Authors offer up many new selections
“Solo,” set for release Christmas Day, tells a story of survival of an unrelenting war against mental illness, of unconditional love and terrible tragedy and of wonderful personal triumphs.
In the latest offering by Mike Kilroy, a sports reporter for the Butler Eagle and author of the science fiction books “Nine Meals” and “The 17,” a character called Solo doesn’t recall much of his life in the Before.
He has forgotten everything: who he is and what he was — even his real name.
All he knows in the After is the desolate world in which he roams, a world where all but one percent of the population has vanished.
His only friend in a wasteland of dangerous animals and stores with only rotting food is Tom. They search the city for the one person Solo can remember from his past: Eye Lyds.
Their journey is wrought with danger and Solo soon discovers reality is very much in the eye of the beholder.
“Solo” will be available in digital format for $2.99 online. A print version will be available soon for $9.99.
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Dr. James Perkins, a professor emeritus of Westminster College in New Wilmington, published four books over the past year.“Decembers: Poems,” published by Mercer University Press in October 2013, is a collection of poems written over a 40-year span.“Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980-1989” is the sixth and final volume of a series. Perkins co-edited this book, published in December 2013 by Louisiana State University Press, along with volumes three through five.“Interviews with David Madden,” published by Newfound Press in April, is a collection of interviews spanning 46 years in the career of the novelist, dramatist, short fiction writer, critic and poet.“The Last Bizarre Tale: Stories by David Madden” was published in August by the University of Tennessee Press.With these additions, Perkins has published 19 books, a dozen scholarly works and seven creative efforts since coming to Westminster in 1973.For more information, call 724-946-7347 or e-mail jperkins@westminster.edu———The Slippery Rock University archives supplied the materials needed to help baseball writer Steve Rice hit a home run with his online biography of New York Yankees pitcher James Robert “Bob” Shawkey.The right-hander, who played for the Yankees from 1915-1927, pitched for the Slippery Rock State Normal School baseball team in 1910.Rice, a baseball historian, wrote the story for the Society for American Baseball Research Biography Project, which profiles major league players.The biography notes Shawkey played with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other “Murderers’ Row” players on the 1927 Yankees team, considered by some baseball historians as the best in history.Shawkey’s biography can be read at http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/69fabfcf.
