MotesBooks

MotesBooks is a publishing company based in Louisville, Kentucky, founded in 2006 by Kate Larken. MotesBooks publishes works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, anthologies, audio books, and books for young readers, including the Kentucky Hero Series. In addition, MotesBooks produces literary community-building events that include workshops for writers and songwriters, annual literary suppers, and mentoring emerging writers.

Divisions of MotesBooks and Publications

MotesBooks Inc:

Fiction

Novels

• Tilt-a-Whirl (2010) by Tracy Coffee Gayle
• The King of Gaheena (2008) by Squire Babcock
• Pearl Maker (2006) by C.C. Wharton

Short Stories

• Ten Tongues (2010) Cyn Kitchen

Non-Fiction

• Very Best of Kentucky Crosswords (2009) by Vicki A. Benge
• Stories Told In Stone: Cemetery Iconology-A Manual for Genealogy Research (2009) by Gaylord Cooper
• The Hurting Part: Evolution of an American Play (2008) by Silas House

Memoirs

• Don’t You Remember? (2007) by George Ella Lyon
• Who Needs June Cleaver? (2007) by Constance Alexander

Essay Collections

• Back To Abnormal (2010) by Dana Wildsmith
• Can A Democrat Get Into Heaven? (2006) by Anne Shelby

Poetry

• Since The End (2010) by Alison Kolodinsky
• This Gone Place (2010) by Lisa Parker
• After The Garden (2009) by Charles A. Swanson
• Kilroy Was Here (2008) by Constance Alexander
• The Well String (2008) by Noel Smith
• Her Secret Song (2008) by Jim Minick
• Asymmetry (2007) by Judy Sizemore

Anthologies

• Harvest of Fire: New & Collected Works of Lee Howard (2010) Edited by George Ella Lyon
• We All Live Downstream: Writings about Mountaintop Removal (2009) Edited by Jason Howard
• World Premieres from Horse Cave (2009) Edited by Liz Bussey Fentress & Warren Hammack

MOTIF Series

• Vol. 2 - Come What May: an Anthology of Writings about Chance (2010) Edited by Marianne Worthington
• Vol. 1 - Writing By Ear: an Anthology of Writings about Music (2009) Edited by Marianne Worthington

MotesBooks Audio

• Two Stories (2008) by Silas House Read by the author
• Hey Diddle Diddle (2008) by Marie Davis Read by the author
• Can A Democrat Get Into Heaven? (2007) by Anne Shelby 12 Selections read by the author

MotesBooks Think Young Collection

• Road To Pleasant Hill (2009) by Rebecca Mitchell Turney & Marie Mitchell
• Here & Then (2009) by George Ella Lyon

Kentucky Hero Series

• The Lucy Furman Story (2010) by Greta McDonough
• Ring the Silver Bell: The Alice Slone Story (2008) by Nancy Kelly Allen

Community Building

Literary Events

• The Gathering of Writers and Songwriters
• Annual Literary Supper

Notable Contributors

• Wendell Berry
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Silas House
• Ashley Judd
• Erik Reece
• Jason Howard
• Patty Griffin
• George Ella Lyon
• Anne Shelby
• Julie Miller & Buddy Miller
• Gurney Norman

References

• http://shakinglikeamountain.com/shaking/2009/05/01/motesbooks-releases-motif-writing-by-ear-an-anthology-of-writings-about-music/
• http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/category/books/
• http://www.kentuckytourism.com/events/details/motes-books-the-gathering-of-writers--songwriter/12695/

External links

• http://www.MotesBooks.com