The long-awaited sequel to Johnnie Come Lately, Seven Wings to Glory, has been officially acquired by Camel Press, with a release date of fall 2016.
For those who bonded with Johnnie Kitchen and Brother Dog; struggled with her absentee mama; could smell the aroma of her cake-baking-solid-as-a-rock Granny Opal’s latest creation; drooled over Johnnie’s hunk-of-a-husband; felt the fear of sending a son off to a war zone…you will be be able to step back into their lives to see what happens next. Seven Wings to Glory takes you to Portion, Texas 2009 during a time of war in Afghanistan, and also of racial unrest on the home front, one which manifests itself in Johnnie’s personal life.
Texas based author Kathleen M. Rodgers is a former frequent contributor to Family Circle Magazine and Military Times. Her work has also appeared in anthologies published by McGraw-Hill, University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books, Health Communications, Inc., AMG Publishers, and Press 53. In 2014, Kathleen was named a Distinguished Alumna from Tarrant County College/NE Campus. Three of her aviation poems are featured in a new exhibit at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island, NY.
She is the author of the award-winning novel, The Final Salute, featured in USA Today, The Associated Press, and Military Times. Deer Hawk Publications reissued the novel in e-book and paperback September of 2014.
Her second novel, Johnnie Come Lately (Camel Press, February 2015), was the winner of the Best Covers Award from Southern Writers Magazine, and has been featured in Stars & Stripes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and on “The Author’s Corner” on Public Radio.
Rodgers is the mother of two grown sons: Thomas, a graduate of University of North Texas and a working artist in Denton, Texas, and J.P., a graduate of Texas Tech University and a former Army officer who earned a Bronze Star in 2014 in Afghanistan. Kathleen and her husband, Tom, a retired USAF fighter pilot/commercial airline pilot, reside in Colleyville, Texas with their rescue dog, Denton. www.kathleenMRodgers.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency
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