1:00 p.m.: Reading in the Glass Room of the Capital Plaza hotel

9:00 – 1:00 and 2 – 4:00, Signing in the Convention Center


Check back here for 2010 updates, including stops at Centre College, the Southern Kentucky Book Festival, the Sewanee School of Letters, the Rope Walk Writer's Conference, and Philadelphia’s Gist Street Reading Series!

 

For Tour updates and photos, check out Holly’s blog (link through tab below).

 

INDIE NEXT LIST AND BOOK CLUBS

 

Girl Trouble is a Notable Book on October’s Indie Next List. We’ve been especially grateful to the wonderful independent bookstores such as Lexington, KY’s Morris Book Shop and Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Louisville’s Carmichael’s, and Nashville’s Davis-Kidd for getting the word out. And we’re thrilled to see that Girl Trouble was recently a paperback bestseller in Nashville!

 

Thanks to Lexington’s Ace Weekly for making Girl Trouble the inaugural pick for its Ace Book Club. And thanks to Ace Weekly readers for selecting Girl Trouble as "Best Book by a Kentuckian" in the 2009 "Best of Lex" poll!

 

Thanks, too, to Andrew’s Book Club for selecting Girl Trouble as its “Big House Pick” for September. Check out Andrew’s Mini-Interview with Holly.

 

A Reading Group Guide for Girl Trouble is now available.

 

FEATURE COVERAGE

 

Thanks to Louisville’s The Courier-Journal, the Lexington’s Herald-Leader and Ace Weekly, and Bowling Green’s Daily News for the generous feature coverage of Girl Trouble.

 

REVIEWS

 

Girl Trouble has garnered praise from People Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, New York magazine, and elsewhere.