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Special thanks to Ethan Rose for his contribution to this website.
Past events:
Albany Book Festival: what fun and exhilarating days filled with surprises, good friends and family! (2022, 2023)
MochaLisaโs Book-or-Treat: great hosts and fantastic clientele. Lots of book sales! (2023, 2024)
Congratulations to the Goodreads winners of
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Hello,
Iโm a writer from Albany, New York. Even though Iโm a Salinger-type hermit, I love to hang out with family and close friends, trail walk, window shop, binge watch TV, read, and of course, write.
My debut novel, Kennedyโs Goodbye, has enjoyed a good run since its release in 2022. Check it out! And donโt forget to follow me on Amazon, Goodreads, Instagram, and Facebook!!
This book was like a child, its conception so desired and its reality long awaited, nurtured for a decade and finally released into the world.
I hope youโll read and enjoy Kennedyโs journey. If you happen to find yourself within her pages, revel in it. Iโve seen myself in many characters over the years and they have helped me along my path. If not for words, time, and characters โ people โ coming alive, what have we?
Read more about the journey here:
First-time novelist uses ties to family in creating character.
https://www.timesunion.com/books/article/A-writer-by-any-other-name-17145573.php
Barnes & Noble (Albany, NY)
We love local authors here at BN Colonie Center, and we love to celebrate their stories!
It was a pleasure to have @kati_p_rose stop by to sign copies of her novel, Kennedyโs Goodbye, a gripping coming of age story set right here in upstate New York.
Stop by to grab a signed copy while supplies last!
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KENNEDYโS GOODBYE
In her raw, primal need for connection and truth, Kennedy learns to listen to the one voice that matters within a world of loss and lies and heart-rending goodbyes.
Is hope a myth? Is love a lie? Is God dead?
Kennedy needs to know. But sheโs left feeling alone, grappling to make sense of the world around her. The youngest member of a devout Catholic family, her preordained pathway of perfection into heaven becomes more like a highway to hell. With so many roadblocksโsin, sex, losses, liesโwill Kennedy find a place to belong? A place where itโs OK to be OK? A place where hope is real and love is true?
In this coming-of-age novel set in upstate New York in the seventies and eighties, told in a freshly candid voice that evolves as she grows and matures, Kennedy says goodbye to many thingsโbut to what? Hope? Love? God? Or her own self?
Find out in Kennedyโs Goodbye.