Kaylie Jones Books

10/19/2025

Thank you to Andy Lities and/or the audience member who snapped this photo at Book &Puppet over the weekend in Easton at the Easton Book Festival. Our panel, Hijacking History, focused on the importance of understanding the power of place to anchor and drive narrative momentum in fiction and memoir. Independent booksellers are integral to civil society. Thank you for all you do to foster community and literacy.

10/01/2025

Let’s connect! Saturday, October 18th from 1-2, we will be at Book&Puppet Bookstore in Easton, PA discussing the connections between history and narrative. Join us, and check out the festival while you’re in town.

https://eastonbookfestival.com/event/hijacking-history-time-and-place-as-a-vehicle-for-storytelling/k

04/30/2025

We’ve been laying low, it’s true. Sometimes the field has to fallow to restore itself.

Hope you are enjoying your books. Stories bring solace in hard times.

02/26/2025

Learning about our history is more important now than ever. A highly recommended event.

📚 Join us for our upcoming Lunch & Learn Event! 📚

📅 March 7th
⏰ 12 PM - 1 PM
📍 North Utica Community Center

Meet Deirdre Sinnott, author of The Third Mrs. Galway! Deirdre was a key researcher for the 2020 study on Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Oneida County, funded by the National Park Service. She is a passionate speaker on Utica’s history and the Abolition movement.

📖 Books will be available for purchase from The Treehouse Reading and Arts Center at the event, and Deirdre will be signing copies!

Don’t miss this chance to connect with a local author and dive into history! ✨

02/20/2025

Highly recommended! If we do say so ourselves. 😊

Our Spotlight Reading the Saturday night features Barbara J. Taylor!

Born and raised in Scranton, Barbara sets her novels in the hometown she loves and fills them with miners, evangelists, vaudevillians, nuns, gangsters, prostitutes, widows, musicians, dreamers, and a seer or two.

She is the author of Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night and All Waiting Is Long. Her latest book, Rain Breaks No Bones, is the final installment in her Scranton trilogy.

Come hear Barbara this Saturday night at Page to Stage at 8 pm. Admission is $5, but bring some extra cash in case our writers have books for sale. This show contains adult content.

See you there for words, words, words!

12/20/2024

Way to go, Barb Taylor!

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Set in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this entry concludes the Morgan family story in the mid-1950s. Violet still mourns the death, forty years ago, of her nine-year-old sister, “our Daisy,” and the message from Zethray Jones, a spirit medium who walks with ghosts, makes her newly conscious of the secr...

09/28/2024

Sometimes, standing up for what’s right means losing an account or two. Just wanted to let you know, Kaylie’s having some tech issues with her personal FB page. If she doesn’t respond, she’s not gotten the message.

09/15/2024

We had a wonderful party last night at Julie Sheehan’s house in NYC. We celebrated the publication of Barb Taylor’s RAIN BREAKS NO BONES and Ruth Bonapace’s THE BULGARIAN TRAINING MANUAL. It was like a family reunion!

07/24/2024

Barb Taylor and Kaylie Jones in conversation. Special thanks to Akashic Books and Adventures by the Book.