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We were so busy proofreading our documents yesterday, that we didn’t have a chance to say, Happy National Proofreading Day!We were so busy proofreading our documents yesterday, that we didn’t have a chance to say, Happy National Proofreading Day!

In honor of this special day, we'd like to introduce some special people from Kaylie Jones Books: Patty B. is a teacher by day and the managing editor of Kaylie Jones Books by, well, day and night! Danie G. is the hardest-working social media manager we are blessed to know and love. ... Kristin I. is the one most likely to answer your emails, and the current public relations director. We know this is supposed to be about employees, but shout-out to a rock star employer or two, Kaylie Jones and Akashic Books. We love you!

When asked if there is something that she would definitely want to see changed in the world, Ms Brett says that if we felt the sufferings of others as our own, we could not rampage around the globe destroying the lives of vulnerable people and animals and destroying our own environment. ‘I think literature plays a role in creating empathy,’ she pronounces. Wonderful interview with Kaylie Jones Books, Laurel Brett. Check it out! https://literaryjuggernaut.org//literature-plays-a-role-i/

We are so grateful for all our editors, especially those at Akashic Books!

On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan began working in the Keller household for a then, six-year-old Helen who was deaf and blind. Their story of perseverance was the subject of The Miracle Worker.

#AWP21 Stop by my author’s table during the AWP Bookfair on Friday, March 5 from 3:30-5 p.m. EST and live chat with me! Everyone who visits my virtual author’s... table will be entered into a drawing for signed copies of #HereLiesAFather from Kaylie Jones Books! I’ll be mailing 2 copies to the winners after the conference. #bookgiveaway #authorchat #writingcommunity

We love books as much as we love our authors and readers! Give some love to your favorite book or author in the comments below - if we know them, we’ll tag them!

Happy World Compliment Day! Here at KJB, we’ve built a family of dedicated authors who take a stand against injustices. We will be sharing our love for them throughout the day and invite you to share in the love.Happy World Compliment Day! Here at KJB, we’ve built a family of dedicated authors who take a stand against injustices. We will be sharing our love for them throughout the day and invite you to share in the love.

A beautiful review of Mckenzie Cassidy's novel #HereLiesAFather in the Southern Review of Books. Special thanks to Lisa K. Roeder for writing the kind of review every publisher dreams of receiving for a book that is so deeply loved by our team. How difficult in this time of pandemic and struggle to send a book out into the world, yet in this stormy sea we see lighthouses, like this review, that remind us why we do this work.

We’re grateful to reviewers who pay attention to indie presses. We need indie presses now more than ever.

Bethanne Patrick included Mckenzie Cassidy’s Here Lies a Father in her Literary Hub roundup of 5 January titles readers might have missed! Congratulations Mckenzie! And many thanks to Bethanne Patrick.

Thank you so much to Cape Coral Daily Breeze for including a gorgeous spread about my book in the February 2021 issue of Lee Community Lifestyles! Read the entire issue here at https://issuu.com/breezec/docs/lee_communities_011521web/4. #HereLiesAFather #SWFL #novel

This fellowship is open to unpublished first novels. Our favorite kind!

This debut is on fire! Congratulations Mckenzie Cassidy on another fabulous review!

Check out this interview with Mckenzie Cassidy in LitReactor! Big thank you to Christoph Paul for the excellent questions.

Early copies of two books we are thrilled to see in print: Morowa Yejide’s second novel, Creatures of Passage, and Mckenzie Cassidy’s Here Lies a Father. Akashic Books

Guess what arrived today? Mckenzie Cassidy’s debut novel, HERE LIES A FATHER! Want a copy of your own? Head to our Instagram (@kayliejonesbooks) to learn how you can enter to win!

Here Lies A Father, Mckenzie Cassidy’s debut novel, publishes in just three months! To celebrate, we thought we’d also congratulate Mckenzie Cassidy on this fantastic review from Publishers Weekly! Stay tuned as we introduce you to Cassidy’s novel leading up to the publication date!

Laurel Brett’s The Schrodinger Girl: A novel will be featured in a month-long discussion on Twitter, starting today. Check out the hashtag #Tweetbookclub or by following @jonaaronsandler to tune in! We’re absolutely thrilled for Laurel and can’t wait to participatewe hope to see you there as well!

Kaylie Jones, Editor-In-Chief, was featured in One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us. Her essay was written as the malaria-fueled fever dreams of her father, James Jones, who was serving in WWII. To read Kaylie’s full piece, or jump through time with some of the other greats, check out One Last Lunch.

We’re so excited to reveal the cover of Here Lies A Father by Mckenzie Cassidy! Here Lies A Father will publish on January 5, 2021!

We have news dropping later today! Check back soon!

Two stories on Oneida County, NY and how the struggle for justice and equality for the African American community there continues. I'm interviewed (in the second half). The pastor of Utica's Oldest Black church, Rev. Sharon Baugh tells the story of Hope Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church which is celebrating its 172 anniversary. You will also see historian Judith Wellman and Jan Demicis. @Deirdre Sinnott's novel THE THIRD MRS. GALWAY, about the abolitionist movement in Utica NY in 1835, will be published by Kaylie Jones Books in June 2021.

Thank you to The Rumpus, one of our favorite literary venues.

Please join us!

GIVEAWAY ALERT HOW TO ENTER: E-mail ([email protected]), DM, or tag a selfie of you and a copy of Inconvenient Daughter . Include a one to two sentence blurb about what you liked about the book or how you felt!... Enter by midnight tonight for a chance to win an official Inconvenient Daughter make-up bag! See more

Please join Laurel Brett today at 5pm in a discussion of her remarkable book #TheSchrodingerGirl

Don't forget to catch Lauren J. Sharkey live on Zoom tomorrow as she and Sheila Squillante read, chat, and take questions about Inconvenient Daughter. Registration is required (and free!) to receive the Zoom link, so click here: https://bit.ly/WhiteWhaleLJSharks DEETS: Live on Zoom! Tuesday, July 7th... 7:00PM EDT Registration is FREE Signed books are available to purchase Hosted by White Whale Bookstore See more