Rick Childers
@RA_Childers
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Born again. Sometimes I dig roots. TURKEYFOOT coming 9/10/24 ( @ShotgunHoney ) Appalachian Male Advocate & Mentor ( @BereaCollege )
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I had no intentions of getting a beagle today, but now here I am with our new addition to the family:
Gurney Norman Childers
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Saturday my wife and I welcomed our beautiful baby girl into this world. Today I signed a publishing contract for my debut novel. What a week…
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Got the chance to read an excerpt from my novel today, I definitely needed the practice.
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One of my former students published an entire collection of Haiku about my other dog Arlo and now it’s a “Top New Release” in Haiku and Japanese Poetry on Amazon. I guess people really REALLY love dogs.
Haiku Coyote: Tales of Monster and Magnificence
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I started writing as a way to process/express the sorrow that plagues my community. So many of us have lost loved ones to addiction. My hope is that TURKEYFOOT does our story justice. I’m so happy for this novel to find a home with
@ShotgunHoney
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The preorder link for Turkeyfoot is live! I’ll be posting blurbs, podcast interviews, and a schedule of readings/workshops soon! This Friday the amazing
@ReckonReview
will be revealing the cover!
@RonEarl
killed it with this one!
@ShotgunHoney
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Just hit one in here by
@mgnlcs
that’s got me a little misty eyed on this beautiful Wednesday afternoon.
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Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) all the way down here in little ol’ Estill County, KY.
@Kentuckyweather
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Ignore our big heads and look at that beautiful paperback!! Super cool surprise visit from
@RonEarl
! Preorder this story of sorrow, beauty, and hope today wherever you buy your words!
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You can preorder this beauty right now as we speak. Crazy.
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So grateful to the wonderful
@mgnlcs
&
@ReckonReview
for the Turkeyfoot cover reveal! Check out
@RonEarl
's amazing cover for this novel and read a short essay I wrote about my personal connection to the story and how I started writing in the first place! Preorder a copy today!
Today we have an essay from
@RA_Childers
, the author of the forthcoming novel TURKEYFOOT from
@ShotgunHoney
. We are also so excited to be able to reveal the gorgeous cover designed by
@RonEarl
. See it here:
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I’ve been so blessed to call
@silasdhouse
my teacher, colleague, and friend. He’s introduced me to so many amazing people and supportive writing communities. Thank you for everything, Silas.
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“This harrowing debut is equal parts grit and empathy. Turkeyfoot is full of complex characters, pitch-perfect dialogue, and a sense of place so vibrant you can hear the birds singing, see the mist-shrouded hills, and smell the smoke of the off-brand cigarettes."
—Silas House,
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Author photo in front of my favorite bookshelf (the fiction section in the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center)!
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Blurbs coming in, edits being made. How can it be that my novel, my baby, is actually going to be published in September? It feels like watching a big tomato ripen on the vine and I can still remember when it was only a seed.
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I was taught the sandwich method of workshopping writing, start with something you like, then get to what needs work, end on something nice as well. You can apply this to a lot in life. We all need a healthy mix of optimism and reality to keep going.
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I always break out the cowboy boots for the first day of classes before promptly swapping back to my dirty new balances after realizing how much my feet hurt.
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I had a poem in Urban Pigs Press last month, can I call myself an internationally published author now? First piece that’s made it across the pond!
Closing out our poetry month with this from Richard Childers!
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The Appalachian Studies conference is upon us and I’m reminded why everyone from NC who visits KY has to comment on the size of our mountains.
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@sparkzcreate1
He’s named after the Kentucky writer Gurney Norman who is someone I admire greatly!
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Spent a little time in the woods today and it was much needed.
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I will not allow the algorithm to suppress this beautiful work of art, look upon it, enjoy its splendor.
Absolutely gorgeous poster for the 2024 Kentucky Book Festival. I am so excited to be a part of this event, come see me Saturday, November 2nd
@JosephBethLex
and grab a signed copy of Turkeyfoot! Available for preorder now!
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Walking and thinking about writing is basically writing, right?
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I worked underneath this for an hour before realizing my colleague had surprised me with some new wall art hahah
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It ain’t much, but it’ll do for some tomatoes and hot peppers.
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A Quiet Place Day One gets 5 stars from us, great storytelling and characters
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Is there a better place to read than a campus library during spring break?
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The storms are blowing through and we can’t quite hold our ears down
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I spilled pineapple on myself trying to capture this moment for your viewing pleasure.
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The best book mail is when you forget you’re getting book mail because you preordered it months ago!
@taybrown
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I spent like 2019-2021 literally just outlining my half written novel on those giant oversized sticky notes and I rolled them up and carried them around with me like they were family heirlooms I couldn’t replace. It wasn’t very productive. Please don’t give up. You got this.
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All khaki, bathroom mirror selfie. The week can only spiral downwards after this moment.
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One of my favorite trees are these Persian Silk Trees (sometimes called Mimosas or Asian Silk Trees). Interesting history behind them, but the reason I like them is because my cousins and I would strip the leaves for imaginary cash and then pretend to smoke the stems like cigars.
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This week I got to spend not one, but two nights on the phone looking through my manuscript with an author I greatly admire and who’s work has strongly influenced my own. What a blessed life. TURKEYFOOT; THIS SEPTEMBER! IT IS COMING FAST Y’ALL!
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This time last year I was making major edits to my manuscript (collapsing 2 characters into 1). It was like blowing up a log jam, the plot began to flow naturally.
Now I’m making edits to send to said manuscript’s publisher. Great things coming from
@ShotgunHoney
and
@gritlit
!
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Endlessly grateful to
@DavidJoy_Author
for taking time to read this novel. A kind, generous writer who will tell you exactly how it is whether you like it or not. Don’t spin all of his gravel out if you go visit him.
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So grateful to celebrate my friend Matthew Parsons’ debut poetry collection last night. Mountain Roosters is a powerful examination of masculinity in mountain culture and it’s filled with witty wordplay as a bonus!
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One of the most consistent things in my life has been my proximity to a Pontiac Grand Prix
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Marry someone who will stay up late with you designing promo stuff for your indie crime fiction novel
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It’s a weird feeling to know your novel is out there in the world with others. Thanks for the edits
@IlynWelch
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Place and people are the foundation of my favorite writing
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“Turkeyfoot ties together a cast of characters fully fleshed and deeply scarred. Here, no one is ever more than one person removed. All are linked like bloodkin.”
—David Joy, author of Those We Thought We Knew
Preorder today!
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I cannot wait to share some blurbs for TURKEYFOOT (coming 9/10/24) but in the meantime here are some lovely zinnias!
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My debut novel Turkeyfoot will be out next month, but I realize many of you don't have a clue what I write about. Soon I'll share some blurbs, the cover, pre-order links, events, and all that good stuff. In the meantime, here's a tiny glimpse into what this novel is gnawing on.
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Kentucky loses in the NCAA tournament. This is always the time of year when I just allow myself to be consumed by literature in order to dull the pain.
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Winter is harsh on a 2 year old who’s made lawn care his entire identity.
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Mowing and thinking about how tightly interwoven lawncare and socioeconomic class are.
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Dad and papaw always told me to find a job in an office as opposed to breaking my back pouring concrete like they did. Here I am making coffee and deciding which book to start the day with.
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One second you’re picking a mess of morels in the mountains and the next you’re rushing home to be with family. Life happens fast y’all, cherish it.
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Huge day for
@MEProctor3
! Congratulations to one of the first friends I made in the crime fiction world!
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Crying while watching Winnie the Pooh with my 2 year old son. Perfectly healthy example of Appalachian masculinity.
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Me trying to prepare for incoming first year college students, Appalachian Literature, and a book tour. That first pumpkin spice latte of autumn is gonna hit so good.
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The official Turkeyfoot launch party will be at Berea College's Loyal Jones Appalachian Center on Wednesday, September 11th @ 6PM! I'll read a little, take some questions, and sign some books. The college's Visitor Center will be set up with copies of the novel for sale!
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I love how we’ve gone full circle from getting important news at local markets and community spaces to the rise of bloated internet trash media to now the most reliable place for important news being your local Facebook yard sale group.
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Writers could learn a lot from hoopers. Shooters shoot, writers write. Sometimes you’re gonna go out there and go 0-10, sometimes you’re gonna be green lighting everything you put up. You just gotta trust your skill, form, process, and lace up.
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The perfect title for a wip just slapped me across the jaw while driving to campus this morning.
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@rarerookies
“When you dive into the numbers these were really some quality losses, Kentucky falls from
#6
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#11
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So excited to be teaching Appalachian Literature on the very same campus it was shared with me. I think we’re gonna have a lot of fun this semester.
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Hello,
#WritingCommunity
this intro is for my dog Arlo, as you can see he’s extremely literary. He once completed an entire virtual writing residency with me and even inspired a collection of haiku about his life.
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Sometimes writing requires getting knee deep into the research; just got off the phone with Dairy Queen. Confirmed my character can order coffee at his local DQ in the afternoon if he so desires.
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I have to come up with a trick to remember “it’s” and “its”. I’m 30 years old I can’t keep googling this.
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Today I gave my students a 7 minute break in the middle of a 2 hour class and the world did not disintegrate into cosmic dust.
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I love driving my wife around and showing her the places I’ve written into my novel. She does not love it.
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My favorite thing about my 2 year old’s “ooh what’s that?” phase has been answering every single time in earnest. We’re basically going into stores and taking inventory at this point.
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It’s amazing what some summer showers will do. Inspired by
@ChrisMcGinley12
’s homemade salsa to go check on my garden instead of being lazy today.
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Trust your process, even if that means you don’t do anything for a couple months and then suddenly one weekend your new antagonist’s entire persona, motives, and lines of dialogue start dancing through your head.
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One of my favorite writing workshop moments was when this guy wrote a lengthy poem expressing his love for beans and cheese. Little did I know later in the semester he would go to bat for my short story while everyone else was tearing it down.
#PositiveVibesOnly
#beans
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Isn’t social media really just one big poem we’re all writing together?
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Today was a good day. Started with watching the rain with my family while we enjoyed iced coffees, successful cover reveal and essay put out into the world, seen the Goodyear blimp over I-75 (good sign) and now… well now I’m going to an Elvis tribute concert.
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Me to the only other writer who turned in some weird unpolished story for the workshop
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